The best comic storylines never told
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Sachyriel
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ATL Gambit who has control over all the Kinetic energies in the Universe (basically God-mode Gambit) kisses Rogue after impersonating normal Gambit and gives her the powers that Gambit can't have, overloading her so when she finds out her mutant power is now overcahrged (I mean she was kissed by a deity) she can't handle it and she finds Gambit, thinking him the New Sun (Gambit God) and kisses him. Gambit of the normal X-men now has powers equal to the other-timeline's New Sun-Gambit and they battle it out for supremacy and Rogues Love. She intervenes with her love Gambit now about to be killed (since New Sun has more experience with Reality-controlling powers, he'd be winning) and kills New Sun, then the story arc ends with some awesome kiss and the epilogue is about Their child, the messiah of Mankind or something.
Watchmen by alan moore with the blue beetle,the Question, and captain Atom.
Twilight of the Superhero by Alan Moore
Twilight of the Superhero by Alan Moore
Continuing some of the Elseworlds and What Ifs? would be pretty cool.
what will be the aftermath of the Faithful meeting between the American Avengers, and the Soviet's Fantastik Four.
what will be the aftermath of the Faithful meeting between the American Avengers, and the Soviet's Fantastik Four.
Watchmen with the original intended characters would be good.
A TL where Stan Lee joins DC would have a LOT of good story arcs.
A TL where Stan Lee joins DC would have a LOT of good story arcs.
Here is an interesting DC/Marvel crossover storyline involving Superman, Incredible Hulk and Doomsday:
Both start by facing and defeating an opponent from the parallel universe:
Superman takes on and defeats The Juggernaut- a close fight at first but Superman eventually rips off The Juggernaut's helmet and delivers the telling blow.
Hulk beats the tar out of the zombie super villain Solomon Grundy. SG gets the upper hand at first but, as the old saying goes, "the madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets". Hulk eventually gets worked up and lands a series of powerful blows that leaves SG senseless.
The two heroes of the story have a much anticipated showdown. Superman underestimates his opponent at first and pays for it. Superman rallies and knocks Hulk semi conscious. A stunned but determined Hulk stages his own rally and surprises Superman with is tenacity.
But just when things are starting to work towards a stalemate, Doomsday arrives on the scene. With the world in peril, Superman and Hulk leave their differences aside and confront and defeat a common enemy after a brutal struggle.
Both start by facing and defeating an opponent from the parallel universe:
Superman takes on and defeats The Juggernaut- a close fight at first but Superman eventually rips off The Juggernaut's helmet and delivers the telling blow.
Hulk beats the tar out of the zombie super villain Solomon Grundy. SG gets the upper hand at first but, as the old saying goes, "the madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets". Hulk eventually gets worked up and lands a series of powerful blows that leaves SG senseless.
The two heroes of the story have a much anticipated showdown. Superman underestimates his opponent at first and pays for it. Superman rallies and knocks Hulk semi conscious. A stunned but determined Hulk stages his own rally and surprises Superman with is tenacity.
But just when things are starting to work towards a stalemate, Doomsday arrives on the scene. With the world in peril, Superman and Hulk leave their differences aside and confront and defeat a common enemy after a brutal struggle.
The Spirit and The Punisher start working together to sort out the various criminal gangs of Central City.
Garth Ennis's run on Batman, in which The Dark Knight discovered that Joe Chill was really on assignment from Irish terrorists when he shot Bruce Wayne's parents. Dark, gritty, and the storyline that led to the highly unpopular, controversial, and soon-to-be-retconned death of Tim Drake at the hands of Black Mask and The Penguin.
Oh! One more, another writer who got famous through Vertigo, another one of the DC Big Three.
Nobody really knew what the powers that be at DC were thinking when they gave their flagship title to Grant Morrison in 1990, only two years after John Byrne had revamped the character following Crisis On Infinite Earths. But the reign of the weird at Superman had started, and the rest of the comic book world could only keep up.
Morrison's first step was to simply ignore or retcon every change that Byrne had made. No Superboy? Morrison introduced the Knights of All Reality, who had somehow managed to make everyone forget Clark Kent's youthful adventures. Lex Luthor as businessman rather than super-scientist? A long backstory showing how he had invented everything that LexCorp sold in its beginning days. Only one, rare form of Kryptonite? Now it came cascading from the skies in a rainbow of colors, all the fault of some psychedelic-using Green Lanterns.
While his stories were modified somewhat later, Morrison is now considered singlehandedly responsible for saving Superman from the Grim and Gritty malaise of the late 80s and early 90s.
Nobody really knew what the powers that be at DC were thinking when they gave their flagship title to Grant Morrison in 1990, only two years after John Byrne had revamped the character following Crisis On Infinite Earths. But the reign of the weird at Superman had started, and the rest of the comic book world could only keep up.
Morrison's first step was to simply ignore or retcon every change that Byrne had made. No Superboy? Morrison introduced the Knights of All Reality, who had somehow managed to make everyone forget Clark Kent's youthful adventures. Lex Luthor as businessman rather than super-scientist? A long backstory showing how he had invented everything that LexCorp sold in its beginning days. Only one, rare form of Kryptonite? Now it came cascading from the skies in a rainbow of colors, all the fault of some psychedelic-using Green Lanterns.
While his stories were modified somewhat later, Morrison is now considered singlehandedly responsible for saving Superman from the Grim and Gritty malaise of the late 80s and early 90s.
In 1963 ARPA creates the Super-Soldier serum and tests it on Steve Rogers, turning him from a sickly youth into the maximum of human potential. He is to first meet President Kennedy in Dallas when he uncovers a plot to assassinate the president. He manages to stop Oswald, but fails to save JFK from a second gunman. This failure will stay with him for the rest of his life.
In 1964, he's sent off to Vietnam where he fights the never-ending guerrilla conflict. He experiences the brutal conflict where the line between civilian and soldier is academic and the American forces seem to be in the war for little reason and with no clear goal.
Peter Parker is drafted in 1965.
In 1964, he's sent off to Vietnam where he fights the never-ending guerrilla conflict. He experiences the brutal conflict where the line between civilian and soldier is academic and the American forces seem to be in the war for little reason and with no clear goal.
Peter Parker is drafted in 1965.
Crime on Infinite Earths!
"The Cross-Crime War" was partially responsible for putting a halt to the "darker and edgier" mindset of criminals and villains in the mid 1990's. The artwork and writing not only showed off why two longtime company keystones deserved to be called superheroes, but also reaffirmed that the "campy 1960's schtick," as one Image writer called Adrian Toomes, could be updated and made into modern day threats.
"Seeing Captain Cold and Doctor Octopus squaring off, and both men holding their own, is defnitely one of the highlights of the 1990's, and I sometimes look back to that storyline for inspiration when I get stuck." - Geoff Johns, in a 2009 interview with IGN.
*****
When a interdimensional experiment by Reed Richards crosses paths with a time-rip that Booster Gold can't control, the stage is set for two super-criminal groups to switch places and go on a crime spree in a city unprepared for them!
In Keystone City, the Fastest Man Alive will find himself squaring off with Doctor Octopus, Electro, the Shocker, the Sandman, the Vulture, Mysterio, as THE FLASH faces off against THE SINISTER SIX!
And in New York, your Friendly Neighborhood wall-crawler is face to face with Captain Cold, Heat Wave, Mirror Master, Weather Wizard, the Trickster, and the Pied Piper, as SPIDER-MAN is at the mercy of THE ROGUES!
"The Cross-Crime War" was partially responsible for putting a halt to the "darker and edgier" mindset of criminals and villains in the mid 1990's. The artwork and writing not only showed off why two longtime company keystones deserved to be called superheroes, but also reaffirmed that the "campy 1960's schtick," as one Image writer called Adrian Toomes, could be updated and made into modern day threats.
"Seeing Captain Cold and Doctor Octopus squaring off, and both men holding their own, is defnitely one of the highlights of the 1990's, and I sometimes look back to that storyline for inspiration when I get stuck." - Geoff Johns, in a 2009 interview with IGN.
*****
When a interdimensional experiment by Reed Richards crosses paths with a time-rip that Booster Gold can't control, the stage is set for two super-criminal groups to switch places and go on a crime spree in a city unprepared for them!
In Keystone City, the Fastest Man Alive will find himself squaring off with Doctor Octopus, Electro, the Shocker, the Sandman, the Vulture, Mysterio, as THE FLASH faces off against THE SINISTER SIX!
And in New York, your Friendly Neighborhood wall-crawler is face to face with Captain Cold, Heat Wave, Mirror Master, Weather Wizard, the Trickster, and the Pied Piper, as SPIDER-MAN is at the mercy of THE ROGUES!
Sachyriel
Banned
Charles Xavier isn't born a male, but female, named Charlene Xavier. She discovers she's a mutant and decides to go about helping other mutants. She meets Eric Lehnsherr in her travels searching for people with gifts; they fall in love but have divergent paths. He's a psychopath who believes war is coming and she wants to save a everyone. They part ways in a horrible break up that leaves half of their city block in ruins and makes Magneto a fugitive from the cops (after all whose going to believe that this sweet innocent girl could do so much damage?). So Charlene decides to go with her dream and gets the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters up and running.
Because of her bad experience with men, she makes it an all-girls school, allowing for a much different team of X-men. Think of your favourite all-girl movie and cut the lesbian scenes, that's for the Rule 34...
Because of her bad experience with men, she makes it an all-girls school, allowing for a much different team of X-men. Think of your favourite all-girl movie and cut the lesbian scenes, that's for the Rule 34...
ATL Gambit who has control over all the Kinetic energies in the Universe (basically God-mode Gambit) kisses Rogue after impersonating normal Gambit and gives her the powers that Gambit can't have, overloading her so when she finds out her mutant power is now overcahrged (I mean she was kissed by a deity) she can't handle it and she finds Gambit, thinking him the New Sun (Gambit God) and kisses him. Gambit of the normal X-men now has powers equal to the other-timeline's New Sun-Gambit and they battle it out for supremacy and Rogues Love. She intervenes with her love Gambit now about to be killed (since New Sun has more experience with Reality-controlling powers, he'd be winning) and kills New Sun, then the story arc ends with some awesome kiss and the epilogue is about Their child, the messiah of Mankind or something.
Oh I would think it end up with Gambit thinking storm might be a less problematic girlfriend power-wise
Bruce Wayne become psychotic from Jason Todd death (or some other events) and start killing a good deal of the Rogue Galleries, Dick Grayson and Tim Drake end up teaming up against Bruce, who kill himself when finally capture. Dick decide to take up the cape.