FFF Results Post #112—Chairman Of The Board

Five For Friday #112 Results

On Friday afternoon, participating CR readers were asked to "Name Five And Only Five Elements (Situations, Plot Points, Relationships, Etc.) Of The DC Superhero Universe That Should Be Set In Stone -- Use the Following X Should Y Format." Here are the results.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Superman should have something available to him in his Superman life that is not available to Clark Kent.
2. Batman should be a detective.
3. Fans should elect the Legion of Super-Heroes Chairman.
4. The Golden Age superheroes other than the Big Three should go away.
5. Gorillas should be everywhere.

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Jones

5. Mister Miracle should constantly be escaping from self-imposed death-traps
4. The Spectre should mess criminals up Mikado-style
3. Every character should have comedic 1940s sidekicks and/or 1950s magical nuisances
2. Wonder Woman should be pro-feminist AND pro-BDSM
1. Things shouldn't be easy in Easy Company

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Michael Grabowski

1. Hal Jordan should be Green Lantern.
2. Dick Grayson should be Robin.
3. All possible parallel Earth continuities should still exist.
4. Superman and Batman should have the world's finest working relationship.
5. Superman and Batman should be frustrated anyway by their mutual distrust of each other's working methods.

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Walter Hudsick

1. J'onn J'onzz should be fond of humanity.
2. Superman and Batman should be friends.
3. All place names should be fictional.
4. All celebrities and products should be imaginary, with names that are puns of the originals.
5. Heroes should be able to tell the difference between good and evil - and choose good.

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Jacob Lyon Goddard

1. underwear should always be worn outside of the pants
2. black Lois should occasionally replace the regular white one
3. Batman should get more zany props in the cave
4. The Question should be Ditko's and Ditko's only
5. Alex Ross' dad, in every comic, at least once a year

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Jamie Coville

1. Metamorpho should always have a somewhat cranky personality.
2. The Flash should be able to do funky things with his speed that nobody else does, like vibrate through walls.
3. They should always do these one off stories where an entire team gets captured and the only person that can save them is the guy with the most ineffective power on the team, thereby justifying his membership in the team.
4. Green Arrow should always be a radical left winger.
5. Green Lantern should never wear a cape.

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Tim O'Shea

1. Aquaman should have two hands.
2. Beast Boy should never amount to anything of great consequence.
3. Mark Waid should write Brave & Bold forever.
4. Bart Allen should be brought back before Grandpa Barry
5. Red Tornado should get tighter screws to avoid seemingly bi-monthly dismemberments.

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Sean T. Collins

1) Batman should be smart, scary, and enthusiastic about his job.
2) The JLA should be icon-heavy; second-stringers on the team should be just that.
3) Darkseid, Lex Luthor, and the Joker should be the top-dog villains.
4) Superheroes should stop being replaced by sidekicks or next-generation heroes.
5) Events should revolve around the iconic characters whose names are known to the outside world--Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Robin, Superboy, Supergirl, the Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Shazam!

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Marc Arsenault

* Hal Jordan should always be the main Green Lantern of whatever this galactic sector is
* Batman should always: A. Live in Wayne Manor B. Have the Batcave C. Have a Batmobile D. Have Alfred E. Have Commissioner Gordon
* Alec Holland should always be dead
* War comics should always end with the circular "Make War no More"
* Cain should always kill Abel... every time

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Douglas Wolk

1. The parallel Earths should be separate.
2. Superman should have a Fortress of Solitude.
3. Swamp Thing should never be able to turn back into Alec Holland.
4. Time travel should be ridiculously common.
5. There should be a giant penny in the Batcave.

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Ben Schwartz

1) Luthor should hate Superman because Superman made his hair fall out.
2) All heroes should have the option of a super pet -- Ace the Bathound, Streaky the Supercat, Krypto, or Proty II.
3) Heroes should build monuments to themselves (with trophy rooms), ie, Batcaves, Fortresses of Solitude, Justice League Satellites, and Titan Towers.
4) Jimmy Olsen should always be a cub reporter, no matter how many scoops he gets, how much access he has to the world's most powerful being, how much time traveling he's done, or how many world's he's visited. That is, he must always live in a world of bizarro journalism.
5) Dr. Sivana must always wear a white dentist's smock, and cackle.

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Robin McConnell

1. The Swamp Thing should be in the DC universe - he has sucked since they took him out of it.
2. The Joker should be (excuse the pun) Batshit crazy.
3. Anything with Green Lantern and Green Arrow, should be by Denny O'neil.
4. Blue Beetle should be funny.
5. The Batmobile should be the Golden Age one, with the fins.

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Tom Bondurant

1. "Batman" should be a disguise for Bruce Wayne (and not vice versa).
2. Krypto should have a secret identity.
3. Donna Troy's origin should include being raised as Diana's sister.
4. A Green Lantern and/or a Flash should always be in the Justice League.
5. The original Doom Patrol should sacrifice itself to save Codsville, Maine (population 14).

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Grant Goggans

1. Commissioner Gordon should have a hotline to the Batcave and Wayne Manor.
2. Swamp Thing should be able to team up with the Justice League.
3. Uncle Sam should use the word "tarnation" whenever he appears.
4. The teamup book that features Superman and Batman should be called World's Finest. It should be an anthology book with several other characters.
5. Jason Todd should be dead.

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Christopher Duffy

1. Superman has a deeply felt sense of civic duty.
2. The Spectre scares the crap out of criminals as much as possible.
3. There are more cool alien Green Lanterns than you could ever imagine.
4. The Creeper's civilian identity is a real jerk.
5. In some very basic way, Mister Miracle owes all he is to Darkseid.

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David Gallaher

1. Lois Lane should have her own ongoing series.
2. Hal Jordan should be murdered while he sleeps.
3. New reader-friendly books should be everywhere.
4. The Speed Force should fade out of existence.
5. Superman should get a better Rogue's Gallery.

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Fred Hembeck

1. Superman should only date women (or sea creatures) whose initials are "L. L.".
2. J'onn J'onnz, Manhunter from Mars, should always stand on the other side of the room at Justice League of America alumni meetings as far away as possible from Firestorm.
3. Green Lantern should always be vulnerable to being drowned in a vat of mustard at a French's plant.
4. Robin should always have a special nook of the Batcave set aside where he can store a healthy supply of Nair.
5. Wonder Woman comics should always be incoherent.

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Will Pfeifer

1. Clark Kent should always wink at the end of every story.
2. The Flash should always fight crime in the daylight.
3. Lex Luthor should always be inventing crazy gadgets.
4. Aquaman should always wear the orange shirt.
5. Batman should always not be an asshole.

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Don MacPherson

1. Lois Lane should be daring to the point of being reckless.
2. The Flash should always store his costume in his ring (thanks to amazing shrinking gas that's never been explained).
3. Mon-El should be Mon-El, not Valor or M'Onel or whatever retcon DC has going for him these days.
4. Zatanna should always cast spells by speaking backwards.
5. The history of one parallel DC Earth should always unfold in comic-book format in another parallel DC Earth. Because Gardner Fox said so.

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Adam Casey

1. Green Lanterns should be vulnerable to yellow.
2. Barry Allen should stay dead.
3. Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family should exist on their own earth.
4. The Gotham police shouldn't trust Batman under any circumstances.
5. Bizarro should not be in few comics not every month.

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Scott Cederlund

1) Limbo will always be a "real" place that characters will reside in (i.e. it's where the Inferior Five are.)
2) Lex Luthor's baldness should always have been caused by Super Boy.
3) The Ambush Bug should only be written by Robert Loren Fleming and drawn by Keith Giffen.
4) Joe Chill killed Thomas and Martha Wayne.
5) Lois Lane will always love Superman, not Clark Kent.

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Russell Lissau

1. Alfred should always be there to support -- and stitch up -- Batman.
2. Batman should always have the best car in the DCU.
3. Batman should never catch Joe Chill -- or whoever killed his parents.
4. James Gordon should be the commissioner.
5. Batman shouldn't use a gun.

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