[prowl26]

It would probably not work as well. I like that the way they are done now gives a bit of a grounding in reality, makes it more fun to me. Plus, comic fans already nitpick comic movies and such to death could you imagine how much worse it would be if the creators got 9/10's the way there but still did not make it? Plus "creating their own universe" allows them to take the kind of liberty that alternate universes get to.