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Nobody talks about Basic or Fotran anymore
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They only made a single appearance in Metamorpho though.
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Sapphire Stagg. All that and a bag of chips?
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Really. I would have thought you would have preferred Java to Sapphire.
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Erm. I'm worried Java would crush me by accident.
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DC's revived Neanderthals is has a few entries, with Java, Gnarrk and Garn (who appeared in Teen Titans before Gnarrk). Not as ingrained as DC Gorillas, but still...
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Gnaark, poor forgotten Titan...
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He's gnarrked off at being forgotten.
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I casually once mentioned that Titan was a moon of Saturn. Someone was quite surprised that I knew that. Not a Legion fan, obvi.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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Not to be confused with Titania, which is a moon of Uranus.
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And also a Super-Villain, not a Super-hero.
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Titania: The moon that escapes it's orbital commitments to go off on crime sprees.
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Titania: the only Legion character written by Shakespeare.
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Uranus is unique among the planets in that it's moons take their name from English literature rather than Greek mythology.
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Despite Uranus himself being a Greek god!
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I think the men who named the planet Uranus knew how millions of children would say it and thought we owe it to them.
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There are worse reasons for naming something...
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It's not like pronouncing it "Urine-us"is any less amusing.
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Either pronunciation will appeal to... well... tons of people.
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Two Ton Tony Tubbs was a character in a near future UK comic. His need for weight gain to achieve fame was a satire on celebrity culture as well as the levels of self worth a lot of people have. It was a poignant story.
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Uranus was a Greek God as opposed to the other planets which were named after their corresponding Roman Gods. The equivalent Roman God was Cronus who the father of Saturn who was the father of Jupiter who was the father of Mars (see how it works?).
Interestingly it was decades after its discovery that the name was agreed upon. The name its discoverer gave it was Georgium Sidus (George's Star) after King George III so it could have been a lot worse.
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Then Uranus would have been demoted (well, correctly re-classified!) as a planet.
Like Pluto, but that is debatable... *ducks and hides from all the Pluto fans*
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Both Pluto and Goofy are dogs, but only Goofy talks. Also Goofy was originally called Dippy Dawg
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