Donna and Romance

[AmiMizuno]

So far we have Donna and Terry. Which is creepy. But from my understanding there was also going to be Donna and Kyle Rayner. What do you guys think?

[Tzigone]

So far we have Donna and Terry. Which is creepy. But from my understanding there was also going to be Donna and Kyle Rayner. What do you guys think?

I don't find Donna and Terry to be creepy. I mean, I don't care for age gaps that large (10 years) for characters that young (19), as a general rule, but it doesn't cross the line to creepy as me. Partially because Donna was very much an adult then (in behavior, etc.). Later crappy stuff happened, but it was healthy relationship as written in the pre-COIE years. Despite what some will say, he was not her teacher, and he did not hit on other women in front of her or have affairs.

Donna and Kyle, while pleasant enough to read, was very much hampered by timing. It came on the heels of her marriage ending and his girlfriend getting murdered, so it just screamed "rebound" really loudly to me. Then her life went to hell and she got a new origin story and that was the end of that.

[Drako]

She also had a relationship with Roy Harper.

[Phoenixx9]

I would like to see Donna with someone who is super-powered and really cares for her. But I do not know who that is, lol.

[witchboy]

I've always had mixed feelings about Terry. The age difference is squicky when she was a teenager - even at 19 - and he was a divorced father pushing 30. And pretty clearly a bit of wish fullfillment for the writer and artist. But he was written - and drawn - well, was likable and well rounded.
As I didn't read GL's title I missed most of the Kyle and Donna relationship. It did seem to come too quickly after Donna's divorce, and I think I missed the whole divorce too. I still don't know why Donna and Terry split up.
I loved her fun relationship with Roy in Devin Grayson's Titans. I'd love to see that continued someday.

[marhawkman]

I've always had mixed feelings about Terry. The age difference is squicky when she was a teenager - even at 19 - and he was a divorced father pushing 30. And pretty clearly a bit of wish fullfillment for the writer and artist. But he was written - and drawn - well, was likable and well rounded.
As I didn't read GL's title I missed most of the Kyle and Donna relationship. It did seem to come too quickly after Donna's divorce, and I think I missed the whole divorce too. I still don't know why Donna and Terry split up.
I loved her fun relationship with Roy in Devin Grayson's Titans. I'd love to see that continued someday.

IIRC Donna and Terry split because of the Team Titans incident and Lord Chaos(her son Robert).... yeah... that went.. in a strange direction. It didn't fully end in divorce(but that happened)... so much as Terry, Robert, and Jennifer(Terry's child from his first marriage) died in a car crash. Oh and for extra psychological trauma... guess who Donna has to re-kill in the Nekron debacle? yeah... her husband and son.

In short... the age difference wasn't the worst of that mess :/ Also that Donna was also the one that was cursed to live multiple lives... all of them bad... by a being who was an alternate her... except empowered by the Anti-Monitor. Why? I have no idea. But it's the Anti-Monitor.

[John Venus]

I've always had mixed feelings about Terry. The age difference is squicky when she was a teenager - even at 19 - and he was a divorced father pushing 30. And pretty clearly a bit of wish fullfillment for the writer and artist. But he was written - and drawn - well, was likable and well rounded.
As I didn't read GL's title I missed most of the Kyle and Donna relationship. It did seem to come too quickly after Donna's divorce, and I think I missed the whole divorce too. I still don't know why Donna and Terry split up.
I loved her fun relationship with Roy in Devin Grayson's Titans. I'd love to see that continued someday.

Ummm, I would say the drawing was a big part of the problem. Dude looked like a hairy 70's porn star which only exacerbated existing issues like the age gap and him hitting on other girls while also being possessive of Donna.

I wonder how it would have gone if Terry was modeled off of Jeff Goldblum?