Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Teen Titans Trivia III

Oh, I was thinking of Mal too. So I'll instead go for Bumblebee.

All great guesses because those are (or were in one case) three of my favorite DC characters ever at one stage!

* Fortunately, Mal Duncan is relaxing in limbo somewhere at the moment I think which is probably the safest place for him. He's my eternal fave DC character though so I would be supremely angry to hear DC were killing him off.
* Bumblebee is also another fave of course but I think she is fortunately safe for a while while they push her as part of the DC Super-Hero Girls.
* Roy Harper was my second favorite character in comics ever after I discovered him through my first favorite character in comics, his mentor Green Arrow. I would seek out and savor any and every appearance of his (rare as they were) during the late 80s and 90s when I was first collecting comics. I loved, and still love, his Speedy costume (especially as drawn by George Perez). I wrote a letter to DC begging them not to kill him off during 'Titans Hunt' haha and even had my brother read Armageddon 2001 #2 first to tell me if anything bad happened to him in it (I don't even know why I thought he was at risk in that issue but he surprisingly did make a one-panel cameo). But around the time he became Arsenal my love for him began to wane. I'm not sure if it was the succession of terrible costumes (there is not a single Arsenal costume I like, and there were many of them) or his ridiculous new 'powers' (he can suddenly master any weapon? despite only having long-time training in a bow?) or the fact that they began to lean really heavily into that 'ladies-man" (ugh) personality (as they also began to do with Green Arrow) but he just got worse and worse during the late 90s and 00s. His stint as Red Arrow gave me a brief glimmer of hope that he was returning to greatness but alas, that dreck Cry For Justice and The Rise and Fall of Arsenal came along and put the final nail in the coffin. AFAIC, killing him off now is a mercy killing. And guess what - they are apparently. In the upcoming Heroes in Crisis. But that's not the Titan death that's got me disappointed. Another hero's death in Heroes in Crisis is.

Question: Which Titan from the following list am I very disappointed to hear will be killed off by DC soon?

0. Dick Grayson: Robin - Nightwing - Batman
1. Donna Troy: Wonder Girl - Troia - Darkstar - Wonder Woman
2. Roy Harper: Speedy - Arsenal - Red Arrow
3. Mal Duncan: Guardian - Hornblower - Herald - Vox
4. Duela Dent: Joker's Daughter - Catgirl - Scarecrone - Riddler's Daughter - Penguin's Daughter - Harlequin
5. Kyle Rayner: Green Lantern - Ion - White Lantern
6. Bart Allen: Impulse - Kid Flash - Flash
7. Isaiah Crockett: Slagger - Joto - Hotspot
8. Jason Todd: Robin - Red Hood - Red Robin
9. Freddy Freeman: Captain Marvel Jr. - CM3 - Shazam
10. Bette Kane: Bat-Girl - Flamebird - Hawkfire
11. Hank Hall: Hawk - Monarch - Extant

NOT:

Kyle Rayner
Tim Drake
Victor Stone
Wally West
Dick Grayson
Donna Troy
Mal Duncan
Roy Harper
Karen Beecher-Duncan

Bart Allen (again)?

They'd be daft to do it, but it's DC so is it Kory?

Methinks TL may be misreading the question. The answer is one of the 12 characters (0 - 11) on this list. I will scratch off the ones already guessed.

Question: Which Titan from the following list am I very disappointed to hear will be killed off by DC soon?

0. Dick Grayson: Robin - Nightwing - Batman
1. Donna Troy: Wonder Girl - Troia - Darkstar - Wonder Woman
2. Roy Harper: Speedy - Arsenal - Red Arrow
3. Mal Duncan: Guardian - Hornblower - Herald - Vox
4. Duela Dent: Joker's Daughter - Catgirl - Scarecrone - Riddler's Daughter - Penguin's Daughter - Harlequin
5. Kyle Rayner: Green Lantern - Ion - White Lantern
6. Bart Allen: Impulse - Kid Flash - Flash
7. Isaiah Crockett: Slagger - Joto - Hotspot
8. Jason Todd: Robin - Red Hood - Red Robin
9. Freddy Freeman: Captain Marvel Jr. - CM3 - Shazam
10. Bette Kane: Bat-Girl - Flamebird - Hawkfire
11. Hank Hall: Hawk - Monarch - Extant

NOT:

Kyle Rayner
Tim Drake
Victor Stone
Wally West
Dick Grayson
Donna Troy
Mal Duncan
Roy Harper
Karen Beecher-Duncan
Bart Allen
Kory Anders

P.S. Apparently Heroes in Crisis is going to be even more of a Titans bloodbath than I'd feared but I won't spoil it any more. Sorry for this whole question being a big spoiler! haha My opinion of current DC is so low I forget some people here might still be reading it. Does anyone here still buy DC Comics?

Whoops. I got may or may not be on the list into my head somewhere.

Hank Hall?

I've not picked up any DC since the reboot before last. A few issues of Doom Patrol and I read Omega Men.

Jason Todd (again)?

Tried reading some issues of Justice League and Justice League Dark but couldn’t get into it.

The Heroes in Crisis bloodbath is puzzling. Wasn’t DC trying to restore the old timeline by bringing back Wally and many of his contemporaries? Big sigh

The Titans may be felt as clutter if they want to focus main characters and have only one teir of sidekicks.

One of DC's peculiarities is the sheer size and number of "families". Bat-family, Super-family, Wonder-family, Arrow-family, Flash-family, GL corps... It can be a strength, but not every writer/editor knows how to use that strength.

I saw a spoiler page with two of the deceased in Heroes in Crisis.

I saw Sarky's image, if that's the one you saw and yeah, it would seem as though it's hunting season for sidekicks again. DC are a bit schizophrenic on the whole thing. They had families and then looked to bring out strength in individuals at the time of Crisis. Only to fall back into giant ensemble casts. Personally, and I may be completely wrong here, is that the big casts can paper over the writer's inability to write consistently solid solo stories.

Not Hank or Jason.

Bette?

Some writers also lack nuance, taking each member of the big cast and reducing him or her to a handful of personality traits - or even worse, to cardboard that fills up the background!

I'll guess Freddy Freeman

re Roy Harper



Yeah, I really hated that bit.

Then there was the whole "I'm really in love with CHESHIRE, so much that I'm willing to help her escape from prison" thing, despite him macking endlessly on any woman that comes along (see: the idiocy that is Titans/Legion Universe Ablaze where Roy is among the Titans in the 30th century; he spares a second's thought about Lian being 1000 years in the past then tries to bed Triad![/url]).

I was also annoyed at how Red Arrow basically quit the Justice League because Hawkgirl said Hawkman's name while she was in bed with Roy. I mean, seriously?

But yeah, he got a bit better after that. And he definitely didn't deserve being ruined in Cry for Justice / Rise and Fall like that.

Question: Which Titan from the following list am I very disappointed to hear will be killed off by DC soon?

0. Dick Grayson: Robin - Nightwing - Batman
1. Donna Troy: Wonder Girl - Troia - Darkstar - Wonder Woman
2. Roy Harper: Speedy - Arsenal - Red Arrow
3. Mal Duncan: Guardian - Hornblower - Herald - Vox
4. Duela Dent: Joker's Daughter - Catgirl - Scarecrone - Riddler's Daughter - Penguin's Daughter - Harlequin
5. Kyle Rayner: Green Lantern - Ion - White Lantern
6. Bart Allen: Impulse - Kid Flash - Flash
7. Isaiah Crockett: Slagger - Joto - Hotspot
8. Jason Todd: Robin - Red Hood - Red Robin
9. Freddy Freeman: Captain Marvel Jr. - CM3 - Shazam
10. Bette Kane: Bat-Girl - Flamebird - Hawkfire
11. Hank Hall: Hawk - Monarch - Extant

NOT:

Kyle Rayner
Tim Drake
Victor Stone
Wally West
Dick Grayson
Donna Troy
Mal Duncan
Roy Harper
Karen Beecher-Duncan
Bart Allen
Kory Anders
Hank Hall
Jason Todd
Bette Kane
Freddy Freeman

Spoilers are all over the internet for HiC #1 now so I'm sure it won't be hard to work out who the sadly deceased character is.

Joto... last one left on the list
also

^ Yes! Jurgens' Teen Titans was a flawed book but I loved it anyway and Joto was absolutely my favorite member of the team. And to think I had to go through the grief of seeing him killed off for a few years once already in that book!

And I thought that his Hot Spot update was a great new costume and name (although I also liked the Swahili callback of Joto too) and loved that it hopefully meant that DC weren't going to consign him to the dustbin of limbo. And at first it didn't seem they were going to; he made an appearance in 52 and was one of Geoff Johns' 'One Year Gap' Titans. But best of all, he was the recipient of a spotlight in a totally random but totally stellar episode of Teen Titans Go. He'd barely appeared in the show at all and then he has a whole episode dedicated to fighting Madame Rouge!? I loved it. Although the ending was so tragic.

And now he's just one of many off-panel deaths in another DC slaughter-fest. I don't know why I still care about what happens to DC characters when Dan Didio killed off the whole universe for me years ago but I can't help it. I think, at the back of my mind, I still feel like I'll start collecting them again.

And now I'm going to take a break from Legion World for a while. Or at least the Spaceopoly forum anyway. Thinking up questions for this place has been taking up too much of my time! haha But I need to diminish my online footprint and refocus my life a little bit so I'm going to be less present. Take care everyone.

It'll be good to just see you present Blacula, even if it's a bit less. All the best with the refocus.

Yeah, hope we still get to see you on the other forums. I love reading your thoughts, Blacula. Best wishes on the refocus.

Which Titan was once described by creators as a "white trash superhero"?

Risk?

Got it in one!

Pretty obvious, huh?