Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities Oh Yeah, That Forum: The Titans Donna Troy's questionable taste in men

TERRY LONG. 'Nuff said.

That she preferred Jack of the Flips over Joe of the Flips shows that this was a long standing problem.

The Mer-Boy, and that half-chicken dude. I mean, GROSS.

Technically, wasn't that Diana and not Donna?

Yeah, I think it was. Perhaps its an Amazon thing? I mean...honestly...you keep a girl in an island full of only other girls, and she's not going to be the best judge of males.

But I'd take a chicken or mer-boy over Terry Long anyday.

So the future Mrs Cobie spent time on Themyscira?

The future Mrs. Cobie is the new Wonder Woman. She's the third part of Donna's and Diana's soul that no one noticed had reflected off a mirror in the back of the room when the copy that became Donna was made. (Or whatever the hell the current "WHo is Donna Troy?" origin may have happened to be) She's left-handed right Cobie?

Hey! Mer-Boy rocks!

(stares blankly)

Can we assume that Lash is ambivalent towards mermen?

Stupid creep!!

Nobody can fault her for giving it up to this bad boy, though. The brightest spot on her man-landscape!

From an article with George Perez:-

"Dick admitted that he did once feel that way about [Donna Troy]. But the fact is that he was not enough of a man, and she was too much of a woman for him. He was never mature enough to take her,* which is what he admires about Terry Long...Dick's grown up a lot because of her relationship. He's learning a lot. He's seen the relationship between Terry and Donna. and obviously that's influenced his relationship with Kory."

So Terry was not only perfect for Donna, he was a guiding influence for Grayson. Grayson was the one the others looked to, so Long really was an inspiration to the whole cast. What a guy!


*"...to take her" torpedoes all that Titans sensitivity...

Saw Terry the other day trying to give some high school girls a lift home. Was driving a 1983 dodge cutlass supreme, smoking a joint and cranking Foghat.

Don't forget his unbuttoned shirt. And the gold rings on every finger.

He's my hero. What a guy!

I think the Lash doth protest to much, and jealousy is the root of all this. But is he jealous of terry, or Donna???

Superman is really bitter that there are no roads leading up to his fortress of solitude so he could drive one. No college girls either, but he gets Supergirl & Jimmy to pretend for him.

ALRIGHT, I admit Mer-Boy is cute. Total makeout material. And he rocks the shirtless look, and I guess him having no penis actually saves me a lot of trouble!

Chicken-creep here is totally out of luck though.

What's crazy is I have a well-documented ginger weakness but Terry just sucks!! He ruins gingers!! HE RUINS EVERYTHING!!

Wasn't Terry just Wolfman's self-insert ... his way of getting to date (and marry) Donna?

Easy to see who wears the trousers in that relationship. Because they would be really uncomfortable on Mer-Boy, if you could get any to fit at all.

Maybe I never really noticed Terry was a big problem to have around, since Dick spent a lot of time being not-real-nice to his own girlfriend during the same period.

Then there was Gar going Senator Packwood on pretty much every female person he saw. Given that he looked all of 14 or 15 at the time, that's at least as retroactively creepy as anything Terry got up to with Donna. At least by that time Donna appeared to have been of legal age.

Time and perspective eventually ruins everything you once loved.

Now that I think about it, wasn't Vic also kind of big jerk to women, too?