I think that depends on whether you use the man on the street’s definition of “iconic,” or the DC marketing department’s definition of “iconic.” I’m pretty sure they’d describe The Ten-Eyed Man as iconic if they thought it would move more comics.
Black Hawk.
It’s nice to know DC’s intent of getting the attention of people who haven’t read comics in a while has been fulfilled.
It’s surprising that anyone would think that Alfred hadn’t appeared at all for almost a year, though. I mean…it’s Alfred…doing Batman without Alfred would be all kinds of wrong. (FTR, there are currently 8 bat-branded books. Of those the only one Alfred hasn’t appeared in at all is Batwoman. He appears regularly in all 4 of the Bruce/Damien books - Batman, Batman & Robin, Dark Knight and Detective - occasionally in Nightwing and Batgirl, and in 2 issues of Batwing, when the story took that book to Gotham.)
That’s brilliant! Alfred! When the recent Batman movies came out I made the observation that Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman played Alfred and Lucius as a married couple.
That’s not related to the comics, though, and Alfred appears to be ineligible.
If they want to give Alfred a shocking backstory, a better reveal would be that he is actually Bruce’s biologic father. All kinds of ways that could be spun. Thomas Wayne was sterile…Martha Wayne was drunk and horny one night…this idea is pure gold. It would, within continuity, give a believable explanation for Alfred’s lifelong devotion to Bruce.
Revived as Black Chickenhawk.
Were Caine and Freeman ever onscreen together in the new Batman movies?
Yes they were. I’m thinking particularly of a scene in which Bruce is in bed injured and Alfred and Lucius are tending to him like they’re his parents.
Oh, yeah - after he’s been dosed with the fear toxin in the first movie, right?
Could be. I can’t remember for sure.
He’s been mentioned unthread, but why not Oliver Queen?
Oliver Queen is a notorious womanizer and serial adulterer. He’s had children with at least two other women while he was in a committed relationship with Dinah Drake Lance, or whatever they’re calling her these days.
Because it has to be somebody that has yet to appear in “The New 52” reformat.
Also, the last arc of his book pretty much put paid to the idea current Ollie is gay. (If he was, he’d have gotten in a WHOLE lot less trouble.)
Could I ask for a summary?
[hijack]Ollie fathered one son (Connor) before he even met Dinah and the other (Robert) when he was drugged and raped by the child’s mother, Shado. It’s not like the writers bother to remember this (I’m looking at you, Judd Winick) but it’s still canon (or was until the reboot.)[/hijack.]
My guess is Catwoman. She sure loves her some pussies.
EDIT: NM. I just remembered that it is going to be a male character.
Basically, Ollie falls for Skylark - beautiful blonde triplets (who claim a single identity), who seduce him, for the purposes of faking his death and bringing him to their supervillain father (who’s in the Ra’s al Ghul school of ‘the world’s going down the tubes, so I’m going to do something f’n insane to fix it’)…eventually one of them falls for him, and helps him get free…but one of the loyal ones uses his tendency to think with his little head to screw that up for them (it mostly doesn’t cause too many problems for Ollie himself, actually, happening in the last issue of the arc, but it really screws up the sympathetic Skylark).
Do I have to be the one who points out it’d be kind of tacky to have as your gay superhero a guy named Queen?