Donna Troy and Terry Long: A Love Story

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In this post I will be showing the classic romance of Donna Troy and Terry Long, by Marv Wolfman and George Perez.

We first meet Terry in The New Teen Titans #8.




Later...




Then in #9...


This scene from #12 takes place after the "Titans of Myth" storyline, where Hyperion entranced Donna and made her fall in love with him.


#13 has Donna taking her anger out on some criminals.




#20 is narrated by Wally West, who's writing a letter to his parents.






In #28...








#29...


#30...




#31...




#34...




#38 is the "Who is Donna Troy?" issue.







Dick helps Donna find out the truth about her past; her mother Dorothy Hinckley gave her up for adoption because she had terminal cancer and was dying. She was adopted by Carl and Fay Stacey. When Carl died in a job-related accident, Fay had little money left and was forced to give Donna up for re-adoption, where she was put into a child-selling operation. The bodies in the fire Donna remembered were of the people who were planning on selling her. Donna is reunited with Elmira Cassiday, the woman who ran the orphanage Dorothy went to, and Fay, who had gotten remarried.

Tales of the Teen Titans #42 takes place during the "Judas Contract" storyline.




In #45, Terry has his bachelor party.










#48...




#49...














In the double-sized #50, Donna and Terry finally get married.




























Later, Diana tells Donna and Terry that they need to come with her.

Comments

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If Donna loved him, Diana would love him (Since they are, y'know, the same soul and all that (insert eyeroll here)) and I can't imagine Diana NOT loving the kids, can you?

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The kids, sure. But Terry? Any sane human being claiming to "adore" Terry will get the same reaction from me as said person claiming to "adore" a molting, half-rotted houseplant. And that's before you get into the fact that it's Diana saying it, especially coming on top of this Tresser storyline, the whole point of which seems to be demonstrating that Diana's all super-emotionally-independent and takes love for granted and doesn't "adore" *anybody.* (Which makes some sense; adoration is all about unreserved devotion, and has connotations of honor and worship, of looking up to and prioritizing, which you're not going to see from Diana, who can't put people permanently higher on the scale than duty that way any more than Bruce can).