S/B: Public Enemies

[lanternicity]

 At about 3 in the morning last night, I remembered that I had located several links for watching the latest DCAU movie, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, and sat down to watch it. It should be noted that I *didn't* fall asleep while watching it, which is probably the highest compliment I can give. I mean, this movie already had one major strike

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[sorayuy]

Ugh. Yeah, that takes a story I already wasn't fond of, and makes it into something worse. Oh, and John was only on that task force because Atom didn't trust Force, and wanted the only one of the then-current GLs that would be on the team without an immediate personal problem with him. He was still there to keep an eye on him, though.

But yeah, you just pointed out something that I've had issues with both Marvel and DC with for years now. They need to use the Alphas a lot less, because they keep forgetting that a creative enough use of said Alpha's power could solve the problem pretty damn quick. Find some reason the Alphas just can't be there, I don't care, but if the Alphas (and I include Aquaman on my Alpha list, since he could theoretically go toe-to-toe with just about any of the other big 7) are there, it'd better be one hell of a threat. =P

[lanternicity]

Yeah, I guess they could use John to 'keep an eye on' Force, but then wasn't that what the other 6 heroes or whatever were for? Admittedly, Katana and Black Lightning probably couldn't do much against him, but Power Girl definitely could. I still felt like John should've tried to get Force arrested or some other kind of retribution, even if it was after they solved the problem at hand. At least there were no scenes of John trying to defend Force's position on the team. Well, I don't remember any...

That's what was so great about Morrison's JLA run - they threats were so great it was possible a group of Alphas might still fail, and there hasn't been the same number and level of threats since.

But Aquaman? Really? He cannot go toe to toe with Superman. Or J'onn. Or any of the GLs. Or Power Girl. Or...a lot of other Alphas.

[sorayuy]

I did say "theoretically." A lot of people tend to forget his strength levels. Clicky. While not on par with Superman, Supes wouldn't have an easy time of it, either. That's why that old Super-friends cartoon annoyed the heck out of me, too. They just flat-out didn't care that Arthur's pretty high up there in terms of strength.

[lanternicity]

"While hydrated sufficiently, Aquaman has proven capable of lifting weights in excess of 10,000 tons."

WHAT. I want to see this. And TBH, the Superfriends cartoon didn't care about a lot of things. Like avoiding racism and good animation...and I know it's very old :)

And I want to point out I don't hate Aquaman - I mean, he's not in my top ten, but I *adore* him on the Brave and the Bold cartoon. He is probably the best version of the character I've seen, just straight up hilarious.