Showing posts with label Jade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jade. Show all posts

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Evil-Sophie's Choice

(When Fangirls Attack, I apologize in advance.)

So, the end of the (properly reviled) History of the DCU reveals that Jade shouldn't have died in the Rann-Thanagar War,

Donna Troy should have.

Which would bump up the number of times Donna has died in the last 10 years to THREE.

But never mind that.

Nobody likes Donna Troy. Some people liked Wonder Girl, from the Bob Haney Teen Titans, when she might have been a young Diana. And yes Phil Jimenez has some kind of bizarre fixation on her, but for the most part, there isn't a lot there to like. She is literally an editorial mistake muddled by a MUCH BIGGER editorial mistake, so her entire history and character are based around explaining how there was no mistake at all. She doesn't seem to do much any more besides weeping and discovering everything she thought she knew about herself was wrong (and in the History of the DCU, she does BOTH), and that gets old real quick.

But some people actively HATE Jade! As a character she's engaged in some pretty awful behavior, acted, for the most part, like a spoiled princess, to the detriment of her brother, who had to deal with his own abandonment issues ALONE, and we all know how well that turned out.

So I leave it up to you, my dear (three) readers, if you had the Evil-Sophie's choice, and could only kill one of them (in a random and boring way that mostly just sets up Kyle Rayner's maxi-series), which one of these hateful women would get the axe (or lightning to the back, as the case may be)?

(clarification: At no point should anything I have written be taken to imply that they should die BECAUSE they are women, any more than I'm implying that they should die because they are photographers. Yes, they are both women (and photographers), but they need to go because they're boring and hated and are wasting valuable panel time. Both being women has nothing to do with it.)