#werner vertigo

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Marvel/DC: Deadpool/Batman #1 - "The Red & The Green" (2025)

written by Kevin Smith art by Adam Kubert & Frank Martin

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DC Rarepair Rumble (Rarer Edition) Round 1, Part 22

Hal Jordan/Alan Scott

King Faraday/Count Vertigo

Voting ended onJul 29, 2025

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Hal Jordan/Alan Scott:

Alan has always believed in Hal's ability to redeem himself but Hal was willing to give up redemption entirely to protect Alan. Gay as Hell. One time Hal as Spectre showed up to heal Alan's injuries but then left as he was waking up.

Count Vertigo/King Faraday:

If you know anything about Werner Vertigo, you will know that he is rarely decent or personable with anyone. But with Faraday, he clearly respects and is friendly with him and you can see the same vice versa. He even jokes around with him which is big. He’s never joked with anyone else in canon.

They've got colleagues to lovers energy. They came as a package deal after they (along with Amanda Waller) all got kicked from Checkmate, and Amanda restarted the Suicide Squad. * Like why are you thankful on Werner’s behalf, Faraday? Why are you thankful he joined up along with you? 👀 *They also mention or refer to each other so much. More so than any of the other characters mention them.

There is funny pun/banter potential with them. Like with how Werner wanted to be the king of Vlatava at one point, and instead he would just end up with a man named King. That’s one way of getting what you want.

They both have the most closeted bisexual vibes ever and would fit together better with each other than they would with any other character as a potential love interest. * Werner just genuinely reads as a closeted bisexual man if you look at his interaction with women. * Faraday was one of those smooth operating spies who always seduced the ladies back in the day, so it would be ironic and fitting, as a character who never had a long standing romantic interest, if he just ended up with Werner instead.

Old man yaoi.

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Stealing kisses.

This is a gift as my half of a trade for @peacerisendove for their (very compelling) pairing of Werner Vertigo and King Faraday! You can read what they’ve written for this pairing right here!

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Now that I'm thinking about Count Vertigo, putting him in a bellhop uniform is literally the funniest thing they could have ever done to him.

This man is literal royalty, and he willing played bellhop for a mission and got a door slammed on him. (Honestly, after Vlatava is destroyed government/spy work under Waller is all he's got going for him.)

AND THEN HE DOES THIS.

Like yes please do barge in and reveal your costume beneath your bellhop disguise (I know it's for the reader's sake. Visuals are obviously important especially when they are a lesser known character, but it's hilarious thinking of this from an in world perspective that he felt the need to reveal himself like that.)

(Checkmate (2006) #13)

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Young Justice 1x20 - Coldhearted

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(Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #5): Besides The Creeper, all of these characters are villians. And clever ones, too. Count Vertigo is cool, and I like how Killer Croc (initially just Croc) was the one responsible for Jason Todd becoming an orphan. Don't like how sexual I find his profile, though. Ed Hannigan really didn't need to make his speedo so prominent. I feel like i'm seeing something dirty. But also kind of creepy. It's weird.

Crazy Quilt and The Creeper help distract from that, though. Hearing about Crazy Guilt's grudge against all the Robins (ever since Dick Grayson blinded him) is such a dramatic concept for such a D-list villian. I love it.

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WERNER VERTIGO vs MAXWELL LORD

DC Downgrade Bracket Round 2 - Match 4

🤢Werner Vertigo (Count Vertigo)🤢

Went from being an complicated but interesting morally grey disabled character whose disability was important to his character to a one note ugly as fuck xenophobic villain caricature whose deafness is only ever brought up so writers can be ableist + audist

🤢Maxwell Lord🤢

Max was obliterated by Countdown to Infinite Crisis. Before it, he was a manipulative businessman whose attempt to run the Justice League for personal benefit had caused him start caring about its members, listening to his conscience, and genuinely trying to do the right thing. He was still a bastard when it was funny, but his darkest moments outside of his introductory arc were things he did to try and keep the League intact and his friends safe. Countdown to Infinite Crisis turned him into a generic supervillain who secretly hated superheroes the whole time, never mind the fact that Martian Manhunter had read his mind after he'd nearly died turning his back on his first evil scheme and confirmed that his motives were good. Then Wonder Woman killed him, which has become the go-to reference moment for people who don't actually know anything about her to back up their bad takes. Also his outfit is stupid.

Which downgrade is worse?

Werner Vertigo (Count Vertigo)

Maxwell Lord

Voting ended onJul 18, 2024

*Worse meaning more devastating of a downgrade