It has recently come to my attention that between Marvel and DC

[conuly]

there are a surprising number of kids who were raised as assassins, and for some reason the comics world thinks that growing up language deprived will make you really good at that. (I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that this is actually the least plausible origin story, and I think we all know how implausible that makes it. Yes, even less plausible than that one.)

Anyway, after hearing this I suggested to Eva that they all ought to form a crossover discussion group.

Eva: None of them talk!
Me: Hence the need for a group.

She's not convinced.

Comments

[silveradept]

I think a support group for them is a sensible idea.

[conuly]

Hence why it must happen only in fanfic and never in the comics proper, I suppose.

[silveradept]

Yes, because when you start making characters competent and make their worlds have effects, the gatekeeping fanboys get their feelings hurt.