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You referenced Detective Comics 23.2 with the gameboys, which was published in 2012-2013 I think? Somewhere around there. Rebirth, launched in 2016, introduces a mainline Harley that leaves the Joker, and then Infinite Frontiers establishes her as a heroine. A relaunch and a few years apart, not "an issue or two later." I might be wrong, but I thought Rebirth rounded back to before Flashpoint, deleting what happened in New 52. Hard to keep track because DC is mismanaged as all hell.Harley Quinn gave a bunch of kids explosive Gameboys and murdered them to get the Joker's attention. Poison Ivy used to feed random people to her giant plants and tease them as they slowly dissolved. Both of these happened in the last couple decades, and somehow both of them are heroes now.
Any long time superhero comics reader develops a fine ability to activate selective amnesia.
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You're bringing up different continuities, that's explicitly not what I mean. I'm talking the same character, an issue or two later.
Regardless, DC is a big company with many many more writers. Of course things will be forgotten or rewritten. CoC2 does not have nearly the years or writing staff to handwave these things as a change of writers or direction. A monolith making mistakes monoliths make is excusable, a small team should not be making the mistakes monoliths make because they don't have the same excuses. It's not as if Wsan left for the Mino to waste away and Tobs picked up where he left off, Tobs inserted himself into Wsan's character against Wsan's will. It leaves a bad taste in-game and in real life. Pain for both Mino and Wsan.
In comics you don't bemoan the 5402345th rewrite of Harley, because she's been rewritten 5402344 times already. In CoC2, you bemoan characters acting unlike themselves because they've only been written once.