How is this guy even a legit threat against anybody in the DC

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Or this guy, all he does is throw boomerangs

Guess I'll take the bait because fuck it I love how dumb Captain Boomerang is as a concept.

He's depicted as being capable enough with a boomerang to throw it in such a way that it could catch the Flash. Not as in chase him down, but in the sense that he could tell which way Flash was gonna go. Either before or after the boomerang looped back, he could hit the flash with it. Then bomb-erangs and other trick shit started getting involved, and it was a match made in heaven. It's like high level space invaders.

Stupid shit in American cape comics really is the best, isn't it?

>>86340993
Wrong, those are batarangs.

>>86340887
Doesn't matter now since he's dead as shit

>>86341058
Daily reminder that Captain Boomerang used to regularly defeat him with Flasher barely getting the odd win.

>>86340993
Well, Batman has other gimmicks other than the boomerangs.

Like a attack jet armed with missiles.

>>86341058
Captain Boomerang feels like one of those character who were thrown together at the last moment.

Like it was 4.55 PM on a friday at DC headquarters. They need someone who can take on the Flash. Someone said "What about an Australian super villain?" Captain Australia, Captain Kangaroo, Captain Boomerang. Boom, done.

It's the same creative process that brought us, Katana, the Japanese character who uses a katana.

>>86340887
>How is Greean arrow a legit threat against anybody in the DC universe?
>all he has is arrows.

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>>86341209
>Captain Boomerang feels like one of those character who were thrown together at the last moment.

He's a gimmick bad guy, so who really knows whether the tool or the nationality came first. Either way, I'd agree that he got slapped together on a tight schedule. I imagine Hawkeye was created the same way.

>>86341209
>Guys I refuse to suspend my disbelief
Than maybe cape comics ain't for you

>>86340887
Trick boomerangs. He's better than Deadshot.

Ask Tim drake's das before the New 52.

>>86341835
How are you getting Wi-Fi in the Phantom Zone?

>>86341239
Nah. Have you seen how Boomer originally looked? He's just an Aussie or some sort of pilot wearing a tunic covered in boomerangs.
But look at Hawkeye. He couldn't have been made in a tight schedule. There was thought put into him.

>>86341239
As much as I enjoy all eras of Hawkeye I really think he's found a modern niche as the John McClane of Superheroes. Clings never really had his shit together since Scarlet Witch killed him or whatever anyways.

>>86341905
Fair enough. He's one of the best scrambled decisions ever if true.

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I wonder more about the character in-universe. When living in a world that has multiple kryptonians, Lanterns, speedsters, a few martians, and the number of people who can bench press oil tankers increases by the day, what makes one decide to go starting some shit with a boomerang?

After seeing Superman on the news every afternoon, why make the decision to go rob banks if there is some strong change that you just might find yourself facing down an indestructible powerhouse, when you do not have the ability to match that kind of power at all.

>>86340887
He is really fucking good with them.

>>86342543
I think weed need some sort of captain boomerang FEAT list given how often this question comes up.
Even recently there was the helicopter he brought down and the torpedo thing he boomeranged (somehow). And of course the infamous self boomerang.

>>86342523
Well for one he's a fucking lunatic, second he'd just turn into a boomerang and fly into the sunset.

>>86340887
Batman is literally just a faggot throwing boomerangs and still manages to beat superhuman threats he runs into which should paste him

>>86342523
You should read his back up from the last issue of Suicide Squad. There's a very good reason why he uses boomerangs.

Apparently he can boomerang anything... can he boomerang reality?

>>86342643
... and fly right back

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>>86342616

>>86342693
>Shelia Upforit

>>86342616
Captain Boomerang Feat List:
>Pied Nemesis
>Pied Vixen
>Pied Bronze Tiger
>Pied Lois Lane
>Pied Jewlee
>Pied Doctor Light
>Pied Major Victory
>Pied Amanda Waller
>Pied himself

>>86342523
That's like asking why does Mad Hatter bother experimenting with mind control devices or why Mister Freeze is trying to cure his wife when Lex Luthor could master his shit in five minutes.

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>>86342616
Don't forget the psychic boomerangs.

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>>86342828
Except no it isn't

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>>86342882

>>86342882
I have seen this image at least 2 dozen times before and i only just got the joke with the costume.

>>86342828
So mind control, curing diseases, and being a dick billionaire is the same as a guy robbing banks with a boomerang. got it

>>86342882
HOLY SHIT I LOVE AMERICAN CAPE COMICS

>>86342882
Bet he could have sold this pocket storage technology for much more than what he got robbing banks

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>>86342882
Or the time traveling boomerangs.

Someone post a panel from the most recent Suicide Squad comic.

"I'LL BOOMERANG ANYTHING"

>>86341951
Ronin Clint was fun.

>>86342929
I still dont

>>86342941
You're asking why does he bother doing what he does when there are so many people who are stronger than him out there.

>>86342967
But then other people would have it. Also he won't get to fight Flash anymore since he would have no reason to. What kind of life is that?

>>86343007
Think about whos comics boomer shows up in.

>>86343007
The Flash uses the same trick to hide his costume in a ring until he needs to suit up.

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>>86343007
the flash does the same thing with his costume

cpt. boomerang is a flash villain

he is not the first to come up with that gimmick

>>86343026
Living well is the best revenge.

>>86340887
subhuman enlightentmentless scum detected

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>>86342978
Not the panel but heres the page.

>>86343026
The life of a successful millionaire playboy?

>>86342753
Damn, that was cold.

>>86343226
>That was cold
No that's Boomerang, pls don't confuse the captains.

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>>86340887

>>86342882
>>86342973
So basically Captain Boomerang is like Silver age Superman, except of having super-everything he has everything-boomerangs

>>86343176
boring

>>86343176
Who doesn't get to throw boomerrangs at superheroes...

>>86342753
This isn't really a fit. He gets teleported at a safe distance from his opponent whom is without his weapons. And due to the distance put between them he had enough time to throw a barrage of boomerangs and overwhelm that filthy indian. And then he also rubs in in "I am so awesome!"

>>86343296
Imagine you can hit the Flash with boomerrangs. Now imagine why you'd use anything but boomerrang sever again.

>>86343288
i love comics because of shit like this

>>86342978
I know people love that but I like the
>It's the alien from Alien!
more

>>86343436
Doesn't the filthy Indian have super powers. (Also of course Digger would taunt him, he's a dirty fucking Indian)

>>86343436
His opponent is a speedster.

>>86343158
What a fucking showoff.

>>86343484
Well, yeah but it's short bursts of speed and because Nightshade puts him at such a distance from him it tilts things more in favor of Digger. Aldo he doesn't have his weapons. Great page but it's not really a feat, if it weren't for the distance and the lack of weapons the fight would've been a lot harder to say the least but his petty taunting really makes you fuck yeah.

>>86343436
>a long range weapon user uses his long range weapons
I think it still fits, it's not blind luck but skill that gave him the advantage.

>>86342882

you know it would make sense if he was revealed to have some kind of low level telekinesis to explain his skill

>>86343626
No, man. Nightshade gives him the advantage. If it weren't for that he wouldn't have bumped into the guy at such a long distance and he's without his weapons too. That page perfectly sums up Digger because maybe he's not the greatest combatant, but he's lucky and opportunistic and he's also a loudmouth cunt. Gotta love him for it.

Why doesn't Captain Boomerang just throw guns?

>>86343599
>short bursts of Super-speed
Which I read as Super-reflexes so Digger tagging him is still pretty amazing.

>>86343716
They're not sharp. Or explosive.

>>86343730

so why doesnt he throw dynaknifes, the knife that is dynamite?

>>86342523
>I wonder more about the character in-universe. When living in a world that has multiple kryptonians, Lanterns, speedsters, a few martians, and the number of people who can bench press oil tankers increases by the day, what makes one decide to go starting some shit with a boomerang?
Flash caught him picking some guys pockets at a fair. There's an entire issue of Suicide Squad dedicated to it. Originally he was sort of a Toy Mascot, for selling boomerangs.

>>86343713
Sure but it still shows that Boomerang is a cut above the rest.

>>86343484
He's some kind of unspecified Middle eastern tribal, probably a Kurd.

>>86343754
>why throw a weapon with two share edges instead of a weapon with one sharp edge?
Anon...

>>86343288
I love that page.

>>86343811
Of course he's a cut above the rest, he's very competent but his character doesn't revolve around being hyper competent, it's just that his high skill+luck make him a formidable opponent and above all, he's the kind of cunt that you could fight, beat the fuck out of, break his hand and he'll play dead until you get near him until he can bite your balls off and come out as the victor.

>>86343288

Oh God, what happens next? I have to know.

I mean, what's his plan? Smash into the Flash hard enough to kill both of them? He's basically throwing himself head-first at a fighter jet.

Wasn't /tv/ going to be purged from this board?

>>86343899
So I guess the whole thing comes down to this question.
>Can boomerbutt get the best of Spider-man?

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>>86344100
He's gonna travel through time and Fuck Bart's mum.

>>86342967
He likes robbing banks though.

>>86341267

>TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF BRO IT'S JUST A COMIC

I always thought his boomerangs reacted to his speedforce energy. Like a magnet or perhaps exploding when they get too close. Its not like he throws one and expects to land it, he throws out mulitple making it hard for Barry to maneuver. But feel free to correct me

>>86344235
My spidey sense is tingling! I can sense danger from all directions at once! There's no way I can dodge all of those boomerangs!

>>86342709
He's secretly to blame for the various Crises.

>>86340887
>Aussie Bantz
>Flash gets pissed
>Uses boomerang
>Flash gets K.O.

>>86345030
If you can accept Batman or green arrow then you accept Captain Boomerang.

>>86341155
Huge Digger fan here, but I wouldn't go that far.

>>86341155
>Captain Boomerang feels like one of those character who were thrown together at the last moment.

Well, he's from 1960. Back then they didn't put a huge amount of thought into villains.

>>86341902
Underrated post.

>>86343436
His opponent is literally a sub-par Flash, you nincompoop

>>86343820
He's not Digger therefore he's filthy and dirty

>>86343820
Depends what's more of a feat, calculating exactly where the Flash will be well enough to hit or beating Parkersburg spider sense by throwing shitton of boomerangs.

>>86340887
It proves that DC is all for equal opportunity, try your best and no matter what you can be a hero/villain too

Doesn't matter if you can shoot steady streams of shit out of the palms of your hands from the shit dimension or if you can throw a shoe hard enough to knock heads off, if you can do it and do it well you've got a job in the DC cape business

>>86341141
But he always comes back.

>>86343296
That can be applied to every Silver-Age character, really. Either you had every power under the sun or you had gizmos that can do anything. Silver-Age practically ran on Toon physics.

>>86348377
what if that's how he comes back to life?

He boomerangs from hell.

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>>86347325
>but I wouldn't go that far.
It's canon, myte.

>>86347549
Yes, but he stands no chances against Flash one-on-ne, you nilly.

>>86343158

Wait, so he has a super power for predicting angles and trajectories?

>>86348430
No he's just a right cunt m8

>>86348398
It wouldn't be the first time.

>>86350519
He can boomerang anything, even his own soul.

>>86348406

Digger, please.

Don't you have some koala to sodomize?

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>faggot OP hating my nigga Digger

>>86350680
Koalas are cute fuck you!

>>86348430

Deadshot and Boomerangs essentially have the same skill set, just different choice of weapons.

>>86350730
source?

>>86351033
It's from the Suicide Squad: Capture the Flag miniseries.

reminder that he impregnated Bart's mom

>>86351725
Do they not have birth control in the future.

>>86351725
>we never get to see Bart's reaction towards this
What a waste...

>>86351768
For some reason I got the impression that they had a proper relationship rather than just a fling, but I don't know why.

But yeah, you'd think after having to send the first kid to the past to protect him you wouldn't have another (though now that I think about it I'm not even sure if it happened chronologically for her before or after she had Bart).

>>86351962
Unfortunately we never heard what kind of relationship they had. Though the fact that Digger seemed sad when he told Owen that Golden Glider wasn't his mom suggests that he had feelings for her.

>>86351962
So your theory is that they were actually trying for a child?

Speaking of the rogues, what comic is that from where they're all sitting around a table and talking about what celebrities they'd kill, and Cold pipes in that he'd kill "Abba. All of 'em."

>>86351962
It had to happened before she had Bart because otherwise that means she cheated on her husband with Digger and that's too funny to be true.

>>86352728
I don't remember the issue but it's from Johns run. Pre Blitz if that helps.

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>>86352728

>>86352759
Or it could have been before she met her husband? I don't think they were meant to be like high school sweethearts at least but it's been a while since I read anything

>>86352793
>>86352811

There we go, I need to read that arc. is that Barry or Wally?

>>86352993
Wally.

>>86353004

Alright, neat. I wanted to get some good stuff with him and Barry. Thanks anons.

>>86352759
Her husband was killed not long after Bart was born.

>>86352728
It's from Flash v2 #195.

>>86343716
Why doesn't he throw guns that shoot boomerangs?

>>86353081
See I knew it was too funny to be true.

>>86352319
Yeah it might have been something as small as that which gave me the impression, no clue.

>>86352667
Maybe not actively trying but yeah if they had settled down maybe it wasn't a huge deal? This is more headcanon than canon though since there's practically nothing actually said about the whole thing.

Hey I just bought Rogue War, any other Rogue/Flash related arcs I should pick up?

>>86343288

>He captured my favorite trick!

>>86353687
Rogues Revenge

>>86343474
That issue was full of amazibg things

>>86353687
You might like the Johns trade titled simply "Rogues", which has the Cold spotlight and more in it.

>>86340887
The same reason Green Arrow and Hawkeye are in superhero teams?

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>>86340887
>calling soccer "footie"
>having any interest in soccer ever

I don't even think he's a real Australian.

>>86341239
Stan Lee thought it would be neat to have a low tech guy take on and beat Iron Man. He is just a Green Arrow rip off

>>86352811
Why they don't like Abba?

ITT: we make people with seeming useless power seem awesome

>>86356155
Worked for Kite Man

>>86356128
Because they're evil

>>86355606
meh, that's like saying a canadian that likes basketball is not normal or an american liking hockey is weird.

>>86355606
My theory is the artist screwed up in that first example so they took the oportunity to correct it next issue otherwise it would have been footy in that second example as well.

They clearly did there research with the jokes about perth.

>>86356128
Len and Mark are too grumpy for ABBA.

>>86356128
Because fuck ABBA

It would have been fun if Arkham games had him as a mini boss fight, should be hell more interesting than Deadshot fight AC had

Well they can be trick boomerangs, he's basically the same as green arrow just a different personality and delivery method.