Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities Characters from the animated DCU becoming part of the mainstream DCU

Good idea or bad idea?

Harley Quinn has joined that transition from animation to comics.But how will this apply to the Superfriends characters?

Black Vulcan(see below),Eldorado,Samurai,Apache Chief,Zan,Jayna and Gleek and Marvin,Wendy and Wonder Dog?

Maybe Black Vulcan could be related to Black Lightning somehow?

Maybe the updated version of those characters, the Ultras, can be from one of the 52 earths. I don't know how much any of them would catch on in mainstream DCU unless introduced as attached to a specific title the way Harley and Montoya were tied into the Batman mythos.

Montoya - awesome. She was one of the stand-out great new characters of the series and her scenes with Bullock were so good that they had to bring her over.

Harley Quinn - also awesome. I loathe, loathe, loathe, Paul Dini and Mark Hammil's animated Joker, almost as much as I loathe the 1960's campy TV Joker. But Dini really did something right with Harley.

The Wonder Twins - groan. I usually avoid them

I think its cool when this happens. After all, Jimmy Olsen started out on the Superman radio show and was such a hit, they moved him over into the comics.

Yeah, I don't see why not.

Marvion and Wendy? They were a lot less annoying when they appeared in the Titans anyway

I like Drake's idea of having the rest be on an alternate Earth somewhere though.

I agree, Black Vulcan is too much like Black Lightning. Apache Chief has kinda been done as Manitou Raven. The Wonder Twins, uh, never mind

Perry White, too, if memory serves. Perhaps the "Daily Planet" name as well.

It can work.

Re: Black Vulcan:
The original Black Lighninng, in one of its final issues, dealth with Black Vulcan (sort of - using the imagery if not the name) as a hero with good intentions being manipulated by greedy backers... Tony Isabella's take on the creation of BV to avoid paying creators' royalties to use BL.

Apache Chief in retrospect seems ridiculously stereotypical, but so can Dawnstar, to many who have had any significant interaction with aboriginal North American peoples.

The Global Guardians, like AC, Eldorado, Samurai, etc., also started out in ethnic stereotypeland (c'mon - Jack O'Lantern???!!!) but some rose above that in the JLI era.

If a character works, great, use him,her,it. If not, let it be forgotten or niched away. Are Batman comics any the poorer for never using (a big, fat, old) King Tut?

I always thought of Maxie Zeus as the comic book version of King Tut.

And while not animated, Isis started out on Saturday Morning TV before appearing in comic bookc.

Zan and Jayna did appear in some version of Justice League in the '90s, albeit in a very updated version. I don't recall ever being called the Wonder Twins at that point and there was nary a blue monkey in sight.

Chloe from Smallville is going to be in the DCU soon. She is Lois' cousin somehow but unlike in Smallville she is not the same age as Clark/Lois. She is similar in age to her Smallville self. I like the idea.

Didn't know Jimmy was from a radio series.

I liked that girl from the Legion cartoon. The Lex Luthor analog?

Stil waiting for them to bring Static Shock into the mainstream DCU

Teen Titans had some interesting stuff. Very noteworhty is how Hotspot was based on Joto, but now I think Joto has taken on the look and name Hotspot.

Was Mad Mod original? He seemed like something out of Morrison's "Doom Patrol".

It wouldn't surprise me to see Red X introduced (although I guess he was kinda like Red Hood Jason Todd)

Who was that evil kid with the cape and darkness powers? He seemed cool.

I don't need to see mas y menos though...

The female Livewire from Superman-TAS has appeared in the mainstream comics... not with the success of Harley Quinn, to be sure.

I seem to recall hearing that Joto was renamed Hotspot because they discovered that the word "joto" had a negative conotation in another language.

Mad Mod was very much an original. He was one of the very first villains that the original Teen Titans faced in the first series (somewhere around issue 10-15 I think.)

While Imperiex was born from "Our Worlds at War", the cartoon has reinvented him as a Legion villain. Might we not see him one day in the 31st century? (might be better than another Darkseid appearance)