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Notoyax17 When all you have is a blowtorch... Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: I've got a total eclipse of the heart
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#1: Dec 25th 2011 at 3:56:39 PM

As much as I am afraid to know the answer, whatever happened to Wally West in the new 52? His character profile under The Flash has him as Ret-Gone. I'm not completely up to date on the comics but...

That said, did the Teen Titans even exist in this universe?

"Yo, those kids are straight up liars, man. All I told them to do was run product. And by product, I mean chewing gum."
SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#2: Dec 25th 2011 at 6:01:12 PM

Wally West may or may not exist in the new 52, and he may or may not have ever been the Flash. DC has promised we will eventually get more information on this, but at the moment they want to tell Barry Allen stories.

Some version of the Teen Titans existed, which included several of the Wolfman/Perez lineup. It's not clear what happened to them, although individual members are still around. The version of Teen Titans that existed just before Flashpoint did not exist, and is being more or less assembled with new members in the current issues.

TiggersAreGreat Since: Mar, 2011
#3: Dec 26th 2011 at 5:18:49 AM

You know, there's a lot of charaters that you can insert into this question.

1. Whatever happened to Power Girl?

2. Whatever happened to Terra/Atlee?

3. Whatever happened to Donna Troy?

4. Whatever happened to Beast Boy?

Now in Power Girl's case, she did make an appearance in Mr Terrific's story as Karen Starr. That may not sound like much, but it does open the possibility of her returning at some point.

edited 26th Dec '11 5:19:20 AM by TiggersAreGreat

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PennyDreadful Since: May, 2010
#4: Dec 26th 2011 at 11:01:00 AM

There were a lot of great characters who are inexplicably MIA. As for DC's "promises" on their fate, seeing is believing. It would be great if they'd all be somewhere else in the Multiverse, on another Earth, in the hands of a great writer.

Heck, why not Earth-2? The JSA is there, so why not Wally, Donna, etc.?

By the way, where are the New Gods?

edited 26th Dec '11 11:09:28 AM by PennyDreadful

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#5: Dec 26th 2011 at 11:23:54 AM

They Ret-Gone'd Wally West? Wally West?

TiggersAreGreat Since: Mar, 2011
#6: Dec 26th 2011 at 2:38:45 PM

That's a good question about the New Gods. I think I heard somewhere that Darkseid has been brought back. If he's back, then I would have to assume that goes for the New Gods too.

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SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#7: Dec 26th 2011 at 3:03:49 PM

Yep, Darkseid is back as of Justice League #4, so presumably we will eventually see more of the New Gods...but in what forms, and how much of the backstory is intact, remains to be seen. (Worst case scenario—Darkseid already won and wiped out all the other New Gods characters.)

Firebert That One Guy from Somewhere in Illinois Since: Jan, 2001
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#8: Dec 26th 2011 at 3:08:49 PM

Whatever happened to Matter-Eater Lad?

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#10: Dec 26th 2011 at 9:49:28 PM

Most of the Levitz Legion continuity seems to be more or less intact, so he's probably still helping out his home planet of Bismoll as an action politician.

SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#11: Dec 26th 2011 at 9:54:27 PM

@Known Unknown: We specifically don't know if Wally West is Ret-Gone. DC is playing it coy on that one, probably because they know that for most people who started reading comics after 1986, Wally is their Flash. It wouldn't please those fans if Wally was completely gone, but right now the push is for Barry, so having Wally in would distract from that—even mentioning Wally would bring the question of "well, why isn't Barry asking him to help?"

TiggersAreGreat Since: Mar, 2011
#12: Dec 27th 2011 at 5:28:08 AM

Here's another one: whatever happened to Cassandra Cain?

I mean, okay, she was Batgirl, but Barbara Gordon has taken back that role. I think Cass is an interesting character, and it would be a terrible shame to let all that go to waste!

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SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#13: Dec 27th 2011 at 12:47:53 PM

Currently, Cassandra Cain's going by Black Bat, and will be appearing in Batman, Inc. at some point. She probably was Batgirl at some point, and at least some of her backstory is intact, but we won't know how much until she gets the spotlight again.

Sijo from Puerto Rico Since: Jan, 2001
#14: Dec 28th 2011 at 5:21:20 AM

...Anybody else is getting the impression that all this retconning was not only unnecessary, but only confused people more?

SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#15: Dec 28th 2011 at 12:44:46 PM

Yes, yes I am. Only because I have been following DC since about the time Earth-2 was introduced do I have the flexibility of mind to handle this.

Notoyax17 When all you have is a blowtorch... Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: I've got a total eclipse of the heart
When all you have is a blowtorch...
#16: Dec 28th 2011 at 6:28:01 PM

[up][up] Agreed. The ones that start at the beginning of a superheroes career (superman, The Flash) are fine, I suppose. But the other ones...they need to let us know what EXACTLY they're retconning. You can't act like you're trying to open things up to new audiences and then pull a continuity lockout on both them and current fans.

The whole thing's just kinda weird. I've only read a couple of the new comics for several series and the only one I REALLY like is The Flash.

"Yo, those kids are straight up liars, man. All I told them to do was run product. And by product, I mean chewing gum."
TheConductor Since: Jan, 2011
#17: Dec 29th 2011 at 2:25:55 AM

If they were really determined to do this reboot, then in the months leading up to September 2011 they shoulda done really good final stories for all of their books (and not that bull shit Flashpoint) and then started everything from scratch.

TiggersAreGreat Since: Mar, 2011
#18: Dec 29th 2011 at 5:33:47 AM

You know, one thing they should have done was release a book that lists off the characters they have and explain where they stand at this point. It might go some way to resolving all this confusion!

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betraylawl S. is my middle name from Little China Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Wishing you were here
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#19: Jan 17th 2012 at 12:46:18 PM

anyone know anything about what happened to Stephanie Brown? and does anybody expect Doom patrol will appear in the new 52?

edited 17th Jan '12 1:11:59 PM by betraylawl

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SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#20: Jan 17th 2012 at 3:55:18 PM

Stephanie Brown exists, she's the Spoiler (either again or still, they're playing coy with the Batgirl thing), and will be showing up...sometime. Like Cassandra Cain, Steph is one of those characters that is stuck in the exclusivity zone—one person's called dibs and no one else can use her until they decide what they're doing with her, but whether that will ever come to anything is a crapshoot.

Cliff Steele (aka Robotman) is appearing in "My Greatest Adventure", and someone who looks like the Chief was briefly seen in one of his flashbacks. No word on Larry, Rita, Gar or any of the other members.

TheGloomer Since: Sep, 2010
#21: Jan 18th 2012 at 8:05:48 AM

Whatever became of Degaton, the time-travelling Nazi? The last story I read that had him in it was from a JSA comic written before Infinite Crisis (admittedly I haven't really read any ongoing comics for ages).

SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#22: Jan 18th 2012 at 6:31:22 PM

Per Degaton is not, and has never been, a Nazi. He's a Fascist, which is very close, but without the racism elements.

His last appearance was just before the last arc in the JSA book (with the Flash becoming mayor of a town) to taunt the heroes about how they were going to cause a lot of destruction and death by their own foolishness. This was of course half-truths. (Per Degaton was apparently somewhat unstuck in time—he already knows he will never actually win against the Justice Society, so gets kicks by gloating repeatedly over their darkest moments.)

PennyDreadful Since: May, 2010
#23: Jan 20th 2012 at 7:22:33 AM

Because I'm an optimist, I like to think that characters like Wally and Donna Troy were not retconned out of existence. I hope we'll see them again within a year or two. Maybe they'll be different, but supposedly most of the DCU is different anyway.

I'd be all for putting them both on Earth-2 and making Wally a legacy character for Jay instead of Barry.

TheGloomer Since: Sep, 2010
#24: Jan 20th 2012 at 4:17:14 PM

[up][up]I see. The last one I read was the one where he tries to frame the JSA for killing President Truman by using some kind of time-speeding device to cause the Atom to explode like a nuclear bomb. I guess that's quite a while ago now.

On the subject of time-travelling superheroes, is the 1940s Hourman still rebuilding the Grant Morrison android Hourman? The last story I read with the latter character was the one where they swapped places in the fight with Extant.

edited 20th Jan '12 4:20:43 PM by TheGloomer

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