The Official DC Stupid Question Thread....

[TheCorpulent1]

Most of the Avengers know each other's identity. I think the Vision has a few identities he creates with holograms that he keeps private from the rest of the group, but other than that I'm pretty sure the regulars all know each other's IDs.

 

[Mara Jane]

It'll be interesting when Spidey joins then.

(And thanks for answerig a Marvel question in the DC thread. )

 

[[Faustinas]]

Why is it Apokalips instead of Apocalypse? Is there a story behind that?

 

[LorDZeeD]

what happned in s/b 13 when darksied and supes were fighting near the sun?
'what have you done to me?'
what did he do to him?

 

[Supergirl]

Darkseid was getting burned by the sun, while Supes just kept getting stronger because he was so close to it.

 

[facsmth]

Why is it Apokalips instead of Apocalypse? Is there a story behind that?

Two theories:
1.) The name Apokalips is used because it's a unique word & getting a trademark for it is easier than trademarking Apocalyspe.

2.) Maybe it's a joke? Sound it out. A-Pock-Lips. Pocked Lips? Maybe it's an inside joke on the fact that Darksied has really chapped lips?

 

[Shawkur]

Golden Age question: Why was their a Justice Society and an All-Star Squadron? They had alot of the same members so what was the point?

 

[Tropico]

These are going to be very painful questions, but I'm really curious:
1) How did electric Superman come about?
2) Why was there Red & Blue?
3)How did he get back to normal?

 

[Matthew E]

Golden Age question: Why was their a Justice Society and an All-Star Squadron? They had alot of the same members so what was the point?

The Justice Society had about eight or ten people in it. It existed to fight crime and stuff.

The All-Star Squadron had everybody in it. It was formed during World War II to organize superheroes in their efforts to protect America's home front.

That's story logic, internal logic. The external logic is that the Justice Society was made up back in the '40s and had a specific membership, while the All-Star Squadron was (although set in the '40s) created in the '80s so that Roy Thomas could write about some cool but long-forgotten superheroes, play around in his favourite comic-book era, and address certain issues of continuity that had been glossed over at the time.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

So who were the original Seven Soldiers of Victory? Weren't they Golden Age heroes too?

 

[Shawkur]

That's story logic, internal logic. The external logic is that the Justice Society was made up back in the '40s and had a specific membership, while the All-Star Squadron was (although set in the '40s) created in the '80s so that Roy Thomas could write about some cool but long-forgotten superheroes, play around in his favourite comic-book era, and address certain issues of continuity that had been glossed over at the time.

*smacks forhead* I didnt know the Squadron was a retcon.

 

[facsmth]

When did Donna Troy die? (Which comic, which issue?)
When did Wintergreen die? (Which comic, which issue?)

 

[Bat-Mantis]

When did Donna Troy die? (Which comic, which issue?)

Titans – Young Justice: Graduation Day #3 (3 part mini)

Spoiler

A Superman android shoots her through her chest with its heat vision.

 

[facsmth]

Now that brings up some more questions:
- What was "Young Justice"?
- What was "Titans"?
- What was "Doom Patrol"? (I heard Beast Boy used to be on this team.)
- What is "Outsiders"?

So I'm assuming after this mini-series, Young Justice & Titans folded.
- Beast Boy, Cyborg, & Starfire start up Teen Titans again, becoming mentors of said group.
- Nightwing & Arsenal form up The Outsiders.

Honestly, how many teams have there been over the years of various characters?

 

[Matthew E]

So who were the original Seven Soldiers of Victory? Weren't they Golden Age heroes too?

Yes. The originals were Vigilante (the cowboy one), the Shining Knight, Green Arrow and Speedy, the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy, and the Crimson Avenger (whose sidekick Wing was an unofficial eighth Soldier). They were also part of the All-Star Squadron.

What was "Doom Patrol"? (I heard Beast Boy used to be on this team.)

The Doom Patrol was basically DC's version of the X-Men (although I think the Doom Patrol may actually have come first; I'm not sure). They were outcast superheroes led by a genius in a wheelchair, and there were several versions of the team:
- starting in the '60s, it was the Chief (the guy in the wheelchair), Elasti-Girl (who didn't stretch like the movie Elastigirl; she could change her size), Robotman and Negative Man. Beast Boy hung out with these guys, I think, but I'm not sure if he was ever a full member.
- then the original group all got killed, except for Robotman. A new group formed around Robotman, Negative Woman, Celsius and Tempest. This group was around for a while, drifted into obscurity, and eventually DC brought them back and added a few new members whose names I really don't remember. There was a woman with magnetic powers and a kid who could heat up his hands, Scott somebody.
- then DC went all dark and Sandmanny with them and changed everything around. They brought Negative Man back from the dead and merged him with Negative Woman to form Rebis. They brought the Chief back. They gave Robotman a metal-spider body. They moved Tempest to the background, announced that Celsius had been kind of nuts all along (and I think killed her off) and phased out the other new characters. Instead they brought in even newer, weirder characters like Crazy Jane and Flex Mentallo.
- I think there's been another version since then but I don't know anything about it.

Here's my question. Who thinks 'Beast Boy' is a better name than 'Changeling'? Who? Bring them to me!

What is "Outsiders"?

The Outsiders were Batman's superhero group. It started as Batman, Black Lightning and Metamorpho, plus three new heroes formed specifically for the series: Geo-Force (brother of Terra from Teen Titans), Halo (young girl with miscellaneous colour-schemed powers and a mysterious past) and Katana (Japanese woman with a sword). Eventually Batman got bored with his new toy and left the group, and they brought in another new character, Looker. This was back in the '80s/early '90s; not sure what they've been up to since.

 

[Bat-Mantis]

Now that brings up some more questions:
- What was "Young Justice"?
- What was "Titans"?

Young Justice was pretty much the Teen Titans we have now before they became Teen Titans. Robin, Impulse, Superboy, Wonder Girl and so on.
The Teen Titans at the time had dropped the "Teen" and were just the Titans. It was Arsenal, Nightwing, Starfire, Flash, Troia and so on.
Troia died and the Titans disbanded. Not quite sure what happened to Young Justice, but they apparently disbanded too and became the Teen Titans, while the Titans went on to become the Outsiders.

 

[facsmth]

The Doom Patrol was basically DC's version of the X-Men (although I think the Doom Patrol may actually have come first; I'm not sure).

Outcast? Yah that definitely sounds very X-Menish. Hey... Robotman looks like The Iron Giant...

Elasti-Girl (who didn't stretch like the movie Elastigirl; she could change her size),

Um, like the Wonder Woman villain Gigantress (or whatever the chick's name is)?

Celsius and Tempest.

What could they do? Hmmmm I think I read somewhere Tempest used to be "Aqualad."

The Outsiders were Batman's superhero group. It started as Batman, Black Lightning and Metamorpho, plus three new heroes formed specifically for the series: Geo-Force (brother of Terra from Teen Titans), Halo (young girl with miscellaneous colour-schemed powers and a mysterious past) and Katana (Japanese woman with a sword).

Okay, I saw Black Lightning & Katana in Superman/ Batman.

Man, I was surprised to see the Wonder Twins in the JLU episode "Ultimatium" last night. They weren't called "Wonder Twins," but they had the same powers. (The girl shape-shifted into animals & the boy turned into various forms of water.)

 

[Matthew E]

The Doom Patrol Elasti-Girl could get really small as well as really big; I'm not sure Gigantress or whoever can.

Celsius was a woman from India who claimed to be the Chief's widow and had fire-and-ice powers.

Tempest was no relation to Aqualad; he was a doctor who could produce these storms of wild orange energy. And, rare for the time, he was a black guy. (Aqualad could be called Tempest now, for all I know, and of course none of this has anything to do with the Tempest from Atari Force.)

Did you recognize the other three members of the group the Wonder Twins were in? The air guy was Samurai (also from Super Friends), Longshadow was Apache Chief (also from Super Friends) and the electrical guy was Black Vulcan (also from Super Friends).

Bringing us full circle, Black Vulcan of Super Friends was based on Black Lightning, who they wanted to use on TV but couldn't, for some reason.

 

[facsmth]

Did you recognize the other three members of the group the Wonder Twins were in? The air guy was Samurai (also from Super Friends), Longshadow was Apache Chief (also from Super Friends) and the electrical guy was Black Vulcan (also from Super Friends).

Bringing us full circle, Black Vulcan of Super Friends was based on Black Lightning, who they wanted to use on TV but couldn't, for some reason.

Oh SNAP! Apache Chief should have been blatantly obvious. I hadn't actually watched much of the show. I conciously avoided watching Super Friends & the Batman live-action TV show.

Man, they actually accomplished the impossible: making lame Super Friends actually look good. (To some extent.)

 

[GL-Corps#28]

Well, the water hand is explained easily enough by the fact that he's wearing gloves. The water takes the shape of a hand and a hand made of anything looks the same inside a glove.

The fact that he brought together an army consisting not only of marine life (which he's regained his control over) but also Atlanteans confused me too. While it's true that Atlantis was freed from the control of the sorcerer caste at the end of Veitch's second arc on Aquaman, Aquaman himself wasn't directly involved and no one ever followed up on it. As far as I know, Aquaman hasn't even seen Atlantis since the sorcerers kicked him out, and furthermore, the ending of Pfeiffer's first arc clearly implies that Aquaman is still bereft of his kingship of Atlantis because he still talks about it in the past tense. It's possible that, since Vulko and Tempest played a major role in the revolt against the sorcerers, they returned control of Atlantis' armies to Aquaman, but that's unlikely and it's a hell of a thing to skip over without some kind of attention given to it in print. Looks like your basic continuity flub to me.

You could very well be right, and it could just be a simple continuity flub, Corp, but my theory was this: The Superman arc that this event takes place in is set one year in the future, so it could have been assumed, or Azzarello could have been told by DC higher-ups, that at some point in the next year (DC Time) Aquaman would be reinstated as the King of Atlantis.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Time will tell. Honestly, I'm kind of bored with Sub Diego already. I'd like him to unite Sub Diego with Poseidonis and just deal with the political ramifications of forcing two different cultures together. That'd be interesting.

 

[cerealkiller182]

I was curious if anyone knows where Secret or Arrowette from Young Justice are now

 

[The Leaguer]

I think Secret got returned to life and Arrowette realized that the whole heroine thing was her mom's idea, so she quit and is just living a normal life.

 

[cerealkiller182]

cool, thanx, i needed that info for fan fiction. u've been a very helpful

 

[Super Mario]

What was the last arc involving Dark Seid?
Where is Orion now?
How old is Billy Batson now?
In JLA/Avengers at one point Superman turns into this blue looking superman, what's with that and how did that go about and how did it end?
What does Alan Scott think about the GL Corps and the different earth GL's individually?

Ok i'm done.