What sorts of things would you put onto your list?
1. Former hero
2. Time Travel based powers
3. Incomprehensible powers
4. Spawning copies of himself off into the time stream
5. The "star" of a massive, company wide, crossover "event"
Our last, and worst, is all of those things and more. With Infinite Crisis impending on all of us, it is time to hearken back to the last time that DC tried to clear up continuity. The incredible, incomprehensible, indescribable.... Zero Hour! Oh, the pain that those words create, and a great deal of the pain starts with this buffoon.
Yes, you knew he had to appear at one point or another... and I give you...
Extant!
Is there any way to desribe the utter pain that this fool brings about? Take a 4th tier hero, and drive him nuts. Suddenly, he comes up with powers that have no relation to anything that he showed back in his heroic days, and have him run amuck in the time stream.
Build a gigantic, incomprehensible storyline around him, and then, in a classic bait and switch, reveal that he wasn't even the big cheese, that he was nothing more than a Flunky of Parallax
Then, just to top the whole thing off, he is given the lamest villain death on record. Okay, lets see, this is a guy who dismantled the "old" JSA, was a major threat to anyone and everything that he came across, and you kill him by.... dumping him into an airliner that's about to be shot down.
Um... yeah.
The worst part, is that there is no reason to assume that we'll never see him again. Just because he's dead doesn't mean he's dead. After all, remember the two rules of dead comics characters.
1) Unless you have a body, he's not dead. If you have a body, he may be dead. Oops... no body.
2) The only character to die and stay dead is Bucky Barnes. Considering the rumors coming off of Marvel readers, this rule may need to be expunged as well.
So, for all of these reasons and more, I present to you the worst of the worst, the toast of the town, the pathetic, the painful, Hank Hall, Hawk, Monarch, Extant... loser.
1 comment:
Actually, the rule is that every superhero universe has one "patron saint" who's death remains permenant, to give the danger of death some weight.
Bucky is Marvel's (although, like you noted, they might be chnaging that soon, so we'll have to see).
DC's is Barry Allen (The Flash). Yeah, we've seen him since, but they were all "past versions" of him (maybe another reason why time travel suchs, eh?). In the current timeline, Barry is still dead. That's why they were able to bring back Ollie Queen and Hal Jordan. Barry keeps the patron saint quota filled.
So, it's entirely possible we'll see Extant again (not the least of which is because HE has time travel powers).
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