30 Days of DC Meme: Day Fourteen
Jul. 25th, 2010 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwenfrankenstienFavourite Legacy Character
Seriously, pretty much all my favourite characters are legacy characters, that's the reason I love DC over Marvel, Marvel has barely any legacy characters.
I mean. Just look at the preamble to my day one Barbara Gordon post: Jason Todd. Stephanie Brown. Cissie King-Jones. Cass Cain. Renee Montoya. The only one on the list that isn't a legacy character is Misfit, and even then, she tried to be Batgirl first. And to that list I'd like to add Ted Kord and Jaime Reyes and Dinah Lance and Ragdoll and Scandal and Cassie Sandsmark and Rose Wilson and Terry McGinnis and Tim Drake and heck, even Damian. And countless others.
I love the sense of history you get from legacy characters. I love the meta things you can do by echoing a previous character's story. I love that the identity becomes its own thing, that Robin or Blue Beetle or whatever starts to mean something independent of the person in the suit. Trying to be good enough to live up to the name, while still trying to be yourself and not just a younger version of the previous person to share your identity-- I watched Batman Beyond as a kid, this stuff is my jam. I love generational conflict, and worrying about whether your predecessor's friends/allies will ever trust and respect you. (I probably should read JSA, shouldn't I.)
Seriously, pretty much all my favourite characters are legacy characters, that's the reason I love DC over Marvel, Marvel has barely any legacy characters.
I mean. Just look at the preamble to my day one Barbara Gordon post: Jason Todd. Stephanie Brown. Cissie King-Jones. Cass Cain. Renee Montoya. The only one on the list that isn't a legacy character is Misfit, and even then, she tried to be Batgirl first. And to that list I'd like to add Ted Kord and Jaime Reyes and Dinah Lance and Ragdoll and Scandal and Cassie Sandsmark and Rose Wilson and Terry McGinnis and Tim Drake and heck, even Damian. And countless others.
I love the sense of history you get from legacy characters. I love the meta things you can do by echoing a previous character's story. I love that the identity becomes its own thing, that Robin or Blue Beetle or whatever starts to mean something independent of the person in the suit. Trying to be good enough to live up to the name, while still trying to be yourself and not just a younger version of the previous person to share your identity-- I watched Batman Beyond as a kid, this stuff is my jam. I love generational conflict, and worrying about whether your predecessor's friends/allies will ever trust and respect you. (I probably should read JSA, shouldn't I.)