Board Thread:Wiki Management/@comment-26221704-20161024013729/@comment-11390223-20161219131649

I believe a lot more gateways can be opened if we allow fanficitons and unoffical continuations which actually have proper figthing skills to be used here, and can help introduce people to other walks of franchises, which I believe to be one of Death Battles many goals. As its fanon wiki, I feel we should follow suit and thus allow this use.

For example, characters from the popular Webcomic Dragon Ball Multiverse could be very interestingly used in Death Battle, and I can actually see Death Battle one day using fanon versions of existing franchises, but of course that is just conjecture. Other fanfictions and unoffical continuations actually help give fighting attributes to characters who are otherwise unusable from their original source material.

It's also hard where to draw the line. I don't know much of the franchise, but if someone wanted to use people from the Wizard of Oz, would we allow the use of the stage play "Wicked" or it's unofficial prequel which came out... relatively recently about the Wizard of Oz's origins, yet both are well established continuations towards the franchise, as sources? Not sure if the franchise has worthy fighters, but it is the only example I could think of.

I suppose another example would be SMG4, as mentioned in the main body. I don't know much about his videos, but know he has his own well-established characters, but also characters which are exactly like the characters this blog refers to. Would we be able to use SMG4's version of Mario, and if so, why not other well-established AU characters? SMG4's character may be an internet persona, but he other characters are basically just rewrites of existing characters, which is the concern of this matter, and basically the same as Error Sans (I think?).

I am aware Turbo Mecha Sonic, who is also well-established, was "not allowed" on this wiki to for the same reason, however as of now there is no direct rule stating that they are blacklisted despite claims of some, and the connects made (which I have to admit are not solid) in this forum's original post.

I feel things will be of much easier, and the wiki will have much more benefit, if we allow the use of fanon AUs, fanfictions and unofficial continuations of existing franchises to have their versions of characters, and original character, be allowed to be used on this wiki, within reason, of course.