Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread XLIII - Uninspired Sequel to an Uninspired Event

Letting conversation play out naturally, would help put them in their place.

JLA recruitment issue at the Kent's
Ma Kent: Well,I'll just leave you boys to it.
Aquaman: Didn't Batman say he would join us?
Superman:He's already here. He's been waiting in the kitchen for 15 minutes. He thinks I can't hear his heartbeat.
Batman:Yes, that must be it. I forgot.

Ooh. Isn't Batman cool, and always ahead of the others!
Isn't Superman so powerful, yet meeting at his folks!
Isn't Ma Kent so normal around the biggest superheroes!

More normally....

JLA recruitment issue at the Kent's
Ma Kent: Try not to get attacked by Supervillains. Pa's still rebuilding the barn from Brainiac's attack. Then there's the cost, and the neighbours just know we get attacked an awful lot.
Aquaman: We'll be careful, Mrs Kent. Didn't Batman say he would join us?
Superman:He's already here. He's been waiting in the kitchen for 15 minutes.
Aquaman:He broke into your parents house, to hide in a cupboard? Are you feeling well, Bruce?
Batman: I have cramp in both legs, and I should have moved more of the jars, before I sat in here.
Aquaman: If you're quite finished keeping the condiments crime free, you could join us for the meeting.
Superman: I can hear his heartbeat. He's trying to not let on he's wedged in the cupboard.
Aquaman: We'll get you out Bruce. And Clark, we've spoken before about you using your powers to invade privacy. Since you work in a city, without going mad from the input, you know you can turn it off. It's creepy.
Superman: Creepier than Batman?
Aquaman: Well no, nothing's that creepy.
Batman: I think my Batarang has knocked over the ketchup.
Ma Kent: Boys! What did I tell you?!
All: Sorry, Mrs Kent!

Good old Aquaman! he's the most sensible one of that bunch!

To many animation fans, Aquaman's definitive voice actor is Norman Alden (1924-2012.) He played the role in the first two iterations of "Super Friends," from 1973 and 1977 respectively. Among his live action roles, he is well-remembered for playing good-guy scientist Frank Heflin on 1976's "Electra Woman and Dyna Girl" segment of "The Krofft Supershow."

As a kid, I remember watching the Aquaman/Super Friends hour. Naturally, Aquaman had half the hour to himself.

Considering overfishing and pollution, it's hard to imagine a protector of the oceans not wagng war on the surface dwellers.

Namor already has a couple of times, I think

Back in the pre Marvel days, he flooded New York.

Tsk, time to learn how to swim

Marvel should have just gone with it.

Hey Look! A Bits Crossover!


Namor: Still a scourge of Humanity. Massive villain.

But also in the early '60s...

The Fantastic Four: Granted strange powers when their Bathysphere, constructed to investigate Namor at the bottom of the ocean, entered a hollow world.

Iron Man: A weapons dealer, injured in civil unrest in one of the flooded countries. He is torn between supporting the dictatorships of such countries, selling weapons to them, and helping the victims of the environmental catastrophes.

Leviathan and Stingray: Marine Biologist Henry Pym unlocks the secrets to Namor's technology that creates giant sea monsters. A technology based on ancient mysticism from sunken lands. Upon rescuing the ship of heiress, Janet Van Dyne, the two became a couple and she the armoured, size changing Stingray.

Aqua Lad: Young reporter, Peter Parker, was bitten by a radioactive fish, with razor like teeth, when investigating the power source of one of Namor's geothermic doomsday devices.

The Avengers: Formed by the US government in response to years of attacks by Namor and Doctor Doom, both of who devastated parts of the USA.

Captain America: Steve Rogers remaining family and friends were wiped out in the NYC flooding. But Gail Richards survived, as did her son. While the son eventually went rogue, Sam Wilson would be the inheritor of the super soldier serum. The secret to the power, was in the will, which is why skinny Steve Rogers had been selected in the first place.

The Doctor A monk known only as Wong, versed in healing the countries and peoples of war torn Asia.

Silver Surfer: Norman Radcliffe was the only survivor of his flooded neighbourhood, back in Namor's 1941 attack. Resuscitated from a metallic cocoon that formed around him, he now flies on a surf board as a constant reminder of escaping the floods.

The Brotherhood Persecution follows mutants, born from the effects of atomic tests, doomsday devices, weird science experiments and more. In a world where super villains continued wars after WWII, they are more shunned than ever in a resource and land sapped world. They begin to join forces for their own protection.

Namor is one character I could never really connect with, even though I was introduced to him at a young age.

When I was young and misguided, I was a big fan of Namor. These days, I find him most readable during his mid-late 80s Avengers stint as a humbled, middle-aged former hell raiser seeking redemption. With traces of the old arrogance remainning, of course.

I think Namor has most recently been imprisoned for his crimes (he turned himself in)

Given what a mess Namor's continuity is, I have no strong opinions about this latest development.

He'll go back to being someone we all love to hate anyway

Yes, given the cyclical nature of existence.

and comic book stories

Comic book stories are more like a dog chasing its own tail.

They weren't always that way, though, so maybe they'll get good again. We can hope.

Well based on his portrayal in Wakanda Forever, they are definitely doing that, I feel.

I feel similarly about Guy Gardner, which is why I'm scratching my head at the Fillion casting for the new Superman movie

Agreed about Filion as Guy. I'm not a Guy hater, but what a waste of an opportunity to finally get Hal Jordan right.

OTOH, they could cast Dirk Benedict as Old Man Hal Jordan...

I wonder what personality they'll use for Guy...

All of them?

He'll probably hit his head a couple of times to trigger those personality shifts

In the Italian Disney Duck stories, Uncle Scrooge would deliberately hit his head against the wall, claiming it triggered good ideas.

I had a classmate who would hit his head whenever he made a mistake... I felt for him

It can be difficult to deal with pressures of a situation. There's often plenty of background factors, resulting it that reaction too. A lot to unpick, in order to help move onto better coping mechanisms.