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riddler72
08-31-2009, 02:23 AM
What if the planet Krypton never exploded,and Kal-El lived a normal life?How would that affect the DC Universe?How would that affect the Justice League, Batman,Lex Luthor,his friends and enemies,etc?????
marshal99
08-31-2009, 03:13 AM
If Krypton never exploded , Kal-El would never have gone to earth. It would like superman annual 11 - "for the man who has everything" , he would stay on krypton , have a wife and kids etc etc.

Justice league won't be affected , the post crisis origin of JLA does not include superman. Luthor , without superman as a longtime nemesis , will just be a very powerful businessman with a lot of connections since he won't have to concentrate all his time and resources to fighting superman.
Hullababy
08-31-2009, 03:27 AM
If Krypton never exploded , Kal-El would never have gone to earth. It would like superman annual 11 - "for the man who has everything" , he would stay on krypton , have a wife and kids etc etc.

Justice league won't be affected , the post crisis origin of JLA does not include superman. Luthor , without superman as a longtime nemesis , will just be a very powerful businessman with a lot of connections since he won't have to concentrate all his time and resources to fighting superman.

Um actually post IC Superman once again became a founding member of the league so I think that would be affected as well. Also, there would have been no one to sing and defeat darkseid during FC.
marshal99
08-31-2009, 03:36 AM
Um actually post IC Superman once again became a founding member of the league so I think that would be affected as well. Also, there would have been no one to sing and defeat darkseid during FC.

Yes but as i said , a justice league without superman has been done i.e jla year one , he doesn't have to be in it.
who knows , kal-el might well have been a member of the green lantern corps though so he could have still be involved , be a hero and sing darkseid to death. :wink:
ryerye17
08-31-2009, 06:00 AM
He wasn't a founding member of the JLA. HOWEVER, he, bats and wondy joined "shortly".

Anyway, a world without superman has been done in JLA: The Nail. Apparently, Carter dies, Ollie becomes a depressive paranoid freak and Batman kills Joker.
Disciple_of_the_Bat
08-31-2009, 06:07 AM
He becomes the greatest green lantern of them all.
At least according to the story "the greatest green lantern of them all:
Mr Omnis
08-31-2009, 07:05 PM
He actually becomes born in the future and travels back in time to be a communist.
Pinnacle
08-31-2009, 07:20 PM
As mentioned previously, this story has been done several times. Probably a couple too many.
riddler72
09-01-2009, 01:55 AM
Wow,Superman a singer???He would have been a great tenor on Krypton!!!!
Flash230
09-02-2009, 09:42 PM
I've always wondered what would have happened if Krypton never exploded AFTER his parents had already sent Kal-El off through space. Even better, what if Jor-El was laughed out of the science council and no longer had the means to build another rocketship to go and retrieve his son. (Would he have become a "villian" trying to steal a spacecraft to pilot to Earth? etc...)
marshal99
09-02-2009, 10:01 PM
They sort of explored that idea in superman 93 - an zero hour tie-in.

The parents of Kal-El coming back for their son in an alternate krypton timeline. They showed superman the memories of the krypton that lives on and never exploded, his brother & such. The details are a bit hazy now since i hasn't read that issue in a long time.

http://image2.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/large/83756635410.93.gif
mosdef
09-03-2009, 04:54 PM
If Krypton never exploded , Kal-El would never have gone to earth. It would like superman annual 11 - "for the man who has everything" , he would stay on krypton , have a wife and kids etc etc.


I remember when that story was adapted for Justice League Unlimited. Damn I miss that show.
adamisme
09-05-2009, 11:14 AM
i reckon maybe he would have come to earth but as an adult and would be a big outsider, but maybe he'd meet Lois, fall in love and stay on earth and become Superman
Munkiman
09-05-2009, 07:59 PM
The exact thing was in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' "For the Man Who Has Everything". Kal becomes a kind of wishy-washy geologist and marries an actress who he has a couple of kids with, and Jor-El joins the KKKK (Krypton Ku Klux Klan).

What happens on Earth isn't explained, though. That'd be more the realm of JLA: The Nail, where Superman doesn't get found by the Kents because their truck's tire pops. Basically, the DCU turns into the Marvel Universe. And Jimmy Olsen is evil.
BooCoo
09-06-2009, 11:18 AM
Well for sure there'd be no "trinity", at least the one we know. They'd have to find another third wheel to fit that slot. :biggrin:
riddler72
09-07-2009, 12:49 AM
Well for sure there'd be no "trinity", at least the one we know. They'd have to find another third wheel to fit that slot. :biggrin:

Maybe,Captain Marvel????
bongoes
09-08-2009, 07:59 AM
Well for sure there'd be no "trinity", at least the one we know. They'd have to find another third wheel to fit that slot. :biggrin:

Green Lantern, The Flash... Fight! Winner joins the trinity!
bongoes
09-08-2009, 08:00 AM
Maybe,Captain Marvel????

Oh yeah that would probably fit better than my idea.