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Superman, Wonder Woman and…? DC’s Forgotten Couples

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Superman, Wonder Woman and…? DC’s Forgotten Couples

By: Russ Burlingame on Aug 31, 2012

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In all a media hullabaloo that DC Entertainment has been doing their best to stir adult around a tract indicate of Superman and Wonder Woman’s on-the-page romance, one of a things that’s turn glaringly apparent is what their priorities are.

How do we mean? The publisher recently expelled a list of their tip 10 “super couples,” published as a striking on their blog, The Source and shown here during right.

My initial reaction: “Where a heck are Ralph and Sue Dibny?” Sure, they haven’t done an coming given a New 52 relaunch, though many of these “couples” aren’t couples anymore in a universe of a New 52 possibly and so clearly that’s usually gift for inclusion if it’s available since your existence or attribute doesn’t quite fit DC’s edition bulletin du jour. And while it would be formidable to disagree any one sold integrate as some-more “important” than any other, generally when a other side of a evidence is a publisher of a characters in question, a fact that they ran out of desirous ideas by a bottom of a list and enclosed Larfleeze (the miserly orange lantern) and his energy battery tends to flog out any, “Well, we only ran out of space” responses.

You competence say, “Well, Ralph and Sue Dibny aren’t both super, per se.” That’s true–or during slightest was before both of them died and reappeared during a finish of 52 as spook detectives. So, sure…they don’t count. Ditto Lois Clark, or Barry Allen and Iris West, or any array of other responses that immediately open to mind when we consider of a relations that heroes finish adult in. Since it was a long-standing trope of a genre that a hero’s adore seductiveness was small some-more than someone to be rescued, many of DC’s longest-standing heroes don’t accurately stay in healthy, committed long-term relations with anyone who can flattering be deliberate their peer. That is, if we’re being honest, one of a good things about Lois (take divided Superman’s powers and he doesn’t go 3 rounds with her in a fighting ring), though only being a bad-ass doesn’t inherently make we Justice League material.

In any case, who were some of a couples that I’d have favourite to see on a list like this? Check ‘em out below, and let us know that ones we competence have forgotten!

“Red” Robin and Spoiler

Once again, you’ve got a problem in that Stephanie Brown is notoriously absent from a universe of a New 52, though so have been Mister Miracle and Big Barda, nonetheless Mr. and Mrs. Scott Free make a list over Green Arrow and Black Canary, who will shortly have flattering extended mainstream recognition interjection to The CW’s Arrow. And while the events of Wonder Woman #12 make it seem expected that those dual will be seen again soon, if rumors (based on pretty clever evidence) are true, Spoiler will be behind in movement in a nearby future, too.

Nightwing and Batgirl

There will be those who would like to see Nightwing and Batgirl on this list, quite since there has been some import between a lines that they possibly are, were or will be together in a New 52. They’ve also got a story of unconsummated cheating that goes behind during slightest as distant as a aged Batman TV array with Adam West and Burt Ward. Still, I’m a fan of a classics and would cite to see…

Nightwing and Starfire

If there’s ever been anything between them in this new world, we don’t nonetheless know–but she’s really spent some time with a group before famous as a New Teen Titans, per Red Hood and a Outlaws #1. And given what a outrageous partial of their characters a attribute was, for such a postulated duration of time, it’s tough to omit it only since it hasn’t been privately laid out yet.

Booster Gold and Godiva

One of a few super-couples to indeed get any kind of a slit on during a New 52, Booster Gold and Godiva competence be a bit underneath a radar since she’s not accurately A-list material…but given a significance of a lady Booster eventually ends adult with, it seems like she’s value profitable courtesy to even if she ends adult personification a “Aunt Robin” purpose in Booster Gold’s personal chronicle of How we Met Your Mother.

Hal Jordan and Arisia

C’mon, DC–be a bigger man! Remind your readers about Green Lantern’s orthodox rape phase!

Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor

Yeah, yeah. We pronounced no damsels in trouble or trifling mortals or whatever we wish to call them. But in a box of a New 52, he’s heading a Justice League of America. Not accurately a lightweight.

Oh, yeah, and it’s someone she competence indeed finish adult with!

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