I saw the Avengers: United They Stand animated program only a few times, and about five years after its exceedingly brief run on the Fox Network in 1999-2000. The show is not very good: not only does it suffer tremendously in comparison to Bruce Timm's nearly contemporaneous Justice League/ Justice League Unlimited program, but will likely be further erased from existence by the time Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon hits the air in 2011, not to mention the big time Hollywood iteration due around that time.
Anyway, this is how the Kounterparted lineup from the 1999-2000 show would look: kinda puny, huh?
Atom
Insect Queen
Green Arrow
Captain Atom
Zatanna
Vixen
Black Lightning
Red Tornado
-assisted on a few episodes by Batman, Green Lantern and Aquaman.
Showing posts with label Vixen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vixen. Show all posts
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
The starting lineup of the West Coast Justice League, 1984
Green Arrow
Black Canary
Green Lantern
Captain Atom
Vixen
Black Canary
Green Lantern
Captain Atom
Vixen
Chicks with claws = perpetual appeal
Vixen- Tigra
I should say that if DC introduced a male african character with a similar backstory to Vixen, then said character would be a natural pairing for the perpetually elusive Black Panther.
As it is, gender distinctions are inviolable. So this one does the trick, methinks.
Commonalities:
Both have been shown to be pleasure-seekers who occasionally have regressed into savage, feral states.
Differences:
Tigra is a cat lady —not, notably, in the sense of a elderly woman who lives in a stinking house with 50 tabbies, but in the manner of an anthropomorphosized feline/human hybrid. Whereas Vixen draws on the earth’s morphogenetic field to mimic any animal’s traits.
Alternate histories:
TI: Greer Nelson is a descendent of the Cat People, and as such inherits an amulet that grants her the ability to mimic attributes of various felines; as Tigra, she becomes an adventurer and eventually joins the Avengers and briefly the government agency Freedom Force. She struggles with latent feral tendencies surface from time to time.
VI: A gravely injured Mari McCabe is chosen by a mystical cult to assume the abilities incumbent on the Tantu Totem; as Vixen, she adopts extranormal attributes of a fox. She eventually joins the Justice League and later the organization’s west coast expansion team, although her latent feral tendencies surface from time to time.
I should say that if DC introduced a male african character with a similar backstory to Vixen, then said character would be a natural pairing for the perpetually elusive Black Panther.
As it is, gender distinctions are inviolable. So this one does the trick, methinks.
Commonalities:
Both have been shown to be pleasure-seekers who occasionally have regressed into savage, feral states.
Differences:
Tigra is a cat lady —not, notably, in the sense of a elderly woman who lives in a stinking house with 50 tabbies, but in the manner of an anthropomorphosized feline/human hybrid. Whereas Vixen draws on the earth’s morphogenetic field to mimic any animal’s traits.
Alternate histories:
TI: Greer Nelson is a descendent of the Cat People, and as such inherits an amulet that grants her the ability to mimic attributes of various felines; as Tigra, she becomes an adventurer and eventually joins the Avengers and briefly the government agency Freedom Force. She struggles with latent feral tendencies surface from time to time.
VI: A gravely injured Mari McCabe is chosen by a mystical cult to assume the abilities incumbent on the Tantu Totem; as Vixen, she adopts extranormal attributes of a fox. She eventually joins the Justice League and later the organization’s west coast expansion team, although her latent feral tendencies surface from time to time.
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