User blog comment:Spencerz/Cleansing the TRNs/@comment-61022-20120115214432

I'm inclined to agree that the TNR's for video games was excessive, in that there are so many games out there and the characters have very little by way of story telling (especially when it comes to a lot of the earlier games from the 8-bit era)

I always thought that these articles should be condensed into single entries for the games, and perhaps if people want to expand them within the article (or a sub-directory much like expanded histories are) then that would be fine. But a TNR character profile of Dr. Doom from some old Nintendo Game where a profile would pretty much be "Dr. Doom is the end boss for (name of game here) He shoots lasers" is kind of silly.

Also with the later games that are based on Marvel movies and television shows, I don't think the video game characters should be considered part of that reality. These are just filler villains to pad out the game and I would not consider them to be part of the movie franchises unless they actually have an on screen appearance.

As for the other random characters... Such as the Wolverines from the few issues of Exiles. I have those issues, and the majority of those characters don't really have any character development. They're all just random Wolverine's plucked out of the Multiverse. A lot of them were probably just creative license on the part of the artist and writer of those few issues. I'd say if we're going to keep anything on all those obscure alternate reality Wolverines, perhaps do a single article (perhaps using the Team template) that explains what they are (If I recall correctly, Brother Mutant rallies all these Wolverines into a team, I forget what he calls them but if they are to be called by any name that'd be best)

As for novels, I agree that they should not have a TNR entry because for the most part there's nothing canonical to them unless they are considered part of Earth-616 continuity.