But how would that explain Green Arrow (and the Roy Harper version of Speedy) having been members of the Golden Age Seven Soldiers of Victory?
https://community.cbr.com/showthread...reciation-2021
I am not going to read through this whole thread for the reason I don't read DC's "fixing continuity" mega-stories anymore. My two cents though: It's just a bunch of nonsense to give some convoluted in-story reason for the fact that these are comic book stories. We all know they are - why does DC always feel a need to explain every little continuity inconsistency? Some things just don't line up - we get it. Just tell good stories with the characters that aren't meta-commentaries about how these are all comic books. People must be buying this stuff since DC keeps making these stories, but I'll be over there reading titles that are about the actual characters.
I don't think they will. Its not something that gets brought up a lot in the comics anyway these days (and there's already a Post-COIE version of the Seven Soldiers anyway, so I'm guessing that's the 'canon' version now).
Now...if they really want to address it, they can come up with some timey-wimey explanation for how GA and Speedy ended up in the past for a while as part of the Seven Soldiers. Or just highlight how a previous iteration of GA and Speedy were a part of the Seven Soldiers, and maybe restore theirs and other people's memories of it.
Again, when it comes to some characters, I think they might stick to stuff which is regarded as the default 'classic' version now. With Green Arrow, the island origin is the default, as is being a Justice League member rather than a Seven Soldiers member. They'll try to fit in everything that they can, and maybe nod towards how things were once 'different'.
Isn't this essentially what hypertime is? Or am I misunderstanding that concept?
Except that sounds more like the Roy Thomas' explanation for the longevity of the JSA members or the weird John Byrne explanation in She Hulk about character's aging being tied to whether they were being written about. It's too random.
The Linearverse seems to be more of an across-the-board explanation. If there was a story with Character A set in 1942 then the character was active in 1942. If there are a dozen stories with Character A set between 1942 and 2022 and the character doesn't seem to have aged 80 years, its due to how aging works. No time travel, no multiple versions of the character- everyone from Superman and Batman down to Slam Bradley are all covered to let every appearance they make part of one person's lifetime.
If you start picking and choosing which Golden Age heroes counted and which didn't or feel the need to explain how a non-powered character was an active hero or villain for over half a century- you miss the point.
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Hypertime, as a very general explanation, is more like differing potential timelines on one world. Differing from the Multiverse of course in the sense that concept utilizes actual different copies of worlds. This is just saying "its comics so Batman's just really old without physically aging and everything happened to this one specific character on the exact same world in the exact same timeline".
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"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
It's frustrating. While I don't expect DC to think about it, some (not nearly all) societal/political/etc. changes come largely from the old dying off and/or a new generation coming into positions of authority: a sort of gradual attrition of the things being done the old way. And so I don't think society would look the same in 2021 if the bulk of people alive lived through the Great Depression and WW II (in appropriate countries), and we have living people who were slaves in the 1800s and so forth and so on.
I can't agree with you at all and found the insult to the people living today and the implication that prior generations were superior (especially as it seems more directed at the young) completely unnecessary, but it's irrelevant whether the world (or country) would be better or worse - the point for me is that it's a real hard sell that it's the same as in our world.
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