Saturday, April 26, 2008

Pretty birds

Black Canary- Mockingbird

Like these broads quite a bit, and was disappointed that the second named was done away with: I wager this’d have something to do with the “women in refrigerators” perplex mentioned a few posts ago.

Commonalities:
Super tough blonde bombshells with smart mouths both, betrothed to premiere archers.

Differences:
Mockingbird has no eardrum-shattering “canary cry,” and ain’t the daughter of a wartime heroine known by the same name.

Alternate histories:

BC: Dinah Lance is a vastly resourceful and formidable government agent who takes on the guise of Black Canary; she meets and quickly marries Green Arrow. The two lead a West Coast expansion version of the Justice League. When she lets an antagonist fall to his death, Black Canary becomes estranged from Green Arrow, but the two are eventually reconciled. She perishes while defending her husband.

MB: Barbara “Bobbi” Morse is the daughter of a extranormal operative active during WWII. She follows her mother’s footsteps as Mockingbird, and soon joins the Avengers, where she meets Hawkeye. She begins a relationship with the archer, which is interrupted by his seeming death. While Mockingbird later joins the Liberty Legion and Heroes for Hire, she has recently become the chairwoman of the reconstituted Avengers. Mockingbird has recently married the resurrected Hawkeye.

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