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The Outsiders: My Line-Up

Outsiders is one of those DC titles that just doesn't seem to work as well as it should. Founded by Batman after his relationship with the Justice League was strained, it had a roster of Geo-Force, Katana, Halo, Looker, Black Lightning and Metamorpho. Subsequent incarnations of the team were designed to actively search for superhuman criminals rather than wait for them to act, and to act as a black ops Justice League that could take the proverbial "fall" in public opinion when the League couldn't.

In the brand new, post-New 52, post-Convergence continuity, maybe a new Outsiders team is what the DC universe needs. If I was putting together a black ops Justice League, this is the kind of roster I'd draw up. Only one of these characters, to my knowledge, has been an Outsider before.

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  • The DC Comics team. The black ops Justice League.

  • A character who briefly emerged before Flashpoint, she joined the JSA, hailing from a different time period, clad in steampunk attire, and with a unique powerset: she's an intermediate-level magic user armed with gauntlets which fire bullet-like "spellcasings", containing a difficult spell often too difficult for her to recreate.

  • Unfairly derided by some as the poor man's Wonder Woman, Barda of Apokolips used to be a Female Fury under Granny Goodness, until she escaped with her husband, Scott Free (or Mister Miracle). This New God is a master combatant, resistant to many forms of damage, and wields a Mega-Rod that shoots concussive bolts, increases gravity, and allows teleportation.

  • An undead creature stitched together from several corpses by Victor Frankenstein, he became an operative of the government agency SHADE. He has superhuman strength, does not need to eat or sleep, and is functionally immortal. Because of his undead nature, Frankenstein can replace damaged or missing limbs with grafts taken from individuals of similar build and adapt it to his unique physiology.

  • I like to envision Eve Eden as DC's answer to Black Widow. She'd be the company's premier female spy. Hailing from an alternate shadow dimension and formerly an operative of Task Force X, she's got the shadow-controlling powers and espionage skills to make an uber-efficient agent.

  • Achilles the Warkiller, he was originally created by Zeus to replace the all-female Amazons. A powerful warrior capable of besting Wonder Woman and Superman, he rides a mystical flying elephant with three eyes and two trunks.

  • Mitch Shelley dies. A lot. And comes back to life shortly after. Every time he returns to life, he returns with a new ability related to the last way he died. This concept expands the potential of stories immensely. If the team controls his death, he can develop incredible abilities (like transform into a bulletproof Hulk-like creature) relevant to the mission at hand.

  • The Green Lantern of Space Sector 700, he lead The Corpse, the secret black ops unit of the Guardians of the Universe. A shapeshifting Durlan, he's carried out countless missions "too dark for the light of the [Green Lantern] Corps". He'd make a fearsome addition to the Outsiders, and would probably serve as team leader.

  • Created to replace Hawkman in Grant Morrison's JLA, he was a guardian angel who willingly fell to Earth to join the Justice League and repel the forces of a renegade angel. He has a devastating array of powers and arsenal of weapons that makes him a formidable fighter, even among this team.
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