10 Most Hated Retcon Changes In DC Comics

4. The Amazons Are Secretly Evil - New 52

If you want a lesson in how not to reinvent a mythos, look no further than the New 52's Wonder Woman series.

Although there were positives to be found with Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang's series, it also introduced a retcon to the Amazons that had Wonder Woman fans positively furious. How so? Well Azzarello - drawing upon old Greek myth to tell his new horror-laden series - decided to update the Amazons' origin so that they raped sailors on the high seas, murdered them, tossed their corpses into the ocean, and sold any and all sons into slavery.

As far as retcons go, this one was just nasty. Not content with revealing that Diana was actually the progeny of Zeus and no longer sculpted from clay, the writer transformed the Amazons from a noble, warrior people into a horrifying force content with committing unspeakable crimes against sailors and their children.

Needless to say, this isn't a story Wonder Woman fans look upon too highly.