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Super Summer Slugfest Slamdown: Movies & More!

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    It just seems like she should be hanging out with the other young adults in Young Justice to me. I thought she was supposed to be the same age as Artemis and Wally and Dick.

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    They are all young adults too, and were also offered League membership!

    Dick turned them down because he wanted to keep running Young Justice, and M'Gann and Conner joined him.

    They're all 20ish, except Dick who is younger, and that ain't too much younger than Kyle Rayner when he first joined the League.

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Man, I just wish there were more Zatanna in the show is all.

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    Character ages for Young Justice (spoilers, I guess, if you don't watch the show)
    Current Team:
    Nightwing - 18
    Superboy - 16 physiologically, 5 chronologically
    Miss Martian - 53 chronologically, 21 (human biological equivalent)
    Lagoon Boy - 17
    Beast Boy - 13
    Batgirl - 18
    Bumblebee - 20
    Mal Duncan - Around 20 - 21
    Unknown: Robin (Tim Drake), Blue Beetle, Wonder Girl

    Past members:
    Aqualad - 21
    Kid Flash - 21
    Artemis - 20
    Red Arrow - 23 physiologically, 8 chronologically

    Justice League:
    Superman - 38
    Batman - 37
    Wonder Woman - 90
    Flash - 40
    Hal Jordan - 38
    Aquaman - 34
    Martian Manhunter - 140 chronologically, 50 (human biological equivalent)
    Green Arrow - 37
    Captain Marvel - 15
    Zatanna - 19
    Rocket - 20
    Captain Atom - 75 chronologically, 33 physiologically
    Black Canary - 29
    Hawkwoman - 33

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    HenslerHensler Registered User regular
    I love Zatanna, but would much rather see her having adventures on her own or making a guest appearance very rarely. Too many writers use her as a walking deus ex machina, a problem that crops up with all the major mystical comic characters. Especially since Paul Dini is at Marvel now.

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Keith wrote: »
    Character ages for Young Justice (spoilers, I guess, if you don't watch the show)
    Current Team:
    Nightwing - 18
    Superboy - 16 physiologically, 5 chronologically
    Miss Martian - 53 chronologically, 21 (human biological equivalent)
    Lagoon Boy - 17
    Beast Boy - 13
    Batgirl - 18
    Bumblebee - 20
    Mal Duncan - Around 20 - 21
    Unknown: Robin (Tim Drake), Blue Beetle, Wonder Girl

    Past members:
    Aqualad - 21
    Kid Flash - 21
    Artemis - 20
    Red Arrow - 23 physiologically, 8 chronologically

    Justice League:
    Superman - 38
    Batman - 37
    Wonder Woman - 90
    Flash - 40
    Hal Jordan - 38
    Aquaman - 34
    Martian Manhunter - 140 chronologically, 50 (human biological equivalent)
    Green Arrow - 37
    Captain Marvel - 15
    Zatanna - 19
    Rocket - 20
    Captain Atom - 75 chronologically, 33 physiologically
    Black Canary - 29
    Hawkwoman - 33
    I am actually surprised by a lot of these.

    Green Arrow, Aquaman and Captain Atom mostly.

    Also Flash.

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    Character ages for Young Justice (spoilers, I guess, if you don't watch the show)
    Current Team:
    Nightwing - 18
    Superboy - 16 physiologically, 5 chronologically
    Miss Martian - 53 chronologically, 21 (human biological equivalent)
    Lagoon Boy - 17
    Beast Boy - 13
    Batgirl - 18
    Bumblebee - 20
    Mal Duncan - Around 20 - 21
    Unknown: Robin (Tim Drake), Blue Beetle, Wonder Girl

    Past members:
    Aqualad - 21
    Kid Flash - 21
    Artemis - 20
    Red Arrow - 23 physiologically, 8 chronologically

    Justice League:
    Superman - 38
    Batman - 37
    Wonder Woman - 90
    Flash - 40
    Hal Jordan - 38
    Aquaman - 34
    Martian Manhunter - 140 chronologically, 50 (human biological equivalent)
    Green Arrow - 37
    Captain Marvel - 15
    Zatanna - 19
    Rocket - 20
    Captain Atom - 75 chronologically, 33 physiologically
    Black Canary - 29
    Hawkwoman - 33
    I am actually surprised by a lot of these.

    Green Arrow, Aquaman and Captain Atom mostly.

    Also Flash.

    Some of those ages point to quite interesting character backstories

    Captain Atom, for example, must have gone through the procedure that gave him powers in the 60's

    And Wonder Woman probably fought in WWII

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    HenslerHensler Registered User regular
    Remi
    Solar wrote: »

    Captain Atom, for example, must have gone through the procedure that gave him powers in the 60's

    Reminds me of Flashpoint, where he was way older than all the other "heroes." I like the idea of old dudes getting super-powered age reversals; see also Rulk.

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Well Captain Atom would have been quite a young man when he piloted that experimental plane

    But now that he is an energy being inside an indestructible dilusteel shell, I guess he doesn't age at all

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    Character ages for Young Justice (spoilers, I guess, if you don't watch the show)
    Current Team:
    Nightwing - 18
    Superboy - 16 physiologically, 5 chronologically
    Miss Martian - 53 chronologically, 21 (human biological equivalent)
    Lagoon Boy - 17
    Beast Boy - 13
    Batgirl - 18
    Bumblebee - 20
    Mal Duncan - Around 20 - 21
    Unknown: Robin (Tim Drake), Blue Beetle, Wonder Girl

    Past members:
    Aqualad - 21
    Kid Flash - 21
    Artemis - 20
    Red Arrow - 23 physiologically, 8 chronologically

    Justice League:
    Superman - 38
    Batman - 37
    Wonder Woman - 90
    Flash - 40
    Hal Jordan - 38
    Aquaman - 34
    Martian Manhunter - 140 chronologically, 50 (human biological equivalent)
    Green Arrow - 37
    Captain Marvel - 15
    Zatanna - 19
    Rocket - 20
    Captain Atom - 75 chronologically, 33 physiologically
    Black Canary - 29
    Hawkwoman - 33
    I am actually surprised by a lot of these.

    Green Arrow, Aquaman and Captain Atom mostly.

    Also Flash.

    These are after the 5 year jump, but yeah. I would've guessed Flash being younger and Green Arrow being older

    Aquaman's hella young

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    TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    Are those ages verified anywhere in the series or by the creators? Because man those are about 5 years older than I thought they would be at most, timeskip included.

    Another good episode, really good with the fight scenes that are setting the bar for all animation both in tv shows and movies, bat-ketchup for the win, the only thing that seemed weird was
    Artemis shoots the guy with an arrow point blank and because you can't have the arrow actually shoot through the guy in a kids cartoon, it was more like the arrow punched him

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    TexiKen wrote: »
    Are those ages verified anywhere in the series or by the creators? Because man those are about 5 years older than I thought they would be at most, timeskip included.

    Yes, those are all from Greg Weissman

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    HenslerHensler Registered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    Well Captain Atom would have been quite a young man when he piloted that experimental plane

    But now that he is an energy being inside an indestructible dilusteel shell, I guess he doesn't age at all

    Oh I know, I've been a huge Captain Atom fan since his 80's DC series (I've got some of the old Charlton comics issues, but I've never read them). He was a pilot in Vietnam right before his death sentence and flying the plane, so the age range fits. I just like that he hasn't been stuck on a sliding timeline like most characters. Note: I haven't read any New 52 Captain Atom. I bought the issues just to support the book, and really need to dig them out.

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    WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    Sigh why did I re-watch the Death of Spider-man motion comic and then re-read Fallout,...
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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Yeah, most of those ages skew a bit older than I typically think of the big heroes.

    For me, dudes like Batman, Superman, etc. are eternally in their early thirties unless stated otherwise like in the reboot.

    Having Batman be almost 40 is

    weird.

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    See, I always think of Batman as around 40 or so

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I dunno

    40 seems like it is starting to get into "too old for this shit" range

    for Batman specifically, I mean. Superman and others could totally be 40 and no big deal but Bats puts his body through hell every time he goes out so it is weird to think he's that old to me.

    Not a dealbreaker or anything, just a weird thing.

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    HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    To be fair, I remember the timetable for heroes in YJ being about 10 years, and that was before the 5 year timeskip.

    So 40 year old Batman has been active since he was 25.

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    Yeah, that makes sense. Dick was 13 in the first season and had been Robin since he was 9, so Batman had to have been active for a little bit before then

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    I always assume that Bats, Supes, the Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern and so on are in their early to mid 30's

    Some are a little younger, like Kyle

    some are older, like J'onn

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    TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    40 year old Lois Lane, grrrrowl.

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Lois to my mind is, like

    a perpetually thirty-something professional

    They should totally have kept Chris Kent around

    Lois Lane, super-mum

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    spookymuffinspookymuffin ( ° ʖ ° ) Puyallup WA Registered User regular
    I got scared when I saw that. The argument that no human could have a Krytonian child due to it busting out of the womb and all... I read his Wiki, and am completely okay with the fact that I have never, and will never read anything related to Superman.

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    Wii U NNID: MegaSpooky
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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    wait, what

    you've never read anything about Superman? really?

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    nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    I got scared when I saw that. The argument that no human could have a Krytonian child due to it busting out of the womb and all... I read his Wiki, and am completely okay with the fact that I have never, and will never read anything related to Superman.

    You're silly.

    I mean if you haven't at least read All-Star Superman...

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    spookymuffinspookymuffin ( ° ʖ ° ) Puyallup WA Registered User regular
    Superman just doesn't appeal to me. It's okay to not like things.

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    HenslerHensler Registered User regular
    It's okay to not like things.

    Not on the Internet, it's not.

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    nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    Sorry. "I read something about a character on wiki so now I'm confinced the character is stupid" kinda pushes my buttons.

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Superman just doesn't appeal to me. It's okay to not like things.

    I reserve the right to call an opinion silly when it's based on Wikipedia summaries

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    Superman is the greatest superhero ever

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    Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    I wouldn't say he's the best superhero, but he is certainly the most superhero.

    Nobody is more of a superhero than Superman

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Superman is basically the Platonic ideal of a superhero

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    chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    Yup.

    Got some of the all time classic stories. He's the template. The dream.

    He's a powerful alien from the stars who was brought up by a kindly Kansas farm couple to do all the good he could.

    Slightest step wrong, he's the nightmare. Godlike entity who can see anyone, be anywhere, and can't be killed by mortal weapons? Doesn't take much imagination to know fear there.

    But he's exactly the man who should have that power.

    He's not even Jesus, God given to man. He's just our best. Fallible, human, limited, but always trying to be better and always aware he doesn't have the right to give himself the seats of the mighty. What we wish other people were. What we, in our very best moments, want to be.

    He's a heck of a character.

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    spookymuffinspookymuffin ( ° ʖ ° ) Puyallup WA Registered User regular
    Sorry. "I read something about a character on wiki so now I'm confinced the character is stupid" kinda pushes my buttons.

    I was just stating that I got his back story from that. I was curious to see if Lois Lane's uterus could handle a Kryptonian child, since she was called his super-mum. The point I was making about not reading anything about Superman is that when someone mentions something about him, I'll check it out, but it usually ends up being just another thing that makes me not like him. Like all those super animals he has (had?). Who needs a super horse? I've caught issues here and there, and actually like characters that are attached to Superman (Power Girl, Supergirl, Bizzaro), but nothing has ever held me and made me want to dive into story arcs. The closest I came was when I was younger and he died, his actual death wasn't something that I was actively reading, but I sought out anything with Eradicator or that crazy cyborg Superman.

    Superman is indeed the mold for superhero, but he's just not interesting as a character to me.

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    Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    Yup.

    Got some of the all time classic stories. He's the template. The dream.

    He's a powerful alien from the stars who was brought up by a kindly Kansas farm couple to do all the good he could.

    Slightest step wrong, he's the nightmare. Godlike entity who can see anyone, be anywhere, and can't be killed by mortal weapons? Doesn't take much imagination to know fear there.

    But he's exactly the man who should have that power.

    He's not even Jesus, God given to man. He's just our best. Fallible, human, limited, but always trying to be better and always aware he doesn't have the right to give himself the seats of the mighty. What we wish other people were. What we, in our very best moments, want to be.

    He's a heck of a character.

    Eh, Superman isn't the only DC super-hero with that much power or constantly restraining said power. Green Lanterns, Flashes, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Firestorms, Jaime Reyes, Captain Atom, the Marvels, Dr. Fate etc can all do similar things. Hell, Batman can do amazing stuff like that with his a-game on.

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Superman doesn't even have the super-horse! That was Supergirl! And it was the Silver Age! You might as well ask why Batman needs a bat-dog!

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    AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    Give me one good reason why Batman needs a bat-dog that isn't teaching mercy to Damian

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    JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    to guard the batmobile

    like how dalmatians guard fire trucks

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    Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    To infiltrate dog-fighting syndicates

    and criminal organizations for the blind.

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    TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    Not really a surprise, but Ultimate Spider-Man gets a second season. And it seems everyone who worked on the first season is coming back.

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