With the Justice League lifeless and Dark Crisis simply starting, feelings are excessive within the DC Universe. They’re resulting in some surprising outcomes amongst the heroes of Young Justice although. While everybody was mourning the lack of their heroes and mentors, Wonder Girl had a really totally different response.
As all of the heroes gathered to pay their respects in Dark Crisis: Young Justice #1 (by Meghan Fitzmartin, Laura Braga, Luis Guerrero and Pat Brosseau), Cassie Sandsmark noticed her fellow Young Justice teammates and previous mates Tim Drake, Conner Kent and Bart Allen within the crowd. As Robin, Superboy and Impulse, they’d fought alongside Cassie’s Wonder Girl again within the ’90s, after they fashioned Young Justice. They had been all greatest mates, however she was surprisingly cynical to every one in every of them on this challenge.
Cassie acted as the problem’s narrator and her commentary on the occasions of Dark Crisis was fairly surprising. She targeted totally on the dangerous, with little to no hope in her voice. She talked about how life just lately has been a “lengthy parade of funerals” with a selected reference to the current dying of Hippolyta. Throughout that point occasion, Cassie was virtually having enjoyable fixing the previous queen’s homicide. Seeing her go so deeply miserable now actually hits readers.
What hits tougher although is how she views her mates. She went straight for all of the hard-hitting stuff, like Conner’s devastating dying in Infinite Crisis. She criticized Tim for nonetheless being Robin and harshly identified how he was tragically unable to save lots of any of the daddy figures in his life. As for Bart, she mainly mentioned he had no id of his personal and simply adopted the opposite two. All of those are majorly low blows. Even when she is grieving the dying of Diana, that is no excuse for something she mentioned.
The comedian painted Cassie as being completely out of line. That is much more so the case when Young Justice really gathered round after and talked. Even the retired Cissie King-Jones, previously Arrowette, was there, and she or he received the identical remedy too. Cassie resented Cissie for retiring and noticed it as her abandoning them. Usually although, Cassie’s cynicism speaks to the limitless cycle of Crisis after Crisis that she and her mates have needed to endure. She’s angrier at how these main cosmic occasions have ruined their lives than her mates themselves.
Regardless of being younger, they’ve all been in comics for round three a long time now. Virtually all of them have died in some unspecified time in the future, which Cassie identified. It was so traumatic that she even talked about that she wished Tim, Conner and Bart had stayed lifeless. Wonder Girl’s cynical view of the DC Universe speaks to a sure few followers who could also be fed up with the cycle of dying and rebirth that has hit comics. The limitless cycle that Dark Crisis is de facto all about.
The inciting incident of this story, the disappearance of Robin, Superboy and Impulse, serves to alter Cassie’s viewpoint. When her mates are literally gone, she takes again what she mentioned about wishing they’d stayed lifeless. In reality, she’s more and more pissed off by the truth that she’s the one one which appears to care they’re gone. Everybody else is simply too involved concerning the different penalties of Dark Crisis.
The lacking members of Young Justice are caught on their very own excellent Earth, the place all of the ache they have been via throughout the years by no means occurred. They’re again to the start, within the ’90s. Wonder Girl’s journey to seek out her mates will virtually actually change her thoughts. It is greater than possible that her cynical view of the DC Universe will slowly fade away, as she rediscovers the marvel and glee of being a superhero and being part of Young Justice. Dark Crisis is all about legacy, so what higher story for these now oft-forgotten heroes than to have them rekindle the eagerness they misplaced via all of the turmoil and Crisis, all in a wholly new Crisis.