Should jade cheating on kyle be retconned away

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Not following dude. What are you saying?

[Crabgrass Willy Kilowog's Recruit Find all posts View Profile Close Crabgrass Willy]

Hell no that shouldn't be retconned away. In fact they should kill Jade again because of it, really.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

I'm pretty much against retconning stuff out entirely. If something was stupid to begin with, I'm OK if they retcon in an alternate explanation or mitigating circumstances, but don't erase it. Case in point, John and Xanshi. In the story when Xanshi was destroyed, John was portrayed COMPLETELY out of character. And Xanshi's destruction was a total plot device. Somebody HAD to fail to increase the drama, and they tapped John, and twisted his character to be arrogant and cocky so his failure would be more acceptable (his failure wasn't even reasonable within the confines of that series- they totally manipulated the circumstances to set him up for failure by treating his mission differently than any other, and practically broke the fourth wall at the end in showing that he was just pretty much doomed to fail).

So, yeah, IMHO, that was done VERY stupidly. But it has become such an integral part of his character now that retconning it out would be unthinkable. I wouldn't mind a retcon that showed him acting IN CHARACTER, yet failing anyway and still beating himself up over it, though.

[Mister.Weirdo Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Mister.Weirdo]

Well said.

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Not following dude. What are you saying?

No worries. It was just playing in my mind when you were talking about the lonely ladies turning to you. The difference being the guy in the song doesn't stop.

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No worries. It was just playing in my mind when you were talking about the lonely ladies turning to you. The difference being the guy in the song doesn't stop.

Gotcha. Haha.

[Lantern of Gallifrey Senior Corps Member Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern of Gallifrey]

I say that it should stay. It happened. Whatever happened to continuity. If we start retconning all this stuff who's to say where it will stop. Nothing will be safe.

[TEN_RINGS Senior Corps Member Find all posts View Profile Close TEN_RINGS]

Why retcon cheating when you can just retcon jade away into nothingness?

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touché

[G'nortDoggie88 Major Force's Dinner Date Find all posts View Profile Close G'nortDoggie88]

Isn't Jade gone already thanks to the reintroduction of Earth 2? They could just say they never knew each other. GL fell off hard after Hate Crimes. What happened to Terry Berg?

[Lantern2814.20850 Green Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern2814.20850]

I think, the way things stand right now, the only relationship Kyle ever had in the DCnU is the one he had with Natu. In NG 1 Kyle's encounter with Ganthet was moved from LA to New York (Hence no Alexandra DeWitt) Alan Scott (and by association his Daughter) is now confined to Earth 2. Hence no relationship between Kyle and Jade.
Now I didn't forget Donna but her current status is like Wally West's (Very uncertain) therefore the relationship between Kyle and Donna is up in the air.

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Although if there's no Jade (and I think you're right) what sparked Natu and Kyle's split.

[Mechinoid Hal's Understudy Find all posts View Profile Close Mechinoid]

Things are screwed either way, but there could be ways to try and salvage it, if you completely alter history [not like history has been completely altered anyways] I nice cosmic like way they could keep it, is if one of the times he crosses the bleed into a different universe, he happens on Earth 2, and meets Jade, and they hook up for a bit but doesn't get as heavy as it did in the DCU [like how they're playing Guy's and Ice's relationship in JLI where they only dated a few times]

Of course they wouldn't do this since JSA isn't even introduced yet, and when they do Alan is probably going to be younger anyways, so Jade will most likely be younger too. Also it would involve crossing Earth's in the 5 years the DCnU has been maturing, and I doubt with the way they're handling things they'd want that at all.