Hello Residents! This issue we discuss the ying to each of our heroes’ yangs, the villains who oppose/mirror/complete their heroes like no one else can! But first, we read Green Lantern Earth One: Volume 1, and we let you know what we thought!

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The Doctor’s Pulls

(2:40) Green Lantern: Earth One

 

Arch-enemies

(25:01) Who is Martian Manhunters opposite?  Does G’nort have one?

(30:10) How good could Prometheus be if DC had not dropped the ball?

(36:31) Who’s the Doctor’s nemesis?

(46:23) What examples show the lines blur from jealousy, admiration, or hubris that cause a mirrored villain?

(52:25) Which villain creeps you out or that you fear the most when they show up?

(56:37) Other than the Joker, who is Batman’s most interesting or greatest archenemy?

(1:00:11) What’s more compelling? Straight evil, polar opposites, or antiheroes? The villain you love to hate or hate to love?

(1:05:55) Does a hero need an arch-nemesis or opposite to be successful?  Who has the weakest/lamest arch-nemesis?

(1:17:44) Can an arch-villain ever win?

(1:21:35) Each superhero has an arch-nemesis, but who are they? Lightning round!

Characters, Places, Things

• Anti-Monitor (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Anton Arcane (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Arisia Rrab
• Black Adam (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Black Canary (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Black Manta (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Brick
• Cluemaster (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Count Vertigo (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Court of Owls
• Creeper (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Despero (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Doctor Dome
• Doctor Psycho (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Earth-1
• Flamingo (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• G’nort (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Gary Callahan
• Gorilla Grodd (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Green Arrow (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Hugo Strange (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Hunter Zolomon (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Jessica Cruz
• Joker (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Kilowog
• Lady Shiva (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Lex Luthor (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Ma’alefa’ak (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Manhunters
• Martian Manhunter (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Masked Marauder
• Merlyn (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Midnighter (Wildstorm) (Rebirth)
• Mister Freeze (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Penguin (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Professor Pyg (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Prometheus (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Proteus
• Quentin Turnbull
• Riddler (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Scarlet Skier (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Sinestro (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Spider Jerusalem
• Tarpit (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Two Face (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Vandal Savage (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)
• Ventriloquist (DCAU)
• Victor Zsasz (Pre-New 52) (Rebirth)

Recommended Reading

• Batman Eternal
• Blackest Night
• Green Lantern: Earth One
• Justice League: Cry for Justice
• Sinestro Corps War