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** Even then, ''[[All Star Batman and Robin]]'' again seemed the kind of thing Miller couldn't screw up. ''Dark Knight Returns'' had established Dick Grayson and Batman hadn't spoken for years, and that Batman had given crimefighting away out of a promise he made to Tim Drake. You also had ''Batman Year One'' which establishes the character so firmly it influenced movies, and provides a solid foundation for anything you could write from then on. Fans rejoiced when they heard ASBAR was basically going to be a prequel to ''Dark Knight Returns.'' And then what happens? '''I'm the goddamn Batman.''' Yellow-painted rooms, "here's some freshly-squeezed lemonade", Green Lantern as a dunce, and Batman ''performing a fucking tracheotomy on GL after Robin gets too enthusiastic and crushes his windpipe''. |
** Even then, ''[[All Star Batman and Robin]]'' again seemed the kind of thing Miller couldn't screw up. ''Dark Knight Returns'' had established Dick Grayson and Batman hadn't spoken for years, and that Batman had given crimefighting away out of a promise he made to Tim Drake. You also had ''Batman Year One'' which establishes the character so firmly it influenced movies, and provides a solid foundation for anything you could write from then on. Fans rejoiced when they heard ASBAR was basically going to be a prequel to ''Dark Knight Returns.'' And then what happens? '''I'm the goddamn Batman.''' Yellow-painted rooms, "here's some freshly-squeezed lemonade", Green Lantern as a dunce, and Batman ''performing a fucking tracheotomy on GL after Robin gets too enthusiastic and crushes his windpipe''. |
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* After ''[[Blackest Night]]'' gave us "the unprecedented scenario of [[The Flash|all four Flashes]] still alive", fans were [[Tempting Fate|"hoping the writers could take advantage of that"]]. Cue ''[[Flashpoint]]'', thanks to which the ''New52'' universe has now gone through a [[Cosmic Retcon]] with effects including, you guessed it, having only one Flash. That was... [[Incredibly Lame Pun|fast.]] |
* After ''[[Blackest Night]]'' gave us "the unprecedented scenario of [[The Flash|all four Flashes]] still alive", fans were [[Tempting Fate|"hoping the writers could take advantage of that"]]. Cue ''[[Flashpoint]]'', thanks to which the ''New52'' universe has now gone through a [[Cosmic Retcon]] with effects including, you guessed it, having only one Flash. That was... [[Incredibly Lame Pun|fast.]] |
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* Marvel's Spiderverse is a [[Crisis Crossover]] with ''every'' incarnation of [[Spider-Man]] ever made (including a highly hyped up appearance by [[Japanese Spider-Man]]) ''and'' some really cool new ones like Peni Parker, a ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' inspired Japanese female spider-person. How do they fuck it up? By doing nothing with the characters that people wanted to see (Japanese Spider-Man quickly dies jobbing) and focusing on some new [[Villain Sue]] nobody cares about. |
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