Donna Troy is a sapient retro-causal temporal anomaly in the form of an Amazon princess. DC should play this up instead of making pathetically futile efforts to define her origin.
Frankly, the idea that 52 established gives her a unique gimmick that's all her own and could lead to some interesting stories.
Hunter Lee
Yeah that would be a fun thing that'll never happen. Donna could be the mythic guardian of time. She could ACTUALLY be in Metropolis one minute, ancient Greece the next. Or the Time Trapper.
Isaiah Williams
>Donna could be the mythic guardian of time. Now we're talking. You could also play up her constantly changing history as a joke. Hell, do a Kenny gag and just have her get killed every so often, only to randomly show up out of nowhere unharmed.
>Or the Time Trapper. Donna would be the best Trapper. Better than Superboy Prime at least.
Thomas Cooper
It's a dumb idea that only further pushes her into confusing and convoluted stories. A simple origin is not that hard for her, DC messing up every time isn't an excuse to make her character "the terrible continuity one".
Mason Hughes
Don't worry, she will be revealed to be Dr. Manhattan
Noah Nguyen
New 52 was the perfect chance to finally put this stupid origin kerfuffle to rest, but of course the Finches had to go and balls it all up.
Noah Brooks
Doesn't Psycho Pirate remember everything, canon or otherwise? Ask him to see whats up.
Nathaniel Brown
>people say Hawkman's continuity is confusing when Donna Troy exists
Justin Powell
Someone suggested Time Trapper a couple of nights ago in another thread. It makes too much sense imo.
Josiah Rivera
>literally back for a year and her continuity is already fucked up
Rebirth is truly going back to the classics.
Austin Watson
I don't read comics but I have understand about the DC Rebirth event was to fix the shit of new 52.
Kayden Sanchez
But it did happen. This was Donna's origin from Infinite Crisis through to Flashpoint. Donna had some kind of special link to the multiverse that both explained away her bullshit origin problems and set her up for a bunch of cool cosmic shit that nobody did anything with.
Landon Morgan
Well, they tried. It's just that most of it happened in Countdown, and we all know how that turned out.
Ryder Powell
>I have understand about the DC Rebirth event was to fix the shit of new 52. It did. Donna Troy without a convoluted backstory was an abomination. Things have been set right.
Jacob Green
He did after COIE, but there hasn't been anything suggesting it since Flashpoint. Disregard Psi-war completely, just keep an eye on current Batman.
Ryan Baker
it 'fixed' new 52 by bringing back things that fans liked that were taken away by the reboot (Wally West, a married Superman), but in doing so it has made the new 52 even more confusing
Ian Rogers
Isn't Rucka literally doing this to DIANA in his current Wondy run?
Easton Green
So you're suggesting to make Donna the DC equivalent to Marvel's Singularity?
Nolan Brooks
Her universe jumping around with Jason Todd, Kyle Rayner and Ray Palmer with the help of a Moniter was a legit plot piece. They were the then modern Challengers of the Unknown.
Adrian Gray
Have a recurring villain that considers themselves her arch nemesis, gets frustrated that she never remembers them. Turns out the villain just read about her not being sure of her origins and was lying about having fought her before
Nolan Powell
Doesn't Marvel have a cuter version of this?
Nathan Wright
Singularity, yes
Jaxson Gonzalez
when was this?
Logan Moore
During Countdown, it was otherwise awful besides those 4 having fun together
Matthew James
I wanna read it now do I have to read the full thing? or cool to skip around
Jacob Bailey
They were in their own subset of books. I'm not sure how good they were. I believe it was "Countdown: The Search for Ray Palmer"
Mason Cooper
>The Search for Ray Palmer thanks
Wyatt Taylor
Linking them together through the plot device that all 3 (Jason, Donna, Kyle) were anomalies in the multiverse. But mostly that they were all alive at the same time on New Earth.
Eli Watson
Is that Incase?
Kayden Cooper
Don't read Countdown. Please don't read Countdown. There were one-shots for some of the universes they visited that weren't written by the main team that starred Donna and Kyle and Jason. Those were better.
Elijah Fisher
No, it's the other Slav comic guy. The one who makes that lesbian bondage webcomic and those really unfunny gag comics with great art.
Michael Rivera
They kinda did this near the end of the post-Crisis world as 52 approached with Power Girl, the acknowledgement that the "universe" kept trying to shoehorn her in as best as possible into the new reality.
DC's greatest strengths has always been to play up their huge sandbox instead of trying to narrow it down. Own up to the reboots screwing with her, let her be somewhat outside of reality kinda like Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite.