10 Totally Unrealistic Relationships‏ In Comics History

3. Wonder Girl And Terry Long

Donna Troy, better known as Wonder Girl, had a lot going for her: raised by Amazonian princesses, superhuman abilities, and a plum position on the Teen Titans. So you have to wonder how she ended up married to Terry Long, a skeezy failed college professor ten years her senior. It's possible that Terry was meant to be an audience identification character - a normal dude who ends up hanging out with a bunch of superheroes, just like the readers! - but what he seemed more like was a Mary Sue character for Marv Wolfman and George Perez. Wolfman did have a similar look in the seventies... Mary Sue is a term that came out of fan fiction, but it's been around a lot longer than that. Essentially an author insert, basically any time an impossibly perfect character turns up and gets everything they want, which just so happens to be what the author wants and wants to be? Mary Sue. Bella from Twilight's a good example, and Terry Long's the same. Everybody finds him incredibly charming and attractive (despite the ginger beard, afro and seventies fashion), the rest of the Titans love him, and he's a middle-aged loser who married a 20-year-old superhero. Terry Long and Wonder Girl's relationship is one of the most inexplicable things to come out of modern DC Comics, and boy is that saying something.