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There's nothing wrong with casually mentioning or talking about a related topic in one thread - we're not really sticklers for that sort of thing in this forum unless it's a more serious thread.

As long as the conversation either keeps the topic in mind or goes back to the topic in a timely fashion there's nothing wrong with having a brief convo about Superfriends.

edited 19th Jul '12 1:22:58 PM by KnownUnknown

I'd like to see Wolf Smoke get a shot at a full series eventually. The Catwoman short was amazing.

By the way, do we know who is doing those Animesque Amethyst shorts?

According to Wikipedia, the anime studio David Production is doing them. Not sure how accurate this is.

New short today,

New Teen Titans: Red X Unmasked

I never got why the series fixated on the secret identities of Red X and Slade when no one was ever out of costume.

Ever.

I mean, there's literally no one for us to suspect, no one for us to have a Norman-Osborne style shocked reaction to.

It just makes no sense.

Wait, people were wondering about the identity of Slade when they actually ditched his codename from the comics and used his real name for the cartoon?

Trying to figure out who he was was, like, the driving force behind the first season.

And I'm more talking about the characters, and the show making a big deal about the mystery, when non-comic-reader-viewers don't know who anybody is.

edited 4th Aug '12 12:57:50 PM by Wackd

Dang, I thought Red X was really the Source for sure.

Don't care about the shorts and I care even less about Young Junktice, but Guy Gardner! And Hal getting his ass kicked by Ch'p.

And the Manhunters. Also, is it me or were those robots Matrix shoutouts?

edited 4th Aug '12 1:34:32 PM by Eagal

The whole point of Red X was the mystery of his identity, from his first appearance (where he was actually Robin in disguise) to afterwards when he was some guy who *somehow* knew about the Red X suit, stole it from Titans Tower and could not be caught by the whole team! Too bad they never used him well again, it ended up being just a tease. Can you blame people for speculating about his identity? (Though Jason Todd never was even mentioned on the show either, so that made no sense.) Until now, that is. That short was hilarious! I think I will like the new show, though I hope the shorts are longer.

edited 4th Aug '12 3:27:30 PM by Sijo

I can. It makes no sense. When no one has civilian identities, the "real names" of any given hero shouldn't matter any more than the real names of our leads.

Oh BTW, one of the main characters DID have his main name revealed in the show: Beast Boy (it's Garfield!) It was even sort of important, as it was part of the revelation of his connection to the Doom Patrol (he's Mento's and Elastigirl's son.) Of course being superheroes, their family isn't exactly "normal" but the point stands. (Also, BB turned out to be the only one with full set of happy parents in the whole show!)

Cyborg technically revealed his last name while infiltrating the HIVE. Also, I think Starfire said her Tamaranean name in the episode "Go," and Raven's real name is Raven.

When the second Red X shows up, Beast Boy brings out a chart with all of his crazy options as to who he could be. One of them is Jason Todd, though he doesn't say it out loud.

edited 5th Aug '12 11:19:58 AM by KnownUnknown

Besides all that, Jason Todd seems to just fit as Red X. An anti-hero Robin who goes by Red Hood in the comics. I could see Red X as possibly being more of a G-rated take on Red Hood, but I seriously doubt the writers ever intended for Red X to have an identity. He is perpetually a mystery. I imagine that after the first Red X episode, the writers decided the concept was too good to waste and made him a real character.

He doesn't have an identity. It's going to be Jason Todd or completely random minor character with the explanation that in this continuity the character could do this.

Wouldn't it be some stuff if it was Grant, Slade's son? Is cursing allowed in some of these threads. Some of my deliveries are stunted a bit with the substitution.

^ Slade has more than one son? Oh right... he has two sons and a daughter, yeah... I already know that Jericho showed up during the show, but they didn't do much with him.

So, just for fun, propose a new show for DC Nation. You have to include the hero, the major villains, the tone, and the art style. You can specify voice actors and whatnot if you want, but that's optional.

Doom Patrol. Impossible as it is to imagine, have it be a more child-friendly version of Morrison's run. Total absurdity, reality warping enemies and allies, dark but also extremely quirky, that sort of thing.

The character would be a mix of various Patrol members: Mento, Elastigirl, BB, Robotman, Negative Man (who would not be Rebus), the Chief, but also Crazy Jane and Tempest, Dorothy Spinner, etc. Characters like Flex Mentallo would show up as well.

Or even better - one storyline would deal with Mento going nuts and the breakup of the original Patrol, at which point is rebuilt into a new Patrol with some newcomers.

Their enemies would naturally involve the Brotherhood of Evil, but would also include the Brotherhood of Dada. We would have out-there enemies like Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, and also terribly powerful and destructive foes like the Scissormen (now there's a "season finale" kind of threat if I ever saw one).

And as a group of crusading "freaks," the group would be monitored, tracked and eventually antagonized by the imperious Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E., who would fill up the "mysterious covert government agency" quota.

As for voices, I dunno. Mark Hamil as Mr. Nobody, or maybe Mento - it'd be interesting, that. I want BB to have some kind of West African accent for once. Flex Mentallo would be voiced by Patrick Warburton.

edited 6th Aug '12 10:56:39 PM by KnownUnknown

Just as long as they include Danny the Street in it and what do you mean by "West African accent"

edited 7th Aug '12 2:41:23 AM by truteal

Even though he wasn't born there, Beast Boy was raised in West Africa and I'm pretty sure he spent most of his adolescence there, raised for a bit by a chief there after his parents died.

Granted, they pretty much invented the country he's was raised in, and he's also spent a lot of his life in the States, but I'd love it if an adaptation gave him a slight accent.

I could go for a Doom Patrol series, but not up to Morrisonian levels of weirdness. Rather use them as what they were meant to be: DC's version of the X-Men, that is, a team where freaks could prove they can be heroes too (note DP came first.)

Another possible show: Doctor Fate. With a focus on archaelogy and the Order vs Chaos war so as not to be too similar to Dr. Strange. Also exploring the relationship between Nabu and its hosts.

edited 7th Aug '12 7:51:02 PM by Sijo

You see the downside with getting rid of the Morrison elements, right? Without that, they're just another mutant team.

Except they aren't mutants (or not just mutants, depending on the version). They have much more variety (cyborgs,alien energy beings etc.) Heck, they are about the only team in DC that had actual mutants (on occasion.)

Excalibur didn't have a lot of mutants, but they still count as a mutant team over at Marvel.

Yeah, for sales purposes, maybe.

edited 8th Aug '12 5:44:11 PM by Sijo