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Superman (Original) rename

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Hopefully quick thread since this shouldn't be a big deal. "Superman (Original)" needs to be renamed. First of all, it's not even the "original' Superman, that honor would go to Bill Dunn, the first character Siegel and Shuster who went by Superman. Secondly, I feel that it misrepresents golden age DC, since Kal existed in a shared universe with dozens of other heroes, even back then.

That said, I dunno what to replace it with. "Golden Age" is the most obvious answer, but also isn't really accurate either. DC revived the Golden Age universe in the 70s and incoporated acquired characters into it, such as the Blackhawks and Plastic Man, and thus these are neither the original nor golden age versions of these characters, so that's not valid if we would to have a consistent naming scheme for that section of the verse. Ergo I suggest either "Golden Age Universe" or "Earth-Two" (the in-universe name) instead.
 
Earth 2 for Golden Age and Earth 1 for Pre crisis should be the ideal naming convention ngl.

Comic book names are shit tier
Honestly yeah, p much the only places that still use Pre/Post Crisis namig schemes are versus debating forums, and theyre not super accurate to how the characters and world were represented in the actual comics
 
Isn't the moniker of Earth 1 or 2, etc used across eras? For example earth 2 pre crisis or earth 2 post crisis.
 
There's only two noteworthy Earth 2s, the Pre-Crisis one and Post Flashpoint one. Ig we can use "Superman (Pre-Crisis: Earth Two) or smth
 
I don’t think that’s really necessary, and iirc the Post-Flashpoint version is known as “Earth 2” instead of “Earth-Two”, so their names are distinct enough.
 
Might be a bit confusing to a new user at first, but as long as the page summary specifies, we should be good.
 
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