Birds of Prey fans consider the book an extended nightmare sequence for Black Canary in which she's been reduced to being Green Arrow's sidekick.And even the fans who liked the idea of Ollie and Dinah getting back together hated the execution. The problem was that the rekindling of the relationship was brought about in record time and many of the fans who were reading Green Arrow didn't like how abrupt the romance was. Chief among these was the fact that the whole wedding plot was the result of Executive Meddling, as DC was desperate to win back the long-time readers who were leaving Green Arrow in droves.Most Green Arrow and Black Canary fans prefer to ignore the Wedding Special and the following Green Arrow/Black Canary monthly title for a variety of reasons:.Notably, the story debuted in Batman (2011) annual 1 and has never been spoken of since in fact, All-Star Batman by one of the writers responsible for the New 52 origin has Bruce state that Nora does love Freeze. Many fans choose to ignore it and just pretend like Freeze is the same as he's always been. Freeze, that Nora Fries is just some poor frozen woman from the 1940s that Victor has an unhealthy obsession with, is roundly despised for needlessly making him Darker and Edgier and ruining the loved backstory that was ported over from the DCAU.
A lot of Batman: The Animated Series fans like to deny events from the Harley Quinn comics and the official split-up of Harley and the Joker in Batman #663.Some readers hoped that after the constant bombardment of crossovers and crises going on at DC right now ends, they'd just reboot the entire DC Universe. This might not be apparent to newer readers (newer, in this case, including people who started reading even as far back as the 90s), but compared to some of the most iconic Batman stories of the past it's like none of the current characters have any resemblance to who they're supposed to be. Some people just like to disregard everything that's happened in the Batman comics since Grant Morrison's "Batman & Son", or even earlier than that, since Infinite Crisis. Other times, LotDK depicted alternate futures for many it was the ideal series, where they could write and publish stories that, if well-liked, were canon, and if everyone hated them it hadn't really happened so there were no worries. Archie Goodwin, who was editor of Legends of the Dark Knight for a while, liked to interpret the title of the series literally if it happened early in Batman's career but had technology that came out last week, it was because it was an interpretation of something that did happen.While not officially retconned, the old Legends of the Dark Knight clashes horribly enough with the Batman Confidential series to be considered Elseworlds.Due to DC writers' efforts to make the Joker "legally" sane via Grant Morrison, the Batman Confidential series, and Joker: Devil's Advocate, it's easy for fans to assume that any previous origin stories told about the Joker through his own point of view (such as in The Killing Joke) are lies, because he tells the story different every time.For others, Jason Todd is alive and well and while he has his problems with the Bat-Family, never almost shot his "replacement" for vague reasons. As far as some fans are concerned, Jason Todd is STILL DEAD.And that bit with the dog during Azzarello's run didn't happen, either. There were no story arcs largely revolving around Prison Rape, no underground redneck pornography rings, and no sadomasochistic gay revenge fantasies designed simply to shock. Constantine was not removed completely from his usual setting simply because Azzarello couldn't be bothered to research that setting. Many Hellblazer fans-including, it's becomingly increasingly clear, several of its writers-reject much of Brian Azzarello's run.