Actually I would think Frank would stick around a little longer so he could take out a shitload of Gotham's super villians, remember most of them end up in Arkham so their all in one place
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Actually I would think Frank would stick around a little longer so he could take out a shitload of Gotham's super villians, remember most of them end up in Arkham so their all in one place
Well something would have to give. Though Suicide Squad and Checkmate could be American organization and SHIELD International (wish writers would remember that) so the occasional turf war could flare up.Christopher said:
LSH is more important so the Guard gets the dustbin. Return Aquaman to being a non-Atlantean and let Sub-Mariner be the hybrid.
Except Spidey isn't in the original Teen Titans' age cohort. He's about four years older than Dick Grayson, thirty at a floor, thirty-five at max. (This is why Joe Q's dickery was so misguided.) He was already well into college when the Teen Titans were still in high school.
Interestingly, I found out from Kurt Busiek a few years ago that Smallville was, until the Christopher Reeve fixed its location in the midwest, located on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Specifically, Kent County.
Pro-Registration:Christopher said:
- Superman
- Hal Jordan
- John Stewart
- Nightwing
- Wonder Woman
- The Flash
- Captain Marvel
Anti-Registration:
- Batman
- Oliver Queen
- Guy Gardner
- Kyle Rayner
- Hawkman
I'll have to think on this some more.
I'm not sure I agree with Superman being pro-registration. He's basically a lot like Captain America in his values, and he certainly has good reason to sympathize with those who wish to preserve their secret identities. I mean, heck, metatextually, Clark Kent is the poster boy for the whole concept of secret identities. And I can't really see him deciding that it's right to force Batman to unmask; that would be a death sentence for Bruce and everyone he cares for.
As for the others, I don't know most of the comics versions well enough to say, but I agree about Hal and Diana being pro-reg. (And which of the numerous Flashes do you mean?)
Of course, if Superman had come down on the anti-registration side, it would've given them a whole lot more clout, both physically and politically. Although Diana on the pro-reg side would balance that out.
Hard to say given the way comic book characters "age'. Peter entered college in an issue published 1965 and Dick entered college in an issue published in 1969. Given comic book time they could have entered at the same time or a semester apart or years apart.Allyn Gibson said:
Given Marvel's sliding timescale and how many times DC has rebooted its continuity from scratch, it's pretty much impossible to judge the timing of anything based on events in decades-old comics. All we can go by is what's assumed today about how old the characters are and how long ago things happened. For instance, in Peter David's Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man run a couple of years back, there was a story that flashed back to shortly after Spidey's debut and established that one of his classmates had a blog, which was actually called a blog by name in the story. That puts Spidey's origin no earlier than 1999, when the term "blog" was coined. And this issue came out in 2006. So either PAD was using the term "blog" anachronistically, or he was assuming Spidey was only about 22 in the series "present."
No need for that. DCU Atlantis already has two or more cities to explain Mer-people like Lori Lemaris, and MU Atlanteans have been scattered several times throughout their history.
I have one in my gut, but I can't back it up directly : I firmly believe Superman would never tolerate the Sentinels, and Batman might be with him, given how frequently they turn or are turned against their creators.
What else? The Guardians Of The Galaxy fought against the Badoon and Dominators in the 30th Century, and helped create the Golden Age enjoyed by the Legion in the 31st, kind of an ENT-TOS relationship.
Alternate Earths would have to include the one from Batman/Captain America (Byrne's best ever, and maybe the best comic book period) wherein the Bat-Sub found Steve Rogers frozen in 1964.
Galactus is reduced in one respect--there are so many worlds in the combine that the loss of one is almost regarded as a village might for seasonal flooding. But to the GOTU, he is magnified to a huge degree, for he witnessed the birth of the universe, and that knowledge is deadly.
One last thought for now : The long-running and vicious rivalry between Vandar Agd--Vandal Savage and En Sabah Nur - Apocalypse. Maybe even have Savage, under one of his countless names, be the tribal chief who took in young En Sabah Nur. He also managed to cop some of the Celestial and Kang-Rama-Tut tech for his rise.
Next question (one I already obliquely hinted at): Let's say Superman and Captain America get together and decide to form a Justice League of seven members. Who are the other five?
Off the top of my head, how 'bout:
Wonder Woman
Iron Man
Green Lantern
Thor
Flash
League of Avengers?
Avengers of Justice?
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Kara is his cousin for god's sake!
Fair 'nuff.
Not to mention at one time his nemesis Lex Luthor was President of the Unites States, and if such a law had existed then Lex would know the identities of a bunch of Superheros when he went back to being a supervillian. Add to that the Red Skull geting a high ranking U.S. government position at one time and it's hard to trust the government with that type of information if it can possibly get into the hands of supervillans.
Well if the Anti-Registration side has Batman then the Pro-Registration side is screwed since Batman knows the weaknesses of pretty much every superhero on the planet.
Yeah, but the pro-regs would likely have enough material on Batman to take him down with them or simply counter his weakness exploitations (seriously, if Ra's Al Ghul and such can take him down then it can't be that hard for guys like Reed Richards, Tony Stark or Nick Fury).
Seriously, this Batman Marty Stu stuff really gets annoying after awhile. One thing the merged world would do is increase the number of guys at least as smart as him.
Also, as we saw in "Infinite Crisis", Superman was willing to reveal his own ID to the government when McCarthy was doing his witch-hunt so there is some precedence for him willing to make superheroes accountable.
And besides, I think to Diana and Clark they wouldn't be against the idea of superbeings actually being held accountable for the damage they cause and other stuff.
Hell, Superman himself may be slightly less admired this time around by everyone. Things like Secret Invasion would make the populace less enamored of aliens, especially ones that look just like humans already.
Would Magneto use metahumans as further proof of how beings like mutants are destined to eventually be the new humanity?
The High Evolutionary, love to see how HE'D react to this whole thing.
The Legion of Super-Heroes, well maybe the Shi'Ar Skrulls and Kree are in place of the Khunds in the future.
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I don't know much about comics since I quit reading them in the Seventies some time. But it seems to me that we already know pretty much what a DC/Marvel joint universe would be like. There are so many superheroes and supervillains that it would be like that Alan Moore Top Ten series, where everyone in the city has superpowers of some sort or other!
Kara is his cousin for god's sake!
No, I knew which Supergirl I was referring to.
Come on! This is the message board where Smallville viewers wondered if Clark and Kara should hookup since they're both Kryptonians and can't hurt each other during sex.