Thread:Tupka217/@comment-6369172-20150919214210/@comment-6369172-20150926235628

Lucien61 wrote: SDD, I see your point, but this actually works both ways. [...] So a case could be made for KE'S GA adventures taking in a universe outside of that described in the Blackhawk and Plastic Man features. [...] We can go all anal-retentive about KE having a non-interacting QU counterpart virtually identical to his Earth-S pre-Crisis iteration, or we can somewhat generously admit that we have a Carter Nichols at hand and leave it at that.

Can't buy it. Same reason as before. Me, earlier: "Accepting the premise that QU has been created, and that dozens of QU characters therefore already exist in parallel versions of themselves, why would Kid Eternity be the only character that does not? What is the rationale for singling K.E. out for this treatment?" The value of any rule lies in the consistency with which it is applied.

Here's my hypothetical counterexample. We know that parallel versions of the Blackhawks exist in at least three universes, (really four if Earth-X has any point to existing), and that MORE THAN four versions of the Blackhawks have appeared in these comics. Because Blackhawk is confusing. One series of Blackhawk issues (#s 244 ~ 250) is consistent with no other continuities; one appearance in B&B (#167) is likewise. So there they hang, in noncanonical limbo. The temptation exists to arbitrarily consign these stories to "Earth 32" or the "Haneyverse." Key word there is "arbitrarily." The action gives a satisfactory outcome, but the process by which it is reached can't be defended.

This is that, only backward. It's possible and tempting to streamline and simplify the fictional multiverse, but it's not consistent with established practice. From an Occam's Razor p.o.v., it would be good to have only one version of Kid Eternity, but O.R. went out the window on the day that Barry Allen met Jay Garrick.