User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-27280472-20161222145551/@comment-1789834-20170125200335

Something that someone stated on the thread that everyone seems to be meanwhile active on. Spin-offs of spin-offs are valid, and I see the reasoning behind that. But when a character from the DWU wanders into any other body of non-DWU work... someone said that it's normally down to the writer enjoyed using that character and simply wanted to use them again. And that's how I think we should treat Vince Cosmos.

Of course he's valid. But just because he wanders into a series that has no known ties with the DWU, it means nothing. It can be added to the BTS section of Vince Cosmos. There is no difference between Vince Cosmos appearing in Baker's End and the Tenth Doctor's cameo in Family Guy. Both scenarios have DWU characters in non-DWU stories... therefore they're not valid. But their appearance is certainly noteworthy.