Some of the questions are hard, like, how do I answer that? It's tough to judge my own work, and more than one story was difficult to write, and more than one I liked how it turned out...maybe the meme should have "top 3" for each question or something.
It's not an exact character mapping, it's just the archetypes. You've got your group of heroes, and everyone's depending on them, but they screw up and make mistakes and are human [or on JLU, alien, but actually JLU and FNL have in different ways addressed the "outsider" and the difficulties inherent in that] -- that's more the recent superhero team stories style, not the "classic" style where they're almost invincible. JLU (I'm basing this on the animated series, not as familiar with the comic book versions) had all these moments where two characters who can't stand each other have to work together, or where one of the heroes has to push themselves farther than they're able, and there were some who were the leaders and stronger and others who were part of the team, and the relationships were messy. Jason as Superman really works; Superman was kind of the glue holding it together. I think Matt is Wally West. I'm not sure who Batman is. Maybe Coach, but he's too expressive with his feelings to be Batman, but he's got the glare and the broodiness and how he drives them all hard for their own sakes.
It's not an exact character mapping, it's just the archetypes. You've got your group of heroes, and everyone's depending on them, but they screw up and make mistakes and are human [or on JLU, alien, but actually JLU and FNL have in different ways addressed the "outsider" and the difficulties inherent in that] -- that's more the recent superhero team stories style, not the "classic" style where they're almost invincible. JLU (I'm basing this on the animated series, not as familiar with the comic book versions) had all these moments where two characters who can't stand each other have to work together, or where one of the heroes has to push themselves farther than they're able, and there were some who were the leaders and stronger and others who were part of the team, and the relationships were messy. Jason as Superman really works; Superman was kind of the glue holding it together. I think Matt is Wally West. I'm not sure who Batman is. Maybe Coach, but he's too expressive with his feelings to be Batman, but he's got the glare and the broodiness and how he drives them all hard for their own sakes.
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Interesting! I can see Coach as Batman - not a perfect analogy but it works well. Interesting :) *imagines some kind of JLU/FNL crossover* hee.
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