The First Born is the Jason of Wonder Woman's rogues gallery.
The First Born is the Jason of Wonder Woman's rogues gallery.
Not to get too far off-topic, but, what the hell is Circe or Ares doing, besides wasting our time and being supervillains, no one outside this WW comic, sees fit to use in a story?
If FB had been created in Superman, Green Lantern or JLA comics, he would have been used better and in more stories, than we've seen him in, by now.
At worse, he's one more supernasty stigmatized, by his being created in a WW story.
First Born is not a supervillain for high-minded sophisticates (and we've plenty of those aboard) and, for that reason, not the sort of villain, that our more verbose postors typically favor. There's much potential here for a simply, irredeemably bad and powerful villain, with a backstory and motivation normal humans can actually read and understand. Comparatively speaking, WW comic has far too few of those.
Anyway, good thread, all around. You should all be proud of yourselves!
Last edited by Mel Dyer; 08-13-2022 at 04:59 PM.
COMBINING THE BIGBADITUDE OF THANOS WITH CHEETAH'S FEROCITY, IS JANUS WONDER WOMAN'S GREATEST SUPERVILLAIN?...on WONDABUNGA!!! Look alive, Kangaliers!
The first born is gross
~I just keep swimming through these threads~
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Currently(or soon to be) Reading: Alan Scott: Green Lantern, Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Jay Garrick: The Flash, Justice Society of America, Power Girl, Superman, Shazam, Titans, Wesley Dodds: Sandman, Wonder Woman, & World's Finest: Teen Titans.
My POV on that is he’s the ultra strong and resilient son of Hera and Zeus. In a basic sense, he’s a super strong and powerful antithesis of Diana within her mythology. Essentially how sometimes Heracles or Hercules was portrayed in the past or referenced to Diana being “stronger than Hercules.” He’s powerful and thematically carried out the classic Greek mythology of the son overpowering the father a la Zeus and Cronus.
That classic theme *could* be fun to play around with in new ways contemporarily.
(I’m also a proponent of of bringing back Heracles as an Amazon opponent.)
I actually liked the final burnt appearance.
First Born as a prophesized evil chosen one who fits into the Greek cycle of a child killing their parent I find to be an interesting villain, sort of a parody/deconstruction of Kratos from the GoW games. I didn't care for the execution myself but I'd be interested to see someone revisit it.
Jason is a soap opera cliche.
Currently(or soon to be) Reading: Alan Scott: Green Lantern, Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Jay Garrick: The Flash, Justice Society of America, Power Girl, Superman, Shazam, Titans, Wesley Dodds: Sandman, Wonder Woman, & World's Finest: Teen Titans.