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 Green Arrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green Arrow. 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
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.
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.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Two Belligerent Bowmen
Green Arrow - Hawkeye
Fairly obvious…
“Batman with a bow” was clearly what Mort Weisinger was after with Green Arrow. Like Weisinger’s other creation Aquaman but unlike most of DC’s super hero characters, GA stories were published throughout the ‘50s. Come the late ‘60s, Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams gave Oliver Queen a personality: he was now to be a man renouncing his riches in order to be fully invested in the plight of the “working man” and the downtrodden (more or less serving as O’Neil’s finger-pointing mouthpiece). Although his new persona is best displayed in the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series, he often antagonized his fellow JLAers along these lines from the ‘70s onward.
Thing is, this characterization seems inspired by a character across the pond that was directly inspired by Green Arrow—Hawkeye. Initially a crook bedeviling Iron Man, Clint Barton joined the Avengers as a member of “Cap’s Kooky Quartet,” and thereupon was played as a rough around the edges everyman given to challenge Iron Man and Cap. For four decades, he was a key Avenger.
Commonalities:
Both are often belligerent w/r/t to authority but are down to earth dudes with hearts of gold. Both the best bowmen in their respective disaporas, and both have “died.”
Differences:
Oliver Queen is an off and on again rich guy, whereas Clint Barton is a carny-turned-crook-turned-Avenger (here we must observe the “rich guy” rule stated below) . Unlike Queen, Barton has never been shown to have much in the way of a social conscience, but, also unlike Queen, he adopted another identity and accompanying abilities.
Alternate histories:
HE: Clint Barton is washed ashore on an unpopulated island and trains himself to become an unparalleled archer in order to survive. He returns to society and becomes a premiere crime fighter, joining the Avengers shortly after its founding, often serving as the group’s sociopolitical conscience. He travels America with another super-powered operative in order to address social ills and also fathers —but does not take part in raising— a child. While serving with the Avengers, Barton takes on a number of professions in his civilian guise —he “dies” for awhile but is revived. He is eventually betrothed to another crime-fighter and also joins another team, the Defenders.
GA: After antagonizing another crime-fighter, supremely gifted bowman Oliver Queen joins the Justice League of America with two others as a replacement for some of the more powerful founding members. He serves as a key member for many years, adopting size-changing abilities briefly and eventually heads up a West Coast satellite group w/r/t to the largely East Coast-centric team. Queen “died” a few years ago, has since been revived and is now working with a group opposing government registration of superhumans.
Fairly obvious…
“Batman with a bow” was clearly what Mort Weisinger was after with Green Arrow. Like Weisinger’s other creation Aquaman but unlike most of DC’s super hero characters, GA stories were published throughout the ‘50s. Come the late ‘60s, Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams gave Oliver Queen a personality: he was now to be a man renouncing his riches in order to be fully invested in the plight of the “working man” and the downtrodden (more or less serving as O’Neil’s finger-pointing mouthpiece). Although his new persona is best displayed in the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series, he often antagonized his fellow JLAers along these lines from the ‘70s onward.
Thing is, this characterization seems inspired by a character across the pond that was directly inspired by Green Arrow—Hawkeye. Initially a crook bedeviling Iron Man, Clint Barton joined the Avengers as a member of “Cap’s Kooky Quartet,” and thereupon was played as a rough around the edges everyman given to challenge Iron Man and Cap. For four decades, he was a key Avenger.
Commonalities:
Both are often belligerent w/r/t to authority but are down to earth dudes with hearts of gold. Both the best bowmen in their respective disaporas, and both have “died.”
Differences:
Oliver Queen is an off and on again rich guy, whereas Clint Barton is a carny-turned-crook-turned-Avenger (here we must observe the “rich guy” rule stated below) . Unlike Queen, Barton has never been shown to have much in the way of a social conscience, but, also unlike Queen, he adopted another identity and accompanying abilities.
Alternate histories:
HE: Clint Barton is washed ashore on an unpopulated island and trains himself to become an unparalleled archer in order to survive. He returns to society and becomes a premiere crime fighter, joining the Avengers shortly after its founding, often serving as the group’s sociopolitical conscience. He travels America with another super-powered operative in order to address social ills and also fathers —but does not take part in raising— a child. While serving with the Avengers, Barton takes on a number of professions in his civilian guise —he “dies” for awhile but is revived. He is eventually betrothed to another crime-fighter and also joins another team, the Defenders.
GA: After antagonizing another crime-fighter, supremely gifted bowman Oliver Queen joins the Justice League of America with two others as a replacement for some of the more powerful founding members. He serves as a key member for many years, adopting size-changing abilities briefly and eventually heads up a West Coast satellite group w/r/t to the largely East Coast-centric team. Queen “died” a few years ago, has since been revived and is now working with a group opposing government registration of superhumans.
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