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THE CBR COMMUNITY STANDARDS & RULES ~ So... what's your excuse now?
Grant Morrison created Zaueriel for their Justice League run because they couldn't use Hawkman. So often times a new character is formed because they can't use an existing one.
Would the Watchmen fall under this umbrella?
They were originally supposed to be the Charlton Action Heroes.
What would have happened?
Charlton Actions heroes would have been Who's Who instead of Who's That!
Watchmen had a movie and a tv series! Oh, and a somewhat successful graphic novel, too.
Charlton action heroes are obscure also-rans.
Why would they need characters to fill their old roles? DC has 100s of minor characters on the shelf in Limbo.
P.S.
Maybe Alan Moore would still be speaking to DC also.
Watchmen had a movie that was contentious at best, a tv series that lasted one season and was rather quickly forgotten about (admittedly it wasn't bad at all) and follow ups to the graphic novel that no one liked. The original novel itself is often scapegoats for causing the Dark Age of Comics because of people using it as a blueprint.
The Charlton characters' problems are due to a lack of investment by DC and little presence outside comics. Nightshade at least has her appearances in Suicide Squad and Shadowpact, and Question is still fairly well known thanks to Justice League Unlimited.
All true.
Charlton Action heroes have had Zero movies, Zero television series and Zero graphic novels that are famous or infamous. (Peacemaker may be an exception depending on what you think about the show.)
Who's worse off?
DC's lack of investment is standard operating procedure in 99% of it IPs.
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