Tone isn't necessarily that critical to reusing plots. Smallville used a short Silver Age story that detailed how Lex Luthor met Superboy, became friends with him, then became his bitterest enemy as the basis for a fairly lengthy tragic arc. Several Joker-origin adaptations (e.g., the 1989 Batman) are essentially…

While they use the interconnections, I'm not sure how many of the movies really rely on them. (Civil War, maybe.)

I'm guessing that RDJ and then his estate will own the IP rights to his likeness more or less forever, and will charge what the traffic will bear.

While there are at least three people who've borne the mantle of Thor, the idea is still kind of dumb. I'd rather see them pass Mjolnir to a new bearer than to have someone actually "become" Thor a la Jane Foster. That's like another person becoming, not Iron Man, but Tony Stark.

And let some of them actually retire. Give them cameos or dialog shoutouts about what they're doing after hanging up the armor or the shield or whatever, let them graduate to mentor or superhero elder statesman.

What they did with Supergirl after bringing her back is its own problem. There's a reason that about the only trade I have from last decade is the standalone, non-continuity Cosmic Adventures in the Eighth Grade. (Which I highly recommend.)

I like a lot of the worldbuilding Thomas did— he's the main reason Earth-2 ever had an identity to speak of. But yeah, he went way too far with making everyone related to one another. (E.g., deciding that people named Sanders and Saunders must be related because their names were almost the same.)

The sheer number of replacement goldfish for Kara Zor-El introduced between 1985 and 2004 was the strongest possible rebuttal to the whole idea that she was redundant.

His spending a couple of scenes talking to Admiral Shala'Raan didn't hurt that impression.

I'm just amused that Shohreh Aghdashloo has somehow managed to get typecast as a reasonable high-ranking authority figure in a spacefaring society.

Honestly, given that they have artificial gravity, building ships on planets isn't crazy. The ship's structures have to be able to take way more than 1g or one atm of pressure, and not having to wear spacesuits during construction is a real bonus.

"No offense, Admiral, but didn't you deal with a regular series of flag officers and ambassadors pulling rank and telling you what to do with your ship? How did that work out again?"

And there was still an Archer, since using Admiral Archer's dog (Porthos VII?) in long-range transporter experiments is why Scotty was exiled to Delta Vega in the 2009 Trek movie.

That would also match them saying (IIRC) that the Franklin was the first human ship to do Warp 4, where the ENT Enterprise was the result of the Warp Five Project.

You might be surprised. I'm a middle-aged convex-American and can still do it. (I've never found a particular application for the skill beyond confirming it's still possible, since it's not something anyone wants to witness.)

Evidently it is, though the day varies. E.g., http://www.westcoasthooters…

I count two, plus that short where Indy and the nightclub singer make a daring plane escape that ends when they wash up in some village in India. (Too bad they never extended that to a full-length film— I bet it would have been awesome.)

While it's no longer linked from KFC's site, the earlier "Kentucky Fried Chicken Presents: The Colonel of Two Worlds" (featuring his teamup with the Flash and Green Lantern) is still available for download at:

Neither of whom were cast/made up as the light blonds they are in the comics. Benoist is Supergirl, but Helen Slater looked a bit more like the comics version.

Iris had been established as being from the future a bit over a decade earlier. (She was sent back in time from her dying Earth in a sequence deliberately reminiscent of Superman's origin.)