Inclusion debates/Inclusion debate: The Free-Fall Warriors
Free-Fall Warriors (comic series) and Captain Britain (1985) (the publication the four stories appeared in) have been nominated for deletion as they do not contain stories within the DWU.
I disagree with this assessment as these four comic stories explicitly meant to be an origin story for the titular Freefall Warriors, first seen in Doctor Who and the Free-Fall Warriors (comic story). Let's go over the four little rules:
| 1 | Only stories count. |
They are stories.
| 2 | A story that isn't commercially licensed by all of the relevant copyright holders doesn't count. |
They were licensed by relevant copyright holders, namely Marvel UK.
| 3 | A story must be officially released to be valid. |
They were officially released in 1985.
| 4 | If a story was intended to be set outside the DWU, then it's probably not allowed. But a community discussion will likely be needed to make a final determination. |
Ah, now this is where we get to the debate; are these stories set in the DWU? Unlike the contentious Death's Head stories; in my view, these are pretty cut and dry parts of the DWU from the very first page of the first story: "Warworld: The origin of THE FREE-FALL WARRIORS..." (see image)
The writers very well intended these to be the same Freefall Warriors from Doctor Who and the Free-Fall Warriors (comic story).
I must confess I have not read these stories in full, but I have them and will surely move them up on my priority list and add any additional information I find for bonus legitimacy points:
- Intra-Venus, Inc. is heavily referenced.
- Shaman Kahn appears in the third story and first appeared in A Ship Called Sudden Death (comic story), a Doctor-less comic story about the Freefall Warriors from DWMS Summer 1982.
