The ending of Identity Crisis was really Bad. (spoilers)

[jman1954goat]

So I am not a huge comic fan and don't know much about the DC comic universe But I decided to read Identify Crisis after it was mentioned in a video.

I actually enjoyed a lot of the book as the mystery was intriguing and I found the Low key (on a world level.) but personal Crisis fascinating.
Also not being a big DC fan it was neat learning about peoples families.

2 major problems 1 The deathstroke Fight was nonsense. I love Slade from teentitans but taking out flash and Green lantern is just non sense and broke all immersion

And the ending was horrible the motivation was so bad Why kill many people to get back with your husband? Atom did not even seem that mad at her shuly she could have just talked to him? The Wanton murder is just wacky and retroactively ruins the entire story.

 

[Slayven]

Just the ending?

 

[jman1954goat]

Just the ending?

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Have not read any previous DC comics so I dont know if any characters where acting out of character but as a non fan I enjoyed most of it until the ending made me hate the whole thing.

 

[jph139]

Identity Crisis is a book that starts off with an "uhh, not sure about that chief" premise and just gets worse from there. I agree that the ending is the most egregious, it's stupidly offensive and offensively stupid.

Meltzer does a good job writing DC heroes as a community, where they feel like actual friends/co-workers with complex relationships. There's not really anything else to like about it.

 

[EdibleKnife]

Abysmal. The pathetically trite ultimate motivations ruin the entire story retroactively.

 

[Volimar]

Deathstroke pretty routinely punches above his weight class

 

[Zero-ELEC]

Identity Crisis is generally agreed as being fucking garbage.

 

[BWoog]

It was pretty much all garbage but credit where credit is due, this scene hit me like a Mack truck:

 

[EdibleKnife]

Deathstroke pretty routinely punches above his weight class

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Sure but against the multiple members of the JLA at once is pushing it. Green Lantern could have sealed him in a giant green safe without breaking a sweat. And "overpowering" the Lantern's own will is just shoddy. It's like what's the point of these rings choosing people if some rando can easily turn it against you. It shouldn't be the same as stealing a cop's gun from his own holster.

 

[Jmille99]

It was pretty much all garbage but credit where credit is due, this scene hit me like a Mack truck:

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Best scene in the book.

I voted it was alright. With no reference on some of these characters (especially Loring) I wasnt sure how out of character and crazy she was.

 

[OhSatan]

*all of it
#allofit

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Identity Crisis is generally agreed as being fucking garbage.

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Unfortunately that's only really the case in more socially aware circles. Generally it's regarded as one of the best and most influential stories of the 21st century, and that's a damned shame.

 

[mrmoose]

You didn't even mention the worst part, which is the one that stuck in canon the longest, the lobotomizing of villains (and Batman) and turning Dr. Light over to their teenaged sidekicks to fight.

Now go read Cry for Justice.

 

[BWoog]

Sure but against the multiple members of the JLA at once is pushing it. Green Lantern could have sealed him in a giant green safe without breaking a sweat. And "overpowering" the Lantern's own will is just shoddy. It's like what's the point of these rings choosing people if some rando can easily turn it against you. It shouldn't be the same as stealing a cop's gun from his own holster.

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Some of the ways to take down the heroes worked well enough, but "putting a sword where Wally will be so he'll run into it" was so dumb. And then they beat Deathstroke by simply...jumping on him?

It COULD have worked but it was just written so terribly.

Remember how the story starts off with Ray Palmer begging his ex-wife to get back together, she says "no way", and then she murders Sue Dibney so that....she can get back together with Ray?

 

[jman1954goat]

You didn't even mention the worst part, which is the one that stuck in canon the longest, the lobotomizing of villains

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That Part I actually liked a lot it makes perfect sense to want to protect your and family if a Bad Guy learns who you are and but is very messed up and brings up a interesting moral question.

Dr. Light over to their teenaged sidekicks to fight.

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Now this is really gross and weird especially since Dr.Light is a rapist

Now go read Cry for Justice.

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I am scared to is it actually good or will it disappoint me like Identity Crisis?

 

[deimosmasque]

Just the ending?

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Slayven speaking the truth.

That Part I actually liked a lot it makes perfect sense to want to protect your and family if a Bad Guy learns who you are and but is very messed up and brings up a interesting moral question.

Now this is really gross and weird especially since Dr.Light is a rapist

I am scared to is it actually good or will it disappoint me like Identity Crisis?

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It's worse. Cry for Justice is borderline nonsensical at times.

 

[Slayven]

Now go read Cry for Justice.

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Jesus , you are a savage

 

[mrmoose]

That Part I actually liked a lot it makes perfect sense to want to protect your and family if a Bad Guy learns who you are and but is very messed up and brings up a interesting moral question.

Now this is really gross and weird especially since Dr.Light is a rapist

I am scared to is it actually good or will it disappoint me like Identity Crisis?

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Oh, that was totally tongue in cheek, Cry for Justice was bad. And up to that point I basically loved most everything that James Robinson had put out.

See, magically removing memories or whatever, they've done that stuff for a long time. Magical lobotomy, making him incompetent,then passing him over to train your sidekicks? Then removing Batman's memories? Yeah, uh...

Also, intentionally or not, this was the era where they absolutely decimated key members of the bwah ha ha (Dematteis and Giffen) Justice League. They basically got the gang back together a year or so prior in a miniseries called "Formerly Known as the Justice League." That lineup included:
Maxwell Lord
Blue Beetle
Booster Gold
Fire
Ralph Dibny
Sue Dibny
Captain Atom
Mary Marvel (to replace Captain Marvel)

Pretty much every single one of those characters were ruined in some form.

 

[BWoog]

Jesus , you are a savage

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JUSTICE.

 

[Pau]

And the ending was horrible the motivation was so bad Why kill many people to get back with your husband? Atom did not even seem that mad at her shuly she could have just talked to him?

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I haven't read this since I was a teenager, but if I remember correctly, in the beginning Ray was being pretty obvious about wanting to get back together? The ending was basically "Women are just crazy."

 

[JigglesBunny]

Identity Crisis is shit from top to bottom. Tasteless, nonsensical guff that masqueraded as "mature storytelling" when it was really just mature subject matter handled with all the care, subtlety and nuance of a sledgehammer.