Thread:The S/@comment-33165688-20180713034631/@comment-995426-20180713211839

Well, my ideas haven't completely gelled yet, but my vague idea is...

Abandoned locations would be locations that have been abandoned by someone, perhaps to be revisited, repurposed or squatted in by someone else. This would include the first Mirage lair, and the IDW Mutanimals headquarters, and the abandoned theatre in the City Fall arc. Potential problem is that this distinction could be too broad, as nearly every man-made location that isn't eventually demolished or destroyed becomes abandoned. This idea hasn't completely gelled because I haven't sorted out the vagueries yet, nor quite know how to justify the boundaries to anyone else.

Rebuilt locations are basically destroyed or demolished locations that have since been rebuilt, perhaps at the same spot, unless the article covers the general location even if it moves from place to place. (Now, I haven't watched all the 2003 TV series, but...) Maybe this includes the 2003 series Second Time Around building? Wasn't it destroyed, and then April rebuilt it? Even the World Trade Center was rebuilt&mdash;not exactly as it was before, but as the newly-designed building, &mdash;so the original location was destroyed and not rebuilt just as it was, but it was rebuilt as something quite different. In any event, such a category could be a subcategory of Destroyed Locations.

As it stands, there's still some vagueries with Destroyed Locations. How destroyed is destroyed? The first Mirage lair was partially destroyed, but then abandoned, and what was left was refashioned into Leatherhead's second lair. Mirage Second Time Around was partially destroyed (certainly unlivable and condemned) and hosted the climax battle for City at War. The burned out ruin was later demolished by the city unseen.

For that matter, what about Ruins? A ruin is something that has either been partially destroyed and left as a partially still standing wreck, or a location that has been abandoned for a long time but is still identifiable (like ancient ruins).

I don't know precisely where to draw the lines between these distinctions. And those are my thoughts for the time being.