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Not too thrilled with the changes to the opening theme, but I agree. Awesome episode!

I especially loved the new girl's reaction when Winston called Guerrero by name and her cocky attitude just vaporized when she realized who she was dealing with. Man's obviously got quite the rep.

Linkara's Secret Origins Month continues with the humble beginings of the Dark Knight!

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I think Metropolis was briefly mentioned in Batman Forever, but it's a good point. And I agree, superpowered villains and more fantastical elements can indeed work in comic book movies. It just depends on presentation. With a different script and director, even Arnold and Uma's Freeze and Ivy probably could have worked. I can easily picture Mr. Freeze being portrayed by the cold, unfeeling and inhuman Terminator, or Ivy as a deceptively deadly seductress. The problem is they were portrayed as campy and over-the-top, because that was the vibe the filmmakers decided to go for.

If the movie takes the villains seriously, so will the audience. Same goes for the superscience and magical hoodoo.

I suspect that the Thor and Green Lantern movies are going to be something of a litmus test to see if Hollywood can pull off some of those elements convincingly. If so... who knows? We might actually see Bale as Batman in a Justice League movie down the line.

Which is similar to how Johns has been playing it in the comics. So yeah, I can see that.

I do agree they should darken or tone down the mask a bit, though. In the comics, I've always sort of imagined it as being almost black, but with green reflective highlights or something. They don't necessarily have to do exactly that, but right now it looks a little too much like he went to a face-painting booth at the county fair.

One question... did your nephew regret seeing the movie?

I'm just curious.

It's actually become kind of ridiculous that they haven't phased out/retired/killed off some of the remaining original JSA-ers. They've at least given Wildcat a successor with the introduction of "Tomcat" in the last couple of years, but the other two old-timers, Jay Garrick and Alan Scott, are still running around without a true namesake due to various handwavey plot contrivances.

Let Jay finally retire for good with his wife Joan, only occasionally making an appearance in an advisory role. We've got Max Mercury back as the mentor and instructor in all things super-speed related, anyway. Have Wally take up Jay's spot on the team, maybe even changing his costume slightly to honor the original Flash and make himself look more Kingdom Come-ish, since that seems to be the direction DC is wanting to take a lot of the JSA in, anyway.

Alan is interesting, in that he actually has not one but two biological heirs, though neither is really inclined or capable of taking up the Green Lantern mantle. I could see him either permanently becoming the steward of the Starheart's power out in space, taking him away from Earthly duties, or being killed off and the Starheart's power fully passing on to Jade and Obsidian. No inheritor of his actual title on the team, though I suppose one of the human members of the GLC could decide to honor his legacy by joining. Alan was really unique following the Silver Age, anyway. I could see Kyle or someone incorporating elements of Alan's oath into theirs as an homage, maybe.

Yeah... I think I'll be using my money to go see Red again before it leaves theaters.

Actually, the voice actor carryover in some cases makes me wonder about whether this series might technically be considered in-continuity with other shows like Spectacular Spider-Man or Wolverine and the X-Men. Would be kinda cool if it was.

We already had references to the MRD from Wolverine in the mini-eps...

Looks like Nolan is planning to start casting for two female leads in his new Bat-film. One will, of course, be a new romantic interest for Bruce Wayne, while the other seems to be a/the new antagonist.

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Given some of the rumored choices from that article, I'd say kill two birds with one stone and give us either Catwoman or Talia! Or both!!

Other than that, I think I'd be happy if we finally got a film version of Silver St. Cloud for Bruce's new arm-candy...

The poster looks cool and all, but glow in the dark? Brrr! No thank you. I've been down that road with the stupid Super Mario Bros. movie poster I had as a kid.

Creepy glow in the dark Koopa eyes...!

Looking forward to the soundtrack, though.

Well... she does somewhat resemble the Ultimate comics version of the character, I suppose.

Probably cheaper to use an "original" idea than it is to have to pay some kind of royalties to use/adapt an existing property.

Linkara's taking a look back at the first ever appearances of some comic book icons through the month of November, starting with the birth of the original super-hero in Action Comics #1!!!

Ye gods... is it possible that this version of My Little Pony actually has... a PLOT?!?