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* Every attempt to make an established superhero a [[Legacy Character]]. Even in the cases where it worked, there was a lot of protests. It becomes worse if it's done as an [[Affirmative Action Legacy]], because it's unanimously derided as an attempt of the writers and the editorial [[Positive Discrimination|to show off their "progressiveness"]].
* The ''[[Hanna-Barbera]] Beyond'' line. It's [[DC Comics]] attempt to pull IDW and [[Image Comics]]-like comics using Hanna-Barbera proprieties. Of the lot, only ''Future Quest'', a multi-crossover of the action-adventure franchises of H-B primarily focusing in ''[[Jonny Quest]]'', ''[[Birdman]]'' and ''[[Space Ghost]]'', is the only one who has gotten universal acclaim, as it's the only one who plays its premise straight instead of for [[Darker and Edgier]] points. The one who got hit the most by this trope was ''Wacky Raceland'', which reimagined ''[[Wacky Races]]'' as a ''[[Mad Max]]'' [[Dystopia|dystopic]] extravaganza and tried to pass it under [[Rule of Cool]]; it folded after 6 numbers. The comic reboot of ''[[The Flintstones]]'' (which while still quite close to its original satirical roots, traded its comedic bent by serious explorations of modern issues in a [[Stonepunk]] setting), the one of ''[[The Jetsons]]'' (which along with losing the sitcom comedy went with the [[Ascended Fanon]] of the planet surface having been devastated by an ecological catastrophe as the reason people living in floating cities), ''Scooby Apocalypse'' (yet another ''[[Scooby-Doo]]'' saga, this time redesigned and in an [[After the End]] setting), and the wackiest of the crossover titles (''[[Suicide Squad]] and [[The Banana Splits]]''? Really?) had also failed to find wider audiences.
* ''I Am Not Starfire'' is the story of Mandy, the unattractive, insecure daughter of the superheroine [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Starfire]], who is forced to step up and prove herself when her evil aunt Blackfire comes to wreak havoc. On paper, sounds like a great recipe for a schmaltzy tale of family and personal growth, but in actual execution, it falls flat with a main character who is deeply self-entitled and unnecessarily caustic to virtually everyone around her, especially her mother, who while mildly [[My Beloved Smother|overbearing]], is nevertheless supportive of her daughter and tries her best for her sake, and by the end of the story, Mandy finally learns to accept herself [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|once she finds out she does have superpowers after all and gets everything she ever wanted]]. One of the few positive reviews for the comic (at least the ones that [[Praising Shows You Don't Watch|don't mindlessly sing its praises]]) argue that the story is more palatable not as a [[Coming of Age Story]], but as a cautionary tale to discourage young folk from emulating the kind of person Mandy is.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
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