Doctor Bifrost
"If Roy G. Bivolo had seen some B&W pencil sketches, his whole life would have turned out differently." http://doctorbifrost.blogspot.com/
I like it!
I'm not mad, just very disappointed. See, when Donna got the name Troia she took on the name because, well, Rhea asked nicely, not because she was choosing something. Which, yeah, she's not the only superhero to use a moniker given to them by someone else. As someone on the Superman forum noted, at least in some versions, Superman didn't choose that name, it's something newspapers used for him because they had no idea what to call him.
Maybe it'll be revealed that they had to channel power from the enemies of the gods of Olympus? Yes, THOSE enemies.
Yeah, sorry. I was going to flesh out my topic but then I got a snowshovel thrown at me.
What I meant was, I feel like we're being forced to think that the DC universe requires the presence and supremacy of the Justice League. Each the big 5 have their own focus, and none are necessarily beholden to team chemistry the way the Titans evidently do. What if the DCU put the Titans as the top tier, and the League is regarded an old-fashioned notion as much as the Society seems to be?
Diana, Clark and Bruce can circle the wagons and call in the troops in big events that only the classic League roster can handle.
Considering how sustainable and popular the League is, especially the Big 7, I don't see them ever going that route. Especially not to give Donna, Garth and Roy a boost of importance. People would just be wondering when the League is gonna come back.
The natural progression of the Titans, and the one they appeared to be on the course of during their last successful period (the 80s) was to eventually take the League's place as the main superhero team on Earth. But there just isn't any incentive for DC to get rid o the League, and the fanbases of the bigger characters in its roster especially have no desire to get rid of them. The reason they haven't been regarded as old fashioned as the JSA is because they have yet to go out of style. Helps that they are not tied to WWII like the JSA is and that makes them more timeless and adaptable.
I think the Justice League will always (rather, for the foreseeable future) be the biggest and most important team when viewed from the outside - from a publishing standpoint. And that will result in DC keeping them the most powerful and "important" team within the DCU.
But that doesn't mean that other teams, or other superheroes, have to act like they are minor children dealing with their parents, or that the League has some sort of legitimate or official authority over them. Other than "might makes right," which should reflect poorly on the League.
And in this specific instance, the Titans handled things about as well as most superheroes, including the League, do. Better, I think, than Batman's JLA does.
And it seems practically insane to me that the League would put Donna under house arrest because there was an evil future version of her, or because "she might be even more powerful some day" - and yet put up with the fact that Batman invited Lobo (a remorseless genocidal murderer) to be in the JLA! Lobo has already committed his horrific crimes in the current day, not in some "possible future" - but he's the Main Man, and really, y'know, badass and cool, so who cares?
I think the Titans should have said: "We handled the threat. Donna didn't do anything wrong, and there's no proof that she will - we've all seen evil versions of our friends from the future, haven't we? We can help her deal with her doubts without locking her up, and, if Wonder Woman decides she wants to help - rather than withholding information and treating Donna with disgust and contempt, as she has done before - then that's a nice offer, and maybe Donna will take her up on it. But this is our problem and we'll deal with it."
You know, like grown-ups.
Last edited by Doctor Bifrost; 02-09-2018 at 05:04 PM.
Doctor Bifrost
"If Roy G. Bivolo had seen some B&W pencil sketches, his whole life would have turned out differently." http://doctorbifrost.blogspot.com/
Give her a new origin. Have her born from a star that fell unto Themyscira.
I like the Titan seed origin best myself. It's unique, and has a very good reason to make her powerful enough to take on Wonder Woman in a fist fight.
I think whatever you do with Donna Troy, she has to have been an American teen-age girl. In the Teen Titans, there was always a difference between her and Starfire or Raven--because they were exotic women who didn't fit in with regular American culture. Whereas, Donna was the hometown girl. I can see her having had training with the Amazons as a youth, but early on in her life she has to come to America and find her home there.
Yeah, that's part of why I like the Titan seed origin. She's born and raised like a human, then one day finds out she's actually not. It doesn't change WHO she is, merely WHAT she is.
Doctor Bifrost
"If Roy G. Bivolo had seen some B&W pencil sketches, his whole life would have turned out differently." http://doctorbifrost.blogspot.com/