Mighty No. 51345
I liked the Superdad run of comics. Rebirth was such a fresh breath of air. Right up until it wasnt anymore.
Edited by Zeromaeus on Feb 25th 2020 at 2:21:06 PM
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Tell that to the Superman of Earth-23 who is the Superpresident of his America.
He's the Superman based off Barack Obama.
DC doesn't know when to leave a good thing alone sadly.
Edited by slimcoder on Feb 25th 2020 at 11:17:26 AM
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If you are referring to him being the delegate to the United Planets, that doesn't make him President of anything. Still bad though, but we are off topic.
@ slimcoder: It's a parallel universe. Maybe Earth 23's US constitution has it that immigrants are allowed to run for president, at least if they've been a US citizen for 10 years. It's a more logical universe. Also, Bendis saying "this villain destroyed Krypton" isn't a new concept. The animated series had Brainiac commit genocide by inaction and Geoff Johns implied that Brainiac may have destroyed Krypton. Which I believe. Brainiac has a nasty habit of destroying the planets his cities came from so he can be the sole owner of their information and knowledge. It'd be in-character for him to set some sort of bomb to go off. Why does it look natural? Maybe he didn't want the attention given Krypton was pretty advanced already and people like the Green Lantern Corps would bother him about it if they knew
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It wasn't just that a baddy destroyed Krypton. It was that, specifically, Bendis's OC destroyed Krypton. So now his baddy is forever one of the most important villains in DC history, tied to the most significant event in the entire canon.
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Superman can't become president, but he can still be governor or mayor.
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Even then the Superman of Earth-23, Calvin Ellis, secret identity is being president. So he's not openly running the country as Superman but instead still doing the double-life thing.
And the issue with Rogol Zaar, the new guy who's apparently destroyed Krypton is that he is a very derivative evil alien conqueror character unlike Brainiac who remains very distinct due to his collector nature.
I mean look at this guy, he even has a giant fucking battleaxe like every conqueror guy.
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Rogol_Zaar_(Prime_Earth)/Gallery
Edited by slimcoder on Feb 26th 2020 at 6:24:23 AM
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He's so generic and boring that he cured my insomnia and gave me narcolepsy.
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Did someone say Jiren?
Damn, you guys weren't kidding about that character design. It's like every textbook design for that kind of character mashed together. He looks like Kalibak without top hair. He's basically an orc.
At least Jiren doesn't have a battle axe. Or whatever the Japanese cultural equivalent to "cliche weapon that every character of this type has, signifying a lack of creativity" is.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Feb 26th 2020 at 7:17:26 AM
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
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Ooooh now I found this parody video of Thanos serenading to Goku & Vegeta & Goku using a gauntlet of his own creation.
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Isn't that usually a katana?
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Can't see Jiren using a Katana...
Maybe he's too boring.
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He uses a gun to kill freaking dragons
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Wait who used a gun to kill dragons?
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I thought Cooler was the one with the gun.
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Now I feel like I should watch that episode of Heroes.
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Cooler is the one that goes yeah.
Sorry, YEAH!
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But Jiren is a Superman Substitute...wow we got off topic. Hmmm...does anyone want to complain more about Dragonball's poor excuse for an expanded universe?
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Problems with the expanded universe? Really? I mean I think Super's gotten better at doing this. We've got an understanding of how the other Universes work, and how the conflicts between them stem and stirr. Its mostly the main universe that hasn't been expanded on too much, but they explained that since Frieza wiped out most of the galaxy and there's only 28 planets with life. No wonder Unierse 7 was formerly the second worst universe.
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I refuse to believe that statement is true. 28 planets is seriously too low for an entire universe
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In fairness they'll prolly just retcon it to the universe having a normal massive population again.
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Wasn't there a Silver Age comic about Jimmy Olsen wondering what if Superman was President, and the comic ended with Superman saying that he can't ever be President because he's an immigrant?