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Green Latern Corps
Speed Force users
Kryptonians
Gamma powered beings (a la Hulk)
Martians (be they Jonn Jonzz, or white)
Angels
and these are just off the top of my head. I'm sure you can add your own.
The point is, are all Gamma powered characters the same? How about all speed force users? Kryptonians? No they are not. Because a character is not wholly defined by his or her powers. Hell, I'd say not even mostly. The Hulk is AMAZINGLY different from Doc Samson. Parallax and Kyle Raynard are nothing alike. Zoom does things The Flash would never even consider, and vice versa. Making a character that is part of a defined group is TOTALLY part of comics. I am glad we are getting this as an option. Personally, I'm not sure why so many people are surprised. Statesman said a long time ago that the EATs are like Kryptonians. What did you think he meant by that anyway?
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Anyone else read the Justice League A? story line from 2 or so years ago? Some badass dude got a mentalist to remove all memory of the Justice League of America. He then finally cracked through the badasss defences and tried to make everyone remember again but only manage to make them remember Justice League A. Produced all sorts of neat Justice Leagues, some more closely linked then others.
Justice League Arkam
Justice League Alien
Justice League Amazon (one of the more closely connected ones)
Justice League Atlantean (again closely connected characters)
I think that might have been it but it was a really cool idea imo.
What about the bat team. I mean they bleed through each others books, you don't get much more closely knit then that and when you get down to it they are all pretty similar in what their "powers" are and what their mo is but would you say they are all carbon copies? Tim Drake is nothing like Dick Grason (One being the 3rd and 5th/current Robin and the other being the 2nd Robin).