Line #10 Creator/DwayneMcDuffie


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3	-> ''"He’s not dead, he’s up there fixing the sun. And when he’s done he’ll be back, and I’ll be here waiting for him."''
4	-->-- '''Lois Lane''', ''WesternAnimation/AllStarSuperman''
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6	Dwayne Glenn [=McDuffie=] (February 20, 1962 – February 21, 2011) was an American comic book writer, known mostly for his creation of the African-American superhero ''ComicBook/{{Static}}''. Although originating in [=McDuffie's=] indie Creator/MilestoneComics label, Static eventually moved to [[Franchise/TheDCU the DC Universe]], and his creator followed suit. [=McDuffie=] wrote for Creator/DCComics, and contributed to various animated DC spin-offs, including ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and several {{direct to video}} movies. He was the main writer and editor for the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10 Alien Force}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10 Ultimate Alien}}'' animated series.
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8	Before Milestone, [=McDuffie=] also worked at Creator/MarvelComics, where he created ''ComicBook/DamageControl'', a series about the people who clean up the mess after superhero-supervillain battles. Much later, he returned to Marvel temporarily to write ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', which had fallen into the hands of an editor who remembered [=McDuffie=]'s love of the characters from the days when they were both lowly Marvel minions together.
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10	His influence on the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, starting with ''Justice League'', cannot be understated. While Creator/PaulDini had been responsible for setting much of the universe's tone in the 1990s with his deep and psychological character stories in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', [=McDuffie=] was the main driving force behind the expansive and epic {{Story Arc}}s that came to define the universe in the 2000s.
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12	[=McDuffie=] also is also credited with defining the "Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis", pointing out that with the controversial SeriesFinale of ''Series/StElsewhere'' revealing that the show was a product of the character Tommy Westphall's imagination, it also, by extension, implies that every show ''St. Elsewhere'' had {{Crossover}}s with, as well as every crossover and spin-offs those shows had, are also thought up by Tommy. Ironically, while [=McDuffie=] wrote this hypothesis as a [[TakeThat tongue-in-cheek criticism]] of comic book fans overly obsessed with continuity and as a warning against relying too much upon guest appearances to establish continuity, many of said fans obsessed with continuity have reported to find the idea rather compelling and there has even a couple of academic papers have been written about it.
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14	Sadly and shockingly to his fans, [=McDuffie=] passed away suddenly on February 21, 2011 due to complications during a surgical procedure he had the day before. His last work was the script for ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom'', the animated version of ''JLA: Tower of Babel''. He was 49, having just recently had a birthday ''a day'' before his death.
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16	In honor of his work, two different awards were created: the Dwayne [=McDuffie=] Award for Diversity, for comics that promote racial and ethnic diversity, and later the Dwayne [=McDuffie=] Award for Kids' Comics, which is also just what you'd think.
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18	After his death, it was discovered that he is the paternal half-brother of Creator/KeeganMichaelKey (of ''[[Series/MadTV1995 MADtv]]'' and ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' fame), but the two never met (or were aware of each other's existence) during [=McDuffie's=] lifetime. Key elaborates on the circumstances [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6NQtxABL-M here]].
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20	!!Works by Dwayne [=McDuffie=] with their own trope pages include:
21	* ''WesternAnimation/AllStarSuperman'' (adapted the Creator/GrantMorrison [[ComicBook/AllStarSuperman comic book]] for animation)
22	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''
23	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10 Ultimate Alien}}''
24	* ''ComicBook/DamageControl''
25	* ''ComicBook/{{Deathlok}}''
26	* ''ComicBook/{{Hardware\|1993}}''
27	* ''ComicBook/{{Icon}}''
28	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Justice League}}''
29	* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths''
30	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Justice League Doom}}''
31	* ''Toys/MonsterInMyPocket'' (the page includes info on the comic book series based on the figurine line that he wrote)
32	* ''{{Comicbook/Static}}''
33	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Static Shock}}''
34	* ''WebAnimation/SuperModels''
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37	!!Other works by Dwayne [=McDuffie=] provide examples of:
38	* AuthorTract: [=McDuffie=] would often include his thoughts on race relations in his work. One of the more notable examples would be an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Icon}}'' which talked about the historical importance of the {{Blaxploitation}} superheroes of the 1970s.
39	* DeadpanSnarker: There's no better example than "Teenage Negro Ninja Thrashers", a mock pitch satirizing the state of black Marvel characters in the late '80s (along with the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'').
40	* RoomFullOfCrazy

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