# Kill a Super Friend **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-a-super-friend/728314 "2015-08-20T02:50:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-a-super-friend/728314/41 "2015-08-21T23:32:39Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Wonder Woman. Anything she does Superman can do better Lasso of Truth. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-a-super-friend/728314/42 "2015-08-21T23:32:52Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Lasso of Truth. Superman’s heightened senses = built in lie detector > [@Cartoonacy](#): > > Just a little confused. There was a Super Samurai, but he was a member of [Freedom Force](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhTqysZYhtA). You can kill him off; I’m OK with that. > [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Oh my God, you’re right. That’s where I got that name. Funny thing is, I don’'t think I’ve thought of that show (conciously at any rate) for the 35 - 40 years since it aired. I had forgotten it ever existed. > > Yeah, I would’ve killed him off as well. Huh, looking at that clip it’s familiar looking, so I must have seen it at least once as a kid, but to me Freedom Force is just the name the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Mystique’s version) used when they started working for the feds. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-a-super-friend/728314/43 "2015-08-22T01:34:31Z")
I’m heartened to see that, of the Super Friends who had powers and some canon behind them, Aquaman takes the lead for being particularly useless. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-a-super-friend/728314/44 "2015-08-22T03:06:42Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > Oh, sure. I remember a comic in which he was rejuvenated by having a can of soda poured over his head.\* > He’d never do that. The fish are his friends. Which always made me wonder just what he eats. Kelp and plankton aren’t all that high in protein. > > \*Wonder Woman #215, if you really want to know. [http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale\_super/13/135013/2964896-8742737431-AQ2.J.JPG](http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_super/13/135013/2964896-8742737431-AQ2.J.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-a-super-friend/728314/45 "2015-08-26T22:34:26Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Wonder Woman. Anything she does Superman can do better, and I’m sure Batman could scrounge up a replacement for her plane from somewhere in Wayne Enterprises. And, see, I go the other way on that. I want to see more Super Friends, not fewer, so I consider specialization to be important. Superman duplicates too many other Super Friends’ powers, so he’s got to be the one to go. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-a-super-friend/728314.md?page=2)