One for Sorrow

Welcome! And yes, I can totally identify with what you describe in comics. Sometimes it's really really jarring, especially it's not even just one character, it's often the whole universe changing around that character. And in the same way I think people feel a lot less anxiety about it when it's labelled as being an elseworld or something like that. If people know that the author's just putting a spin on the character in a meta way they tend to be a lot freer about going along with it, at least in my experience.