Well, I suppose the Asian characters I was thinking of were technically "Bronze Age", but the 70's saw the introduction of multiple heroes from Japan and China. Admittedly, the were mostly mystical martial artists, but not treated as jokes or evil.





Ah, good point. Still, a mainframe could exist, just not the one she's looking for, or with the connections she needs to return to it.





*cough*Vision*cough*

Seriously, the guy showed up in 1968 indistinguishable from a human, even under medical exam. Hank Pym couldn't answer what he was because he was "every inch a human being" only composed entirely of synthetics. Then Vizh got angry, fought his creator (which was also an overly emotional robot), learned his origin and wept.

His body was based on the original Human Torch, himself an android built in the 30's whom nobody would have ever suspected was anything but human in appearance and personality.

And frankly, the whole point of Silver Age storytelling is that you get to skip over the "reason" things exist. If it was a cool idea, it was thrown into the plot, whether it makes a great deal of logical sense or not.




Now you're on track!




I would think that would only apply on worlds close enough to her own that all the people she knows exist there too. Once you get far enough down the road to the point of the Parodyverse, I wouldn't think it'd be an issue. I don't, for instance, expect Visionary to exist on her world.