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Post by JD Mathis on Feb 20, 2017 7:39:58 GMT -5
I think Tobias and I talked about something along this line but you would throw in other shows to create a new type of universe. Johnny Quest meets the Ghostbusters while on a mission in New York, or Gargoyles mixing it up with the TMNT crew in a misunderstanding that leads to a team up. I always wanted to see more done with a more up to date version of Blue Falcon and Dynomutt.
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Post by travis on Feb 20, 2017 9:19:26 GMT -5
I can see Race and Jade hooking up and then deciding their kid would be safer and better looked after with Dad.
In FutureQuest Jonny, Hadji, the kid from Frankenstein Jr and Jan from Space Ghost have been working together. I can see a HB teen team being a fun read.
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Post by claypot on Feb 20, 2017 14:05:10 GMT -5
It's like in "Mask Of The Blue Falcon" but Blue Falcon and Dynomutt are TV show characters that never met Mystery Inc. like in the original cartoon. The man who played Blue Falcon in the DTV is a play on Adam West/Gary Owens, and the Mr. Hyde villain concept is from the first Scooby/Dynomutt crossover episode. Note: They did add a certain nod to a certain "Wall Crawler" and his famous scene in the movie. Most of the characters in the movie are from other HB shows as different people.
If we got to see BF and Dynomutt rebooted, it would be less Dark Knight tone with Dynomutt still a comic character. Dexter learned that the hard way.
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Post by Tobias Christopher on Feb 21, 2017 21:05:06 GMT -5
Someone smack me to get this idea to bring Bart Allen back to the DCU out of my head.
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Post by JD Mathis on Feb 22, 2017 7:40:18 GMT -5
Someone smack me to get this idea to bring Bart Allen back to the DCU out of my head. My friend if anyone can find a way to bring Bart back and maybe change the terrible way they used him in New52 it is you. If you need a sounding board to bounce ideas off of let me know.
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Post by travis on Feb 22, 2017 13:41:33 GMT -5
I think there are no bad characters, just badly written/treated characters. A good writer, who actually cares and/or loves a character can do wonders.
Alan Moore made Rob Linfield's Awesome universe titles readable for a week or two. Mark Waid scraped the noir ninja crap off of Daredevil and discovered there was a super hero there. Who's the biggest badass in the marvel movie universe...a raccoon with a gun.
It's easy to go 'I love Superman and can't wait to write him!' it's trickier to go 'What can I do with Brother Power the Geek, the Red Bee or Space Cabbie?" without mocking or being 'hip and ironic'.
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Post by iamcrute on Feb 23, 2017 14:44:49 GMT -5
It would be cool to do a challenge thing for a DC2k presents (same with Marvel too) where you just get given a D-Z list character at random and you've got an issue or two in an anthology title to just do something with them. Re-invent, cross-over, classic style story...whatever. Just here's a character you've never used or heard of...write 8-10 pages minumum about them (more if you want to do a 2 parter)
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Post by travis on Feb 23, 2017 14:54:48 GMT -5
That'd be a cool idea for an event.
Though, in my case, I only seem to write c and d list characters, so the challenge would be write a A lister. Everyone else would be writing Congorilla or Living Mummy and I'd be writing Batman or Wolverine.
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Post by claypot on Feb 25, 2017 19:34:00 GMT -5
I remember there was a DC series about a teenage girl who is really a princess from Gemworld. I know DC brought Amethyst back in the New 52 but was short lived, but what if in DC2K Amethyst was linked to a MORPG version of Gemworld, like Warcraft, but she created Gemworld the game to keep the real one safe. Think Disney with Kingdom Hearts, World of Warcraft, and Tron with real fantasy magic.
This is just an idea of what a revived obscure DC character would be like in the 21st century, and don't get me started on the Wonder Twins.
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Post by iamcrute on Feb 26, 2017 6:25:36 GMT -5
Claypot raises a thing for me, are there any characters (Like I'm reading Gem as here) who are only hurt by the shared universe and need to be given what I call 'The vertigo treatment' shifted into their own pocket universe outside of continuity. Possibly one without superheroes at all.
Mine is Doctor 13, he just comes across as a buffoon in the regular DC universe.
My Doctor 13 vertigo pitch: Dr Terry Thirteen is a scientist, educator and media personality. He is a total skeptic who doesn't believe in magic, the afterlife etc his wife Maria however is (was) different. She believed in ghosts, mediums, possession and everything and the two of them investigated this sort of thing (its how they met)...they clearly had a fiery relationship.
All of this led to the downfall of his wife, one year ago she was found murdered after being involved in an exorcism of a serial killer who founded a witch coven/cult.
Doctor 13 has now made it his life mission to uncover the truth about the supernatural so ridiculous things like this can't happen again, uncover the truth behind his wife's death and bring the murderous cult to justice. All of this is made all the more difficult by his daughter Traci who is starting to experiment with 'magic' and the sorts of groups he would prefer she avoids. It doesn't help that he thinks she's starting to show the signs of mental illness which have long dogged his family.
Monthly it would be Dr Thirteen debunking paranormal experiences, having assassination attempts by the Catholic churches more fervent followers and finding out the truth about his wife's past.
Anyone else you think could do with being away from the DCU? Edit: or I'd put it in an alternative 'DCU' e.g. the cult of Trigon is the cult, Zatanna is just a stage magician, Clark Kent is a reporter who he lets write a piece on him, Wayne Manor gets haunted and what not
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Post by claypot on Feb 26, 2017 13:10:46 GMT -5
I was surprised when Justice League Unlimited did an episode with the creator owned Superfriends and made them The Ultimen by Max Lord. This also was weird in teen Titans Go when the Wonder Twins showed up after how long SF ended, not counting Family Guy nods. Young Justice did bring back Wendy and Marvin after their DC Teen Titans run.
What I'm saying is that I like to see Zan and Jayna not just comical teen sidekicks. They did appear in Extreme Justice, and in Tobias Christopher's Titans Forever series duking it out with Wendy and Marvin. I recommend everyone to read his take on the Titans and Power Rangers.
I like DC2K version of the Wonder Twins to be more villainous gods trying to rule the world stick like Loki. That was my idea for my Teen Titans series for the Titans to fight. Gleek on the other hand....could be a hell beast. Just saying.
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Post by travis on Feb 27, 2017 11:18:09 GMT -5
There's got to be middle ground between 'goofy' and 'gleek is a hell beast'.
You are starting to creep into Mark Millar territory there and that way lies madness...!
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Post by Tobias Christopher on Feb 27, 2017 16:32:32 GMT -5
I just wrote Gleek as a Capuchin monkey that had a tendency to be violent towards Zan.
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Post by fairchild on Feb 27, 2017 18:46:46 GMT -5
I was surprised when Justice League Unlimited did an episode with the creator owned Superfriends and made them The Ultimen by Max Lord. This also was weird in teen Titans Go when the Wonder Twins showed up after how long SF ended, not counting Family Guy nods. Young Justice did bring back Wendy and Marvin after their DC Teen Titans run. What I'm saying is that I like to see Zan and Jayna not just comical teen sidekicks. They did appear in Extreme Justice, and in Tobias Christopher's Titans Forever series duking it out with Wendy and Marvin. I recommend everyone to read his take on the Titans and Power Rangers. I like DC2K version of the Wonder Twins to be more villainous gods trying to rule the world stick like Loki. That was my idea for my Teen Titans series for the Titans to fight. Gleek on the other hand....could be a hell beast. Just saying. The twins are a hard bunch to do. Their TV persona shifted so drastically when they got slammed into Extreme Justice and their appearance in JLU was probably middle ground.
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Post by travis on Feb 27, 2017 20:25:50 GMT -5
They had some decent stories in the Super friends comic, but I don't remember being impressed with any of their DCU appearances.
Shame that when DC created that international group of heroes, run by Dr. Mist, that they couldn't sort out the rights and include Samurai, Apache Chief and those guys.
Though, if we are talking about bringing the Super Friends characters into DC2K, then I'm going to dib Apache Chief now. Love that guy! He at least deserves his own action figure, if not his own comic.
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