Another vile one was Jesse Quick sleeping with Liberty Belle's boyfriend. That came out of nowhere.
I would have been much more okay with it if they both had briefly separated from their spouses before their affair. I guess the major problem is with me, though - I became fans of both of them before DC started adding the not-very-admirable activity to their stories later on.
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I just read about this. I was like "Wha...?" .
I mean, I knew Jesse had problems with her parents, but still...
I can get that. It does add a seedy element to their team-ups in hindsight, and I just can't see Ted cheating on his wife.
It is interesting that none of the main A-listers have really been involved in something like this. Probably DC wanting their biggest heroes to be clean. Oliver Queen seems to be the exception to that. And none of the main love interests have been involved in it either. The Atom is the only major character I can think of whose main love interest cheated on him
In JLA Year One the Golden Age Black Canary tells her daughter she had an affair with Wildcat.
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There really aren't very many cases of high-profile DC characters being involved in clear-cut infidelity. I know there was Hawkgirl cheating on Hawkman in their first life in the DCAU, but in the comics the ones I can recall are:
Manitou Raven's wife, Manitou Dawn, slept with their teammate Oliver Queen during Justice League Elite.
Deathstroke slept with his son Jericho's fiancee recently, and Jericho had before cheated on her with a much older friend of Deathstroke
Lois Lane was very heavily implied to have been cheating on Clark with Jeb Friedman. I think this can be safely ignored though as it was quickly recognized as a mistake and Jeb was killed off.
Bekka came extremely close to cheating on Orion with Batman.
Hal Jordan bangs Guy Gardner's girlfriend shortly after Guy becomes trapped in the Phantom Zone
I found this post on another site about Ollie as cheater is a retcon.
1941-1969: Ollie has no real recurring love interest. (There’s Miss Arrowette, aka Bonnie King, Cissie’s mom, but she’s only portrayed as a potential love interest for Ollie in one of her four Silver Age appearances.)
1969: Ollie develops his leftwing hothead personality and falls head over heels for Dinah (who originally was a good ten years older than him, which is a dynamic I love).
1988: While in a committed relationship with Dinah, Ollie is raped by Shado, who bears a child as a result. He has no knowledge of this happening and doesn’t know the child is his.
1993: Ollie is kissed by a teenage runaway he and Dinah have taken in, and Dinah dumps him for not pushing her away.
1995-2000: Ollie dies. Chuck Dixon relentlessly portrays Ollie as a lovable but incorrigible horndog in both Connor’s Green Arrow and Dinah’s Birds of Prey, largely to contrast virginal, shy (and likely queer, deal with it Homophobic Chuck) Connor with his father and to explain some of Dinah’s issues during this period.
2000: Ollie is resurrected in Quiver, which is my favorite Green Arrow story, but has a few terrible moments in it, including one in which he is depicted as willingly cheating on Dinah with Shado.
2002-2016: Ollie is dragged through a decade and a half of character assassination in which more infidelity is retconned into his backstory, he’s revealed to have knowingly abandoned Connor and his mother after Connor was born, he cheats on Dinah some more, their relationship becomes increasingly toxic and physically violent, and everything is terrible. Honestly, I’m not sure how bad it eventually got, because I jumped ship completely after Lian’s death.
2016: Green Arrow: Rebirth happens and my big dumb romantic hippie rascal came BACK and I love him so much I want to cry about it!
Happy they got rid of that Friedman thing and only left it as an implication and then ignored it. That sounds awful
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