Board Thread:Policies/@comment-220364-20140111204600/@comment-1639863-20140111221853

I don't mean to sound malicious here, Byfield, but isn't the Eliot Ness thing along the same lines? Besides the fact that he actually kept his name, his DC character is a radical edit of Ness' real historical background just like Blackbeard's. In honesty, I think the DCU Blackbeard is actually closer at first glance to real history than the Eliot Ness page is that we have now. I don't understand why a real person can be turned into a fictional representation, but a fictional representation can't be a real person.