History Main / RUnningTheAsylum

* As ''The Kingdom''(Mike Zeck, Mark Waid), ''Convergence''(Ethan Van Sciver, Jeff King, Dan Jurgens), ''Doomsday Clock''(Geoff Johns), ''Dark Knights: Death Metal''(Greg Capullo, Scott Synder), ''Infinite Frontier'' and ''Dark Crisis'' have made clear, there are a lot of writers at DC Comic who have been waiting to tell ''their'' story that undoes ''Crisis On Infinite Earths'' basically since it happened and aren't going to let paltry facts like a previous writer or three getting the chance to undo it before they did get in their way. ''Infinite Frontier'' and ''Dark Crisis'' in particular show that Joshua Williamson had to reverse the events of ''Crisis On Infinite Earths'' twice before he got it out of his system.

** Bringing Superman and Batman's close friendship back in ''ComicBook/PublicEnemies''.

* Creator/HowardHughes was, among [[RenaissanceMan many other things]], a lifelong movie buff who dreamed of making movies in Hollywood. Having produced several films during the '30s and '40s (most notably ''Film/Scarface1932'' and ''Film/HellsAngels''), in 1948 he used his considerable fortune to buy out Creator/RKOPictures. His tenure as head of RKO was described by film historian Betty Lasky as a "systematic seven-year rape", as everything that could've gone wrong at a major studio did: he fired three-quarters of the studio's employees within weeks, he spent more time [[RedScare collaborating with HUAC]] and trolling the [[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode Hays Office]] than actually making movies (output dropped from about thirty films a year before Hughes took over to just nine in 1948), the studio endured several disastrous productions and {{Box Office Bomb}}s that each would've been black marks on any studio's balance books, and by 1951, Sid Rogell and Sam Bischoff, the production chiefs who had been the {{Only Sane Employee}}s at RKO during the early part of Hughes' reign, got fed up with his constant ExecutiveMeddling and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit]]. All this compounded the pressure that all of Hollywood's "Big Five" studios were under in the wake of ''United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.'', the 1948 antitrust case that set off the UsefulNotes/FallOfTheStudioSystem by forcing them to divest from their theater chains. By the time Hughes sold RKO to General Tire in 1955, the question wasn't ''if'' [[CreatorKiller the studio would go bankrupt]], but ''when''; as it turned out, the answer to that question was "eighteen months".

* Most of DC's super powered characters have been bumped up over the years to keep from being completely overshadowed by Superman, from Wonder Woman gaining unaided flight, to The Flash's Speed Force skills, to The Green Lantern Corps losing their yellow weakness to Plastic Man becoming [[NoSell immune to more and more things]] but there is a particular focus on "proving" ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} is really awesome out of a fandom inferiority complex that came from ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' portraying the character as nigh useless. Aquaman's been given mechanical limbs, water magic, healing magic, WeatherManipulation, had his telepathy extended to land and even alien life, been given command of sea monsters right out of Myth/NorseMythology and the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, even gaining SuperEmpowering abilities all in the name of combating the negative image not from comic books but from his portrayal in a completely different medium. Aquman's Golden Age goofy origin was also changed to a grittier one lifted straight out of ''ComicBook/{{Submariner}}'', while being given an [[NinetiesAntiHero even more hardcore attitude]] than his Marvel predecessor[[note]]In terms of being gruff and bitter anyway. DC Writers didn't have the courage to turn Aquaman into a sexual predator, murderer, or even make him as arrogant as [[ByronicHero Namor]][[/note]] and ManlyFacialHair, to ensure everyone would know Aquaman is to be taken seriously. Ron Marz and Peter David even admitted to having Aquaman excel in situations the character didn't have any logical business being in just because they like him.