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No no no no NO.

One of the differences between DC and Marvel is that at Marvel, when super-heroes and super-teams first meet, they tend to get in a fight. Starting with Sub-Mariner vs. the original Human Torch, to the first meeting of the X-Men and Avengers to any casual meeting between super-heroes, they tend to get in a brawl, take their measure of each other, and only eventually turn to the bad guy. Even when they work together, it's often the friction that we remember--Spider-Man and Human Torch, Human Torch and the Thing, Wolverine and Cyclops.

At DC, they tended to not get in senseless brawls at first like adolescents. When the Justice League and Justice Society first met, they compared notes like the professionals they were, and went after their enemies together. Nor are they alone. Batman and Superman, Flash and Green Lantern, Atom and Hawkman, teams like The Challengers of the Unknown and the Doom Patrol---at DC, friendships were first, not senseless brawls. Yeah, there were a few later antagonisms---Green Arrow and Hawkman, but even that didn't stay under all writers. It was a little more boring, or a little more grown-up, more professional, depending on how you look at it.

One of the few things I disliked about Kurt Busiek's JLA/Avengers is how they were both instantly antagonistic. If they stayed true to each's continuum, the JLA should have extended their hands in friendship, and the Avengers should have overreacted in suspicion and started a fight.

Having the three Justice Leagues immediately fight is a Marvel cliche, and downright silly in DC terms. The League as originally created were the adults in the room, the professionals, the world's greatest heroes. The sort of group Batman might join.

This...just isn't them.