#dc doom patrol ff

[ladyorlandodream]

Awwwww

This is my baby

And, yes, I know I have to finish it!! It has been paused...but the plot is still inside my brain

by LadyOrlando

Someone from Cliff’s past comes back to his life breaking the balance inside the Doom Mansion…and Rita might like it.

Words: 1922, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Doom Patrol (TV)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, Gen

Characters: Rita Farr, Cliff Steele, Robotman, Larry Trainor, Negative Man - Character, Crazy Jane (DCU)

Relationships: rita farr/original female character, Cliff Steele/Original Female Character

Additional Tags: Random Tags, a new meta human in the doom mansion, rita finds a new interest, cliff’s family

[thevindicativevordan]

i recently came across a discussion on twitter on teams and how they differ between the Big 2. its very apparent that teams that aren’t the JL tend to suffer at DC while Marvel has multiple teams that are successful like Avengers, X-Men, FF, GotG, etc. One theory that i saw on twitter suggested that a reason for this came down to the decision to have Superman on the League and that being an issue. By placing in a character as versatile and powerful as him, who already faces similar types of mythic sci-fi threats in his own stories, there’s already a feeling of redundancy for the team that puts an even heavier strain on DC teams to justify their existence in a world with a Superman. Now DC has teams that fill their own niches (Doom Patrol, JLD) and for teams that don’t have Supes as a member, he can’t be everywhere at once so it makes sense to have them around (JLI.) And over at Marvel, they don’t have a Superman figure as big as the real deal so they’re able to distribute elements of him into all their leader characters like Iron Man, Cap, Reed, even Spidey. But for a team with THE Superman on it, who can already do everything those Marvel guys put together can and more, do you think there IS an issue with having him as he is normally, on a team period? (besides the iconic imagery of it all)

Dumb argument. Seems to fall into the typical casual fallacy of acting like modern Superman is Silver Age Superman who was all-powerful and all-knowing. For those who actually read JL books, how often is Superman the one plotting strategy or using his brains to whip up gadgets in the lab? Answer is "never" more or less. Superman's role in JL stories is to punch hard, give the occasional pep talk, and get beat up/mind controlled in order to show how strong the bad guy is. Superman gets nerfed for team books while Batman gets a buff, that's how it always works. Same thing happens to Thor and Hulk when they are in the Avengers book as opposed to their solos. In his solo, Thor is a wise and just leader who has centuries of experience fighting and commanding. In the Avengers book? He's usually the dumb muscle who follows Cap's orders. Why does Cap lead when Thor has more experience in leadership and combat? Because otherwise Cap would be useless because Thor does everything he does but better.

Furthermore those teams you list have their own niches/primary focuses. Avengers deal with global threats to the planet. X-Men police and protect mutants. F4 are a family of explorers and scientists. Guardians are a scrappy found family of outlaws. The Maavel teams that don't have niches have disappeared. Where's the New Warriors? The Young Avengers? The Champions? All the Marvel teams that were generic superhero teams that fight crime have disappeared. DC simply failed to push their niche teams the way that Marvel did. We should have had constant Doom Patrol, Shadowpact, and other team books.

[ladyorlandodream]

I edited Chapter 11 of I will teach you all I know

so I had to post it again

FF about Doom Patrol

[thegreenfairy13]

What are some of your fav ships/fandoms new followers may not be aware of 👀

I’ admittedly only really invested in the Gotham fandom but here and there I come across another TV-series I truly enjoy without going overboard. So here is the incomplete list of all the stuff I decided to only very occasionally annoy you with: 

The Boys, a series that is basically a superhero au. Every hero has been turned into a darker, flawed version of themselves (and Superman aka Homelander really stands out, he’s a true creep). And I totally ship Billy and Hughie (the two main characters who try fighting against the ‘heroes’) with each other. 

Doom Patrol. A series about the C-league of heroes. Do I need to say more than Brendan Fraser?? I don’t really ship anyone on the team but that can possibly change.

American Horror Story: the seasons have admittedly varying quality but chances are high I’ll watch them anyway. 

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. A series with great love for set-design and costumes. In regards to shipping, I hope they don’t go down the ‘I’m gonna choose my high-school sweetheart and give up on my powers’ road. I seriously want to see the main independent. 

Grey’s Anatomy: this one is a long-running guilty-pleasure. I watched all the seasons, I will continue doing so no matter how ludicrous the plotlines will still get. And seriously...those Doctor’s are cursed give how often disaster strikes. Ships?? Oh man, can anyone remember who was already a thing? When it comes to this, they are all free to be with everyone. 

Criminal Minds: another guilty pleasure. Spencer can have all the pretty boys except for Derek. He belongs to Penelope.  

Other DC ships: I’ll totally read ff set in the DC universe in general. I’m not picky when it comes to that though. I have a thing for Harley/Joker BECAUSE they have an unhealthy, violent, abusive relationship but can’t let go. Then I recently discovered Zsaszmask (thx to Birds of Prey) for myself. I like fics that play with Bruce’s darker character traits and basically turn him into a villain. 

Actually, I’m not really the biggest shipper out there. At times, I’ll set out and dig through Ao3 and search for a new fic to read and chances are high that, given I find something really good, I’ll ship that thing then. With the Gotham fandom dwindling, I should probably work harder to find something to equally obsess over^^

[kryptonbabe]

It's interesting to read a perspective such as this because my experience is different, while I'm a Kirby and Lee's Fantastic Four fan and I consider Claremont's X-Men one of the greatest works of fiction of the 20th century (fight me Harold Bloom), I can never fall completely in love with the Marvel universe. Like how the organization of that universe is so heavily dependent on government institutions, how their superhero team is intertwined with American politics, and honestly... how mutants are often so completely alone in their endeavor for equality, to live in peace and be accepted. I resent the Marvel universe for it in a way. The Cyclops terrorist phase was something I was completely in favor of, I was always a Magneto kind of person... (What can I do? I love chaos and violent uprisings for human rights). Of Marvel I enjoy Dr. Strange, FF, I can read Hulk and Black Panther, their horror comics are cool, space Marvel is also cool, everything X-Men needless to say, but I hate Marvel politics, I can't get interested in The Avengers and their corporate vibes, I would destroy SHIELD with my bare hands and I despise the American government in that universe (and irl tbh).

While at DC, government controlled intuitions are usually the antagonists (ARGUS, Amanda Waller), the corrupted elite is the villain (The court of owls), and other agencies are shady at best, places that seethe with control obsessed people (Checkmate, the DEO), even their animal secret teams have a sinister underbelly, like the Bureau of Amplified Animals was a secret organization of highly intelligent animals that only made Detective Chimp overworked, depressed and addicted to alcohol. Is DC politics perfect? Of course not, I don't think a massively marketed industrial product of American culture will ever satisfy me in that regard. But the DC universe is less dependent on government superstructure to properly work, it's less bureaucratic and yes, perceived as more fantastic because of it (which by no means is saying that Marvel is "realistic" in any way, it's just a different type of fantasy, realism in fiction is an interesting subject in itself, but I digress). The politics of Batman and Green Lantern are honestly bad, borderline fascistic if I may be honest, and use the word for its meaning, but even those stories occasionally find a way of exploring how rotten their systems are, how many times weren't the Guardians of Oa the villains of GL stories? Or how many times wasn't the corruption in Gotham the main antagonist of the heroes and citizens of that city?

About the insane continuity of DC... I kind of love that freaking mess, it's stupidly convoluted yes (but hey, isn't X-Men at least as bizarrely complicated as the DC multiple crisis? the Summers family tree alone would take a two hour lecture to be properly explained). However there are lots of entry points and guides and storylines, limited series, independent, one-shot, else world stories. Every time I read Marvel I gotta do my research as well, both publishers have such a rich and interesting history, it's hard to get into it without a background, unless it's 60s stuff. DC has a longer history, more characters and a few publishers they absorbed like a glob monster, but much like real life mythology I find it fascinating to be able to navigate that history.

This is just a deep dive into some things very specific to my taste however, I'm not in any way preaching a set of rules of what is acceptable and correct and might as well change my mind concerning some points as I'm constantly trying to learn more about these fictional universes.

Also, just to finish this long rant, I love DC's unhinged 60s energy, the playfulness, weirdness and chaotic antics, there's nothing like a good old Lois Lane story about how she turned into a horse and dated Comet, Supergirl's telepathic horse, nothing like Jimmy Olsen turned into a baby by a giant robot, the insanely unhinged Batman villains, early Doom Patrol... I'm just a clown at heart really.

I find Marvel easier to read than DC. It's not that DC has worse characters (on the balance, DC and Marvel both have some great characters). But Marvel is just easier to comprehend for me. DC had their many earths, which always sounded confusing. But trying to fix it (as they did in the 80s) only caused more confusion. Whereas marvel seems way easier to understand. Nearly everything is on the same earth from the beginning. There's no dealing with fifty universes at Marvel.

Also, Stan Lee gave the company a fun voice. His footnotes, catchphrases, in-jokes, nicknames, etc all help give marvel a sense of identity. Most 60s DC comics don't have the voice of Stan Lee. There's less of a bombastic nature to the storytelling (or that's how it feels). There are exceptions to all this, I'm sure. But this is just how it all just seems to me.

[bipeterparker]

i need to follow people so pls like/rb this if u post any of the following:

- comics spider-man / tasm / mcu spider-man is on thin ice but I might consider

- into the spiderverse / literally any miles morales content i’m desperate

- lgbt stuff!!!

- mcu cast / dc cast

- dc shows - titans, doom patrol, etc

- marvel & dc comics! ff, champions, batfam stuff, honestly anything cause i need to get into it more

- honestly even if u just have funny posts that’s fine too i’m bored

pls only if u have a byf and/or about

[unknownunseenunheard]

Also, Selina was a MEMBER of Birds of Prey. Not just an ally, like Poison Ivy. So it really upsets me that they put Harley (who has practically zero relations with BoP) instead of Selina and Babs (who's their leader ffs)

I’m gonna be honest, the only thing I can really suggest for something like that is to a) not support the film yourself and b) try to convince others not to support the film as well.

Industry like this thrives off how many people support it. So, if not enough people like it, DC will take a step back and go ‘Oh. We should try something else instead.’

Although, fyi, I’m not sure how many braincells they have at DC nowadays, and I think they all went to Jeremy Carver and Doom Patrol.

[davidmann95]

This week’s comics?

SPOILERS, fairly casually

The Immortal Hulk #23: It’s Immortal Hulk. If you’re not getting it you’re doing comics wrong.

The Amazing Spider-Man: Going Big #1: Hadn’t actually planned on picking this up but found myself to my own surprise pulled in by the cover. Main story by Conway and Bagley was predictably quality, the middle by Macchio and Nauck wasn’t, and Larsen’s wrapup was the most fun but that villain was...a choice if she had existed before, even moreso if she hadn’t. Passable for die-hards, but I’m baffled why this exists when we’ll also be getting Full Circle; I guess this is for major past talent while that’s more the current hotness?

Fantastic Four #14: Best issue of this volume yet, especially with Paco Medina in tow, and a jumping on point I’d recommend even to those who’d already understandably written this run off. Might not come off as a total embarrassment next to the ‘ancillary’ FF stuff coming later this year, which actually isn’t a small compliment given the talent stacked on Grand Design, 2099, and Negative Zone.

House of X #4: At long last the X-Men doing X-Men stuff, if not quite how anyone would have expected it. Lot hanging on the implications in the margins of Hickman’s grand plan at this point in terms of parsing what happens here, and even that leaves more questions than answers (clearly clones are involved, but what does that mean for the current and future situation?). Also it rules.

The Wicked + The Divine #45: I look forward to now being able to reread this series to learn whether or not I particularly like it. I’m sure I will, it’s Gillen and McKelvie and I usually enjoyed individual issues well enough even if I could never remember what the hell was going on, but I often need to reread Gillen’s stuff before it properly clicks with me.

DIE #7: This however grabbed me right off the bat and has yet to let go, even though I’m still not positive I know what’s going on.

No One Left To Fight #3: The ‘romance’ subplot I wasn’t sure about has wrapped up about as well as could be hoped for even if it feels kinda like a sour note to me, and otherwise this remains a load of fun and I’d like to see it pick up more attention.

Doomsday Clock #11: Hahahaha they actually did it, Superman’s on panel with a dick in DC’s biggest comic. Beautiful. GOSH there should not be a comic where Superman’s defending an all-but-explicitly Trump-occupied White House from a revolutionary brown man, though. And the heck is up with ‘Nibiru’? Is that a throwaway thing, or a setup for something coming up in the regular books? Anyway, this book remains ridiculous, shockingly entertaining and ‘significant’-feeling, gorgeous, and fundamentally broken, having squandered the legitimate potential of its concept at virtually every turn but still fascinating in spite of itself, maintaining a veneer of high-minded ‘mature readers’ structure and ambition laudably far beyond anything Johns has ever approached in the past overlaying a truly dumb as hell event comic core. My main question at this point is whether the ending will be ideologically rancid, ideologically null, or the former attempting to be the latter, and how interesting it’ll be along the way. And as I noted on Twitter, it remains hilarious that Good Doomsday Clock was conceived of almost certainly in part in response to this, created, announced, and released in full entirely within the lifespan of Actual Doomsday Clock.

DCeased: A Good Day To Die #1: Fun comic, absolutely get it if you’re getting the main mini, but how on Earth did they net Darick Robertson for this? I’m thrilled to see him, but the hell? Has the guy even done anything with Constantine or zombies before?

Lois Lane #3: Rucka can spend all the time he likes picking up Gotham Central/52 threads as far as I’m concerned, and the Lois (and Clark) stuff in here is as on-point as the first two issues.

Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium #1: A lot of fun, jarring as it is to pivot from quoted Kirby dialogue to Bendisspeak on a dime, but this and #2 clearly should have just been a big one-shot.

The Green Lantern #11: Still a ton of fun. Is the ‘Golden Lantern’ gonna tie in at all with Legion? Also I’m going nuts here not being able to recall who the Lantern with the prism chest and Yondu-fin is. Is she new?

Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds #3: Um...wow. Wow. What a hell of a high concept when presented as it is here, and as good an execution as could possibly be hoped.

Superman: Up In The Sky #3: I talked about the first story that may well hold this title back from otherwise deserved perennial status when it came out in the Walmart issues - maybe the most hideous misfire of King’s career - but the second here’s an all-timer.

Justice League #31: Fuck the geezers, the REAL stars of the show are officially onboard after what felt like 83,000 years of waiting! Shame about how Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Kamandi are definitely doomed now, I’ve always liked ‘em, but I’ll call it a fair trade-off for the return of Justice Legion Alpha. I’ll admit though, much as I’ve traditionally been fairly ambivalent on them it really was charming to see the JSA again, especially now that it’s clear that their new setup won’t interfere with the position of Superman and the Justice League.

Batman vs. Ra’s Al Ghul #1: From page one this is every bit as ratfuck baying-at-the-moon out of its goddamn mind as I could have hoped of any self-respecting sequel to Batman: Odyssey, and it might be the book I’m gonna be most excited for every month now. God bless Neal Adams for doing whatever the hell it is that man does, and sharing it with us undeserving wretches.

[found-family-tournament]

Part 18:

The Strilondes (Homestuck) vs The Motley Folk (Inkheart Trilogy)

Doom Patrol (Doom Patrol) vs The Irregulars (The Irregulars)

The Night's Watch Crew (A Song of Ice & Fire/Game of Thrones) vs The Pod Squad (Roswell (1999))

The Graveyard (The Graveyard Book) vs Ingo, Emmet, Elesa, Drayden & Iris (Pokemon Black/White)

Mekatrio & Ayano (Kagerou Project) vs Podium Family (Yuri!! On Ice)

Part 19:

The Court of Dreams (A Court of Mist and Fury (and following books)) vs The Outers Family (Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon)

Falsettos Family (Falsettos/The Marvin Trilogy) vs The Sinkers (Inanimate Insanity)

The Three Bears Crime Family (Puss in Boots) vs The Phantom Thieves (Persona 5)

Blast (Nana) vs Perthro Fam/Family of Empty Cups/MCGA Gang (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard)

Cheer Factory (Inanimate Insanity) vs Naruto Uzumaki & Iruka Umino (Naruto)

Part 20:

The XYZ Trio (Yugioh Arc V) vs The Squeak Squad (Kirby)

The Plantar Family (Amphibia) vs The Hooky Cast (Hooky)

Mirai/Cure Miracle, Riko/Cure Magical, Haa-chan/Kotoha/Cure Felice & Mofurun (Mahoutsukai Precure) vs Jim Kirk, Spock, Bones, Nyota Uhura, Scotty, Checkov & Sulu (Star Trek - aos)

Ken Shiraishi, An Shiraishi, Kohane Azusawa & Akito Shinonome (Project SEKAI) vs Buddy Daddies fam (Buddy Daddies)

Reds and Blues (Red vs Blue) vs Wright Anything Agency (& Company) (Ace Attorney)

Part 21:

The Roommates From Season 1 (Hello, My Twenties!/Age of Youth) vs Class 3-E (Assassination Classroom)

The Employees at Empire Records (Empire Records (1995)) vs The Guardians of the Galaxy (Guardians of the Galaxy)

The Atelier/Qifrey's Atelier (Witch Hat Atelier) vs The Treasure Hunters (Mirrorworld Series (Cornelia Funke))

Fantastical Ideas (Project SEKAI) vs Team Urameshi (Yu Yu Hakusho)

The Newsies (Newsies) vs Lawful Family (The Devil Judge)

Part 22:

The Hayakawa Family (Chainsaw Man) vs InuYasha, Kagome, Shippo, Miroku, Sango & Kirara (InuYasha)

221B Fam (The Great Ace Attorney) vs Monster Fam (Monstress)

Fujiwara Family (Natsume's Book of Friends) vs Justice League's Founders (DC)

The August 8th Cluster (Sense8) vs Jin, Malos, Mikhail, Akhos, Patroka (& Nia) (Xenoblade Chronicles 2)

The Ghost Crew (Star Wars Rebels) vs The Dustcatchers (His Dark Materials)

Part 23:

Sonic the Hedgehog & Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs The EO Trio (Vicious by V.E Schwab)

Rapunzel, Eugene, Cassandra, Lance, Varian, Kiera, Catalina, Maximus, Pascal, Ruddiger & Owl (Tangled: the Series) vs The Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency)

W.I.T.C.H (W.I.T.C.H) vs The Half Life ff (Half Life)

The Companions (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim) vs Iruma's Adopted Family (Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun!)

The Sinners/Limbus Company (Limbus Company) vs Firehouse 126 (911 Lone Star)

Best Found Family Tournament

Rules:

No real people.

Any sort of found/chosen family counts (yeah, even if some of them are biologically related) (yeah, even if it's only 2 people, even if it's over 20 people). If you think it's found family submit it.

Propaganda is not only accepted, but encouraged. (Put it in the submission, put it in the askbox, put it everywhere)

You can submit as many families as you want, but don't submit the same one multiple times. (You are however not prohibited from submitting a family, that you know someone else has already submitted.)

Don't submit in the askbox!

Because apparently it needs to be said. Be respectful. Be nice. You will get blocked if you break this rule.

Procedure:

Submissions will close soon.

Give me as much propaganda and images as possible. It gives your fams a higher chance of winning.

Every piece of propaganda and every picture or gif I get. In the submissions and in my asks will be added to the poll post every round.

Please inform me if any of the images or information are wrong. Or if you have a better image that I could use.

If there are any questions or requests of any sort. Askbox.

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Links under the cut

Round 1:

Part 1:

The Runaways (Marvel's Runaways) vs The Knights of Camelot (BBC Merlin)

The Wayward Children (The Wayward Children / Every Heart a Doorway) vs Gekkagumi (A3!)

The Faraway Friends (OMORI) vs The Spring Troupe (A3!)

Bee Happy (Matilda) vs The Night at the Museum Gang (Night at the Museum)

Winter Troupe (A3!) vs Gwendolyn, The Will, Lying Cat and Sophie (Saga (Comic))

Part 2:

The SHIELD Team (Agents of SHIELD) vs Hershel Layton, Luke Triton & Flora Reinhold (Professor Layton Games)

The Band of Boobs (Not Another D&D Podcast) vs Saiki and his friends (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.)

The Third Mates/The Choo Choo Crew (Not Another D&D Podcast) vs The Crystal Gems (Steven Universe)

Team Dark (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs Kipo & Wolf (Kipo)

Dethklok (Metalocalypse) vs The Robinsons (Meet the Robinsons)

Part 3:

Interview with the Vampire Vampires (Interview with the Vampire) vs The Forgers (Spy x Family)

The Mechanisms (The Mechanisms) vs The Scooby Gang (Scooby Doo)

Izumi & Sig Curtis & Edward & Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs The Clump (Don't Hug Me I'm Scared)

The Hamato Clan/Mad Dogz (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (rottmnt)) vs Team Victor (Vicious)

The Black Bulls (Black Clover) vs The Leverage Crew (Leverage)

Part 4:

MASH team (M*A*S*H) vs The Behavioural Analysis Unit (Criminal Minds)

Spider Crew (So I'm A Spider So What?) vs The Joestar Group (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

RTDL Quarted (Kirby) vs The Avengers (MCU Fanfiction)

Brave Vesperia (Tales of Vesperia) vs The Animorphs (Animorphs)

The Dolls (The Sandman) vs Team Rocket (Pokémon)

Part 5:

The Love Trio (Welcome to Demon School Iruma-Kun) vs Maka, Soul, Tsubaki, Black Star, Death the Kid, Crona, Patty, Liz (Soul Eater)

The Gaang (Avatar the Last Airbender) vs Die Wilden Kerle (Die Wilden Kerle)

Alex & Jonas (Oxenfree) vs The Gluttony Crew (The Evillious Chronicles)

Watari & L Lawliet (Death Note) vs The Cat's Whiskers (Paradox Live)

The Rowdy 3 (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) vs Mae, Greg, Angus & Bea (Night in the Woods)

Part 6:

The Crew of the Serenity (Firefly & Serenity) vs The Crew of the Iris (The Strange Case of Starship Iris)

Lucifam (Lucifer) vs Team Bleck/Bleck Squad (Super Paper Mario)

The Ericson Kids (The Walking Dead Game) vs Accelerator, Last Order, Aiho Yomikawa, Kikyou Yoshikawa & Misaka Worst (A Certain Magical Index)

Squad 312 (the Aurora Cycle series) vs The Fatui Harbingers (Genshin Impact)

13 and the Gang (Doctor Who) vs Franchouchou (Zombie Land Saga)

Part 7:

Dadvid & Momgwen (Camp Camp) vs Bucci Gang/Team Bucciarati (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Akanyatsura (Paradox Live) vs 11s Fam (Doctor Who)

Team Red (Carmen Sandiego) vs The Ghosts (BBC Ghosts)

Firefam (9-1-1) vs Murder Family (Hannibal)

The Golden Deer (Fire Emblem) vs Mikazuki Villa (Magia Record)

Part 8:

NYPD Major Crimes (Prodigal Son) vs Diasomnia Fam (Twisted Wonderland)

Warden Ingo, Akari, Rei & Professor Laventon (Pokemon Legends Arceus) vs New Who Crew (Doctor Who)

Nahida & Scaramouche/Wanderer (Genshin Impact) vs The Circle Kids (Tamora Pierce's Emelan Universe (The Circle of Magic Quartet))

The Shazamily (Shazam!) vs The Clawthorne-Nocedas (The Owl House)

The Losers Club (It) vs The Mondstadt Crew (Genshin Impact)

Part 9:

The Entire Your Turn to Die Cast (Your Turn to Die) vs Funn Funerals & Eric (Wooden Overcoats)

Because You Made Me Smile (or Extended Tenma Household) (Project SEKAI) vs The Aurinko Crime Family (The Penumbra Podcast (Juno Steel))

Silco & Jinx (Arcane) vs The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (& Associates) (GLOW)

Dark Dragon and the Happy Hungry Bunch (Akatsuki no Yona/Yona of the Dawn) vs MSR (The X-Files)

Ash & Pikachu (Pokémon) vs The Thief Gang/House of Orphans (The Thief Lord)

Part 10:

Powder, Vi, Vander, Mylo & Claggor (Arcane) vs Space Runaways (Saga (Comic))

The Victors of District 12 (The Hunger Games) vs The Killjoys (Killjoys)

The St Cassians Chamber Choir (Ride The Cyclone) vs Six of Crows/The Crows (Six of Crows)

The Gangsey (The Raven Cycle) vs Paper Girls (Paper Girls)

The Bad Kids (Dimension 20 - Fantasy High) vs The Drawtectives (Drawtectives (Drawfee))

Part 11:

Team Natsu (Fairy Tail) vs Yutaka, Minoru & Tane (Our Dining Table)

The Scions of the Seventh Dawn (Final Fantasy XIV) vs Neal Caffrey, Peter & Elizabeth Burke & Mozzie (White Collar)

Scoobies (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs Sypha Belnades, Trevor Belmont & Alucard (Castlevania)

I.M.P. (Helluva Boss) vs The New Mutants (X-Men Comics)

The Bad Batch (The Bad Batch) vs Leorio, Kurapika, Gon & Killua (Hunter X Hunter)

Part 12:

Date-Sagan Family (AI: The Somnium Files) vs God Kids (Trials of Apollo)

Crew of the Per Aspera (Rolling with Difficulty) vs Reyna Ramirez & Nico Di Angelo (Riordanverse)

The Crew of the Revenge (Our Flag Means Death) vs The Crisis Management Team (Tomorrow)

Joel Miller & Ellie Williams (The Last of Us) vs Hotel OJ (Inanimate Insanity)

Wangxian + Junior Quartet (Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation/The Untamed) vs Phoenix (MacGyver)

Part 13:

Nightchord25 (Project SEKAI) vs The Wayfarer's Crew (The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet)

Jessica, Aaron & Erica Slaughter (Something Is Killing the Children) vs Color Gang (Animation vs Minecraft/Animator vs Animation)

Sk8 Fam (Sk8 the Infinity) vs The Pilot Program (Misfits and Magic (Dimension 20))

Killing School Trip Survivors (Danganronpa 2) vs Sea Salt Family (Kingdom Hearts)

The Ten Companions of the Dragonmark (How To Train Your Dragon (Books)) vs Cohen-Atwood Family (The OC)

Part 14:

Arya Stark, Gendry Waters, Hot Pie (& Lommy Greenhands & Jaqen H'Gar) (A Song of Ice & Fire/Game of Thrones) vs Old World Group (Everworld)

Lightning Thief Trio (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) vs California Bureau of Investigation (The Mentalist)

Adora, Glimmer & Bow (She-Ra) vs Disaster Trio/The Clone Wars Trio (Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008))

Kim Dokja's Company (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) vs 13 Flame Chasers (Honkai Impact 3rd)

Ren Amamiya, Futaba Sakura & Sojiro Sakura (Persona 5) vs Batfam (Batman Media (Wayne Family Adventures))

Part 15:

The Soul Squad (The Good Place) vs The Paladins of Voltron (Voltron: Legendary Defenders)

Inheritance Gang (Eragon/the Inheritance Cycle) vs Strawhat Pirates (One Piece)

10's Crew (Doctor Who) vs Clementine & Lee Everett (The Walking Dead Game)

Wendy, Soos, Stanford, Stanley, Dipper, Mabel & Waddles (Gravity Falls) vs The Local Group (Rain World)

Five Eccentrics/Five Oddballs (Ensemble Stars) vs The Luminary, Erik, Serena, Veronica, Sylvando, Jade, Rab & Hendrik (Dragon Quest XI)

Part 16:

The Meta Knights (Kirby) vs The Queens from the Musical Six (Six)

Shroud Bros (Twisted Wonderland) vs Natsume's Protection Squad (Natsume's Book of Friends)

The Long Island Vampires & Guillermo (What We Do In The Shadows) vs The Octotrio (Twisted Wonderland)

The Lupin Gang (Lupin III) vs The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings)

The Gang (It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia) vs Regina Mills, Emma Swan & Henry Mills (Once Upon a Time)

Part 17:

Torchwood Team (Torchwood) vs MANKAI Company (A3!)

Julie and the Phantoms (Julie and the Phantoms) vs Yeo Joon, Kim So-Bin & Nam Soo-Hyun (At a Distance Spring is Green)

Second Nonary Game Group (Zero Escape: 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors) vs Chosen Siblings (Pokespe/Pokemon Adventures)

The Seven Birds/IPRE/Starblaster Crew (The Adventure Zone: Balance) vs Boys from the Dwarf (Red Dwarf)

The Tiny Giant Duo (The BFG) vs The Greendale 7/The Study Group (Community)

[rabbittstewcomics]

Episode 365

November 2022 Solicitations

Comic Reviews:

DC

Batman: One Bad Day – Riddler by Tom King, Mitch Gerads

Webtoons:

Red Hood and the Outlaws

Marvel

A.X.E.: Death to the Mutants 1 by Kieron Gillen, Guiu Villanova, Dijjo Lima

Avengers 1,000,000 BC by Jason Aaron, Kev Walker, Dean White

Edge of Spider-Verse 2 by Dan Slott, Mallory Rosenthal, Ramzee, Chris Giarrusso, Ig Guara, Paco Medina, Ruairi Coleman, Walden Wong, Brian Reber, Rico Renzi

Ultraman: Mystery of UltraSeven 1 by Kyle Higgins, Mat Groom, David Lopez, Gurihiru, Davide Tinto, Espen Grundetjern, H.J. Diaz

Infinity Comics

Marvel’s Voices: America Chavez

Strange Tales She-Hulk

Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal

Image

20th Century Men 1 by Deniz Camp, S. Morian

Last Shadowhawk (30th Anniversary Special) by Brian Haberlin, Philip Tan, Daniel Henriques, Todd McFarlane

Razorblades: Small Cuts Special by James Tynion IV, Fernando Blanco, Andy Belanger, Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, Martin Simmonds, Josh Hixson, Liana Kangas

Shirtless Bear Fighter! 2 1 by Jody LeHeup, Nil Vendrell

Silver Coin 13 by Johnnie Christmas, Michael Walsh

Dark Horse

Parasomnia: The Dreaming God 1 by Cullen Bunn, Andrea Mutti

IDW

Sonic the Hedgehog Annual 2022 by Ian Flynn, Daniel Barnes, India Swift, Ian Mutchler, Evan Stanley, Aaron Hammerstrom, Gigi Dutreix, Adam Bryce Thomas, Abigail Bulmer, Thomas Rothlisberger, Natalie Haines, Joana Lafuente, Priscilla Tramontano, Heather Breckel, Leonardo Ito, Valentina Pinto

Trve Kvlt 1 by Scott Bryan Wilson, Liana Kangas, Gab Contreras

Dynamite

Lady Hel 1 by Erik Burnham, Zhengis Tasbolatov

Vault

Barbaric: Axe to Grind 1 by Michael Moreci, Nathan Gooden

Heart Eyes 1 by Dennis Hopeless, Victor Ibanez, Addison Duke

Heavy Metal

Entropy 1 by Christopher Priest, Montos

Archie

Chilling Adventures Presents… Jinx’s Grim Fairy Tales 1 by Mags Visaggio, Joe Corallo, James III, Craig Cermak, Eva Cabrera, Evan Stanley, Matt Herms

AfterShock

Jimmy’s Little Bastards 1 by Garth Ennis, Russel Braun, John Kalisz

Scout

Life and Death of Brave Captain Suave 1 by Joseph Sieracki, Kelly Williams

A Wave Blue World

Crash and Troy 1 by Jarred Lujan, Kyler Clodfelter

99 Cent Theatre:

Smart Girl 1 by Fernando Dagnino

OGN

Beastlands: The Keepers of the Kingdom by Curtis Clow, Jo Mi-Gyeong

Into Radness by Kyle Strahm, Jake Smith

Ray’s OGN Corner: Stepping Stones and Apple Crush by Lucy Knisley

Additional Reviews: She-Hulk, surprise movie review (New Mutants)

News: Omni News, Doom Patrol and Teen Titans, Batman 2, RWBY/Justice League movie, animation news, Velma cancelled, Madame Web cast, Kung Fu Panda 4, Valiant reduces output, the return of Bob Phantom, new Jason Aaron creator-owned series from Boom, Ezra Miller, two new Cullen Bunn books, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad movie, Superman and Lois loses a main actor, Mad Cave acquisition, new FF creative team, new Black Label mini from Marc Silvestri, another spider confirmed for Spider-Verse 2, Young Justice cancelled, Frank Miller variants, HBO Max, WildStorm, three new DC books from Geoff Johns, LOTR rights have been sold, new Bendis from Dark Horse, new Iron Man creative team, Enola Holmes 2, Knives Out 2

Trailers: Wednesday Addams

Comics Countdown:

Batman: The Knight 8 by Chip Zdarsky, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Ivan Plascencia

Dark Spaces: Wildfire 2 by Scott Snyder, Hayden Sherman, Ronda Pattison

Do A Powerbomb 3 by Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer

Nightwing 95 by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Adriano Lucas

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest 6 by Mark Waid, Travis Moore, Tamra Bonvillain

Undiscovered Country 20 by Scott Snyder, Charles Soule, Leonardo Marcello Grassi, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Matt Wilson

Tales From Harrow County: Lost Ones 4 by Cullen Bunn, Emily Schnall

Daredevil 2 by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, Rafael de Latorre, Matt Wilson, Ann Nocenti, Chris Giarrusso, Klaus Janson, Chris Samnee, John Romita Jr, Alex Maleev, Paul Azaceta, Mike Hawthorne, Phil Noto

Usagi Yojimbo 30 by Stan Sakai, Hi-Fi

Shirtless Bear Fighter! 2 1 by Jody LeHeup, Nil Vendrell

Check out this episode!

[thevindicativevordan]

If you were in charge of the new Ultimate line and had to assign creative teams to five books, which books would you make and who would you put on them?

Obviously Hickman needs a book but generally I would like to see:

Ultimates - Written by Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Bryan Hitch. The flagship title that drives the line. Whatever Hickman wants to do with them works for me, I doubt I could come up with a better pitch than he can.

Ultimate X-Men - Written by James Tynion IV and drawn by Alvaro Martinez Bueno. Look Tynion would never do it, he's making bank with his creator owned work, and I'd rather have him do a DC cape book, but he's who I would pick to write this. Mutants coming together in a world that hates and fears them, but with a twist: they're not out to win over humanity. This version of the X-Men is primarily focused on protecting mutants from humans, and part of the change is because who is on the founding team this go around. My choices, restricting it to five like the original X-Men team, would be Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, Forge, and Emma Frost. Emma taking the position you would usually see Jean in helps justify this team being more militant. She's pushing Cyclops and the rest towards going on the offense. Senator Kelly wants to pass an act aimed at forcing humans to register and build Sentinels to kill those who won't? The X-Men frame him in a way that destroys his political and personal life. Hellfire Club is trying to assert control over mutants? Blackmail them into backing off. It's an X-Men team that is more morally gray than we're used to seeing, and is primarily focusing on countering human bigotry at first. Later we would see Magneto show up and the X-Men react to him.

Ultimate Fantastic Four - Written by Christopher Cantwell and drawn by Federico Vicentini. Cantwell has written both Doom and Reed before, and I think he would kill it on a F4 with a villainous Reed and a Doom that could be heroic. Two pitches come to mind like I mentioned in my previous Ultimate Universe post. Either this team is a traditional Fantastic Four with Maker back in the role of "Mr. Fantastic", but concealing that he remembers the old timeline and is biding his time while he studies this new universe, or it's Dr. Doom taking Reed's position as leader of the F4 while Maker serves as their primary antagonist. Reed back with the FF would make for great tension, you have this guy that everyone thinks of as a great hero - which Reed deliberately goes along with - all the while the other three don't yet realize that he's a monster. Maybe Reed is aiming to kill off Ben and Johnny (Ben for "betraying" him when Reed first turned and "stealing" Sue, Johnny for burning his face and being annoying in general), but keep Sue this time. So the tension is that Reed wants to get Ben and Johnny killed off but doesn't want Sue to blame him, so he's trying to maneuver the two into getting killed by one of their villains in a way Sue won't blame him for, all the while he's also wooing Sue to embrace his outlook on life. Alternatively you go with Doom as leader of the F4, with the new Ultimate Universe being a timeline where Reed is the one who gets fucked up by the events that give them their powers this time. Maker still remembers the old timeline and is pissed that he somehow has ended up even worse off this time around, with Sue, Johnny, and Ben pitying him and chafing under the leadership of Doom who is just barely a hero.

Ultimate Spider-Man - Written by Donny Cates and drawn by Ryan Stegman. This is who I would put on a Peter book. Would be a standard Spider-Man book just like the Bendis one was, only I would have it set in Peter's college years because I'm sick of high school Peter.

Ultimate Black Panther - Written by Geoffrey Thorne and drawn by Sanford Greene. Thorne has wanted the gig for ages, and I liked his post Hickman Secret Wars pitch for the character, from what I remember it was T'Challa patrolling economic zones Wakanda had established internationally to share some of their tech and improve life on Earth elsewhere. Doing that with a "Year 2" T'Challa is my pitch. He's established himself at home and is trying to turn Wakanda into a superpower via sharing it's tech with the world through certain economic zones. He's allowed ordinary Wakandans to leave the country and travel abroad. Wakandan conservatives are pissed at him for doing that, while the liberals are angry T'Challa still has left the strict immigration laws for outsiders intact. Other global powers are eyeing this new player warily, particularly the United States and China. T'Challa has plenty of enemies at home and abroad who are aiming to bring him down, and he has to use his brains, tech, and the power of the heart-shaped herb to stay on top.

[deathiscoldbatman]

Excepting Flag [he's obvious], Waller, etc...I'll play.

• Deadshot and/or Bronze Tiger - team staples in decades past, probably team co-leader with Rick Flag Jr. Dies towards the end of the run in an unexpected way, probably. “No one is safe” after all.

• Doctor Poison - Princess Maru. Chemistry, toxicology and overall chemical weapons expert, ffs as a Japanese-American KEEP HER JAPANESE DC we will not entertain the idea of white Dr. Poison. Canonically a trained soldier so she’s no stranger to combat, but it’s clear her strength lies in her mind. I could honestly see her dying whenever, but personally I have a soft spot for poison experts and it shows.

• Celsius - Doom Patrol member that DC kind of forgot about over the years, she is both cryokinetic and pyrokinetic. Canonically trained in martial arts like most DC characters sigh. I mention her specifically as there is some canon precedence to the Doom Patrol and Task Force X having interacted before. Dies but in a way that comes completely out of left field.

• Gaius Grieves Thinker - deserves better than a cameo. You could easily say he faked his canonical death via psychic projection, or say that this is a timeline where he never died. Canon electrokinetic, walking EMP, thinks he’s a master of psychological manipulation. Wild card but surprisingly won’t get blown to bits as the fear of death is enough to get him to obey and Ben/Floyd’s existence is enough to get him to rein it in most of the time.

• The Heckler - Stu Mosley, hero whose literal only superpower is to be annoying as fuck. Bit of a Captain Boomerang stand-in where the joke is that everything should kill him, but somehow he survives. Can also be good comic relief.

• Ms. Clay or Black Orchid [any] - Black Orchid was already part of the 1980’s series but I personally found her to be underutilized. Point being, both are canonically masters of disguise and not too shabby in combat. Plus I specifically mention Ms. Clay as she was literally created for a Suicide Squad comic, in fact the Hell to Pay tie-in. A lot of people don’t realize there’s another female Clayface other than Sondra Fuller. Mixed on whether they die or not, and when.

• Insect Queen [alternate universe Lana Lang] - literally her superpower is being Ratcatcher but with bugs. Also telepathy, making for great synergy with Thinker. Aside from the Legion of Superheroes version of her she’s a fairly obscure character, and likely to be cannon fodder. Other characters can be added/whatnot as base team members die or leave.

My ideal suicide squad lineup

Black spider

Livewire

kiteman

magpie

godspeed

Red hood

ravager

Rick flag (obviously)

king shark

killer frost

[ladyorlandodream]

Chapter 10 of I will teach you all I know

I don't think I wrote this one properly. I tried my best but something is missing.

Anyways, enjoy the reading

[ladyorlandodream]

Chapter 5 of I will teach you all I know is out

My Doom Patrol FF :)

[davidmann95]

You once stated the Fantastic Four were the actual best super team. Why is that?

Assuming there’s even a nominal need to explain it any further than “they were Jack Kirby’s main project for just shy of a decade,” or for that matter “it’s the team Ben Grimm’s on” or “they’re where Doctor Doom comes from,” it’s actually a little more complicated than it might seem, because it’s not quite a matter of them collectively being the best characters in comics. Ben’s right up there, and Reed’s great too in the right hands, but Johnny’s while fun still pretty one-note, and while Sue works in the context of the group, I still feel like after all these years people haven’t quite fully fleshed out her deal in the same way as the others. Pound-for-pound, they hardly match up to the Justice League. But a team is a lot more than the sum of its parts; it’s the dynamic, the context they’re framed in, and the scope of what you can do with them. And in those regards, no one else is even close.

Let’s cover the other major players. I like the Doom Patrol from what I’ve read (Morrison’s run and what there’s been so far of Way’s), but they seem really shifty in terms of lineup in spite of being a small group, making it tougher to build long-term stories around character dynamics, and most of their adventures seem to be them just trying to wrap their minds around what’s happening to them; like the Spirit, they’re the spectators, not the spectacle. The X-Men are…a whole piece in and of themselves, but long story short, as far as I’m concerned they’ve spent over 30 years coasting on a run that got by on trying *slightly* harder than its competition at the time and a strong if muddled central metaphor, with any attempts at doing anything actually interesting with them since then smothered as soon as they start to gather any steam. Ditto Teen Titans, without even the symbolic strength of the central concept; all they’ve got is the cartoon, and DC’s spent over a decade resolutely making sure absolutely none of what made that show work gets into the comics. The JSA is Fine, Just Fine, and Jay Garrick and Ted Knight are both great, but their integration into the main DCU was - aside from scrapping the multiverse - the biggest mistake DC ever made in terms of large-scale continuity reengineering, and aside from the pretty clearly failed Earth-2, everything with them for the last 30 years has been built on the back of that illusion that any of them are in any way anywhere near as important as Superman or Batman. I’ll cop the Legion of Superheroes might have more meat on the bone than I’ve seen, but I’m not willing to shell out however many thousands of dollars on archive editions I’d need to find out, and while I imagine the Defenders were great under Steve Gerber, that seems to have largely been it for them.

That leaves the big two. I’ve covered it before, so keeping it relatively short: the Justice League is the best team in terms of average character quality so long as we’re sticking to the Big Seven model, but because each of them is iconic and important enough that they all have their own stuff going on, the focus in their best runs is on big action, with character work necessarily taking a back seat. They try to shake it up sometimes with B-listers, presumably on the basis that that’s how the League was conceived of in the first place, but it never works; the minor characters in the beginning were elevated to the A-list by sheer dint of being on Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman’s team, and shortly afterwards the rules of that world and who was important in it were codified enough that you couldn’t really replicate that more than once in a blue moon with one or two characters. The Avengers meanwhile were originally more genuine B-listers - only truly elevated above that by the movies, or if you’re being generous Bendis - and as such the Avengers as a group was the most significant thing in any individual members’ life, turning it into a meaningful institution that made them more than the sum of their parts, while the Justice League has always been less than the sum of its own. But at the same time, while they can do more within the boundaries of being the big team than their distinguished competition, they themselves just aren’t as big a team, and can’t compete on those grounds. Maybe I’d have a different mindset if the Avengers were a big deal to me personally, but as far as the ‘classic’ members go, I maybe, generously, care about four or five of them at all.

The Fantastic Four on the other hand? For starters, they’re a pretty universally regarded perfect balance of powers and personalities - tough enough to get into some wild adventures but not so overwhelmingly so that they can’t be easily thrown in over their heads; arranged character-wise with personality quirks both complimentary and irreconcilable that let you just as easily show them hugging it out or at each others throats. But the deal-maker is that rather than a club, or a gathering of the big guns when they have time off from their solo adventures, or an after-school hangout, or a strikeforce, or a ragtag bunch of misfits, or about 938 backup dancers of varying degrees of quality lucky enough to have Wolverine and Emma Frost to carry them, they’re a family, both born and found, and moreover they’re a family of explorers. And that makes all the difference.

Obviously there’re other teams that work as families in reality or in spirit, but the FF work that way in terms of dynamic, even above their status as superheroes. Yes, if they hear about the Mad Thinker wrecking downtown they’ll go deal with that, so you can tell regular superhero stories with them. But at the same time, you don’t need any elaborate explanation to get them to the Savage Land or the Negative Zone, or even to Yancy Street; they’re as likely as not to head out there on vacation (or to stop Ben from tearing it down in the latter case). They’ll go do big, interesting things purely on the basis of going to do it together as a family, and when it’s a family that diverse in terms of interests and personal goals, that means you can organically throw them in a bunch of different directions. And because they’re science adventurers above all with superheroics as just one option on the table, that gives you all the justification needed to dish out any wild high concepts you like, on the simple basis that Reed’s interested and the rest will humor him if it means a fun afternoon. And when real danger finds them, they care for each other and argue with each other and worry about each other and keep each other on their feet the way family does, perpetually keeping the emotional stakes as high as possible.

So yeah. They play off each other perfectly, you can justify them going nearly anywhere and doing nearly anything, and at their heart they have the warmth and the bickering and the strength that comes with family. And Kirby threw everything he had at them, and they have Ben Grimm and fight Doctor Doom. That’s why they’re the best. And among Marvel’s myriad other problems at the moment, its world is always going to be the lesser and the lonelier for it whenever it’s missing The World’s Greatest Comics Magazine.

[deathiscoldbatman]

Fine yeah I'm down. 👀

• Deadshot and/or Bronze Tiger - team staples in decades past, probably team co-leader with Rick Flag Jr. Dies towards the end of the run in an unexpected way, probably. "No one is safe" after all.

• Doctor Poison - Princess Maru. Chemistry, toxicology and overall chemical weapons expert, ffs as a Japanese-American KEEP HER JAPANESE DC we will not entertain the idea of white Dr. Poison. Canonically a trained soldier so she's no stranger to combat, but it's clear her strength lies in her mind. I could honestly see her dying whenever, but personally I have a soft spot for poison experts and it shows.

• Celsius - Doom Patrol member that DC kind of forgot about over the years, she is both cryokinetic and pyrokinetic. Canonically trained in martial arts like most DC characters sigh. I mention her specifically as there is some canon precedence to the Doom Patrol and Task Force X having interacted before. Dies but in a way that comes completely out of left field.

• Gaius Grieves Thinker - deserves better than a cameo. You could easily say he faked his canonical death via psychic projection, or say that this is a timeline where he never died. Canon electrokinetic, walking EMP, thinks he's a master of psychological manipulation. Wild card but surprisingly won't get blown to bits as the fear of death is enough to get him to obey and Ben/Floyd's existence is enough to get him to rein it in most of the time.

• The Heckler - Stu Mosley, hero whose literal only superpower is to be annoying as fuck. Bit of a Captain Boomerang stand-in where the joke is that everything should kill him, but somehow he survives. Can also be good comic relief.

• Ms. Clay or Black Orchid [any] - Black Orchid was already part of the 1980's series but I personally found her to be underutilized. Point being, both are canonically masters of disguise and not too shabby in combat. Plus I specifically mention Ms. Clay as she was literally created for a Suicide Squad comic, in fact the Hell to Pay tie-in. A lot of people don't realize there's another female Clayface other than Sondra Fuller. Mixed on whether they die or not, and when.

• Insect Queen [alternate universe Lana Lang] - literally her superpower is being Ratcatcher but with bugs. Also telepathy, making for great synergy with Thinker. Aside from the Legion of Superheroes version of her she's a fairly obscure character, and likely to be cannon fodder.

I’ll go first…

1. Captain Cold (Team Leader)

(✅SURVIVES) = Amanda Waller makes him the team leader because he follows direction and willing to sacrifice any of his teammates in order to complete the mission. His only concerned with completing the mission and keeping himself alive.

2. Poison Ivy [Human plant hybrid Version] (Chemical weapons expert)

(✅SURVIVES) = Gets shot up by a hell of bullets. Midway of the mission regrows herself like Groot or slime thing.

3. Bane (Muscle / Strategic)

(💀DIES) = Injects too much venom to his system that triggers the bomb in his neck. His head explodes instantly.

4. Cheetah (Stealth / Hand to hand fighter)

(💀DIES) = Tries to sneak behind enemy lines. She gets caught because one of the guards happens to be allergic to cats. They released A whole bunch of Vicious guard Dogs, which brutally attacked her to death.

5. Snow Flame (Super alert look out guy)

(💀DIES) = Does a bunch of cocaine then gets eaten by King Shark

6. King Shark (Extra Muscle)

(✅SURVIVES) = Not realizing that Snow Flame super powers are from cocaine. Becomes ridiculously high after eating Snow Flame. Then goes ballistic on the rest of the team. Captain Cold shoots him with his freeze gun, but fish don’t die when they freeze. So throughout the rest of the mission he’s in a frozen block of ice until the mission is done.

7. Creeper (Acrobatic skills / Comedic relief)

(✅SURVIVES) = Despite countless close calls somehow survive towards the end of the mission. But then after Amanda Waller sits off the bomb in his head anyway. It’s because the whole time he was creeping on all the women, making them uncomfortable by sexually harassing them. So no big loss when he’s gone, good riddance. (💀DIES)