Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20180822013956/@comment-61022-20180915172418

Another redundant tag, for me, is the and  tags. It's assumptive that a character's "last appearance" is going to be their last appearance. It's also kind of redundant if there are APN tags in place. needs to go because, as all of you are aware, death is a revolving door in the Marvel Universe. Just because a character dies, doesn't necessarily mean they never appear again. Even if they don't come back from the dead, they sometimes appear as ghosts or are temporarily resurrected (etc). In terms of, over the last decade, Marvel has been bringing back various random characters. The most common ones are characters from the Timely era and characters from the 90s.

We can't just assume that when a character stops making regular appearances that it is their final appearance because they may come back again. It's creating more work for us to eliminate and  tags because characters come back all the time. It may take decades for it to happen (Jean Grey) or it could be out of our lifetimes (Anyone who read the original Timely stories that featured characters who appeared in the Twelve is either dead or don't comics, let alone contribute to this Wiki). The point is, we can't make the assumption in the issue summaries that the last time they appeared in something will be the final time they will ever appear.