Batman and Superman are constantly top three most popular characters to exist. The highest I found Green Arrow on a list was 30th place. Wonder Woman was top 5
None. A competent writer could tell good stories with every single one of them, the old guard at DC are all just derivative idiots who can't think of good stories. Books like the current Action run and Steeleworks are actively proving big superfamilies can work, it's solely the failing of writers to not use them well.
Frick the OG characters. Most of them will be public domain in the next decade.
The derivative legacy characters are more interesting and actually age and evolve.
The only thing holding them back are the OG characters.
The better question is which ones should be kept. The vast majority add absolutely nothing and don't have fans in any appreciable number to justify their existence.
Some characters, no matter how hard they are pushed or how good a writer they have, never catch on. It's dumb to keep trying to make them work instead of utilizing the ones that people actually like.
None, because they loose the copyright to Superman batman and wonder woman in literally 10 years, the only way DC will survive is if they keep pushing the legacy characters
Tim Drake - gone
Jason Todd - dead again
Jon Kent - gone (altho it's far too late for that, they've painted themselves into a corner)
STEEL should in fact be Metropolis' Superman while Kal-El is the universe's)
>superfamily
everyone but powergirl and characters that provide cool stories instead of cutesy sitcom shit >batfamily
everyone but jason as antagonist, 90s tim drake, nightwing fricking off to the titans, cassadra cain as a mute, and barbara as oracle/gordon's daugther >arrowfamily
everyone except his wife
Merge Supergirl and Power Girl together. The teenage Supergirl is who she was during World's Finest ie the Silver Age. The adult Power Girl is who she is in the present ie the Modern Age. She took on her own identity similar to how Dick became Nightwing.
>Which DC hero needs an unnecessary extended family?
Honestly they should do this with the villains, annoying sidekicks everywhere until both the heroes and the villains realize their plans are falling apart because their adopted morons are constantly hooking up like an unholy blended family that would make Marvel blush
Oh frick I'm turning into Mark Millar
>Linda Danvers >Cir-El
Pretty much already done, in no particular order, the current Super-Family consists of >Clark >Lois >Kara >Jon >Kon >John Henry Irons >Natasha Irons >Power Girl >Kenan >Otho >Osul
And I guess you could count Jimmy, Perry, the Kents, Krypto and Streaky.
Of course the relevancy of most of these characters varies, like for example, only Clark and Lois themselves are main characters in the main Superman book.
>Dick Grayson (too much of a crutch character) >Jason Todd (he is never allowed to actually do anything cool) >Duke Thomas (no one knows what to do with him) >Luke Fox (David Zavimbe was a better Batwing) >Kate Kane (I don't hate her but Babs should be Batwoman) >Gotham Girl (she has no reason to exist now after King's run)
Keep these
Dick: ultimate former sidekick. Leader of his generation.
Jason: epitome of the failed sidekick. Should be more of an antagonist to Batman.
Duke: the day time sidekick with powers.
Luke: the tech Batwoman as Batwing. Using the suit.
Batwoman: tackles the weird aspects like vampires and urban legends of the night.
Gotham Girl: should be daytime protector of Gotham with fellow meta human Duke.
>Duke: the day time sidekick with powers. >Gotham Girl: should be daytime protector of Gotham with fellow meta human Duke.
The Batfamily shouldn't be active during the daytime in to begin with except when they're on team books with other heroes like Young Justice, Teen Titans or the Justice League.
>Jason: epitome of the failed sidekick. Should be more of an antagonist to Batman.
I keep hearing this, but how does that even work? Bruce can't throw him in prison or Arkham, because people will start wondering why his dead son is there. Even if you remove his digital records, at least one person would remember him. Jason isn't the type of antagonist who would team up with other villains either. His whole gimmick is that he wants to kill other villains. You'd need to have him go all in being evil to the point where he willingly works with other villains and doesn't just murder them all. Put him back in the grave where he belongs, at least in main continuity.
>Luke: the tech Batwoman as Batwing. Using the suit. >Batwoman: tackles the weird aspects like vampires and urban legends of the night.
Why can't the rest of the Batfamily do either of these?
>Dick: ultimate former sidekick. Leader of his generation.
I would be fine with Dick still existing if Bruce was gone. Dick will always be in Bruce's shadow as long as Bruce is still around and kicking. He is the perfect successor who will never actually succeed.
All of them.
The homosexuals
The ones that ,make the least money. So anyone including Ollie in the Arrow family
None, because they all have their fans 🙂
Jon Kent
Tim Drake
Powergirl
Otho and Osul
Tim Fox
Duke Thomas
PG
John
The Super Twins
Jason
The black batman
Jason Todd because they don’t deserve him.
One of those things is not like the other.
Batman and Superman are constantly top three most popular characters to exist. The highest I found Green Arrow on a list was 30th place. Wonder Woman was top 5
the bat family is literally the only one that matters, and it's also getting too large
Jason. He doesn't have a reason or place in the universe anymore. He's been mogged so hard by Winter Soldier that it's sad.
None. A competent writer could tell good stories with every single one of them, the old guard at DC are all just derivative idiots who can't think of good stories. Books like the current Action run and Steeleworks are actively proving big superfamilies can work, it's solely the failing of writers to not use them well.
There’s no good creative reason to having a dozen characters filling the same niche
It also makes the OG character less special
That only really goes for Supes. There's actual narrative reasons for why characters like Batman would have such a large family.
Frick the OG characters. Most of them will be public domain in the next decade.
The derivative legacy characters are more interesting and actually age and evolve.
The only thing holding them back are the OG characters.
The better question is which ones should be kept. The vast majority add absolutely nothing and don't have fans in any appreciable number to justify their existence.
Some characters, no matter how hard they are pushed or how good a writer they have, never catch on. It's dumb to keep trying to make them work instead of utilizing the ones that people actually like.
None, because they loose the copyright to Superman batman and wonder woman in literally 10 years, the only way DC will survive is if they keep pushing the legacy characters
Tim Drake - gone
Jason Todd - dead again
Jon Kent - gone (altho it's far too late for that, they've painted themselves into a corner)
STEEL should in fact be Metropolis' Superman while Kal-El is the universe's)
Jason's too popular.
>superfamily
everyone but powergirl and characters that provide cool stories instead of cutesy sitcom shit
>batfamily
everyone but jason as antagonist, 90s tim drake, nightwing fricking off to the titans, cassadra cain as a mute, and barbara as oracle/gordon's daugther
>arrowfamily
everyone except his wife
No one cares about the arrow cast, so
Merge Supergirl and Power Girl together. The teenage Supergirl is who she was during World's Finest ie the Silver Age. The adult Power Girl is who she is in the present ie the Modern Age. She took on her own identity similar to how Dick became Nightwing.
This implies the turning point for Grayson was growing a giant wiener that no longer fit into the green underoos
>"I'm not Robin any more, Bruce. Call me Nightwang."
>"Let's workshop that codename, old chum."
Power Girl isn't Dick aged, she's closer in age to Clark and Bruce.
>Which DC hero needs an unnecessary extended family?
Honestly they should do this with the villains, annoying sidekicks everywhere until both the heroes and the villains realize their plans are falling apart because their adopted morons are constantly hooking up like an unholy blended family that would make Marvel blush
Oh frick I'm turning into Mark Millar
Jason Todd
Tim Drake
Kon-El
Jean Paul Valley
Jon Kent
Roy Harper
Tempest
Impulse
Hal Jordan
>Hal Jordan
More popular than Alan Scott.
But Twitter said everyone loves Alan Scott now!
The sales say otherwise. Same for John Stewart's comic.
Linda Danvers
Cir-El
Original Kathy Kane
Delete them and never reference them again.
>Linda Danvers
>Cir-El
Pretty much already done, in no particular order, the current Super-Family consists of
>Clark
>Lois
>Kara
>Jon
>Kon
>John Henry Irons
>Natasha Irons
>Power Girl
>Kenan
>Otho
>Osul
And I guess you could count Jimmy, Perry, the Kents, Krypto and Streaky.
Of course the relevancy of most of these characters varies, like for example, only Clark and Lois themselves are main characters in the main Superman book.
Clark
Bruce
Hal
Barry
Wally
Dick
Arthur
Ray Palmer
In the Batfamily alone.
>Dick Grayson (too much of a crutch character)
>Jason Todd (he is never allowed to actually do anything cool)
>Duke Thomas (no one knows what to do with him)
>Luke Fox (David Zavimbe was a better Batwing)
>Kate Kane (I don't hate her but Babs should be Batwoman)
>Gotham Girl (she has no reason to exist now after King's run)
Keep these
Dick: ultimate former sidekick. Leader of his generation.
Jason: epitome of the failed sidekick. Should be more of an antagonist to Batman.
Duke: the day time sidekick with powers.
Luke: the tech Batwoman as Batwing. Using the suit.
Batwoman: tackles the weird aspects like vampires and urban legends of the night.
Gotham Girl: should be daytime protector of Gotham with fellow meta human Duke.
>Duke: the day time sidekick with powers.
>Gotham Girl: should be daytime protector of Gotham with fellow meta human Duke.
The Batfamily shouldn't be active during the daytime in to begin with except when they're on team books with other heroes like Young Justice, Teen Titans or the Justice League.
>Jason: epitome of the failed sidekick. Should be more of an antagonist to Batman.
I keep hearing this, but how does that even work? Bruce can't throw him in prison or Arkham, because people will start wondering why his dead son is there. Even if you remove his digital records, at least one person would remember him. Jason isn't the type of antagonist who would team up with other villains either. His whole gimmick is that he wants to kill other villains. You'd need to have him go all in being evil to the point where he willingly works with other villains and doesn't just murder them all. Put him back in the grave where he belongs, at least in main continuity.
>Luke: the tech Batwoman as Batwing. Using the suit.
>Batwoman: tackles the weird aspects like vampires and urban legends of the night.
Why can't the rest of the Batfamily do either of these?
>Dick: ultimate former sidekick. Leader of his generation.
I would be fine with Dick still existing if Bruce was gone. Dick will always be in Bruce's shadow as long as Bruce is still around and kicking. He is the perfect successor who will never actually succeed.
Dick should be Robin