Lex Sedet In Vertice: A Supervillain in the DCU CK2 quest

[Simon_Jester]

Well, it makes great sense if you're writing Batman as a twentieth century period piece. You could even do a bit of a tie-in with Alfred spending a lot of time at a British boarding school and growing up with this very reserved stereotypical, increasingly archaic Victorian/Edwardian "gentleman's gentleman" demeanor, and having his own problems with being a fish out of water and having had very little actual experience of his parents, possibly being an orphan himself whose parents died in an accident in or on the way to or from India, or of disease, or something.

 

[King crimson]

So brief status update on how the mainline update is going. I'm restructuring certain elements to be more streamlined and less frontloaded on exposition. I removed about three different POV's and have begun condensing them into a new POV so as to make things more effective. In addition I added an additional POV to begin to hint at what's next to come. Thank you all for your patience and understanding, the update is landing this week.

Edit: Expect an unrelated short drabble to appear today in a bit.

Edit #2: Drabble's looking a little less short now. Going to split it into multiple parts.

 

[King crimson]

Not the proudest of this story but I think there is something to it that at least makes it entertaining if not necessarily the most cohesive. Hope you all enjoy as this is a very stream of consciousness bit of writing with little to no editing on my part. This is ultimately only part 1 of a bigger story but I figured the mystery of just what happened would be interesting enough to explore on its own. This omake is very, very non-canon and could not exist in the quest at all.

Non-canon omake: Booster Gold's Not-So-Excellent Adventure Part 1
Booster Gold
Booster Gold was not so proud as to be unable to admit that he made mistakes. Indeed some considered it the mark of a great man that he could so freely and humbly admit to his own shortcomings. Superman was humble and everybody loved Superman. Now granted some mistakes, like accidentally starting World War 3, creating a timeline in which Dogwelder ended the world or accidentally derailing Superman's spaceship causing him to land on Mars were the kind of mistakes that couldn't really be forgiven. Luckily Booster Gold had a time machine so he could undo mistakes like that. However despite being very familiar with the kinds of shenanigans time travel could cause, Booster Gold was pretty solidly sure that he wasn't responsible for this.

Booster Gold had jumped into the past in order to get access to the inside of LexCorp tower before superheroes became a public phenomenon and upon returning to the present he'd found the world transformed into some kind of nightmarish dystopia straight out of Orwell.

"You getting this Skeets?" Booster Gold asked as his robotic buddy began to surveil the area around him.

"Indeed" Skeets smoothly responded "It seems that this is a most unexpected occurance but somehow we've ended up altering the timestream in a manner that we could not predict. That being said the temporal energy distortion readings are off the charts here. We only made one jump correct?"

"Yeah just the one" Booster Gold responded "So we've got to get to the bottom of this mystery. You download whatever news sources you can find while I investigate on foot"

The pair split up and Booster Gold promptly set up a holographic disguise and began to investigate this new dystopian city in earnest. Black brutal metallic buildings dominated the skylines and dozens upon dozens of drones flew through the air, blotting out any natural light from reaching them. Despite it being nighttime the constant glow of artificial lights brightly lit up the streets and ensured that there was nowhere to hide. Most concerning of all to Booster Gold was the people. They didn't move or act like people, instead behaving more like clockwork automatons. They were people at the end of the day, Skeets' scans managed to confirm that much but something had caused society to alter so insanely radically that it was not even funny.

Suddenly as if to break Booster out of his thoughts, massive screens lit up all across the city, illuminating a figure who seemed familiar but whose presence and appearance only boded ill for what might have happened. Booster Gold was loosely familiar with Lois Lane, if you were a superhero in Superman's century it was hard not to be given her closeness to the most famous superhero, but as far as Booster Gold knew she was utterly and entirely opposed to working with LexCorp. So seeing her smiling in an immaculately pressed suit with the LexCorp logo on it's lapel on a giant building in a dystopia was ringing all kinds of alarm bells of how things might have gone wrong.

"Greetings, Citizens of Lexopolis, Section C" this alternate timeline Lois began speaking in a pleasant and soothing voice that nonetheless carried an aura of malice underneath "Our temporal energy sensors have detected a use of unauthorized time travel. As such the culprit is likely hiding amongst you. Present your identification information so as to verify that you are indeed a citizen of our great nation and not a dissident element."

The numerous people all immediately began to comply as drones descended from the sky. This was not looking good. Booster Gold needed to find Skeets so that they could get the hell out of here ASAP.

"Failure to comply will result in enhanced interrogation and then reconditioning or termination depending on your threat and value evaluations" this alternate timeline Lois Lane continued, beaming all the while as though she had announced something charming and pleasant not a horrifying violation of human rights. This timeline was looking nastier and nastier as time went on.

Booster Gold knew he needed to act now though or else he'd be caught out and potentially bring down more harm on people. He promptly shed his disguise and began racing towards where thought Skeets would be, sending out a distress signal to alert his buddy that bad stuff had been going down. As he promptly blasted several drones out of the air, Booster Gold couldn't help but hear the alternate timeline declare in exultation and joy "All hail Lex Luthor"

The cry was then ominously echoed by all the other people around him even as he began to blast at the various robots that had started to pursue him. A tide of robots surged forth upon Booster Gold but luckily he was more than ready for them. Booster Gold had already seen his fair share of scrapes and so he was able to fend off the robot horde well enough. However that wasn't the end of things.

A sleek black aircraft flew overhead and promptly ejected a lone figure in powered armor with a cape and cowl. The figure landed with nary a sound but as Booster Gold caught sight of him he couldn't help but feel a sense of dread as the figure seemed terrifyingly similar to Batman, albeit one who was decked out in the evil corporate technology aesthetic the rest of this place had but still Batman.

"This is Bruce Luthor with eyes on the dissident" The figure stated confirming Booster Gold's worst fears "This is who we suspected it might be. Moving in for capture now"

Booster Gold would fully admit that he ran away like a coward. He was a brave and powerful superhero but he was not going to fight a LexCorp battlesuit wearing Batman in a dystopian city where there would be even more surprises coming his way. In this case discretion was the better part of valor.

He fled and the Batman gave chase, hurling some kind of electrified laser net and firing off various darts that Booster Gold was sure were non-lethal but he still really didn't want to get struck with. The alternate timeline Batman closed in on him enough that Booster was cornered. He readied himself for pain and suffering when salvation came in the form of Skeets.

Booster Gold's robotic buddy managed to fire a laser at the alternate timeline Batman, not enough to actually hurt him, as the corrupted dark knight promptly blocked it with some kind of energy shield but it did manage to buy Booster Gold enough time to hook back up with his buddy and teleport away to a safe place. Seeing as they seemed to be able to track him, Booster Gold ended up teleporting thousands of times to different locations and used his time travel capabilities to make it so that he existed in every point simultaneously for ten seconds before ending up in an uninhabited part of the Sahara desert utterly alone.

It was there where Skeets informed him of what he had learned. Apparently this world was dominated by a "Luthor family", lead by Lex Luthor, who had promptly conquered the earth and were now only opposed by a group known only as the "Anarchy League of Evil" on earth as they turned their sights on conquering the stars. The Luthor family needed to be stopped but Booster didn't have enough information on how he should time travel to fix this particular snafu and so he needed to learn more about them. Unfortunately the opposition didn't give him many more answers. The "Anarchy League of Evil" consisted of Superman, The Joker, Uncle Sam and Hawkgirl amongst other members. It didn't make any sense but at the very least Booster Gold figured he'd rather take his chances with them then dive right back into trying to figure out information about the Luthor family.

Lois Luthor
Lois Luthor was immensely proud to be a Luthor. Her family had been selected by Father across all of time to serve as his children. Lois was immensely pleased that she had been found worthy to be Luthor and thus superior to the countless masses she and her family now ruled over.

It was because of that pride that Lois took great care in her announcements and displays to the populace. Her ability to rally the masses were why she was worthy to be a Luthor. Unlike Bruce or Diana or Arthur, her value lay not in her combat potential but rather in her administrative skill. And so she excelled above and beyond and put her all into every single one of her broadcasts as the voice of the Luthor family.

So as Father called this latest meeting of his children Lois felt utterly confident in her position and success. Bruce might have failed to capture them but the Luthor family was immensely large and they controlled the earth. They would succeed regardless of whatever the long-expected interloper might pull. The Luthor family had all the time in the world and Father would inevitably reign supreme.

 

[Simon_Jester]

I gotta wonder what Booster Gold managed to do to make the timeline go that horribly wrongright for us.

 

[Asael]

I gotta wonder what Booster Gold managed to do to make the timeline go that horribly wrongright for us.

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Father across all of time to serve as his children

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Gonna guess lex luthor got his hands on time travel from booster, went back, and Cassandra'd a mess of people with time shenanigans. Perhaps going further into the "learning" spell that we used for Cass to make some kind of mental conditioning program?

 

[King crimson]

Gonna guess lex luthor got his hands on time travel from booster, went back, and Cassandra'd a mess of people with time shenanigans. Perhaps going further into the "learning" spell that we used for Cass to make some kind of mental conditioning program?

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So, this might qualify as spoilers, but I can say that you're technically half-right.

Spoiler: Potential spoilers for the rest of the drabble

There are time shenanigans occurring that involve "Cassandraing" someone (man it's weird for that to be a verb) but the actual process and what's going on is more complicated than that. Some of the stuff is impossible to glean with the information currently presented but you can figure out more about the situation if you look at the individuals altered to be on Lex's side and those who still oppose him and figure out what the key pattern/difference is between the two. I will also deconfirm anything about the "learning" spell being a mental conditioning spell. While Lex of this timeline does have access to mind altering magics they weren't used to create the "children" of the Luthor family.

I am still very impressed that you figured out that component pretty effectively from a single line even if that is only half the answer to what actually happened.

 

[Sirrocco]

The funny thing that I notice is that Booster Gold's time travel can change things, in exactly the way that Prof Zoom cannot.

...or is that part of what makes it non-canon?

 

[Negation]

I gotta wonder what Booster Gold managed to do to make the timeline go that horribly wrongright for us.

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I assume that would have been the 1st Season of Clockstoppers when he adutioned. If we had chosen him, he would have blabbed.

 

[King crimson]

The funny thing that I notice is that Booster Gold's time travel can change things, in exactly the way that Prof Zoom cannot.

...or is that part of what makes it non-canon?

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In quest Booster Gold's time travel also cannot change things so the time travel in that drabble is part of what makes it non-canon.

If Booster Gold's time travel could change things, the quest would suddenly become unfairly hard as Booster Gold could effectively undo any major success you have (you get a law passed that criminalizes Superman and Booster Gold just time travels back to undo it, you assassinate Batman and Booster Gold time travels back to undo it, you end up taking over the world and Booster Gold time travels back to undo it etc.).

For the sake of quest balance, Booster Gold cannot change things because then every single success you have is retgonable and that's not fun or fair. I just figured it made for a more interesting story here where it could change things and since this was non-canon anyways I figured I might as well break the quest's time travel rules since I'm no longer bound by quest mechanics regarding the world building when writing non-canon omakes.

Edit: While I try to be as meticulous as possible regarding world-building elements in canon material, I am willing to shuffle stuff around (I pretty regularly mess with character ages, I'm less worried about making sure timelines are clean and in this case I straight up changed how time travel can work) in order to tell a more interesting story. The freedom of non-canon stories is that you're not as harshly bound to the rules so you've got a little more creative freedom to try something different that you think will work better for the story.

Edit #2: As for how Booster Gold is still "the greatest hero never known", Booster Gold isn't altering disasters but rather preventing disasters that would have gone off if not for his presence that history already recorded as not succeeding. His actions fundamentally can't be recorded by history so any attempts to get famous will inevitably fail, but he's still working to prevent bad things from happening and saving lives. He's basically an alt-history fan's dream as he's constantly jumping to insignificant points in the timeline where if he weren't there, there would have been a radically different sort of history but because he was there, history played out the way it did.

 

[jonasquinn]

In quest Booster Gold's time travel also cannot change things so the time travel in that drabble is part of what makes it non-canon.

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So does Booster know that he can't change history or is he like Zoom where he thinks he can because of minor historical inaccuracies?

His actions fundamentally can't be recorded by history so any attempts to get famous will inevitably fail

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So wait, if we were to theoretically recruit him and take an action to make a show about him would it just be destined to fail?

 

[King crimson]

So does Booster know that he can't change history or is he like Zoom where he thinks he can because of minor historical inaccuracies?

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I'd say neither really at the end of the day. Booster Gold does think he can change the past (due to not being a scientific expert on time travel) but the big thing about Booster Gold that makes him different is that he thinks that he could have not been present at the moments in which he is present.

Booster Gold thinks to some degree or another that he's preserving the timeline and actually preventing history from getting changed. He's technically right in that if he didn't act things would play out worse than they actually did but he's also arguably wrong to some degree because there was never any chance of history being altered because Booster Gold exists in the first place and already shaped the history he read about.

Zoom thinks he's actively capable of altering things. Booster Gold also does but at a certain point he goes from thinking his impact lies in altering things to thinking his impact lies in preventing alterations and the second take on things is technically more correct than the initial one even if it does miss a lot of important details.

So wait, if we were to theoretically recruit him and take an action to make a show about him would it just be destined to fail?

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No. The show would not be destined to fail. Booster Gold simply could not become famous for it in a point in which he is aware of it. The show could succeed, be massively popular and potentially even be a cultural phenomenon like shows like the Brady Bunch, I Love Lucy, Gilligan's Island and The Lone Ranger are but like how most people cannot name a single actor on those shows, Booster gold himself cannot achieve any lasting fame where he'd have been able to observe that he was famous.

Additionally, if the show was such a huge success that it would be famous in the 25th century, enough for Booster to know of it, then he simply only will have been successful under a pseudonym or there would have been an error misspelling his name or something such that he wouldn't appeared to have actually changed anything. Basically, I'd have to find a reason why Booster Gold/Michael Carter specifically is not known to be incredibly famous even if he was there and stuff like making it so that "Shooter Gold/Mikhail Cartor" was a famous actor in the 20th/21st century gives me the wiggle room to do that.

That being said this type of issue is why there will likely never be a POV from a time traveler discussing the future in great detail as any information they reveal will force things to be set in stone on at least a technical level assuming the character in question isn't insane (Abrakadabra), potentially misremembering things (Booster Gold) or both.

 

[jonasquinn]

So I've been watching some Defunctland videos and it made me think of something completely random that we obviously wouldn't do anytime soon but I couldn't get out my head

A while ago I suggested that we could build our own theme park, though in hindsight I don't think it was ever included a an action?, and if we make it Oz themed we could easily build sections around all of our shows

The main section could be themed after Clockstoppers and frame the guests as agents going to different time periods, the different sections of the park, to stop villains, bonus points if we somehow get Booster Gold to make a cameo

We could have Knights of Camelot and Adventures of Hercules themed area which would basically just be characters from the shows and the typical Mythology of the areas, a Mask of Zorro area which would be Wild West/Mexican themed (maybe with some Jonah Hex stuff if we ever get our hands on it), and a modern city section which is being used as a battleground between G.E.O.R.G.E and O.G.R.E with the Secret Six being on missions in the background and Ultra-Violet showing up to save the day, both having their own rides obviously

We could even create a more east coast colonial themed area where we could include bunch of favourable Luthor family history though we'd probably want to make a show to justify it first

Again, a completely random thought but I couldn't get it out of my head

 

[King crimson]

Hi everyone. Some brief unfortunate news. Due to an injury, I was not able to put as much time into writing as I would have liked over the weekend. That being said the delay should only push things back till Wednesday maximum. Thank you all for being so patient with me and this update.

I'm going to try and get something up today though no promises

though in hindsight I don't think it was ever included a an action?,

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I'll check if it's been added in once I finish the update and will check exp as well.

(maybe with some Jonah Hex stuff if we ever get our hands on it)

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There are records in the DCQU about Jonah Hex, he's a known historical figure in quest. That being said I will point out that Jonah Hex's history is in no ways cleanly cut as straight up "heroic".

He was a soldier in the American Civil War and fought on the side of the Confederates. While he did have his issues with slavery, he only deserted the army after his unit was massacred (in quest I believe it was by Luthor guns, which in turn were introduced in the canon "Metropolitan Clan" omakes). After that, due to a convoluted series of events, Jonah Hex ended up decimating most of the Native American tribe that took him in (he got into a fight with a rival of his that lead to him getting scarred and forced him to cheat in a duel to survive. Jonah then went on to kill his rival's father in self-defense and then went on to kill the people who went after him to further get revenge). Jonah Hex's other big notable non-PC bit of history, is that while he did regularly interact with and defend suffragettes, Jonah Hex did not believe that women should have the right to vote for a good part of his life. There's more to the life of Jonah Hex, but even beyond all of the murder he engaged in, he was by no means a PC figure and his actual life story does not easily map onto children's media.

That's not to say you can't do it, but unlike most modern heroes Jonah Hex's idea of "justice" usually involved at least one dead body and he became absolutely notorious for it (Jonah Hex easily outnumbers John Wesley Hardin, who is IRL considered to have the biggest body count in the Wild West).

We could even create a more east coast colonial themed area where we could include bunch of favourable Luthor family history though we'd probably want to make a show to justify it first

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I mean you don't need to go Colonial if you don't want to. The Luthor family IIRC has been on the winning side (which generally is depicted as more heroic than the losing side) of every major US war.

 

[Simon_Jester]

He was a soldier in the American Civil War and fought on the side of the Confederates. While he did have his issues with slavery, he only deserted the army after his unit was massacred (in quest I believe it was by Luthor guns, which in turn were introduced in the canon "Metropolitan Clan" omakes).

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A lot of Confederate cavalry got chewed up by Sheridan's cavalry during the 1864 campaigns, because by that point the Confederates were losing manpower fast. The Army of the Potomac's cavalry had an overwhelming firepower advantage from the combination of repeating rifles and Luthor guns being mass-produced in the Metropolis arsenals, so the Confederates were losing more men in each engagement, and those kinds of losses stack up over time, because if you start out outnumbered and then take 50 losses to the enemy's 30-40 in every battle, soon, a lot of your men are being shot at by two or more enemies at once, and they already put more lead in the air than you do, so that kind of thing can only end one way.

I mean you don't need to go Colonial if you don't want to. The Luthor family IIRC has been on the winning side (which generally is depicted as more heroic than the losing side) of every major US war.

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Lex will probably not want to make a show featuring his grandma Lorelei. Honestly, there's no way for it not to bring more than a few skeletons in the closet to light if people start paying more attention to her as a historical figure.

 

[jonasquinn]

He was a soldier in the American Civil War and fought on the side of the Confederates. While he did have his issues with slavery, he only deserted the army after his unit was massacred (in quest I believe it was by Luthor guns, which in turn were introduced in the canon "Metropolitan Clan" omakes). After that, due to a convoluted series of events, Jonah Hex ended up decimating most of the Native American tribe that took him in (he got into a fight with a rival of his that lead to him getting scarred and forced him to cheat in a duel to survive. Jonah then went on to kill his rival's father in self-defense and then went on to kill the people who went after him to further get revenge). Jonah Hex's other big notable non-PC bit of history, is that while he did regularly interact with and defend suffragettes, Jonah Hex did not believe that women should have the right to vote for a good part of his life. There's more to the life of Jonah Hex, but even beyond all of the murder he engaged in, he was by no means a PC figure and his actual life story does not easily map onto children's media.

That's not to say you can't do it, but unlike most modern heroes Jonah Hex's idea of "justice" usually involved at least one dead body and he became absolutely notorious for it (Jonah Hex easily outnumbers John Wesley Hardin, who is IRL considered to have the biggest body count in the Wild West).

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To be fair basically all media about the Wild West whitewashes the people involved, especially if they're real people

I mean you don't need to go Colonial if you don't want to. The Luthor family IIRC has been on the winning side (which generally is depicted as more heroic than the losing side) of every major US war.

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That's fair, I was mostly thinking about how the Luthor family is mostly an east coast thing

 

[King crimson]

A lot of Confederate cavalry got chewed up by Sheridan's cavalry during the 1864 campaigns, because by that point the Confederates were losing manpower fast. The Army of the Potomac's cavalry had an overwhelming firepower advantage from the combination of repeating rifles and Luthor guns being mass-produced in the Metropolis arsenals, so the Confederates were losing more men in each engagement, and those kinds of losses stack up over time, because if you start out outnumbered and then take 50 losses to the enemy's 30-40 in every battle, soon, a lot of your men are being shot at by two or more enemies at once, and they already put more lead in the air than you do, so that kind of thing can only end one way.

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I don't disagree with anything here, but I will clarify/reiterate that there generally is a massive difference between leaving the army because of your moral qualms and leaving the army because everyone in your unit died and it became too much for you. Jonah Hex's issues with slavery were not enough for him to be unwilling to fight for the Confederate army right up until he was forced to experience how dangerous it would have been for him personally to keep on fighting. It's ultimately the distinction between being willing to fight for a cause and being willing to die for it that lead to Jonah that's relevant to discussions about the timing of Jonah's decision to desert.

Additionally, as an unrelated pseudo-canon fun fact, the sound of Luthor guns probably terrified the hell out of Jonah Hex for the rest of his life and he'd likely experience some degree of PTSD from hearing them again (you don't experience at least a hundred or so men dying in front of you without being changed by it).

Lex will probably not want to make a show featuring his grandma Lorelei. Honestly, there's no way for it not to bring more than a few skeletons in the closet to light if people start paying more attention to her as a historical figure.

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I mean IIRC she's still a better option than his great-grandfather Louis who attempted treason against the US government.

Any recent Luthor is probably not someone who Lex wants to be deeply scrutinized as while every Luthor likely had their own issues, once you start getting to Louis and onwards, it's a lot harder to dismiss their flaws as "part of the times" or "necessary evils" to the general public since they more neatly mesh with a modern mindset.

That's fair, I was mostly thinking about how the Luthor family is mostly an east coast thing

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I mean considering the West Coast straight up wasn't a part of the US until after about a hundred years after the establishment of the United states, Washington DC is on the East Coast and as far as I remember in every major war in North America save for the Mexican American war every major battle was fought East of the Mississippi river (some US History buff could correct me on that), I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of US history is mostly an East Coast thing.

This is mostly meant as a joke though I will stand by the claim that almost all US history prior to WW2 is generally focused on the East Coast. An actual historian might prove me wrong but I do think that at the very least there's a heavy implicit bias in how the history is taught that causes this lopsidedness. Not saying the history of the East Coast is more important or anything just that "History of the US" generally focuses on the East Coast.

 

[jonasquinn]

I mean considering the West Coast straight up wasn't a part of the US until after about a hundred years after the establishment of the United states, Washington DC is on the East Coast and as far as I remember in every major war in North America save for the Mexican American war every major battle was fought East of the Mississippi river (some US History buff could correct me on that), I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of US history is mostly an East Coast thing.

This is mostly meant as a joke though I will stand by the claim that almost all US history prior to WW2 is generally focused on the East Coast.

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That's fair and reading more of the Metropolitan Clan omakes we could just have a general American history section with references to how important the Luthor's have been to the US, though we'd have to be careful both because of the unfortunate parts of the Luthor family history we wouldn't want to draw attention to and because the US has a weird thing about not wanting to acknowledge that the Confederacy were a bunch of slave owning traitors, and I think Leland's ghost would come back to haunt us if we implied they were anything otherwise

On a somewhat related note if we were to open a theme park, which I know is a distant possibility but it has consumed my imagination of late, we could have our own Animal Kingdom like section using robotic animals, it would be safer, probably cheaper, let us keep animals too dangerous or rare for other zoos and allow guests to interact with them in ways you can't elsewhere

 

[Gumiho]

On a somewhat related note if we were to open a theme park, which I now is a distant possibility but it has consumed my imagination of late, we could have our own Animal Kingdom like section using robotic animals, it would be safer, probably cheaper, let us and keep animals too dangerous or rare for other zoos and allow guests to interact with them in ways you can't elsewhere

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West World, (and other similar themed parks) when?

 

[jonasquinn]

West World, (and other similar themed parks) when?

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I mean we do have decoy bots that we could easily use as animatronics that would probably blow Disney's away

 

[Negation]

Additionally, as an unrelated pseudo-canon fun fact, the sound of Luthor guns probably terrified the hell out of Jonah Hex for the rest of his life and he'd likely experience some degree of PTSD from hearing them again (you don't experience at least a hundred or so men dying in front of you without being changed by it)

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Note to Self: Pull out the guns from the Luthor Family Museum for loan to Civil War reenactments.

 

[King crimson]

On a somewhat related note if we were to open a theme park, which I know is a distant possibility but it has consumed my imagination of late, we could have our own Animal Kingdom like section using robotic animals, it would be safer, probably cheaper, let us keep animals too dangerous or rare for other zoos and allow guests to interact with them in ways you can't elsewhere

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I mean it's not quite the same thing but canonically in Superman TAS (specifically the episode "A Little Piece of Home"), Lex specifically built a giant animatronic T-Rex to kill Superman which he then donated to the Metropolis Museum of Natural History. So the action of Lex Luthor creating robotic animals for a public attraction is in fact something with a bit of history to it and not an idea spawned solely within your head.

Note to Self: Pull out the guns from the Luthor Family Museum for loan to Civil War reenactments.

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Jonah Hex is kinda sort of dead by the time the quest takes place and he's been dead for a while.

 

[jonasquinn]

I mean it's not quite the same thing but canonically in Superman TAS (specifically the episode "A Little Piece of Home"), Lex specifically built a giant animatronic T-Rex to kill Superman which he then donated to the Metropolis Museum of Natural History. So the action of Lex Luthor creating robotic animals for a public attraction is in fact something with a bit of history to it and not an idea spawned solely within your head.

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Another benefit of using animatronic animals, we could have a somewhat legitimate dinosaur zoo

Though we'd probably need to have Beast Boy consult on that for accuracy

 

[Negation]

Another benefit of using animatronic animals, we could have a somewhat legitimate dinosaur zoo

Though we'd probably need to have Beast Boy consult on that for accuracy

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We just need to get the Sword of Fan. Ra's already gave us a clue.

 

[jonasquinn]

We just need to get the Sword of Fan. Ra's already gave us a clue.

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True, I'd forgotten that

And damn it now I really do want to build a theme park! Though of course if we ever were to do it it would have to be in a while because we're going to be busy with a lot more important things in the near future

Though actually on that note @Simon_Jester as the local expert on Maryland do you think a theme park would work near Metropolis or would we need to build it elsewhere?

 

[Sirrocco]

The real big name theme parks are closer to the equator to begin with, but there were already a few in that rough general area (Busch Gardens, King's Dominon). For local parks, you basically need cheap land that's relatively accessible to large population centers. It's a little hard to get the land in the DC-to-Boston corridor, and Metropolis will have made that worse, but if you're willing to head inland a bit you can get some. Making Disney-tier megaparks requires quite a lot of cheap land, and excellent weather, which Maryland does not have.