Originally posted by PhilosophíaTotally. It's offensive. And it's helpful that Galan noted it in the Character Ruling & Guideline Thread.
It's particularly amusing reading this from outside - the ruling is essentially the most inoffensive "Hey, World War Hulk is Green Scar in that specific World War Hulk storyline in his non-WBH mode, but if you want all of his feats just remove the WWH denomination and use Green Scar " - yet the reaction is as if you made them eat shit and started posting scans on how different Hulk incarnations abilities differ.It's still not to late for either of those -- but they'd probably enjoy at least one.
I also note that the same thread specifies:
DC comics and Canonicity:From this point forward, all DC characters in threads are assumed to be the "DCNU" versions of the characters. I imagine that means we're going to get a lot of unintentional spite threads, but I'm sure people will learn in time to make better opening posts.
and
Superman is now considered to be an amalgamation of both the Post-Crisis and New 52 versions of Superman, and has all the feats that come with both.
So for forum purposes, pre-crisis showings are invalid if the thread says "Superman", but any thread creator can specifically include them in the OP.
That seems fair to me.