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Pulled this from Spider-Man: Homecoming:
- The Parkers have moved from a house in Manhattan to an apartment in Queens, as gentrification means the former no longer works as a low-income neighborhood.
Aunt May's always lived in Queens (specifically, Forest Hills
).
Okay there are several inaccuracies with the example here as written:
1) Silver Age Bizarro World was not an Alternate Universe, it was another planet in the main DC universe. It's only in modern day re-imaginings such as All-Star Supermans Bizarro World or The Multiversitys Earth-29 that it's been depicted as a separate universe.
2) Bizarro was not from Bizarro World, in fact he created Bizarro-World
3) Bizarro being a flawed clone of Superman is something that been a part of the character since his first appearance, not a modern re-imaging of the concept. And infact the only versions of the character that have been Alternate Universe counterparts of Superman are again from All-Star Superman and The Multiversity.
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Hey, thanks for the response. I'm only casually familiar with Silver Age DC stories, so I sometimes get my facts mixed up.
(For clarification's sake: I didn't add this entry, I just revised it; the original version was a bit vague and non-specific)
How would this revision work?
- Bizarro was originally a dimwitted clone of Superman created by a scientist's "replicating ray", and he famously ruled over the topsy-turvy cube-shaped planet of "Bizarro World", which was populated by similarly dimwitted replicas of Superman and his friends. Some of the campier aspects of the character's origin story—like the cube-shaped planet, and the replicating ray—wouldn't have translated very well to the more grounded and serious post-Crisis continuity, but the general concept of a flawed Superman clone was popular enough that Bizarro himself was brought back. In his new origin, though, he was a genetically engineered replica of Superman created by a team of scientists on Lex Luthor's payroll, and his mental deficiency was played a bit more dramatically, making him more of a Tragic Monster than a bumbling simpleton. Bizarro World has never been fully brought back, though it’s occasionally referenced and homaged in one-off stories.
I'm a bit confused by the entry about D&D half-orcs. It says the reimaginings are to avoid "half-orcs being potentially children of rape", and then one of the examples is "In Pathfinder, many orcs mate with humans willingly" ... I didn't think the orcs being willing was the problem...