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Hello interweb, Nate here.  So with convergence on its way, I started to think about the last reboot (which happened merely v years ago), the New 52, and I remembered that while I never really hated the reboot and also never really loved it either, there were several things it did that ticked me off.  So I decided to compile a list of some characters the New 52 tried to modernize and failed to practice so (unless "modernize" is synonymous with "over complicate and insulting" then aye they succeeded, just that'due south obviously non expert).  While a few of these may be nitpicks, nigh of these I honestly feel the New 52 just ruined a few characters.

To see my other Acme 10s (or 5s) click hither.

Apologies for Last Post

And so last post I talked well-nigh the Batgirl #41 Joker Variant and my stance was that they basically overreacted with pulling the encompass.  The reason I was annoyed about this was because I thought the complaints where gender-based (which for the virtually part they kinda are) only some of the people who commented did say how gender had cipher to exercise with it and how information technology was merely an overly nighttime and trigger-happy cover for a comic targeting mostly little girls (like 10-ish).  After looking at information technology like that I realized that they're correct.  Peradventure if the comic was a bit more mature than the cover would've been ok, but to put that encompass on a comic for younger readers was a scrap inappropriate and the fact that I said it was ok makes me feel that I should apologize for what I said.  And considering that the poll had 3 votes for yes it was offensive and three votes for no it wasn't offensive, I feel like at least half of yous guys didn't really like it.

Rulez

• Must exist a grapheme I experience was ruined by the New 52
  • This could hateful bad graphic symbol redesigns, bad (or straight upward offensive) personality changes, or just a poor writer for their comic book run.
• This is opinion based, pregnant if you don't concur than just comment beneath for your stance

Dishonorable Mention – Harley Quinn

Pre-New 52 Harley Quinn

New 52 Harley Quinn

Harley Quinn was one of those New 52 controversies that I had mixed feelings most.  Before the New 52, Harley Quinn was Jokers cute and bubbly girlfriend, but the New 52 decided to make her more insane and showed off some more skin.  At present the insane part I honestly didn't care about and actually liked the change.  Only the fact that her new design shows off a bit more skin…yeah.  So allow me get this straight, someone took the cute and bubbly Harley Quinn from the blithe serial and idea it was okay to sexualize a mentally insane clown?  That's just kinda creepy.  Although I like the new hair.

#10 – Black Canary

Pre-New 52 Black Canary

New 52 Black Canary

What the heck am I looking at?  Cause this isn't Black Canary.  Blackness Canary is a BA motorcyclist who wears a leather motorcycle jacket.  Just then they changed information technology to…um…what is that?  This is simply one of the many examples of the New 52 over complicating a design.  The yellow stripes are unnecessary and they should've stuck with her biker jacket.

#ix – Lobo

Pre-New 52 Lobo

New 52 Lobo

How exactly did the Lobo with the torso type of Deathstroke manage to kill the Lobo with the body blazon of Hulk, Blight, or Juggernaut?

Let me get 1 thing out of the way: I'yard non a fan of Lobo.  I don't detest him like Wolverine but I just don't care much well-nigh him.  Still, I do know what he's suppose to be like and the New 52 ruined it.  Lobo is an conflicting mercenary and bounty hunter and is usually shown being big, potent (shown to be inconsistently on par with the strength of Superman), and rather rude.  In the New 52, in that location was a continuity fault (there where a lot of continuity errors when the New 52 started) where the New 52 Lobo debuted in both Deathstroke #nine and Justice League #23.ii as role of villains month.  The one that debuted in the Deathstroke comic had a lot more similarities with the Pre-New 52 Lobo while the one inJustice League appeared to be a lot more than like if Edward Cullen was Lobo.  So one was chosen to be an imposter and was killed off past the "real" Lobo, I'll give yous a few seconds to decide which version they chose to be the "real" Lobo… … …times up!  It was the Edward Cullen Lobo.  Just, why?  Did anyone actually though we needed the Edward Cullen of Lobos in out New 52?

#viii – Static

This isn't and then much well-nigh the new blueprint (because in my stance it's pretty absurd) but the writer's choices in the comic.  When the New 52 started, Static Shock #ane was one of first 52 comics that came out that month.  However the comic was cancelled after just 6 issues prompting me to go the trade paperback at my library to see why no one was ownership it.  I was honestly hoping no one was ownership it merely because he's even so a pretty obscure character (despite his cartoon back in the early 2000s) compared to the likes of the Justice League, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, etc. and people were just buying those comics instead of this 1.  Nevertheless my fear that no one was buying it because it stunk was confirmed when I read it myself.  I've already talked most Static'south history in three different posts (my inaccurate Top 10 favorite DC superheroes, Top 10 Movies I want to see, and my Martin Luthor King Jr Twenty-four hour period Special on my Summit ten Favorite Blackness Superheroes) then I won't talk most him here, just when Dwayne McDuffie, Static's creator, created Static it was to make a meliorate representation of minorities (in this case Blackness people) in mainstream comics.  This comic just turned Static into something of a stereotype and the comic itself didn't make any sense.

The thing I plant interesting is one of the writers, Scott McDaniel, is an electrical engineer so I thought giving him an electrical-based superhero would be pretty interesting since he would know the properties of electricity.  Although he plainly had some arguments with DC and fellow writer John Rozum which turned the comic into a mess.  I hope that they'll bring back Static after convergence and this time give him an advisable author, only knowing DC they'll probably give the adjacent championship a decent or bad writer so that they can requite the good writers also the countless Superman and Batman titles.  I love Batman more than than whatsoever DC super…-scratch that-more than than whatever superhero out there, only we don't need 5 different Batman titles and I would like to meet some b-list or c-list characters with practiced writers.

#vii – Beast Boy

Pre-New 52 Fauna Male child

New 52 Animate being Boy

Now thankfully they fixed him and so he's greenish again (although I didn't read the showtime run of the New 52 Teen Titans then I don't know whether or not they gave a legitimate reason for going back to the green color or artists just decided to change it back for unexplained reasons) simply when the New 52 beginning started they thought it would exist a adept idea to alter Beast Boy from the usual green color to red.  They changed quite a few Titans making quite a few fans of the team really annoyed. A couple of the Titans, like Brute Boy here, beingness part of the 2003 Teen Titan drawing so fans of that evidence that started reading this comic got upset likewise.  The caption for this changed (behind the scene, not in the actual comic) was that DC wanted to link Brute Male child to Animal Human being.  I don't know much about Animal Homo so I had to do some research and past what I can tell Animal Man doesn't actually turn into animals, like Beast Boy, simply instead adopts the abilities of animals past an strength called "The Cherry".  Once again, I don't know much virtually Fauna Man so I don't know whether or not there's more than to the story but the fact of the matter is that DC unnecessarily turned Beast Boy to red even though he has been green for decades.  And the fact that the New 52 Teen Titans comics (come across #6) had a mostly red color scheme, Beast Boy just looked bland and blended in with everything making the colour selection fifty-fifty worse.

#half-dozen – Teen Titans

The New 52 really liked over complicated designs and stripes all over the costumes and the worst of this is the Teen Titans.  It got amend with the 2nd run, just the showtime run was terrible.  When y'all read the comic the colors frequently composite together and just wasn't fun to await at.  Oh, and the titans had a thing for glowing stripes and the dorsum ground was frequently red making the characters practically alloy into each other.  Linkara has already did a review on the first Teen Titans story in the New 52 Teen Titans: The Alternative so you tin check out part 1 of his four-part review hither.

#five – Artemis

Immature Justice was a popular DC cartoon (that actually had little if whatever to exercise with the bodily Young Justice comics) that gathered quite the fanbase.  Ane of the things the drawing did was introduce the character Artemis (who was already around in the form of Arrowetta).  Artemis became a fan-favorite and DC decided to innovate her into the Teen Titans storyline Teen Titans: The Culling.  Huh, that sounds framiliar.  Anyways, that was actually a smart idea equally it allows fans of the show to get introduced to the comics with a graphic symbol they already have an attachment to.  And the design is really similar to the cartoon (with the exception of the bluish paint but whatever).

Then if I thought information technology was a good idea than why is she on this list, so high on the list?  Well, because they killed her off in the first issue.  You read that correctly, DC brought in a popular character from a popular cartoon and decided to impale her off in the starting time issue she ever appeared in a comic.  Is DC trying to mock us or something?  I can practically see them going "You want this grapheme in the comics?  hither y'all go…now let'southward impale her!"

#four- Raven

Pre-New 52 Raven

New 52 Raven

Raven has had a very interesting comic book history and thank you to both the 80s run of The New Teen Titans beingness the best run (according to most people who've read it) of the Teen Titans and the cartoon, Raven is probably one of, if not the, near popular of the Titans.  She was a half demon and daughter of Trigon (the DC's version of Satan) and was basically built-in to bring Trigon to Earth.  She of course didn't want to bring Trigon to Earth and attempted to use her demonic powers for good instead of evil.  She iconic for wearing a blackness cloak and having short, blackness hair.  Simply instead of that design, DC decided to make her look like some type of monster.  Oh, and since her name'southward Raven, why don't nosotros give her feathers on her costume?   Here'due south why, it's stupid!

#three – Starfire

Original Starfire

Animated Starfire

New 52 Starfire

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Starfire is probably one of the New 52's almost controversial alter and for several reasons.  The biggest reason this is so controversial is because, well, she was ridiculously sexualized.  Now people have stated that Starfire has always been sexualized, non to this degree.  Starfire'southward a Tamaranian, an alien races that apparently doesn't empathize the homo need for modesty.  As a consequence, at that place where several scenes where Starfire would question the purpose of clothing.  Merely the whole point to her was that she was basically suppose to be sexy, but she didn't know it.  On top of the fans of the old comics with Starfire in it, people commonly knows Starfire from the Teen Titans drawing serial.  Although obviously they couldn't put the Starfire from the comics into the serial then they inverse a sexualized graphic symbol into the cute and bubbly version (think Harley Quinn from Batman: TAS equally an alien).

Now keeping in listen that the purpose of the New 52 was to get in easier for new readers to go into comics, just…expect at this panel to the left from Carmine Hood and the Outlaws #one.  This is worst than her original comic volume version!  They inverse it from a character that was suppose to be sexy but not knowing it, to a graphic symbol that's sexy and she knows it.  Honestly, I was originally going to not add together this to the list as I frankly didn't want to talk virtually information technology.  But if I didn't add together it to the list, than that would be like maxim that I'yard fine with information technology and that's obviously not true.  Who even thought this was a skilful thought?!?!

I exercise desire to make it clear that I never read Red Hood and the Outlaws and I probably never will.  Also, Linkara already reviewed #1 so I already know how bad it is.

#2 – Superman

Pre-New 52 Superman

New 52 Superman

Superman is one of my favorite superheroes and I know what Superman should be like.  I've said this before, just the indicate of Superman is that he's a god amid men that chose to use his immense power to salvage and protect people.  He'south a boyscout and he's suppose to be the living embodiment of the superhero, doing annihilation and everything that he thinks is the right affair to practice.  So he tin alive among humanity as the nerdy, impuissant Clark Kent.

What we got instead is a loftier school jerk who decides to use his powers for good because he likes to dial things.  I could practise a Superlative 10 Listing alone on everything wrong with the New 52 Superman alone.  On top of that, why does Superman need armor?  He can basically fight law-breaking in pajamas and have the same corporeality of protection, and while I similar to complain most his scarlet trunks being removed because they're office of the iconic Superman design, it seems that virtually people have either wanted the trunks to be gone for a while or has given upward on it then possibly I should just coffin the hatchet on that.

But the pattern and personality isn't the only thing terrible about the New 52 Superman.  For instance, early on in the comics Ma and Pa Kent was killed off.  Are you kidding me!  Superman was one of the few superheroes out there that wasn't an orphan and now you just gave him superhero cliché #1.  And the worst part is the Ma and Pa Kent was killed off when he was young.  The principal reason that Superman isn't an orphan (besides the fact that he was created before that cliche) is considering Ma and Pa Kent taught Superman to be the boyscout he was ever suppose to exist.  They're the reason that Superman would much rather make peace with a villain (yes, even Lex Luthor) than throw a fist at them.

#one – Wally Westward

Pre-New 52 Wally West

New 52 Wally Due west

This may require a trivial scrap of history to be explained properly.  In 1956, DC recreated the Flash (previously a college student named Jay Garrick) as a forensic scientist named Barry Allen.  Later on, Barry Allen's nephew, Wally West, was turned into Kid Flash with the exact same blow that turned Barry into the Flash.  Later Bart Allen, the 31st century grandson to Barry Allen, was brought back into the nowadays as Impulse.  During 1985 Crisis on Infinite Earths (which is mode to confusing to explain in depth here but it was a way for DC to reboot their universe and combine their multiverse into the one universe) Barry Allen died trying to save the world, causing Wally West to take the mantle every bit the Flash and Bart to become Kid Flash.  Barry would be dead for twenty years (real time) significant to anyone that loved superheroes between 1985 and 2009 (where he back in Geoff Johns's Flash: Rebirth) Wally West is the Wink.  That goes for me likewise every bit I was built-in in 1999 and equally such I grew up with Wally beingness Flash and as such he'southward my favorite Flash.

When the New 52 started, it followed the 6-issue miniseries Flashpoint in which Flash (Barry Allen) basically rebooted the DC universe (not going to go into specifics).  After this, Barry Allen stayed as Flash and Bart Allen (at present called Bar Torr, for some reason) came back as Kid Flash.  So where's Wally?  Well, Wally didn't appear for a while but at one indicate the writers wanted to bring Wally West back to the DC universe.  And so DC editorials said aye but every bit long as they mess up the grapheme.  Oh pitiful, what they actually said is that they can bring him back only only if they brand him a minority graphic symbol.  And then Wally W came back equally a Black character and as Impulse with the worst costume of the Flashes, even the new Kid Flash.  Now just to be clear, I love Black people.  You know what scratch that, I dearest people of all races.  Plus adding more characters of dissimilar ethnicity is a great thing to endeavor and I call up DC should attempt to do just that.  But turning Wally Black would be like turning Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Hal Jordan/Green Lantern, or Aquaman a race other than White, yous only don't do it.  Wally has an iconic look: pale skin, freckles, and reddish hair.  And then why bring him back as a Black grapheme?  Why non make a new grapheme that's not White?  Or make some of your electric current Black superheroes, like perhaps Static, more well known and better written?

Besides the ethnicity, Wally West is known to be the wise-cracking Flash.  He's like if Spider-man was a speedster just nicer (c'mon, Spider-homo does have a addiction of mocking his enemies).  Oh and speaking of being nice, one of the reasons I similar Wally more than Barry is that wally is actually funny but besides a really nice guy.  He's just likable and someone to look up too.  Then what is he similar in the New 52 (also being Black)?  Well, he started out as participating in illegal acts such as vandalizing and shoplifting.  Not even kidding.  Wally West was turned into a Black kid whose basically a bad kid.  Hey DC, turning a character into a different ethnicity isn't really helpful when it'south a stereotype of that ethnicity.  Simply, what were you lot guys thinking?!?!

End Poll

Did y'all like the New 52?  Also, which of these characters do you feel where ruined?  I'm only curious if yous guys agree with me or not.

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