#im dc editorial itself

[webshood]

the way Selina is canonically 5'7 and in heels, but this nigga is out there towering over her while slouching.... only 6' my ass they're lying to my face

[tardigradetheking]

is this dc editorial messing up for forced grim dark or does this have the potential for good story telling. how does this teen decimation compare to other generations anyway.

id say its simply bad story telling if there generation has a significantly higher casualty rate. because there should be an in universe reason given.

then again the super villains just becoming more viscous is itself a reason. but then you still have the question of why now.

given dc editorials hatred of legacy characters and the higher ups tendency to deage we cant really know how this effects that generation of teen heroes because there hasnt been any in universe time, there isnt a next generation yet.

thats kind of depressing dc editorial leaves it at the youngest hero generation dropping like flies it kind of implies that super heroes are all going to get killed off as not enough are surviving to fill rank. its (now im not sure how much of this sentence is literal vs only applicable in universe) like dc killed the future of comics to sell comics.

you know what im going to commit this is 100% applicable dc comics are killing the future of comics to sell comics. people get sick of same old same old, and there “promises” of new and different only to deliver some grim dark BS or surface level changes is burning through consumer trust and the shunning and sabotaging of new characters is degrading there universes possibility to change and evolve.

The mid to late 2010s was a horrible time to be a teenaged superhero. Considering DC’s deep dive into grim dark, gritty, depressing storytelling, it was a horrible time to be a hero in general, but it seems like the teenage hero crowd got hit extra hard.

I was rereading Young Justice, and in #50, there’s this group shot of all the heroes who joined Young Justice for the invasion of Zandia. 

And it got me thinking… how many of the kids in this panel ended up dying later on? Quite a few actually

Slobo 

Superboy 

Impulse

Spoiler 

Damage

Kid Devil 

Anima 

Terra

In a crowd of thirty plus, eight doesn’t seem like a lot. But that is a lot in the span of two to three years, in universe.

There may be more; some of these characters are so minor they don’t have complete dcwiki pages. Some are for all intents and purposes dead as they never appear again. The ones who survive go through the above mentioned horrors of mid 2010s DC. Lagoon Boy is put in a coma that he doesn’t come out of until the universe resets. Risk gets both his arms ripped off. Some of them get mind controlled, possessed, gravely injured or maimed, lose their powers, and barely survive when the rest of their team dies. You know, regular fun superhero stuff.

This isn’t even counting all the Teen Titan characters who end up dying, or the Outsiders, or any other team. Teen heroes were dropping like flies.

This generation of heroes was decimated.

I don’t have anything deeper to say about this. It explains why everyone was so depressed, and puts the Teen Titans’ membership drives into perspective. Really makes me think the survivors who continued heroing were looking at their friends, their teammates, and wondering

Who’s next?