Earth-44/Ideas

Flagship franchises:

* Crisis
	+ is essentially the Crossover flagship
	+ first crisis: Steppenwolf Crisis
		- Justice League vs Steppenwolf -> Darkseid
		- Suicide Squad vs Brimstone
		- after watching Batman save Superman on Apokolips, Scott Free gains the courage to perform his escapist feat
	+ Atlantean Crisis (?)
		- Orm invades America
		- creation of Sub Diego and Lorena Marquez
		- series of earthquakes started by Malcolm Merlyn and Ra's al Ghul? prompts Green Arrow to join the league?
			* Undertaking is concurrect with this, and maybe Batman vs Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze
	+ Multiversal Crisis
		- the Justice Lords (i.e. Owlman) are going and conquering worlds and destroying the worlds they can't conquer
		- Atomica invades Earth-44's Justice League, posing as a legit member
		- they arrive on Earth-44-2, causing
* Green Arrow
	+ The Question could be an investigator
* Green Lantern
	+ Razer is one of the first red lanterns to appear?
* Superman
	+ first arc focuses around ARGUS and their fear of "Zero Day" with General Zod
		- maybe Intergang tech?
			* Intergang uses Phantom Zone projectors to open up the Zod portal in kind of a roundabout way. ARGUS assumed Intergang tech would be the only way to stop Zodd
			* Intergang turns into the 100 and then the 1000 and so on
		- Superman returns home, and questions his identity as a Kryptonian or human. Pa Kent reveals the legacy
	+ vs Toyman - who is trying to live in a youthful vision of the world
	+ early on - vs Gangbuster
		- Clark convinces Gangbuster to step down
		- Guaardian takes over? or Guardian becomes
	+ Superman and Lois
		- meeting General Sam Lane
		- Lucy Lane is Lois's more adventurous younger sister, maybe who runs away? Superman gets her a job on an airline?
* Fourth World
* Aquaman
	+ the death of Aquababy is what encourages him to adopt Kalderaam
* Batman
	+ Riddler - Gotham employee turned right wing podcaster, wants to "drain the swamp", communicates in similar dogwhistles
	+ Cluemaster - Riddler's machismo divorced friend
	+ Anarky - libertarian teen
	+ batman stories
		- vol 1
			* Batman's rise as a controversial figure
			* vs Doctor Death, Clayface 1, the end leads to the Joker's formation
			* Penguin and Riddler
		- vol 2
			* mad science
			* joker's first go?
			* Phantasm could be there? also Hugo Strange?
		- vol 3
			* trial of the Joker, leads to Harvey Dent?
			* Ethan Bennett becomes Clayface proper
		- Clayface comes out as a result of Lazarus Pit chemistry
	+ vs Joker
	+ Sasha Bordeaux works for Bruce Wayne/Batman?
		- signed on to study Bruce as part of ARGUS/Checkmate by Amanda Waller
	+ love interests:
		- Vesper Fairchild
	+ Batman's tech
		- jetpack - for battling Man-Bat. Batpack?
		- ice bomb
		- chainsaw arm guards - to defeat Poison Ivy's trees
* Doom Patrol
	+ second team:
		- Arani Desai/Celsius
	+ Cyborg first appears as Cyborg in a story with Robot Man? this is where he meets Beast Boy?
* Flash
	+ Flash vs Goldface and Blacksmith (Amunet Black?)
	+ Flash vs Eel (grease gun)
	+ Flash vs Rag Doll
		- a contortionist who breaks into houses and hides in bedrooms as a doll
	+ Flash vs Shade
	+ Flash vs Fiddler
	+ Flash vs Abra Kadabra
	+ Flash vs Razer
	+ Flash vs Folded Man
	+ Flash vs Medusa
	+ ok, the first arc (or first and second?) could be about Flash trying to deal with this strange technology...
		- we find out it's from the future
	+ Reverse Flash creates the Firestorm Matrix, as a way to merge with Barry Allen, but it ends up just being a prototype and used by someone else instead...
		- Caitlin Snow creates an anti-Firestorm Matrix as a way to split them, but ends up splitting her own personality into the more extreme and subdued aspects (Killer Frost). eventually, the Caitlin Snow personality ends up dying, leaving her as punk hedonist Killer Frost, who might even want to avenge Caitlin Snow
* Green Lantern Corps
* Justice League
	+ joining:
	+ Red Tornado joins
	+ Fire and Ice join
	+ separate teams:
		- Justice League International
* Seven Soldiers of Victory vs the Sheeda
* Swamp Thing
	+ Abby succumbs to the Rot
* Wonder Woman
	+ vs Circe
		- perhaps, in one, she wants to turn the whole world into animals? requires Wonder Woman and Zatanna teamup?
	+ vs Giganta

general lore/storybeats

* ARGUS created CADMUS and Task Force X
	+ Wade Wilson is a member of Task Force X from the beginning, infiltrating the League of Assassins (maybe for them or for his own personal gain)
	+ Niles Caulder was involved with ARGUS to create the Doom Patrol, which were a proto-Task Force X/Justice League
	+ Gorilla City was created by CADMUS
	+ STAR Labs is somehow linked to CADMUS

teams:

* Secret Six
	+ where do they fit in with the Suicide Squad?
	+ like the Suicide Squad, but more focused on personal interests
	+ possible members:
		- Codename: Knockout, Sasha Bordeaux, Maxwell Lord

worldbuilding:

* The Red and the Green
* The Grid
* The Rot

characters:

* Animal Man
* Apokoliptans
	+ Female Furies
		- Knockout - second Fury to leave after Big Barda
		- Lashina
	+ Grail
	+ Ma'alefa'ak - a relative of Martian Manhunter or Miss Martian who betrays the Martians and joins Darkseid
* Atlanteans
	+ Aqualad
		- Kaldurahm
* Atomic Knight(s)
* Bane - not just strong, but cold and intelligence. Venom isn't his core strength, but the crutch he can't conquer
* Beetles
	+ Blue Betle/Jaime Reyes
	+ Nitida/Roma Lopez
	+ Dynastes/Xiomara Erazo
* BillyBatson
* Black Mask
* Blackrock - created by a rival TV stationsince the DailyPlanet gets so much success out of Superman
* Black Spider
* Blacksmith/Amunet Black
* Bloodwork
* Calendar Man
* Captain Boomerang
* The Carpenter
* Charlie Duffy -thinks he's Batman
* Cicada
* Circe
* Clayface
	+ Basil Karlo
* Clock King
* Codename: Knockout
* Commander Steel
* Copperhead
* Count Vertigo
* Crimson Avenger
* Doctor Alchemy - gets the philosopher's stone? could be a Metamorpho villain
* Doctor Impossible - fuses with a Mother Box
* Doctor Psycho - is kind of like a Freudian guy, or Jordan Peterson
* Doom Patrol
	+ Beast Girl/Kareli
	+ Celsius/Arani Desai -
	+ Coagula
	+ Degenerate
	+ Elasti-Girl/Rita Farr
	+ Negative Woman
* Double Down - challenges someone in a game of cards, and kills them, but the cards are cursed. could be a Zatanna/Doctor Fate enemy?
* Electrocutioner
* Egg Fu
	+ taken to Apokolips? maybe to serve as DeSaad's replacement or assistant or Earth liaison after the failed invasion?
* Scarecrow
* Fiddler
* Fire (Bea da Costa) and Ice
* Firestorm
	+ Martin Stein - a professor who cares way too much; i.e., conscientious objector, pacifist
	+ Ronnie Raymond - a college jock, though with himbo energy (he does have a smart fiancee) and a want to do good even if he might not be smart enough to get it
	+ Jason Roush - a kid who doesn't want anything to do with heroics
* Flash/Barry Allen - has a "square" personality - law abiding, obsessed with justice, against misuse of power, come home to kiss his wife, awkward/softspoken
* Flash/Wally West
* Fright/Linda Friitawa
* Gangbuster - he has the same fucking background as BlackLightning so we're not doing the real backstory. maybe make him a villain, someone Superman forces into retirement?
* GCPD
	+ Detective Yin
	+ Ethan Bennett
	+ Renee Montoya
* Gearhead
	+ cybernetically enhanced driver with nanites?
* Gentleman Ghost
* Guardian
* Hugo Strange - believes in the "rationalziation" of everything
	+ rocky relationship with the League of Assassins, might simply believe Ra's was different guys instead of 1 immortal man
* Giganta
* Girder
* Goldface
* Green Lanterns
	+ Arisia Rrab
		- comes from a long line of Green Lanterns
		- Hal Jordan love interest while he's in space?
	+ Iolande - Soranik Natu's corps partner
	+ Katma Tui - replaces Sinestro
	+ Soranik Natu
* Great White Shark
* General Immortus
* Joker Gang
	+ Prank/Donny - a classmate of Babs or Dick that Joker "adopts" to be his sidekick
	+ Punchline
* Jimmy Olsen
* Jinny Hex -descendant of Jonah Hex
* Justice Lords/Crime Syndicate
	+ ok here's what I'm thinking. the Justice Lords happened similar to Injustice, where a bomb goes off that kills Lois Lane and the Flash. Superman attacks the Joker and forces him to reveal a Lazarus Pit, and revives Lois Lane. Batman challenges Superman, and is eventually put down. the Court of Owls in Gotham puts forward Bruce's replacement, Owlman.
	+ Alexander Luthor - Mazahs. becomes Shazam after Batman is killed and he needs some way to resist superman
	+ Johnny Allen -sadistic criminal. member of the Rogues who gets Speed Force powers?
	+ Owlman
	+ Atomica/Rhonda Pinetta - sadistic criminal. she's the one who invades the Justice League of
	+ Superwoman - Amazonian Lois Lane with Lasso of Submission
	+ Ultraman
* KGBeast
* Kryptonians
	+ surviving Kryptonians
		- Tal-Rho
		- Zeta-Rho
* Linda Park
* Livewire
* Lucy Lane
	+ gets pregnant out of wedlock
* Mad Hatter
* Malik White
* Man-Bat/Kirk Langstrom
	+ Kirk is studying bats to cure his deaf niece Denise (who actually isn't deaf)
	+ Kirk actually wants to be Batman
* Magenta
* Maxie Zeus
* Maxwell Lord
* Mercy Graves
* Metal Men
* Mirror Master/Sam Scudder
* Mob Rule
* Mon-El - redirected from Krypton to Earth by Jor-El; loses his memory. adopted as a member of the Olsen family and eventually marries Kelly Harper. ultimately leaves the Justice League to be a Green Lantern?
* Monsieur Mallah and the Brain
	+ Given super intelligence by CADMUS
* Morgan Edge - a media mogul behind Galaxy Broadcasting System that acquires the Daily Planet
* Mr Terrific/Michael Holt
* New Year's Day Killer/Francis Grey
* Nocturna - a legit vampire in this version
* Night-Slayer
* Nightshade/Eve Eden - daughter of a US senator.
	+ dates Captain Atom for a while?
* Peek-a-Boo/Lashawn Baez
* Per Dagaaton
* Pied Piper
* Planeteer
* Poison Ivy
	+ protestor against Chlorogene? like in the Batmanshow?
	+ Poison Ivy works alongside her professor, the future Floronic Man, to protest companies like Chlorogene. when she gets caught, she hires a man named Temblor to break her out. Temblor is actually a member of the League of Assassins. Floronic Man shoves Pamela under the bus, and Ivy is left to mutate by the League of Assassins.
		- the mutation - maybe Temblor plans on unleashing all of the chemicals of Chlorogene, and Pamela realizes it'll posion and kill people, and sacrifices herself. she's reborn as a misanthrope
* Power Girl
	+ "I feel like she’s an under-utilized character as well. A more confident, alternate future version of Supergirl living alongside her past self feels like it could be great for a mentor-mentee relationship, but I’ve never really seen that. Retcon her origin a bit so that she’s a refugee who’s original universe was destroyed or something and that’s why she sticks around this one. Boom, you’ve got a great story about someone looking for redemption and helping to ensure that nothing like that can happen again in her new home while ensuring that alt-past version of herself can be better than she was."
	+ potentially from a world that Owl-Man and the Justice Lords destroyed?
	+ then she goes to our world and teams up with ARGUS to fight the Justice League i.e. Galatea in DCAU?
	+ basically gets "adopted" by Fire and Ice
* Psycho-Pirate
* Ratcatcher
* Queen Bee
* Ravager
* Raven
	+ Raven was trained in the art of healing, and can take other's injuries into her soul to heal them
	+ eventually dies and gets reborn in a younger body, or a younger version of her splits off with emotion, causing white Raven to be able to date Damian Wayne
* Red Arrow /Roy Harper
	+ brother to Guardian? of Navajo heritage, there's a falling out in the family and Roy heads west while Jim heads east with Jamie
		- or rename Jamie to Kelly (Kelly Olsen) o make things less confusing
* Red Tornado
* Sasha Bordeaux
* Shaggy Man/Java
	+ used by Hugo Strange?
	+ found by Stagg Enterprises as kind of a backdoor intro for Metamorpho
* Doctor Sivana
* Speed Force
	+ Reverse Flash/Eobard Thawne/Professor Zoom?
		- in the future 25th century, a huge fan of Barry Allen. applies to study the Speed Force
* Suicide Squad
	+ Blackguard - mercenary, member of the 100/1000. maybe like a darker concept to Booster Gold?
	+ Deadshot
* Tefe Holland
* Temblor
* Trickster
* Weather Wizard
* Tobias Whale
* Timothy HUnter
* White Rabbit
* Wither/Jade Tice
* Wonder Twins
* Wrath and Scorn - brothers who protect criminals
* Ventriloquist
* Virtuoso - picks up the Fiddler's violin after his death
* Giovanni Zatara
* Zatanna Zatara
* Zsasz
* Earth-2/Justice Society
	+ The Rival/Velocity-9 - Jay Garrick's "Reverse Flash"

second generation:

* Elizabeth Prince/Trinity, daughter of Wonder Woman
* child of Mon-El and Jamie Harper

future:

* Bouncy
* Triplicate Girl