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Greg Bishansky writes...
This is a question about Bialya and Qurac. These are both Middle Eastern countries (and according to wikipedia, both are located near Saudi Arabia and Iraq), and I am wondering about their conflict.
How long has this been going on? Since before Queen Bee took power in Bialya? After? Is there a Sunni vs Shi'ite element at work here, too?
Queen Bee's powers provide an explanation for how she is able to keep such absolute power in Bialya, given her gender in a Middle Eastern state... but her power only works in close range, so I wonder how much loyalty she has from her military and police force. Either way, it seems like a pretty liberal country by the standards of that region... which makes me think Bialya is, at least on paper, a Shi'ite state... at the very least, it doesn't appear that wahhabism has taken root in either state.
So, I guess what I'm asking is, in your mind, what are the religious politics of these two countries?
Greg responds...
These are all fair questions, but I haven't invested the time to work the answers out.
I think Queen Bee's powers combine with her intelligence to make her military feel pretty good about serving her. It probably helps that the male half of the royal family is non-existent. Some military men may rationalize their service by thinking she's a figurehead - until they're around her. They might on occasion question her decisions except for this - she's keeping them in power too.
As for the Sunni vs. Shi'ite thing, I don't feel comfortable locking down an answer.
Anonymous writes...
Who (in universe) suggested that the holographic effigies of the Team and League members be placed on the Grotto?
Greg responds...
Uh... Greg Vietti? Brandon Weisman?
Honestly, I hadn't given any thought to that question. Out of universe, that was my idea.
Maybe Wonder Woman suggested the effigies, and Nightwing suggested they be holographic? I'm not confirming that until I've had a chance to sit with it, but it feels likely.
Anonymous writes...
1. Has Bruce Wayne ever dated Lois Lane?
2. Does Batman keep files on how to defeat every member of the Justice League?
3. Was Alfred Pennyworth ever a member of M16?
4. Is Alfred's policy on guns, NO GUNS like Batman, or is he not above using a gun for self defense?
Greg responds...
1. No spoilers.
2. Does he need to keep files? Like how limited is his memory?
3. He was a member of something. But I'd have to research it. (I was about to write OSS, which is how I always think of him, but he's obviously too young for that now.)
4. No spoilers.
Reiena Grayson writes...
I've been trying to ask this for some time, but for some reason the question just would not post. In Young Justice season one episode eight, with Kaldur's visit to Atlantis, did it start out in Atlantean and switch to english, or was the english just so people didn't have to keep reading the translations?
Greg responds...
It was always in Atlantean. But Lori cast a translation spell over the audience.
Anonymous writes...
Now that the Team is operating out of the Watchtower, do those that were living at the Cave now live in the Watchtower?
Greg responds...
No Spoilers.
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