Batman: The Brave and the Bold second season news

[Nerys Myk]

Very odd rule. Its like they don't want Wonder Woman to be popular.

 

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A Cartoon Network representative confirmed to World's Finest that the second season episode "Chill of the Night!" (written by Paul Dini) will feature Kevin Conroy as The Phantom Stranger, Mark Hamill as The Spectre, Adam West as Thomas Wayne, and Julie Newmar as Martha Wayne.

Meanwhile, it was revealed at Comic-Con that characters who'll make appearances in upcoming episodes include B'wanna Beast, Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family, Detective Chimp, the Doom Patrol, Enemy Ace, Firestorm, the Haunted Tank, Metal Men, Vixen, Viking Prince, and Starro. Superman and Wonder Woman are said to be possibilities for the future.

Okay, now I have a reason to check this out.

Holy ****.

 

[Christopher]

Very odd rule. Its like they don't want Wonder Woman to be popular.

I think the intent was to protect her as a character by not letting her be reduced to a second banana, to make sure she was always the star of everything she did. But it's pretty much backfired by limiting her screen appearances overall. Guest spots can do a lot to raise a character's visibility. It's been suggested that there never would've been Blade movies if the '90s animated Spider-Man series hadn't given that then-obscure character several prominent guest appearances. Green Arrow and the Question have become more popular since they appeared in JLU. And then there are guest characters who were created for TV shows and became popular enough to be added to the comics, like Harley Quinn, Renee Montoya (and she's the Question now, so that's a double play), and Wolverine's clone/daughter X23.

 

[Gojirob]

IIRC, her guest appearances were few, even before that agreement. The only ones I can really recall are the 80's Ruby-Spears Superman, and The Brady Kids. In fact, if I'm not really mistaken, Wonder Girl appeared animated (in the 60's TT cartoon shorts) years before WW did on SF.

Heh. I wonder if Batman could team with a white-suited non-powered action hero named 'D' who complains how she used to be powerful. She never lets him call her by either name, but at the end, its indicated she will get her powers back at some point.

In all seriousness, this agreement needs some shysters to meet and tweak.

 

[CaptainCanada]

At some point in the late 1980s (post-1987) or early 1990s, DC purchased the rights to Wonder Woman completely (previously they just leased them); given the timing of her last guest appearance (in 1988), whatever changed seems likely to have changed as a result of that agreement.