Merlin's murdered a lot of people for "grey".

"Oh great - George Lucas has the Spear of Destiny."

Plot device? Quest object?

"But isn't it, in a way, more powerful to fix an existing movie than to release a new one?"

Comics Vandal Savage is sometimes urbane, sometimes campy, sometimes brutal, but he's never nondescript.

And their enemies the Devil's Dozen only ever had four members. ("Five if you count Sugyn twice!")

Oh, it'll never be consistent. But that's just harking back to the original muddle of the comics. (Where Superman was attending showings of the Fleischer cartoons— and distracting Lois during the identity switch scenes— as far back as the Golden Age.)

It probably would have played better if someone had at least suggested that it might be Rip's fault as director, for not eliciting a better performance. Or as screenwriter— have Lucas observe, "Phil, you can write this… stuff, but you can't say it."

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Which theory was originated (as a spoof on interconnected superhero universes) by comics legend Dwayne McDuffie, so it all comes together.

I sort of like the idea that Earth-1's Super Friends featured only Apache Chief, Black Vulcan, Samurai, and El Dorado.

I do wonder if the title was also an homage to the classic Magnum PI episode (and Raiders pastiche), "Legend of the Lost Art".

We didn't have baristas in 1967— he'd have had to settle for a waitress or a hash-slinger.

Thinking about it, the original Super Friends (Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin, Aquaman) doesn't have any overlap with the heroes of the CWverse Earth-1.

That's actually from his first appearance in 1961: he arrived on Earth amnesiac. For various reasons Superboy thought he was his long-lost brother, and so named him Mon-El. (El for the family name, Mon because he landed on Monday. Really.)

Honestly, I sort of appreciate that at least they know how to do a secret identity.

One of his best moments in the series was capturing the scene where a powerless Supergirl talks down a robber back in season one. More like that, facing into danger in order to pursue his chosen profession, please.

Boom Tubes are always a step beyond merely advanced interstellar travel. I'd keep those in reserve. What they used, transmatter, is an established DCU concept. (IIRC, it's what they called the JLA's teleport tech during the satellite era.) There's also Zeta beams, not to mention stargates (used before Stargate…

which raises another problem I've always had with Superman - he flies through space on a regular basis without ever worrying about his powers suddenly giving out.

But it's true that none of them have routine Kryptonian interstellar travel.