I think BoP works better as a TV show then a movie. Well, a better TV show then the actual BoP TV show we ended up with.
I think the R-rating of BoP might limit the spinoff potential for these characters. Well, that and the movies just not being very interconnected anymore. Like, Pattinson's Batman will probably never have to deal with Margot Robbie's Harley.
I don't think Helena Bertinelli has any JSA ties.
They would need to do a seriously hard reboot to make movie Cass anything close to comic Cass. Her whole outlook and personality is shaped by the fact that she was raised from birth as a weapon and assassin, not turned into one as a grown young girl.3. Cassandra is easy. Her mother arrives in America to reclaim her, and takes her away to Nanda Parbat or some similar secretive place to begin her training. It's later revealed that Shiva, Richard Dragon, and Bronze Tiger trained a number of American combatants including Vic Sage, Bruce Wayne, and Dinah Lance.
I wonder how explicit they'll get with movie Green Arrow.
Wasn't Deadpool also not that known with the mystical being known as general audience before his first movie became a hit?
I do think word of mouth fan hype buildup does go a long way and BoP was and still is very controversial in that department.
IIRC that disability even was part of the training; raised in an environment where she never learned to use speech so that part of her brain process combat as easily as our speech. Not sure if that was retconned but in her run it required her to run into a meta that activate her speech part of the brain. And she immediately become worse in combat. Until she run into Mom for training hints and I think here we are at what Castling suggests.
Just that meta was a different one and really messed up her brain. Off.... it needs some serious story writing (by a writer that also a DC fan; not that hack that messed the BoP characters) to salvage/retcon that mess.
I agree. I liked BoP enough but I've seen plenty of hate for how woke and feminist it is, and how unrecognizable the costumes are. 99% of the men in the movie are big a-holes.
2 things I disliked about BoP:
1. Harley Quinn doesn't break up with Joker, he dumps her! She had to move on because she had no choice. What a terrible role model for young people honestly.
2. They had to put Joker down to elevate Harley (she's the brains), just like how they do it in the Supergirl show and their treatment of Superman. So annoying.
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I would also like to say that when they do these things with canary and huntress. Make the characters look more like their counterparts. And change the aesthetic to make it more and more birds of prey. As seen with sonic don't just write of the core audience. When you can accommodate them.
We'd still get bitching because it's not Babs as Oracle in the BoP.
God no! I love The Killing Joke, one of my favorites, but I don't need it in live action, I don't need some plot progression which puts Babs out of action (and by action I mean action scenes). How about we get a whole bunch of movies with Babs as Batgirl kicking ass and taking names instead? Is that really so much to wish for?
They'd need to do The Killing Joke without The Killing Joke. Basically go something like Batgirl Year One -> Ladies' Night -> Oracle Born of Hope -> Suicide Squad / Birds of Prey. Not specifically for the plot points, but you need to make it into Babs's story, and the only way to do that is to remove Batman's and Joker's feud from TKJ.
You'd be placing one hell of a lot of demands on the scriptwriter.
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