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Somehow this morning the plan was to watch movies and eat terrible food, and then I ended up fixing my insurance issue that's been on me for a month, trying on new clothes (all my summer clothes are falling apart) and cleaning out my hard drive. Okay then!

I'm trying to read The Flash, but Jesus, this comic book series has a more complicated line of succession than the Roman Empire. It goes Jay, Barry who has no relation to Jay, Wally who was what, hanging out with Barry and caught it from him? Then Bart, who is Barry's (possibly Wally's?) grandson from the 30th century, and somehow some woman named Iris fits in there, but then Wally again, and now Wally (possibly Barry's?) kids, who I could not be less interested in if I tried.

AT LEAST THE ROMANS ADOPTED THEIR HEIRS. So if nothing else you could just say "adopted son" and that was that.

On the other hand they couldn't move super-fast and vibrate through walls (that we know of).

PS Jean explained to me the cape thing, now could someone please explain to me the fetish that comic book superhero designers have for putting wings on peoples' heads. There is nothing more ridiculous than a giant man saving the world with a tiny pair of wings on his head. All I can think about is Cap and Flash comparing wing size and Thor being like

EFF YOU ALL, GOTS SOME GIANT WINGS.

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Sooo what's the explanation behind the cape? *is curious and comic book clueless*

Superman needed a cape so we could tell how fast he was leaping/flying. All others with capes are copycats. (Batman, of course, was copying bats as well as Superman.)

But as The Incredibles taught us, capes are bad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNUbPRj9TGMcapes).

Edited 2012-03-25 02:03 (UTC)

And Booster Gold thought "capes were cool" but then immediately ditched his. He will later drunkenly admit that Superman took his cape because, "He didn't deserve to wear one."

...I think he probably got it caught on something and couldn't live with the embarrassment, honestly.

Well, as someone said, the artistic reason was to help indicate motion. But within canon, the reason was that a lot of early superheroes (and some even now) came from the circus, where capes were de rigeur. :D