Here are the results of that show of thumbs and five others involving DC Comics characters. (As it happens, in multiple instances, the number of members voting was seven.)
The Flash #327 (11/83)
Green Arrow
Elongated Man
Firestorm
out:
Wonder Woman
Aquaman
Hawkman
tiebreaker (in):
Superman
(vote not formally revealed but implied by composition)
go public:
Flash
Green Lantern
Atom
Plastic Man
stay hidden:
Superman
Wonder Woman
Hawkgirl
Metamorpho
tiebreaker (go public):
Impulse/Kid Flash
JLA #46 (10/00)
in:
Flash
Green Lantern
Martian Manhunter
out:
Wonder Woman
Aquaman
Plastic Man
tiebreaker (out):
Superman
Justice League season 2/series finale “Starcrossed” (5/04)
(vote not shown but this is how it was later revealed to go)
in:
Flash
Martian Manhunter
out:
Batman
Wonder Woman
recused:
Green Lantern
tiebreaker (in):
Superman (stated in the subsequent episode “Wake the Dead”)
Identity Crisis #2 (9/04)
for:
Hawkman
Atom
Zatanna
against:
Green Lantern
Green Arrow
Black Canary
tiebreaker (for):
Flash
JLA #118 (11/05)
for:
Flash
Hawkman
Green Arrow
against:
Superman
Green Lantern
Black Canary
tiebreaker (she wouldn’t do the mindwipe so a no):
Zatanna
Superman was a tiebreaker three times, twice siding with teammates (Flash and Hawkgirl) and once siding against (Batman).
The harshest voters?
- Wonder Woman voted against a teammate three times, Aquaman twice.
- Hawkman voted against a teammate once and twice voted to mindwipe villains.
- Twice Flash voted to keep a teammate but twice he voted to mindwipe.
The most sympathetic voters?
- Like Flash, Martian Manhunter twice voted to keep a teammate. (He was not present for mindwipe votes.)
- Green Lantern voted to keep a teammate and twice voted not to mindwipe.
- Black Canary twice voted not to mindwipe.
- Green Arrow voted to keep a teammate; he voted once to mindwipe and once not to.
Am I missing any DC Comics voting scenarios?
4 comments:
As it happens, Peter David was just looking back on the Young Justice leadership vote of 2002, which was inspired by Legion of Super Heroes elections: http://www.peterdavid.net/2015/01/02/young-justice-the-vote/
Thanks for the link, J.L. I didn't read that issue. Do you remember if it was a "everyone weighs in" situation (i.e. we see who voted for whom)?
Great list! Seems like Wonder Woman usually votes in favor of booting out members.
I just watched Justice League: Flashpoint Paradox, which has an alternate ending for Reverse-Flash/Zoom. I'd like to see Doom, which is based on JLA #46.
Marc, I don't recall whether Young Justice, #46 (the election issue), showed a roll call vote. Four members of the group were running for the leader's post, so we can guess whom they voted for. That left four (?) other votes up for grabs. The actual result depended on readers' votes, as in the Legion elections. Wonder Girl won.
I recall thinking that news came rather abruptly, making me wonder if deadlines forced DC to dance around it. But I don't recall anything else.
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