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Post by chris on Sept 18, 2006 17:24:52 GMT -5
If you could choose one to appear someday in the DC2 which would you rather see next?
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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2006 18:16:48 GMT -5
While I think Tim Drake is a much cooler name, I kinda prefer the character of Jason Todd. Tim is a little bit too much "Dawson's Creek" for my taste.
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Post by brigante133 on Sept 18, 2006 22:05:56 GMT -5
I agree with David who forgot to leave out the fact that Jason is from the streets.
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Post by Brandon on Sept 19, 2006 6:51:47 GMT -5
Jason's a great character with loads of dramatic potential that would be a shame to miss out on. And you can't get that dramatic angle without his being a Robin.
Tim is cool but he's mostly just a little Batman. So I say Jason in hope of getting some offbeat and fresh story ideas.
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Post by starlord on Sept 19, 2006 6:57:09 GMT -5
Ignoring Jason Todd is ignoring a huge piece of the Batman mytho's.
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Post by >>Riz! on Sept 19, 2006 6:58:50 GMT -5
Who the hell is Time Drake  No,... I loved the "Death in the Family" story, so I say we need to have Jason before we introduce Tim. I liked Tim always more than Jason, but the dead Robin was my first death in a comicbook. (I read CoIE years later...) |
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Post by HoM on Sept 19, 2006 7:02:26 GMT -5
Without Jason Batman hasn't had any failures basically. Yeah, Dick grew up but no ones died, you know? Without... A death in the family... Batman wouldn't be the gruff emotional wreck he is... Right... Now... Wait!
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Post by brigante133 on Sept 19, 2006 9:01:02 GMT -5
yup sorry TIME drake...
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Post by Romans Empire on Sept 19, 2006 19:13:08 GMT -5
Jason's a great character with loads of dramatic potential that would be a shame to miss out on. And you can't get that dramatic angle without his being a Robin. Tim is cool but he's mostly just a little Batman. So I say Jason in hope of getting some offbeat and fresh story ideas. Fresh ideas? Forget that! Lets just repeat every DC comic ever done exactly the way it was already done! Now thats fresh!  |
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Post by Brandon on Sept 19, 2006 20:56:12 GMT -5
I think revisiting the character considering the context of what he's become would give him a huge amount of interesting story potential. Presenting the DC characters in a new light is sort of what we are all about. But if you want to simply retell DC stories, John, then far be it from me to stop you. !!! ;D ;D !!! |
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Post by Romans Empire on Sept 21, 2006 17:09:43 GMT -5
I think revisiting the character considering the context of what he's become would give him a huge amount of interesting story potential. Presenting the DC characters in a new light is sort of what we are all about. But if you want to simply retell DC stories, John, then far be it from me to stop you. !!! ;D ;D !!! Well last I heard there was still a co-writing spot open on the Batman title (just don't tell Charlie  ) and if I could only find someone who was willing and able to present the the DC characters in a new light...  |
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Post by Crow on Sept 22, 2006 11:39:59 GMT -5
I like Jason because you have potential with him to touch different ways of life. Bruce is a rich kid. Dick gets raised by Bruce, and before that he was a circus kid who had the support of the whole circus as family.
Jason though is a kid who already has danger all around him. He has raw energy to be fueled but no where to do it. But even better, he has darker elements as a kid who has seen too much. You can take Jason in any direction you want, even a dark one.
I like Tim too though...he is one kid who proves his detective skills from the start.
I'd like them both actually in a parallelsense. Jason could start with Batman skills that involve stealth, fighting, street smarts and improvizing in risky situations. Tim would start with a detective mind that is good for puzzles and mysteries, the best kid at the game Clue, but no where to spend that energy until being Robin. Plus I can see him being a problem solver and a quick learner.
Anyways, that's my long winded thoughts on the Robins...
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Post by Sam on Sept 22, 2006 22:02:55 GMT -5
I love Tim, he's one of my favourite DCU characters, but you have to have Jason first.
Maybe you couldn't kill Jason off before Tim this time, leave him alive and make him betray Batman instead, in the same way he eventually does as Red Hood in the DCU.
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Post by timdrake on Sept 22, 2006 22:28:42 GMT -5
Tim is one of my favorite characters as well (might explain my screen name), but I think in an alternate universe like the DC2, Jason could succeed as Robin and grow to become his own man like Dick has. I have hated Jason for a while, but I realized that the only reason I hate him is because for so long he has been looked at as a failure -- first dying, and now with being a murdering psycho. I think his character has a lot of potential, and he should be given a chance at being Robin, or at least brought into the universe somehow that doesn't make him look like a complete screw up or evil.
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Post by Crow on Sept 23, 2006 10:13:45 GMT -5
that's a good point....timdrake lol
Poor Jason started off as a Dick Grayson knock-off...then he was made into an arrogant kid....then he was killed, and made into a reoccuring "ghost" character in Dick's subconscious in some Nightwing issue (here and there)....then brought back, and made into a psychotic villian.... He's never been anything but a 3rd tier character or a negative character.
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Post by arcalian on Dec 30, 2006 20:28:29 GMT -5
Tim was my boy, I came into the DCU with him.
But at the same time, part of me wishes that Jason Todd had succeded. In the same way I wish Tara Markov had never been an evil psycho traitor. (Terra II bias showing? Oh yeah.)
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Post by The Joker on Jan 4, 2007 20:09:38 GMT -5
I'd say Jason; that way, it lends drama and the possibility of a neo-"Will Robin Die Tonight?" poll for DC2
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) and if I could only find someone who was willing and able to present the the DC characters in a new light... 
