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I wonder how many threads we would have about Peter the Puffer Fish?
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He would be the avatar for at least 15% of posters.
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JLA message board posters have speculated for years that Peter originally would have been in the role of Snapper Carr, except for a terrible editorial disagreement that saw him written off.
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I heard that they wanted a mascot who could actually walk on land. Even if he weren't any more intelligent than Peter the Puffer Fish.
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I hear the campaign to put Peter the Puffer Fish in the Others is still going strong!
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He and Proty are supposed to team up with Captain Carrot and the Amazing Zoo Crew next year.
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Didn't Topo eat Peter the Puffer Fish in a fit of jealousy and hunger?
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I was always confused: is Neptune Perkins the Earth-2 Peter or what?
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Didn't Topo eat Peter the Puffer Fish in a fit of jealousy and hunger? I don't remember that story, but there was a rumor that in a deleted scene from Infinite Crisis, the Secret Society of Super-villains initiated new members by having them dine on Peter! Signalman, Getaway Mastermind, and Dr. Spectro would all die from the poisoning!
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It really shows how low DC sunk between the first and second Crisis. In the original Crisis, there was that deleted scene where Peter the Puffer Fish actually helps Metamorpo, Tomahawk and Element Lad fight off the Royal Flush Gang, and even cracks a hilarious joke about the winning hand being a "pair of fins". Classic Wolfman & Perez!
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I can so picture that scene! 
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Alas, DC doesn't respect its obscure but important characters anymore!
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When Grant Morrison took over the Justice League, he intended to have the Ultra Humanite replace Snapper Carr's head with a goldfish bowl containing Peter.
It was rejected by editorial, as it was when he had tried to use the same story in Doom Patrol. There, it was the Brain who switched Niles Caulder's head with Peter.
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Peter's mind was actually switched with Snapper's for a while. That was around the time he struck up a relationship with the Cheetah. And also again when he became the Star Tsar.
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The reason that there are so few underwater JLA adventures is because no one wants to make Aquaman look bad in front of Peter.
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And the reason why people joke about Aquaman being so ineffective out of water? It's because Peter is the real underwater hero.
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Peter is the Fish King of Atlantis, who is secretly telepathically controlling Aquaman.
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He is also the real father of Arthur Jr. Peter has the secret ability to take human form.
And now we know why Mera's marriage to Aquaman is kind of cold.
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Peter and Jimmy Olsen cross dress and lure sailors to their dooms!
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Peter David was so inspired by his namesake that he became a comics writer. Careful readers will notice how frequently he snuck him into his Aquaman stories.
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It is said that Peter the Puffer Fish has been worked into one panel of every comic book ever published that has featured the Justice League.
Some of those appearances are very minuscule.
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When it was about to be revealed that Peter was behind a series of baffling murders in his guise of the Red Herring, the Justice League got the issue suppressed.
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Peter was often the target of mind control plots by League villains. After all, he was said to be the most powerful of all the Leaguers.
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Peter was the instigator in the Cod Wars between Britain & Iceland fought between Lionheart and Bjorkzilla.
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Peter and Alley-Kat-Abra's love children went back in the past and became the forerunners of today's catfish.
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