Sure you can. The character dying in-universe doesn’t automatically cause every copy of fans’ favorite stories featuring that character to go up in flames or something, they can still go back and read the decades of stories those characters were in if they want to enjoy their antics. You don’t see me raging against the heavens because actors I really liked the work of died. You just accept it and enjoy what there is.Sparky Prime wrote:Can't blame fans for not wanting to see their favorite characters killed off.
The thing about Green Lanterns though is that they work *really* well for this sort of stunt, just because of how they work. Sure, DC could’ve introduced a brand-new superhero who was a Muslim, but they probably don’t want another Aztek on their hands. They sure as hell can’t kill off Superman or The Flash and replace them with a Muslim, and doing it with someone like Wildcat or Dr. Fate wouldn’t be a *big deal* enough to garner the publicity they needed. But ‘Green Lantern’ is decently well-known as a flagship DC property, AND just happens to be a brand-name identity that can be assumed by just about anybody, so dropping Hal down a trapdoor for the time being as an excuse to bring in a new Green Lantern who just happens to be ethnically diverse and culturally relevant is totally something they can do, all thanks to the way the ‘Green Lantern’ character works!Diversity doesn't have to be another Green Lantern though. Of which John is African American and Kyle is half Hispanic.
So do you also imagine your own explanation for why everyone acts like Tim Drake was never an actual Robin now, or why Jay Garrick and Alan Scott only exist now on an alternate Earth with completely new personalities?Not true. They have made references to Brightest Day in the New 52, so we do know that story still happened. Although as Dom points out, with some of the changes made to some characters it must have happened a little differently. But that doesn't mean Carol wasn't made Queen seeing as the story still happened. And your Batman movie example really wouldn't apply here because as you said, those are two different canons from one another. The New 52 is not an entirely new canon from before the reboot. Many of the things that happened before do still apply here.
I would argue that it *is* an entirely new canon, it just necessarily has some similarities to the canon that was running before it. It’s like the reboot between the ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ movies. A lot of the same shit happens in both of them because it concerns iterations of the same character, but they’re still functionally independent from one-another. DC was one series of comics that wrapped itself up, with New 52 being the total relaunch that restarted everything with its own backstory and set of rules.
You sure they haven’t talked about it? What about the part where they say “The whole universe reset so some things are different now”?Key phrase there: For the time being. They don't need to explain that because it hasn't even come up yet but we don't know if that's something that might still come up or not. Doesn't mean it didn't happen just because for right now they haven't talked about it.
