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* [[Legacy Character|The third]] [[The Flash|Flash]], Wally West, was hit with this pretty hard. He started out as the original Kid Flash, before replacing Barry Allen as the Flash (And becoming the [[Trope Codifier]] for [[Sidekick Graduations Stick]]) following ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]''; even being used as the Flash over Barry in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''. After that, Wally remained the main character in the Flash series until ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', when Bart Allen briefly took over the role for a year before Wally returned, at which point Wally took the series over again. Until ''[[Final Crisis]]'' brought Barry Allen [[Back from the Dead]] & he took the book back from Wally; and although they both remained active as the Flash, Wally only made ''two'' appearances in the Flash series after that point & was effectively reduced to appearing in crowd shots, until DC launched their line wide reboot & Wally was "taken off the table." Given that Wally is one of DC's most popular characters, fans were deeply unhappy with this.

* Tim Drake, the third [[Robin]] has been used increasingly less ever since Damian Wayne was introduced. While he had suffered some bad decisions beforehand courtesy of [[Executive Meddling]], Damian's introduction quickly caused Damian to become the popular one, and also caused Tim to appear less and less in the Bat books. Poor decisions where he did appear, such as the Teen Titans or Young Justice, such as his [[Flanderization]] into Batman Junior, or casual womanizing caused his reputation and appearances to plummet even further. By the time the slide stopped in the DC Rebirth initiative, fans overwhelmingly saw Damian as the Robin, while Tim suffered from [[The Artifact]] given how outdated he was, especially his geeky nerd origin story, and was largely consigned to crossovers as [[The Smart Guy]], which didn't help in differentiation with the entire Batfamily being composed of geniuses. Fans were terribly displeased by how Tim was treated by DC, and while there have been attempts to bring Tim back to his roots, such as reuniting him with his Young Justice comrades, and making him bisexual, nothing has seemed to have made Tim more popular.

 

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