Archived Did DC Ruin Their Comics?: Crisis Of Infinite Reboots (youtube.com)
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Archived Did DC Ruin Their Comics?: Crisis Of Infinite Reboots (youtube.com)
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[–] Sosacms 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I've never been a DC comic fan. They are amazing with their animated series and movies but the comics are lacking.
First; everything is either a God or cannon fodder. Because their main line up are Gods so in order to fight them, everyone must be a God... But their main characters are gods so need to be able to destroy everything like Gods...my personal favorite is when one Doomsday killed superman but superman one shot an army of Doomsdays. Or when the Justice League fights themselves they can suddenly all go fist to fist with superman instead of using unique abilities to defeat each other.
Second;they are glued to their origin stories and can't develop characters. If characters ever start to drift too far away from that core some event will happen to snap them right back. But that could be fan caused by never wanting their characters to behave differently regardless of how their story develops. It's nice having some unchanging characters with strength of will to never bend but not every single character.
Third; whenever they want to play around with the characters in a hypothetical storyline they go full reboot or barely change anything so it throws people off.
So ya, they will probably reboot again and again because they want change without changing. Characters are too shallow and not human enough, they only have that small selection of good heroes and villains before they just copy/paste new ones, and their changes are too God or cannon fodder struggling against day to day villains after defeating gods.
[–] 8629886? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I don't know, I've been reading a lot of DC titles with non-"God" characters. Deathstroke, Nightwing, Titans and Teen Titans. As far as Marvel's character origins go... they're not much different than DC.
As for characters not evolving, DC's Bat Family has evolved quite a bit. To wit, Dick Grayson/Robin I became Nightwing and is his own superhero in his own city, and also leads the Titans on the side. Jason Todd/Robin II became Red Hood and formed his own team of Outlaws which at the moment are basically the "Broken" Trinity of DC (Red Hood as a broken shadow of Batman, Bizarro as a corruption of Superman, and Artemis as a failed wannabe Wonder Woman). Tim Drake/Robin III went on to become Red Robin and died. The current Robin is Damian Wayne, Batman's son, by Talia al Ghul. So, Robins aside, Batman himself has gone from crime-fighting billionaire bachelor to father.