So ive been going through the new 52 teen titans. My god what a disaster.
Im late to the party but i havent seen it discussed anywhere else on the net (but admitedly i didnt do a throrough search) so i was wondering if anyone could offer an insight into what really happened with the new 52 and this whole generation.
From what i saw ive drawn these conlusions.
They became disposable with the new and DC didnt care about the fans, so they decided to quite simply dump what they considered garbage to make room for other properties. Lodbell was ordered to write them the way he did, to reinvent them like this, so im hesitant to put all the blame on him.
Tim Drake was clearly sidelined to make room for Damian, there is just no other way to look at this. I dont know if it was PR, didio or any of the higher ups. But the character was assassinated in favor of the new Robin. Its amazing how many elements of the character got poached by others and a clear indication that the character became disposable. Dick, Jason, Duke, Harper.
Conner kent just aged Clark. In many ways he was his son. Clark was shown to be a young adult, he was more comfortable with Dick than with Bruce and having Conner around just messed with the whole direction for the character.
Bart Allen. Poor kid, he never had a chance, he just couldnt exist in a world where wally west got reintroduced in his teenage years.
Cassandra Sandsmark. She was just seen as irrelevant to the wonder woman mythos.
In limbo:
Connor Hawke. No idea to be honest, if i had to take a stab at it, they didnt want him to upstage Oliver, also hawke aged him.
Cassandra Cain. Same than with Connor i guess. Tho i believe DC just hates her.
Stephanie Brown. DC just hates her.
There are others of course, tho i really havent read that much of the new 52.
Rebirth brought a lot of it back, but it has felt so half assed. We are 2 years in and we still havent gotten any of them back, even Tim Drake is still being depicted as a naive tech guy, when that was never the character in the old continuity (or maybe only in the eyes of snyder).
So i was interested to know what you guys think, do you believe DC sabotaged these characters, didnt mean any harm and just sidelined them, or they honestly thought they would succeed.
Reminder that they turned them into: a rapist, a mass murderer, a terrorist and a thief.
PS: remember to be nice, this is just another speculation thread.