Any D-Listers You'd Like to Overhaul / Expand Upon?

[InfamousBG]

Catman is a big one for me. Very interesting character.

[mathew101281]

Fire
Ice
Red Tornado
Terra 2

Elemental Forces

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

City Boy is forced to go to Titans Academy in order to commute a prison sentence. Nightwing recruits him after their teamup in Lazarus Planet but City Boy has old crimes that catch up to him.

Risk teams up with Black Lightning in order to investigate the murder of his brother. We lean into Risk coming from a poor white background to lean into current political issues.

Orpheus returns from the dead but doesn't know why. He suspects Onyx has something to do with it and tracks her down.

Kole and Gnark work a day job at Harper Security.

The Guardian gets an offer to train with the Shield clan and decides to keep an eye on them.

Tye Longshadow starts as Dr. Palmer's new TA at Ivy University while figuring out how to manage his new responsibility as the Apache Chief.

Flying Fox's grandchild works for the Canadian government as an occult specialist. They get roped into a cold case by Irun Monroe.

Matt Price from Titans Academy learns he was Fury's grandson and takes up the name Wonder Boy after bonding with the maternal side of his family.

Boy Thunder gets involved in the modern day DCU and runs afoul of Superman and the Titans.

[Sutekh]

That girl Equinox who was on the Canada Justice League

Ooh, yes, I was eager to learn what her seasonal-varying powers were! My own theory was that she could always fly, and generated heat/fire blasts during the summer, cold/ice blasts during the winter, some sort of decay/corrosion power during the autumn, and some sort of plant growth/healing/water based power for the spring, but who knows what the creator actually had planned!

And yes also to loving to see a good storyline for Amazing Man!

[married guy]

^^^I'd read this.
And the (hopefully) follow up Power Company book.

Oh, and my contribution, a whole team of D-listers…:

The Nineties called.
They want their AWESOME back.

Chronos leads a No Star Cast of heroes (Argus, Gunfire, Anima, Aztek, Black Condor and Fate) thirty years into the far off future of 2022 to stop the terrifying Time Trapper from remaking the planet in his twisted image.

For this team, the only thing more dangerous than the bad guy is finding out too much about their own destinies, because let’s face it, none of them are really around any more.

Mind you, they’d all just disappear again after four issues, but it’d be nice to write these dated characters from a modern perspective, flesh them out in hindsight.

Hell yeah!
I'd definitely read this book!!
Loved Chronos, Argus and Aztek in particular. (Whenever I see Gunfire, I immediately think of the Hitman #1000000 issue. Brilliant stuff.)

[bat39]

I'd go with Bette Kane. I loved the reinvention of the character on CW's Batwoman and one of my few disappointments at that show's ending was not getting to see her evolve into a superhero.

In my mini, Bette moves to a new city. She's become a doctor now (like on the show) and she's set up a network of clinics to help underprivileged communities. She's moved on from her superhero life a long time ago and found another way to help people, but she still occasionally yearns for it, and low-key resents the fact that she's mostly forgotten now despite the fact that she was one of the earliest Gotham heroes apart from Batman and the first Robin (maybe in a meta way she'll be pissed a little with people for thinking Barbara was the first Batgirl when it was actually her!)

But some villain or criminal or conspiracy targets her clinics and she decides to investigate, putting her Flamebird suit on and being dragged back into the world of suits and capes.

I'd have Nightwing and Batwoman guest-star, delving into Bette's histories with both of them...but it'd 90% be her show.

[Agent Z]

Primal Force

4000 years ago, beings from another realm invaded Earth with the intent of stealing it's life force. All that stood between them was the Primal Force, a group of humans empowered by nature to defend Earth. In present day, the invaders remain among humanity, taking advantage of human conflict and environmental degradation to complete their original goal.

Mari MacCabe/Vixen: Empowered by the Akan god Anansi, Mari is a Ghanian animal rights activist with the power to mimic any animal ability in existence.

Dominic Mndawe/Freedom Beast: A South African photojournalist covering the actions of a shady company.

Susan Linden-Thorne/Black Orchid: A mysterious woman with plant-like powers and features.

Miiyahbin Marten/Equinox: A 16-year-old Cree girl with powers representing the four seasons.

Zoraida the Elf: An elf posing as a human named Diane Dorst, Zoraida is the only member of the team who has known about the threat from the beginning.

Ya'Wara: A Shaman from the Tapirape tribe.

Buddy Baker/Animal Man: A man with a connection to a force called "the Red".

[Incognito]

Vibe has not been seen for a very long time. So I would pitch a mini series with him.

I would have Vibe to be more similar to his CW counterpart. He will be working at Terrifitech as an intern in Central City, and time to time he would see The Flash pop by. Having retired as a superhero few years ago (which could explain his long absence) to focus on his studies and working on both his career and life, he helped The Flash against a science-terrorist group who was hired by a mysterious benefactor to steal a programmable matter device by stealthily using his powers, Flash notices Cisco's metahuman abilities and remembers him as Vibe, he tries to persuade him to use his powers for good but he insist of staying retired as he is done in the world of superherorics. Mr. Terrific traced the terrorist group whereabouts and it seems that they just phased out of existence like they were ghosts he quickly realised that they are not from this reality.

The science-terrorist group was revealed to be employed by Lex Luthor of Earth 13 who wants to use this form of science to fight The League of Shadows believing that programmable matter is the key to get rid of Super Demon. Giving himself no other choice and not wanting the device to be used in the wrong hands he reluctantly dons his costume and teams up with both the fastest man alive and one of the smartest men alive in a trip to the multiverse.

[Ascended]

Damn, these ideas are legit, I'd read most of them!

The Extrano stuff especially sounds like just the ridiculous crap I'd enjoy. I know nothing of the character beyond the fact that he exists but "flamboyantly gay space pirate" is one hell of a hook.

And it's nice to see such positivity for Amazing Man. Not just my idea but for the character in general, truly one of DC's (many) wasted gems.

Someone mentioned leaning into the civil rights work of the first AM, and I love the idea. Didn't mention it specifically in my post but it's exactly the kind of stuff I'd look at in my four issues. In my pitch, the first AM was a major figure in the movement, not as big or important as MLK or X, but just below them. You look at that family, and we've got civil rights pioneers, soldiers, and disaster relief volunteers (Markus, after hurricane Katrina). The family has a rich history of non-cape heroism and that's part of the appeal for me, that "everyday" sort of heroism, pushed up against a world of spandex and superpowers.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

The MIST from JSA gets a spinoff in Opal City. He moves in with Harlequin II and tries to establish himself as the premier hero. But his mother's legacy as a supervillianness gets in the way. This could be before or after he joins the JSA.

[Ascended]

Wait, you mean Jack Knight's kid? Would he even be old enough to be a hero?

I wouldn't be against a return to Opal. Robinson's Starman remains one of the greatest runs ever, and I always encourage more Knights joining the DCU and the family getting the attention and respect they deserve (they're basically the Kennedy's of DC). But Jack retired as Starman not too long after Courtney became Stargirl, no way his kid is old enough for spandex, right?

But thanks to you, I'm now envisioning a ten year old, mist powered Knight equipped with the classic family tech kicking villain ass and joining Damian's generation of heroes, and I'm never gonna be satisfied in life until I see it on the page! Damn you man, damn youuuuuuuu!!!!!!

[K7P5V]

Definitely, my choice would be...

Cyclotron

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Wait, you mean Jack Knight's kid? Would he even be old enough to be a hero?

I wouldn't be against a return to Opal. Robinson's Starman remains one of the greatest runs ever, and I always encourage more Knights joining the DCU and the family getting the attention and respect they deserve (they're basically the Kennedy's of DC). But Jack retired as Starman not too long after Courtney became Stargirl, no way his kid is old enough for spandex, right?

But thanks to you, I'm now envisioning a ten year old, mist powered Knight equipped with the classic family tech kicking villain ass and joining Damian's generation of heroes, and I'm never gonna be satisfied in life until I see it on the page! Damn you man, damn youuuuuuuu!!!!!!

In the JSA book, he popped up as one of the new JSA members. It's a time travel story so continuity is iffy. If he sticks around after I'd set my pitch to whatever the new status quo is.

I haven't read Robinson's Starman run yet. I assumed Kyle is the same because the way he's described in the issue references that run.

I'd pitched him as an adult but I don't mind doing a Zoom or Ink graphic novel on him at a younger age. Besides DC's continuity is always changing so if my pitch gets picked up.;

I've loved your pitches on Beast Boy and Donna Troy so it's cool I got your fan mind excited.

I'd do a team up comic between Vixen, Black Orchid and Deadman called "Avatars of DCU".

I'd do a story with Mal and Karen dealing with their 10 anniversary as a couple. Mal is street level while Karen is Sci fi but both of their cases converge.

[Filbert]

Scoop Scanlon

[MoneySpider]

From the original post: "If "D-list" isn't specific enough, let's say it can't be anyone who is appearing regularly in a comic, never carried a solo title for more than thirty-ish issues, and no one who has ever been a lead or co-lead in larger media."

Going by the bolded, I don't think Vixen fits the criteria for this thread, since she was the lead of her own animated movie on CW Seed and currently has her own series/book on Webtoons (which is currently on Episode 30).