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** Somehow, it's getting worse. It seems that they're using Lian's death to [[Character Derailment|derail]] Roy Harper from a stable, well adjusted single father into a [[wangst]]y drug addict who sinks to using Black Canary's infertility as a point to lash out at her <ref>which in fact is a [[Series Continuity Error]] since Dinah's infertility was cured when she took a dip in a Lazarus Pit a few years back when she was dating Ra's Al Ghul, which just shows how poorly the series was researched</ref> calling Donna Troy a whore and blaming her for ''her'' family's death, and blaming Mia for Lian's death. It sends several decades' worth of [[Character Development]] down the drain to make some half-assed Punisher clone out of Roy.
*** He blamed Mia for ''that?!'' Lian was killed by ''orbital artillery''! What was Mia supposed to do, block it with an Anti-Kill-Sat-Arrow?
** It's getting worse. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120502101500/http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1971988.html In the next issue], Cheshire shows up and blames Roy for Lian's death. They fight. Somehow, he doesn't die from the poison in her fingernails. But, just as they're about to have [[Foe Yay|hatesex,]] he can't get it up because he's on drugs and impotent. LOL. Needing "some release," he goes to find some other druggies and beats them with a dead cat. The bit with the dead cat is crap icing on the ass shaped cake that is this series.
** And then [[It Got Worse]]. In the final issue, Roy is checked into a rehab program at a prison built specifically for supervillain prisoners. This decision is made by Dick Grayson, who you would think would have more sense than to take a superhero with a public identity and put him in a place full of people who would want to kill him, even if the didn't want to spend any of the Wayne Family fortune on a private-treatment option that would surely be a lot more effective. And Black Canary has a massive [[Character Derailment]] when she basically writes Roy off completely as a lost cause - this being the woman who was the only person who stayed with him and supported him when he was originally going through withdrawal for his heroin habit and the closest thing he's had to a mother.
** As a coda to the whole debacle, the "New 52" retcons have given Roy back his arm, and removed his drug addiction entirely. On the other hand, Lian's ''existence'' has been completely removed, and Roy has never been a father. One feels that the DC editors somewhat missed the point.
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