Hey, viners! I'm on Winter break, so I have more time on my hands than usual. I want to practice my script writing skills, so I'm writing a screenplay for the origin of the Justice League. The basic concept so far involves an alliance between Felix Faust and Darkseid. While Darkseid thinks that he's in charge and leading a hostile takeover of Earth, Felix Faust is actually manipulating him to summon--Cthulhu!
Here's my problem. Even though I'm bound to be working with a lot of characters, I want to keep the story character-driven. I want to have character development for each of the heroes and I may want to use members of their supporting casts, i.e. Jim Gordon, General Lane, etc. Thus, I'm limiting myself to five founding members in this movie. If I ever write a sequel, I may expand the league to be much larger.
So far, I know that I want to use Superman and Batman because I think that they're central to the league mythos, and they have large fanbases and wide name recognition. I also want to include Wonder Woman and Cyborg because they are two of my favorite characters and they add diversity to the team. I am not changing these four members out with anyone else, which means that I have one open spot left on the team. I was thinking about filling the last spot with either the Flash or Aquaman, but I don't care who fills it out, so I'll let you guys choose! All of the heroes will be established heroes, so this won't be an origin story for any individual hero. The heroes will all be in their late twenties (27-29), and the story is set in modern day.
The only caveat is that the fifth spot cannot be filled with a Green Lantern for three reasons: 1) I strongly dislike like Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner and don't care much about the other two human lanterns, 2) I think that GLs should be too busy to join a team on Earth, 3) Picking one Earth Lantern will piss off fans of the other three Earth Lanterns.
So to summarize, my roster looks like this:
3. Wonder Woman (Diana of Themyscira)
5. ????????
And I want your suggestions for a fifth member. Please give me a reason why your selection should be on the team, and thank you all for your responses!
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