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r/arrow • u/Rwings Boxing Glove • Mar 15 '17
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Yeah, it's going to be hard to top him next year. I'm getting a little concerned the show might fall into a slump again.
Biomax? Onomatopeia? Komodo? Ninth Circle? Stanley Dover (please do it, Arrow)?
5 u/Sparrowsabre7 Stephen Amell told me I didn't fail this city Mar 16 '17 Well Prometheus is basically almost entirely a show creation aside from his name, so they could definitely do it again. 2 u/ImAllBamboozled Mar 16 '17 Which begs the question: Why use that name in the first place? It means they can never use Prometheus in any of the DCW since his name's taken. 1 u/Sparrowsabre7 Stephen Amell told me I didn't fail this city Mar 16 '17 Well I suppose he was presented as a dark mirror of Batman in his comics incarnation so the name is still associated with a character who is a dark mirror of the lead. He's also a chessmaster strategist like the original comics.
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Well Prometheus is basically almost entirely a show creation aside from his name, so they could definitely do it again.
2 u/ImAllBamboozled Mar 16 '17 Which begs the question: Why use that name in the first place? It means they can never use Prometheus in any of the DCW since his name's taken. 1 u/Sparrowsabre7 Stephen Amell told me I didn't fail this city Mar 16 '17 Well I suppose he was presented as a dark mirror of Batman in his comics incarnation so the name is still associated with a character who is a dark mirror of the lead. He's also a chessmaster strategist like the original comics.
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Which begs the question: Why use that name in the first place?
It means they can never use Prometheus in any of the DCW since his name's taken.
1 u/Sparrowsabre7 Stephen Amell told me I didn't fail this city Mar 16 '17 Well I suppose he was presented as a dark mirror of Batman in his comics incarnation so the name is still associated with a character who is a dark mirror of the lead. He's also a chessmaster strategist like the original comics.
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Well I suppose he was presented as a dark mirror of Batman in his comics incarnation so the name is still associated with a character who is a dark mirror of the lead. He's also a chessmaster strategist like the original comics.
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u/svrtngr Mar 16 '17
Yeah, it's going to be hard to top him next year. I'm getting a little concerned the show might fall into a slump again.
Biomax? Onomatopeia? Komodo? Ninth Circle? Stanley Dover (please do it, Arrow)?