Board Thread:Council of Arrowverse Wiki/@comment-26260713-20200116064823/@comment-807326-20200117052802

SeanWheeler wrote: I don't think any show should be merged for a cameo in Crisis on Infinite Earths. If we merge every show that was referenced in the Crisis, we'd become the DC Database. So it's best not to merge willy-nilly at the sight of a cameo. We're not wiki conquerors or anything, so shows that just got a cameo from Crisis like Titans and Swamp Thing should not be merged. And while I'm aware that we're in the process of merging with Birds of Prey, could we abort that merge because a short prologue in Crisis that shows Huntress running through New Gotham should not be something that calls for a merge. Because for one, Earth-203 has not been incorporated into Earth-Prime and Birds of Prey ended in 2003, so it's not likely we'll ever see them again in the Arrowverse, and two, this is Crisis on Infinite Earths, the special that established every universe under the DC brand as part of the Arrowverse. Three, it's a short scene. Not enough information to confirm without a doubt that it is indeed the same Earth from the show and not some knockoff universe that someone could expose by a plot hole like how Smallville, the Superman films and the Batman films were disqualified from joining us. Black Lightning is welcome here because it had it's own prelude to the Crisis and is now in Earth-Prime. But Birds of Prey due to being cancelled in 2003 had no such luck in airing an episode so all they had was a prelude on The Flash of what could be Huntress or an Arrowverse doppelganger of her. Titans has archived footage because they haven't bothered participating in the Crisis and the modified memories of the rebooted universe would mean they wouldn't remember Earth-9 destroyed. The Birds of Prey characters wouldn't remember Earth-203 destroyed either, so in terms of Birds of Prey canon, Titans canon, and every show and movie not on Earth-Prime, Crisis on Infinite Earths never happened. Now Stargirl may be a tricky show to incorporate. As I said, I would support merging Stargirl because of Earth-2, but we might have a problem with Green Lantern sharing an Earth with Harrison Wolfgang Wells. I really don't want us covering that movie here. We are about the shows, not movies. And Green Lantern was so badly recieved that it was the first attempt at starting the DCEU, but failed and the DCEU was instead started by a more controversial Superman. And I don't want to merge the DCEU when Ezra Miller's Barry Allen showed up because I like the DCEU Wiki as it is and I've long accepted the Arrowverse and DCEU as their own thing. I'd rather be anticipating Wonder Woman 1984 on the DCEU Wiki than here. But Earth-2 may have some more leverage for Arrowverse coverage than a Harrison Wells universe. Because we just know one person from Earth-12 and he never appeared in Green Lantern, meanwhile we know a lot of people from Earth-2 and people like Laurel Lance are on Earth-Prime. So Stargirl yes, Green Lantern no? Then again, Stargirl did just have a cameo in Crisis and her show hasn't even started. And until someone like Jesse Wells appears on her show, that Stargirl of Earth-2 could just be a doppelganger of the Stargirl of her show, which is weird when everyone we've seen on Earth-2 was always a doppelganger of their Earth-1 counterpart and no other universe. But there's a first for everything and logically if the show is set on Earth-2, it should be starring Sarah Grey instead of Brec Bassinger. But hey, if Elseworlds and Crisis can have counterparts played by different actors across the multiverse after a tradition of using the same actor playing parallel Earth doppelgangers across the multiverse with every version of Harrison Wells played by Tom Cavanaugh, and a few doppelgangers in Earth-2 Central City having different dress styles, personality traits, become metas when their Earth-1 counterparts didn't, have different hand dominance, or basically be the opposite of their Earth-1 counterparts, it's not that much of a stretch for some to have different faces. I would like to cover Stargirl just for the reason of being set in Earth-2, but I think we should wait for more information and know if it's seriously on Laurel's Earth. I appreciate your opinion, but we're the Arrowverse Wiki, so we cover the entire shared multiverse, or at least to the best of our ability. Just because you don't "like" something doesn't mean you're right. You'd rather look at Wonder Woman 1984 content on the DCEU Wiki? Uhh, okay, good to know? There are certain properties that we've "disqualified" from covering for now, such as Smallville, as it's a humongous property with over 200 episodes. That'd be a nightmare to merge in a short period of time. So we're making informed choices as best we can and doing our best to incorporate the community's input.