But nowadays some of those personality traits just make her seem like an offputtingly-fabricated male-ideal of femininity, that her original creators (two middle-aged men) thought would be a good fit for their (teenage-boy) audience. It’s always been part of Starfire’s personality to be sweet, naïve, overly emotional, openly affectionate: a gorgeously statuesque redhead who just happens to prefer wearing as little clothes as possible (her native planet Tamaran is just more accepting of nudity, ok?). Conner excels at “cute” without removing sexuality: she gives her playful and gorgeous female characters a confidence that is inherent to their attractiveness. It’s a redesign similar in essense to Harley Quinn’s recent roller-derby look, also an Amanda Conner creation that took an offensive, unfeasible, and ugly costume and made it, well, cute. She now wears a long-sleeved crop top, and matching boy-cut short-shorts that oddly have circular openings on either hip-like handles (no, really, we see her using said hand-holds to pull her pants on). This is more the happy, bubbly Kori we all know and love, not a blank-eyed, bikini-clad, sexy-time drawing. ( You know the one.) Strangely, the main improvement in her new look isn’t just her added attire: she’s smiling. Starfire’s costume redesign is certainly a step in the right direction after the atrocity that was the last one.
Hence, this #DCYou campaign, and its much-needed revamp of Starfire. But everyone at DC seems to have finally realized that major change was in order, and listened to fans (or the possible money that can be made from them). Well, as much as one can be, despite the fact that those making the big decisions behind the scenes are the exact same ones as before. Post-New 52, Post- Convergence DC has me cautiously optimistic.
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