Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20130730145643/@comment-61022-20151130213606

I question the need to reinvent the wheel with the mutant class designation. M-Day was a plot point that happened over a decade ago. Is it really relevant to have a category for something so specific especially with the ever changing evolution of characters? Keep track of this would be like keeping track of the number of times a character has died only to come back to life later.

I think we should just be simple and to the point: depowered mutants powered mutants

When they lost, got or regained their powers is all conjecture. If someone is interested in finding out when certain events happened they should be reading the character profile. We should be focusing more on having that information on the character in profile with a proper reference tag than dicking around with categories.

If you're going to argue the "we need to be an encyclopedia of everything" angle, then why not add categories for characters who lost their powers BEFORE M-Day? Lots have between 1963 and 2005. There's even a story in 1999 where every mutant on Earth lost their powers for a entire story arc. Do we create categories for those depowerings as well?

If you're going to differentiate one, you should differentiate the other, and if you're not going to put the time and effort into those older instances for whatever reasons, then perhaps a simpler approach is better called for.

Three categories is easier to maintain than five+