# Have any TV shows based on DC or Marvel characters contributed anything to the canon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 19, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-tv-shows-based-on-dc-or-marvel-characters-contributed-anything-to-the-canon/149604 "2003-01-19T07:07:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-tv-shows-based-on-dc-or-marvel-characters-contributed-anything-to-the-canon/149604/41 "2003-01-22T03:37:26Z")
Plastic Man had a son on his series, and he currently has one in JLA continuity. But the 60s Plastic Man was said to be the son of the 40s Plas, so that’s not a TV invention. Wouldn’t Nicholas Brendan (Xander from **Buffy** make a great Plastic Man? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-tv-shows-based-on-dc-or-marvel-characters-contributed-anything-to-the-canon/149604/42 "2003-01-22T12:03:48Z")
**Krokodil** : wait a sec…the '60s Plastic Man was _never_ said to be the son of the '40s Plastic Man in the comics (as far as I know). Can you give a cite? Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-tv-shows-based-on-dc-or-marvel-characters-contributed-anything-to-the-canon/149604/43 "2003-01-22T20:03:08Z")
I’d have to wonder how the 1940s Plastic Man could father a child at all. …'cause, y’know, with the rubber and all… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-tv-shows-based-on-dc-or-marvel-characters-contributed-anything-to-the-canon/149604/44 "2003-01-22T20:28:46Z")
IIRC, in the early 1970s, the comic book version of Wonder Woman had ditched the red, white & blue bathing suit for an “Emma Peel”-style jumpsuit. There was even a “Wonder Woman” TV movie that showed Cathy Lee Crosby in a similar outfit, but it was a bomb. When the Lynda Carter-Wonder Woman TV series began, they reverted to the original outfit. The comic book then followed suit (no pun intended) by having WW go back to her old costume. In fact, when the TV series was set in the 1940s, the comic book even featured the Earth-2 WW in WWII stories. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-tv-shows-based-on-dc-or-marvel-characters-contributed-anything-to-the-canon/149604/45 "2003-01-22T22:32:54Z")
**Art** I think your timing is off: I believe the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman was around 1976, the “Emma Peel” Wonder Woman storyline ended no later than '72 (Wonder Woman #200 give or take an issue) and she was back in costume immediately after. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-tv-shows-based-on-dc-or-marvel-characters-contributed-anything-to-the-canon/149604/46 "2003-01-23T02:36:32Z")
**Fenris.** The 60s Plastic Man was revealed as the 40s Plas’s son in an issue of the 60s series. It’s no longer in continuity, and a big mystery of current continuity is just how old the current Eel O’Brien is. (There are hints that he’s the same guy who took an acid bath in 1941, but they back off of saying it outright.) With his powers, he could be any age (up to 3000 years; see the recent “Obsidian Age” issues of JLA) and make kimself look young. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-tv-shows-based-on-dc-or-marvel-characters-contributed-anything-to-the-canon/149604/47 "2003-01-26T07:20:20Z")
Originally posted by Krokodil: **And while Boba Fettt was introduced in a minor cameo in ROTJ, word is he was intended from the get-go as a major player in the comic.** Actually, IIRC Boba Fett’s first appearance was in none other than the _Star Wars Christmas Special_. He then made his first film appearance in _The Empire Strikes Back_. He was filmed but cut from _A New Hope_. I remember the Boba Fett action figure being the rarest and the one most sought after. No one really knew who he was because he hadn’t been in a movie yet. To this day I’ve never seen the Christmas Special. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-tv-shows-based-on-dc-or-marvel-characters-contributed-anything-to-the-canon/149604/48 "2003-01-26T07:23:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Harvey The Heavy \* > \*\*Originally posted by Krokodil: > > [b He was filmed but cut from _A New Hope_. > \*\* Nyet. The insert of him in the Special Edition is an ILM employee that was ibluescreened into the scene. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-tv-shows-based-on-dc-or-marvel-characters-contributed-anything-to-the-canon/149604.md?page=2)