When has adding a long lost/surprise family member ever worked?

pic unrelated, she and Dick's evil grandpa are horrible.

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  1. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Does Damian count?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      He's horrible too, makes the adopted ones pointless

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nah he’s the real problem behind the characters’ aging and he keeps repeating the same character arc every time he meets a new person

  2. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Preacher

  3. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    People seem to like Mary Marvel and and Supergirl well enough.

  4. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Did she wait to tell him that before or after they banged?

  5. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    But how nice is her ass though

  6. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    This just made me remember Teresa Parker, who was quickly memory holed and never mentioned again.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      She was used in major roles. Zdarsky's Soectacular and then Spencer's ASM so it's hard to call her forgotten.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I read both of those runs, guess she's just forgettable to me.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Spencer retconned that she MIGHT be a plant. It’s moronic but better than her being his long lost sister I guess.
      Parker’s parents being spys is also fricking stupid. Hopefully both are utterly ignored.

      Spider-editors are truly awful

  7. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    When does she rape Dick?

  8. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    The JSA has been built on this since the 70s and 80s. Usually the less page time the character getting the family gets, the less bullshit it is. eg Al Pratt, Iron Munro, and Sandra Knight getting a son in Walter Pratt (and thus a granddaughter in Katehunter) wasn’t an asspull because those 3 barely appeared in a span of 20-30 years, with their younger selves not explored in depth since the decade of their creation.

  9. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    This always felt like a cheap attempt to secure royalties by tying them to a prominent character.

  10. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Remember when they gave Spider-Man a secret agent sister? Whatever happened to that?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      She was used in major roles. Zdarsky's Soectacular and then Spencer's ASM so it's hard to call her forgotten.

  11. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Worked for Supergirl

  12. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I guess you're not a fan of Dick's Uncle George or Aunt Harriet either, then?

  13. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    She's also the adopted daughter of the man responsible for killing his parents.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      She was also raised by the Maroni family after her mom ran away with her from Zucco.

      Taylor just slapped 3 well known names on her to avoid having to do any actual character work.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not adopted. His name is on the birth certificate.
      I don't think there's an English word for when you have a child but it's really someone else's because your wife fricked someone else and lied about it.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I was under the impression that Tony Zucco never thought the kids was his but he still went along with it and allowed her to have his last name?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >I don't think there's an English word for when you have a child but it's really someone else's because your wife fricked someone else and lied about it.
        Not sure if you're joking but you probably care, because the word is used so often. Starts with C, rhymes with "Duck, old tree"

        In the court system it's called 'assumed paternity'. If you're married and she cheats, the child is by default, yours. And married or not you usually have a year or less to get the paternity investigated and contested. Any contributions to the child or mother during this is assumed paternity. Depending on where you are in burgerland, DNA testing is still not proof enough, and in France and Germany it is illegal without the mother's consent.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >and in France and Germany it is illegal without the mother's consent.
          WTF

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            It "Goes against the best interest of the family/child", or something.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              I keep hearing this but never hear about the consequences. What is it a fine? Nobody is getting jail over son shit like that.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Pretty sure child endangerment is jail time but check with your lawyer.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not adopted. His name is on the birth certificate.
      I don't think there's an English word for when you have a child but it's really someone else's because your wife fricked someone else and lied about it.

      I was under the impression that Tony Zucco never thought the kids was his but he still went along with it and allowed her to have his last name?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Taylor had Dick's dad frick a trafficking victim right after saving her
        Is he dumb

  14. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Creating a long lost family member is a coin toss, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The trick that never works is taking existing characters and retconning them into being related.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Eh if the two characters are literally who enough it can work. It worked for Ted Knight and Sandra Knight.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Roy Harper being related to Vandal Savage was dope. Being related to Jim Harper though was slightly less dope.

  15. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    BTW what happened to Spider-Man sister?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      She was used in major roles. Zdarsky's Soectacular and then Spencer's ASM so it's hard to call her forgotten.

  16. 4 months ago
    Anonymous
  17. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Cable from X-Men when he first showed up was pretty cool

  18. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Cobalt blue

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Made even more baffling considering he didn't even fight Barry, he fought Wally.

  19. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I can't wait till the next writer comes along and retcons her and her mom as another Court of Owls plant or reveals the mom was lying about fricking his dad or something.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Melinda actually being a mega c**t villainness/mobster pretending to be his sister to weasel her way his inner circle would be way better than Taylor playing it straight. She doesn't even have a personality right now.

  20. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I wonder what Flashgays thought when Golden Glider was invented

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