Super Buddies - Fate of The Super Buddies

Fate of The Super Buddies

Since the end of I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League, many of the characters have had serious upheavals in their lives.

• Blue Beetle is dead, killed by Maxwell Lord; Booster Gold attempts to save his life via time travel, but after witnessing the repercussions it causes, Ted resolves to reverse his salvation.
• Maxwell Lord was killed by Wonder Woman and retconned into always having secretly been a villain; this was later changed again in the Booster Gold series, proving his redemption had once been genuine before he began the procedure to become fully human again after he became a cyborg.
• Fire has become an operative for the Checkmate organization.
• Booster Gold was apparently killed, only for it to be revealed that he faked his death. Upon his return, Booster shows maturity and strength of character not previously shown during his Super Buddies days and is recruited by Rip Hunter to become an unseen protector of the Timestream. He still decides to portray himself as immature and greedy while in public in order to trip-up other time travelers, confessing his true self and agenda only to Batman.
• Mary Marvel, after losing her powers and acquiring Black Adam's, she is corrupted. After briefly having her good powers restored by the Greek gods, she is tempted back to the powers of darkness by Darkseid and finds herself alone, shut out by both Black Adam, the Marvel Family, as well as the entire hero community she betrayed. Freed of what is revealed to be Desaad's possession, she is left powerless and in the care of Freddy Freeman, the new Captain Marvel before she regains the powers of the Black Marvel Family. She later has this power stripped from her when the Wizard Shazam reclaims all the powers he has provided, leaving Billy and Adam powerless as well.
• Sue Dibny has been killed by Jean Loring, who would later become the new host for Eclipso. In an ironic twist, after steadfastly denying she was pregnant during the tenure of the Super Buddies it was revealed in Identity Crisis that Sue had in fact become pregnant shortly before being murdered. She returns as a mystery-solving ghost with powers similar to the ones held by Deadman. However, her body, along with Ralph's, was revived by a Black Lantern Ring, which led to her revenant killing Hawkgirl.
• Ralph Dibny was a shell of his former self after his wife's death and embarked on a spectral journey to find a way to bring Sue back to life. In Issue 42 of DC's 52, he allowed himself to be murdered by Neron in order to mystically trap him and the couple was later turned into mystery-solving ghosts. His body was resurrected as a revenant by a Black Lantern Power Ring; this act led him to later kill Hawkman.
• Captain Atom was transported to the Wildstorm Universe; upon his return, he wears the Monarch armor to prevent himself from rupturing, and later conspires against the Monitors. His armor breached by Superboy Prime, he disappears, losing his chance at multiversal domination to Lord Havok.

The series Justice League: Generation Lost reunites Booster, Fire, Ice and Captain Atom, as they hunt for Maxwell Lord following his resurrection at the end of Blackest Night.