Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-5791028-20150709160234/@comment-4028641-20151105032425

The rule of thumb I've discovered is that if a character has any unique lines for the level, he's meant to be there. The Twelfth Doctor saying "Scaro... Home planet of the Daleks..." for instance. The twelve Doctors before him (confusing, isn't it?) don't have any unique dialogue not taken from the show, nor does K9. In the main game, meanwhile, only Wildstyle, Batman, and Gandolf have anything unique to say in the Who level -- which they of coarse also star in the cut scenes in. The biggest problem with the theory of using only characters which the game and narrative suggests are in the level on the wikia is that there are certain parts of the game which can only be accessed by other characters. In The Dalek Extermination of Earth, for instance, there are portals to unlock secret parts of the level which many editors will be quick to write on. One of these has huge metal chunks and Clara fly out of the portal, the metal chunks forming K1 and attacking Clara. This is basically Clara's only the role in the game, and thus will be a hot spot for editors, even if technically you can't get to it according to our supposed policies. Then there's the Black Archives level, which you can get to with 12 I think, but you can't unlock many things there with only him. With Batman and the split personalities cop you can find Cyber-Brig, who will give you a level bonus, Missy hiding in the room, and the Masters clock TARDIS, which dematerializes. If you bring down two boxes and open a door (all of which take multiple characters) you'll get pieces to Bessie. When the car is assembled, the Third Doctor will arrive via a portal, chased by a Time Scoop, and will take off in the car. Also Osgood and Kate Stewart are running around the room through all of this, very calmly. Missy is also there, and kind of just taunts you vaguely. She calls her device her "vaporizer," so there's a thing.

The instinct of the writers on the wiki will be to write about how, according to this game, the TARDIS could land in the Black Archives at a later point, how the Master's TARDIS was kept there, and how the dissembled parts of Bessie, Omega's Mask, and various other things were also stored there in crates. However, according to this discussions supposed rules, all of these things would be noting but an over-glorified Easter egg -- no more than the Valeyard's cap in The Eternity Clock. The same for the K1 scene. Do we stand by this? Or do we think that there's a fault here?