Actually DC prefers to kill characters that people actually like. "Oh, you're upset that we killed that character? We must have been doing our job right!" (This almost sounds plausible but trust me, it ain't.) However, Dick hatred isn't true of any corner of the fandom I've ever hung around in. Presumably there is some somewhere (but then again, everyone I know hates Superman.)
I think a reason they probably considered Dick a few years ago is because his then-identity, Nightwing, wasn't really super familiar - he wasn't part of the JLA, he didn't have much of a profile outside people already pretty familiar with the medium - but Dick Grayson the person had been around basically forever and knew everyone in the DCU, had been in basically every team book other than the JLA/JSA, had had around a million girlfriends, etc. Basically, cheap grief for everyone!
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Date: 2010-05-15 08:26 am (UTC)I think a reason they probably considered Dick a few years ago is because his then-identity, Nightwing, wasn't really super familiar - he wasn't part of the JLA, he didn't have much of a profile outside people already pretty familiar with the medium - but Dick Grayson the person had been around basically forever and knew everyone in the DCU, had been in basically every team book other than the JLA/JSA, had had around a million girlfriends, etc. Basically, cheap grief for everyone!