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* [[Black Canary]]'s infamous late-80s "Jumpsuit and Headband" costume, complete with bizarre wing epaulets and pirate boots. A later run of the character in ''Action Comics Weekly'' even featured her back in the original costume, ''burning'' the jumpsuit and grinning wickedly. Another issue of ''[[Birds of Prey]]'' featured her horror at seeing scores of action figures of herself in this costume... and then emphasized the point by saying the reason the toyshop had so many was that they couldn't get rid of them.

** Dinah entered a second Dork Age when she married [[Green Arrow]], left the Birds of Prey and was reduced to a [[Faux Action Girl]] and [[Damsel in Distress]] of the Green Arrow books. Ironically, she was the ''leader of the Justice League'' at this time.

* [[Wonder Woman]] has gone up and down over the years. In the 1970s, DC tried having Wonder Woman [[Brought Down to Normal|depowered]] and make her a feminist hero like Emma Peel of ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]''. This move backfired completely, considering it angered real feminists like Gloria Steinem, who denounced it as a profoundly sexist move to remove the power of one of the greatest female superheroes. As a result, DC scrambled to repower Wonder Woman as fast as possible, although it took the [[Post-Crisis]] [[Re ~~Boot~~]] by George Perez years later to get the spirit of the character right (despite [[Moral Event Horizon|what he did to the other Amazons]] to get her there).

* [[Wonder Woman]] has gone up and down over the years. In the 1970s, DC tried having Wonder Woman [[Brought Down to Normal|depowered]] and make her a feminist hero like Emma Peel of ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]''. This move backfired completely, considering it angered real feminists like Gloria Steinem, who denounced it as a profoundly sexist move to remove the power of one of the greatest female superheroes. As a result, DC scrambled to repower Wonder Woman as fast as possible, although it took the [[Post-Crisis]] [[Continuity Reboot]] by George Perez years later to get the spirit of the character right (despite [[Moral Event Horizon|what he did to the other Amazons]] to get her there).

* Superhero Tim Drake (Robin to [[Batman]]) and his girlfriend Stephanie Brown have suffered this to some degree. Tim was the only Robin who didn't have ''both'' parents dead, and tended to be more well-adjusted with a complex personal life. Of course, this had to be fixed, so Tim's father and best friends were [[The Plot Reaper|killed]] to make him [[Darker and Edgier]], and so he lost his entire supporting cast. This led to a very boring and angsty run by Bill Willingham, and him becoming a ''huge'' [[Wangst|wangster]] in all DC Books. In addition, Tim's [[Badass Normal]], fun and lighthearted girlfriend Stephanie Brown (the Spoiler) replaced him as Robin briefly, which looked like it could be interesting; however, it only lasted for three issues and she was then written to [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|cause a gang war]], be tortured by a villain called Black Mask in sexualized positions, [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|get shot, blamed for everything and then die]]... all to [[Disposable Woman|make sure Tim got angst]] and Batman remained a loner. Tim promptly [[Forgotten Fallen Friend|forgot Stephanie ever existed]], but the fans didn't, and raised a big stink about her treatment.<br /><br />Original Robin writer and creator of Stephanie, Chuck Dixon, started writing the title thanks to this and revealed Steph had [[Not Quite Dead|never really died]] and is now back and kicking ass as her usual lighthearted self. Tim was brought in a less self-destructive direction as well, admitting he'd been in a bad place, apologizing for his behavior, and reconciling with Steph, leading to [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|much rejoicing]]. Dixon also brought back Tim's geeky best friend Ives, albeit with a bit more [[Wangst]] himself than he had originally.

** And then Steph became [[Batgirl]]. There was, um, more rejoicing. ([[Ruined FOREVER|Except among some Cass fans]].)

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* During the [[The DCU|DC Universe's]] ''One Year Later'' event, someone on the editing staff decided that the ''[[Catwoman (comics)|Catwoman]]'' comic series needed to be [[Younger and Hipper]] -- and the best way to do that, they decided, was to replace the main character entirely. Selina Kyle had a daughter with Sam Bradley Jr. ([[Ship Sinking|much to the upset of many Selina/Bruce shippers]]), and retired to motherhood before passing on the Catwoman mantle to sidekick Holly. The fans were not pleased, and it wasn't long before DC sent in [[Zatanna]] to [[A Wizard Did It|magically]] [[Cosmic Retcon|retcon]] it all away -- and it wasn't ''fully'' retconned until the [[New 52]], where it was confirmed that Catwoman's daughter had been wiped from existence.

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