D'Arc en Ciel Archers · 11:10am Sep 19th, 2018
Just a random non-pony thought I wanted to share. So, several years back, DC introduced a bunch of other Lantern Corps for a series of event comics, one for every other color of the rainbow, black, and white. Today, I had a thought: What if you applied the same logic to one of DC's other green superheroes? Call it...
BLACKEST ARCHERY MEET
Red Arrow: Doesn't actually shoot anything, just yells, drools, and hits things with his bow. Roy Harper is less than pleased at someone else taking the name.
Orange Arrow: Steals arrows from everyone else's quivers when they're not looking.
Yellow Arrow: Shoots nothing but whistling arrows. Convinced he's terrorizing everyone else. May actually be Korugarian, may just have plastic Vulcan ears and a bad sunburn.
Blue Arrow: Excellent aim, but shoots with his eyes closed unless Ollie yells at him.
Indigo Arrow: One of Arkham's relative success stories. After all, he used to use an assault rifle! A shame about what the electroshock did to his language skills.
Violet Arrow: Insists on calling herself Cupid. Also insists on wearing outfits with necklines that plunge past her navel, no matter how many sharp objects are flying through the air or how much double-sided tape she goes through.
Black Arrow: Claims his bow is made from the Anti-Monitor's toenail, "claims" being the operative word. May or may not be an obscure Silver Age villain.
White Arrow: Roy, who decides to bring in all the teams other than the Justice League since they feel Ollie has matters well in hand. Or think it's funny. Not so much the light of life as the light of sanity.
Y’know what, I have no idea where to start here. These are all giggle-worthy.
All I can say for sure is: poor Roy.
Don’t forget, you now have to include…
Ultraviolet Arrow: Uses a crossbow because he’s ashamed that he can’t master the longbow. Seems to be controlled by an unseen spotter.
Nonono, this isn't how comics companies work at all. Every five months you change the gender of one of your major heroes, not the color. Comics are only in the business of genderswaps, not palette swaps.
We can't have girl Thor,
Absolute madness.
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There's also X-23's "mother" Laura who is also a female Wolverine, and a couple Batgirls, and Power Girl, another Supergirl.
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I believe you're mixing up the actual X-23 with her younger clone Gabby who goes by Honey Badger. Laura is x-23 and went by Wolverine till just a few months ago. The woman who could be called her "mother," the doctor who was key in the cloning procedure was named Sarah, and recently revealed to actually have contributed genes to her
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Indeed I am. Shows a non-comic-book-nerd posting on a comic-book-nerd thread what for, eh?
I think it was lil nugget X-23 in Logan that threw me
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I dunno, if he’s sidekicking for someone as wealthy as the—almost Batman levels of wealthy—Green Arrow, then he’s probably not lacking for funds.
Oh? Sanity you say? Yeah, I’ll concede that his sanity is probably in short supply.
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Woot woot! Power Girl and Cassandra Cain Batgirl REPRESEEEEEEENT
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That's a thing now? Yeesh. I hope they clear everything with Marvel before they introduce the X-Lanterns and Gamma Lanterns.
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popped up in a Justice League arc.
Oh God, this is hilarious
What, Booster Gold?
Okay but I'm 100% sure that if he thought of this comics!Oliver would try and make it happen.
I also want to apply the colors to characters from the tv show, since more folks might know that (requirements to be included: must carry a bow and arrow as a permanent part of their costume, and must use said weapon in 50% or more of their appearances).
Red: thea queen, aka speedy, who was afflicted with blood lust from the Lazarus pit.
Orange: Artemis from season 5, a selfish bitch who acted as a mole against Oliver.
Yellow: Oliver himself. What? The tv version of him uses fear just as often as his arrows to hurt the bad guys.
Green: John diggle. If you watch the show, I don't think I have to justify this too much. If you don't watch the show... Why are you reading this?
Blue: Roy Harper, who against all odds has earned a happy ending (for now) and has always been there when his team needs him. He's the most good character on team arrow.
Indigo: Malcolm Merlyn. Former villain, became an ally to protect his daughter. Daw.
Violet: there's already a Cupid. She stalks Oliver and is a lot of fun.
Black: Prometheus, the villain from season 5.
White: nyssa al ghuul. Perhaps the most neutral character. She's not fully good, but she isn't evil like her father. She's just... Practical.
Once upon a time, I did an epic Teen Titans fanfic that clocked in at 20k words per chapter. It had a lot of problems, one of which being it was never finished and was never going to be finished.
However, one chapter did include a Robin clone face-off. Among the clones I had Yellow Arrow, obviously (Speedy), but for his rival I had Red Arrow. Red Arrow was the Speedy what Red X was to Robin. And his secret identity was Mandark. Yeah, one of the other problems was it crossed over with waaay too many things. I think I had Dex-Starr in there, too, squaring off against actual Red X.
Also, while we're making up names:
Rainbow Arrow: shoots a specialised aphrodisiac, possibly related to a deity. Honed his craft shooting frogs
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Please, that's a sex change. Gender is not the same thing, let's not get the meanings mixed up.
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I prefer Carrie Kelley. (Literally the only worthwhile part of The Dark Knight III: Master Race which was incredibly bad.)
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Carrie Kelley is also good stuff.
Wait... there was a Dark Knight 3?
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There's technically a Rainbow Lantern too.
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Aces.
Yeah, Master Race. It was pretty metal and fuckin rad as hell but damn Rob Liefeld all up in this bitch like wow Frank Miller forgot how to draw.
I am missing a lot of jokes. And I watch the show!
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Not sure I'd count Merlyn as Indigo. He was still kind of an evil bastard who just happened to have a soft spot for his daughter...whom he brainwashed into murdering someone.
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... you did watch the season 5 finale, right?
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And that excuses everything else he’s done?
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eh. doesn't matter anyway, the indigo lanterns are all criminals with empathy forced onto them.
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That's true.