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Well, to be technical, that's the *retconned* original origin. In the ORIGINAL original origin, Brainiac (#1) was just another alien. He had green skin, because, you know, aliens have green skin. He was obviously not a mechanical entity as he needed to go into suspended animation during long...

So, to explain further, Chuck wasn't a special member of the Blackhawks. He was just another one of them. The Blackhawks consisted of their leader Blackhawk (Janos Prohaska) and a handful of other miscellaneous guys from various countries, including a rather non-politically correct Chinese...

http://www.titanstower.com/source/whoswho/bumble.html Or, in other words: Stupid hair puffs? No. Shrinking power? No. Bare face? No. Big stinger things that have to be held? No. Incredible strength and fighting ability? No. The comics Bumblebee just has a suit she invented that lets her...

The reason that Americans call the British has to do with the fact that at one point in history, the British navy were given limes to prevent scurvy. So, the Americans saw all these British people sucking on limes all the time and thought, "What's up with that? The British people must really...

Robin Hood.

Hey, there was that episode where the Flash stopped the Ultra-Humanite's evil plan to fire a rocket at the sun! Everybody's forgetting that episode. Oh, wait, that was a commercial for the action figures. Never mind. (I thought it was odd that they chose *Flash* of all the heroes to focus the...

Her powers are definitely not the same. The comics Raven has *no* telekinesis or flight powers for example, and doesn't chant Azrath Metrion Zinthos before doing anything. The comics Raven's main powers are: (1) Teleportation (2) Empathy (She can feel what others are feeling. She can even...

I assumed that John, having given up on his relationship with Hawkgirl, now wants to resume a relationship with Katma. And since, unlike the comics, all the Green Lantern Corps seems to be hanging around Oa with nothing better to do, John wants to be on Oa with her. After all, it's not like...

Almost everything about the plot was stupid. How does Cyborg work? He's a CYBernetic ORGanism, meaning that parts of him are still human. You would think that would include his brain. If not, then he's no more a Cyborg than Ahnold's Terminator is. If his brain is human, no computer virus...

Originally, Mordru was a foe of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th Century. With his magical powers, he was set to take over the entire galaxy but was opposed by the dozens and dozens of heroes in the Legion of Super-Heroes, which included in its ranks such powerhouses as the pre-Crisis...

As someone who has been reading comics for three decades now, I can't imagine why anybody would ever *start* reading comics with comics the way they are currently. Here are some reasons not to read comics (by which I really mean just mainstream superhero comics): (1) Comics are overpriced...

[/size] Yeah, imagine if one of the Leaguers (for example, Hawkgirl) turned bad. Nah, they'd never do that!

Not to mention his evil plan to get the, uh, power stuff. He wouldn't want to steal the stuff because... maybe he would get caught? So, he waits for Robin & Red X to go in and steal the stuff, hoping to capitalize on this distraction to avoid getting caught? Except his guys aren't stealthy guys...

How about when she used her mace to reflect tons and tons of energy blasts (like when fighting Brainiac)? It can't be too easy to consistently hit beams of energy moving at the speed of light. Especially over and over again. Wonder Woman's skill in bracelets is a big deal because she can reflect...

I'd dispute some of those numbers. Thanagarians aren't exactly human. They (at least the Silver Age version, on which the toon version seems to be based) have superhuman strength and resistance to injury, just like Aquaman does. Thanagarians even have special coatings to allow themselves to...

Yeah, and Batman can't even fly. He is soooooo lame. I don't see why they even bother with a guy who can't even *fly*. Geez.

When did Batman take a photo of Wonder Pig? (He had to, if the other heroes were showing it to people.) And *why*? Perhaps because he finally gets to see her naked (sort of)? Batman's such a perv. Not too many comments on the fact that this episode features a naked Wonder Woman...

How do you feel about Batman? Or perhaps Robin? The names Hawk and Dove are not just meant to suggest any old birds, but the "hawk" and "dove" mentality of warmongerers and pacifists. Warmongerers are called "hawks" and pacifists are called "doves". Of course, these were more common terms a...

On another site, someone suggested that the armor looked like Monarch which has an eerie resonance for an episode featuring Hawk and Dove. Agreed. The comics Ares is cool. Heck, even the Xena Ares is cool. But the toon Ares... bleah. A raving nut-job who is totally unsympathetic and...

It's because people have been trying to figure out the etymology of "amazons". It was believed to be something like a- mazos or something like that with a- meaning without and mazos meaning breasts. (This is from memory, so I could have the spelling a bit off.) So, they reasoned that they...

The pre-Crisis comics Wonder Woman did not have any powers derived from her "armor". In fact, pre-Crisis, her costume was not armor. It's just a costume. Sure, she had more super-equipment than the average superpowered hero, with her bracelets, tiara, earrings, lasso, invisibile jet, telepathic...

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In the original comics continuity, space travel was forbidden. I think it had something to do with a rocket accidentally blowing up one of Krypton's moons. In the post-Crisis comics continuity, Kryptonians had a genetic fault that would kill them if they left the planet (obviously, this was...

Wonder what these guys thought of the episode.

Big guy in red shirt and *blue* mask: Atom Smasher (formerly Nuklon). Guy with yellow fire-like hair: Waverider. Black guy with T on face: Mr Terrific II

I liked how the League realized that Hawkgirl was their most powerful member, so without her, they had to rush to recruit hundreds and hundreds of heroes just to take her place. ;) Not too thrilled with the JSA being subsumed into the League, though. I was expecting him (Captain Atom) to be...

In the comics, the Titans were based in New York City. They're definitely not on the West Coast, since that's what the group "Titans West" was for.

In the cartoons, I don't believe that there was any evidence of either of them talking to any animals. The comic book versions who are radically different characters have some abilities in this regard, however. For example, the Silver Age Hawkgirl learned the language of birds when she used...

<pet peeve> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! :) Shazam is not also known as Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel is the guy in the red costume and white cape. Shazam is the old wizard with the beard and the robes. They are two completely different characters! </peeve> Yes...

Sorry. RPG is in fact role-playing game. Str is strength. 2^50 means 2 to the 50th power (can't write exponents in plain text).

Which Superman and which Hulk? Animated versions? Modern comic versions? Classic comics versions? For the Silver Age Superman, he was rated at a 50 STR in the official DC Heroes RPG. This means that he can lift 2^50 times 50 lbs. The Modern Age Superman was rated at a mere 25 STR, meaning that...

Anybody *except* Superman and Batman. But based on the JL episodes so far, I imagine that any writers who wanted to work on a "JL-spinoff" would have to look at the JL episodes themselves for inspiration, and since the only heroes who have any significant background on the JL shows are Superman...

Absolutely horrible. Bland and predictable. The story starts with 'borg complaining that he can't go beyond his limits. Boo-hoo. So that sets up the (rather feeble) conflict: Cyborg trying to go beyond his limits. Obviously, the moral is going to be (and was) 'borg finding a way to exceed his...

I felt exactly the opposite. Terra looked like Jack Skellington's baby sister. Emaciated, anorexic... or at least bulimic (since she eats a lot, she probably goes to vomit it up later)... and no nose! Okay, in profile, her nose appears, but most of the time, she's just got nostrils... like...

Not counting future versions, there have been three versions of the Flash. Flash I was Jay Garrick. He became the Flash in the 1940s (1941, iirc), by breathing in fumes of hard water. He wears a metal hat, like Mercury. He is still alive. Flash II was Barry Allen. He became the Flash in 1956...

That was the first Wonder Woman. We're on the third version of Wonder Woman (at least Diana as Wonder Woman-- there are more Wonder Women if you count people who took over for her at various times) in the comics. The first two never existed. And never trust a TV show. They always always always...

Yes, and it was rather silly. To disguise the fact that green-skinned Gar Logan was a superhero working with the Doom Patrol, "Beast Boy" wore a mask that made it look like he had purple skin. Nobody would ever suspect that a shapechanging kid with purple skin was really a shapechanging kid...

At least we are going to get Silver Age Batwoman and Bat-Girl toys from DC Direct. :)

I can relate to plenty of DC characters, but not too many of the animated DC characters. I guess the one that comes closest would be the Mad Hatter.

It was back in the 1970s. Comics were cheap and plentiful. Oh, and they usually featured stories that were complete in a single issue (you young un's might think that sounds rather far-fetched, but it were true, back in the day).