In the past few months, I've been trying to reinvent various DC comics characters, with an emphasis on some of the older and lesser known ones. NOTE: This is completely non-profit and is just my form of entertainment.
Anyway, I've always loved the Dial H for Hero character, but I found the concept to be a rather hard one to imagine in modern comics (possibly why you hardly see it now) and I was wondering: How would you reinvent the characters and the concept, preferably without making it too much like Ben 10?
1 - A brief idea I had was where an increasing number of diverse heroes is resulting in unpredictable outcomes, as the media and government are fearing who is behind it and the power they must have. Meanwhile, Robby is helping people, only to find others would do anything to get a new body and a fresh start in life, making him feel rather depressed and greedy. Moreover, turning into different heroes is creating split personalities in his mind, causing an increasingly bad dissoactive identity disorder and amnesia. Becoming famous for being someone he's not is causing emotional trauma and has made him forget what it's like to be himself, or human for that matter.
2 - Another idea I literally just had was quite different.... Maybe he finds out that all the heroes he turned into still exist in the world, gaining personalities of their own. He has to go out to find them, before they loose control of their powers and kill innocents in his name. This story will be able to cover the issue of identity and cloning and could be a superheroic analogy of 'The ship of Theseus'.
3 - Possibly linked to the above, Robby could find out that he is actually everyone (or a big proportion) of people in his life, and was, in fact, the person that put the dial where he found it. I understand this sounds like a completely strange idea , but if you look at 'All you zombies', you'll see where I'm coming from.
That's a few of my suggestions, anyway. What's yours?
Tags: Dial H for Hero, Robby Reed
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