Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-4028641-20170222073756/@comment-4028641-20170224003115

Alright, you can't compare this film's plot to a rap-battle.

And it's simply not a cultural reference is the moment is fully licensed and the characters serve any important part as part of the "villain squad" that attacks Gotham.

I think an important note is, once again, anything that isn't Doctor Who in this movie is irrelevant to the discussion. This conversation will likely be used in the future to make a judgement on all LEGO media, so it's important that we closely inspect the Who branch of the franchise above all other things.

You can't just call this a "Reference" over an "Appearances" over some marginally irrelevant notes about how many lines the Daleks have and if someone in the movie makes fun of them for two seconds.

It is a licensed appearance. It is explained why they are in this universe. The DWU is explored in the Lego series.

If they specifically designed the plot of the movie and surrounding media so that it could be explained how the Daleks did arrive in the Batman universe, then it was in some sense meant to be set in the DWU. Let's compare it to Looney Tunes: Back in Action, as someone did in another thread.

Back in Action is set in a universe with cartoon animals living alongside people. The reason it does matter in that case that the universe is different from the DWU is that it's never explained that the Daleks aren't from the universe that they're currently in. They didn't go out of their way to explain how it makes any sense. The Lego products did do that. Meaning that even if the Batman universe is kinda camp, it doesn't matter because we're not supposed to think that this is the DWU.