You know, I like capeshit VASTLY more when the superheroes exist

Or another idea: if there's a cross over the 'visiting' character is altered to fit within the lead hero's world, resulting in parallel canons

thoughts?

>>93178323
>You know, I like capeshit VASTLY more when the superheroes exist seperate from each other

Great news for you then - they already do unless it's an event. They always did.

>>93178323
>Don't you think they went overboard with the crossover thing?
Not really. A shared universe is fine as long as everyone sticks to their niche. A cosmic-tier character existing in the same world as a street-level character doesn't diminish either. If anything, it makes sense that a world of superheroes would inspire such vigilantes. It's only a problem if those settings start to mix. Batman being part of the Justice League is probably the worst thing to happen to him in hindsight. He's barely even a detective anymore.

>>93178492
what I'm getting at is that it passively limits worldbuilding and characterisation to an extent

How is it a crossover

When a Batman teams up with Ninja Turtles, that's a crossover. When Spider-Man teams with the Fantastic Four, it is not

>>93178323
just because there are dictators threatening nations with atom bombs, doesn't mean you should be fine with a burglar stealing your shit or a murderer stabbing you.
There's nothing wrong with smaller stakes

>>93178627
It should be, I feel that this common universe thing is kind of sucky.
>>93178643
It matters as it pulls the series from its roots for the sake of creating a threat that would require multiple heroes, it creates a powercreep and causes things like '9/11 never happened in the dc universe because the heroes should have prevented it, they beat much worse than this', you see what I mean?
It also results in the stories serving the common universe rather than a common universe serving the story.

looking for some more input