Rant Post: What Event/Retcon/Whatever Pissed You Off the Most?

[punishermax]

This is an extension of the Identity Crisis conversation that is sort of derailing the discussion of costume choices and Robin asses in a post below this.

Essentially, this is a general hate thread. It can be an event, character, moment, retcon, or other annoyance that makes you annoyed or want to smack a passerby.

Let's get it started (on a saturday night, everybody's waitin for me to arrive-)



"Hi I'm Superboy Prime. I could have been an interesting character. I could have represented the eventual death and decay of a more innocent time and become a very powerful and interesting villain. But motherfucker I do not roll that way. I like to spend my days being a whiny prick who spouts off dialogue that you'd find in a Naruto/Harry Potter fanfic. I like long walks on the beach, being a dickbag, and annoying every single reader by being ultra powerful AND astonishingly badly written. Oh, and I'm also in your dimension! I live in my basement trolling comics forums. Hell yeah bitches, I'm so. fucking. Bad. Ass."




Let's just get it out of the way. One More Day and Brand New Day were bad ideas. Very bad ideas. They have turned out waves of people who hate Spider-Man and everything associated with him. They were badly written, badly thought out and are just generally the worst thing to happen to Spider-Man since Joe Quesada realized he hated that dang MJ lady.


Also Identity Crisis isn't that bad.

Comments

[darkknightjrk]

"And the similar deconstruction of Jason Todd from antihero to out-and-out psychobaddie on the Szasz scale - especially with the fillip that he's been a closet ginger all along (?!?)."

Battle for the Cowl was pretty bad, but Morrison's arc's second only to Under the Hood as the best post-death Jason story so far. Granted, it's other competition includes Countdown and OYL Nightwing, but still.

As for the ginger...Grant said that EVERYTHING that was published in Batman counts. When Jason was first introduced pre-crisis, he had red hair and dyed it when he became Robin (he did it himself--it seems perfectly in character to blame Bruce for that). I fail to see the problem with that part.

[whitesycamore]

As for the ginger...Grant said that EVERYTHING that was published in Batman counts. When Jason was first introduced pre-crisis, he had red hair and dyed it when he became Robin (he did it himself--it seems perfectly in character to blame Bruce for that). I fail to see the problem with that part.

I'd say it's out of character; up 'till then Jason's grievances against Bruce were kind of legitimate. He's never blamed him for shit he didn't actually do.

And if everything pre and post-crisis is now canon, then what happened to Jason being fine as hell? That's a pretty big retcon from where I'm standing.