Bear with me, re Canonicity etc. Can we even say Iron MAn is the same character as in the 70's or 80's for instance. The origin is rewritten several times for different wars. Shouldn't the feats for the Iron Man of a different origin automatically be excluded? Same for Superman and all characters really.
I get your point, but using consistency works in that situation as well
Iron Man is hardly portrayed as transistor Iron man more often than not
I think its unnecessary, and really, many characters have stayed at pretty consistent levels over the years. Spidey, Hulk, Batman just off the top of my head
Some characters have become weaker and some have become stronger due to different wirters along with train of thought with modern writers. I'm pretty sure you will not find a writer these days that believe Hulk could thunder clap a dimension to dust or a writer that would have Thor pulling a big a** snake with a pole.
Its even hard to find planetary level beings these days.
When was the last time a being shedded a Galaxy? Power levels change and I don't even think it should be 5 yrs, it should be within 2 to 3 years.
Re: Should feats only be a maximum of five years old
It depends. Sometimes characters don't change a lot through a long history, some do, and it's not rare that early events are still explicitly indicated to take place, if not particularly the same way (Something Lady Shiva has suffered from. She's gotten a lot of minor retcons, but still has in canon beaten the same people she did before those retcons).
5 years is *way* too short a cutoff though. Very few characters have had big shifts during that time other than the explicit on-page ones (like Tony getting a new suit of armor).
Should threads older than 3 years be considered? Like if you get your argument destroyed and humiliated should we stop calling you on it after the 3 year mark?
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Re: Re: Should feats only be a maximum of five years old
Agreed. I dunno about 5, but I typically laugh when someone pulls out feats that are as old as I am or even older. Hulk is a particular one to me in this regard, shit he did in the 70's and early 80's, he's not even come close to replicating in 30 years since. Same for a lot of characters. They call that the Silver Age and not the Modern Age for a reason, because it's an age gone by.
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