Board Thread:Policies/@comment-867021-20121204173530/@comment-1895174-20130115033636

KalKent wrote:
 * Ivan Vanko (Earth-199999), who is an adaptation of at least two Earth-616 characters (Crimson Dynamo and Whiplash), yet it is unclear which version of either Earth-616 character this character is based off (this example in particular made worse by the two most obvious choices, Anton Vanko and Mark Scarlotti, already existing in this reality)
 * Anton Vanko (Whiplash) (Earth-616), who is an Earth-616 adaptation of a character from other media (Ivan Vanko (Earth-199999))

Well that one is simple to explain. The Whiplash that appears in the movie is never called Whiplash in it (at least not directly). While that one is different than the mainstream one that appeared in the "Iron Man vs. Whiplash"-comic, the latter one was made before the movie came out, but the movie version had been in production before the comic so the movie version is technically the original. But you can still see the difficulty with this situation. If one movie character heavily based on the comics can be considered original, then so could any movie character, or any character from any adapted media.