Originally Posted by
Ra-El
That's my point too. They didn't have to use Hawkman, they didn't needed too. The 9 year olds getting their first introduction to the DCU weren't aware of the character to most of us, Shayera was the whole thing. If they had to bring in some character to help highlight the Shayera/Stewart pairing they could, and should just come up with some new character, instead they chose to not only bring in Hawkman, but also shit all over his background.
Villain or no villain, the thing is, to me personally, as a kid, Hawkman was an real lame character that I only come to appreciate in my twenties for reasons completely unrelated to the DCAU. But differently from me, most people who watched that shows never got into comics, so to them Hawkman is a lame character.
And I dare anyone to say they saw Carter as a misguided tragic hero when they watched that show as a kid. At best people didn't care for the character either way, at worst they disliked him for trying to get between Hawkgirl and Green Lantern.