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== Marvel ==

*** Thankfully, other Marvel comics have started to criticize this. For instance, Floyd is ridiculed for it in the Patriot issue of a recent ''Young Avengers'' mini-series. [[Moon Knight]] also saved her from some street thugs in his own comic, and then stated that if he had known who she was, he wouldn't have bothered to help her.

** [http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s102/Linkara/AT4W/Capsright.jpg Cap's response] to this is priceless. Sadly, it's just a [[Fan Work|Photoshop]].

{{quote|"My ward Speedy is... a junkie!"}}

*** Being shocked that your foster son is taking drugs is not that surprising. Being shocked that your foster daughter has HIV when ''she used to be a street prostitute'', and clearly not understanding how this could possibly be...is a different level of ignorance.

*** Walsh is featured prominently on the cover (it features his photo instead of artwork, a rarity in comics), and DC hyped the guest appearance as a way to attract new readers who don't typically read comics...but Walsh doesn't show up until THE VERY LAST PANEL OF THE ISSUE. All those new readers must have felt gypped.

** ''Green Arrow/Black Canary #14'': Winnick's farewell issue consisted of wrapping up the 'Connor was kidnapped' arc by turning Connor Hawke, an interesting and unique character, into a generic street-level brawler with a healing factor. He threw in some amnesia so that Connor would lose all of his former personality ''and'' his fighting skills; only the healing factor kept Connor from dying of bullet wounds while trying to stop four generic drug dealers in an alley. Connor was once one of the four best martial artists in [[The DCU]]; he is now inferior to ''Misfit''. As an added bonus, Winnick threw in a [[Take That]] from Amnesiac Connor about how 'ridiculous' the idea of a Buddhist monk who fought crime was in the first place, and capped this entire pile of crap off with Black Canary squealing about Connor's story having a 'happy ending'. Yes, because having your entire life and personality stripped away from you and being reduced to a shell of your former self is so happy. It's bad enough that Dinah's become a complete [[Faux Action Girl]] in this run; did she have to become [[Too Dumb to Live]] as well?

* The Mary Marvel plot in ''[[Countdown to Final Crisis]].'' She wakes up from a coma with no powers; okay. She ends up getting powers from Black Adam (who later manifests the same powers again somehow). Okay. She wanders the entire multiverse for a while struggling to deal with this 'cursed' power rushing to her head, gets tempted by Eclipso, ultimately turns back to the side of good, and is rewarded by the gods. Okay. So far so good. {{spoiler|Then Darkseid shows up in her living room and says, "Hey, want to help me kill innocents to get your evil powers back?" She immediately agrees. In about one page, with zero [[Foreshadowing]].}} It's the absolute worst turn to the dark side (no pun intended) since [[Star Wars|Anakin.]]

** It gets even better than that. At the end of Final Crisis, she finally snaps out of the mind control spell or whatever Darkseid had her in and then swears "never again". Less then a month later, she's hanging out with ''Black Adam''.

* ''[[Countdown to Final Crisis|Countdown]]'' isn't compatible with ''Final Crisis''; the real "official" lead-ups are ''52'', ''Seven Soldiers'', and the ''"Dark Side Club"'' issues of several other books. That makes ''Countdown'' more Wallbangering than should be possible, given what it claims to be. Two cases in point:

## Mary Marvel turned evil in ''Final Crisis'' because she was possessed by Desaad, not by her own volition as seen in "Countdown."