User blog comment:Spencerz/The New Multiverse/@comment-61022-20110825015045

Yeah, I think it could be broken up into different categories. I few thoughts on organization

I like the idea of breaking them up, but I think a few things can be done here. I like the numeric organization for general indexing. But I think that another great idea would be to break things up into specific types of alternate realities for further indexing. Because people might be interested in specific TYPES of alternate realities. There would be some overlaps of course as certain universes can fit into more than one category. Here would be some suggestions for categories:

(1) Sci-Fi: All the TImely/Atlas/Marvel sci-fi stories that took place in the "future" pretty much have universe designations, we could lump them all here.

(2) Alternate realities: All realities that are not really directly related to Earth-616 in some way. So New Universe, Earth-S, Marvel Razorline, Shadowline, that sort of things.
 * There could be a sub-category for realities like Earth-S that have related realities, such as the Supreme Power universe, and all the newuniversal realities that are related to the 80's New Universe.

(3) Parallel Worlds: Worlds that are very similar to Earth-616, these ones would be the ones visited in various titles where travel to parallel universes happened. Like issues of Fantastic Four, the Exiles, and so on.

(4) Possible futures: All alternate realities that are a "future" to the Marvel Universe. Such as the world of the original Killraven/Guardians of the Galaxy, MC2, Days of Future Past, Earth X etc.

(5) What If worlds - Because there are so damn many of them :P

(6) Motion Picture - Covering all realities that are from Marvel television shows and movies.

(7) Other media - Books, video games and other things. All realities that are interesting but I am of the mind that they are the junk drawer of the Marvel multiverse. (8) Commercial Properties - Universes that have designations that were for specific commercial properties (Transformers/G.I. Joe, Planet of the Apes, Alien Nation) that have been given universal designations.


 * On Official Designations & TNR's: I think they should be categorized together at least if we're going to categorize them together. Just have a separation between the two. Listing the TNR's (In numerial TNR order) after all the official designations.