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Spinning off from the Shining Knight thread, and indeed every Seven Soldiers thread, this is a place for increasingly less speculative speculation about the identity of the Soldier who shoud be taking harp lessons. To quote what's been said so far:
Me:
As it stands so far:
Zatanna: Too much of a D.C staple, too important to Infinite Crisis.
Manhattan Guardian: Too much potential for an ongoing series, though he'd be my bet.
Shining Knight: Ongoing series already alluded to.
Bulleteer: Enormous assets worth developing
Klarion: A kid, more potential for an ongoing series or at least Teen Titans membership.
To which Stone K replied:
Mr. Miracle will die. Here's why...
1) DC have put a crappy artist on the title, as if to say "who cares about exciting people to his potential with an awesome artist."
2) There's already another Mr. Miracle out there, the original, and surely there can't be 2 running around. One of them is expendable.
3) He's on a "cross" on the cover to issue #1 - I smell a sacrifice...
'Are being stolen by bandits' (not hir real name) said:
My money's on Zatanna at the moment. Sure, she's a DC staple, but that makes her demise more likely to me - one of the tenets of Crisis seems to be the elimination of Magic from the DCU, which would leave Zatanna with bugger-all to do in the Post-Crisis Universe, and SS #1 does come out concurrently with the climax of the Crisis miniseries itself. I wouldn't be surprised if they play into each other at least a little bit (not directly, but the death of a notable DC supporting character would add to the sense of "Big Things Happening" which they seem to be going for with this).
Keith, Lord of Kobol vacuumed the Doritos out of his keyboard to reply:
Bulleteer seems the most expendable, and the most non-DC character to me for some reason. I can see her being problematic for an ongoing.
But so far...I think Manhattan Guardian has been setup as the "heart" of the 7S series, and therefore the most interesting and potent to kill off.
and finally Juan Artega landed his jet-powered rocket bike at a nearby internet cafe for long enough to say:
Mr Miracle is in a cross, but then again, he is always crucified on the weirdest devices on his covers. Besides, Jesus comes back to life in the third day.
Zatanna worries me, though. Did anyone catch that "Don't forget to tell her about the last rule of magic. The one where the magician has to vanish along with his trick. Leaving the audience and his beautiful assistants, to go on without him."
Of course, Ali-Ka-Zoom could have been talking just about himself, but... who knows.... Maybe that rule applies to all magicians sooner or later.
So my revised 7S lethality scale, 2005 edition, goes:
Zatanna
For: Hinted at by Ali-Ka-Zoom, crossed the rubicon in Identity Crisis.
Against: Too important to Infinite Crisis (would require a cross-over)
Manhattan Guardian
For: Likeable, noble, has a wife; perfect candidate. No superpowers.
Against: A new character might not have as much impact as a staple character like Zatanna.
Shining Knight
For: Most likely to sacrifice herself for the good of others.
Against: Ongoing series hinted at.
Klarion
For: Emotional impact of killing a youngster.
Against: See above, also he's quite well liked.
Bulleteer
For: Relative unknown, wouldn't create waves.
Against: Bulleteer, Starfire and Powergirl: Pillowfight of Power crossover book no doubt in the works.
Frankenstein
For: Probable pathos, not likely to care about own death.
Against: Already dead.
Mr. Mircale:
For: There can only be one!
Against: May have to take over if the original Mr. Miracle (Scott Free) dies during the Infinite Crisis.
So let's turn it over to the rest of you for a bout of wild speculation. |
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