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** Apparently Chief Editor Dan Didio doesn't like out-of-continuity stories. That's why Elseworlds got canned, among other things.

*** As willing as I am to blindingly accept that Dan Didio is doing something evil--again--is this actually the case? ''Trinity'' was barely in continuity, and even then no one can remember it. ''Superman/Batman'' goes in and out depending on the week. ''Wednesday Comics'' is definitely out of continuity. And his Silver Age obsession would seem to contradict that, as every other story back then was an "imaginary" story or what have you.

* [[Green Lantern]]'s weakness is yellow, which I can forgive, stupid as it is. But, doesn't that mean that any color MADE from yellow, like green or orange, would be immune to the ring?

** So far as I understand, it's less about the color as it is the place on the emotional spectrum. [[Green Lantern]] crash course it is. The emotional spectrum is red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet, with each representing an emotion - rage, greed, fear, willpower, hope, compassion and love. The reason the Green Lantern Corps are weak to the color yellow is because, in many cases, members of the Corps do not have the sheer willpower to overcome their fears. Observe the death of Jack Chance - during the Sinestro Corps War, Parallax made him fear, broke down his courage and was able to kill him as a result.

*** Additional: In theory, the GLC works against other emotions because they are not so opposed to courage as fear is. This is the reason I'm waiting quite eagerly to see what happens when Larfleeze (the Orange Lantern) meets the Indigo Tribe, as it pits greed against compassion, which are diametrically opposed.

**** If the shipping is to be believed, Indigo-1 and Larfleeze will [[Crack Pairing|fall in love]] which is a [[Just Bugs Me]] in and of itself.

* It's well established in the DCU that Lex Luthor has massive secret stockpiles of Kryptonite (How so much of the planet Krypton came with Kal-el also Bugs Me). He's used it to power Superman Killing cyborgs, Superman Killing spaceships, Superman Killing guns, a Superman Killing ring, etc. Why didn't he ever just poison Metropolis's reservoirs with Kryptonite? It's been shown that Kryptonite doesn't kill humans as quickly as it does Kryptonians. It took months for Lex's ring to nearly kill him. So the moment anyone in Metropolis was sent to a hospital for severe radiation poisoning for no obvious reason, Lex would be able to tell it was really Superman, then kill him in a more satisfying manner. If nobody got sick quickly, then Lex would at least learn that Superman doesn't drink tap water. Then he could just poison the bottled water supplies. The 52 miniseries confirmed that Lex doesn't care how many innocent people could be hurt or killed by his schemes. I mean, if I had an enemy whom I wanted dead with every fiber of my being, lacked the morals to care about innocent people getting hurt or killed, had good cause to believe the enemy lived in a specific city, and had a poison that would ''quickly'' kill ''only'' that enemy, I'd use it in that manner.

** Luthor doesn't believe that Superman has a secret identity, mostly because if Luthor had that kind of power, he would see no reason to hide it. And there's no reason to believe that Superman even needs water, given that he can ''breathe in space''. Besides, if Luthor went all out destroying Superman, with no regard for civilian casualties, he runs the risk of going too far for even Clark's boyscout nature to tolerate. In the first arc of Superman/Batman, he came very close to crossing the line that would have resulted in Superman killing him by, once again, almost destroying the world.

** "Why does everybody keep taunting Superboy Prime?" Morbid curiosity?

*** He's Superboy Prime! He's the [[You Suck|Fanbase Strawman]]! [[Take That|When the writers take the fanbase seriously, then Superboy Prime will be taken seriously.]]

** I think the original question referred not to the fan reaction but to the other characters' actions. Either they don't realize that they're pushing his [[Berserk Button]] or they just don't care (after all, it often looks like he's going to kill them anyway).

* Power Girl being allowed to remain in the universe following ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' resulted in a mess of problems involving her backstory and source of powers - and it only got worse when they were retconned in ''Infinite Crisis''. Seriously, was there any reason she was kept in the universe other than fanservice?

*** However, Power Girl was arguably the only Earth-2 only character who a) kept a pre-Crisis past (that is, was theoretically the same character before and after) and b) whose actual pre-Crisis past couldn't work anymore.

* DC universe has heroes who vary all along the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]. This is fine, except that the place each hero inhabits tends to reflect this attitude. Given that they are all set in the same world, why would anybody choose to live in Gotham or Bludhaven if they could move to Metropolis or Fawcett City instead?