DC Entertainment is about to achieve something that Marvel Studios has not yet done. What The Birds of Hunger (and the Most Wondrous Elimination of Harley Quinn) opening February 7, it will be the first comic book accomplishment of a superteam for all women. And the CW mentality takes over Arrow spinoff and birds of Prey-inspired Green Arrow and Canaries series, DC will have the same on TV next fall. But what does it do Bite Birds are very special? And why is 2020 their year?
As it turns out, there are many reasons: some good, some complex, some mercenary. Let's start with the most important reason, though: Food Birds are very good.
In comics, most of the band's characters were made by Batgirl, Black Canary, and Huntress, although it's important that when the First Birds were first formed – and by their existing presence – Batgirl was actually not Batgirl at the time. Barbara Gordon was disabled by the Joker in 1988 popular To kill Joke, hanged his Batgirl cone, and became a computer genius / brilliant Ormetist for years before joining the Black Canary for one 1996 comedy Birds of prey. Officer, monthly Birds of prey made a joke in 1999 and starred the two until acclaimed writer Gail Simone came on board and added Huntress to the group. The comic lasted 127 of the most intriguing issues, ending in 2009. After another series the DC was reduced Fl ashpoint
I throw these numbers at you only to prove that this group has been around for a long time and has done quite well, except that Birds of Prey is not as famous or as glamorous as the other superteams. They don't save the world's heavens or travel in time for anything, and they never have heavy hitter like Wonder Woman or Flash on board. What they do have are two of the quietest but most endearing characters in the DC universe, and another beloved follower who has been raised for their presence.
The last of them is Huntress, real name Helena Bertinelli, who becomes an outcast for the massacre after killing her parents (who were also in the crowd). As an antihero in the antihero-love & # 39; s & # 39; 90s, Huntress was popular among comic fans, especially as a prominent player in Batman's sponsorship of the decade's biggest theaters. Many fans back then enjoyed how he crossed the lines that Batman didn't like, and how he didn't care about how Batman felt about it. (Full disclosure, the fact that Huntress wore what can only be described as the most popular dress for women & # 39; 90s probably didn't hurt anything.)
Oracle, on the other hand, was – and is, in fact, intriguing. Or Barbara Gordon wasn't Batgirl for more than a decade when that was going on Birds of prey The jokes started, he still had many, many fans who knew, correctly, that Babs himself was a hero, not a Bat outfit. While helping the Bat-as-Oracle family for years, it was very satisfying to see this actor lead his team, and his conflict with Huntress over the latter has given the team great controversy over the best of times.
But what I want to talk to you more about is Dinah Lance, this one Black Canary. He was first seen in 1947, meaning he was closer than 99.8 percent of Marvel's heroes. Because of this, his resume had enough time to turn the M.C. Escher's drawing; DC Comics tried to explain her long life by dividing between Dinah Drake Lance (mother) and Dinah Laurel Lance (daughter), which required a stop for animated cartoons, a psychological transmission, and possibly a few unpleasant conversations with the Black Canaries & # 39; s Green Party Arrow.
That is not important, because whatever natural or traditional creation or place he was a part of, the Black Canary has become a quiet but creative part of the DC universe. He has been a founding member – sometimes a founding member, increasingly of the Justice League, including "American," "International" and "Original Recipe" genres. He became an unnamed superstar Green Arrow jokes, where he has kept his raw ass at least as much as the other way around. Then there is his long career inside Birds of prey, named after him, from three members of the group, is the only powerful elephant maker. Not bad!
The Black Canary symbolizes the birds of Prey because they are not cold – they rarely get light when Crisis circulates, but they are part of the Justice League specifically for the rest of DC. Think of him as DC Comics & # 39; s version of Black Widow in the Marvel movie: where from the beginning, kicking ass, always plays a major role, but somehow he doesn't get all the attention it deserves.
I do not want to say that the Black Canary is completely ignored because it is so important about that. You have a star on all 0s0s Justice League cartoon once Little Justice, and guest appearances for much more. And while he doesn't get the chance to shine on his own, the Black Canary is such an integral part of the Arrowverse that three different players play four different characters who have all taken a moniker from it Arrow, the ur-superhero show that debuted this golden era of TV comic book.
One of them was left to take the lead knuckleknobs of Morning Fiction (That would be Caity Lotz & # 39; s character Sarah Lance), and the other two – Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy, who plays two
So it's for a long time that Black Canary is getting recognition on the big screen, and the same thing happened Birds of prey usually. Sure, they're good enough, they're popular enough, and they're big enough to deserve this chance to shine … but then they were worth it for a long time.
Well, to be perfectly honest, they had a chance in 2002.
The Birds of prey The jokes were so good that WB sent the TV series starring Oracle (Dina Meyer), Huntress (Ashley Scott, recently starred in the middle A disaster), and the Black Canary (Rachel Skarsten, who now stars inside the CWs The woman like Alice), who can now see the future instead of having a "bright cry" now. Harley Quinn was one of the game's opponents! Alas, 2002 has been a very busy world for superhero TV shows, and I think even its most ardent fans will admit that the show had some issues. The rating was scored after the prime, and was canceled after 13 episodes. (Honestly, I suspect if the show was out in 2019, CW would have aired it at least for the third season).
But that's okay, because the Birds will start making their final game at the end of this week – with help from Margot Robbie & # 39; s Harley Quinn, the star-drawn star. Group Suicide the film. And then there is (potential) Green Arrow and Canaries show for coming. The fact of the matter is that after the great success of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel movies, it's clear that the world wants to see the highest-ranking women's team in TV and theater, and the best option for birds of prey. If there is (essentially) a superhero group of women who are very successful or prominent in the comics world, I don't know. (But feel free to enlighten me in the comments if necessary.
That's a fun, fun way to look at it, and there's nothing wrong with that. The dark side is, as always, that if Hollywood executives think they can sell movie tickets and get TV ads about them Birds of prey content five years ago – and most likely they had – would have done that. Their choices alone and are always on the downside, but this should come as no surprise. The question is what eventually convinced them that the world wanted birds of Prey now?
It is not difficult to find that even the TV is the easiest to describe. The Green Arrow character gets a TV series in 2012 because comic book movies are hot, and the arrows don't require a special effects budget, unlike a show based on 95 percent of other heroes. The Black Canary is a big, big part of the mythology of the character and as a result is added; Black Canary is so important that when castmember Katie Cassidy is removed, a new Canary is chosen, and when Cassidy returns from the show she decides there will be only two of them, because Black Canary rules. The Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel movies prove that superheroes are women who make money right, so Arrow Only with the nail is raised, it is clear that the Black Canaries of the show are worth leading their series. Keeping the Green Arrow mixed helps serve as an OG throughline Arrow fans to get in touch and be interested in the new show. Peasy Easy.
The movie timeline is more complex, so bear with me. Marvel superhero movies hot as hell at the beginning of 2010 and Warner Bros. he scourges to catch them. I made the green light Group Suicide like a movie that will not interfere with their huge tentpole structures while finding out what to do. While WB keeps announcing random films, very few ever will be made, Harley Quinn's Robbie is clearly Group Suicide Heavy movie grace, and WB lists a unique film that features the character as safe as the bet they will get. Apparently, Robbie pressed hard to make a movie where Harley could be part of a girl gang, and Bird of Prey was an obvious choice – though this hunter I find inappropriate Birds of prey would have been green without the success of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel.
But how does that work, but then we get here, we're about to find Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) on the big screen. Batgirl, oh, no doubt it gets caught until WB does to see what Robert Pattinson is like Batman the movie does – though Birds of prey screen Christina Hodson is working with a script– And they can see how to get on with all the Bat stuff there. But apart from The Huntress and the Black Canary, movie stars include Gotham City police detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) and Cassandra Kaine (Ella Jay Basco), an actor who actually ran around like Batgirl during those early days. Birds of prey jokes. The humor Cassandra was dumb, trained to kill somebody, and martial arts, while based on the traffickers, the movie Cassandra actress could talk but not fight, and was more of a villain than she was an international assassin. Birds and Harley team up to protect him after Cass steals something from his great movie star, Black Mask (Ewan McGregor). But technically, it uses Batgirl! Kinda!
And frankly, there's something still worrying about Hollywood trying to greedily get the hard-earned money by giving us films and big groups of women, because at least that means we finally find that yes seek this is. It took a while and strange way to get here, but we're here. Even the birds of prey are ready to go up.
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