Dork Age/Comic Books/The DCU: Difference between revisions

* While the 2000's run of the [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]] started off well, albeit with some complaining over the characterization of the Young Justice characters, the death of Superboy in Inifinite Crisis and Bart Allen becoming the Flash, both due to [[Executive Meddling]] marked the beginning of a long downward spiral. Tim and Cassie, while already having some signs of it beforehand, were promptly severely flanderized into being obsessed with Connor. Tim was depicted as trying to desperatly revive Connor via cloning, while Cassie developed severe anger issues against anyone who tried to talk to her. This, combined with the use of several utterly unheard of characters, and [[Values Dissonance|a very outdated depiction of Rose Wilson as a sexualized, amoral bad girl]], when she had previously been depicted as quite complex, but heroic quickly contributed to the run plummeting. The book then suffered from a terrible case of [[Depending on the Writer]], as writers often introduced new characters, only for them to be killed off or characterized horribly, while Wonder Girl took over as leader from Red Robin, which proved equally poor as her anger issues were ramped way up. The resurrection of Superboy and Impulse, combined with the return of Raven and Beast Boy, along with the joining of Damian Wayne and Solstice during J.T Knull's run did bring some hope back, but it was cancelled after 13 issues to make way for the New 52.

* Tim Drake, ever since the mid 2000's, has been the subject of several terrible storylines with very little good ones to make up for them.

** Beginning in 2004, and escalating rapidly through most of the decade, Tim lost his father, his girlfriend, his best friend, and most of his supporting cast promptly stopped appearing. He was promptly depicted as a brooding Batman Junior, obsessed with reviving Superboy, along with having a poorly depicted relationship with Wonder Girl, using it as a method to get away from his grief. This proved terribly unpopular, and the fact he was replaced by Damian Wayne as the new Robin meant Tim had no place in the Batfamily at the time as well. DC did attempt to fix this by revealing Stephanie had always been alive, and Superboy and Impulse being resurrected, along with regaining some role in the Batfamily as Red Robin, but it was nowhere near as good as the height he had been at in the late 90s.

** The New 52, widely considered a terrible age for the DC universe as a whole, saw Tim land with the Teen Titans in what would be one of the worst storylines of a bad era. Tim was significantly altered, with him being a former athlete, Tim Drake not being his real name, and most importantly, him not knowing Batman's identity, which was the definitive trait about him when he first appeared, and for becoming a womanizer and flirting frequently with his female teammates, a character tic that more resembled Dick Grayson, rather than Tim, who was noted for being quite chaste. The story depiction of this incarnation of the Teen Titans proved terrible as well, but by far the most bad incident was when the demon Trigon possessed Tim, and then later had sex with Wonder Girl and Solstice, which technically was rape via [[Bed Trick]], but Trigon claimed that Tim was not resisting and enjoyed the sex, while both Wonder Girl and Solstice admitted the sex was wonderful, and Cassie officially became Tim's girlfriend due to the incident. The entire series, and Tim's depiction in it, was quickly declared [[Canon Discontinuity]], and became a frequent acceptable target for other writers.