At the start of Marv Woflman and George Perez's -era-defining run on New Teen Titans, Starfire was an alien who's encounter with the team was her first contact with the people of Earth. Koriand'r was a princess whose planet had been enslaved by the alien empire known as the Citadel, which forced Koriand'r into slavery. She would eventually escape and find herself on Earth, where she would meet Dick Grayson/Robin and the New Teen Titans. She would join the team and stay with them throughout many iterations, serving as the emotional core of the group who loved too much, laughed too hard and lived life to the fullest.

It was these aspects of the character that inspired the naive-but-kindhearted version of Starfire that gained popularity on Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go! However, when the entire DC Universe was changed by the Flashpoint event, it led to the New 52 reboot which altered a number of characters in the spirit of modernizing the line. Unfortunately, in the case of Starfire, they failed to appropriately modernize the character while also erasing everything that made Koriand'r a unique and popular.

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THE NEW 52

Red Hood and the Outlaws feature New 52

The Flashpoint event not only merged the various "worlds" of the DC Universe and integrated the Wildstorm and Milestone characters, but it also shortened the existing timeline down to five years, which left a lot of character history in limbo, including Kory's place in DC Universe, especially after the New 52 reboot. While it was established that Kory had a previous relationship with Dick Grayson much like her pre-Flashpoint counterpart, their time with the Teen Titans had been seemingly erased.

Kory's personal history had also been slightly altered, though when she was first introduced she had no memory of her past and was lounging on an island with her crashed spaceship when she first encountered the man who would help drag her further into controversy thanks to her new characterization in the New 52.

RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS

Red Hood and the Outlaws, Arsenal and Starfire

Jason Todd was a former Robin, like Dick Grayson who had taken on the new identity of Red Hood and received a new series in the New 52 reboot. Starfire and Roy Harper/Arsenal were included in this team of Outlaws, which seemed to exist as a team to put Titans that didn't fit into the larger picture anymore. Starfire's appearance and characterization drew immediate criticism both due to the most revealing costume the character has ever worn (which is saying a lot) and her sexual recklessness in the debut issue of Red Hood and the Outlaws.

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While Starfire has always been free and open with her sexuality, that aspect always stemmed from an emotional core, and the new Starfire simply wasn't that and was often reduced to eye candy, which drew sharp criticism, especially from longtime fans of the hero.

STARFIRE GOES SOLO

Starfire would begin the journey back to her old self when she left Red Hood and the Outlaws to free her people before returning to Earth in her own solo series from Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner, which fell more in line with their work on the solo Harley Quinn series than Starfire's former representation in the Outlaws.

Starfire's personality began to move back towards her more innocent but passionate pre-Flashpoint personality while distancing the character from her New 52 reboot, which happened to quite a few characters post-New 52. Kory was almost back to her old self, though one crucial element was missing from her life.

TITANS AND BEYOND

While the majority of Starfire's original Titans teammates had moved on to other teams -- Cyborg was a member of the Justice League while Nightwing, Flash, and Arsenal had formed their own group of Titans -- but she would soon be pulled back to the Teen Titans alongside Beast Boy and Raven to work with Damian Wayne/Robin, Wallace West II/Kid Flash, and Jackson Hyde/Aqualad.

She would take over leadership of the team though soon join with a new division of the League in Justice League Odyssey that would see her return to space to police the Ghost Sector. Starfire was mostly back to normal, though her previous connections that used to mean so much to Kory have yet to be fully re-established in the Rebirth-era of the DC Universe, and much of her comic continuity remains a casualty of the New 52 reboot. for the moment.

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