>>3410
>So we know that the hero in question is male, and that he is considered an "iconic" level character.
>That slims the field down considerably. The only male DC superheroes I can think of who would be considered "iconic" are Batman, Superman, Flash, Green Lantern, and maybe Aquaman.

Aquaman is clearly a bit of a whoopsy. Plus I'm not sure they'd have the stones to do it with any of the others.

>>3411
Probably won't be the green lantern because there's already been a recent refresh. They couldn't pull-off doing it with batman in any way that fits in with the prevalent dark theme in a way that would make sense.

My money is on superman.

Apparently, it's supposed to be someone they haven't introduced yet. So that rules out most of the obvious options. In another place they think it's one of three things:

1. Captain Marvel, which, given his alter-ego is usually a pre-pubescent boy, would be super-awkward
2. Plastic Man, which would be ... amusing, to say the least
3. Dan DiDio is trolling the internet again

>>3413

Iconic DC character... unintroduced Marvel character?
uwotm8?

>>3412
You can't do that, Superman has Lois Lane.

>>3416
No, Clark Kent has Lois Lane, if you catch my drift...

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1686273/green-lantern-gay.jhtml

It's Green Lantern. The original Green Lantern, mind. I thought they'd scrapped him when they made the "sci-fi" reworking of the whole Green Lantern universe.

>>3419

>"Presenting that kind of a heroic role model hopefully will be a good thing and help to show gays in a positive light for people who might be a little more small-minded."

>gays

Oh, DC.

Still, I'm cheesing about this. I remember having a conversation with a mate of mine last year in which I talked about the Green Lantern being a great role model for gay kids. He is courageous and without fear and it grants him great power. As a kid, Green Lantern was my favourite super hero. I have a Green Lantern Tattoo. If it wasn't for Hal Jordan I probably would never have had the courage to tell my Dad I was gay in an era when such things were not talked about.

Now I find out Hal is gay? Right in the childhood, DC, in a brilliant way.

>>3445

Total brain fart. Yeah, Alan Scott. I was too excited.

>>3445

>He is courageous and without fear and it grants him great power.

I was just looking at that and then I remembered that the ring doesn't work against the colour yellow, and it all fitted together and I was left gobsmacked for a moment.

>>3447

I really don't understand, can you explain? The best I can come up with is that fear is associated with the colour yellow.

>>3448

You came up with it right, with one little mistake. The colour yellow isn't associated with fear, but with cowardice.

I know it's not exactly amazing but it amused me for a few minutes after it occurred to me.

>>3450

I can understand that yellow is associated with cowardice but I don't see the logic of him being without fear meaning his magical powers are ineffective against the colour yellow. In what sense are they ineffective, anyway? Okay, so he can't make a giant fist that can punch someone painted yellow, but what's to stop the giant fist picking up a car and hitting him with that?

Someone is suggesting over my shoulder that it's a sort of analogy about how heroism doesn't work in the face of cowardice but I can't really get that to coalesce into logic in my head.

>>3451

It just doesn't bloody matter, mate.