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Post by DocQuantum on Jul 29, 2022 16:36:35 GMT
So Doc picked Johnny Kirk instead of Jimmy Kirk... perhaps the kid's name was James Tomberious Kirk and they called him Tom because his father was also Jim? Morton Kirk is the name of his father. I admit I was tempted to use Jim Kirk, but the Star Trek comparisons would quickly become tiresome.
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Post by dans on Jul 29, 2022 20:54:03 GMT
Aww, I like Tomberious!
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Post by redsycorax on Jul 30, 2022 0:55:51 GMT
I'm glad to see there's some support for a Fatman/Red Tornado I crossover! Although there's the attendant question about Thunderfoot here- he's definitely a more light-hearted figure of fun and not too compatible with the steadily darkening narrative arc that would unfold in the context of Earth-X stories as the Second World War drags on into a stalemate and then a Nazi victory and its consequences. Although that could be handled by having the character appear in the Earth-Quality alternate timeline instead, I think he'd also be a natural for the Golden Age Earth-12 context. After all, there's not too much we know about Earth-12 before the emergence of the Freedom Brigade, the Inferior Five's parents, apart from the odd humorous Golden Age DC character that probably came from there and is in the existing Earth-12's Five Earths timeline. The question is then, why would Thunderbolt and Fatman end up on Earth-12? I can see the Human Bomb deciding that it's getting too dangerous for Hu, and the Freedom Fighters know there are alternate universes already, so they find one for Thunderfoot. ie Earth-12. Perhaps Ma Hunkle and Bob Daley could become romantically linked to one another? They seem to have a comparable approach to costuming and crimefighting. Then Fatman disappears off to Earth-12, leaving Ma to retire from Red Tornadoing without him?
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Post by redsycorax on Jul 30, 2022 1:04:07 GMT
Ambush Bug might be able to traverse the boundaries between Earths One and Twelve for a reason- as I've suggested before, Earth-12 is situated within an 'intersecting universe' with a chaotic timeline, which overlaps with Earth-One. Ambush Bug can harness the instability and it's the source of his ability to teleport. Possibly, his idiosyncrasies might result from having exotic matter within his body. Perhaps Earth-12's stellar neighbourhood includes a white hole whose presence bends reality and causality slightly off kilter? I hereby label said white hole Goofy, on the basis that Earth-12's planetary naming conventions after Pluto's discovery went slightly awry and thus, instead of Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Sedna et al, the ensuing dwarf planets were instead named Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Daisy.
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