I think this is awesome, but I do want to point out that there are other times when a character's death is overshadowed either by another character's death, or by something big happening to another character.
Sal's death in Armageddon 2001 was overshadowed by Dove's; all the minor characters who died in the Crisis were overshadowed by Barry Allen's; Lilith Clay's death was overshadowed by Donna Troy's in Graduation Day; Candi's death in Legion Lost was overshadowed by Garth's. The difference between these and the Steph-Tim's Dad situation, however, are that the minor character was overshadowed by the more well-known character in all the other circumstances I can think of. (Someone, quick, find me other examples that disprove this. Where people [in the text] harp on a minor character's death while forgetting that of a major character!) Whereas, while Tim's dad was a character for a longer period of time, it's completely overshadowed the death of Steph, who was a more visible character. This could be explained by the idea that people feel Tim was closer to his dad (which, whatever, but I'll buy it for the sake of argument), but that still doesn't explain the complete lack of commentary we've gotten from anyone about Steph's death. I mean, what? Is the rest of the DCU just pretending she never existed or something? I mean, even if you want to say that maybe it wouldn't come up around Tim for various reasons, why is her death not even being offhandedly mentioned in Birds of Prey? Is there a reason why they decided to kill Steph off and then pretend she never existed?
[Honestly, the lack of commentary wrt Steph's death, the current events as of Batman #638, and the events of DC Countdown are starting to make me wonder if we've stepped into some strange alternate reality DCU where, you know, so-and-so didn't die, and so-and-so never became a superhero and such-and-such was never evil/discovered to be evil, or whatever. But that's just me fanwanking things so I don't sit around going "Bzuh?" I think.]
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Date: 2005-04-05 12:37 pm (UTC)Sal's death in Armageddon 2001 was overshadowed by Dove's; all the minor characters who died in the Crisis were overshadowed by Barry Allen's; Lilith Clay's death was overshadowed by Donna Troy's in Graduation Day; Candi's death in Legion Lost was overshadowed by Garth's. The difference between these and the Steph-Tim's Dad situation, however, are that the minor character was overshadowed by the more well-known character in all the other circumstances I can think of. (Someone, quick, find me other examples that disprove this. Where people [in the text] harp on a minor character's death while forgetting that of a major character!) Whereas, while Tim's dad was a character for a longer period of time, it's completely overshadowed the death of Steph, who was a more visible character. This could be explained by the idea that people feel Tim was closer to his dad (which, whatever, but I'll buy it for the sake of argument), but that still doesn't explain the complete lack of commentary we've gotten from anyone about Steph's death. I mean, what? Is the rest of the DCU just pretending she never existed or something? I mean, even if you want to say that maybe it wouldn't come up around Tim for various reasons, why is her death not even being offhandedly mentioned in Birds of Prey? Is there a reason why they decided to kill Steph off and then pretend she never existed?
[Honestly, the lack of commentary wrt Steph's death, the current events as of Batman #638, and the events of DC Countdown are starting to make me wonder if we've stepped into some strange alternate reality DCU where, you know, so-and-so didn't die, and so-and-so never became a superhero and such-and-such was never evil/discovered to be evil, or whatever. But that's just me fanwanking things so I don't sit around going "Bzuh?" I think.]