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Huh, I wouldn't have pegged Central City for being a Kansas City stand-in but I guess it fits.
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enraged_camel posted:Weather Wizard is great. He's the only villain we have seen so far that can fly, right? And flying is awesome. "He's not flying, he's just (goes on to literally describe what flying is)!"
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computer parts posted:Huh, I wouldn't have pegged Central City for being a Kansas City stand-in but I guess it fits. Keystone and Central are the twin cities stand ins. I'm sure they were much more relevant to the US 50 years ago.
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Feb 4, 2016 22:28
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Rhyno posted:The populations of some of those "cities" are idiotically tiny. Star City is always depicted as a thriving metropolis in the comics but only 27,000 people live there? I just assume that most authors are terrible at math and numbers.
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Rhyno posted:The populations of some of those "cities" are idiotically tiny. Star City is always depicted as a thriving metropolis in the comics but only 27,000 people live there? That's hilarious. My local YMCA has a population of 22,000 and I live in a suburb of a suburb. Writers should at least understand that sort of scale.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:But just like Captain Cold and Weather Wizard, they made him too bloodthirsty and kill-crazy in his first appearance, so it will be that much harder to redeem him later. I do not remember him being too kill crazy. He just seemed that he was going after Welles.
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Bad Moon posted:That's hilarious. My local YMCA has a population of 22,000 and I live in a suburb of a suburb. Writers should at least understand that sort of scale. It's obviously just some guy making a map. Ivy Town has double the population of Metropolis?!
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bobkatt013 posted:I do not remember him being too kill crazy. He just seemed that he was going after Welles. He was knocking multiple cars full of people off a bridge, where they would have died for sure if not for the Flash.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:He was knocking multiple cars full of people off a bridge, where they would have died for sure if not for the Flash. Yeah but he knew that with Flash there they are safe.
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Rhyno posted:It has a Man of Bats reference on there so it's not that old. Also the populations of real world cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles look like they are post-2010 census. I guess the name "Metropolis" is ironic since at 72,000 citizens it doesn't even come close to the top 300 largest cities in America, being dwarved by South Bend, Indiana and Davenport, Iowa. punchymcpunch posted:It's obviously just some guy making a map. Ivy Town has double the population of Metropolis?! Yeah totally, but the attention to detail is just laughable. Again, why even bother looking up real world population data and then going "yeah I bet Metropolis is like an eighth the size of Portland".
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Star city is Detroit apparently. They showed a map on an episode of Arrow. http://i.stack.imgur.com/DgAoC.png
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But they crossed over with Vixen, who is from actual Detroit.
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Pastrymancy posted:But they crossed over with Vixen, who is from actual Detroit. Also I don't think you can take a boat from Detroit to China as a casual vacation.
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muscles like this? posted:Also I don't think you can take a boat from Detroit to China as a casual vacation. the really slow boat to China
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Feb 5, 2016 02:05
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Chokes McGee posted:I hate Wally West. If you hate this Wally West then you must've hated the comics version so much that you've repressed the memory.
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muscles like this? posted:Also I don't think you can take a boat from Detroit to China as a casual vacation. Obviously the Northwest Passage is real in the DCWU.
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DC superhero cities existing alongside real US cities is a baffling decision and that cities very often don't have consistent locations is hilarious. It's almost like the DC universe is not well run or coordinated, a giant mess if you will.
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Remember Hypertime? Introducing Hypergeography.
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JT Smiley posted:I really hope we've come to the end of all the West family drama. Bahahahaha wait until Wally gets Flash powers but.... he can't tell Iris...for her safety! Oh lordy, is she ever going to feel betrayed. You could easily spread that over 5+ episodes. Worry not, friends. EDIT:VVV I think "White Shadow" just about answers that. VVV bring back old gbs fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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You're right. What I should have said is, I hope this is the end of West family drama that is completely divorced from the rest of the story. Have Barry and Wally interacted at all? Aside from Barry answering the door when he first showed up.
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Proposition Joe posted:DC superhero cities existing alongside real US cities is a baffling decision and that cities very often don't have consistent locations is hilarious. It's almost like the DC universe is not well run or coordinated, a giant mess if you will. This has always been my problem with DC. Like you can't have Firestorm leave Central City to go to Pittsburgh without that creating disjoint in my mind. All fictional cities (at least within the US) or no fictional cities. Don't mix and match.
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JT Smiley posted:You're right. What I should have said is, I hope this is the end of West family drama that is completely divorced from the rest of the story. Have Barry and Wally interacted at all? Aside from Barry answering the door when he first showed up. They haven't interacted, which I think is a great thing because the last thing we want is awkward jealousy from Wally towards Barry for having been Joe's son all those years. Because you know the writers will definitely add something like that.
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enraged_camel posted:They haven't interacted, which I think is a great thing because the last thing we want is awkward jealousy from Wally towards Barry for having been Joe's son all those years. Because you know the writers will definitely add something like that. No way, the writers would never do that. Clearly they're setting up a new love triangle where Iris has to choose which one of her brothers she wants to be with. Actually, I shouldn't even joke about that, because someone has already written that fan fiction.
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Charles Gnarwin posted:This has always been my problem with DC. Like you can't have Firestorm leave Central City to go to Pittsburgh without that creating disjoint in my mind. All fictional cities (at least within the US) or no fictional cities. Don't mix and match. I know, it'd be like if someone named Captain America went to a clearly fictional Eastern European country.
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Proposition Joe posted:DC superhero cities existing alongside real US cities is a baffling decision and that cities very often don't have consistent locations is hilarious. It's almost like the DC universe is not well run or coordinated, a giant mess if you will. No, it's not almost like that at all. It is exactly that.
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DC just needs a "reboot" like the Star Wars universe, where someone comes in and throws away 90% of it and starts fresh.
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enraged_camel posted:DC just needs a "reboot" like the Star Wars universe, where someone comes in and throws away 90% of it and starts fresh. They did this already
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bobkatt013 posted:They did this already They need another
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Proposition Joe posted:DC superhero cities existing alongside real US cities is a baffling decision and that cities very often don't have consistent locations is hilarious. It's almost like the DC universe is not well run or coordinated, a giant mess if you will. Having 900 heroes based in New York who don't coordinate or assist each other is so much cleaner.
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enraged_camel posted:They need another They're supposedly working on it right now.
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enraged_camel posted:They need another They keep doing it, rebooted poo poo is still poo poo.
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:Bahahahaha wait until Wally gets Flash powers but.... he can't tell Iris...for her safety! This actually happened in the silver age comics. Barry was still keeping his secret from Iris, Wally comes around, gets his powers, and Barry makes Wally swear not to tell Iris.
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Proposition Joe posted:DC superhero cities existing alongside real US cities is a baffling decision and that cities very often don't have consistent locations is hilarious. It's almost like the DC universe is not well run or coordinated, a giant mess if you will. It's one of the things that always put me off about DC. I am the nerd who pours over the maps inside of fantasy novels and know exactly where Castle Anthrax is in relation to Lake Dubwub, and the inconsistency drives me nuts. That and the secret identity related drama that is always going on. I don't mind generally hiding your identity, but when its "Oh my life as Dog-Man is ruining my relationship with my girlfriend, but how I can I tell her???" stuff. I am always so happy when Lois knows Superman is Clark.
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Metropolis is in Delaware, Gotham is basically Newark but bigger and shittier. Star City and Central City are both in the vague and nebulous "pacific northwest".
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Narcissus1916 posted:Central City "pacific northwest". 
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Illuen posted:I know there was some questioning about the layout of DC's USA. I've seen this image float around in the past, though I don't know if it is actually canon, it's good enough for me. Phoenix has a higher annual crime rate than Gotham. Maybe they track super crime separately or when the Joker gases 500 people it's only counted once so they can make it look good for CompStat.
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LongDarkNight posted:Phoenix has a higher annual crime rate than Gotham. Maybe they track super crime separately or when the Joker gases 500 people it's only counted once so they can make it look good for CompStat. Gotham has 8 superheros protecting it. It better have a lower crime rate.
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