Of course, the shadowy fellow could be anyone from Dick Malverne to Jerro, the Mer-Boy, but neither of them were at the party...

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I wonder if they had gotten married if it would've stopped her from doing what she did to him in issue 50 <choke>. 

I don't want all the iconic characters to age, marry, have children, etc., but Cap has always seemed like a married man to begin with.  He hasn't had a lot of (non-Sharon) romantic plotlines, and the few he's had weren't that great.  It feels like a corporate decision to keep him "single and available" because that's what we expect from franchise characters.  Cap is my favorite character but I have to admit that "the private life of Steve Rogers" has mostly been dull.  (Is he a cop?  A comic book artist?  An old man who sits in a chair and looks stern?)  There's a lot of great potential for the right married couple and for a good man raising two children.

I'd much rather see Cap married than Peter Parker.

It was probably only a brief thing, but from my own personal golden comics years, Cap's lady-friend was Bernie Rosenthal. 

Mr. Fantastic <--- yes ---> Invisible Woman

Vision <--- yes ---> Scarlet Witch

Hawkeye <--- no ---> Mockingbird

Ka-Zar <--- yes ---> Shanna the She-Devil

Superman <--- no ---> Lois Lane

Elongated Man <--- yes ---> Sue Dibny

the Thing <--- no ---> Alicia Masters

Henry Pym <--- yes ---> the Wasp

T'Challa <--- no ---> Storm

Spider-Man <--- no ---> Mary Jane Watson

Black Bolt <--- yes ---> Medusa

Veronica Lodge <--- no ---> Archie Andrews <---no---> Betty Cooper

Hulk <--- no ---> Betty Ross

Batman <--- no ---> Catwoman

Cyclops <--- yes ---> Jean Grey

Doctor Octopus <--- no ---> May Parker

Luke Cage <--- yes ---> Jessica Jones

Green Arrow <--- yes ---> Black Canary

Hawkman <--- yes ---> Hawkwoman

If you read the some of the last Huntress stories, there was an attraction a little beyond that.

As for Dick and Donna - that was in the imaginary part of my suggestions. It just struck me as a pretty natural pairing. And more than once, both characters professed their (platonic) love for each other. If we're walking the "What If-" path... it intrigues me.

I don't know if Superman should marry or not. When I've seen the Lois/Clark or Lois/Superman dynamic, I'm not sure I've ever seen her act in a manner that would be desirable to most men. Granted, Kal-El isn't most men, but still... she's long seemed like a pushy shrew to me.  There are other women, of course, but it just seems to me that Superman works better as a single man.

As for Batman, I think falling in love and marrying a normal woman would either blunt his edge, or make his wife a little nuts. As for Talia... well, that's far from normal ANYHOW. Attraction and sexual tension makes the character a little more interesting. Consummating it doesn't seem to match up wit Batman's mission. 'Corse, I haven't read a Batman story in a dog's age, so it may be far different by now...

It took awhile for me to find blogs that reprint pages from the series after that point, and I still cannot find anything that places the two in a relationship. Looking over pages and reviews from #276 up to #320, her love life appears to remain centered around the on and off again thing she had going with Sims. Can you point out what it is you're thinking of when you say they became more romantic? 

As for Batman's marriage to Talia, that was already taken care of back in the 70's when Talia told Bruce in an issue of DC Special Series that they were already wed, since in her culture it only requires the consent of the bride and her father to make a legal marriage. 

Rebecca, something very similar to the Bob Newhart situation you suggest already existed at DC with the marriage between Ralph and Sue Dibney, whose relationship was vaguely patterned after that of Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man/ The Elongated Man.) 

As for parallel futures locking down events in our timeline, theoretically both Rachel and Cable cannot both exist as they come from different versions of the X-Men's future. Both only establish that at some point in those characters' histories, Scott and Jean wound up together. In our timeline, everything is still up in the air. Granted, writers seem to want to play the notion that "our" world could still become the disaster that is the DOFP timeline, and so continue to lay into the similarities, allowing "foreshadowing" to play a large part in their stories, but really, we've already passed the point where either Rachel or Nathaniel's futures diverged. "Judgement Day" can't occur the way that it did in their histories.