captainmarvel1957 wrote:
My question is, what change do you think has been the most damaging to a character? Feel free to be brutal in your assessment.

Frank Miller's Dark Knight. Suddenly every writer after that "template" steered Batman slowly but surely into a friendless brooding paranoid psychopath.

"The world's going to change tonight, doctor, I'm glad you'll be able to watch it. And... happy Halloween."