Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2016 21:47:03 GMT
Supergirl or Gorilla Grodd; which character is better?
Trivia about Supergirl's many incarnations:
- The first character to go by the alias of Supergirl was a South American queen named Lucy who encountered Superboy, but had no ties whatsoever to Krypton or the subsequent women to take the mantle of Supergirl.
- Since Superman was mandated by DC Comics executives to truly be "the last son of Krypton" after the entire main continuity was rebooted during "Crisis on Infinite Earths", writers who wanted to write new Supergirl stories had to get creative in how they could implement her into the then-new DC universe; their infamous first attempt at creating a Supergirl for the "New Earth" continuity was a shapeshifting artificial life form named Matrix who ended up resembling Kara Zor-El.
- In the New 52 continuity, Supergirl famously and unexpectedly began to wield a Red Lantern Power Ring, which is powered by the wielder's rage.
Trivia about Gorilla Grodd's many incarnations:
- In the "Earth-One" DC continuity, Grodd once took over the mind of a criminal named William Dawson, whose body eventually devolved into that of a gorilla; after Grodd returned to his original body, Dawson sought revenge against Grodd.
- The stories of Grodd and Sam Simeon were both tied together in the "New Earth" continuity, in which is was revealed that Sam Simeon was Gorilla Grodd's grandson.
- While it was a fad in the 1950s and 1960s for comic books to feature apes as prominent heroes or villains, Grodd proved to be popular enough to remain consistently prominent in comics throughout the 20th and 21st centuries; in more modern comic books, Grodd is still portrayed as a very threatening, serious antagonist.
Trivia about Supergirl's many incarnations:
- The first character to go by the alias of Supergirl was a South American queen named Lucy who encountered Superboy, but had no ties whatsoever to Krypton or the subsequent women to take the mantle of Supergirl.
- Since Superman was mandated by DC Comics executives to truly be "the last son of Krypton" after the entire main continuity was rebooted during "Crisis on Infinite Earths", writers who wanted to write new Supergirl stories had to get creative in how they could implement her into the then-new DC universe; their infamous first attempt at creating a Supergirl for the "New Earth" continuity was a shapeshifting artificial life form named Matrix who ended up resembling Kara Zor-El.
- In the New 52 continuity, Supergirl famously and unexpectedly began to wield a Red Lantern Power Ring, which is powered by the wielder's rage.
Trivia about Gorilla Grodd's many incarnations:
- In the "Earth-One" DC continuity, Grodd once took over the mind of a criminal named William Dawson, whose body eventually devolved into that of a gorilla; after Grodd returned to his original body, Dawson sought revenge against Grodd.
- The stories of Grodd and Sam Simeon were both tied together in the "New Earth" continuity, in which is was revealed that Sam Simeon was Gorilla Grodd's grandson.
- While it was a fad in the 1950s and 1960s for comic books to feature apes as prominent heroes or villains, Grodd proved to be popular enough to remain consistently prominent in comics throughout the 20th and 21st centuries; in more modern comic books, Grodd is still portrayed as a very threatening, serious antagonist.
