Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1038387-20150507171317/@comment-220364-20150522011317

Haroldrocks wrote: So, I got to thinking, the only reason that Earth 2 character deaths seem more canonical than any other is because they're the characters we followed into the dome. If the main Convergence book took the perspective of, say, the people abducted from New Earth, we would count those character deaths with more weight.

What I'm trying to say is, in theory, we either have to go all or nothing with the character deaths. Because, just like how the worlds that were stolen were only certain moments in time, the same could be say for the Earth 2 characters. The only reason we would think otherwise is because we actually get to see their abduction.

I'm not sold on that. Aside from the Earth 2 characters, and any Nu52 characters that showed up, the cast is DC trying to pander to fan nostalgia. And not necessarily doing a good job of it.

You are right, the weight given the Earth 2 characters is tied to their story being "unbroken". They have a continuous thread from Huntress and Power Girl first appearing post-Flashpoint to and through Convergence. It is reasonable to say they are the same characters and that the deaths stick.

However, the other domes have breaks of years to decades between when those characters and settings appeared. There is a lot of room to say they are similar to Earth-which-ever, but there is also enough difference and disconnect for it to be said they aren't. In those cases it's harder to say the deaths are those of the original characters. Yes, the writers killed them off here, but at best they killed of temporal doppelgangers, echos created from a sliver of time just before the original characters either died or ceased to exist. That in-story mechanic makes the deaths in Convergence "second deaths", and something that doesn't warrant inclusion in the infobox of a character page, but does warrant a section under Notes.