![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Nerd alert!
Aug. 12th, 2011 10:58 amSo I was thinking about my Fourth World AU and here's a thought... why do godly consciousnesses have to work like our primitive human brains? We're already talking about uploading people into computers; shouldn't the gods have us beat on that score?
Okay, so we all know that before Scott Free and Big Barda, the Third World was the Norse gods (yes, like Marvel Thor and Loki, who Jack Kirby worked on). What if Asgard was another universe, way out there in the dimensional miasma, that sent itself out like the light from a star. And just like the light from a dead star will continue on to Earth, the Norse gods (with minds like file-sharing clouds) could end up on Earth and think it was the center of the universe, while their equivalents showed up on Tamaran, Krypton, wherever. Sort of like a fast food franchise. The Greco-Roman gods would be, say, the Second World--the Earth Olympians would think Olympus was a honking big mountain, while the Prime Olympians would know it to be plane floating out in extradimensional space.
There's one constant between these pantheons, which is that they all end in the equivalent of Ragnarok--the apocalypse cycle that Scott Free will later try to break. But there are always vestiges, leftovers... survivors.
On Earth, the Olympians cheat death by creating the Amazons to continue believing in them. But they're shadows of their former selves, somewhat akin to Alzheimer's patients--able to remember their vast power, but not access it (this would motivate Ares; he wants to be back on top, even if he has to scorch the Earth and ally with Darkseid to do it. He'd literally rather burn out than fade away, as his wiser sibling gods favor).
Meanwhile, the Egyptian gods survive in the form of Captain Marvel. You could also incorporate the Anti-Life Equation into this. The Seven Sins that the Wizard guards in the Rock of Eternity are integers in the Equation, while a big chunk of it is behind Doom's Doorway on Paradise Island, guarded by the Amazons.
I think that's most every "contemporary" mythological figure in the DCU accounted for under one (pretty cool, IMHO) explanation.
ETA: Apparently Nolan!Catwoman does have cat ears, but they're really goggles that flip down over the eyeholes in her domino mask when she needs goggles. Is it just me, or does that sound perfectly cool and functional, in a "Batman's cape is really a hang glider and his ears are radio antenna" way?
Okay, so we all know that before Scott Free and Big Barda, the Third World was the Norse gods (yes, like Marvel Thor and Loki, who Jack Kirby worked on). What if Asgard was another universe, way out there in the dimensional miasma, that sent itself out like the light from a star. And just like the light from a dead star will continue on to Earth, the Norse gods (with minds like file-sharing clouds) could end up on Earth and think it was the center of the universe, while their equivalents showed up on Tamaran, Krypton, wherever. Sort of like a fast food franchise. The Greco-Roman gods would be, say, the Second World--the Earth Olympians would think Olympus was a honking big mountain, while the Prime Olympians would know it to be plane floating out in extradimensional space.
There's one constant between these pantheons, which is that they all end in the equivalent of Ragnarok--the apocalypse cycle that Scott Free will later try to break. But there are always vestiges, leftovers... survivors.
On Earth, the Olympians cheat death by creating the Amazons to continue believing in them. But they're shadows of their former selves, somewhat akin to Alzheimer's patients--able to remember their vast power, but not access it (this would motivate Ares; he wants to be back on top, even if he has to scorch the Earth and ally with Darkseid to do it. He'd literally rather burn out than fade away, as his wiser sibling gods favor).
Meanwhile, the Egyptian gods survive in the form of Captain Marvel. You could also incorporate the Anti-Life Equation into this. The Seven Sins that the Wizard guards in the Rock of Eternity are integers in the Equation, while a big chunk of it is behind Doom's Doorway on Paradise Island, guarded by the Amazons.
I think that's most every "contemporary" mythological figure in the DCU accounted for under one (pretty cool, IMHO) explanation.
ETA: Apparently Nolan!Catwoman does have cat ears, but they're really goggles that flip down over the eyeholes in her domino mask when she needs goggles. Is it just me, or does that sound perfectly cool and functional, in a "Batman's cape is really a hang glider and his ears are radio antenna" way?
