Thread:ADour/@comment-512105-20181216120707/@comment-4651179-20181216180315

I'm not sure there's an official stand on the Donald Blake / Thor situation, but I can ask the rest of the admin team what's their take. Personally, I think Donald should only get an appearance credit if he actually shows up in the comic, and the same applies for Thor.

In a medium full of stories with body-sharing, body-snatching and mind-transferral, I think it's better to consider that for a character to "appear," their own consciousness needs to manifest in the story in some shape and form. For example, when Doc Ock was Superior Spider-Man, one could argue that Peter Parker appeared physically in the stories Octavius was present, since it was his body Octavius was inhabiting, but we don't regard them as appearances since Peter's consciousness was not present.