!!Fiction
->''"Revamped for the nineties\\
So much more exciting\\
Pointy elbows and [[CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain lots of lightning]]\\
Edgy and angry, so zesty and tangy\\
There's new demographics\\
When nobody asked for it!"''
-->-- ''[[http://homestarrunner.com/aprilfool10.html Xeriouxly Forxe]]'' theme song, ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' April Fool's intro

->''Don't touch that dial\\
It's just that goodness is out of style\\
Be dark, be cold (So conflicted)\\
No hand to hold (Heart constricted)\\
Dark knight, bright soul, (We're addicted)\\
No room here for the bold''
-->-- '''I Fight Dragons''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjqqRlgzv6c "No One Likes Superman Anymore"]]

->''"We thought by making [[Franchise/TheDCU your world]] more ''violent'', we would make it more "realistic," more "adult." God help us if that's what it means.''
-->-- '''Creator/GrantMorrison''', ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' 26

->''"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet powered apes and time travel."''
-->--'''Superman''', ''JLA Classified''

->''Meet Switchblade [=McGurk=], another punk-looking anti-hero running around a depressing post-apocalyptic city that's ripped off from ''Film/BladeRunner''. Crammed with plenty of violence and sleaze that readers will defend as 'cutting edge.[='=]''
-->-- ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' #382, "If Truth in Advertising Laws Applied to Comic Books"

->''"Our entire reality '''changed''' and '''[[DarkerAndEdgier darkened]]'''. Working a dreadful reverse '''alchemy''', [[spoiler: Marcus Langston]] let our world slide from a '''Golden''' Age to a '''Silver''' Age, and finally to a '''Dark''' Age. Now, heroes motivated only by '''[[OnlyInItForTheMoney money]]''' or '''[[TheSociopath psychopatholgy]]''' (sic) stalked a '''paranoid''', '''apocalyptic''' landscape of [[AfterTheEnd post-nuclear]] '''mutants''' and [[Main/{{BFG}} bazooka]] [[SuperheroPackingHeat wielding]] '''cyborgs'''."''
-->-- '''Toby King''', ''ComicBook/YoungbloodJudgmentDay''

->''"Seems like '''my''' style of professional behavior is out of '''fashion''', at odds with this increasingly '''violent society'''. Maybe guys like the '''[[ComicBook/{{ThePunisher}} Punisher]]''', '''ComicBook/{{Cable}}''', and '''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}''' are the '''answer''' to the kinds of threats America faces today. Maybe '''bad attitudes''' and '''lax moral codes''' are the only way to make headway. The '''values''' I've striven for my entire career seem so... '''untenable''' in this present clime. But without them, what '''am''' I?"''
-->-- '''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica''', ''ComicBook/OperationGalacticStorm'' Epilogue

!!Reviews
->"It was an examination of the flaws in superheroism as seen through the lens of realism of ordinary humanity. But instead, we gets angsty superheroes completely failing to remember why they superhero at all."
-->-- '''Red''' on ''Watchmen'', '''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9_ODNTNDrY Trope Talk: Realism]]"

->''In the eighties, some comic book writers '[[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]]' heroism by showing the good guys to be unpleasant, greedy, lascivious -- traits many readers found titillating, especially when [[CerebusRetcon grafted onto heroes from earlier eras]]. Those stories had some immediate shock value -- they certainly got the audience's attention -- but, over time, deconstruction is a very limiting narrative strategy. Where do you go, once you've shown your hero to be a creep?''
-->-- '''Denny O'Neil''', ''The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics''

->'''Laura''': BLOOD PACKS sounds like it should have been an insane ''Comicbook/{{New 52}}'' comic written and drawn by Creator/RobLiefeld. Just blood-filled pouches as far as the eye can see.\\
'''David''': ''Blood Pack'' [[PoesLaw was a DC comic, Laura.]]\\
'''Laura''': NO. Did I just invent the past with my mind? When was this? Was it the ’90s?\\
'''David''': Of course it was.
-->-- '''[[http://comicsalliance.com/batman-odyssey/ Laura Hudson and David Wolkin]]''', "The Complete and Utter Insanity of ''ComicBook/BatmanOdyssey''"

->''The fact that Urich tried to call himself ComicBook/GreenGoblin as a hero is the part of all this stupidity that really kills me. He could've used, like, the Flying Prankster or Happy Halloween Man, or anything that hadn't been used by a guy who killed people. Instead, he opts to do the equivalent of dressing up in a magical Adolf Hitler costume and striding out to become a superhero. This is not a fucking good idea. People aren't going to take it well. That didn't stop motherfucking Phil Urich.''
-->-- '''Topless Robot''', [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/11/the_13_dumbest_spiderman_storiesjust_from_the_clon.php "The 13 Dumbest Spider-Man Stories... Just from the Clone Saga"]]

->''The creators felt that Superman's moral, by-the-books boyscout routine was getting a little hokey, so they went ahead and violated everything that Superman stood for by having him grow a wicked beard, go shithouse-crazy on a couple of Hitlers and burn himself alive, and it was still one of the worst comics of all time.''
-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''' on ''ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd''

!!Creators
->"I tend to think that I've seen a lot of things over the past 15 years that have been a bizarre echo of somebody else's bad mood. It's not even their bad mood, it's mine, but they're still working out the ramifications of me being a bit grumpy 15 years ago."
-->-- '''Creator/AlanMoore''', [[http://www.avclub.com/article/alan-moore-13740 AV Club interview]]

->"At the time, it was a dreadful setback for the idea of 'grown-up' superhero comics. In hindsight, it was America's inevitable reaction to ''Watchmen'', and the only response that could possibly be effective: Fuck realism, we just want our superheroes to look cool and kick ten thousand kinds of ass."
-->--'''Creator/GrantMorrison''', ''Supergods''

->"Comics in the '90s were profoundly shitty -- they were dreadfully cynical exercises in whorish crap."
-->-- '''Creator/HowardChaykin''', [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=53510 "On Superhero Absurdity"]]

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