Hello friends
so birds of prey
Finally flying into theatres
And while you already know do hardly play this you may be less familiar with the other characters which one of them is the daughter
Of Bruce Wayne from an alternate earth, which one was attacked by raccoon as a child. Yeah, and which one survived growing up in Reno?
You try to forget most of the things from my childhood this week on heat vision
Breakdown my producer Natalie joins us to help explain everything about birds of prey
Alright, let's start with Harley Quinn
So very few people know this but the character actually originated in a 1992 episode of Batman and made it
Yeah, it's true everybody knows that all right
Moving on Black Canary in the comics multiple women have donned the role of black
Canary dating all the way back to 1947 Dinah Drake was a florist by day and costumed crime fighter by night
You might say she was selling tulips by day and giving fat lips by night. Oh my god
That was a good joke. She initially had no superpowers, but during a trip from an alternate earth
She gained a canary cry which is basically a sonic scream things got stranger in the comics in
1983 and what a retcon revealed that Dinah Drake was now called Dinah Lance after getting married
Even though that's not really it's not really that strange. The strange part is that we learned Dinah Lance actually hadn't gained superpowers
No that happened to her daughter who was also named Dinah Lance and her mother had been in stasis
Okay, you know what? This retcon stuff is super confusing
So let's just skip ahead to what's important the second Dinah Lance became a mainstay of the Justice League and also dated Green Arrow
But it wasn't until 1996 his Black Canary Oracle birds of prey number one
that she fully managed to step out of the shadow of Green Arrow becoming a member of a new team not related to superheroes and
Giving her the chance to build her own fan base with readers when DC rebooted its entire history in 2011
Which was called the new 52 Black Canary story changed once more in the new reality
She'd never met Green Arrow nor been a member of the Justice League
Instead she was a widowed secret agent working as part of the newly formed mercenary team Birds of prey
When that series ended she launched a music career and the critically acclaimed
2015 Black Canary series before finally running into green arrow the following year
Becoming part of the supporting cast of his relaunch comic book series and ultimately joining the Justice League
Huntress while there have been numerous huntresses throughout DC's history including Helena Wayne daughter Batman Bruce and Catwoman Selina
Kyle the iteration of the character
We're currently concerned with is Helena Bertinelli who sounds like a fancy heiress to a sparkling cider fortune
but it's actually the sole survivor of a crime family wiped out by rival cartels and
Trained to get revenge on those
Responsible Bertinelli debuted in the Huntress number 1 back in 1989 where she eventually went on to join the Justice League
Is anyone not in the Justice League it's easier to get into than the University of Kansas
Yeah, well, maybe shouldn't ruin that joke about Rena Aran anyway much like Black Canary
Bertinelli's Huntress was given a significantly different backstory in the new 52 this time around her father is still a crime boss
But she goes on to become an agent of spy agency spiral which she eventually leaves to settle down relax and focus on getting revenge
on those responsible for her father's murder and that's how she meets up with the Justice League know the birds of prey Oh,
Sandra Kane Cassandra first appeared in 1999's Batman number 567 as the daughter of David Kane a mercenary who's not quite father of the year
Cassandra is trained to be the older main attraction first before deciding
Oh wait
This sucks and running away to Gotham to fall under the tutelage of Batman and Barbara Gordon who unlike her father are vigilantes
not mercenaries just way different Sandra goes on to become the next Batgirl and eventually joining the outsiders and you guessed it the
Justice League Wow eventually
She confronts both her father and the woman in charge of her training as an assassin
Defeats them both and kills her father as a result of their fight
Disillusioned she forfeits the title of Batgirl and goes to live underground
She's really sad that she had to go and live in a sewer like Charlie Kelly. She did live in a sewer
She went you know underground
Do you not know what that means?
Yeah
It does matter anyway
because it was revealed to be a
Misdirection and Cassandra was actually working under the guise of black bat in Hong Kong at the direction of Batman himself
At no point during that time. Does she live in a sewer, right?
With the new 52 Cassandra went back to her roots of being the manipulated daughter of David Kane though this time
She worked under the name of orphan and eventually trains a new generation of heroes through the mentorship of Batman and Robin
currently issues a member of The Outsiders working alongside Black Lightning
Sweet Anna. Sweet Renee Montoya Renee. Montoya is a detective who first showed up in 1992 is Batman number?
475 after her partner is murdered by a corrupt cop in the department
she quits to become a private investigator and eventually partners with the question a
Dude with no face who barely goes to the same tailor as spike from Cowboy Bebop and Rorschach from a Watchmen action mouth
when question succumbs to his lung cancer
Montoya takes up the mantle and becomes questioned herself until the new 52
Correct. She's now back with Gotham PD and in a relationship with bat woman Kate Kane
Oh
And it was also revealed last year that she's still active as the question working with Lois Lane as a top secret source to unearth
corruption all without a face black mask
Okay, if you haven't noticed so far all the characters have squarely fallen into the good guy pile. I'll be it with some gray areas
Are you the bad guys Harley? Are you is she Natalie? Is she even a bad guy? What is going on?
No, they're not the bad guys in this movie. The real villain here is Roman scientists also known as the black mask
He's sort of like what would happen if Bruce Wayne went wrong in other words?
Probably Bruce Wayne in the world of Joker. You don't have joaquin phoenix
Push his fingers into your gums and grow up normal
I mean, am I right first appearing in 1985's Batman number?
386 Roman was born to a wealthy family that cared so little for him that a hushed up both his being dropped on his head
As a baby and also him being attacked by a raccoon
He ended up murdering his parents to take control of the family fortune and related business
Soon after he was struck by lightning and took his survival to be a sign of divine intervention
And proof that he was meant to be a criminal mastermind because you know, that makes sense
Leading him to form the false face
society a group of criminals hiding behind masks as they plotted out how to carve up the Gotham City underworld
surprisingly little has changed for Roman in the wake of DC rebooting its comic book continuity in
2011 with the exception of it becoming canon that he has two distinct personalities
romance, Ionis and black mask with new technology inside the mask allowing the wearer to have some level of
Telepathic influence over the weak-minded in the immediate area sort of like Mark Zuckerberg with Facebook
So did you guys know that Harlequin actually first showed up in the animated school? I got stopped you guys
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