How Long Can The Titans Deal With Damien?

JT Krul's writing Teen Titans now, and he's added Damien Wayne to the cast. Or his bosses asked him to add Damien to the cast. I don't know. Either way, Damien's there. I wonder if this'll mean the near-constant roster upheaveal the team's gone through the last 4 years will continue. I wouldn't think people are lining up to be on a team with that little snot.

I don't think the characters are going to start bailing because they can't stand Damien. I'm sure the veterans will try to guide Damien, get him to tone the condescension down a bit, Damien will ignore them, they'll keep trying, and so on. Certainly, I don't think most people would want to spend much time around Damien Wayne, but they're heroes, so they'll deal.

Has somebody done that in team comics previously? Have a character, not evil, just not fun to be around, that kept driving people off, forcing the few who remain to recruit new members, who decide they'd rather not work with the unpleasant character either. I suppose the question would be raised of why the teammates who stay don't kick out the obnoxious person. That can be handled with some stuff about wanting to help the person, or having them on the team as a favor to someone.

Wonder Man was pretty irritating in Engelhart's West Coast Avengers, but it seemed more likely he'd leave to pursue his acting career. Guy Gardner was exceedingly annoying, but Fire, Booster, and most of the rest stuck around. Maybe that was Max Lord's doing. The JLA voted Batman out, when he wasn't leaving of his own accord to found the Outsiders. The Secret Six keep splintering over differences of opinion about where they draw the line (The Depths story), or what's important (the current split over whether to chase Blake or carry out a job), but they seem to patch things up eventually. I've seen the rest of the Fantastic Four get fed up with Reed to the point they might leave once (Fantastic Four vs. the X-Men mini-series), but I think that was reconciled by the end of said mini-series. Anyway, that was because the team thought Reed had purposefully left out proper shielding on his shuttle, because he thought the world would need super-powered defenders to protect it*. Not quite the same as Reed simply being unpleasant.

You'd think Wolverine, with his penchant for killing, drinking, brawling, smoking (when that was permitted) would drive people away, but a) he's on so many teams it's hard to get away from him, and moving is such a pain it's easier to stay put, and b) he's off fighting ninjas or HYDRA on his own enough it probably lessens his annoyance factor.

* You can see why Ben Grimm might be a little angry about that, but I think the diary he found that said these things was a plant, by Doom, maybe. Now, I could see a writer deciding that was a good way to go with Reed's character, but not so much in the 1980s.