Donna Troy and Terry Long: A Love Story

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

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

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

So uh, am I the only one that doesn't really mind the guy? At all? He seems pretty much OK to me. But then again, I'm reading this as a complete outsider to the Titans, and to Donna Troy.

Motto.

[nefrekeptah.insanejournal.com]

I'm reading this and going, "what is your guy's problem? He seems like a perfectly decent character to me; he's patient, clearly loves Donna, and is willing to give her space to work out her own issues, so what's the problem?"

His ugly red beard has got to go, but other than that he doesn't seem like a very skeevy person to me.

Re: Motto.

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

It appears that much of the hate comes from the fact that he abandoned Donna and took their child with him because he was concerned over the kid's wellbeing.

Yeah.

[saralakali.insanejournal.com]

No, you're not the only one. I think at least part of the Terry-hate stems from the fact that most fans would rather see Donna paired with another superhero (of either gender) than a 'normal' guy. I remember the only objection I had reading this all when it came out was the age difference--not to the point where I saw it as 'creepy', though. I just thought it was silly for her to fall for someone older when with her Amazon powers she'd probably seriously outlive even someone her own age.

At thie time I thought it was kind of cool for a superhero to have a significant other from outside the business who knew about their secret identity. I didn't personally find Terry attractive, but I was fourteen. If Donna liked him, that was her business.

[halloweenjack.insanejournal.com]

I'd chalk it up to about 90% fan jealousy that Donna hooked up with someone based on Marv Wolfman or Len Wein or whomever instead of a Marty Stu that they could identify with, and 10% a few regrettable moments that are probably due to Marv not quite getting some of the finer points of interpersonal relationships. (If you were bullied regularly by someone in high school, would you and your girlfriend go on a double date at a drive-in movie with the bully and his girlfriend, who were getting busy in the back seat and screaming at you every time you looked away from the screen? That's the scenario that Wolfman had in one issue of Nova.)

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

I don't think that really flies. I hated Terry long before I gave a shit about Donna.