The now NEW Official DC Stupid Questions thread: Didio Headaches - Part 2

[javi1024]

So what's the story purpose of have a Justice League, Justice League International (is that their official name?), and now a Justice League of America? I thought Superman's JL was the America team, giving JLI a legitimate purpose. Kind feels like we're one team too many.

 

[Anubis]

The other two are the only ones that are "Officially Sanctioned" by the U.S. Government or the United Nations.

 

[Cain]

The other one anyway because the JLI is now officially dead. Again.

 

[Cain]

So they continue to misuse my namesake even into the New 52. Joyous.

Now I know how Kurosawa felt.

There's always Multiversity.

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Does Doctor Fate and The Spectre exist in the DCnU?

 

[HighFivingMF]

Does Doctor Fate and The Spectre exist in the DCnU?

Spectre has been mentioned. I don't know about Dr. Fate, but I think he'll show up in Earth 2 sooner or later.

 

[The Question]

The other two are the only ones that are "Officially Sanctioned" by the U.S. Government or the United Nations.

Then why do they have the same name as the not sanctioned one?


Also, I never understood why the Justice League sometimes splinters into teams like this. Wouldn't it make more sense to have one giant team with a central command, JLU style?

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Then why do they have the same name as the not sanctioned one?

One thing I came up with is that the "Justice League" name sells, just like Marvel slapped the word "Avengers" on half of their books, the consumer will buy it just for the name.

Another thing is thay the Trinity War story may be about 3 JL teams fighting each other.

Edit: After thinking about my statement, I realized that putting the name "Justice League" in a title didn't work out so well for Justice League International.

Maybe the government team makes a Justice League to taunt the original team.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Then why do they have the same name as the not sanctioned one?


Also, I never understood why the Justice League sometimes splinters into teams like this. Wouldn't it make more sense to have one giant team with a central command, JLU style?

In the comics and in real life, name recognition.

The main Justice League isn't accepting new members. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg are the line-up. They let in Martian Manhunter at some point in the past but it didn't turn out well. So the powers that be made a puppet Justice League that the public would like but they could control. They've been dismantled and the new JLA is being built. A preview in #12 leads one to believe they are assembled to possibly combat the Justice League.

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Spectre has been mentioned. I don't know about Dr. Fate, but I think he'll show up in Earth 2 sooner or later.

I'd rather have Dr. Fate in the main DCU, but I did just find out that The Spectre will appear in Phantom Stranger.

I also heard that Solomon Grundy doesn't exist in the main DCU and is over at Earth 2, I know he has a lot of history with Alan Scott, but I'm not really a fan of this.

 

[The Question]

In the comics and in real life, name recognition.

The main Justice League isn't accepting new members. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg are the line-up. They let in Martian Manhunter at some point in the past but it didn't turn out well. So the powers that be made a puppet Justice League that the public would like but they could control. They've been dismantled and the new JLA is being built. A preview in #12 leads one to believe they are assembled to possibly combat the Justice League.

That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Name recognition is a think when it comes to selling toys and coasters and stuff, but it's not really a thing in that respect when it comes to politics and propaganda. You didn't see the government creating their own Occupy Wall Street using that name last year.

If the government is opposed to the Justice League, they're not going to form their own team and call it the Justice League. What would that accomplish? What would "name recognition" even mean in this case?

They'd either try to co-opt the Justice League, you know, bring them into the fold, or vilify them in the media and create a safer, more controllable alternative that's clearly identifiable as something separate with a different name because their goal would be to make the Justice League's name be synonymous with dirt in the public consciousness.

 

[HighFivingMF]

That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Name recognition is a think when it comes to selling toys and coasters and stuff, but it's not really a thing in that respect when it comes to politics and propaganda. You didn't see the government creating their own Occupy Wall Street using that name last year.

If the government is opposed to the Justice League, they're not going to form their own team and call it the Justice League. What would that accomplish? What would "name recognition" even mean in this case?

They'd either try to co-opt the Justice League, you know, bring them into the fold, or vilify them in the media and create a safer, more controllable alternative that's clearly identifiable as something separate with a different name because their goal would be to make the Justice League's name be synonymous with dirt in the public consciousness.

I don't see how a protest compares to a group of superpeople.

They're not necessarily against the Justice League. They still pay for the satelite. #12 sets in motion the public starting to not trust them. The public LOVES the League and trusts them more than the government, so they tried getting in on that with a group they could control.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

So Martian Vision is like heat vision?

 

[Anubis]

More or less.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

But more Martiany.

 

[CConn]

Or African, if you need a minority represented.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

Martians are a minority.

 

[WolfCypher]

Do we still refer to Mars and Oa and all the other planets in the universe of "Earths 1" & "Earths 2" and etc. as Earth 1 and Earth 2?

Even though they aren't Earth, but are planets of their own? They just exist in the same universe as Earth 1's Earth?

Is there a Mars 1 and a Mars 2? A Thanagar 1?

Will DC ever realize that naming an entire universe "EARTH" is stoopid?

 

[Anubis]

Not when more often than not, earth is the lynchpin to all reality.

 

[The Question]

Very literally in "Our Worlds at War."

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

What if a facehugger from Alien laid an egg in Superman? How ****ed would the Justice League be against a Super Xenomorph?

 

[The Question]

What if a facehugger from Alien laid an egg in Superman? How ****ed would the Justice League be against a Super Xenomorph?

Not very, I'd suspect. If the entire Justice League ganged up on Superman they could almost definitely take him in a fight. Like, just have Wonder Woman, J'onn, and Aquaman gang up and start pummeling him, and if he busts free have GL drop a building sized construct on him. And The Flash could do all sorts of hit and run tactics, maybe even using Kryptonite in some way. And just keep repeating that process until they've won.

 

[Manic]

And that's if a powerful magician isn't available that particular day.

 

[The Question]

And that's if a powerful magician isn't available that particular day.

I've always been kind of bugged by how Superman's weakness to magic is portrayed. Like, I think originally the idea behind it was that he's just as vulnerable to magic as everybody else, and that's the take that makes the most sense and seems the least silly to me. But in a lot of cases it's portrayed as him actually getting weaker around magic regardless of what it's supposed to be doing. Like, any enchanted object can hurt him even if what makes it enchanted doesn't involve being used as a weapon.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Would the alien be strong enough to burst out of Superman's chest?