A variation of the versus concept.
Imagine something akin to the trades professional basketball teams have in the NBA. Where you can trade one of your players for another.
In this case the X-men can trade between 4 to 13 of their own for JLA members, and the JLA can do the same for X-men members.
If you 'owned' the X-men which characters would you trade off for JLA members, and if you owned the JLA which characters would you trade for X-men members.
And why would you do so?
Also would you make a hybrid team (eg a mix of JLA/X-men), or would you prefer to keep it pure (even if it means that your X-men team will be comprised of 100% JLAers, or vice-versa).
The only person I would trade for the JLA is Big Barda for Iceman.
There's enough raw muscle there to the point where she would be redundant.
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Good point.
I just went through the rosters again and realized that it was rather silly to pit the JLA versus the X-Men (comparatively the X-men are extremely weak ...exceedingly so, at least relatively. By themselves they are powerful, but not compared to the JLA).
I should have made it a trade between the JSA and the JLA.
Far more equitable.
Quickly going through the JLA roster made me realize that, honestly, there is virtually no X-man (apart from Ice man) who would REALLY qualify for JLA membership. Well, maybe Nightcrawler might (his teleporting powers would be appreciated, although it could be said that Martian Manhunter's phasing abilities are basically analogous to NCrawler's 'porting cabilities). Gambit may also be a good wildcard (although his ability to charge things with kinetic energy may be a moot point when one has the Flash who can simply toss things around at hyper velocities, and when he needs to blow things up simply vibrate through them). Storm might also make it for an interview (although a character like Superman has powers that can make up for a large part of her weather abilities, for example he can create strong wind gusts as well as use arctic breath to freeze things/characters).
The other members of the Xmen basically wouldn't amount to much in the JLA. For example the JLA telepaths (Aquaman and MM, especially MM who is not only an extremely capable telepath but also has other powers rippling through him) basically negate any need for Xavier, JEan and/or Emma.
The strength of Colossus and Rogue is ludicrous in the JLA (with characters like WW, MM and Superman).
Wolverine's claws .....probably the only people who might be interested in him are Batman (to see if he can come up with something to break adamantium, and maybe to see if he could train Wolvie to be a good attack dog) and FireStorm (to see how quickly he could replicate the molecular structure of adamantium). I doubt he would even be considered in the first place (seriously, what could he bring to the JLA? The ability to hack and slash? A healing factor? Weird hairstyles? A love for Canada? Cigars?) And while he may have good sensory powers what are they when compared to characters like Superman and Martian Manhunter who can detect the oscillation of sub-atomic particles?
Anyways, putting the JLA vs the JSA might have been more prudent.
Last edited by spetznaz on Dec 30th, 2005 at 07:42 AM
Yea, I don't think the JLA would be making any trades really. (Big Barda for Iceman is the only one I can think of.)
I do think some X-men members could fit in the JLA, however. If Rogue were able to absorb the abilities of the JLA members, then she would be a nice addition. I think Storm would also get an interview. She'd have to really unleash though and show what she is truly capable of. Her durability would be a hinderance though. Jean would fall into that category as well.
Emma would be a nice JSA addition perhaps. She's so creative and skilled.
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