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arrlaari.livejournal.com (arrlaari.livejournal.com) wrote in scans_daily,

then I also have to say that the real Wonder Woman is the pre-Crisis boy-chasing weirdly sexist clusterfuck whose powers don't work when a man binds her wrists. I have to say the real Supergirl is the abhorrent thing Loeb dropped in our lap when she was introduced, no matter how much work they put into fixing her and no matter how golden she may one day become. I have to say the real Black Canary is the useless captivity-prone limp fish she was before Birds.

By this system, you'd have to say that the real Batman was the golden age guy who didn't blink when the bad guys died, (and I honestly don't know anything about him other than that he was so boring), not the totally awesome dude with issues (serious. issues.) in DCU/Bronze Age.

If I permit enough persistent and consistent writing and characterization to change my perception of a character for the better, I cannot forbid enough persistent and consistent writing and characterization from changing my perception of a character for the worse. Either how a character is presented matters, or it doesn't.

False binary. My policy is that my perception of how a character should be works like judicial review: There's stare decisis, but that doesn't hold against a good argument, e.g. "these qualities cause the character to suck, therefore the character ought not have such qualities." Excellence is the highest standard - the true Wonder Woman is the best Wonder Woman, regardless of what may have come before or after that Wondy, and likewise for Batman, Cassie, Joker, etc.

There's a presumption against a truly novel characterization, but that's reasonable. Such are, by this system, claiming to be the very best take on the character ever, and after the length of time and number of takes that have accumulated, that's a pretty tall claim.

As much as people mock Johns for retconning Hal Jordan's heel turn into "a yellow fear bug possessed him!" I feel a consensus that Evil!Hal was terrible and ham-handed, whereas redeemed Hal, under Geoff's pen, is as good and interesting as Hal has ever been.