What's your favorite bit of head canon you've heard?

[Restingvoice]

Batman mainly stays in the JL HQ as mission control and if he fights he wears one of the mech armor. Same with any Robins in TT except when they're supposed to be stealthy.

Robins wear thermal pants. They can be flesh colored.

The Justice League is divided into two teams. The Satellite team and the Hall team. The Satellite team handles celestial threats, the Hall team handles the terrestrial threats. It then divided further into two members team. The Hall pair is called The Brave and The Bold, the satellite pair is called World's Finest. This doesn't signify any authority over others, just a fun thing they made up.

[Sutekh]

After watching Young Justice;

Garfield Logan wasn't just randomly in Africa to be bitten by a cobra and injected with mongoose blood and get adopted by Rita Farr and Steve Dayton after turning green and becoming an animal-shifter, for... reasons. (Or whatever the latest version is about reverse-evolution or whatever...)

Instead, his father was a UN-sponsored task force investigator working in Africa to bust a large animal-poaching ring. Steve and Rita were celebrity sponsors of the anti-poaching initiative there to film the breaking down of the largest cache of smuggled animals and animal products (hides, ivory, etc.) and some detective from America who had been instrumental to breaking the US side of the same organization was sent as an 'about to retire' sinecure to oversee the end of the international operation. A last ditch effort by one of the last free poachers to get revenge on the task force for busting up his operation led to various animals getting free and fires getting set, the UN task force leader (Gar's dad) was shot and young Gar was bitten by an escaped cobra.

Gar got a blood transfusion from the only person nearby who claimed the appropriate blood type, the old US detective who felt guilty that things had spiraled so far out of control because he didn't blow his cover by just handling the entire situation with his powers, revealing an identity he was aging out of and about to 'retire' anyway. That detective? John Jones (whose telepathy had been vital in uncovering the operation and it's connections in the US, and disrupting that side of the operation).

And Detective Jones' Martian blood not only saved Gar's life, over the next few days in the hospital, Gar turned green, and, his father dead, Rita Farr and Steve Dayton adopted the green orphan boy and so he came to the attention of the Chief and became a part of his Doom Patrol.

[marhawkman]

The color spectrum in Green Lantern and the element system in Swamp Thing/Animal man are the different manifestations of the same cosmic forces.

Hmmm this got touched on in Blue Beetle of all things. The Reach tapped into the Green to power the Beetle armor. IIRC anyways... hmmm... not sure which comic this was in. But this is a separate but equivalent sort of thing, IE plot reason why the Reach could make an armor that could fight a GL.

[superduperman]

Superman has powers from day one. He may not have all of them but he at least had super strength. He's never known a time without them.

Joker isn't crazy. He's a sociopath who just likes to hurt people and takes pleasure in it. He just pretends to be crazy to avoid the death penalty. He knows exactly what he's doing. Like Charles Manson. He may even be smarter than Batman. I've known people like this in real life.

Year One will always be Batman's origin. And, speaking of Batman, he can never be in a healthy relationship because he doesn't know how. He spent his youth training. His social skills are crap. He fakes it to fit in but he really doesn't know how to connect with people. No relationship would ever work out because he will always put his "crusade" ahead of everything else.

Wonder Woman secretly wants to take over the world and force it into "loving submission". Basically WW Earth One would be her ideal scenario. If she were the only superhero in the world she probably would go ahead and do it. And the Amazons have secretly Star Trek type technology they keep from the world. They are basically the Wakanda of the DCU. They are a super-race. They are going to develop technology far above anyone else on Earth.

[Bored at 3:00AM]

This is from Robanker, Diana hates it when she eats out with Clark and Bruce since they always order her Mediterranean food since after living thousands of years on Themyscira, that is the last thing she wants more of in Man's World.

Everyone hates it when Hal Jordan is on monitor duty because he uses it to play his playlist of 70s rock and music from alien world's that incomprehensible to most people on Earth on the intercom system.

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Yessss....

[Johnny Thunders!]

Superman is first of the New Gods and the DC Universe started when Krypton exploded. The Superman event was so big it created beings in other universes. Galactus is a Superman variant that lacked a Jor El and Kent’s.

[PurpleGlovez]

Mine comes from Amy Adams' Lois Lane in Man of Steel. Every version of Lois going back to 1938 has secretly been obsessed with using the phrase "measuring dicks" in her lexicon. I like to imagine Animated Series Lois yelling "Smallville, quit measuring dicks and get over here!" from across the Daily Planet office. Good times.

[lemonpeace]

Anansi isn't actually the patron god of Vixen, that was merely another one of his tricks. Vixen's power actually comes from Asase Yaa, the Akan earth mother goddess of fertility, life, and death.

Black Lightning’s black lightning is an expression of him tapping into dark living lightning magic through his rage.

[Timothy Hunter]

The Pre-Crisis version of Supergirl did exist in Post CoIE Universe, she just died shortly before the events of John Byrne's Superman run.

[Ra-El]

Kryptonians have powers in almost every situation, except under red sunlight, their homeworld orbiting a red star is not a coincidence. Their star was turned red to ensure kryptonians would not have powers under normal circumstances.

Eons ago Krypton launched a conquest campaign and conquered almost all known universe, until a group o rebel kryptonians helped stop it. Then, along with the New Gods and the Guardians, they decided to erase most records about the Kryptonian Empire and in time even the ruling council forgot about it. To ensure another conquering campaign wouldn't happen they banished space travel and turned Krypton's sun red, the only way of blocking their powers.

[ZuLuLu]

Kryptonians have powers in almost every situation, except under red sunlight, their homeworld orbiting a red star is not a coincidence. Their star was turned red to ensure kryptonians would not have powers under normal circumstances.

Eons ago Krypton launched a conquest campaign and conquered almost all known universe, until a group o rebel kryptonians helped stop it. Then, along with the New Gods and the Guardians, they decided to erase most records about the Kryptonian Empire and in time even the ruling council forgot about it. To ensure another conquering campaign wouldn't happen they banished space travel and turned Krypton's sun red, the only way of blocking their powers.

I would actually like to read this story.

[Midnight_v]

Head-canon: The destruction of Krypton is a pivotal point in the history of the universe engineered by the Guardians. They pretend not to care but that's in part because not all of them actually know, but those who do know don't want the universe to know the truth.

But why? Well, we know the Guardians don't like creating temporal paradoxes, but we also know they're not above using temporal observations.

I gotta ask. Did you grab that from me a few years back on here? Or is this one of those "Great Minds think alike" Things. Cause that's really cool that I'm not the only one thinking about that.
Bolded the relevant bits down below.

I did this whole crazy write up one night, I the "how to make green lantern sell" thread.

https://community.cbr.com/showthread...an+imperialism


Hell yes. El Gato, you took the words right out of my mouth. I know they're big on the tv show but I was wondering what they were doing in the books, and where they were. I vagely remember them saying the scarabs were magic or techno magic or something, but... The GL Rings are too.

So how about... this... and bear with me. Once everything all the metal and clock events clear up. . .

Follow it up with 3 Arcs Green Lantern: "Cosmic" "HomeWorld" and "Rising Twilight"

So the running theme has often that the Guardians of Oa aren't really all that "GOOD" in the sense that people think of good more like "good" in that they don't want to directly eat or enslave everyone. . .
Key word "Directly".
So as much as the Corps represents freedom and are heroes. The Guardians are Politicians working toward the greater good, but realize they look at all races... ALL the races in the galaxy, maybe the universe as Children... or threats. Can you imagine if your entire race... no civilization was veiwed as children and treated as such ultimately?

So they practice essentially (and I say this without judgement because I love the country I grew up in) "American Imperialism" and by that I mean they control worlds and civilizations by placing Military bases on them.
Now in this case ... it places LANTERNS on them. Literally finding an often slightly disaffected aka fearless representative of the species and Giving it the power of a god. They monitor civilizations that way and "Police" them in the way the U.N. polices nations from making nukes (allegedly).
The Cosmic series features whatever 2 1/2 Lanterns you want (because one is going to be in the Home world series too.) and what it explores 3 things. 1. Places that the Guardians don't have control of. Thanagarian Realms, The Reach, The relation with the new gods, The remaining Controllers, Starro, Mogul and more... 2. Threats. We're talking Ancient things the Guardians Know about and Dragon Kings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_King_Theory too. I can't just be the eternal war with Parrallax. and thats where the freiza would occur. 3. Shows the places they DO have control of and the fallout and advancement. Essentially how the http://greenlantern.wikia.com/wiki/Book_of_Oa Rules have always been more guidelines, and there are many races all but worship the Lanterns and often embrace Oan law as their own.
It also going to show how the Guardians and a few other races are the answer to the Fermi Paradox.

Homeworld Follows immediately showing 1.The parallel between earth with its abundance of lanterns and other worlds that have had the same situation.
1. It is going to DIRECTLY answer the question "why so many lanterns from one planet. A planet that doesn't even have intersteller travel otherwise." The answer is because they do that to any world that "Defies Causality".
2. It's going to show how being a lantern can really evaporate your time, destroy your life, and ruin your society. All show through the eyes of a lantern on earth and "Mirroring" Lanterns on worlds gone by.
3. Its going to establish that the guardians "Prophecies" aren't "Prophecies" but that they have tech that allows them to see the future and affect it. This may already be a thing that hardcore lanterns fans know but the ring can facilitate time travel.
but you can't give them perfect future sight as a power. Regardless... there are so many lanterns on one planted because they guardians are expecting trouble on this very significant... and small civilization.

Rising Twilight
Krypton.
One word. Many Sins.
We establish the guardians tried to kill... Every. Last. Kryptonian. They had seen the future... An army of Supermen conquering every world, bending every knee, and they KEPT seeing it. No future they could come up with beat that fate. So it was decided kryptonians, and the yellow sun must never reach they judged the action based on Book of OA Law
#5. Taking no action against anyone or anything until they are proven to be a threat against life and liberty.
Book further shows how on almost every other Oan Controlled world. Green Lantern is the first Alien thing they encounter and it wears the face of the world its on. It shows how on ALMOST every other world Green Lantern LITERALLY TAKES
the Position that we ascribe to SUPERMAN. Leader of its worlds most powerful beings. Despite what the Book of Oa suggests
They are very Dissapointed that it didn't happen on earth and are equally annoyed that Hal Jordon DIDN'T do that, especially since there are kryptonians on earth leading earth heroes. Sinestro's only crime essentially was that he went to far by putting him self "Directly" on the throne. Lastly, its a secondary reason that they "SPAM" Earth with Green Lanterns. The guardians have a hope that one of them eventually does JUST THAT.
The Lanterns find out Everything about the Guardians and it shows how each of them react to it. How many Kryptons happened through direct or indirect action. How many civilizations reacted to the lantern but starting a superhuman arms race.
How many galactic empires stood against the guardians... and how the lanterns deal with the machinations of their masters.
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this is literally how Military and Police have to look at their governments quite often. Thats why the cosmic series has to be so well written and inclusive. There has to be some element of "Well if not the Guardians... then The Reach... if not The Reach then The OLD ONES http://dcau.wikia.com/wiki/Icthultu or something worse would be populating the galaxy. The lanterns have to decide.

Thats what I got. I'm spit-balling but... Thats like 3 years of story or more right there. You will need creative teams. You will need people who want to tell the story, and you need a compelling reason why they all stay lanterns at the end.

Duty. Greater Good. Love. or It is what it is... Reasons.

From there you have everything you need to keep an award winning comic going, and you get a good reason why we could have a "Earth Green Lanterns are close like the x-men" and are close.

Phew. Thats what I got. Thoughts?

[Kid Devil]

J'onn J'onzz is pansexual and gender fluid. The idea that a very non human looking telepathic shape changing alien is what we'd identify as a cis heterosexual man is actually ridiculous if you think about it.

Nah. Martian Manhunter never gets fulfillment out of human women (because martian and human sex is different) but they are the closest to the shape of a female martian that he can get.

[Lightning Rider]

Kryptonians have powers in almost every situation, except under red sunlight, their homeworld orbiting a red star is not a coincidence. Their star was turned red to ensure kryptonians would not have powers under normal circumstances.

Eons ago Krypton launched a conquest campaign and conquered almost all known universe, until a group o rebel kryptonians helped stop it. Then, along with the New Gods and the Guardians, they decided to erase most records about the Kryptonian Empire and in time even the ruling council forgot about it. To ensure another conquering campaign wouldn't happen they banished space travel and turned Krypton's sun red, the only way of blocking their powers.

I like that.

Krypton is generally full of thematic potential. I don't mind the Guardians letting it blow up either.

[superduperman]

Kryptonians have powers in almost every situation, except under red sunlight, their homeworld orbiting a red star is not a coincidence. Their star was turned red to ensure kryptonians would not have powers under normal circumstances.

Eons ago Krypton launched a conquest campaign and conquered almost all known universe, until a group o rebel kryptonians helped stop it. Then, along with the New Gods and the Guardians, they decided to erase most records about the Kryptonian Empire and in time even the ruling council forgot about it. To ensure another conquering campaign wouldn't happen they banished space travel and turned Krypton's sun red, the only way of blocking their powers.

So Dune basically. This is KIND OF what Snyder did in MOS. Minus the whole "rest of the universe gangs up on them" part.