Board Thread:Policies/@comment-220364-20130630193603/@comment-220364-20130630202355

Actually, the text on the category page implies that, with regard to Crisis, all of the characters from prior that didn't get carried over with minor or no change are "apocryphal". The process here has been that if an "Earth-One" or "Earth-Two" article exists for a character that also has a "New Earth" article, the pre-Crisis are tagged as "apocryphal". Hence Adam Strange (Earth-One), Etta Candy (Earth-Two), Frederick Freeman (Earth-S), and the like would be on the list. The same for any characters that didn't make the jump.

Most "imaginary-story" or "Elseworlds" characters, AFAIK have been kept out of the category. It seems to focus on the "modern DC universal continuity." If a character or story wasn't, or could not have been considered to be, part of that, it shouldn't be part of the category. (Hence my point about film and TV shows.)

After Flashpoint, there are a lot of characters that have not had a continuity bridge - the previous history no longer exists. Linda Park is a good example, but not the only one. Guy Gardner (New Earth) would be another.