Quote Originally Posted by Jayngfet View Post

He outright called the character toxic if this is true.

Again, I'm not saying he DID do it, or that he'd even be able to, but if he could there's no doubt in my mind he would.
The events did happen, but he never called the character toxic, just that they wanted Smallville to feature the most iconic versions of the character. I don't know where the quote came from, as it comes from an anonymous source, but Didio never came outright called either character toxic. In fact, the worst I've heard is that no one is allowed to use them, apparently because of 'future plans'