Okay but I have thoughts on superhero community betting pools, okay? Okay. I know this is the kind of stuff everyone has a headcanon for, so this is my time to spill some of the DC Alpacanon.

So what I'm thinking is basically betting pools had to be regulated after "The Incident."

(I'm gonna stay adaptable to anybody here, personnally I have my own OTPs so my hc Incident is SuperBat getting together, but ymmv, so this event can be anything that would have most of the superhero community betting, like legit they would get Diana, J'onn fucking Jonzz betting, MERA BET ON IT, villains got in on it on the downlow, etc.)

Anyway The Incident led to WAY too much money changing hands. Remember that there are some billionaires in there, and Arthur decided to bet using Gold Bullions. There were also som many incidents cropping up as the bet got "settled": the betting sheet got stolen and accusations of mind reading, and cheating got thrown around. Fights broke out between teams, Dolphin had to sleep on Wally West's couch for some reason, Oracle stopped helping on comms out of spite, the Tean Titans had bet their fucking Headquarters with the Doom Patrol so there was this moving out thing...

It was a mess, the superhero community came this 🤏 close to calling in like… some Oa peacekeeper. A UN representative. Asking idk, fucking Lex Luthor to actually settle the bet (and that's how the superhero community knew it was too much because the villain community had also the same fucking bet running).

So after all this was said and done, rules were put in place:

Betting pools are limited to Team sized. Inter-team betting pools are made common (you win as a team you lose as a team) No involving villains. Betting sheets are held by one individual and the rota must be made official (for example by sticking it on the JLA fridge for the JLA, the game room TV ofr the TT) Intra-"family" betting pools should not spill over into Team betting pools. Magic users cannot "go on a quick trip" during a running long term bet (this after Zatanna used divination shenanigans to find out if 3 years down the road, Hal had finally had a threesome with Barry and Iris) If the bet runs on people's relationships, Telepaths are the bet sheet holders and can't participate

People forbidden from betting ever:

Bart Allen (too chaotic, tried to make his speed clones bet) Bruce Wayne and Olliver Queen cannot bet at the same time Diana's mother (stop bothering her) Hawkwoman (she was mean one time and Clark cried) Jor-El (he's an AI please stop asking him) Only one Conner can bet don't ask his clones Dr Fate (he trolled the last bet one time too many)