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* A ''[[Supergirl]]'' writer tried to make her [[Darker and Edgier]], but just gave 75% of the readers a giant headache. Another writer tries to do a [[Author's Saving Throw]], but that gets the other 25% of the readers angry at this because they ''like'' the [[Darker and Edgier]] Supergirl -- creating an [[Unpleasable Fanbase]].
** Supergirl's Post-Crisis life is basically defined by her Dork Ages, due to DC Comics wanting to leave Superman as the true last son of Krypton... there's been maybe a good half-dozen different versions of the character, with increasingly convoluted designs and backstories (let alone trying to fit in where Power Girl went), eventually leading to the reintroduction of the essentially Pre-Crisis "Superman's Cousin" version of the character... for now.
* When [[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]]'s [[Knightfall|back was broken by Bane]], Azrael [[Anti
** AzBats was introduced in issue #500, too. People will be remembering him for a while as a cautionary tale.
** Batman suffered a massive [[Dork Age]] during most of [[The Silver Age of Comic Books]]. The campy '60s ''[[Batman (TV)|Batman]]'' TV show starring [[Adam West]] was actually an [[Adaptation Distillation]] of the stories published during this period, and was far superior to its source material because it didn't take itself seriously. This was the ''ONLY'' period when Batman wasn't the "dark creature of the night" most know him as. His first appearances in [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]] had him as a gothic figure; he was brought back to this in [[The Bronze Age of Comic Books]], became really dark in [[The Dark Age of Comic Books]], and flip-flopped between "mellowed-out" and "hardly any better than Azrael" during [[The Modern Age of Comic Books]].
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