Finally! I'm done. Gods, do you know how long this took? At least a week. A week of dragging and dropping these icons on my tablet. I'm just glad it actually worked, because this was exhaustion incarnate. I have a 300+ character tierlist for marvel comics, but I don't know if i'll be able to complete that one in full. This one had 252 characters, and I skipped at least 10 or 20 of them. So it can distract the mind, but these longer lists only feel like exercises in futility sometimes. That said, I have stuff I can say about some of my rankings. I'll put some of it in above the image, and some under it. Also, one of the points I wrote below (that one where I said i'd beat myself up if I didn't have enough female characters in my s tier) is something I'm worried will lead to people judging me. So I'm sorry if that one makes me seem really weird.
A rule I very loosely enforced was that no heroes or antiheroes who killed people were allowed in my S tier. I love Jason Todd, but I can't let someone who kills fall into my top spot. I don't enjoy that in my fiction. My favourite media for DC is stuff like Batman 1966 and Lego DC and Batman: The Brave and The Bold. That should explain a lot of this list. It should also explain some of my other tiers. Oh, and I shoved etta candy and lois lane and rita farr into s tier because I would've guilt tripped myself and probably called myself sexist if I didn't (that sounds weird, but it is true). I seem to relate more to male characters sometimes, but then my brain wants to call me sexist for that (also, I have no proof of my prior statement. My mind's just being a jerk to me). But I swear i'm not! Gods damn it! It might be nothing, it might be I relate better to characters I can see something of myself in (and being male, male characters might have an advantage there?). It doesn't matter. But I had to get this whole thing off of my chest. Because this is awkward, I'm moving the rest of my text below the image. Feel free to keep reading and/or try to ask me questions later. I can't promise I'll have answers, but I'll try to think of something.
Booster Gold is a character I wanted to put in B tier, but I can't. I tend to hate his tv appearances, despite how I continually try to make myself like him. I just see that guy obsessed with fame and who's a shallow time traveller. There's a reason my rewrite of the character for my Justice League Canada series got rid of his time traveller origin story. I can't stand it, sadly. I really, really want to like him. But I can't lie and say I do.
Batman being in C represents my complicated feelings. I like him when he's in the 2004 cartoon, pre crisis comics, the 1960s series, batman: the brave and the bold, stuff like that. I hate batman in almost everything super dark and edgy or boring and grim. I know I'm picky, but I can't help that one. That's just a natural part of me. Green Arrow is only worse because I still somehow hate him more consistently than I do batman. James Arnold Taylor was the best Green Arrow, and I don't hate whoever's doing it for Batwheels.
I can't think of anything else I have to explain right now, but maybe I just missed something in plain sight. I can't really control that, though. So i'll make do. I'll just leave this here for now, because I'm out of words. Besides, I need to think of something to write in the tags. What characters to tag? I'll have to think on that.
