Stealing this meme from littledarkvoice

[eliyes]

Give me a character (or ten) from any fandom you know I'm in, and I'll let you know:

* How I FEEEEEL about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

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Trickster pt2

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* I won't address possible future appearences of a James Jesse-like character in the new DCU, because that won't really be him.

I hated the whole way Rogues War went down. I actually thought James joining the FBI had a lot of potential, and gathering a team of reformed Rogues to help him put the kibosh on the escalatingly bad Rogues could have been cool, but it went very badly. The Top brainwashed them into reforming? Seriously, DC, that's what you went with? After the years of character development that went into Mick's struggle to not only join the side of the angels and stay there but also to be accepted? The decades of Hartley as hero? All that therapy Frankie had after her powers and the rejection they brought her from her mother drove her nuts the first time? I swear to God, that whole company-wide repeating theme of "bad people can only become good people if their minds are altered by an outside force, and it never lasts" is not a message I think belongs in superhero comics. Superman's unquashable tragic hope that Luthor might come to his senses and be the boon to humanity they both know he could be (even as he accepts that it doesn't seem like it will happen) means nothing in a universe like that. *bitter* "You cannot do right once you do wrong" is not something that kids or adults of any age need shoved down their throats; it's an evil message of hopelessness in a world where mercy and forgiveness are sorely needed. It destroyed the universe. I wish it hadn't. *deep breath* I also could have done without the gay jokes -- like Piper, I never found them funny, and also they weren't in his character at any point before. But taking the bullets for his friend -- that's James. (Even if they were suspiciously dead-on-target killshots on the corpse for someone who jumped into the line of fire from an angle.) And saying "Not him -- not now!" like he knew Hartley was the key to stopping DeSaad and Brother Eye -- but it never being confirmed -- that works, too. And leaving Hartley everything, and the invisible ink on the Will -- that's very very James.

But I wish he'd come back.