Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-4651179-20130524205755/@comment-1671874-20130524220508

It sounds like a good idea in theory, but it just needs to have a specific rules set around it, and a few questions answered first.

Is a bot just going to add Earth-616 to every main title assuming they all take place in that universe? Some issues of main titles obviously take place in other universe(s). Some take place in no universe at all (the trippy issues, of course). And what happens to the many issues out there that already have Universes listed for them under the Locations section? And what happens to the issues with multiple realities shown in them? Exiles series and What If? series will have to be carefully edited, to name two at least. Will Television/Movies/other things using the basic "Comic Template" all be edited to include this?

And what happens to the comics that are (rightfully so) ignored of a universe, like a bunch of horror and romance stories from the '50s and what not..? Not to mention all of the Anita Blake stuff, Stephen King stuff, Orson Scott Card stuff, etc. And of course trademarked character comics like Ren & Stimpy, Tarzan, Transformers, Planet of the Apes, etc.

I mean, is the Reality field entirely universally (no pun intended) neccessary? Or just for "main" titles? Or "close enough to main" titles as well? Will all Ultimate Comics be given Earth-1610 as the Reality? I know some issues of Ultimate Fantastic Four if nothing else took place in the Zombieverse, and that should be reflected. I just think for a bot to do all of this.. it could get messy. And do we have enough editors that are knowledgable about every comic out there or are we going to largely assume when it comes to many issues? Because that's one thing I am not a big fan of..

But basically this just hurts my brain because there are so many variables surrounding it and it would be a big change to the site. But we survived the erasing of "Comics:" so I think this could work well. It just needs questions answered and rules set up first, I suppose.