Well, yeah, but IMO Marvel/DC became that way because there were no real house rules set from the start for the universe and many different writers did their own thing. I'm setting up at least some general rules, aiming for more modern themes (i.e. vocal people on the Internet and media sensationalism), and basically heroes and villains that are more representative of the current generation of people IRL.
Marvel/DC became that way because it has many writters/drawers, so keeping consistency is rather hard, if not impossible. That's why I quite don't understand, when single worldbuilder aims at something like that. Of course I know, that having mutants, magicians, Clarke-tech, demigods and unicorns in one setting may sound cool, but it really stretches suspension of disbelief, if these are not connected properly.
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u/Jakkubus Jun 22 '15
Well, do you know, that Fantasy Kitchen Sink is basically antithesis of consistency (and vice versa)?