Buried Alien - THE FASTEST POST ALIVE!
First CBR Appearance (Historical): November, 1996
First CBR Appearance (Modern): April, 2014
Dated: Characters I don't like
Timeless: Characters I like
Beat me to it...
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Hell, "Goody Rickles" was probably outdated back in 1971!
I hate to say it, but the Silver Age Green Lantern.
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Like it or not, fighter pilots, test pilots, and even astronauts don't hold the cache they did in the early 1960s.
Slam Bradley sprung to mind.
And hey! JLU showed B'Wana Beast can be cool!
"My name is Wally West. I'm the fastest man alive!"
I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter.
The fact that it doesn't could just be a new wrinkle to his character - he can still have been inspired by those guys (like his dad) even though it's not cool anymore. It's also just his dayjob - it doesn't affect him being a kick-ass GL. The spirit of what he represents should be timeless. But yeah, I'm going to defend my guy Hal.
I don't think avoiding Dick's origins is the right play. Dick's origins don't need to be tied specifically to a circus, but rather a show that evokes one. I don't think there's anything essential about Dick being around circus animals when he's growing up either. The important bits, to me at least, are that Dick's from a family of acrobats and spent his childhood with a travelling group of performers. The rest is pretty malleable.
I also don't think anything being feasible is something that should ever really come into play with Bruce Wayne and Batman. If people are willing to accept the cape as something any martial artist would use, then feasibility has already flown out the window
Last edited by Bored at 3:00AM; 02-24-2021 at 08:42 PM.