#else I'll have to and Oliver Queen will be extremely mischaracterised

[bluebedo]

In the early days, somehow, I like to imagine the OG Justice League members did karaoke once a month

Every time Diana would choose a new song that she learnt that week. This could range from Barbie Girl (she didn't like the message of the song but the beat ate) to Unchained Melody (Bruce will never admit that he cried at this the first time she sang it) to Sweet Child O' Mine (he also cried to this one). Sometimes she sings the most batshit insane songs however, for example she sang Super Freak at the top of her lungs like it was nobody's business. None of them will ever be able to forget that, to the chagrin of everybody but Hal Jordan.

Clark would ALWAYS choose a duet. No matter what song it is, he refuses to do any songs alone, and it's usually J'onn or Hal that he drags into singing the entirety of the Grease soundtrack with. In fact, Hal is his go-to Sandy. He can't even count the amount of times the entire room has done Summer Nights with him and the Green Lantern center-stage

Speaking of Hal, he OF COURSE has a go-to karaoke song: Bohemian Rhapsody. He does the entire song and he drags in the others as his back-up singers. Just cos it's only the JLA doesn't mean he has to half-ass it. He puts on a whole performance with emotion, talent, wit, and goddamn crowd-work. He really gets into it. Once, Hal tried to serenade Bruce (on the rare occasion Bruce showed up) using Holding Out For a Hero and to this day he's still convinced it actually worked. Bruce will neither confirm nor deny.

Barry probably doesn't prepare a song beforehand and doesn't even end up choosing a song - if there's a random-mode he'll just do that, otherwise he tells Diana to choose. Always Diana. And every time, no matter what the song is, no matter if he had never even heard it before that night, he always sucks ass. But he has fun, and that's what matters.

Now Ollie, on the other hand, COMES PREPARED. He has a whole list of the songs he's gonna do, calling dibs and ripping into Hal whenever he chooses one on the list, which he always inevitably ends up doing. It doesn't help that the list is predictably just full of ABBA. Dinah tells him to shake it up a bit. She tried to get him to join him singing MCR once but he was so awkward it was genuinely painful. They all decided to just let him stick to his list in the future, to save all their eardrums.

Now J'onn?? He pulls up with the randomest songs ever. At one point he could be singing the Beatles and suddenly he's spouting Skepta like he wrote that shit. Nobody can convince me J'onn isn't a weirdly good rapper.

And finally. Bruce. He very rarely comes to these and, when he does he refuses to sing the entire night until the very last second, when Diana or Clark are able to convince him. They end the night with everybody sitting in the booths, nursing their final glasses of booze, and listening to Bruce sing the most gut-wrenching and soul-splitting melody to ever be sung. The next morning he'll vehemently deny singing it, or simply pretend he didn't show up at all unless he's intending to embarrass Ollie or Hal. But they all heard him flawlessly perform Make You Feel My Love the night before and he can't take that away from them