Thread:Kyletheobald/@comment-6369172-20140502110154

We really do not need to get rid of Earth-X. The Earth-X and Earth-2 versions of the characters involved have got very very different histories. Different Earth versions of Black Condor, Blackhawk (!!), Doll Man, Human Bomb, the Freedom Fighters as a group, Neon the Unknown, Phantom Lady, Plastic Man (!!), the Ray, Red Bee, Red Torpedo, and Uncle Sam (!!) {not to mention the Invisible Hood, Magno, Midnight, and Miss America} have all got distinctively different career paths. -- Plastic Man and the Blackhawks had very long careers on Earth-2 and Earth-Post-COIE (i.e. were successful characters who sold tons of comics), but died in 1944 on Earth-X. -- Eliminating Earth-X is also wrong on the grounds that it continues, and even validates, the destructive "simplification," "streamlining," and general dumbing-down that was inflicted on DC's continuity, from C.O.I.E. in 1985 to Infinite Crisis in 2005, plus it negates the most important events that did take place in Infinite Crisis, the reestablishment of the multiverse. That happened; we all saw it happen; pretending it didn't happen is wrong. -- DC's characters live and operate in a rich and complex multiverse with parallel timelines which interact in interesting ways; snipping out parts of its history, retroactively, is exactly what was wrong about COIE, and fans quite rightly howled about it for decades afterward, until this injustice was laboriously corrected in 2005. What justification can there be for undoing that long overdue correction? 