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@RazzaTazz: I see where you're coming from with Babs and Helena, but to me, those kind of relationships almost seemed kind of incestuous when characters date so close within the family like that. Power Girl woulda been cool for Nightwing I think, though. Unfortunately, I cant think of any non-to-low powered crimefighters that aren't already somehow linked to the Bat-Family or just inappropriately aged (Black Canary).

@AtPhantom: Yeah, but they went as far in the other direction they could with the character without giving her superpowers or turning her into a master martial artist: they made her a shrew.

@RazzaTazz: Honestly, damsels in distresses bore me stupid, too, these days. I just want a love interest where the most predictable angle isn't putting them in some sort of danger just so the protagonist could come and save them.

As for the woman being more powerful than the man in superhero relationships, one of my favorite couples in all of comicdom was the Nightwing and Starfire one, so for me it's not who's more physically powerful, it's that they're fully capable of taking care of themselves so they won't be used for cliched plotlines. Unfortunately, though, equality in superhero romances are a rarity it seems.

While I would've preferred WW for Steve, Lois, Lori, Lana, Maxima, and pretty much every other love interest Supes has ever had bores me stupid. Seriously, DC, none of these women should ever be considered for Supes ever again. Lois is a shrew, Maxima is a harpy, and Lori and Lana are far too subservient. WW's probably as close to an equal as Supes is going to find and I'm not just talking about physically.

As for WW's prospects, fans have pretty much rejected every love interest TPTB has ever proposed that hasn't been Steve or Supes. For whatever reason, DC absolutely refuses to give the WW/Steve pairing a shot, so I suppose Supes is the next logical choice.

@MrArrogantsaid:

Really have been enjoying the rebooted ultimate books, have been reading spiderman since issue 1, recently jumoed aboard x-men and have been reading a friend's ultimates, there haven't been stories this good since the line of books started, people who say otherwise clearly haven't read the books.

I've tried. Just doesn't hold my interest.

I really miss Dakota North, too. She's been DD's most interesting (not to mention sane) love interest in awhile. While I dropped Waid's run awhile ago, I just don't care for this new DA woman (she was a DA, right? I forget) or a potential romance with The Black Cat.

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@Mercy_ said:

We've heard this tagline in regards to the Ultimate universe like five times.

These two are totally accurate and render all comments following totally redundant. Including mine.

Exactly. If they didn't try and pull something like this every other year or so this might mean something, which is why I pretty much dropped all Ultimate books after Pete Parker's death.

The only reason DD doesn't seem to be as on the job as Bats, Spidey, or Wolvie is because he doesn't have about a dozen or so titles like those others do.

@Purgatory: If someone like the Red Hood existed in real life so many law enforcement agencies would be after him it would be ridiculous. Same would apply to anyone who took the law into their own hands that decided to take a life at their whim.

See, that's the problem with applying reality to comics. Sure you bring over the ineptitude of the Gotham legal system and The Joker to the real world, but you also have to take into account real world law which doesn't tolerate the taking of lives by vigilantes of any sort for any reason. It's just as much about order as it is justice because without oder it's just anarchy (which is ironically enough exactly the Joker's cup of tea).

It's like trying to fit a square block into a round hole. They just don't fit.

@Mediumflyer7: The reason you never heard of Steph Brown having a baby in her Batgirl series was because they tried to ignore that little fact as much as humanly possible along with all her past experience and training by having her trip over her own feet most of the time.