The Official DC Stupid Question Thread....

[Anubis]

Hawkman was originally Prince Kufu of Egypt. 3000 years or so ago, he and his advisers (Nabu, Teth Adam aka Black Adam) found a Thanagarian ship crashed in the dessert. The Thanagarians inside were deadsville, but he found the Nth Metal. Made a kickass flying belt buckle for himself and his wife Shayera and they flew around, having adventures. Then, one day, jealous over his power or something or other, the High priest Hath Set killed the two of them with a Nth Metal dagger. What he set into motion would be an endless cycle of death and rebirth for the three. For 3000 years they'd die, be reborn, find each other, fall in love, then die horribly at the hands of the reincarnated Hath Set.

Skip ahead to the 1940's, a museum curator named Carter Hall gets himself hypnotized and remembers that he's actually the reincarnated Prince Kufu, and remembers all of his past life's. So, unlike all the other reincarnations, he actually knows what's gonna happen to him and his girl eventually. So, he finds the Nth Metal, the ship, and makes some wings and a harness and goes about as Hawkman. Eventually, they both disappear for awhile. Enter Katar Hol, and Hawkwoman. Two different Hawk people from Thannagar. They come to Earth, become the new hawks, and eventually Katar dies on Thannagar or something. the old Hawks come back, they fight Extant during Zero Hour and get killed. Well, Shayera did, but Carter ended up somewhere else. He was stuck wherever the hell that was with Katar Hol. Eventually, the JSA went to Thannagar where the new Hawkgirl (Who was a distant relative who committed suicide and Shayera's soul took up residence in the empty shell.) resurrected him. When that happened his soul was fused together with Katar and that's basically Hawkman now.

 

[trustyside-kick]

He's kinda both. Carter is just the current Hawkman, but has the memories of Katar and the many before him. There's a kinda DUNE thing going on with Hawkman...like Paul, Leto II, and the Bene-Gesserits with the whole 'other-memory' thing.

Oh well, if anyone can make sense of Hawkman's convoluted past...it's Starlin.

No, see...I know who Hawkman is prior to Starlin's recent crap I heard from Holy War. So I was curious what the story is now. I recall someone saying that there are panels that say that this Hawkman that we all thought was Carter and Katar fused (Carter's body except for the dark hair, and shared memories, etc etc) is flat out ONLY Katar Hol.

I freakin' loved the series Johns wrote. I was so pissed when I heard this.

 

[rnewbz]

Do the DC characters remember the crisis on infinite earths? If not, then how do they explain Barry's death?

 

[Jordacar]

As far as I know, everyone does remember COIE, although throughout the 90's all the way up to INFINITE CRISIS, most of the heroes forgot about the multiverse. They all remembered there was a Crisis, during which many heroes died (including Barry), but they all remembered the history of their world as being one earth, with the JSA forming in WWII and the Justice League starting up much later.

I hope I have succeeded in confusing you even more.

 

[Manic]

Hawkman was originally Prince Kufu of Egypt. 3000 years or so ago, he and his advisers (Nabu, Teth Adam aka Black Adam) found a Thanagarian ship crashed in the dessert. The Thanagarians inside were deadsville, but he found the Nth Metal. Made a kickass flying belt buckle for himself and his wife Shayera and they flew around, having adventures. Then, one day, jealous over his power or something or other, the High priest Hath Set killed the two of them with a Nth Metal dagger. What he set into motion would be an endless cycle of death and rebirth for the three. For 3000 years they'd die, be reborn, find each other, fall in love, then die horribly at the hands of the reincarnated Hath Set.

Skip ahead to the 1940's, a museum curator named Carter Hall gets himself hypnotized and remembers that he's actually the reincarnated Prince Kufu, and remembers all of his past life's. So, unlike all the other reincarnations, he actually knows what's gonna happen to him and his girl eventually. So, he finds the Nth Metal, the ship, and makes some wings and a harness and goes about as Hawkman. Eventually, they both disappear for awhile. Enter Katar Hol, and Hawkwoman. Two different Hawk people from Thannagar. They come to Earth, become the new hawks, and eventually Katar dies on Thannagar or something. the old Hawks come back, they fight Extant during Zero Hour and get killed. Well, Shayera did, but Carter ended up somewhere else. He was stuck wherever the hell that was with Katar Hol. Eventually, the JSA went to Thannagar where the new Hawkgirl (Who was a distant relative who committed suicide and Shayera's soul took up residence in the empty shell.) resurrected him. When that happened his soul was fused together with Katar and that's basically Hawkman now.

That's only slightly confusing. And by "slightly," I mean "very."

 

[Anubis]

It's like the Crisis. You can understand it quite easily, but it's hard to put it into words.

 

[Manic]

Was it ever explained why Power Girl never fully integrated into New Earth? I mean, Earth-2 has its own Kara Zor-L now. By all accounts, the Kara/Karen we all know and love has to be the New Earth version of herself, but her restarted origins never stuck. Why?

 

[Anubis]

Because John Byrne wanted Superman to be the last son of Krypton and therefore her origin was changed to accomidate that, then came Silver Age redux, which gave her back her original origin, but presented so many other problems that could have been fixed by simply not having there been another Power Girl on the new Earth 2.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

But doesn't the new Earth-2 have a new Earth-2 Superman and everything? If even people who've died get new versions with the new Multiverse, it wouldn't really make sense for Power Girl to be the only weirdo who didn't get a new version. So now the current Power Girl is the old Earth-2 Supergirl and the new Earth-2 Power Girl is a different character entirely who happens to share the same origin as the old Earth-2 Supergirl who is, again, the New Earth Power Girl. What could be simpler than that?

 

[Manic]

What could be simpler than that?

Quantum physics.

 

[Manic]

I just had a thought about Cassandra Cain. Prior to her untimely death at the end of her ongoing series, would you say she counted as a superhero with autism?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't claim to understand autism in any meaningful way, but from what I do understand, it's a genetic condition, not something that can be ingrained. As far as I know, Cassandra never had any genetic conditions; she simply never learned to speak. The speech centers in her brain were just repurposed for understanding the "language" of combat and body language because they were never stimulated to produce spoken words. She's a normal girl without any conditions who was simply not taught something in her development that virtually all other children are taught. So I would say no, in my completely unqualified opinion.

 

[BrianWilly]

I offer an equally unqualified agreement.

 

[Spike_x1]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm a qualified medical professional and I have to disagree. Autism is actually a rare condition where monkeys grow beneath the skin of your hands until they reach maturity and eventually crawl out through the space underneath the fingernails. It's a painful process, filled with orgasms and rainbow-flavored vomit.

So yes, Cassie could qualify as a superhero with autism, if you look at it from a certain perspective.

 

[Anubis]

The perspective of somebody who polished off a whole bag of shrooms?

 

[Hush]

Make that two bags man. Re-read how ****ed up that is.

 

[Snapper_Carr]

Shrooms sure get a lot of airtime around here. Whatever happened to good old bath-tub acid?

Anyway...I find it peculiar that the answers here often raise more questions. I like that. Sometimes even...God forbid...intelligent debate!!!....but never from me.

 

[yenaled]

Shrooms are so 2001.

 

[Anubis]

So what's current? Cough medicine with Codeine and Hennessy?

 

[Manic]

Grass never goes out of style.

 

[yenaled]

All about Salvia now. All the kids are doing it.

 

[Assassin]

why is barry allen back?

 

[Scarecrow_King]

that's a question very many people are asking right now.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

I got a question. in the Sinestro Corps War, Kyle Rayner was inhabited by Parallax, right?
and they sucked Ion out of him. he had no ring. so why were his constructs and costume still green? should they not have been yellow the entire time? even before it "absorbed" Hal?

 

[sto_vo_kor_2000]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm a qualified medical professional and I have to disagree. Autism is actually a rare condition where monkeys grow beneath the skin of your hands until they reach maturity and eventually crawl out through the space underneath the fingernails. It's a painful process, filled with orgasms and rainbow-flavored vomit.

So yes, Cassie could qualify as a superhero with autism, if you look at it from a certain perspective.

That might be funny if I wasnt dealing with a form of autism all my life.