@timelordscience: Do you know what aesthetic means? because it has absolutely nothing to do with the Bat family or his mantle (on an unrelated note he became a member of the Bat family the same way).
The fact that he was changed for the show means that whether you love or hat it, you can't praise/hate DC, because it wasn't up to them.
Yes it does, he is a parody, but they don't want to take away the personality people love (which they shouldn't) so they just changed his appearance to match what's going on in modern pop-culture.
Of course I know what aesthetic means, one of my friends is into bodybuilding...:P
I'm not sure you're following exactly what the argument is here properly. You've been making claims and I am refuting them. Claim you made: "That was the intent, otherwise DC wouldn't change such a well known design." My refute: DC changed a number of well known designs in the reboot. Also, second refute: the implication that DC only changes things with a certain intent in mind just doesn't hold up, evidence: Tim Drake is no longer Robin for no good reason whatsoever. All of DC's decisions don't have to be logical. They have a history of trying to fix things that aren't broken.
Another one of your claims: "I think they just changed Tim for aesthetic reasons, or because he was joining a more action centered book." Refute: they made many more changes to Tim than aesthetic ones. Yeah, his costume was redesigned, which already goes against your prior claim, but his character was massively revamped. And no, his origin is not the same. All of these things are no with no clear intent, besides what fans have come to call "change for the sake of change"
Claim: Lobo is a parody, and his parody had to be updated. Refute: if they wanted to update the parody they wouldn't just redesign his appearance, they would overhaul his personality as well. If they are trying to make fun of modern day action heroes that get massive fangirl followings, they ought to make him lovesick and tormented, a parody of Edward Cullen or the Tenth Doctor. Instead he just has the look, for no good reason.
Claim: they won't change Lobo's personality because DC is suddenly worried about fan opinion, refute: No.
Even if we make the supposition that DC has a master plan for a modernized Lobo parody, if you look at what they've actually constructed, it's terribly half-assed.
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