#idk man. again i know this is entirely self inflicted like i chose this. i chose all of these things. and continue to do so

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Number 3 for Apollo and Midnighter?

3. least favorite canon thing about this character?

oh jeeze you want me to pick just one?

for midnighter i'd have to say it's a three way tie between the jenny fractal plot line, the times when bad writers have him literally fucking abuse apollo, and lastly the breakup that happens in the new 52/rebirth between him and apollo which also has him flirting and sleeping with others after it!

anyone who has unfortunately read the jenny fractal plot line will understand why but let's just say not only is it objectively an awful plotline for what happens both morally and writing but also this writer purposefully broke pre-established lore for jenny q. AND had something midnighter do that he never would.

the second one is self explanatory. i hate lost year and human on the inside for this.

and the last one :) read the new 52 batman and robin and for when midnighter shows up.. he ain't with apollo i'll fucking tell you that. but according to people who have read further on in that, he still talks about apollo all the time. it's literally like twisting a knife in the wound for people who enjoy him over and over again.

admittedly stuff for purely midpollo hasn't recovered since the agent grayson flirting :/ i have a safe bet that the midnighter/dick grayson tag is probably bigger/almost as big as the midpollo one but i'd have to check.

as for apollo... writers doing what they did to dick grayson TWICE possibly over and over in the second scenario only a couple comics apart (aka sexual assault), and then proceeding to fridge him over and over again for midnighter's development! i'm not kidding. the lost year is showing him dying over and over again just for how it impacts midnighter.

besides that, i'd say how the breakup plotline in the new 52 delegated him to the sidelines and forced him into a nuclear family role where he's the one home cooking and cleaning while midnighter is off fighting and being a badass. since midnighter is the one who is made into the intelligent one while apollo is depicted as the pretty brute and or dumb brute.

since apollo has always been deemed as the less marketable of the two since homophobes will still want to see midnighter since they'll see him as the 'more macho' of the two (also a stupid ideal rooted in stupid opinions), he'll get shit like this from the authority 2003-2004 run:

despite the fact that he's a majestic class (or alpha level in dc) level threat aka the same as mister majestic, the high, superman, and wonder woman, they won't let him be as strong as them/stronger simply because he is an out gay married man.

i don't give a fuck about figuring out if he's actually stronger because of dumb power scaling, but i know he is at least as strong as. iirc there's a writer for superman on twitter who was so pissed off about this he declared apollo will always be weaker than superman but don't quote me on it i can't remember who said it or where it is.

a bonus one that i don't know the exacts of it: stormwatch vol 3. for what they did to jenny quantum where it shows apollo and midnighter not even being that upset that she was gone.. y'know, who was their daughter that they would've literally died for in past comics. erasing fucking swift and doctor from existence, too.

also changing pre-established origins for apollo and midnighter and other characters. andrew pulaski and lucas trent would've bothered me less if it was established that it was names they chose, but it isn't. they took away their origin which entirely shaped how they see the world around them.

because they were a result of u.n. government experimentation. to make them... victims of alien experimentation. idk why they did that lol jack hawksmoor was right there. was his not traumatizing enough for you?

so to summarize;

there's a lot of canon things i don't like that happened to them. sexual assault done to inflict trauma purely for the shock value/midnighter development, forcing traditional family dynamics (which those dynamics are fucking awful for everybody), breaking them up, taking their daughter, destroying their origins, making them abuse eachother, fridging apollo for midnighter's development, and blatant homophobia.