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I don't see why Oracle isn't still with the League.
I also think that Red Rocket would have fitted in better if they hadn't done that whole Manhunter infiltration thing.
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I think the problem with Rocket Red is that he was just one of a bunch of guys chosen to wear the armor that Kilowog developed for Russia. Unlike Iron Man, he had no advanced technological knowledge (the armor also looked pretty weak -- even the Apokoliptian one). Dmitri was a working class guy who got a good job to provide for his family - he was heroic, but not iconic, imo.
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i 'll vote for Maxima she had the power and the attitude to be on par with the icons in the JLA. that is before they made her evil again then killed her off in OWAW.
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I agree about Maxima (I miss her), Captain Comet, and Kimiyo Hoshi.
I'll throw in my own $0.02, which may surprise people: Fire & Ice.
Now, yes, I have said many times that I'm not a fan of the Funny Justice League(s), but thanks to Peter David's x-cellent X-Factor, I've come to appreciate the GENERAL IDEA of a semi-comedic super-hero team book; it's just that PAD's sense of humor clicks with me* and Giffen/DeMatteis/Jones's sense of humor does not. Fire & Ice may have been the poster girls of a certain era for better or worse (from what little I've read, I get the impression that they weren't written with much depth, with Fire being a bit of a hussy and Ice being a bit naive) but I think that with a writer like PAD, who can write three-dimensional super-heroines, they could really shine the same way that the super-heroines of X-Factor shine.
Of course, there are some major obstacles at the moment, from a rigidly traditional JLA roster in its current incarnation to PAD's exclusive contract with Marvel to Fire's unfortunate retcon into a trained government asassin. But this is super-hero comics, where anything can be undone in the blink of an eye, and there's no less of a possibility that, in the future, we might get to see what I've proposed.
*BTW, didn't Peter David write a couple stories for JLQ and/or JLTF? I might search for those. I do have his Secret Origins story for the Post-Crisis JLA founders, and I love it.
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Great question and thread! Everybody has good points.
There are many characters that I think fit in the JLA much better than they did before. Or characters who over the years have developed as a great JLA member.
Vixen and Blue Beetle come to mind. ICONS? Not really but they certainly have the potential over others.
ICONS? Not many. My opinion? Captain Marvel and Dr. Fate though I think both characters fit in better with the JSA.
Zauriel, Ray, Mr. Miracle and Captain Atom come to mind. Firestorm like Vixen and Blue Beetle have the potential as well.
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I see the current Ray has being one of the very few introduced post-Crisis that would fit. Possibly the only one.
Definite yes to Captain Comet. As I said before, yes to Dr. Light, Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) and Oracle.
I like Dr. Fate in the JLA, I do not like Captain Marvel there. Plastic Man either, and he's certainly 'iconic'.
I also disagree with over 70% of my fellow posters here on a variety of characters . All good characters in their own right, and like the Creeper, Challengers of the Unknown or Deadman, could carry their own title and even be super-stars. But they don't fit in with the Satellite JLA as part of their 'icon' era.
This is a question I originally posed, but couldn't quite put into words. The best I can do now is a baseball analogy. The character needs those 'intangibles' to fit in with that era JLA.
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. All good characters in their own right, and like the Creeper, Challengers of the Unknown or Deadman, could carry their own title and even be super-stars. But they don't fit in with the Satellite JLA as part of their 'icon' era.
