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There are some ideas you just can’t get out of your head.
This is mine:
This is mine:
The Justice Pack of America.
I mean, after all, if the original Robotman could have a robot dog, then the JLAers certainly deserve them, too
Krypto the Superdog
Krypto is that rock-dumb but pleasant dog that never gets tired of playing fetch. Particularly with Kenny Braverman's femur.
It’s really important to me that you realize that Ace – in any appearance, in any media – is not actually a hound. You can tell by the ears. But we are kind of stuck with the name now.
He was very well characterized on the "Superdog" cartoon show. Personally, I like to picture him doing a constant inner monologue of his own adventures, like in a Frank Miller book. Because some dogs are very serious people.
Ace is that dog who you can tell from the first moment he looks at you has already sized up the softest parts of your body and how long it would take him to crush your trachea and eat your liver. Just in case.
Salty the Sea Dog
Salty's the kind of quiet, faithful dog that sits by your grave when you die. Until you rise from the dead to command an army of dead fish.
Oistos and Toxeuma, the Arcadian hounds
If the idea of Wonder Woman's having dogs (instead of, say, gorillas) seems strange to you, then you're not thinking about Artemis, Greek goddess of the hunt, whose Roman version was named... Diana. She was always traipsing around with a pack of hunting dogs--just ask Actaeon. It's not unreasonable that Artemis would gift a couple to WW. With Amazonian prey-hunting skills. And super-toughness. And Collars of Truth.
Oistos and Toxeuma are those hyper-alert dogs who you only see as a pair and are never more than five feet from each other.
Rex the Wonder Dog
Hal could really use a dog like Rex. It would be kind of like Inspector Gadget and Brain the Dog.
Bolt, the Hypersonic Hound
The Flash needs a dog. A super-fast dog that’s still super-lazy and moves as little as possible.
That would, of course, have to be a Greyhound.
Can't you see Barry being late for some world-shaking emergency because he's gotta walk the dog and wait until it deigns to go Number 2? As for why the dog would have superspeed, well, just chalk it up to "The Speed Force". Works for everything else, it seems. Geoff Johns would make it all feel so inevitable... Barry would rescue some dog from a racing track ("I know how you feel, my friend, always having to run ..."), and then the dog would wander into Barry's enormous apartment lab poking around because Barry was wrapped up in some experiment and was late feeding him, and go poking around some funny smelling cabinet of chemicals just as a lightning storm was hitting its peak... .
Jupiter II, the Dog Not From Mars
Jupiter II wouldn't be a real dog; but he would look like one and think he was one.
The Martian Manhunter’s first dog was a dachshund named Jupiter. Yes, really. But his more famous pet was Zook, the hideous pidgeon-talking space-monkey thing. I’ve always imagined that, at some point, Zook might start to go crazy and became a public danger, so J’onn would have given him a little psychic whammy to convince him he was just a dog, so that he wouldn't have to put Zook down. And so people wouldn't hate him so much for being a space-monkey.
Zook is the kind of dog that... No, scratch that.
Oh, and, occasionally, when the mood struck him or the situation warranted....
Rex is that kind of dog that really loves to be useful and needs to look after its master 24/7. Lucky for Hal.
Bolt, the Hypersonic Hound
The Flash needs a dog. A super-fast dog that’s still super-lazy and moves as little as possible.
That would, of course, have to be a Greyhound. Bolt's that creepy kind of dog that never makes a peep and is either moving REALLY fast or pretty much not all. In other words, a Greyhound.
Jupiter II, the Dog Not From Mars
The Martian Manhunter’s first dog was a dachshund named Jupiter. Yes, really. But his more famous pet was Zook, the hideous pidgeon-talking space-monkey thing. I’ve always imagined that, at some point, Zook might start to go crazy and became a public danger, so J’onn would have given him a little psychic whammy to convince him he was just a dog, so that he wouldn't have to put Zook down. And so people wouldn't hate him so much for being a space-monkey.
Zook would still have his odd abilities (specifically, to change temperature and stretch his shape). He'd still be able to talk, but only in odd two-word non sequiturs and outbursts, kind of like Invader Zim's "dog". But Zook would have no idea that any of this meant he's obviously not really a dog.
Oh, and, occasionally, when the mood struck him or the situation warranted....
the Phantom Stray.
