Non-costumed names[]
Are there any sources for these or are we WAGing?
Some I can see - Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Jade, and the like - since it would be clear translation. Others... Flash and Robin not so much. And "Kara Jor-El"?
- Byfield (talk) 11:58, February 12, 2014 (UTC)
Full disclosure: I haven't read any of the series. That being said, how would being in a world where only women had super-powers preclude a Batman or a Green Arrow?Jim in NYC (talk) 03:06, April 13, 2014 (UTC)
- Those names are used in the comic. Power Girl is a female Superman, and a daughter of Jor-El. Supergirl is a daughter of Zor-El. The brothers even refer to them as "the Karas".--Tupka217 10:43, April 13, 2014 (UTC)
- That doesn't answer my question. Why would Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen not adopt costumed identities? Even in a world where only women have super-powers, what would stop non-powered men from becoming heroes? Turning it around, in mainstream continuity, even with most of the super-powered heroes being men, not having any super-powers didn't deter Dinah Drake back in the day, and three different women - Kathy Kane, Bette Kane, and Barbara Gordon - used Batman as inspirations to create their own costumed identities.
- I guess my problem with this is that it just seems like an excuse for that much more T&A, thus perpetuating the stereotype that comics are by and for sexually frustrated nerds who couldn't get a non-inflatable girlfriend if their lives depended on it, all cloaked in a veneer of "concept". If people are fine with that, no sweat, but let's not pretend the concept, in and of itself, doesn't have some serious holes in it.Jim in NYC (talk) 14:13, April 14, 2014 (UTC)