Finally caught the episode last night.
Love their take and intro of her character, and Yvette Monreal is a charm to see take on the role.
I was wondering how they would play it, In the end it becomes almost a survival instinct for her to become Wildcat, - Kind of: they can't accept me for who I am, I'll become someone else.
Courtney kind of sees that, Yolanda is looking for something, a way out, and doesn't let up on her, she opens that opportunity for her to reinvent herself.
And yeah Yolanda takes it.
Loved seeing her escape home, and show up at Courtney's window in full gear!.
That said her parents are kind of irredeemable horrible people, and an awful go-to cliche about strict Latino families.
With so few Latinos represented in the DCU it's kind of painful when they go for the worst cliches, instead of something more positive.
Ultimately whats needed is more of them, so as to get more variety.
That said, it gives her pathos and angst (without being the dead parents level angst) just emotionally dead parents, who are dead to her plea for forgiveness, and sadly will never see her for who she once was).
That person is still there though.
So when they don't accept her, and she takes up the mask, new identity and mantle, as an opportunity to be the good person and hero she once saw herself as again, it got me!
...She is Wildcat!