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He started with three names. Danny Rand was not here, and neither were Hector Ayala or Angela del Toro, and he said so. That was the first sign that the character coverage was not merely unfinished but thin in a way nobody inside the project had noticed.

Then he sent a list of about ninety more. Working through it took this catalogue from a hundred and twenty-three people to well over two hundred, and not one entry on that list turned out to be a matter of taste. The Netflix street level, the Fox mutants, the Asgardian court, the cosmic tier, the monsters, the agents: every group he named was a real gap.

He is also the reason several things here are organisations rather than people. He noticed that some of what he had listed were groups, which is why the Hand, the Warriors Three, the Black Order, the Eternals, the Runaways, Cloak and Dagger, the New Mutants and the Inhuman Royal Family have entries of their own.

The Earth numbers on the character index are his idea as well. He pointed out that somebody who meets Cyclops or the Green Goblin in a list with no mark on it will assume there is a version of them in the shared story, and asked for the universe to sit next to the name of everyone who is not from it. It does now. Then he sent the Earth numbers the first pass had missed, from Aaron Davis to Spider-Man Noir, and those are in as well. So is the Watcher, whom he noticed was narrating three seasons of a series in this catalogue without an entry of his own.

Then a third list, of twenty-five, and again not one of them was a matter of taste: Ned Leeds and MJ, Maria Hill, the other Quicksilver, Aunt May, the man who played the Mandarin and the man who hired him, Colonel Stryker, Iceman and Angel, the Rhino, Titania, Talos, Zeus. People who between them carry a good part of the stories around the leads, and who had no page to be found on.

Then a fourth, in five parts, and the longest yet: fifty-seven people once the two Jarvises were counted separately. The four around Blade, twelve from the Fox films, the four from the Nicolas Cage Ghost Rider films, five from Sony’s Spider-Man universe, and thirty-two from the shared story, from Foggy Nelson and Karen Page to the coven in Agatha All Along. Again not one of them was a matter of taste, and again the list came with a few spellings the sources corrected and a few claims the entries record as his reading rather than as fact.

Then two he had forgotten, sent the next day: Bolivar Trask, the man behind the Sentinels, and Agent Sitwell, the Hydra man inside S.H.I.E.L.D. Neither had an entry, and both do now.

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He asked why the Spider-Verse films were catalogued and none of their people were, and made the argument rather than just the request: Miguel O’Hara naming Earth-199999, and Donald Glover reprising his role from Spider-Man: Homecoming inside an animated film. Both are recorded here now, with sources.

And he said the emblems were too plain and that too many looked alike. Checking that turned up a real bug, where two parts of the design system were writing to the same custom property and knocking the generated marks out to black, and then a rebuild of the generator so that a character without an authored glyph still gets a mark that belongs to them.

The mark above is not from that generator. It is drawn by hand in src/lib/sigils.ts, on the same terms as every character glyph in this project: a web of twelve strands and three rings computed around the centre, with the eyes of the mask he wears as an avatar over it, in one colour, in the same frame. Nothing in it is traced from anything.