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CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One

You need to wait until after September 25th. As that's year one.

CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One

So because I'm doing with the whole "colour text for characters" I want to elaborate, some minor characters are going to share colours.

Deal with it.

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T H E F L A S H

Revelations:
^{NOT FAST ENOUGH}

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Iris chased after the police car, rushing past it as she tapped on her comms. Tapping into the police radio. “Disturbance on Wheeler-Nicholson bridge, evacuate the area some form of meta-human appears to be attacking.” With that she disengaged comms, the air rushing past her. She could feel it with every breath, she could feel the lightning coursing through her body and pushing her forward. By running, she was set free and set adrift from everyone else. How could this not be her destiny? She couldn’t imagine not having this power.

This was what she was meant to do. She knew it, deep down. Iris would beat him one day, make him eat his words… or was this all a trick? To get under her skin. She shook her head, she couldn't’worry about this now. She had to stop the latest threat to Central City. Well, this time to Central City and Keystone. Considering that the bridge was the main conduit of traffic between the two sister cities.

She turned the corner to the view of carnage. Police cruisers overturned and in flames, people cowering in fear and cracked pavement. Before the bridge stood a man in a red costume, his fists glowing with energy as he ran at a police officer…

Time froze as Iris noticed who the police officer was. Her Father. She took to running again, kicking up dust behind her as the electricity coursed through her veins. Time seemed to slow for her, she was a blur to everything and everyone around her. She ran shoulder first into the man in red, and while he did get knocked back Iris definitely felt like she took a lot more of the blow than he did. Pain shooting through her shoulder as she rolled away to get a better look at the man.

The get up screamed technology, rather than being an actual meta-human. The backpack was the biggest giveaway, what he was after she couldn’t quite say though it seemed like a hell of a coincidence that this guy was punching stuff up while there was a killer on the loose who had proven himself to be extremely strong.

Just then she heard a faint clicking noise in her suit. For a second she struggled to think what it could be, then she realised. It was the geiger counter, whatever this guy could do he was radioactive. This meant that she probably didn’t want to prolong this fight, while her cells could probably heal the damage before it was done there were still innocent people nearby and she had no idea what kind of output this man could have.

“Now, who are you?” His voice was gravelly. Old. Despite his quick movements and his strength this wasn’t someone young she was fighting, there were years behind that voice.

He stood braced facing her, ready for another attack. She was busy scanning the surrounding area, making sure no-one was in the conflict zone. She could hear the helicopters and police cars in the distance approaching, at this point they usually left the fighting up to her but they’d be useful in setting up a cordone to prevent anyone from walking into trouble. “Haven’t you heard? I’m the Flash.”

She was expecting a name drop, or perhaps even a clever quip. She was expecting a thousand and one possible things, the one thing she wasn’t expecting however was that he laughed. Genuinely broke into laughter, and that gave her pause. Standing up straight, she couldn’t quite believe what was going on. “Really, you’re the Flash? No. Come on, where is he. Where’s the Flash?”

Again, he. What was with all this about a male Flash? She ran at him, ducking under his right hook and planting a blow to his lower abdomen. As she punched him her fist made contact with some form of armour, though she didn’t let it phase her. Ducking below his wild left swing she punched the centre of his back. “Why? Am I not good enough for you?” She moved around again, planning to aim for his face but he stuck a leg out causing her to tumble. On her back the man stood above her, his fist starting to emit more of a glow.

As it came down she rolled away at the last second, jumping up and then running around till she was clear. Standing up straight he scanned the area for her. “It’s nothing like that Flash-” He said it with such disdain “-you just aren’t the one I was looking for. What are you? His daughter?” She ran at him again, at speed. As the distance closed she noticed his stance begin to change, jumping over to the left she moved to grab his right arm.

Mistake.

He turned and with surprising speed clocked her in the side of her head with his left fist. Thrown off balance she went tumbling into a nearby car. The world became a blur, trying to look up the street she saw something coming up behind her foe.

“Thats….” She grunted, trying to get a better focus. “That’s not possible.”

Then the whole world went black.

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I honestly have no idea when, how, or if that's happening and my hope is that a bit of this is resolved with Johns' Doomsday Clock mini, given Rebirth basically came about in the lead-up to that. I was just expressing the other day that I've grown a bit impatient with DC fitting the pieces of their old universe back together as slowly as possible.

@Master Bruce

Part of me wonders how long they truly plan to stretch this out. I mean "The Button" was what, 20 issues ago now?

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I'm so ready to be dissapointed. Doubly for the new Night Force.

@Tackytaff

The Rebirth stuff I've read has kept me entertained.... mostly. I dropped the Titans because they did a crossover with Teen Titans, Deathstroke and a one shot. Which isn't practical for the fact I don't have a comic book store near me and do an online subscription, and then I felt out of the loop with Teen Titans to understand part of what was going on and you got the whole "Damian Wayne" going on so I was like "Fuck that".

In terms of Blue Beetle...

Spoiler?

I like the inclusion of Ted Kord as a type of 'mentor' type. I'm not sure how I feel about the Scarab being magical based, but that's just because the first Blue Beetle I grew to love was the one on Young Justice and I love the whole alien aspect. I'm not a big fan of the artwork though.

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And no, I don't know why Bruce just up and decided to put on a helmet in the vacuum of space when he, Robin, and Arthur should already be dead either.

@Master Bruce

Who's Bruce? I just see Batman, Aquaman and Robin.

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Sep has an admirer.

@ErsatzEmperor

Apparently I have one from work too.

My mother does photography, was doing it for some party at the town hall.

Woman: "Are you Kyle Neils mother?" < - My name. I don't give no shits.
Mum: "Yeah, how'd you know?"
Woman: "You kinda look like him"
-Pointless chatter-
Woman: "You know if I was ten years younger and not married, he'd be my man."

The scariest part? We wear name badges at work, but it's only our first name. How'd she get my second name?

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And no, I don't know why Bruce just up and decided to put on a helmet in the vacuum of space when he, Robin, and Arthur should already be dead either.

@Master Bruce

Who's Bruce? I just see Batman, Aquaman and Robin.

Also I'm gonna namedrop this @Ladypug who appeared, laughed at me mocking Wraith and just as quickly disappeared. Because, what?

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Lets save the demotivational fandom devoted to merely the comic book related things then, shall we? :P

RebirthPotentialSpoiler

What does everyone else feel about the hints of them bringing the original JSA back?

I'm super pumped for Jay returning and I kinda hope that the current Flash War may have something to do with it.

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I feel like comic book movies get a lot of shit. A bad movie is a bad movie, no matter if it's comic book or not. As far as I'm concerned.

Hell, you're speaking to a Star Wars fan that can sit through the Sequels without throwing a tantrum, ironically I feel like a lot of butthurt fans are being represented by the actions of Kylo Ren.

I just feel like movie culture has gotten to a point where it's pretty toxic, you really do get torn down for liking an unpopular movie, or even brand. The same way you get torn apart for the opposite, before the sequels came out "Oh I don't really like Star Wars." "YOU FUCKING WHAT?!"

People in my head just get too obsessed over it, and forget that the most important part of seeing movies is having fun and just relaxing for a couple of hours.

That said there are some bad films out there, but I feel like that's nothing to do with franchises and more Hollywood just trying to be a money factory.

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@AndyC In all honesty, I don't jump aboard the hate train for a lot of comic book movies. I can enjoy them, but I don't hate them.

The only one that annoyed me the most was Flash in Justice League, but a minor retcon of calling him Wally West and it would have been a lot better in my opinion. Barry was always the more serious of the two, and I think they just mashed Barry and Wally together for sake of needing some comedic relief in the movie.

I mean there are some comic book films I've not seen, which are the ones that garner the most hate. Out of the ones I've seen, not a single one hated.