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lightninglouie
07/04/09

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I am shocked, shocked, at the absence of Mister Freedom!

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MonkeyT
07/04/09

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Since you mentioned American Maid, don't forget Captain Liberty from the live action Tick. If only for how she killed The Immortal.
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cynopt
07/04/09

@MonkeyT: Pretty sure he managed to get the two mixed together in his head; he says "Dressed like Lady Liberty", but American Maid's costume is more of a domestically inclined Captain America type deal.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
07/04/09

@cynopt: I think you're right.

I <3 Capt. Liberty and the whole live-action Tick.

(adds to Amazon Wish List)
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Pope John Peeps II
07/04/09

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There's something really compelling about the Comedian when you think about him as a character in a book. Trying to piece together his motivations means that there's always a little hole missing, and it's that little lacuna of insanity or cruelty or just darkness that always escapes. It's what makes him laugh too, I suppose. It's a really nicely put together figure that sort of embodies all the cold-war mentalities and post-vietnam traumas of America.
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Pope John Peeps II
07/04/09

@Pope John Peeps II: I guess the thing it reminds me most of perhaps is Kurtz in Marlow's Heart of Darkness. A sort of brilliant, intensely ideological figure who gets caught up in the fragility of those ideals, and obsessed with their dark opposite, and so becomes a horrible savage in the process.
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Pope John Peeps II
07/04/09

@Pope John Peeps II: haha. Conrad's Heart of Darkness, rather. Marlow was the central character.
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Islandkiwi
03/28/09

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Bring back Longshot!
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Islandkiwi
03/28/09

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Bring back Power Pack!
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Islandkiwi
03/28/09

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Bring back ROM: Spaceknight!
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Michael Church
03/28/09

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Well, if the editors just want to make all their classic heroes suck (and it often seems they do), why no bring back everybody's dead parents? Thomas and Martha Lane, Jor-El and Lara, the Flying Graysons, the Todds, the Drakes, the Queens, the Parkers, Maria Castle and the kids -- you get the idea.

It would be funny to watch the whole spandex squad lose its raison d'etre at once, wouldn't it?

Of course, they could also bring back Bruce Banner's abusive dad, Brian. That might actually up the Hulk's rage quotient, at least until he tore the old man in half and threw him into the -- oh, wait, that's Sentry.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
03/28/09

@Michael Church: If I were a super villain that is exactly what I would do. Go back in time and make Batman's life extremely boring. Maybe inspire his latent interest in accounting.

Bruce Wayne goes from playboy to actuary.

Though then I have to worry about him turning into Actuary Man. Using tables to predict when I am going to commit my dastardly schemes. Finding the weakness to my robotic gorilla suit before I even build it.

Damn you Actuary Man.
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SnarkyBarkBark
03/28/09

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Aquamans dead?
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/28/09

@SnarkyBarkBark: Yeah, since 2007. Although there is a new version running around with the same name.
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coren
03/28/09

@Alasdair Wilkins: I thought (and this is dubious since it's a Final Crisis thing) we switched back?
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/28/09

@coren: Did we? I'd heard rumors Aquaman is set to be one of the Black Lanterns in Blackest Night, which would suggest he's still dead. Like I said in the post, Final Crisis is still mostly incomprehensible to me. Although I did finally piece together what was going on in RIP...
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Moff
03/28/09

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A good scene from io9: The Motion Picture would be if just after you finished posting this, Alasdair, you turned around and there was a guy behind you, and he was like, "I think you forgot one very important death." And you were like, "Oh yeah? Whose?" And he was like, "YOURS."
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Moff
03/28/09

@Moff: But then really it turned out just to be Braak trying out one of his weird-sex-cosplay things.
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Grey_Area
03/28/09

@Moff: That movie couldn't be worse than if it were made by Leni Riefenstahl.

Why yes, I do enjoy dead horse-beating.
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Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
03/28/09

@Grey_Area: Wasn't that from a David Lynch film? Or maybe Braak's brief foray into furry necrophilia...
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/28/09

@Discodave: Look, just let me know who will be killing me and who will be directing it. I'd like to be able to plan out the rest of my day, you know...
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Grey_Area
03/28/09

@Discodave: You call six years "brief"?
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Grey_Area
03/28/09

@Alasdair Wilkins: Charlie, in the conservatory, with the candlestick.

An Alan Smithee film.
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Arturo R. Garcia
03/28/09

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Calling Barry Allen "the most iconic" Flash is questionable. Not only was Wally the Flash of record for more than 20 years himself (sorry, Jay), but his title was acclaimed during the runs by Mark Waid and Geoff Johns. It could be argued that Barry's best moment in the DCU *was* his death.
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/28/09

@Arturo R. Garcia: I probably should have said "arguably" instead of "generally" there. I was going to say "with apologies to Wally West fans, which I myself am one", but that sentence was already tortured enough.
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Moff
03/28/09

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Yes, when I think of Sandman, it's the cool fight scenes that are the first thing to spring to mind.
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/28/09

@Moff: Oh sure, call me insane, but are you going to tell me Geoff Johns couldn't bring the Morpheus asskicking that we've always secretly wanted to see?
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/28/09

@Alasdair Wilkins: And for clarity's sake, that's Morpheus doing the asskicking, not Morpheus getting his ass kicked.
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Moff
03/28/09

@Alasdair Wilkins: It can't look as stupid as the scene from Vol. 1 where he fights the demon by bowling with him. I'll give you that.
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jedidotflow
03/28/09

@Alasdair Wilkins: Geoff Johns' version of Sandman: Cain killing Abel in a variety of gruesome ways.
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/28/09

@jedidotflow: And then just as Cain is about to kill Abel for the twentieth time there's a voice behind him that goes, "Hey Cain!" and you turn the page and it's Wesley Dodds and he shoots Cain and it's AWESOME.

I'm pretty sure Geoff Johns pulled that trick at least a dozen times in Green Lantern: Rebirth. As you can see, it still reduces me to a gibbering fanboy.
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Gospel X
03/28/09

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It's odd to have a post about comic book deaths and not include Gwen Stacy.
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asyouwere
03/28/09

@Gospel X:

Seconded.
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/28/09

@asyouwere: I definitely considered throwing Gwen Stacy into the mix, but I ultimately decided she was more along the lines of Uncle Ben, Thomas and Martha Wayne, and Jor-El and Lara. I mostly wanted to focus on dead superheroes, although I obviously contradicted myself by including Betty Ross.
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