Friday, September 4, 2020

Wonder Girl and Ghost Rider

 


There are few heroes with as convoluted a back story as Donna Troy.  I've lost track as to what exactly her official origin is these days. I see that she has shown up on the Titans show, which angle did the writers use there?  I know she looks pretty comics accurate, I'll have to check out that show one of these days.

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  1. Season 1 of Titans was pretty good. Wonder girl was in it but didn't look like the one in your cover. Pity.

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  2. She was connected to Wonder Woman, presumably as her former sidekick... which was never the actual case in the comics, to my recollection.

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  3. One of the best Marvel Team-Ups ever... Spidey's last line, "Wait! Did he say... he's not wearing a MASK?"

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  4. Interesting team up. Would not have put those two together but it works! Nice job!

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  5. To Crazy Ivan - Wonder Girl was always connected to WW. In fact, in the early/mid 60s, Wonder Girl was actually supposed to be Wonder Woman as a teen. In a series of bizarre stories, Wonder Woman teamed up with Wonder Girl and (I'm not kidding) Wonder Tot, a baby version of Wonder Woman. A little later, Wonder Girl was rewritten to be a young girl that Wonder Woman saved from a fire in which both her parents died. The girl was trained on Paradise Island. Wonder Girl was then a 'junior Wonder Woman' like Robin was a 'junior Batman' in various Teen Titans incarnations (the 60s, the late 70s and the 80s). In the early 80s, "Who is Donna Troy" explored her orgins and why she was in the fire in the first place. After Crisis, DC having removed WW from continuity and reinstating her without Wonder Girl, DC spent years trying to figure out who Wonder Girl was in relation to WW and gave her multiple identities but none of them seem to have stuck. I haven't read more recent comics where she has returned so I'm oblivious to who she is now.... but yes she was connected to Wonder Woman in the comics.

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  6. I loved the issue in the New Teen Titans when Grayson used his detective skills to track down Troy's family, abandonment and rescue by Wonder Woman.
    And a confusing origin indeed! In one book she seemed to be answering to the Manhunter From Mars.

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  7. If she ever comes to the CW, they'll probably make her the Amazon-raised orphan daughter of Tommy Troy and Kim Brand from "Riverdale."

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  8. Why not? As they might've said on any episode of IN LIVING COLOR back in the Ebonic Eighties: "She one fly girl."

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  9. Black Canary has a pretty messed-up backstory too.

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  10. The result of well-intended brainwashing, as I recall. But, then again, we all know which road uses good intentions for asphalt. Don't we?

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  11. Appropriate that you team her up with Ghost Rider than. As he also has one of the most convoluted and frequently rebooted origins!

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  12. Hot hot hot HorsefeathersSeptember 5, 2020 at 5:39 AM

    But she was so good as a fashion photographer. She might even have been working to Blaze new trails for that city's metro. That was a good BYRNE wasn't it.

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  13. Post-Crisis, it might now be possible for the Arrowverse to introduce a version of Donna who (like Harrison Wells) is a merged version of several counterparts, so her origin story becomes "all of the above."

    It might also be possible to bring in Power Girl with her background as a refugee from a universe that no longer exists.

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  14. As a 12-13 year-old, if I had seen this cover, I would have passed out.

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