Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20190309080708/@comment-61022-20190309163120

Okay. I guess I've just been seeing it so often that I was wondering if this was a thing that was actively going on or not.

Reading the draft on appearances, I feel that it's a good start. I was thinking of something more comprehensive that gets into specific ideas and details and explanations. Kind of a way of explaining the logic behind those things.

On a different topic, I've been thinking of a few tweaks to how we organize things. One of the big ones is making a slight distinction between teams (eg: Fantastic Four, Avengers, X-Men) and organizations/companies (eg: NYPD, Stark Industries, the FBI and so on).

When you think of teams it's typically a finite number of active members. Usually, we consider a team being present if there are 3 or more characters. Whereas an organization or a company can be hundreds of people, but we'll list the NYPD or the US Army if there is only one member of that organization present.

I'll give you an example... . Other than the Featured Characters/Protagonists being flip-flopped (that's another issue) there is something else that kind of sticks with me. If you look at John Jameson it's a "team" situation like this:


 * U.S. Air Force
 * Colonel John Jameson

I see similar scenarios with Osborn Industries, or the Daily Bugle, or Stark Industries... and they usually list on or two characters. My feeling is that that, yes, they are members of those organizations. However, the organization itself isn't present so much as it is being represented by an individual.

My thought would be in this case the individual would fit in whatever category they belong in and the organization goes in "Other Characters" as a minor appearance maybe with a tag like.

Does that make sense? I'd like some feedback on that idea, but also let me know if I need to explain the concept better.