Fresh Question #9: Secret Origins, Secret Names?

[Nightwing]

Hi Leaguers. It's new Fresh Question time. Relax and enjoy.

Diana and J'onn have NO hero names! This seems like an unprecedented event in the lives and story telling of hero characters, to have one for so long, and then just not suddenly, since the stories don't seem to call for it. What do you think?

Should Diana and J'onn be given their JL super hero names?? If so, how??

[JLU Dude]

Well, in the episode In Blackest Night, J'Onn referred to Diana as Wonder Woman, but I'd have Diana save a group of people and a reporter "Superhero named" her Wonder Woman. J'Onn, on the other hand. I'd write him saving somebody, get an interview and starts to call himself "Martian Manhnuter".

[Borg4of3]

I'd like the "reporter's idea" idea for Wonder Woman - it sounds like a name that could only be conceived of in 'man's world' - but I'd like Jonn to 'earn' the title of Martian Manhunter. It sounds like an elite rank, one he could attain from Oa away from the old Manhunters or one he could be given if he puts up a heckuva fight on Warworld.

[Karkull]

Wonder Woman has her name already, but I prefer J'onn to just stay "J'onn." Calling him the "Martian Manhunter" is insulting (Superman isn't "the Kryptonian Manhunter") and redundant--we have "the Manhunters" already. I like him as J'onn.

[BeastBoyWonder]

I totally agree...he shall remain "J'onn" in my eyes.

[TheHuntressDiana]

I don't see why either Diana or J'onn need to have a "hero" name. Diana more so than J'onn. Diana doesn't have a double life...and she doesn't need the distinction.

I don't see the "Bruce" or "Clark" or "Wally" factors coming into the picture very often. Why should it for Diana or J'onn? I just don't see the point to it.

After all, this is Justice League. Not The Adventures of the Justice League and what they do when they're not saving the world...

[Apache Chief]

Diana should be called Wodner Woman. It's just who she is. As for J'ohn, well, in the JLA comic they almost never call him the Martian Manhunter, so maybe he doesn't need it. Where did that name come from anyway? Was he some kind of bounty hunter?

[TheHuntressDiana]

Originally posted by Apache Chief
Diana should be called Wodner Woman. It's just who she is.

That's like saying "Superman" is who Clark is...when it's clearly not. "Clark" is who he is. "Superman" is what he does.

[Apache Chief]

I know what you're saying Diana, but that's not really what I meant. Yes Superman is really Clark, and Batman is really, well, Batman. What I meant is that Wonder Woman is one of the few superheroes a non-comics fan can recognize. They should keep it as it is an important part of her character. (For the same reason, I still wish they had let her keep her lasso of truth. Know it's just a rope and she's not the same without it.)

[Batman 80]

I like it that Diana and J'onn are called by their real names. It just sounds cooler to me.

[miss lizz]

I agree wholeheartedly that Diana and J'onn should not be called by their codenames. Except maybe by reporters who don't know any better. There is really no reason in the show for either of them to be called by anything other than their real names.

just my opinion,
Miss Lizz^_^

[bloodsworn]

Well, in Jonn's origin story (comic), he assumed the form of deceased police officer John Jones and fought crime as an officer of the law and as a superhero. Maybe that explains a little as to why he has Manhunter in his super hero moniker.