Authors Saving Throw / Comic Books

The following have their own pages:

• The DCU

---

Other Comics

• Invader Zim (Oni): One of the major fan complaints about the original show was the abuse and neglect that Dib constantly got from his sister and father. Jhonen Vasquez himself stated that he had come to regret this, so had the characters' personalities reworked for the comics. While Gaz is still aggressive towards her older brother, it's more in the vein of an Annoying Younger Sibling who still worries about his wellbeing, as opposed to taking delight in violently torturing him. As for their father, Professor Membrane, while he's still a workaholic, he now spends a lot more time personally interacting with his children and more clearly expresses his affection for them. Both of these characterizations would extend into the television film Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus.
• IDW's 2005 iteration of Transformers featured an extremely controversial plot beat regarding Arcee, interpreting one of the few popular female Transformers of the time as not only a crazed berserker, but also formerly male, having been forcibly turned female by a Mad Scientist as part of a concept both in-universe and out to "introduce gender" to Cybertronians, with this operation being portrayed as a traumatic experience that explains why she's so angry and unstable. As years progressed and social mores towards (trans)gender norms became more nuanced, this beat received increasing criticism for both suggesting that crossing gender norms is a shameful punishment, and that women as a concept are inherently aberrant. Eventually, writers of the 2012 series The Transformers: Robots in Disguise would take to addressing this story, especially Mairghread Scott, who was a vocal critic of Simon Furman's story and preemptively announced their intent to correct its nastier implications — the series retconned Arcee as having been insecure about her male identity before the change, and that among the torturous experimentation she went through, her sex change was both willing and consensual. Further writers in IDW's Transformers canon have stepped away from the Men Are Generic, Women Are Special principle, with 2013's The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye famously introducing more female Cybertronians, including multiple transfeminine characters, with no fuss.

---