User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-28743561-20190216032054/@comment-6032121-20190525193846

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-28743561-20190216032054/@comment-6032121-20190525193846 If the story references the Doctor, and specifically events concerning the Doctor in an already valid story, I can't well see a case for it not being set in the DWU.

Keepsake's Vulture is a more ambiguous case. His presence is additional evidence, but, I think, only inasmuch as it is further evidence of the intended narrative connection to the previous Death's Head/Doctor run-ins. On its own it's very weak evidence of DWUness; I'm a bit queasy about allowing in other stories on the sole basis of its presence. Yes, it happened to make its debut in a DWU comic story, but in the absence of continuing attempts to connect the Vulture to the DWU, then I fear that precedent rules against it. And the Brothers were actual characters, whereas the Vulture is, at the end of the day, a background prop that happens to be made out of flesh and blood, more than a character — as I recall Amorkuz once put it.

Again, though, we are not discussing stories featuring the Vulture in general, we are discussing The Body in Question; and in the form of the reference to the Doctor, The Body in Question has much more irrefutable evidence of Rule-4 compliance than one measly buzzard.