They are, though the subterranean Dwarves seem on the cusp of changes that could either allow them to survive (at the cost of much of what their traditional culture values) or not.

There's certainly evidence for that. Initially, I took Arlathan for something between myth and mythologized history ("we weren't always essentially a pointy-eared oppressed human racial minority— we used to be proper fantasy Elves before humans mucked things up for us"). But obviously DA:I indicates that there's…

Sort of like the Germans putting Lenin on a sealed train to Russia. In terms of their goals, it certainly worked like gangbusters, taking Russia out of the war just as they'd hoped. A massive strategic victory! (If not quite enough to save them.)

"Sorry, guys. Phantom Zone breakout, half a dozen planet-shattering demigods to track down and reimprison. But good luck with Doctor Light!"

[Checks Justice League Archive #1]

I think that's harder to square with actors' contracts in a live-action series. (Not impossible, just harder to stably negotiate, so they're really need to be motivated to make it happen.)

Superman and Batman were in all the early JLA stories. It was a post-Crisis retcon that they didn't join up right away. (Though in the 60s, there was a big tug-of-war with their respective editorial fiefdoms re how often those characters could be featured on JLA covers… until it was explained to the editors that…

I'll observe that in the Bronze Age, Black Canary's consciousness was revealed to have been transferred into her own daughter (who had grown up mindless in another dimension) without anyone having noticed the switch.

The ISI is the Pakistani Interservices Intelligence. Whom we made the mistake of running anti-Soviet funding in Afghanistan through, when they were inclined to favor the more religiously extreme resistance fighters, recruited Arab volunteers to fight there, etc. I recall pundits complaining about it at the time.

Other way around: Superman noted that in some places on Earth first cousins could marry, but it was against Kryptonian law.

I'll accept whatever handwave the author wants to offer, because I like classic superhero costumes. (And attempts to anchor them in reality tend toward the dreary.) But we both know it's a handwave.

Subtle, nuanced evil is harder to fight by the concentrated application of force by a freelancer in a circus costume.

Sure, but the sorts of people Barry, Caitlin, and Cisco are don't feel as if they should be willing to go with it in the first place. Especially since Barry's foster dad is a cop.

It's not per se unethical. (Though it's not a good idea since it's pure he-said/she-said. If the candidate claimed that the interview went well and the date was framed as a quid pro quo— and then he didn't give her the job anyway!— it's only his word that says otherwise.)

It's the only thing Holmes refuses to bother with. (Bohemia excepted, of course.) So Scotland Yard can spend years not solving the case without him spoiling it a few days in.

Also, neither religious authority would have performed the ceremony without a conversion by one of the principals, even if the families were all for it.

A substantial and growing number of wizards have Muggle parents, and even more have Muggle grandparents. (Actual purebloods are on the decline, after all.) With a constant influx of high-powered muggle-born wizards like Hermione and even more half-bloods, why does Mr. Weasley have to play blind men and the elephant…

It was Indians (in the form of Bollywood) that actually had me feeling like I understood cricket for a week or so after watching "Lagaan". It's all gone now, but if for some reason I needed to study up, I bet rewatching the movie would work better than trying to make my way through the Wikipedia article on cricket.

Given our foreknowledge, how could it end well? In the sense that Elizabeth and the Centre want it to? The cause Paige is supposed to work for will totally cease to exist the year after she exits college, and will be moribund a few years before that. Her future as an agent would be either tragedy or farce.

Was about to say the same thing: in a hotel interior, at night, with no flash— in an age when ISO 50 would have been a really fast film? And 20 watt bulbs were standard in hallways? (Never mind from far enough away or sufficiently in the shadows that the photographer wasn't visible.)