Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26120048-20170601231558/@comment-3581997-20170604063637

Love Robin wrote:

On top of that, you have the fact that Marvel and DC have been buying up other companies for so long and importing them into their Shared Universes compounding the entire issue. I forget who originally published Captain Marvel (Shazam)(I lost my collection in a flood a couple decades ago), but DC eventually bought them. Eclipse by the way I think it was.

I have been wondering how we are going to handle this for some time by the way, properties change hands. I know we got rid of Disney Villains which undoes the Star Wars mess but this is going to keep happening, companies are going to keep trading properties and our classifications will need to go through major overhauls each time. This is to say nothing of unofficial tribute games. Bloodstained ritual of the Night isn't a Castlevania game... but it -is- a Castlevania game, made by the same man with just enough changed for Konami, who gave-up on sponsoring new projects but held onto the rights, couldn't sue Igarashi for continuing his games independently. Heck would we not classify the villains from that Mighty #9 thing as Mega-man villains? And that's just the "knock-offs". What happens when all the world's intellectual Properties are only controlled by either Disney or Nintendo? How do we classify internal Universes at that point?