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

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Again, I fail to see your logic here, a superhero can only be involved with someone inherently extraordinary? Why? Narratively it's not essential, and plotwise it's not either.

Trying to raise Lois on a pedestal as a counterargument doesn't remotely convince me, since Terry is shown to be loyal, loving, kind and a devoted father, and on a personality level, I rate those as highly as being an investigative journalist. It probably a subjective thing.

Superheroes are, essentially, ordinary people too, with ordinary likes and dislikes. He doesn't need to be "worthy" of her, he just needs to be a good man, which all instances and statements indicate he is.

Peter Parker and MJ, Cyclops and Madeline Pryor (That ended badly)

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You really think there's nothing extraordinary about MJ? You genuinely can't see any specialness in her, any way that she copes with and reacts to the world around her that's heroic, any trait she has that's above the average? You can't look at the Pete/MJ relationship and see things that she offers him that no one else does, ways that she compliments him that his other relationships can't provide? Really?

Y'think Jim Gordon's "normal"? Y'think Jaime's family is "average"? You really think any successful ongoing character in a comic book remotely qualifies as not extraordinary in some way?

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Not at all, I think MJ has marvellous qualities as a person, but I think Terry does too, as I already mentioned, they're just different qualities. She's had more focus, because she's (in a sane world) married to one of the most iconic characters in the world, just like Lois, but that doesn't mean I can't see loving father and husband Terry in the same light based on his significantly lesser page time.