Thread:Mikex20/@comment-24652145-20180309032446/@comment-24652145-20180322221707

Mikex20 wrote: For the X-Men students, "Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters" sounds more official. For Batman, I think "Gotham Knights" sounds better. I've always thought Dynamic Duo and Caped Crusaders sounds too corny for most incarnations of Batman.

The sub-categories you mentioned soud good. It will make finding the teams you want easier.

How would you feel about a category for deceased characters and possibly resurrected characters. The "Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters" seems to be more the name of the school/location itself. Perhaps "Xavier's Gifted Youngsters" is more suitable?

And I think the Dynamic Duo and Caped Crusaders bit came from the pre-Adam West era of comics and I seem to remember the narrators of the Super Friends or the Adam West's Batman show sometime referring to them by the name. It's sort of like how the comic writers tried to make the superheroes sound more dramatic in narration; like Superman as "The Man of Tomorrow" or "The Last Son of Krypton".

Barry Allen/Flash had a few too, "The Fastest Man Alive" isn't too bad and is even still used to this day. On the other hand, they also tried out "The Monarch of Motion" and "The Sultan of Speed" neither of which stuck for some reason *snort*.

I always thought it was a bit strange that DC has never come up with an official name for Batman and his allies. I suppose it was just easily to say "Batman & Robin". But yes, the whole "Gotham Knights" is about the only name that sounds serious and not too corny as the "Batman Family" came from the 1960s I think.

The "Deceased" and "Resurrected" categories for Characters seem like a good idea. As long certain rules are made. Ghosts fall into the Deceased Category but I don't think they should count for Resurrected one for instance; I think Reapers and Zombies too.

Some films/stories claim that Vampires are the Undead meaning that they died and are resurrected but I think we should just avoid that whole thing considering that some universes claim that Vamps are "born" that way.

Resurrected I think should only count if you actually physically die and are brought back to life--or the state of being that they were at. Right off the top of my head, Buffy Summers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one who falls in that category; she was killed and was resurrected via spell. There are probably lots of others too but I can't think of any at the moment.