It's true that GA isn't the best example. Aside from little things (how many times has he run for mayor, exactly?) and the really freaky New52 reboot, his history has been fairly consistent.
Bette Kane might be a more interesting example. Was she ever Bat-Girl? If not, does she remember being Bat-Girl?
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I also think it's important to keep a distinction between things that characters remember because they "actually" happened to them (and have been retconned back in), and things characters dimly recall as having happened to an alternate version of themselves, but didn't "actually" happen to them. The former is fairly standard continuity housekeeping. The latter is a little weirder.
I think most of are making that distinction, but I just wanted to reiterate it.
Part of me wishes DC would just make one-off specials for each character with a timeline that mixes and matches the best of the character's history in the most coherent way possible.
The Rebirth explanation of "10 stolen years" seemed simple enough to me, maybe they could work off that.
Well, clearly not everything happened even if that's the tagline. Look at Cassie Sandmark & Artemis' interactions in Wonder Girl. They're played as complete strangers there, even though Artemis was a mentor for Cassie for a long while in past comics.
It really is "anything the writers want is in, but anything they don't want is fair game to rule out."
That would only work if they were actually willing to enforce that. In practice, it would get trampled over the first time, say, Bendis wrote the characters.
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Catwoman's came up in King's Batman run. They argued over where their first meeting was. One version was the golden age one, the other was the New 52 one.
As for Donna, she got explained even before Death Metal, in The Infected: Deathbringer. She mentioned remembering all of her origins, from the original rescued from a house fire by Wonder Woman one, to her New 52 made of clay one. Presumably her second, post-Crisis, origin involving the Titans of myth is the real one, though it could be the first one if either Wonder Woman was active in World War II and didn't just enter Man's World for the first time 15 years ago, or Hippolyta was the WW who saved her.
Even post-Crisis, she'd always been Flamebird. I'm pretty sure Barbara Gordon is the first Batgirl in continuity.
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I honestly could care less regarding their memories of continuities past. All that matters to me is what happened in the current continuity.
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As someone who knows what's going on in most or all of DC books. None of that remember everything stuff is happening in the books. Only inserting most stuff back in if it can fit, and deciding to let some stuff be erased forever.
They dropped the remember everything gimmick, so lets move on.
Whatever the writers remember, and since most of them can't be bothered to do any homework on the characters they are writting that means no much.