Omega Man

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

Batwoman went at Bane after the giant mountain of a man broke Nuke like a twig. Guardian was holding his own. And Batman and Slade had separated on their way up. With Slade taking Batgirl and his daughter away from the fight, Batman jumped into the fray rocking one of the musclebound goons. He noticed something off about the fighting style Bane was using. Batman watched as Batwoman challenged the masked meathead, getting caught up in defending himself from one of the downed goons getting back up, looking back at probably his closest ally in the field useing flashbangs. When the tail of Kaze started whipping around, Bats knew to get out of the way. As he made it closer to Batwoman, who'd freed herself from Bane's grip, he mentioned...

"This isn't Bane. His fighting style is off, and sloppy, and Batwing's visual log from his suit had Bane looking a bit bigger than this guy. Wore a white top too." Batman explained.

The two bat themed heroes dodged a few attacks from the behemoth as he began to tire. The rest of the group finished off the goons. A couple of tag team maneuvers had 'Bane' on the floor gasping for air after a well placed strike to the throat. The handful of Venom patches on the floor he rolled into didn't do him any favors.

"Where is he? WHERE'S BANE?" Batman screamed taking the guy's mask off as his condition visually got worse.

"DAMNIT! I NEED THE ******* KNIFE! I KNOW YOU KNOW SOMETHING YOU PIECE OF..." Batman screamed as the guy's heart finally went out.

It got quiet save for the noise of a few goons getting dropped again. Batman dropped to his knees and grabbed at the forehead of his mask. He failed. The window to save the boys has passed. No knife no spell. Bane was messing with him. But why now? And why involve Slade and the League of Assassins?

Later, at the Bat-Cave...

Those who were in it for the money were paid and long gone. Batgirl was saved so it wasn't a total loss and Batman knew that they did some good. Barbara was staying with her father, however Slade and Rose Wilson stood in the 'Cave along with Batman, Batwoman, Alfred, and Lucius Fox who showed up to discuss his injured son.

"...docs say he's gonna be okay. I'm glad you were able to save her Bruce. Who's this guy?" Lucius asked looking over at Slade in his Skeleton Jack gear.

"Nobody you want to know..." Slade responded.

_{"What are you doing?"} Rose whispered?

"I'll talk with you later Lucius. I've got to figure out what to do with the boys..." Batman said as Alfred showed Mr. Fox out of the cave.

Batman looked at Deathstroke, still in his Skeleton Jack attire and holding his daughter's hand.

"You're about as good at being Slade as the creep at the gym was at being Bane. Your fighting style wasn't as polished, you're under armed to be Slade Wilson, but I can't peg you. Unless..." Batman said getting wide eyed. Batwoman had no idea what was going on, she just had Batman's back.

"My name's Jericho. I'm Slade's son. I have the ability to jump into people's bodies through eye contact." Slade explained, "I jumped into my dad after my body was destroyed in an explosion caused by one of the rival mercenaries who hated him. I was living with him at the time and made it out alive in the body of a cat before finally bumping into him days later... if you can help us Batman... I can help you. I'm no mystic, but I can keep one of the Robins alive until their injuries heal. Healing is another power I've been developing. The cat got ran over like three times..."

Batman looked at Batwoman and then back at Jericho.

"What do you need from me?" Batman asked.

Hours later,
Coast City California...

Slade was back in his Deathstroke gear and didn't remember anything past the point where he saw that ugly brown cat. He was half intoxicated, had blood on his boots and sword, and was near the body of some guy he killed on a rooftop in Coast City on the other end of the United States.

"What the **** just happened? Where am I?" he asked himself out loud.

Back at the Cave...

"You sure this is the one you wanted?" asked a young man from behind some shadows.

"Yes. Now while you're in his body you're going to have to use another ID. Dye his hair, do whatever...." Batman instructed with his mask off now.

"Since I can't 'really' be Nightwing, can I keep being Skeleton Jack? It's gonna be nice having two eyes again!" asked Jericho stepping out in some street clothes in the body of Richard Grayson holding another type of Skeleton Jack mask.

To be continued in....

Gotham Knights: City on Fire

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Justice League Unlimited

I don't give a shit to be the Shat. You're practically a Vulcan anyway...

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I'm a Cinnamon Toast Crunch kinda guy. Once in awhile I'll go Trix or Lucky Charms. Cookie Crisps are good too but it feels so wrong as a cereal.

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On a happier note, I made my Avi for this RP.

I really think it's going to help bring people in.

@Lord Wraith

B-B-but... you have to MAKE it your avatar. Otherwise what's the point? LOL

I mentioned the JL flick, so if anybody thinks it's off topic go ahead and complain to me and see how far it gets you. I'd much rather discuss that than the unqualified douche running this country. And in no way do I mean keep talking about it. If I want to read people's opinions on politics I'd watch the news or read a paper. This ain't the place for it.

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For the last 50 years, since Marvel acquired rights to the name Captain Marvel, DC couldn't use the name on the covers of their comics or in titles of movies and animation. He could still be called Capt. Marvel in the books and cartoons, they just couldn't promote it on covers or anything with the name.

Power of Shazam was an excellent series in the 90's. I'd rather go back to a title name like that than actually saying his name is Shazam now. I *think* he hasn't shown up post-Rebirth because they're gonna fix him before the movie comes out. I'd say piss all over Marvel, and since they made Black Marvel and Blue Marvel... let Billy Batson take the alias Red Marvel.

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Nope, not at all. But then DC only does things with him in comics instead of other media besides a few episodes in JLU or that blue beetle show. (I remember something with that at some point, dunno if that was also JLU) so I don't know too much about him. But if hes not big enough to be seen in other media, he probably isn't that important anyway overall. All I know is he used to be Captain Marvel because DC hated Marvel or something, I dunno.

Also probably doesn't help they keep changing him over, and over, and over again.

@Archmage MC

He was Capt. Marvel in the 40's, Marvel didn't acquire rights to use the name until the 70's.

Shazam! was also a television series back in the late 70's early 80's much in the same vein as Linda Carter's WW. How's that for expanded media.

EDIT: In the 1940's he actually outsold Superman in comics, and was selling millions of copies back in the day when that was a huge number [shit it's a huge number today, top comics only selling around 200k a month]. This is why DC sued Fawcett Comics claiming CM was a copy of Superman [black hair, cape, flight, super strength] and eventually bought them outright some time later.

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Shazam is gonna be incredible because Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson is playing Black Adam. Loki made Thor sell in the movies, it's gonna be more of that. Shazam originally wasn't gonna be part of the film universe but the execs changed their minds because the Rock wanted to deck Superman as Black Adam in a future crossover film.

To the point I think it's in his contract.

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wrong order.

SHAZAM!
SUICIDE SQUAD 2!
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK!
FLASHPOINT!
WONDER WOMAN 2!
GREEN LANTERN CORPS!
BATGIRL!
THE BATMAN

@Weird Tales

My list was quoted from the San Diego Comic Con in that order including JL followed by Aquaman, where was this one at? Batman is already well on its way to filming and you think its gonna come after GLC that has no writer, director, cast, etc. yet? It's not gonna take Reeves 3 1/2 years to make one Batman movie. Right now he's just waiting for the final script rewrites.

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Batman makes a better villain than Superman, and we're finally gonna see that in this Dark Multiverse in DC Metal.

Superman to me is like a fine wine. He's an acquired taste. And 90% of writers don't know what they're doing with him.

The problem with Batman v Superman is that the movie was too caught up in it's own story of Lex setting up the confrontation between the two heroes, in that it took an extended cut of the movie to make more sense of it. However a three hour movie with that much exposition is horrible. Two minutes of Superman followed by twenty minutes of exposition. Two minutes of Batman followed by thirty minutes of exposition. Superman only had 43 lines of dialogue the entire film, and he was title star!

Directors can't find one story to try and adapt so they 'make their own' using bits from several stories. B v S took bits from Death of Superman, Dark Knight Returns, the Trinity monthly, etc. Now JL is taking bit from the New52 JL, World Without Superman, amd the Wally West era of the Flash [cause Barry had no personality in the Silver Age]. You know why the new Batman director Matt Reeves threw out the Afleck/Geoff Johns script for Batman? Because they did the same thing with their story and he knew it wouldn't translate to film.

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@Member 00492

And I agree how Cyborg makes no sense, DC/WB wanted him in the JL for all the wrong reasons, and making him part Motherbox and a teleporter doesn't make him a big gun. WB released an updated film schedule.... Cyborg is no longer getting a flick now. Probably has to do with the fact his comic can't even hold down 14k readers a month. I wouldn't waste millions on a character that obviously worked better in a different light and involved with younger heroes. I wonder if he'll actually say "booyah" in the JL movie.

Film schedule post SDCC:

Justice League
Aquaman
Shazam
Suicide Squad 2
The Batman
Justice League Dark
Batgirl
Green Lantern Corps
The Flash: Flashpoint
Wonder Woman 2

Gotham City Sirens, Black Adam, Cyborg, JL 2, and Nightwing must be part of their phase 2 plans now.

EDIT: I mainly said Batman/Superman needed to happen before the JL because they couldn't set it up in a solo character's movie. Had the story not involved Superman dying and Batman crossing the line and branding people I think it would've fared much better with a more classic hero team-up movie. Superman could've died at the beginning of JL by Doomsday and they could've shown more heroes in the DC movieverse when World Without Superman began in that flick.

Suicide Squad was their third movie because WB execs have wanted a villain style dirty dozen out of a cast of DC supervillains for well over a decade. To the point they set up the Suicide Squad to spin out of the failed GL movie [hence the appearance by Waller]. Had we got the darker version of that film with 30 minutes more Joker and less special effects at the end, I think we as comic fans would've enjoyed it much more.

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Justice League Unlimited

Batman makes a better villain than Superman, and we're finally gonna see that in this Dark Multiverse in DC Metal.

Superman to me is like a fine wine. He's an acquired taste. And 90% of writers don't know what they're doing with him.

The problem with Batman v Superman is that the movie was too caught up in it's own story of Lex setting up the confrontation between the two heroes, in that it took an extended cut of the movie to make more sense of it. However a three hour movie with that much exposition is horrible. Two minutes of Superman followed by twenty minutes of exposition. Two minutes of Batman followed by thirty minutes of exposition. Superman only had 43 lines of dialogue the entire film, and he was title star!

Directors can't find one story to try and adapt so they 'make their own' using bits from several stories. B v S took bits from Death of Superman, Dark Knight Returns, the Trinity monthly, etc. Now JL is taking bit from the New52 JL, World Without Superman, amd the Wally West era of the Flash [cause Barry had no personality in the Silver Age]. You know why the new Batman director Matt Reeves threw out the Afleck/Geoff Johns script for Batman? Because they did the same thing with their story and he knew it wouldn't translate to film.

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