Thread:Inferno Pendragon/@comment-27818776-20151119180442/@comment-1705775-20151119182629

I say incarnations that are strikingly different can be seen as different, distinct characters but some are not.. for example if a new series has the same basic motive / villainy but a different art style and story it can be seen as the same character, just updated a little (a good example is how Joker in animated series had a radical redesign in art but remained a fairly similar character, until they radically altered his character in The Batman).

if a character is very different in appearance, motive or origin they should have different pages but if they share very similar appearances, motives, origins etc there is no reason for them to have a different page.

there should be a scale made, like everything else, determining how far a character should stray from its source before it is considered a "new" character.