See also: WMG.DC Animated Universe
- It could have also been Hugo Strange, who was seen as a member of Cadmus in "The Doomsday Sanction".
- YMMV on their canonicity, but a flashback in the Justice League Beyond comic reveals that this did in fact happen... Superman included. It ends horribly: The League sent them back to their dimension not knowing that the effects of the power disruptor would wear off (well, Luthor knew but didn't tell them). After this happens a horrible World War breaks out in the Lords' dimension with Lord Superman/Lady Wonder Woman on one side and Lord Batman (and eventually Justice League Wonder Woman after she gets stranded in the Lords' dimension) on the other. After Lord Batman and Lady WW are killed off with no end in sight to the war, and Aquaman threatens to flood the surface if it goes on, Lord Superman and JL Wonder Woman are forced to (grudgingly) agree to a Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage to end it.
- This has extra merit behind it, since Flash seems pretty confident that even Justice Lord Superman has lines he won't cross... right before Lord Supes decides there isn't a lot he won't do.
- Possibly that and Flash can avoid him best.
- Uh... We later learn that Diana was sculpted out of clay and then breathed life. Hades admits that he helped Hyppolyta sculpt Diana's infant form... and speculates that perhaps Hyppolyta simply finished as a way to remember her old lover. However, a) this isn't really biological reproduction, b) Hyppolyta hates Hades after he betrayed the Olympians, c) Hades is basically the Devil in this incarnation, so he could be lying his ass off, and d) Diana says she doesn't care one whit.
- They could both be lying. Hippolyta obviously wouldn't want Diana to know that her biological father tried to rape both her and her mother, Hades in this incarnation could just be lying for the Evulz, and I doubt the producers would that little idea known to little kids.
- Makes so much frickin' sense. He's the cunning one, after all.
- Of course, that means that when Past Bruce grew up into Future Bruce, he knew that the Watch Tower would be destroyed and Terry and Static would be killed during the battle with Chronos, yet did nothing to stop it. Anyways, I think it was pretty clear that Chronos severely messed up the timeline (ancient monuments appearing in Gotham, Wonder Woman disappearing,John Stewart briefly becoming Hal Jordan)so that probably explains why he had no memories of meeting his future self.
- There's a difference between 'did nothing to stop it' and 'failed completely to stop it'. Just because you know something's coming doesn't mean you can make a difference at all. For all we know the only reason Terry, Static and War Hawk are alive is because Bruce did everything he could.
- For all we know, the future where Wondy, J'Onn and the rest of the League get destroyed has now been averted. That future only came about because of Chronos's messing with the timeline. With that fixed, it's now possible that the Watchtower explosion has now been prevented from happening (especially with Bruce's foreknowledge).
- It's an alternate future, not a stable time loop, so no dice, sorry.
His colleagues were interfering with his vision of the world — they were either too hard on people, or not hard enough. Maybe he thought that they needed to be pre-empted because they were too unstable and too powerful. Either way, Justice Lord Batman decided that the power they brought to the table wasn't worth having them around; and so, he opened the portal to the Justice League world, which resulted in a chain of events which left his "teammates" permanently de-powered and stranded in another universe, leaving him free to remake his world as he saw fit.
- Look how shaken up he became when the Flash "died." His conscience snapped then, and he knew having a another Justice League team kick their butts would save the world. On the flip side, since he's the only Badass Normal remaining, he could become a new dictator easily. Yikes.
- A Brave New Gotham perhaps?
- At the very least, Justice Lord Batman had seemed to be trying to check the worst abuses of the other Lords. Note that his Rogues Gallery is lobotomized in an institution; every other villain appears to be dead.
- And that follows his rules. So why did the main Batman even care? Lobotomizing =/= killing.
- Not sure about that. It's quite possible that Justice Lord Superman had been the one doing the lobotomising. To be confident he could do it to Doomsday during a fight, he’d probably need to be well practised in it; and the location and size of the scars on the people in Arkham looked quite similar to the position and size of the holes Justice Lord Superman put in Doomsday’s head.
- Justice Lord Superman had been practicing on his own Rogues Gallery, which is why they're no longer around. It probably led to excuses of "Whoops, I accidentally boiled her brains with my heat vision" on one and "Uh-oh, I accidentally burned the top of his skull off" for another one...
- He could have done it with everyone else's, too. Except Hades, because the dude is a God and was probably controlling the whole thing.
- Hades being a god probably wouldn't stop Justice Lords Superman. However, since Hades is already in what is effectively Hell, Superman probably wouldn't bother.
- Alternatively, Justice Lord Batman never approved the others' plans but decided to play along until he had a way to get rid of them. When he found the Justice League's universe, he planned to keep the Lords stranded there and only kept the Leaguers imprisoned so they'd not force him to reopen the portal. He only acted so the Lords would never figured out. Regardless of the unlikeliness, Batman is just this paranoic.
- Man, that is a Chekhov's Gun! Too bad they never got the chance to fire that one.
- They would have if they had had another season. This, and more alternate universes.
- MM's done this trick in "Secret Society" by imitating their shapeshifter to infiltrate and rescue his captured comrades. What a great way to spin lack of screen time, though.
- This could go further back, since it was an Out of Character moment....
- Probably not. Flash beat his own duplicate, Wonder Woman and Superman traded, as did Green Lantern and Hawk Girl. It's implied that Batman and Manhunter did the same. Besides, even if J'onn did lose, beating Brainithor probably would've destroyed it anyway.
- There were no implications that Batman and J'onn did the same for any amount of time and we even see Batman destroy his copy!
Several episodes later, J'onn finds himself posing as the Society's shapeshifter; he goads Grodd to kill the league, not because he's playing the part of an actor who's seen it frequently, but because he wants revenge for his team. When this fails, he bides his time until the events of Unlimited Season one, where he sees his rivals going down the same path his league did and begins to realize he has grown distant from humanity. This theory is helped by the fact that he acknowledges Flash's plan of "keep me alive to prevent the end of the world" with a Dude, Not Funny! tone.
- When he suggested that Grodd kill the Justice League, he said "Let me..." before being cut off.
- So you could say seeing the League start down the Lords' path resulted in him Becoming the Mask?
- Corollary WMG: the real Martian Manhunter died shortly after being depowered. His species might need at least a subtle level of shapeshifting in order to survive on Earth. And that's how the Lord Manhunter wasn't found out right away: you'd think the real J'onn would do something to alert his friends to the switch.
But Captain Marvel came in and acted like The Minnesota Fats - defeating Parasite in one punch, and acting on what he preached about forgiveness and such, which turned him into a media darling. Supes himself had to deal with lots of media criticism. So, Superman's behavior in the episode had less to do with Lex and more with his jealousy of Captain Marvel.
- Not so much a WMG as "what was blatantly shown onscreen". And now, watch the Kid's Superpower Hour opening. If you're the type of person that gets jealous of him now, you need help.
- I was always under the impression that all the Cadmus stuff was making Superman really paranoid. He knows that Cadmus had been trying to create their own metahumans. The Watchtower had recently been infiltrated by the Suicide Squad and they learned that there was at least one Cadmus informant in their staff. Right before Task Force X, Doomsday tried to assassinate Superman. Most importantly, Cadmus cloned Kara, which probably makes him think that they'd try to clone him. Captain Marvel then shows up out of nowhere and starts earning everyone's trust, kind of like what happened with the Ultimen.
Had the bypass generator been successfully activated, Hro Talek would no doubt have attacked and conquered the Gordanian homeworld—while, on the other side of the galaxy, the Gordanians attacked Thanagar. The Thanagarians were probably hoping that attacking the Gordanian homeworld would cause the Gordanian fleet to be recalled; but it seems more likely that this news would just make the Gordanians strike Thanagar harder in retaliation. After all, Hro Talek spoke of them committing "unspeakable atrocities"—and since Talek himself approved the destruction of a planet with six billion inhabitants, the mind boggles to imagine what he would consider atrocious.
Clearly, by the time Hro Talek's fleet reached Earth, the fall of Thanagar was inevitable. For all her mistakes, Hawkgirl was not responsible for the fate of her homeworld or her fiancé.
- Just a nitpick— Talak would only consider actions against his own people as atrocities. Since he didn't give a rat's crap about any species but his own, he would not think of killing any number of mere Earthlings as atrocious. So the actions of the Gordanians, while probably despicable, could have been far less than what Talak tried to do to Earth and still be "worse" from his point of view.
- Except his first name was Rex, the same as John's old friend from the Marines (who later became Metamorpho).
- Maybe they died quickly after the child's birth, and didn't even have time to name it. John adopted him and chose to name him Rex. Or the kid was dying or something, and they needed a compound that didn't exist on Earth to save him (we don't know much about Thanagarian biology); Rex created it, saving the child's life, and the grateful parents named boy after him.
- You don't have to be "together" to conceive a child...you just need one night.
- Only if you're supernaturally(un)lucky.
- Alternatively, because of the weird time-stuff that was going on, they were in a timeline where John would have been Warhawk's dad; after Chronos' manipulations were canceled out, the resultant timeline is one where Warhawk isn't Rex Stewart.
- According to Batman Beyond, which set up the intro to the Justice League, Warhawk seems to be exactly the same as his JLU appearance... except that his exposed chin has a lighter skin tone.
- Different colorists were used on the various DCAU series.
- According to Batman Beyond, which set up the intro to the Justice League, Warhawk seems to be exactly the same as his JLU appearance... except that his exposed chin has a lighter skin tone.
- Word of God says John will be with Vixen for a while but ultimately end up with Shayera at some point down the line.
- Or have a threesome with both.
- What ultimately happens is that Vixen is killed, John avenges her death (lethally), gets exiled from the GL corps and then Shayera comforts him, eventually leading to their marriage.
Maybe Flash is subconsciously manipulating his own connection to the Timestream. Flash can go as fast as he wants - and the faster he goes, the slower the rest of the world seems by comparison. This could be what other versions of the Flash mean when they say "I'm not going fast - everything else is going slow." Maybe the Flash (and therefore all Speedsters) can manipulate their own personal "bubble of time" to utilise what to us(and him) just looks like Superspeed. Speedsters could be unique in that their brainwave patterns allow them/have been altered to allow them to think subconsciously on a quantum level - it's already established that Wally's a forensic scientist, so he's certainly got a good brain in his head, but then maybe it's got nothing to do with conscious intellect. Speedsters don't just run fast - they change time to suit their needs, literally warping the universal space directly around them.
- This could also explain the Big Eater thing - he can't speed up his own personal time-space without also speeding up his metabolism.
- This could also, by extension, explain why Flash could defeat Brainthor when the rest of the league failed. If Brainthor was really that intelligent and powerful, only something capable of manipulating processing speeds at that level could stop him.
- Just one problem: it would mean that he had to run around the world several times in succession, in what to him would have seemed in real time. In subjective time that would take months at minimum.
- It wouldn't really matter how long it took in subjective time, though. He'd be bored, but it would get the job done.
- How would he even build up momentum in that case? If the guy's going on some ridiculous year-long marathon around the world, he's not going to be sprinting the whole way, building up speed the entire time. He'd just end up jogging, resting, sleeping, finding food, etc. and basically just going way slower than his top speed.
- Alternative to this theory (which doesn't discredit the original, but messes with it a lot): Just because he's Warping Space Time around himself doesn't necessarily mean he sees everything in subjective time. That would suggest that he's projecting his ability across the entire universe which is a lot more surprising than the idea that he's just controllng the bubble of time around himself. He doesn't age even when his heartbeat is going a million times a subjective minute, so obviously he can control his own body's developmental rate, and separate his biological functions from his internal physics. So in other words, it's only his OWN time he's controlling, and he's subconsciouly disconnecting from the logical progression of time in the universe. Maybe the Timey-Wimey Ball ultimately doesn't make any logical sense in our understanding of logic (that's why Time paradoxes occur in fiction, right?)
- DC Canon elsewhere suggests that it's the Timestream controlling the Flashes, sort of. Using superspeed at sufficiently high speeds sufficiently often will land you into speedster Instrumentality in the comics. "Live fast, disappear young..."
- Doesn't explain how he's able to run up vertical surfaces........
- Same reason he doesn't go flying off into the sky after cresting a hill, despite moving much faster than 9.8 meters per second. His power also clearly manipulates gravity to some degree.
- Magnets, pure and simple.
- Not entirely jossed, but rather highly unlikely given the a) existence of the Speed Force (which Flash specifically mentions — 'it's some kind of force... a speed force' — to Shayera while he's disappearing), which we know due to the comic book is responsible for regulating all the impossible physics of Flash's powers; and b) comic book canon's existence of Professor Zoom and Inertia, who specifically have speedster powers based on temporal manipulation. They have super speed in the exact way that the Original WMG suggests. Not saying it's totally jossed, just highly unlikely.
- It wouldn't really matter how long it took in subjective time, though. He'd be bored, but it would get the job done.
- Alternately, the Question is right about everything. Illuminati mystics, Boy Bands causing global warming, and spy satellites tracking fluoridation are pedestrian compared to many things we see for a fact (humanity almost wound up getting turned into apes!). As for that conspiracy... did you ever notice how Cadmus didn't feel the need to spend any resources in counterintelligence against other countries?
- It's worth noting that, in the comics, The Illuminati do exist and were founded by Vandal Savage.
- And this is why he goes to such great lengths to seem like a crackpot: so that none of the ones he's right about come after him.
- Well, technically, from some angles, he was right about Flash, so... if he's been right before...
- This would suggest that The Lords Supers and the League Supes had variations in their makeup and personality to begin with - that they were never exactly the same person, because they made different choices.
- That would apply to anyone who was born after the divergence — that's one thing butterflies of doom do. It would just be more obvious in some people than in others.
- Um, the only problem is that there are still nuclear weapons in the primary universe. The first episode that leaps to mind is The Doomsday Sanction. Apparently someone thought it would be a good idea to make more nukes.
- Of course that was Cadmus. They aren't exactly official.
- Actually their were several episodes well before this showed that, at very least the United States, had nuclear weapons rebuilt, most likely to ward of future alien invasions. The "Brave and the Bold" had Grodd shooting off five in an attempt to destroy Gorilla City.
- Cadmus is official, if secret. More to the point, though, that wasn't a regular nuke. It was a special Kryptonite warhead.
- That would apply to anyone who was born after the divergence — that's one thing butterflies of doom do. It would just be more obvious in some people than in others.
- As I recall Lex Luthor personally killed Flash. With a shotgun to the face. Or something like that.
- Maybe he is descended from the child that Tala and "Luthor" may have created during "The Great brain Robbery... After all, it "wasn't restful" when she and "Luthor" were doing.
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Heh heh heh, that's why this post was removed...Also to give another reason to support this theory - Braniac 5 posesses 12th level of intellect, and according to the last episode of Justice League - Lex does as well. Remeber that only 12th lever of intellect can pass through the Source wall and stay sane. Which he did =)- Which means that Braniac 5 also capable of having organic sex, with Supergirl... A possible Shout Out to old comics where she dated Luthor.
- And a shout out to old comics where she dated Brainiac 5.
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- In "Clash", a building is named after Lena Luthor, who in this universe could be his mother, sister, (ex-)wife, or some other relative. It's possible Brainiac 5 isn't Lex's direct descendant
- It would have to be a direct descendant, unless you're suggesting Brainiac implanted himself into Lex's other family members. Possible, but it leaves more unanswered questions.
- Yes, that's the joke.
- Alternatively, three packs a day. For the last few centuries.
- They have a guy with a German accent on Apokolips. I don't think that one woman whose voice sounds like what human males do on earth counts as "Sufficient Evidence."
- Yeah... And Ferris Boyle is also the Joker, and Clayface is also Jax-Ur, and Thomas Wayne is also Batman, and Giganta is also Killer Frost, and.......
- Well, it could also work in a Becoming the Mask way. The timeline would have to end up being something like this though:
- Sometime after Batman: The Animated Series Scarecrow breaks out of Arkham and decides to try and find a more subtle way to get revenge on Batman. He decides to disguise himself as a vigilante to get Batman's attention, changing his name and using a diluted version of the fear serum to change his appearance.(We never did figure out what was in Question's spray can, and fear serum has been shown to change the color and appearance of objects when viewed by others, albeit temporarily) The fear serum also allowed others to develop a mild fear of him in order to keep others away from his work, resulting in those who wouldn't be that disturbed by his hobby becoming appalled and staying away.
- He is recruited into the Justice League, and adopts the crackpot persona in order to keep Leaguers away from his office so he can collect data on the League's (and Batman's) weaknesses, and get revenge. His blatant statement of "please I go through everybody's trash" is actually to cover up the fact that he digs through people's trash in order to collect DNA and make the fear serum more compatible for their minds.
- Of course, all his hard work ends up more or less falling apart ala ''Double Date'', and you know the rest. Though, maybe he did end up getting his revenge after all... we never did know how The Joker in Return of the Joker actually knew where Robin was patrolling..
- The thawing process which freed her drove her insane, she mostly likely killed the people who were thawing her out. She becomes more insane after seeing her reflection (a la Joker in the Tim Burton movie and Two-Face). Blaming Gotham for what happened to her, she becoming a supervillain her. Ironically, she originally donned the suit to rid the city of men and other supervillains in a twisted form of revenge for the suffering her sister endured in the first place.
- Also at some point during the second season the Joker kidnaps Robin and the prolouge of Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker occurs. This leads Dick and Babs to give up their costumed identies, leaving Bruce the only active member of the Bat-Family.
- Except Dick didn't give up his costumed identity, at the most all he did was change suits as Barbra herself states that Nightwing is still operating as of Batman Beyond.
- It was never stated he was still active, just that Terry should go look him up sometime on the subject of Bruce's issues with partners.
- Except Dick didn't give up his costumed identity, at the most all he did was change suits as Barbra herself states that Nightwing is still operating as of Batman Beyond.
- Most likely Dick got just completely fed up with Bruce's methods, as well as Barbara insistence on taking his side of things constantly and just cut both of them off.
- Except Wild Cards (when the Joker gets mind-fried by Ace) happened after A Better World...
- And there are several Bat-Family villains who have to survive to appear in Batman Beyond. Bane, Harley Quinn, Mr. Freeze, and Ra's al Ghul has to cause The Near-Apocalypse of '09.
- Likely!
- Or possibly not- at one point during "The Great Brain Robbery," we see Luthor has Grodd stuck in a big, psionic-dampening prison.
- It's possible that by that point, Lex's already unstable mind had cracked, and he didn't need Grodd implanting it any more.
- That would certainly explain why Brainiac was acting like a lovesick puppy when talking to Luthor. While not exactly emotionless, he would never become so enamored with a lowly human.
- It's also worth noting that Grodd must know that should the fusion of Brainiac and Luthor be reborn, it would threaten the entire world, including Grodd himself. Grodd would be have to be suicidal to allow that to happen.
- Alternatively Lex's experience with Braniac left him insane and he was just deluding himself into hearing Braniac in his head. It's possible that Grodd actually removed the delusion just before Lex shot him out an airlock.
- Wouldn't surprise me if the Question created WMG solely for that purpose. For all we know he could have planned TV Tropes from the start with a little help from Xanatos.
- The bigger question for Question is - how is Huntress in bed? She is daughter of Batman after all...
- Not in this continuity.
- Is he here or not?
- That is, after all... The Question.
- The bigger question for Question is - how is Huntress in bed? She is daughter of Batman after all...
- According to Superman / Batman - same goes for Batman, who was taught how to use his powers by Superman.
- And also according to another comic, Batman taught Superman how to act when he is depowered. Superman even mentioned it while running through sewers that he learned it from Batman.
- He's also received coaching from Robin for a time when he had to impersonate Batman
- Batman replicated the technology Luthor used to keep Superman imprisoned after Darkseid brainwashed him near the end of Superman: The Animated Series.
- Doubtful. That'd be a dead giveaway to his identity, wouldn't it?
- Who in turn where hired by Justice League, due to them being able to operate said tower. After all they're also a good selected bunch of badasses, as we can see during Cadmus attack on the tower.
- Maybe not all, but SOME of them is quite possible.
- Who in turn where hired by Justice League, due to them being able to operate said tower. After all they're also a good selected bunch of badasses, as we can see during Cadmus attack on the tower.
- Considering the watchtower was built at Wayne Enterprises' expense and Flash never suspected Bats was Bruce before Bats told him, it's entirely possible Wayne Enterprises pays their wages without them knowing who's paying (or even caring for as long as the paychecks don't bounce)
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- You fool. You've doomed us all.
- In that case, though, why would the Question say the word "aglet" when being interrogated?
- I actually asked Dwayne Mc Duffie what happened to Luthor on one of his old Word of God threads. Luthor got trapped in the Source Wall.
- Well, in the comics he did have teleportation powers at least at one point. Whether that's still canon after the various reboots since...
- That also explains why Batman's ears are not long, though, they still are in the original Justice League....
- Did they mean famous as in, the type of monster (i.e. zombies are a well-known type of monster)?
- Does anyone really want to know how Grundy could be anyone's father? Squick at it's finest, ladies and gentlemen...
- It's the Fourth Flavor.
- A little longer, and we'd seen the world the Mad Hatter gave him in Batman: The Animated Series.
- Is anyone else surprised that Batman's heart's desire involved crooks being beaten up in a dark alleyway? Really? No one? I thought not.
- Certainly not the case with Tala at least; she just has a thing for men with power, and isn't afraid to sleep her way to the top. Even if it's with a giant gorilla. Notice just how quickly she latched herself onto Lex (not that it ended well for her.)
- But it's part of the DCAU that he never kills, even when faced with a high probability that the villain will escape and kill again (i.e., the Joker). Also, it doesn't look like Destiny poisoned himself; he just dosed himself with the sleeping drug he was going to give to Batman.
- The moment everything went wrong, repeated ad infinitum.
- How did he know about the things he wasn't around to see? Simple, the machine DID successfully give him psychic powers, but he's stuck in a catatonic state in the process.
- Aquaman wouldn't care for as long as they stayed out of Atlantis.
- Aquaman is command of the largest and most powerful Naval force, not to mention some of the most advanced technology and access to magical artifacts. The Justice League at that time of the series didn't trust the King of the Sea, and may of just felt "King" is just another name for "dictator." Unlikely they would leave Atlantis alone.
- Aquaman wouldn't care for as long as they stayed out of Atlantis.
- Jossed twofold by Batman Beyond's Out of the Past. If Bruce had fathered a son with Diana, wouldn't she have been fit to rank alongside Lois Lane, Barbara Gordon, Selina Kyle, and Zatanna in this little black book? Not to mention that if Ra's needed to take the guise of Bruce Wayne's son, taking Bruce Wayne's actual son would've been way easier than going after Bruce.
- This, while incredibly disturbing, is probably what indeed happened in the Justice Lords universe. After all, Superman hadn't exactly had practice at lobotomy before, so he had to learn somehow. And notice, the glaring absence of the Superman: The Animated Series villains during that episode. It's likely that Livewire, Parasite, and others are all mostly either dead or reduced to completely catatonic vegetables.
- Even if we only see Flash's Rogues in one episode of JLU, it stands to reason that they were probably all hunted down and killed or had their brains fried, too.
- Alternatively, Lex and Mercy had a secret child together.
- Are you saying Saxon Hale is running LexCorp?
- It's a reference to Luthor faking his death, cloning a younger body for himself, transferring his brain into said clone body, and pretending to be his own son from Australia shortly before The Death of Superman.
- We actually do see Luminus at one point when he breaks out of jail with Solomon Grundy, Copperhead, and a few others in the episodes with Doctor Destiny.
- Oh, I think we all know. *wink*
- Yeah, Word of God is that this is so confirmed.
- Did anyone else just get a little curious as to how homosexuality is thought of on Thanagar?
- I'd guess there's a bit of the Spartan idea; romances between the troops are a way to make sure they fight as a unit, and no one cares if that means Manly Gay, bi, or anything else.
- The real question is if Hro is aware of it? Is that part of the reason why he punched him after Kragger exposed Shayera as a traitor?
- Jossed: He turned gold/yellow at the end of "Tabula Rasa"◊.
- NOT Jossed: Change of color is not an indication of whether or not he became his most powerful in that moment, unless Word of God says so. The change of color could just mean he was preparing himself for space travel.
- Jossed: He turned gold/yellow at the end of "Tabula Rasa"◊.
- Alternatively, lobotomy was the compromise on killing that Lord Superman made to get Lord Batman to go along with everything else.
Now, why they mistook Micheal Jon Carter for Jon Stewart, I have no clue...
- JOSSED: The reason why people saw a white and gold dress instead of a blue and black dress is because of how the photo was rendered, and anyone who saw the dress in real life would know right away that the dress was blue and black. https://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/
- Or Carol is British in this continuity.
- Alternatively Waller might have thought he simply had a wealthy but secretive financial backer, just like Waller herself, with Gotham-based mega-rich tech company Wayne Enterprises being the only real candidate. Noting the similarities in build and physique between Bruce and Batman, Waller asked the question to see if he was Bruce or merely being funded by Bruce, with his reaction answering it.
- Mister Terrific, who takes over as Mission Control from J'onn in the final season.
- In the comics he’s canonically the world’s third smartest man
- The Atom, who helped Luthor during Amazo's return and took out the Dark Heart.
- Orion, Big Barda and Mister Miracle as members of the technologically advanced New Gods.
- Booster Gold, though only because he's from the future.
- Batman himself, he’s far too secretive to publicly admit it (especially to Waller), or that he wasn’t actually on the Watchtower at the time, but Batman is the world’s greatest detective after all.