[quote=@Archmage MC]
I honestly just don't like Superman. Only DCAU ever made him reasonable and actually pretty decent. You could remove him, kryptonians in general, and keep everything else and the DCU would be much much more fun and balanced. Either that or make Kryptonite as common as uranium or something. But yeah, Superman just ruins DCU with his mere presence. 

Sure Marvel does a lot more #1s and the like, and they do crap all over Spiderman/Xmen/Fantastic Four, which they do have a reason for. (They want those to suck until Fox/Sony sell back the rights to them, then they'll make them good again.) but then they have more fun heroes in general. Avengers + Deadpool (-Black Widow) off the top of my head that aren't in the above 3 doomed canons, while DC only really has Green Arrow, Flash(Sometimes), Hal Green Lantern(Sometimes) and Batman. (No DCAU)

OK so imagine Ed from Ed, Edd, n Eddy. Would you call that OP in this RPs context as is?

Nevermind, I REALLY shouldn't be complaining this much. Just... So much anger about how bad DC has gotten since DCAU ended.
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Superman is like a fine wine, few know how to respect and appreciate it/him for what it is, and others just don't know how to handle him. What I don't understand about your argument is how he ruins the entire universe when there's a half dozen Superman analogs in the Marvel universe at any given time. Did the Sentry ruin Marvel? I don't think so. Does any iteration of Hyperion? That depends on if you're a Namor fan. Deadpool being in the Avengers is EXACTLY why I don't care for Marvel. They'll take the quick buck over a fresh and original story pitch any day of the week. Fantastic Four wasn't selling record numbers... so they tag an Inhumans title and the Deadpool + Avengers title with the word 'Uncanny' while making the X-Men themselves unreadable. Marvel is about throwing a few characters into a team and making new #1 issues every other few months, very few of their solo characters have ANY chance of long term success and that includes the likes of Thor, Captain America, and Hulk who are all no longer the stars of their titles. That's why there's a dozen X books but no real X-Men solo books that last more than a year. It's why every other title has an Avengers logo and tag on it to make it part of that corner of the universe. 

Your list of DC's... is that like a personal favorites list or..? I'm obviously a huge Green Lantern fan, but Hal Jordan's never been my favorite [Kyle FTW]. And I like a lot of older Flash and Green Arrow stories [wondered if you added those because of their CW shows, which I think are awesome]. Batman books I'm a little more picky with as a lot of it is the same old same old. DC's got the Teen Titans, whose histories are being fixed in the series 'Titans Hunt.' There's the JSA, but the only version of them right now is the Earth2 contemporary take which admittedly isn't my cup of tea. Batman's Outsiders has always been a guilty pleasure [I really dig Metamorpho and Black Lightning]. Everything else you just gotta look through all the solos and see what you dig. I'm a big fan of Static, the Freedom Fighters like the Ray, 90's heroes like Damage, etc. 

Ed from that cartoon is just all about making money, coming up with dumb inventions ala Wile E. Coyote, and sticking basketball sized jawbreakers in his mouth. If you REALLY wanna try a character like that, look up Johnny Thunderbolt and Jakeem Thunderbolt for the types of shit their genie made happen, and look at the 5th dimensional imps like Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite. I'm not opposed to the idea, but dumb it down a little. A cartoon hammer to me shouldn't hurt any more or less than an actual hammer. Same as an anvil. Wanna pull some giant cannon out of your pants and fire a shot that knocks Superman two states away that's fine and something you might see in a cartoon, but it would more than likely kill an average person unless there was a cartoon bed waiting at the end of their fall. Clearly list the characters powers/limits, and so help me if his only weakness is ink thinner or an eraser I won't bother reading beyond that point LOL. 

Again though, we're all rookies so your hero doesn't need to and shouldn't have complete control of their powers.

EDIT: I can't believe I didn't mention the Dark Horse character made famous by the Jim Carey movie... the Mask. Also another character with a ridiculous/cartoon power set, but he was never made too powerful. Check him out too.

~KL~