BATMAN (Beyond; The Animated Series; And Robin, the Adventures of)sturmnbatarangsMay 23 2010, 20:34:01 UTC
People with superpowers exist and are known to exist in the public eye. If you have some sort of not-human ability, from whatever source, you can be a superhero, supervillain, or super one-shot character who just wants to be normal. Ridiculously expensive technology and/or over the top amounts of training can be substituted for powers at will.
Major cities are corrupt piles of shit and depend on these superheros for help. The earth is semi-regularly plagued with alien invasions and world-threatening events; otherwise, they're more small-scale things like a kill satellite or rampaging monsters. For some reason, none of this nonsense started until after one guy felt sad after his parents died and decided to dress up like a bat to make himself feel better.
Superheros can be feared or respected, depending mostly on which one you're looking at and what city you live in. If you're on the Batman side of the equation, everything's edgy and dark but will still eventually end up okay. One man can make a difference and better the world, even if he can't really better himself. You can be your own person, and you can atone for your past mistakes. Also, cars fly. Present day is 2041, but aside from that it still suspiciously looks like the late 1990's.
Re: BATMAN (Beyond; The Animated Series; And Robin, the Adventures of)invisibillMay 23 2010, 20:41:45 UTC
Danny is one of those up and coming teen superheroes that turns up as a guest star once a season, just long enough to save the world from the annual ghost/supernatural threat. And to make snarky remarks, of course. Ironically, his origin story and background are exactly the same.
Re: BATMAN (Beyond; The Animated Series; And Robin, the Adventures of)sturmnbatarangsMay 23 2010, 20:43:04 UTC
That sounds so plausible I might have to rewatch JLU to make sure Danny isn't hiding in the background. Seriously, Western superheros tend to mesh pretty well.
Re: BATMAN (Beyond; The Animated Series; And Robin, the Adventures of)invisibillMay 23 2010, 20:50:56 UTC
Oh, indeed.They all cross over all the time. Just stick Amity Park in there somewhere and add in the Ghost Zone as yet another alternate dimension and we're all set.
Re: BATMAN (Beyond; The Animated Series; And Robin, the Adventures of)sturmnbatarangsMay 23 2010, 20:55:39 UTC
Amity Park can be a suburb of Central City or something, the Ghost Zone can be the Phantom Zone. Problem solved, we're all set to greenlight the epic "Robin and Danny meet up and bond while making fun of Slade and Plasmius" crossover.
Major cities are corrupt piles of shit and depend on these superheros for help. The earth is semi-regularly plagued with alien invasions and world-threatening events; otherwise, they're more small-scale things like a kill satellite or rampaging monsters. For some reason, none of this nonsense started until after one guy felt sad after his parents died and decided to dress up like a bat to make himself feel better.
Superheros can be feared or respected, depending mostly on which one you're looking at and what city you live in. If you're on the Batman side of the equation, everything's edgy and dark but will still eventually end up okay. One man can make a difference and better the world, even if he can't really better himself. You can be your own person, and you can atone for your past mistakes. Also, cars fly. Present day is 2041, but aside from that it still suspiciously looks like the late 1990's.
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...And this means that Danny gets actual adult rolemodels.
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