Something Old... REBOOTED

[Halvin McCobbes]

1919: Teddy Roosevelt stays up all night, inadvertently going against death's plan. He would later cheat death many times, ending up seemingly immortal.

2988: Teddy Roosevelt finally accepts his fate and goes with Death to a world known as Ooo, where Lincoln is still alive on Mars.

 

[Halvin McCobbes]

1990-1991: During the Gulf War, massive 18-foot Huggy Wuggy toys begin eating and killing people. The U.S. works with Iraq to stop them, under the stipulation that Iraq gets to keep Kuwait.

Kuwait would be kept under Iraq until Saddam Hussein gets killed during a revolution.

 

[Halvin McCobbes]

2012:

One of Death's many undertakers breaks his leg. He travels the world, looking for a replacement until he finds one in young baby Maggie Simpson in Springfield, OR. As she grew up, she would become one of the more famous undertakers, being formerly known as Baby Death.

 

[Halvin McCobbes]

1980: Young Dan Torrance is gifted the shining, a telepathic ability, and uses it to fight his crazed father Jack who has run amuck with ghosts at the Overlook Hotel.

2011-2019: After moving to New Hampshire, Dan Torrance uses his shining to fight ghosts and a vampiric cult. He joins the Justice League under the name of Doctor Sleep.

 

[Halvin McCobbes]

1998: While still in prison, John Dark creates evil versions of Superman and Batman known as Bizarro and Wrath to destroy the Justice League. They become common threats.

 

[Halvin McCobbes]

2011: Toon Luz Noceda meets human Dan Torrance. Living two states apart, they fight off threats in the New England area.

Luz doesn't become a superhero or joins a team of heroes.

 

[Halvin McCobbes]

2023:

The Iris, a sentient planet, arrives near Pluto. Beginning to infect it, it sets its sights on Earth.

 

[Halvin McCobbes]

2023:

Three weeks after the Iris appeared, mutated monstrous worms move from one moon of Saturn to another. Some latch on to the Iris, who tries to stop them by slamming into Jupiter. This fails, removing the gaseous exterior of Jupiter to reveal a spherical object.

 

[Halvin McCobbes]

1975:

Aquaman, a film based off the DC comics superhero, airs on the Future of Television channel. It gets mixed to negative reviews.

 

[Halvin McCobbes]

1868:

A lake in Cameroon turns any animal who drinks it into intelligent humanoid versions of themselves. They integrate among the Africans, and work to fight in Decolonization. In the end, the animals end up living amongst the humans. These animals are the 2nd most prominent species on earth.

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