I actually quite liked that. They're clearly not interested in being "loved" as saviours. Instead they're demanding complete and total submission - not the kind of fear that might lead others to fight back, or a strategic surrender for the sake of preserving hope for a resistance movement (which is the soldiers'…

FOUR - Turlough. Easily the best of them at that - even if it wasn't for the whole "Companion with secret orders to assassinate the Doctor" plot he has for his first couple of seasons, he's the only one with any wit.

Yep. She even says it outright - her express explanation is that Earth is screwed without the Doctor, and she follows it up by pleading to the Doc to save the world from whatever hell she's about to plunge it into

Favourite ever companion was not only a scientist, but a Time Lord scientist at that - Romana (though only became a huge fan once she regenerated - 1st season Romana was a lot more prima dona, 2nd season was a lot more maths genius scientist).

I somehow doubt that the next episode will be the finale for this villain. Maybe for the Monks, but whoever is behind them is so massively overpowered that they can't be a new character being dropped in now (the Pyramid did bring to mind "Pyramids of Mars", and the "dead Earth" future was VERY eerily similar to that…

When you think about it, the entire DC universe is a 'first strike wins' scenario. Anyone out of Superman, Supergirl, Powergirl, all 3 earth-based Green Lanterns, all 3 Flashes, Wonder Woman, Firestorm and Martian Manhunter could kill all of the others before they even realised they were being attacked. Differences in…

Yeah, even as early as 1940s, Orwell (and the UK Fabians in general - i.e. UK moderate left, also known as far-Sanders-left to you guys in the US) was writing about how the word 'fascism' (and 'democratic', for that matter) had lost all meaning.

Yeah, WW has always been written as more military in her mindset than Superman, especially in Justice League stories as a (justified) way of balancing out the relative power of the most powerful female and male characters (Powergirl/Supergirl are presented as close, but too lacking in experience to be on the same…

On "Batman as the villain" - let's not forget the truly awesome series "Villains United - The Secret Six", in which a bunch of B-grade silver era Batman oddball villains are trying to evade both the "big destroy the world supervillain cross-over plot of the day" (i.e. the lead-in to Infinite Crisis) AND Batman.

Actually answered in All-Star Superman. Lex and Supes have a kind of Doctor-Master relationship as the series goes on - he understands Supes better than any human except Lois, and there's at least some parts that he understands BETTER than Lois.

Also reasonably consistent with the main DC comics. Even happy-go-lucky Dick Grayson (as Nightwing) tries to beat the Joker to death (until Batman decks him from behind and then gives the Joker CPR), on the basis that he's the ONE human in the DC universe who will never reform, (and one of 2 creatures full-stop along…

There's plenty of that in certain runs - even the darker ones (thinking the arc that starts off humorous with Dick Grayson as Batman and Damien as Wayne —-> Bruce as Batman battling Talia over who is truly responsible for the death of their son) also show Bruce doing good AS Bruce Wayne, tackling the Leyman Brothers…

Red Son comes very close to that - Superman and Wonder Woman do slowly create a communist dictatorship, but they're troubled throughout and constantly working to try and find a better way. Batman is a lunatic anarchist ideologue, and he's sympathetic only because his parents are amongst the first lot of petty…

Self-reply - another example of one that's actually character based is the Superior Spiderman.

You're waaay over thinking it - we keep getting evil superman stories because he's the nominal 'massively most powerful' character, and making it superman instead of a similar powered Zod (presumably with supes locked away somewhere) means that they've got to apply superman-type plot armour too. It's always Batman or…

Killing of Kovar is to be expected, but if they've gone and killed off Dolph Lundgren (say, if in-Arrowverse Hollywood actor Dolph Lundgren was just unfortunate enough to be vacationing on the next island along), THERE WILL BE BLOOD!

In fairness, (mother is Italian - or, more accurately, Neapolitan) that shows the limits of google research and US understanding of other cultures. There is no one 'Italian' culture - there's Neapolitan, Calabrese, Tuscan, Sicilian, Florentine cultures and we all have our different dialects and taboos. They're much…

Just….please bear in mind that the internet isn't confined to the US. You're not speaking amongst yourselves - all of us in Iran, Russia, Australia, Syria, Germany, China etc can HEAR you. Ok, you guys elected an incompetent president. Do you think that doesn't happen anywhere else? Can we, maybe, take a break and…

Jo for 3rd doc? Surely Liz!

First they came for the furries, but I did not speak up, because I was not a furry.
Then they came for the bodily fluid fetishists, but I did not speak up, because I was into bukkake.
Then they came for the bondage enthusiasts, but I did not speak up, because I was not into bondage.
Then they came for the camgirls, but…