Board Thread:Policies/@comment-220364-20140111204600/@comment-220364-20140111232848

More a case of just barely opposite sides of the line.

Scar of the Bat is a case of is an exercise in re-casting real history and real people in terms of the Bat-Mythos. The characters are fictionalized representations of the real people. Highly fictionalized, yes, but just short of DC creating a wholly fictional characters that would be a pastiche of the real people.

Vandal Savage is DC playing up the immortal villain by making him out to be the source of history and legend for a number of real people. There is also the latitude that writer could have Vandal Savage's stint in those roles being concurrent with a fictionalized version of the real person or having killed that fictionalized version to take the identity.

There is also one last thing. The Scar characters would be fair game for the use of Real People to point to factual biographies of Ness et al. The same template would not be appropriate for Vandar Adg (New Earth) or similar.