liturgusakrattorum · 2 years ago
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hmm. i should revisit the runes au sometime
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danny-chase · 3 years ago
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How about Starfire’s portrayal in John’s’ Titans and Winick’s Outsiders? I heard she was more…dour and melancholic compared to her bright and passionate self in NTT. Is there some truth to this? Also, similarities between 2003/Outside Kory to her Outlaws version (if we take out the tasteless fanservice part from the latter)?
I haven't read Outsiders 2003 in a minute (although i did just reread the crossover issues). I've been reading Teen Titans 2003 and so far she's like hardly a focus and when she is she definitely comes off as more serious because Geoff Johns is allergic to fun - like i'm not kidding literally every single character in his comic is like "ugh. i'm a teenager and my life is so hard" when their issues are like: Cassie has a crush on Kon or smth, Kon is literally just spouting eugenics nonsense against himself, Tim is like omg i have to lie to my dad can you imagine anything worse (of course, his dad dies like 20-25 issues in and then he's like oh i have real problems now), and Bart is just unrecognizable - like he's fine for a new character he's just not him. With Kory, they have her starting a fight with Diana for drama and that was kinda stupid tbh (like Kory was in the right in terms of the argument but there was very little need to escalate things they really could have just talked things out). Mostly she's kind of just... in the background. They show her gardening once and she's like this helps me learn patience and i'm like it's sweet she has a couple plants from Tamaran but like. cool, but there's not really any deep exploration going on here. Idk if I could make comparisons to Outlaws Kory because Outlaws Kory was pretty much only there to be eye candy (like it felt like her main reason for being there, and i don't think you can compare her character there without acknowledging that - like she had an arc on Tamaran with Blackfire but like lobdell's plots are incomprehensible and i think he just wanted an excuse to put her in tight fitting pants). Like she's still there to be eye candy in Teen Titans 2003, but they don't do the weird amnesia stuff and have her constantly posing in compromising positions which... that at least is nice. Personality wise... idk??? I haven't read outlaws in a while but she's less willing to kill and is holding back more in the 2003 era of comics. I'd say she has more of a temper in the 2003 era of things, which has been present since NTT it's just the only character trait that Devin and henceforth Geoff Johns latched onto when writing her. The hard thing with Kory is that NTT was her best writing in terms of fleshing her out as a character and even then she's still being used for fanservice, and pretty much every other version has been more and more used for tasteless fanservice and taken away more and more of the complexity of her character and her personality has slowly become more synonymous with the toon version in recent years. i can't even just blame it on her being a background character because when they gave her a solo it was the worst thing that i've ever read... i just like... it sucks so much
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