Starfire Has had her ups and downs in DC Comics. A beloved Teen Titans member, she is often reinvented after continuity shifts and disparaged by her fans for this very reinvention. Although her character has quite a different – and childish – version in the Teen Titans Cartoons, Starfire’s comic character is always unflinchingly and strongly herself, no matter what – even in a dark universe that remakes Starfire in a way no fan could expect.
As a founding member of the Titans, Starfire is an essential character in DC lore and has been since the 1980s. She’s had more than a few redesigns over the years, but one of her most drastic looks is from the Dark Multiverse, as seen in Dark Nights: Death Metal – The Last 52: War of the Multiverses #1. In a story featuring the Teen Titans, “Falling Through the Cracks” by Che Grayson, Pop Man, Chris Sotomayor and Troy Peteri, the Dark Multiverse is at war with the DC Multiverse, and The Teen Titans meet their match: a twisted, evil version of the team as seen through a nightmare mirror.
While evil versions of mainstream characters are nothing new in the DC Universe, this story features an evil Starfire who deviates from her normal appearance and, in his place, is given Bladed hair she uses to attack the Teen Titans.
Starfire is a space-hero staple of the Teen Titans
Starfire has many resets – but always ends up with the Titans
Starfire is a princess from the planet Tamaran who is known for the more liberal aspects of her personality, including her free-love mentality. Essentially, her planet embraces a progressive version of feudalism, and as such, Starfire is both the beautiful princess of her native land and also the knight who saves the day. Starfire saves herself, but the Amazonian-like strength and ideology does not stop Her designs of being heavily sexualized over the years.
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Meanwhile, events like animal world Redefined Starfire’s home world as well Filled in some gaps in her origin story. She’s a major player in the Titans, and her character is now even more well-rounded than when he was first conceived in the ’80s. But it is not his original New Teen Titans Appearances that got her the most wrong – it was her redesign from just a decade ago.
Starfire received her most famous redesign in 2011
Starfire’s controversial New 52 look
Starfire New 52 Reinvention redefined her knowledge – and her appearance. The New 52 era is often cited as a low period for DC Comics, and still had a lasting impact, and One of these ways can be seen in palimpsests, such as the way DC retains certain storylines from the era. For the Teen Titans, that means Wallace West’s Kid Flash taking a back seat, for example, and Starfire regaining her former glory as a space warrior. In the changes, in the overlay can be seen what DC is trying to cover up.
Starfire’s New 52 look reduced her entirely to her sex appeal. While Starfire has always had a costume that looked more like a bikini, this new look was one of DC’s most mature versions of the character. Her sexuality, too, reached a new peak as a defining attribute of her character. About his story, She was stripped of her princess title and space warrior status quo And he decided to go up there for a long time. It’s been a hard fall from grace for one of DC’s best heroines.
Everything good about Starfire turns bad in this nightmarish multiverse
Dark Starfire uses blades for hair
DC recently added to Starfire’s lore by debuting a villainous Tamaranian who helps Batman when he’s stranded off-world. Not only that, but Starfire finally found closure in the revenge she sought for her parents’ murder. Meanwhile, Starfire is getting some awesome story reinventions that really fix all the lapses in her character that only served for sex appeal. And this Dark Multiverse Starfire only helps with that cause.
Starfire’s beauty is turned into a weapon in the Dark Multiverse, and even then, it’s her power that shines, not her sexuality.
It’s interesting how, in the Dark Multiverse, Starfire has lost all her personality and becomes absolutely a weapon. Throughout all of her changes, Starfire’s hair was there with her, full and flowing and sometimes filling an entire panel. Starfire’s beauty is turned into a weapon in the Dark Multiverse, and even then, it’s her power that shines, not her sexuality. It seems that her light side and her dark side have finally come to a full synthesis of who she is: a powerful warrior who should truly lead the Titans.
Starfire is a warrior first and a princess second
After too many remakes, Starfire is better than ever
Starfire is a force unto herself, and it’s time DC gave her a look that matches her strength. Even as her dark alter ego takes everything wonderful about her and turns it on its blade-haired head, Starfire’s power is obvious as her defining trait. Starfire Is a warrior first and a princess second.
Dark Nights: Death Metal – The Last 52: War of the Multiverses #1 is available now from DC Comics.