[ZeoRangerV]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

Are you questioning who she is or why she's on my Top Ten?

I'm questioning why she's in your top 10 DC characters.

[Sentai]

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

I'm questioning why she's in your top 10 DC characters.

Because I made a mistake, it happens. I meant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Marvel

[Kamen Rider Meteor]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

*Cracks Knuckles*

Sentai's Top Ten DC Characters!
(In no Particular Order)

Raven
Dr. Fate
Nightwing
Mr. Freeze
Ra's Al Ghul
Bane
Batwoman
Wonder Woman
Ms. Marvel
Steel

Psst....Mary Marvel

Edit * you caught it , nevermind

[ZeoRangerV]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sentai

Because I made a mistake, it happens. I meant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Marvel

Ohh, that makes sense

[WhiteRanger]

ok my Top 10

SuperMan: cause superman 3 was the first thing i saw of superman and well i liked the film as a kid and STAS and just recently New 52 and MOS Smallville i just love superman

Lobo

John Stewart Green Lantern: reson first GL i knew due JLAS

The Flash

Superboy

Super Girl

Dark Side

Dooms Day

Batman

Damien wayne Robin

[Dr Kain]

Let’s take a trip to the 90’s where oddities were happening in the DC universe. Superman was dying, then resurrecting and four random people (three with dumb origins) arrive claiming to be Superman. Bruce has his back broken and is out of action so Azrael can for some reason replace him instead of Dick. Then we have Hal Jordan with white sideburns in his hair killing off Green Lanterns. WHAT?! That is dumb!! However, if it weren’t for that, we would not have my next favorite hero of the DC Universe:



I was there for the first issue of Kyle Rayner. I got it, I read it, I loved it. I read it several more times. And then you had Kyle and his worst enemy ever, the refrigerator!! Such a tragedy, but it was one that really advanced his character. I was a big Kyle fan. Yes, I did not know too much about Hal Jordan, as I never really got into the Green Lantern stuff until Kyle was the lead character, but I liked what I read. In fact, to this day, I am still buying individual issues of Kyle’s run because I either lost a bunch of them or because they don’t seem to be collecting them in paperbacks, and at this point, they probably never will. They are too busy collecting the “Adventures of Character Assassinations” with the New 52 than they are with the stuff that made Kyle a hero.

I know many people hated him, but that was the same reason people hated Rodimus Prime, he was replacing their favorite lead character. The best thing about Kyle was his inexperience. He was not afraid to be afraid. He did what he could to the best of his abilities. It also helped that he was an artist, so he had far more imaginable than Hal did when it came to making constructs out of his ring. Of course, it did not help that he seems to get into bad relationships whether it be with Donna Troy or Jade (who died).

Next to the refrigerator, Kyle’s villains pretty much just carried over from other series. He had Mongul to contend with, obviously he had Major Force, but I cannot really think of anyone brand new for him to battle off hand.

Unfortunately, after DC brought Hal Jordan back in the mid-2000s, it seemed like they were not sure what to do with Kyle. They tried to make him into a new hero named Ion, which was just stupid and failed. The aspect of him being possessed by Parallax in the Sinestro Corp War was kind of interesting, but this also took away from the concept that he is unaffected by yellow because he can feel fear, and instead, made it that the rings were just no longer affected by yellow at that time. It kind of ruined his character a little.

And now, I really do not know anymore, as I stopped reading “New Guardians” after about 5 issues because I really hated where they were going with him. Nevertheless, Kyle Rayner remains to be my favorite lantern character over Hal, even though Hal is high up there because of his adventures with Green Arrow in the 70s and for most of the stuff from Rebirth until Brightest Day. I have nothing against Hal, he is a great character, but Kyle is vastly superior to him in every aspect be it personality wise or creativity.

[Dr Kain]

Crap, I missed one, so I'll add both yesterday's and today's in here:


Who is next? That is




Next is a character with a mixed history of both good and bad. Sometimes he can work being a hero, other times, not so much. After all, I’m not so sure you really could call him a hero, because he is the spirit of vengeance when portrayed properly:



My introduction to Spectre came from the “Infinite Crisis” mini-series back in 2006, but I really did not enjoy the character until I read both “Crisis on Multiple Earths” and “Crisis on Infinite Earths.” In those issues, the Spectre is more of a super hero, but it was his fight against the Anti-Matter Man that made him stand out to me. The guy grew humongous and was fighting the Anti-Matter Man in space, which was pretty awesome. And then again when the threat of the Anti-Monitor appeared.

Nevertheless, I really like the idea of the Spectre being the spirit of vengeance, which is why I was glad to get to see him portrayed as such in both “The Brave and the Bold” and in the animated Showcase short found on “Crisis on Two Earths.” I loved the entire style the Showcase short was as it harkens back to what I have read from the 70’s “Adventure Comics” portrayal of him. I have nothing against him being a hero type character who teams up with other heroes, but Spectre is at his best when he is the spirit of vengeance. I do wish DC would collect his earliest stories in a paperback since the big Showcase collection only collects those from the mid-60s through the early 80s. It is also interesting to see Jim when he is written as more of a tortured soul because he can never truly rest in peace thanks to him having to be the Spectre. The issues whenever Gwendolyn Sterling constantly hounds him into loving her back, wanting marry him, and when he does come back to life only to be killed again pages later, really bring more into his character than others. Sure, you have characters like Deadman that are in search of redeeming their souls, but for Jim, he knows that no matter what he does, there is no end to having to avenge those who have been wrongly murdered.

Like Dr Fate, there have been multiple people who have donned the name Spectre, and my favorite is Jim Corrigan. I went back and read some of the stuff when Hal Jordan was the character and he just did not work for me at all. It just seemed like a weird move having a former Green Lantern be the spirit of vengeance, especially one of Hal’s caliber. The stories with Crispus Allen were not bad, but they weren’t exactly stellar either. Still, he was essentially my first introduction to the character, so I do have to give him credit there.

Another similarity to Fate is that the Spectre also does not have any true enemies to call his own. Most of his enemies only reside when he is part of the Justice Society or something like a zombie outbreak, but other than that, there is no one really outstanding to mention.

Overall, I love all of the mythologies surrounding the Spectre and his tormented soul. I love the entire concept of his character and the methods he uses when exacting his revenge be it turning a man who created killer manikins into a manikin himself that was then tossed into a fire or turning an evil fortune teller into glass and shattering him. There is no out running this ghostly vendetta when he comes after you.

[Kamen Rider Meteor]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Let’s take a trip to the 90’s where oddities were happening in the DC universe. Superman was dying, then resurrecting and four random people (three with dumb origins) arrive claiming to be Superman. Bruce has his back broken and is out of action so Azrael can for some reason replace him instead of Dick. Then we have Hal Jordan with white sideburns in his hair killing off Green Lanterns. WHAT?! That is dumb!! However, if it weren’t for that, we would not have my next favorite hero of the DC Universe:



I was there for the first issue of Kyle Rayner. I got it, I read it, I loved it. I read it several more times. And then you had Kyle and his worst enemy ever, the refrigerator!! Such a tragedy, but it was one that really advanced his character. I was a big Kyle fan. Yes, I did not know too much about Hal Jordan, as I never really got into the Green Lantern stuff until Kyle was the lead character, but I liked what I read. In fact, to this day, I am still buying individual issues of Kyle’s run because I either lost a bunch of them or because they don’t seem to be collecting them in paperbacks, and at this point, they probably never will. They are too busy collecting the “Adventures of Character Assassinations” with the New 52 than they are with the stuff that made Kyle a hero.

I know many people hated him, but that was the same reason people hated Rodimus Prime, he was replacing their favorite lead character. The best thing about Kyle was his inexperience. He was not afraid to be afraid. He did what he could to the best of his abilities. It also helped that he was an artist, so he had far more imaginable than Hal did when it came to making constructs out of his ring. Of course, it did not help that he seems to get into bad relationships whether it be with Donna Troy or Jade (who died).

Next to the refrigerator, Kyle’s villains pretty much just carried over from other series. He had Mongul to contend with, obviously he had Major Force, but I cannot really think of anyone brand new for him to battle off hand.

Unfortunately, after DC brought Hal Jordan back in the mid-2000s, it seemed like they were not sure what to do with Kyle. They tried to make him into a new hero named Ion, which was just stupid and failed. The aspect of him being possessed by Parallax in the Sinestro Corp War was kind of interesting, but this also took away from the concept that he is unaffected by yellow because he can feel fear, and instead, made it that the rings were just no longer affected by yellow at that time. It kind of ruined his character a little.

And now, I really do not know anymore, as I stopped reading “New Guardians” after about 5 issues because I really hated where they were going with him. Nevertheless, Kyle Rayner remains to be my favorite lantern character over Hal, even though Hal is high up there because of his adventures with Green Arrow in the 70s and for most of the stuff from Rebirth until Brightest Day. I have nothing against Hal, he is a great character, but Kyle is vastly superior to him in every aspect be it personality wise or creativity.

You just had to bring up the fridge , didn't you?

Kyle was the Green Lantern that i grew up with and i knew Hal as a villain for the majority of my life , so rebirth was a hard pill to swallow. Then the movie happened and bombed and it made me hate Hal Jordan more.

[ZeoRangerV]

Aw man, how could I forget the Question? Another one of my favourites, although admittedly my only real exposure to him is the JLU cartoon and the Huntress reboot miniseries.

I need to read some more, although I think he's one of the characters to come of worst in the New 52 universe.

[Sentai]

How can you not like the Question when he was voiced by the excellent Jeffery Combs? You can't not like him is the answer to that riddle.

Though in DC Universe Online they made him a woman.. Was the Question ever a woman?