# Which character in the DC comics universe would you like to be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-books-manga\ **Created:** [February 17, 2023, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927 "2023-02-17T02:53:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/21 "2023-02-17T16:36:35Z")
Lana Lang. She’s a friend of Superman’s while maintaining some distance. Good job. Doesn’t have to show up for every big conflict and adventure. Hardly ever the target of Superman’s enemies (though it did happen every so often). Being Jimmy Olsen or Lois Lane would be a constant headache, I think. BTW, I’m male. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/22 "2023-02-17T16:41:45Z")
Does “to be” a character include personality? Take Johnny Thunder: I would like to have the power to control the Thunderbolt, but Johnny’s intellect left a lot to be desired. Or Vandal Savage: I would like to be immortal, but I’m not particularly interested in conquering the world. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/23 "2023-02-17T16:42:10Z")
Ever since I picked up a comic as a wee lad, it’s always been The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive! And he’s one of the nicest guys in comics as well. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/24 "2023-02-17T17:47:55Z")
Anyone want to take a guess about me 😆 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/25 "2023-02-17T17:50:27Z")
Zod, right? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/26 "2023-02-17T17:51:24Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Anyone want to take a guess about me Not sure why you’d want to be some random reporter. I mean, you could be anybody! You could be Superman! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/27 "2023-02-17T17:57:19Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Not sure why you’d want to be some random reporter. Are you kidding me? I am a journalism school graduate who actually worked as a reporter. Clark Kent was a role model! > [@Perry White](#): > > Lois, Clark Kent may seem like just a mild-mannered reporter, but listen, not only does he know how to treat his editor-in-chief with the proper respect, not only does he have a snappy, punchy prose style, but he is, in my forty years in this business, the fastest typist I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/28 "2023-02-17T18:01:15Z")
Wasn’t there an alternate universe where Supergirl was the big name superhero (named Lea Lindy) whose less well known cousin was Kent Clark? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/29 "2023-02-17T20:37:29Z")
Cosmic Boy. To heck with this Century–the 31st got starships! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/30 "2023-02-17T21:00:57Z")
Good choice! I would have picked Bouncing Boy myself. I can’t remember anything really bad happening to him. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/31 "2023-02-17T21:19:48Z")
I want to be the anonymous farmer that you can barely see from the air when Supes flies over on his way to some crisis or other. One that lives as far from Metropolis and Gotham as possible and still be in the continental US. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/32 "2023-02-17T21:45:15Z")
Other than, well, **being** Bouncing Boy? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/33 "2023-02-17T21:46:35Z")
Hey, look who he married. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/34 "2023-02-17T22:17:51Z")
Exactly! Further comments on how I already resemble BB would be unnecessary and rude. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/35 "2023-02-17T22:25:34Z")
The Heckler My only vulnerability would be low sales figures. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/36 "2023-02-18T01:57:16Z")
Man, the more comics you’ve read (a couple a day since [Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm met the Beatles](https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/11051/strange_tales_1951_130)), the harder this is! My immediate thought was Bruce Wayne, but he’s going to need more than a few years of therapy to get his psyche un-twisted. So maybe **Robin** or **Bat-Girl** (the originals, before DC decided they needed to grow up, and be replaced by Jr. Bats who end up being just as twisted as The Bat). Dick Greyson would go on some of the missions, but was clearly in less danger of death or psychological issues. Barbara Gordon just showed up on her Bat-Cycle whenever she felt like it. So I guess I’d like to be the Alicia Silverstone Bat-Girl. Sunny, no big worries, not even about her secret identity (“Bruce, it’s ME…!”) And that version never got shot by the Joker. So, I guess I want to be involved in heroics if I’m in the mood, but then go back to a normal life. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/37 "2023-02-18T23:46:40Z")
There was a movie in the 1980s about the crew of a WW2 bomber, and it had a bit where one of the crew was afraid to fly, and constantly explained that planes should not be able to. So I’d be one of the Green Lantern Corps, but constantly explaining to the rest of the Lanterns that a bunch of mercenaries roaming the universe with magic rings is total nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/38 "2023-02-19T00:11:47Z")
Power Girls neighbor during that run where she was always accidentally running naked out of her apartment. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927/39 "2023-02-19T00:27:19Z")
Me too. We have the famous Superman building used in the TV show right here in Providence. It’s not the one really but there’s no point talking to locals about that. Anyway, that building is being refurbished because it’s falling apart so I’m sure they could set up an office like that for me. It needs a big open wall, or maybe it was floor to ceiling windows that opened, but somehow Supes could fly right to his office. ---
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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Ever since I picked up a comic as a wee lad, it’s always been The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive! And he’s one of the nicest guys in comics as well. Yes, but he always has to do the washing up. [https://i0.wp.com/www.thegeeklikes.com/wp-content/uploads/Super\_Antics\_3.jpg?resize=650%2C905&ssl=1](https://i0.wp.com/www.thegeeklikes.com/wp-content/uploads/Super_Antics_3.jpg?resize=650%2C905&ssl=1) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-in-the-dc-comics-universe-would-you-like-to-be/979927.md?page=3)