I just read on ToonZone that they are writing scripts for a 4th season. And Paul Dini could be back to write more stories in the future - I didn’t realize that he was writing for Lost.
Based on the summary from the link in my OP - we know they include Green Arrow, Shining Knight, and Crimson Avenger. All three are original members of the Seven Soldiers of Victory in the comics. Another likely candidate is Vigilante, also a founding Soldier, but I wonder then why the summary fails to mention him. Two other members of the original soldiers were The Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy. In the Comics universe, Stargirl is a successor of the Star-Spangled Kid, and STRIPE is a battlesuit piloted by, if memory serves, Stripesy (Pat Dugan). So, in Pat, the JLU universe has a fifth founding Soldier.
Crimson’s also kind of powered, thanks to his guns (they’re cursed)…Vigilante’s guns seem pretty keen, too.
Granted, Star and STRIPE are a little above guns that never run out of ammo, but…still.
Could get a 7-man from the ones without powers or high-powered gimmick, but since, from the characters listed, they’re presumably going for the Seven Soldiers, I’d guess we have to raise the maximum power of the gimmicks to allow Star and Stripe.
I’m interrested in who they’re going to put in Speedy’s place.
Huntress and Question, GA doesn’t much seem to get along with - depending if this team’s supposed to be ‘they’re who was left on the Watchtower’, or ‘Ollie chose them’, that could be a point for, or a point against, them being used. Wildcat’s a possibility. Creeper hasn’t had much screen-time, but would be out of place. Steel could get in under the same caveat as Star and STRIPE, but he’d be fairly redundant with Pat there. Ditto with Rocket Red. Mr Terrific would be a good choice, and could also fit in under the ‘powers from tools’ exception. Nemisis could fit. Anyone else I’m familiar with is either inherantly powered, or has a really powerful gimmick.
All in all, I’m thinking the seventh might be Huntress.
GA, Huntress, Crimson, Vigilante, SK, Star & STRIPE…works for me.
I’d love to see Nemesis do something, for once – just because he was such an awesome character in John Ostrander’s Suicide Squad. He was a great secret agent/spy/master of disguise, much like Tom Cruise’s character from the Mission Impossible movies, and he was also noble and loyal on that team full of villains and sociopaths.
I definitely see the rationale for their inclusion, but I still can’t get past calling Star Girl a non-powered hero (given that it is speculation, but just to further conversation…).
There certainly is an unclear line at which something goes from a weapon to a power, but I think the power of Starman is well past that line.
I think you nailed it on the head. Things that should be considered “weapons” are things to which normal people tend to have access. Maybe even variables of things that are available in the real world.
Sure, it can be more advanced (a gun that never needs reloading) or micro-sized (capsules from the Utility Belt), but for the most part, it would be something that you wouldn’t be surprised to learn that was currently sitting in a Defense Department lab.
But when they get to the point where the hero is able to do things that seem impossible with our modern science, I feel that hero crosses over into the realm of powered heroes.
Iron Man is a good example. Tony Stark personally has no powers, but thanks to his armor, he is one of the more powerful heroes in comics.
His weaponary/gadgets have kind of taken him past that line. He can fly, lift many tons, blast energy, and even become a walking EMP.
The same is true of Star Girl. She has an energy blast, force field, and the power of flight. Sure it all stems from the Starman staff, but it kind of removes her from the guy who has a bow and arrow and knows karate.
-middleman, Enjoying fanboy debates since 1987.