#i am not starfire redesign

[s4y4ishere]

MANDY ANDERS (IM NOT STARFIRE) REDESIGN...MADE WITH ALL RESPECT FROM ORIGINAL AUTHORS

left: makeup version, right: no makeup version

[spider-jaysart]

Some more unpopular opinions about "I am not Starfire":

Instead of a normal light ginger looking hair color, Mandy's hair should've actually been just as red as Starfire's instead or it should've just been some other kind of unnatural color instead of just normal looking ginger hair. It should've been unique just like how Mar'i's hair glows with purple at the bottom of hers or just like how Blackfire's whole hair is dark blue/dark purple for example, cause like she's supposed to be half Tamaranean! Why does her design look so normal in the book as if she's actually fully human???? So like at least give her an unnatural hair color to make it more believable that she is Tamaranean!!! It also would've gave much more of a better reason for why she dyed her hair full on black because her natural Tamaranean hair color easily shows that she's Starfire's daughter, cause if she has normal ginger hair, no one's gonna just look at her and think like "Yep! That's definitely Starfire's daughter because she has natural ginger hair." Cause it just looks too normal to even make that kind of connection! Especially with her very human appearance already!

One time while reading this book, as I was observing the artstyle throughout all of the pages (cause that's literally the only best thing about the dang book), I had noticed that Mandy's pupils actually had a darker green coloring in it instead of black and I thought to myself "Oh, wow, that's a really cool little detail that they gave to her, especially since her design already looks so much like a human instead of a Tamaranean. I really like that" ..... But then after looking at the other characters eye's, I soon found out that the same thing was done with them as a part of the artstyle and then I was just like "😑 Oh...okay, whatever than I guess." So after that, I feel like that's how her eye's should've actually naturally been as a part of her design instead, since she's Starfire's daughter, especially because it had looked like a really interesting little detail for her before I had found out that it was actually just a part of the artstyle

There's this brought up flashback moment in the book (that no one talks about at all for some reason) where Starfire gives Kid!Mandy a bag of wet soaked bread so that she could give it to Claire (who was still just a friend to her during that time) as a gift for her birthday when she goes over to her house, cause it's supposed to be a Tamaranean type of gift or something and I was just like "What???? What about an actual weird Tamaranean meal like the one's that she would used to make in the og Teen Titans animated show?? Cause that would've made much more sense as a Tamaranean meal that's supposed to be a friendly gift than just some wet bag of bread."

Cause that's earth food!! I don't remember earth food like bread being on Tamaran at all, so shouldn't it actually just be an original meal made from Tamaran that she could've given to her instead of that???? Especially since I remember hearing that this book is supposed to be inspired by the og animated Teen Titans universe, so an actual home cooked Tamaranean meal would've just made much more sense instead of just trying to do weird things to human food just to make it seem like a "Tamaranean meal"!!

Here's the panel for it btw

I also wanted to see more of her pet parrot Joannie!!!😭😭😭😭😭 They were such an adorable fun bird, they totally deserved more panel time!!!💕

(Just look at em'!! So adorable and happy about everything!!💗)

During the scene where Blackfire was threatening Starfire with Mandy, I really hated it when she backed down so fast from her Instead of being the protective warrior that she actually is, cause as nice as Starfire is as a character, she isn't actually a person who will just easily back down from standing up for herself, especially if it's her loved one's who are being endangered at that very moment, cause she will be the type to fight back when that happens, so I imagine that even especially as a Mother she would become very raged to ever see someone in front of her threatening to hurt her daughter, even if it is her evil sister Blackfire who is the one that's threatening her, cause she won't care at all, she's still gonna do what she has to do to protect her child, especially from her sister

I very much also didn't like when they made Starfire obsess so much over Mandy's powers showing up every year on each birthday of her's and waste the whole day in the back yard in front of the sun just to see if something happens, cause I honestly don't believe Starfire would've cared about it that much. I mean she obviously would be curious to know when her childs gonna develop her powers and would want to know if she can use them well and stuff so that she can give her proper training on how to control them better, but she wouldn't be so obsessed about it!! Starfire would've actually made a real birthday party for Mandy to enjoy instead with all of their loved ones there to celebrate it with them (like the Titans for example), instead of doing what she did in the book!

It also actually would've been nicer if they had made her friend Lincoln more interesting as a character instead of just making him be the ears that are just only there to always listen to all of Mandy's daily complaints about every single little thing all the time

I also don't like the scene that was happening while Mandy was at the playground trying to terrify her bullies while Claire was there, because the only reason that scene was made was just so that she can unintentionally foreshadow the battle that happens between her and Blackfire at the end of the book and it just felt a little annoying and unnecessary for it to even be there cause it actually does nothing useful or interesting for the story at all

Dick is obviously the Dad and he knows it too😑 (I know this one isn't really an unpopular opinion but I wanna talk about it anyways)

I mean just look at the way he worries about Mandy here!!!

And then this last panel in the book where he's literally the only one on the roof standing next to Starfire as they BOTH PROUDLY look at Mandy fly away into the sky as a new hero, like he's obviously the Dad, cause why else is he in this scene with Starfire happily enjoying this moment with her if Mandy's not his kid?! They don't even have a close relationship with eachother to explain this, so he is the Dad!!!

Just look at it!!

(That's freaking him right there!!)

Like I'm just so dissapointed in the fact that they made him abandon Starfire like that instead of making him actually be a caring Father like he canonly is with his other kids Mar'i and Jake, and actually be there to raise Mandy with her🤦, but it obviously wasn't done that way so that Mandy could have higher and easier free chances of being very disrespectful and rebellious towards her Mother in the whole story, since there's no other parent (which is Dick) to help Starfire out in stopping that kind of unnecessary and unkind behavior and teach her that's not the way for her to treat her Mom at all

[aj-thegreatest]

Re-redesign of Mandy I finally got around to finishing! She’s now officially Nightwing/Starfire daughter…with an eerie touch of Blackfire

[neogirlart]

I see what's going on internet, DC Latest comic book or graphic novels became controversial because Starfire Daughter design or being a new character. People been waiting for Nightfire to be in newest comic but they forgot that she isn’t canon for the shipping part. The problem is the character design that bother people. I made her more Tamaraneans than just a human. I just no one will complain about this.

[gritsandbrits]

Im still pissed over seeing i am not starfire redesigns because they just make mandy a mari clone when those designs could've leaned more into the nightwing/batfam aspects.

[non-normal]

Recently came across a reviews for "I am NOT Starfire" comic from DC, I haven't read the comic for myself but my god does Mandy sound awful. Also no comfirmed father ig, This is my redesign because the only thing Mandy ever had in common with Starfire was her eyes, which confused the f*** out me, and natural hair (which she then dyed black). So yea, thats it. 🖤❤️‍🔥💜🧡🩷 [I posted this on my insta 2 days ago so i thought why not post here lol].

[unreversedumbrella]

I am not Starfire is probably one of my favourite graphic novels. not bc its good (its a perfectly generic YA graphic novel made for 15 year old girls) but bc of the way it made grown ass men whine for months on end about it.

there is something so funny about these comic book nerds screaming about a non-canonical comic book made for girls 1/3 of their age. completelly normal and not unhinged reaction:

funniest comment ive seen is "why is she fat?! both of parents are superheros in perfect physical fitness" you need to be an idiot. also, there are several redesigns that basically just make her skinnier. if she was skinny nobody would care about this comic. but shes fat so

and as one might guess, this is also filled with less funny parts (fatphobia like the seen above included). mostly that the author has been bullied (and acused of making the main character a self insert??? bc these people saw a fat black haired girl written by a fat black haired woman and assumed that)

i find the review by Casually Comics to particulary good, if someone wants to check it out

[starlooove]

If u redesign her to be skinny I don’t really care about any critique you have about I am not starfire el oh el

[nakuuro1994]

So, here’s a quick swimsuit sketch of my own personal sexy redesign of Mandy Anders from the notorious & highly divisive DC Comics graphic novel “I Am Not Starfire” which features her in her brand new bikini that I drew just recently!!

[sylphella]

The second redesign challenge I did was for the "I am not Starfire" visual novel that came out last year. It had interesting ideas, but the execution was really bad. For this redesign challenge, I used the concept of a main character who is the child of a famous superhero, but went in a different direction. The girl on the left is Melanie, and the girl on the right is Phoebe. Melanie and Phoebe are the daughters of a well known superhero, and were raised as sisters. They grew up in a lesser known small town, so that they could have a safe childhood and were best friends. In their teens, Phoebe's powers start to manifest and tensions start to rise. Melanie notices how differently her sister interacts with their parents, and while she knows she is loved, she can tell something is off with how she is treated compared to Phoebe. She tries not to let it bother her, until one night it boils over and in a moment of frustration and jealousy, Melanie's powers start to manifest and she injures her sister. Horrified, she runs off, and is later found by her mother, who reveals the truth. She was adopted by the sister of her bio mom who is a well known supervillain. It's not clear what happened, but her bio mom vanished and she was secretly adopted and raised as Phoebe's sister. Her mother tells her that she will always love Melanie, and she is just as much her daughter as Phoebe is. She explains that sometimes Melanie acts in a way that reminds the mother of her sister and that's one of the big reasons for the differences. I didn't decide if Melanie's bio mother passed or was just on the run, and decided to keep it vague and up to interpretation.

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

So I read the full story, and I hated it even more. Specifically, I hate even more the design of the characters.

So here some new redesigns of my redesigns including now jake. A true happy family.

[denzel-shadow]

Did a redesign of Mandy from I am not starfire comic, I have my opinions but that stays between me and Stan lee

[sunshinekarenstarr]

what has been annoying me about this whole "I am not starfire" discourse is that some people have been body shaming and making fun of a plus size girl being the main character. I just know if Mandy was skinny some of you all would not be saying some of the crap you are saying right now.

and yeah I do have my own annoyance and disagreements with the book like how they could and should have made Mandy's skin color smilier to kori and how they presented the novel should have been different because I think the video is presenting something else and the summary is something else.

but that does not prompt anyone to villainize being fat or plus size.

[aj-thegreatest]

What if Mandy from “I am not Starfire”...actually looked like Starfire

[thenamesellen]

After listening to some reviews about I Am Not Starfire, I decided to redesign the wreck, Mandy. I kept her goth fashion sense, I made her skin orange like Starfire, and I made her thick (not skinny but THICK). I gave her some green because in the book her powers are green. I imagine this version of her to be sassy and introverted but not an immature dick. I see her as a confident woman, who looks up to her mother; however, she can be a little greedy with food. Fortunately, she has a fast metabolism. She’s also a huge fan of Halloween. Sweets are a weakness to her.

Deviantart post: https://www.deviantart.com/thenamesellen/art/Mandy-Redesigned-887603180

[gingerbreadjonah]

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