Thread:Shadzane/@comment-265341-20150130185906/@comment-265341-20150201082442

Thanks Byfield!

The problem is that there's a difference between characters who don't appear Post-Crisis and characters who never existed Post-Crisis. Viper does not exist in a vacuum. He is part of Richard Dragon's history, and Lady Shiva's history, and Bronze Tiger's history, and the League of Assassins' history. There is nothing leading us to believe that this part of their history didn't happen.

In this case he is a very minor character who died in his first appearance. There's no reason he would have been mentioned again. We can't really know either way whether or not he existed Post-Crisis. We should not say that a story has definitely been erased from continuity unless we know for a fact that it has.

I don't mean this to be specifically about Viper, he is an extremely unimportant character who is not worth debating. This is just a general principle about Earth-One characters.