Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4548390-20161111190827/@comment-61022-20161113045313


 * Illusion, Vision, and Dream: I don't think this should be constituted as an appearance since usually, it's not the character at all, it causes for a lot of inaccurate "appearances" of characters. Why Dream isn't in the same tag as Illusion and Vision is beyond me as to me, they all seem pretty well the same thing. Maybe changing them into a single universal tag would be best. Like the code for the tag could be changed to have a REF tag (Like ) that can explain in more detail.


 * Poster, Statue, Drawing etc: Much like the above, I wonder why these are split up in different categories. These are also non-appearances. Perhaps combining them into something like with a REF on it that explains in more detail that they appear as an artistic work such as a drawing, carving, photo etc.


 * undefined not really an appearance per se. It usually denotes that someone is active behind the scenes of that story. They are, thankfully, seldom in much of the books I've ready and it happens more often in older comics than anything else. It should be listed as an actual appearance.


 * Absolutely an appearance, because while they are not being seen they are typically interacting with someone, by phone or radio or some other communications device.


 * : This is a tough one. I think the current tag is pretty clunky. Also it's not evidentily clear. As Many-Angled One pointed out, sometimes these are legitimate appearanes and often times they are merely recordings, or still images... Like when someone pulls a picture of a character up on a computer for example. I think we should differentiate here. should be simplified into something like  with a coded note that explains that it's for a character who actually appears in a story but on video, hologram etc. Then we should combine  with any other type of recording of a character and just put  with a note to explain that it's when a character is depicted as a photograph, digital image, or pre-recorded video that isn't considered an actual appearance.


 * Getting briefly back to Flashbacks. Maybe we could make two specific types of tags. which denotes a Flashback that is actually an appearance and  which is not considered an appearance because it recaps a previously documented event.