Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26120048-20170601231558/@comment-366087-20170602170322

I have long thought those sections were useless fluff. As stated, you look long enough you can find similarities between almost any two Characters. After all, they are *villains*, and as such they conform to several basic tropes.

At best this should be for situations such as "parallel-developed" characters and or blatant rip-offs.

For example Captain Cold and Mr. Freeze both use freeze ray technology. Or Killer Frost (DC) and Iceman (Marvel) and Frozone {Incredibles) generate ice and ice-slides. Or Green Arrow (DC) and Hawkeye (Marvel) are trick-arrow archers. Or Hawkman (DC) and Falcon and Angel (both Marvel) and Birdman (Hanna-Barbera) are all winged flying heroes.

Those examples are the sort of "Parallel Developed" and often Blatant Rip-off which would be worthy of Trivia mentions.

But the "they lost loved ones" and "they did XYZ-tropes" is useless because it is sooooo generic to the genres.