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If she ever gets into a costume.
*looking at what her mother used to wear "For Christ's sake mom, a leather teddy and fishnets? No wonder I don't know who my dad is."
...LMAO
Name: Oliver Queen
Eventual Alias: Green Arrow
Age: 18
Hair color: Blonde
Eye Color: Hazel
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 195 lbs
Powers: His 'powers' are in the form of custom made cross bow and bow and arrows
Costume Specifications: As Green Arrow, Oliver masks his identity with a green leather costume. It has a hood, a voice-changer, and dark sun glasses. His glasses have special electronic featureswhich allow him to scan police
frequencies and enhance his senses (microphone to pick up calls for help infared to see where a trail leads). As Oliver he wears only desginer
clothes.
Personal Weaponry: Always has a crossbow and bow and arrow handy in his green arrow.
Special/Unique Weaponry: Various specially outfitted arrows. Normal Arrow
Mini arrow
EMP arrow
Electric mini arrow
Grappling arrow
Tranquilizer dart
Knockout Gas dart
Other Accessories: Crossbow
History: Oliver is the only heir to the to the late Queen Legacy he is 18 years old but very brillinat and has graduated college extremly early and runs Queen Industires, his folks were killed in a tragic accident due to a plane malfunction (he suspects they were murdered)
he spent a year on a desloated island being held hostage by some pirates that took over his yacht while he was on vacation, he trained himslef to use a bow and arrow and eventually escaped form the island and leaving the pirates to fend for themsleves, since then he has grown Queen Industires into the 21st century making sure hes ahead of the curve with safety and environmental concerns.
As The Green Arrow he originally was going to be a 'Robin Hood' until he rescued a young woman from an out of control car and found out that people began to regard the Green Arrow more as a hero than a thief as was his original intent.
He diecided if he was going to be a hero he may well as act like one, hes been known to try anything from stopping a metahuman criminal to a petty purse snatcher and with his advanced technology in his arrows.
Eventual Alias: Green Arrow
Age: 18
Hair color: Blonde
Eye Color: Hazel
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 195 lbs
Powers: His 'powers' are in the form of custom made cross bow and bow and arrows
Costume Specifications: As Green Arrow, Oliver masks his identity with a green leather costume. It has a hood, a voice-changer, and dark sun glasses. His glasses have special electronic featureswhich allow him to scan police
frequencies and enhance his senses (microphone to pick up calls for help infared to see where a trail leads). As Oliver he wears only desginer
clothes.
Personal Weaponry: Always has a crossbow and bow and arrow handy in his green arrow.
Special/Unique Weaponry: Various specially outfitted arrows. Normal Arrow
Mini arrow
EMP arrow
Electric mini arrow
Grappling arrow
Tranquilizer dart
Knockout Gas dart
Other Accessories: Crossbow
History: Oliver is the only heir to the to the late Queen Legacy he is 18 years old but very brillinat and has graduated college extremly early and runs Queen Industires, his folks were killed in a tragic accident due to a plane malfunction (he suspects they were murdered)
he spent a year on a desloated island being held hostage by some pirates that took over his yacht while he was on vacation, he trained himslef to use a bow and arrow and eventually escaped form the island and leaving the pirates to fend for themsleves, since then he has grown Queen Industires into the 21st century making sure hes ahead of the curve with safety and environmental concerns.
As The Green Arrow he originally was going to be a 'Robin Hood' until he rescued a young woman from an out of control car and found out that people began to regard the Green Arrow more as a hero than a thief as was his original intent.
He diecided if he was going to be a hero he may well as act like one, hes been known to try anything from stopping a metahuman criminal to a petty purse snatcher and with his advanced technology in his arrows.
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Bruce Wayne
Bruce Wayne
Real Name: Bruce Wayne
Other Current Aliases: Unrevealed
Former Aliases: Unknown.
Dual Identity: Secret
Current Occupation: CEO Wayne Enterprises
Former Occupation: N /A
Citizenship: Citizen of the USA
Legal Status: No criminal record
Place of Birth: Gotham City
Marital Status: Engaged to Chloe Sullivan
D.O.B: May 19, 1989
Age: 21
Known Relatives: Thomas Wayne (father; deceased); Martha Wayne (mother; deceased)
Known Confidantes: Alfred Pennyworth, Clark Kent / Kal-EL, Karan Kent / Kara-EL, and Lana Lang
Known Allies: Alfred Pennyworth, Clark Kent / Kal-EL, Karan Kent / Kara-EL, and Lana Lang
Major Enemies: Unrevealed
Usual Base of Operations: Smallville, Kansas, USA
Current Group Affiliation(s): None
Former Group Affiliation(s): None
Extent of Education: 3 years Princeton completed Bachelors
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 210 lbs.
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Skin: Caucasian
Other distinguishing Features: Unrevealed
POWERS AND ABILITIES
Fighting Skills: Bruce is a master of several Martial Arts forms.
Other Skills: Chemistry, Detective / Forensics, Computers.
Metahuman Physical Abilities: None
Metahuman Mental Abilities: None
Special Limitations: None
PARAPHENALIA
Costume Specifications: Various.
Personal Weaponry: Unrevealed.
Special/Unique Weaponry: Unrevealed.
Other Accessories: Varies with mission parameters.
Transportation: Conventional means or self.
Bruce Wayne
Real Name: Bruce Wayne
Other Current Aliases: Unrevealed
Former Aliases: Unknown.
Dual Identity: Secret
Current Occupation: CEO Wayne Enterprises
Former Occupation: N /A
Citizenship: Citizen of the USA
Legal Status: No criminal record
Place of Birth: Gotham City
Marital Status: Engaged to Chloe Sullivan
D.O.B: May 19, 1989
Age: 21
Known Relatives: Thomas Wayne (father; deceased); Martha Wayne (mother; deceased)
Known Confidantes: Alfred Pennyworth, Clark Kent / Kal-EL, Karan Kent / Kara-EL, and Lana Lang
Known Allies: Alfred Pennyworth, Clark Kent / Kal-EL, Karan Kent / Kara-EL, and Lana Lang
Major Enemies: Unrevealed
Usual Base of Operations: Smallville, Kansas, USA
Current Group Affiliation(s): None
Former Group Affiliation(s): None
Extent of Education: 3 years Princeton completed Bachelors
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 210 lbs.
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Skin: Caucasian
Other distinguishing Features: Unrevealed
POWERS AND ABILITIES
Fighting Skills: Bruce is a master of several Martial Arts forms.
Other Skills: Chemistry, Detective / Forensics, Computers.
Metahuman Physical Abilities: None
Metahuman Mental Abilities: None
Special Limitations: None
PARAPHENALIA
Costume Specifications: Various.
Personal Weaponry: Unrevealed.
Special/Unique Weaponry: Unrevealed.
Other Accessories: Varies with mission parameters.
Transportation: Conventional means or self.
I want to hear all of your opinions or even if you don't really care. In the show Smallville is only 3 hours away from Metropolis. Of course this doesn't mesh with the comics or movies or any other show before it. I was thinking of saying Metropolis is back in NY where it belongs. What do you all think?
okay information on DC cities
Metropolis is a fictional city that appears in comic books published by DC Comics, and is the home of Superman. Metropolis first appeared by name in Action Comics #16 (September 1939).
Within the DC Universe, Metropolis is portrayed as one of the largest and wealthiest cities on earth. The co-creator and original artist of Superman, Joe Shuster, modeled the Metropolis skyline after Toronto, where he was born and lived until he was ten.[1] Since then, Metropolis has become a city inspired by Chicago, Cleveland, Toronto, Vancouver, New York City and Los Angeles.
Location
Like many of DC's other fictional cities, the location of Metropolis has varied greatly over the years. Metropolis is usually portrayed as a major city in the Midwest, or conversely, on the East Coast, and even the West Coast. Superman co-creator Joe Shuster was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and moved to Cleveland by age ten, where he met co-creator and Ohio native Jerry Siegel. Originally intending to sell the Superman strips to a Cleveland newspaper, they set the stories there as well, and when the strips were re-used for the comic books, they changed the location to Metropolis. (Action Comics #2, however, mistakenly portrays Clark Kent as a reporter for the Cleveland Evening News, although Metropolis's look is based on Toronto, Ontario.)[2] The earliest specific reference to Metropolis located it in New York State: in Superman #2 (Fall 1939), Clark (Superman) Kent sent a telegram to George Taylor, the editor of the Daily Star (the antecedent to the Daily Planet), addressed to "Metropolis, N.Y."[3]
In the 1940s Superman cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures and Fleischer Studios, Superman is said to live in New York rather than Metropolis in the seventh cartoon in the series, "Electric Earthquake". A Native American mad scientist claims that his people are the rightful owners of Manhattan, thus placing these cartoons in New York City. In the fifth episode in the series, "The Bulleteers", however, the city had already been identified as Metropolis, as the Bulleteers address in that cartoon the population of Superman's city as "citizens of Metropolis"; and in the 13th episode "Destruction Inc.", Metropolis is even seen spelled out twice on the Metropolis Munition Works, so it can be assumed that "Electric Earthquake" is an anomaly.
In a 1970s edition of "Ask the Answer Man", a column that ran occasionally in DC publications, it was stated that Metropolis and Gotham City were adjacent to New York City, across the harbor from each other.[4] That same column stated that Star City (the home of Green Arrow) was in Connecticut, Flash's Central City was in Ohio, and Hawkman's Midway City was in Michigan.[4] An earlier issue of DC's fanzine Amazing World of DC Comics, however, clearly stated that Metropolis was located in Delaware, while Gotham was placed in New Jersey.[5] The Atlas of the DC Universe role playing game supplement, published by Mayfair Games, also claims that Metropolis is in Delaware.[6]
A 1976 "imaginary" (i.e. out of canon) story describes the infant Kal-El arriving on Earth in that year, triggering a increase in cold war tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. In that story's version of the year 2001, Metropolis is the name given to the new merging of the Northeast Corridor of cities ranging from Washington, D.C. through New York City to Boston, to form a megalopolis.[7]
In his 1978 work, The Great Superman Book, an encyclopedia of the first forty years of the Superman comics, author Michael Fleisher cites many, many examples which demonstrate that Metropolis equates with New York City. The most blatant of these might be the statement he cites from Action Comics #143 (April 1950), which states that the Statue of Liberty stands in "Metropolis Harbor".[8] The Statue of Liberty, in fact, stands in New York Harbor.
The 1992 Death of Superman storyline depicts Doomsday on a path from Ohio through New York State towards Metropolis; and the 2005 comic Countdown to Infinite Crisis also places Metropolis in the state of New York. The mini-series JLA/Avengers depicts the area corresponding to Metropolis in the Marvel Universe as being along Interstate 95.[9]
Frank Miller has said that "Metropolis is New York in the daytime; Gotham City is New York at night."[10] Gotham City is home to Batman, whose activities are more often nocturnal than those of Superman, who usually operates during the day. In terms of atmosphere, Batman writer and editor Dennis O'Neil has said that, figuratively, "Batman's Gotham City is Manhattan below Fourteenth Street at eleven minutes past midnight on the coldest night in November."[11] However, New York City does exist as a separate city from Metropolis and Gotham City within the DC Comics universe; the Justice Society of America, for example, is based in New York, as were the Teen Titans.
In relation to Gotham City
Metropolis is frequently depicted as being within driving distance of Gotham City, home of Batman. Like Metropolis, Gotham's location has never been definitely established; however, it is usually treated as also being a major city. The distance between the two cities has varied greatly over the years, ranging from being hundreds of miles apart to Gotham and Metropolis being twin cities on opposite sides of Delaware Bay, with Gotham City in New Jersey and Metropolis in Delaware. In the Seven Soldiers of Victory series Klarion the Witch Boy, New York City is called the "Cinderella City", referring to nearby Metropolis and Gotham as its "ugly stepsisters." The film Superman Returns mentions Gotham City, as does Batman in an episode of the Justice League TV series. In Superman: The Animated Series, Clark Kent's mother Martha Kent refers to Batman as "that nut in Gotham City." Similarly, the Batman Forever movie mentions Metropolis, as Bruce Wayne tells Dick Grayson that the circus he and his family performed in has likely moved there. In Lois and Clark, when Lois finds out about Superman's secret identity and yells at Clark about how he's been hiding his secretly being Superman, he responds, "A little louder Lois — I don't think they could hear you in Gotham City".
The differences between Metropolis and Gotham City are almost as diverse as the differences between their respected superheroes. In contrast to the dark, gritty, and raw way Gotham City has been portrayed, Metropolis has almost always been depicted as a cleaner, warmer, safer, friendlier, and wealthier city.
According to the Atlas of the DC Universe (which may no longer be canon after the events of Infinite Crisis) Metropolis is located on the south end of Delaware Bay near the modern town of Lewes, Delaware. The Atlas shows Gotham city as being on the other side of the bay, near Cape May, New Jersey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(comics)
Personally I have always seen it as a city in Kansas. But hey!
Metropolis is a fictional city that appears in comic books published by DC Comics, and is the home of Superman. Metropolis first appeared by name in Action Comics #16 (September 1939).
Within the DC Universe, Metropolis is portrayed as one of the largest and wealthiest cities on earth. The co-creator and original artist of Superman, Joe Shuster, modeled the Metropolis skyline after Toronto, where he was born and lived until he was ten.[1] Since then, Metropolis has become a city inspired by Chicago, Cleveland, Toronto, Vancouver, New York City and Los Angeles.
Location
Like many of DC's other fictional cities, the location of Metropolis has varied greatly over the years. Metropolis is usually portrayed as a major city in the Midwest, or conversely, on the East Coast, and even the West Coast. Superman co-creator Joe Shuster was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and moved to Cleveland by age ten, where he met co-creator and Ohio native Jerry Siegel. Originally intending to sell the Superman strips to a Cleveland newspaper, they set the stories there as well, and when the strips were re-used for the comic books, they changed the location to Metropolis. (Action Comics #2, however, mistakenly portrays Clark Kent as a reporter for the Cleveland Evening News, although Metropolis's look is based on Toronto, Ontario.)[2] The earliest specific reference to Metropolis located it in New York State: in Superman #2 (Fall 1939), Clark (Superman) Kent sent a telegram to George Taylor, the editor of the Daily Star (the antecedent to the Daily Planet), addressed to "Metropolis, N.Y."[3]
In the 1940s Superman cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures and Fleischer Studios, Superman is said to live in New York rather than Metropolis in the seventh cartoon in the series, "Electric Earthquake". A Native American mad scientist claims that his people are the rightful owners of Manhattan, thus placing these cartoons in New York City. In the fifth episode in the series, "The Bulleteers", however, the city had already been identified as Metropolis, as the Bulleteers address in that cartoon the population of Superman's city as "citizens of Metropolis"; and in the 13th episode "Destruction Inc.", Metropolis is even seen spelled out twice on the Metropolis Munition Works, so it can be assumed that "Electric Earthquake" is an anomaly.
In a 1970s edition of "Ask the Answer Man", a column that ran occasionally in DC publications, it was stated that Metropolis and Gotham City were adjacent to New York City, across the harbor from each other.[4] That same column stated that Star City (the home of Green Arrow) was in Connecticut, Flash's Central City was in Ohio, and Hawkman's Midway City was in Michigan.[4] An earlier issue of DC's fanzine Amazing World of DC Comics, however, clearly stated that Metropolis was located in Delaware, while Gotham was placed in New Jersey.[5] The Atlas of the DC Universe role playing game supplement, published by Mayfair Games, also claims that Metropolis is in Delaware.[6]
A 1976 "imaginary" (i.e. out of canon) story describes the infant Kal-El arriving on Earth in that year, triggering a increase in cold war tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. In that story's version of the year 2001, Metropolis is the name given to the new merging of the Northeast Corridor of cities ranging from Washington, D.C. through New York City to Boston, to form a megalopolis.[7]
In his 1978 work, The Great Superman Book, an encyclopedia of the first forty years of the Superman comics, author Michael Fleisher cites many, many examples which demonstrate that Metropolis equates with New York City. The most blatant of these might be the statement he cites from Action Comics #143 (April 1950), which states that the Statue of Liberty stands in "Metropolis Harbor".[8] The Statue of Liberty, in fact, stands in New York Harbor.
The 1992 Death of Superman storyline depicts Doomsday on a path from Ohio through New York State towards Metropolis; and the 2005 comic Countdown to Infinite Crisis also places Metropolis in the state of New York. The mini-series JLA/Avengers depicts the area corresponding to Metropolis in the Marvel Universe as being along Interstate 95.[9]
Frank Miller has said that "Metropolis is New York in the daytime; Gotham City is New York at night."[10] Gotham City is home to Batman, whose activities are more often nocturnal than those of Superman, who usually operates during the day. In terms of atmosphere, Batman writer and editor Dennis O'Neil has said that, figuratively, "Batman's Gotham City is Manhattan below Fourteenth Street at eleven minutes past midnight on the coldest night in November."[11] However, New York City does exist as a separate city from Metropolis and Gotham City within the DC Comics universe; the Justice Society of America, for example, is based in New York, as were the Teen Titans.
In relation to Gotham City
Metropolis is frequently depicted as being within driving distance of Gotham City, home of Batman. Like Metropolis, Gotham's location has never been definitely established; however, it is usually treated as also being a major city. The distance between the two cities has varied greatly over the years, ranging from being hundreds of miles apart to Gotham and Metropolis being twin cities on opposite sides of Delaware Bay, with Gotham City in New Jersey and Metropolis in Delaware. In the Seven Soldiers of Victory series Klarion the Witch Boy, New York City is called the "Cinderella City", referring to nearby Metropolis and Gotham as its "ugly stepsisters." The film Superman Returns mentions Gotham City, as does Batman in an episode of the Justice League TV series. In Superman: The Animated Series, Clark Kent's mother Martha Kent refers to Batman as "that nut in Gotham City." Similarly, the Batman Forever movie mentions Metropolis, as Bruce Wayne tells Dick Grayson that the circus he and his family performed in has likely moved there. In Lois and Clark, when Lois finds out about Superman's secret identity and yells at Clark about how he's been hiding his secretly being Superman, he responds, "A little louder Lois — I don't think they could hear you in Gotham City".
The differences between Metropolis and Gotham City are almost as diverse as the differences between their respected superheroes. In contrast to the dark, gritty, and raw way Gotham City has been portrayed, Metropolis has almost always been depicted as a cleaner, warmer, safer, friendlier, and wealthier city.
According to the Atlas of the DC Universe (which may no longer be canon after the events of Infinite Crisis) Metropolis is located on the south end of Delaware Bay near the modern town of Lewes, Delaware. The Atlas shows Gotham city as being on the other side of the bay, near Cape May, New Jersey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(comics)
Personally I have always seen it as a city in Kansas. But hey!
Never heard of the Delaware location. But even in this posting it shows that it's usually shown in NY, especially after they showed the Statue of Libirty in one of the Superman movies.
I know I've always seen it as being in NY growing up. But like i said I want to hear everyone's thoughts. According to every source i've read. Smallville out it in Kansas so they can drive there.
I know I've always seen it as being in NY growing up. But like i said I want to hear everyone's thoughts. According to every source i've read. Smallville out it in Kansas so they can drive there.
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In my mind Gotham is Chicago, & Metropolis is New York.
Metro vs Gotham
As a BATMAN Fan rather then a SUPERMAN fan (I always found his ineffability to just bash Lex Luthor into a hole kinda annoying) I have figured that the reason Superman and Metropolis is seen as the FIRST City is because everyone likes the idea of a UTOPIA kept safe by a man of morals.
Where as Gotham is seedy and dark and has a really handsome, yet dark guardian that suits his city to the ground... boy he could rescue me any day of the week! And no one really likes to think about the reality of the world that there is such places in the world, oh they all like the idea of a hero trying to save it, but really they all prefer the glittery UTOPIA that Superman brings, rather then the reality of the Dark side that Batman brings.
Still would walk unprotected through Gotham just to see Bats. Metropolis not so much.
JillyS
As a BATMAN Fan rather then a SUPERMAN fan (I always found his ineffability to just bash Lex Luthor into a hole kinda annoying) I have figured that the reason Superman and Metropolis is seen as the FIRST City is because everyone likes the idea of a UTOPIA kept safe by a man of morals.
Where as Gotham is seedy and dark and has a really handsome, yet dark guardian that suits his city to the ground... boy he could rescue me any day of the week! And no one really likes to think about the reality of the world that there is such places in the world, oh they all like the idea of a hero trying to save it, but really they all prefer the glittery UTOPIA that Superman brings, rather then the reality of the Dark side that Batman brings.
Still would walk unprotected through Gotham just to see Bats. Metropolis not so much.
JillyS
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Smallville - Kansas
Metropolis, New York City, New York
Gothom City - Chicago
Party Town USA - KAra's bedroom
Alternate PArty Town USA - Chloe's BEdroom
Alternate reality Party Town USA - Vegas BABY!!!
Metropolis, New York City, New York
Gothom City - Chicago
Party Town USA - KAra's bedroom
Alternate PArty Town USA - Chloe's BEdroom
Alternate reality Party Town USA - Vegas BABY!!!
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Pardon me for interrupting.
I'm waffling about joining the thread at Vic's invite, so I thought I'd throw my two cents in.
Pardon the interrupt.
But why is it so important that Metropolis be in the same place as it is in the comics, if the comics can't make their mind up anyway?
Forgive me.
Just have it be in the same place as the show, I'd think.
Originally, I thought that Smallville was a suburb of Metropolis, in the comics, way way back in the day; it wasn't until John Byrne's "Man of Steel" miniseries in the 80's that specified that Smallville was in Kansas. "Smallville" the show's just moved Metropolis back to its relative distance from Smallville while keeping Smallville in its post-"MoS" location.
It doesn't make sense to me to move the city. How would non-"super" characters reach it from Smallville on a regular basis?
Yeah, the "canon" Metropolis, it's assumed to be on The East Coast. I always saw it as being part of a triune mega-city, New York and Metropolis and Gotham, two sister cities and the ugly stepsister.
But "Smallville's" an alternate universe. What's a little geography retcon between friends?
I'm waffling about joining the thread at Vic's invite, so I thought I'd throw my two cents in.
Pardon the interrupt.
But why is it so important that Metropolis be in the same place as it is in the comics, if the comics can't make their mind up anyway?
Forgive me.
Just have it be in the same place as the show, I'd think.
Originally, I thought that Smallville was a suburb of Metropolis, in the comics, way way back in the day; it wasn't until John Byrne's "Man of Steel" miniseries in the 80's that specified that Smallville was in Kansas. "Smallville" the show's just moved Metropolis back to its relative distance from Smallville while keeping Smallville in its post-"MoS" location.
It doesn't make sense to me to move the city. How would non-"super" characters reach it from Smallville on a regular basis?
Yeah, the "canon" Metropolis, it's assumed to be on The East Coast. I always saw it as being part of a triune mega-city, New York and Metropolis and Gotham, two sister cities and the ugly stepsister.
But "Smallville's" an alternate universe. What's a little geography retcon between friends?
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