Been readin Showcase Presents Batman and the Outsiders, and that's a pretty good source of crack. Not been able to get scans, but try your best to imagine this: -a right wing superhero team working for the american govt. called "Force of July", including a woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty, and a girl talking like a Cockney for some reason. -Geo-Force thinking a group of muggers (including one that looks like an early Luke Cage) are just beggars and shows kindness by pulling out some pennies and intentionally throwing it on the ground in front of them rather than handing it to them. -Halo dating a guy at her high school called PHIL COLLINS. He's introduced as that too. -A Villain saying she's taking Black Lightning out for good with a blast of her power, only for a middle aged woman to step in the way and take the blast, AND SURVIVE with seemingly no ill-effects. So either the villain isn't very powerfull, or a middle aged woman is tougher than Black Lightning -Batman letting the Outsiders stay at Wayne Manor, but preserving his secret identity by telling them that Bruce Wayne lets him stay there and funds him, then when he's in the Bruce Wayne identity, claiming he doesn't like Batman very much. -This conversation Bruce: You want to officiall end our relationship? Dick: Our partnership...as in Batman and Robin. Not our relationship as Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson. (Yeah that's not suggestive of something else at all. Then comes) Pre-Crisis, Blonde, Goody Two Shoes Jason Todd: Hey, are you joking? Can I become the new Robin? Dick: Jason, I didn't say I was giving up being Robin. I've been playing that role since I was eight. -A female villain called New Wave who has a highly distinguishing feature of a mohawk, but insists no one in her gang refer to her by her real name, to preserve her secret identity. -I wish I had scans of this, but they deal with a villain who hypnotises a bunch of new born babies to attack the Outsiders. Batman cries "GOOD GOD!" when one pulls on his cape. They even have the Phantom Stranger in the story and he narrates gravely over an image of them being overwhelmed and shitting themselves at the sight of the army of babies.
Scott Tipton's got the scans you want (not all of them,but a bunch):
The Nuclear Family
The Duke of Oil
The Force of July
Batman just lives in Wayne Manor, right . . . .
Didn't find the army of babies, though. That does sound pretty chilling, though. Since you obviously couldn't fight them--they're babies for crying out loud.
Yeah, BL is all "I can't use my powers! What if I kill someone again!" and Katana pulls out her sword, but not to use offensively. No, she distracts the babies by making the sword shiny, which stops their murderous rampage.
I see it as Comic Geek+Superpowers+Losing His Entire Universe+Living in a weird pocket reality with just an old couple and an unemotional son of Lex Luthor+getting out and accidentally killing some people+getting imprisoned by blue guys for a year=some sort of psychopathic, immature, emotionally stunted, tantrum-prone maniac
From a What If where Captain America wants Frank Castle to be his successor. Pre-Punisher Frank turns it down, but accepts when his family is killed, but acts as Punisher at night too (because being Captain America is a day-job, apparently) only for Steve Rogers to find out and try to set him straight:
Yeah Cap, before the accident that gave you the robotic arm, you were just a man...a Super Steroid Using Man. At least your views on machines and guns remained consistent.......until you endorsed cyborg armed gun-wielding Bucky to be the new Cap. Also, throw in the Punisher's 616 failed attempt to be Cap, and you could think Marvel's recent decisions were all done just to totally contradict this story.
No, but What Ifs are still meant to still show the characters acting like they would in regular continuity, just in different situations. What Ifs aren't Elseworlds.