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As far as I can recall, Hunter Zolomon was stripped of his powers and basically written out of the Flash timeline aftter Final Crisis, leaving Eobard Thawne as the only Reverse-Flash. I don't think the two Zooms ever worked together outside of the Rogues War.
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Selachian posted:As far as I can recall, Hunter Zolomon was stripped of his powers and basically written out of the Flash timeline aftter Final Crisis, leaving Eobard Thawne as the only Reverse-Flash. I don't think the two Zooms ever worked together outside of the Rogues War. What kind of a name is "Zolomon", anyway?
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Nov 28, 2017 17:41
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prefect posted:What kind of a name is "Zolomon", anyway? A weird one, unlike perfectly normal names like Eobard Thawne.
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Nov 28, 2017 17:43
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Skwirl posted:A weird one, unlike perfectly normal names like Eobard Thawne. I could imagine some British aristocrat or maybe an Amish dude or a Pilgrim with a crazy name like that.
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Nov 28, 2017 17:45
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prefect posted:What kind of a name is "Zolomon", anyway? Not a very common one, according to Ancestry.com, but there are some records of a family with that name in Ohio. Probably a corruption of Solomon.
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Nov 28, 2017 17:48
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prefect posted:I could imagine some British aristocrat or maybe an Amish dude or a Pilgrim with a crazy name like that. All those weird names tend to be people from the Bible. I don't remember the story Eobard from Sunday school. Zolomon is just a quirky version of Solomon, a name from the bible. His ancestor probably had a weird accent and the bureaucrat at Ellis Island wrote it down wrong.
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Nov 28, 2017 17:52
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While we're discussing the Flash, was there any reason why Waid's (original) run was broken up by the Morrison/Millar issues? Did Waid leave the book but come back, or did he just need a break from it for a bit?
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Nov 28, 2017 17:58
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My mom had a few uncles from the old country with the name Solomon (or shortened to Solly) so I never thought it was weird name if pronounced like that. The thing with the "z" though sounds like some kind of yoga mom weird for the sake of being weird kind of spelling that you would see popping up in the last few years, kind of like how the letter "y" has been inserted into names now, whether they need the letter or not.
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Zolomon is just spelled that way so you can take out the middle letters to get Zoom.
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Nov 28, 2017 18:06
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Wheat Loaf posted:Zolomon is just spelled that way so you can take out the middle letters to get Zoom. Then his super-villain name should be "Zooon"
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Nov 28, 2017 18:08
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Wheat Loaf posted:Zolomon is just spelled that way so you can take out the middle letters to get Zoom. So it's Zoon then? No wonder he never caught on
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Nov 28, 2017 18:11
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purple death ray posted:So it's Zoon then? I remember a comic panel (maybe when he was waking up after the treadmill mishap or coming out of a coma or something) it's a closeup of Zolomon on the name placard, then his fingers come down and rake over the name leaving it as Zo I always figured Zolomon was some variant of Solomon. But then again, when you got a villain whose real name is fuckin Roy G. Bivolo can you honestly waggle your finger at anything? E: I'd love to know the thought process behind coming up with some of the ridiculous 'civilian alter-egos' for characters. I looked up Dr. Midnite on Wikipedia, and kind of rolled my eyes at his name being 'Dr. Charles McNider' LadyPictureShow fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Nov 28, 2017 18:19
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I think Tom Morrow/T. O. Morrow is still the best Super Villain name pun because it’s completely believable as a real name, almost innocuous, but is every bit as literal and eye rolling as the others when you look at it
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Nov 28, 2017 18:25
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I maintain the Martian Manhunter's name should be pronounced "John Johns".
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purple death ray posted:So it's Zoon then? Zoon is a less well-known Flash villain who can control time to make things happen zooner.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Zoon is a less well-known Flash villain who can control time to make things happen zooner. That actually reminds me of a question I had. Quicksilver lost his powers when Scarlet Witch said "No More Mutants," then I read Son of M where he inhaled Terrigan gas and got a weird ability to sorta travel through time, then I didn't read anything involving him again until the most recent Uncanny Avengers where he has his old powers back. What happened between then and now?
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Mover posted:I think Tom Morrow/T. O. Morrow is still the best Super Villain name pun because it’s completely believable as a real name, almost innocuous, but is every bit as literal and eye rolling as the others when you look at it I feel like him and Turner D. Century ought to have a cross-company team-up. prefect posted:I maintain the Martian Manhunter's name should be pronounced "John Johns". It's not?!  LadyPictureShow fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Nov 28, 2017 18:39
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If you mention Turner D. Century 3 times on a single page, Edge & Christian appears out of nowhere.
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LadyPictureShow posted:It's not?! 
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purple death ray posted:So it's Zoon then? Zoon is the homeworld of the Legion's Timber Wolf (for some reason they changed it to Zuun in later versions). And Eobard Thawne at least has the excuse of being from the future. Maybe in the 25th Century, being called Eobard Thawne is like being named John Jones.
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John Jones sounds like a normal American name John Johns doesn't. J'onn J'onzz could easily have the same vowel sound, but J'on changed it for his secret identity in order to blend in better. Fake edit: Chrome somehow recognized the proper spelling was J'onn and not J'on and since the first name has a double n and the last name doesn't that might affect vowel pronunciation, I'm not an expert on Martian grammar.
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LadyPictureShow posted:I remember a comic panel (maybe when he was waking up after the treadmill mishap or coming out of a coma or something) it's a closeup of Zolomon on the name placard, then his fingers come down and rake over the name leaving it as Zo My favourite ever superperson name thing is still the Riddler. Whose name is Edward Nygma. Only it's not. His birth name was Eddie Nash. But he legally changed it to Nygma, because he was that committed to the gimmick.
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The Question IRL posted:My favourite ever superperson name thing is still the Riddler. Whose name is Edward Nygma. The Riddler is so much better than the Joker, I can't properly express it.
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If we're doing amazingly appropriate names, how about a moment of appreciation for Dr. Harleen Quinzell, aka Harley Quinn? I love that it's just close enough to a real name to be plausible and also to be entirely believable that she'd prefer a nickname that would land her perilously close to a synonym for "clown".
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I like my favorite Riddler more than my favorite Joker, but hate the worst Riddler more than the worst Joker. The former is Good Riddler, the latter is the Riddler that comes right after.
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I get that J'onn J'onzz likely wouldn't be pronounced 'John Johns' but given the J'on structure in both, my mind just automatically 'reads' it as 'John Johns' in my head. Stupid Linguistics answer: maybe the zz at the end of his last name makes it a long 'o' sound.
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J. Jonah Jameson posted:Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs. Four mechanical arms welded right onto his body. What are the odds?
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Dini's take on the Riddler during his Detective Comics run is still my fave Riddler. I have a soft spot for villains turning heroes (or just less villainous I guess) because it shows an actual growth in the character, and having the Riddler still keep his smug charm and ego while actually trying to put it to good use was a good turn for the character.
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Beating their heretofore unheard of daughter to death was a very DC (at that time) heel turn back and it sucked hard.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Zolomon is just spelled that way so you can take out the middle letters to get Zoom. He also could have been Zoom'n.
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LadyPictureShow posted:
They teamed up in Rogues War. Zolomon had the crazy eyes.
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Selachian posted:Zoon is the homeworld of the Legion's Timber Wolf (for some reason they changed it to Zuun in later versions). I was making a joke about the failure of the Microsoft Zune to take hold of any significant share of the market
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irlZaphod posted:While we're discussing the Flash, was there any reason why Waid's (original) run was broken up by the Morrison/Millar issues? Did Waid leave the book but come back, or did he just need a break from it for a bit? Pretty sure they just thought it would be fun to swap books for a while. Morrison and Millar did Flash #130-138 (Millar did #139-141 solo) and Waid did JLA #18-21 and #32-33. These issues roughly line up time-wise? Kinda? I don't know if there was any more to it than that, but maybe.
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irlZaphod posted:While we're discussing the Flash, was there any reason why Waid's (original) run was broken up by the Morrison/Millar issues? Did Waid leave the book but come back, or did he just need a break from it for a bit? He took a year off to do JLA: Year One and The Life Story of The Flash.
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LadyPictureShow posted:Bringing up more Flash Rogues chat here (this thread is a godsend) my brother watches The Flash, and I used to read it up until like, Rogues War in the Johns era, but I'll pick up some more recent issues here and there. But him asking me questions about show characters and me explaining who they were in the comics has us both going kinda Zoom has black lenses and pink irises and the two lightning bolts dick touching at his belt line (like Wallys costume). Thawne has jus the reverse Flash version of Barrys (the boot wings, and thick lightning bolt belt).
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Paraphrased from Waid's Daredevil run: "Zebediah Killgrave? Was this guy born to be a supervillain?" "We call that the 'Victor Von Doom' effect."
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Benito Cereno posted:Pretty sure they just thought it would be fun to swap books for a while. Morrison and Millar did Flash #130-138 (Millar did #139-141 solo) and Waid did JLA #18-21 and #32-33. These issues roughly line up time-wise? Kinda? I don't know if there was any more to it than that, but maybe. Senior Woodchuck posted:He took a year off to do JLA: Year One and The Life Story of The Flash. Thanks! I was curious since I have a couple of the new tpbs of his run, and also the Morrison/Millar tpb. I had noticed that Waid came back to Flash afterwards. It's interesting to read more about the goings on behind the scenes sometimes. The whole thing around the "Fastest Man Alive" series post-Infinite Crisis was weird too. Poor Bart did not get treated well.
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It seems like the new Flash series is more like Wally's personality with Barry's background. This is a fairly nonspecific question, but why was Wally's personal life such a chaotic mess for so many years? I don't mean soap opera drama, I mean like, he won the lottery and then went broke and his father was an alien secret agent. I went back and read the whole run, and it all seemed so unnecessary. The most "grounded" part of Wally's first Flash series was him trying to make friends with supervillains so they wouldn't be dicks.
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Halloween Jack posted:This is a fairly nonspecific question, but why was Wally's personal life such a chaotic mess for so many years? I don't mean soap opera drama, I mean like, he won the lottery and then went broke and his father was an alien secret agent. I went back and read the whole run, and it all seemed so unnecessary. The most "grounded" part of Wally's first Flash series was him trying to make friends with supervillains so they wouldn't be dicks. The 90s
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Retro Futurist posted:The 90s Late '80s, really. The real answer is it went through two writers relatively fast, and also a dumbass crossover for the bit about his dad.
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