Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-20551-20181015063237/@comment-1013969-20181021185516

Koavf wrote: But this is what I'm arguing against: why introduce all of this overhead to have to go back and change things? What is the purpose?

And yes, almost always that is true but sometimes important characters don't have names; that's just how some writers are. E.g. the linked example.

I agree and given the way DC has has gone back and retconned things by putting stories that were (in theory) on Earth-One or Earth-Two to things like Earth-Forty, Earth-Thirty-Two, etc and not even be consistent about it (does The Legend of Wonder Woman Vol 1 take place on Earth-One or Earth-Thirty-Two? being a case in point) the only label doesn't really serve a purpose anymore.