Who Should Replace Smallville‘s Superman On The CW?

Aquaman pilot was awesome! Too bad the CW blows and passed on a sure hit.

If it's a direct spin-off of “Smallville,” then I'd go for Supergirl, Green Arrow/Black Canary, Aquaman, or Blue Beetl

If handled the proper way any character can be used. I think Alan Moore proved this with Swamp Thing, at best a 2nd rate character until he took it over. Look what Morrison did with Animal Man and the Doom Patrol. Let's put some faith in the creative teams selected to bring these characters to the small screen.

Starman

Robin The Boy Wonder starring Tim Drake. You put in the ultra-realistic world of the movies except a few years down the line. You rarely – if ever – see Batman, making it more like the Robin comic.

Why not go obscure? Ragman! While, like Blue Beetle, the costume is necessary, its one of the most visually interesting ones in comics, in my opinion, and the character lends well to being made younger. Plus, there's the bonus of having a Jewish character on your network, then there's the benefit of a change to an urban environment, since he's a Gotham based character. Overall, I just want to see the Ragman costume used.

Of the big ones, though, I'd go with Wonder Woman. If they want the JMS version to latch on, they need to use it. Plus, its not like the origin that this Wonder Woman has is at all different than Superman's, other than the shiny new vagina and swapping super-science Krypton for magic Themyscira, so that works in keeping in the Superman crowd. I mean, its not like JMS Wonder Woman differs from Superman pretty much at all, so you have the ability to solidly keep to that wheel house.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned a live action teen titans.

What about BATGIRL???
With Robin or Nightwing frequently guest-starring – that would be a promissing combo.

I think it's time to reboot the Birds of Prey TV series. I don't think that a Blue Beetle series for television would be good unless it had some really fantastic writing. I think The CW or WB should revisit the concept of having Bruce Wayne traveling around the world learning different things. it would make for a much better series. Green Arrow would make a fantastic TV series. Set the series five years later with Queen losing his entire fortune and/or traveling the world setting things right. You can even use the JLA throughout the series peppered throughout some of the episodes as it was done on Smallville. The idea of using no costumes wouldn't work with any series developed by DC entertainment.

A Booster Gold “mysteries in time” show. Each episode he goes to a different era to fix something that got ****ed up in time by the Time Stealers.

The Question would be my favorite option outside Gotham Central … Smallville could even give it a backdoor pilot, having mentioned Hub City several seasons ago.

I hope Blue Beetle isn't a CW drama. It works better as a superhero action show. I'd probably want Green Arrow (spin-off of Smallville), Booster Gold (America's Doctor Who), or Legion of Superheroes (V with superpowers).

Should be Green Arrow, The Flash, Aquaman or Batman who take Smallvile's timeslot.

Do it in the same format basically and make it about how they came to be the great superhero they are today!

POWER GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

B'Wana Beast or Ultra the Multi-Alien. Both are cash cows.

They might not wear one in leather, but the shrug does exist, and lots of women wear them.

Batgirl.
Any of the characters would work- but there do need to be more Asians on tv.
Rather than have her simply be inspired by Batman- she is inspired by him, but her has gone missing for some months (years) and things are getting bad.

Put her in a high school. If you are feeling bold, make her close to mute. Maybe have Robin return at season finale time with some clues as to what happened to Batman. Conspiracy, mystery, and crime to solve- like Veronica Mars but she is also a martial arts expert and an acrobat.

Wow, I just pitched a show.

The Question idea is also pretty good. Lots of ways to make it work- though a paranoid psychopathic Randian is a little more interesting.

Marvel is owned by Disney yes. WB and DC same thing.

They'll want a superhero who's a household name — Blue Beetle ain't it. Wonder Woman seems to make the most sense, with a teenage Diana sent to the US. Where does she live, how does she blend in, what does she think of American youth culture… these are concepts that will fit in well with CW shows.

Flash would be great, but with movie coming soon, probably won't work. Green Lantern belongs on the big screen as well. Supergirl wouldn't be bad, but she'll need a new angle, as we've already seen her Smallville incarnation and she couldn't go backward. How would you keep Aquaman from having an “oh, no, he's turning blue, what can we do?” moment every week? Zatanna might not need household recognition if the magic angle is done correctly, but still might not draw enough viewers. Batgirl, now that has potential… but won't most people be expecting Barbara Gordon?

They -should- do a Dick Grayson series, except they should put it directly after he is fired from being Robin, but before he decides he wants to be Nightwing. (Hell, even make him Nightwing eventually, but it's not really necessary). Have him be about 18, so you cast somebody easy on the eyes, and leave him ripe for

Have him join a circus and hit the road, solving strange crimes across the DCU. First season could end in Gotham with Dick discovering that Batman has replaced him with a new Robin… Then we get a younger, surly, Jason Todd… Barbara could hunt him down at some point. And so on! There's plenty you can do with a tangential relationship to the Bat family.

oh yeah, Challengers! Great idea. I also like the Gotham Central idea above.

If they do Challengers I bet Prof ends up as a woman though. Not that there's anything wrong with that…

Doom Patrol could be the show. It has some X-Men potential and IF the WB wanted to maybe they could make it a compelling series. The other stuff sounds silly like Blue Beetle. What is that show going to have that we haven't seen? Secret Six is another possibility along with a Titans show that could include villains like Deathstroke. OR if they want to really be brave, they could go for an adult style cartoon like the recent trailer for the DC Universe online. In fact, maybe WB should think about a cable channel like F/X for more edgy shows and do some Vertigo stuff there. Seriously, what are these suits thinking? With some effort this stuff could even be done on the cheap.

Blue Beetle will guest star in Smallville this years , that was announced ages ago.

I want to switch gears for a minute…I want Bruce Timm to make Smallville into one of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies, with the cast as the voiceover actors. They could make it as Clark's first adventure as Superman set after the series ends.

As far as who should be the next heir apparent, I think that could go a few ways. Doom Patrol, Adam Strange, Starfire of Tamaran or The Atom could be great shows that couldn't be made last century because of the limited special effects.

The Jack Knight version of Starman. It'd be perfect.