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Cassie (Wonder Girl) on YJ this weekend

27 Apr 2012 09:53 #27090 by lfan
To followup on our previous blogpost, Wonder Girl DOES make her debut this weekend on the first episode of Young Justice:Invasion (season 2). Check your local listings....

Lotta ubergirl power hitting the cartoon circuit with Legend of Korra, Ms Marvel in the Avengers, and now WG....

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28 Apr 2012 08:23 #27105 by steelknight3000
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What's this about Legend of Korra?

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28 Apr 2012 10:12 #27107 by jimbob
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Avatar, the Legend of Korra, a sequel to Avatar the Last Airbender, about 60 years later, starring, Korra, the new Avatar. She's not exactly uber, more of a fast martial arts, kind of character but she can use the 4 elements of Air Fire Water and Earth. I've only seen one episode so far but if the prequel series is any indication, earth gives her super strength, and air gives her super speed and super breath, while water gives her freeze breath.

Animation has been very good to us all of a sudden.

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28 Apr 2012 10:23 #27108 by jumperprime
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jimbob wrote: Avatar, the Legend of Korra, a sequel to Avatar the Last Airbender, about 60 years later, starring, Korra, the new Avatar. She's not exactly uber, more of a fast martial arts, kind of character but she can use the 4 elements of Air Fire Water and Earth. I've only seen one episode so far but if the prequel series is any indication, earth gives her super strength, and air gives her super speed and super breath, while water gives her freeze breath.

Animation has been very good to us all of a sudden.


I think it's more like 70 years later, but yeah. Earthbending doesn't technically give super strength, though nothing's stopping an Earthbender from physically ripping a big boulder out of the ground and chucking it at a target, and an Earthbender skilled in Metalbending(pioneered by Toph in The Last Airbender and later taught by her to members of the Republic City police force) can crumple metal like it's paper. It may be a while until Korra's outrunning satomobiles though, she's only just started her airbending training and had a mental block keeping her from doing ANY Airbending until she had an epiphany at the climax of episode 2. In episode 3 we see Korra properly performing the training exercise that she repeatedly failed in episode 2 so it's probably only a matter of time before Korra learns Aang's cool super speed moves.

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29 Apr 2012 04:05 #27114 by jimbob
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Well Cassie makes her entrance by punching Lobo so hard the windows of the building shatter. She doesn't really beat him, since he tosses her around, but he can't knock her out either, so not bad.

The 5 year timeskip and roster changes are really confusing however.

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13 May 2012 17:52 #27299 by ChaozCloud
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Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl were on this weeks episode of YJ.

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14 May 2012 08:54 #27304 by Raa
More Wonder Girl, less fan girl

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14 May 2012 09:09 #27305 by lfan

Raa wrote: More Wonder Girl, less fan girl


Hehe...funny line from Wonder Woman. Not much airtime of Cassie, but she DID have a nice bit of superstrength where she rips part of a robot "spider" off with her lasso, catches it and throws it back to destroy another one...

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14 May 2012 13:53 #27306 by Woodclaw
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lfan wrote:

Raa wrote: More Wonder Girl, less fan girl


Hehe...funny line from Wonder Woman. Not much airtime of Cassie, but she DID have a nice bit of superstrength where she rips part of a robot "spider" off with her lasso, catches it and throws it back to destroy another one...

ElF


Probably one of the best lines in the episode.

I admit I'm kind of on the fence with Invasion. I love the first two seasons and I'm not sure that a 5 years fast forward is the right way to handle this show, but so far it works pretty well.

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14 May 2012 18:15 #27309 by lfan
Agreed...kinda cross between a soap opera and JLU at this point with all the plot "twists" and such. I certainly hope -- but doubt -- they'll go back and kinda show some of the events that they reference such as:

16 hr rampage by JL
Aquagirls death
Initiation of new members (origins?)

I imagine it'll turn more JLU-esque in coming episodes focusing on smaller "teams" (alpha, beta, etc) to better handle character development and shine the focus on a smaller group. Right now, there are too many (maybe 12-13, not counting the JLU) to give everyone enough quality airtime.

It is nice to see Cassie, though I hate her "fan girl" costume. My big question right now is, ok we've seen:

Superboy to Superman
Batgirl to Batman
Wondergirl to Wonderwoman

Where is Mary Marvel to compliment Shazam, who's been featured on the show in more than a few episodes...

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14 May 2012 18:29 #27310 by Woodclaw
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lfan wrote: Agreed...kinda cross between a soap opera and JLU at this point with all the plot "twists" and such. I certainly hope -- but doubt -- they'll go back and kinda show some of the events that they reference such as:

16 hr rampage by JL
Aquagirls death
Initiation of new members (origins?)


I hope so.

lfan wrote: I imagine it'll turn more JLU-esque in coming episodes focusing on smaller "teams" (alpha, beta, etc) to better handle character development and shine the focus on a smaller group. Right now, there are too many (maybe 12-13, not counting the JLU) to give everyone enough quality airtime.


That is my guess too.

lfan wrote: It is nice to see Cassie, though I hate her "fan girl" costume. My big question right now is, ok we've seen:

Superboy to Superman
Batgirl to Batman
Wondergirl to Wonderwoman

Where is Mary Marvel to compliment Shazam, who's been featured on the show in more than a few episodes...

ElF


This a minefield, eLF. During JLU the production team was able to use Captain Marvel/Shazam only in one episode due to some residual legal loophole linked to older productions. Mary Marvel is part of the characters linked to the same kind of problem.

BTW, I think that the fangirl costume works well enough for Cassie.

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14 May 2012 19:10 #27311 by lfan

Anon wrote:

lfan wrote: This a minefield, eLF. During JLU the production team was able to use Captain Marvel/Shazam only in one episode due to some residual legal loophole linked to older productions. Mary Marvel is part of the characters linked to the same kind of problem.

BTW, I think that the fangirl costume works well enough for Cassie.


Curious...you know if they've worked out the Shazam legal stuff (like they did for Wondergirl)? Cause I think he's been in at least 3 episodes of YJ so far (though none on Invasion)

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14 May 2012 19:29 #27312 by jdrock24
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This may not have anything to do with it, but Shazam/Captain Marvel was on several episodes of Batman - Brave and the Bold, including the entire Marvel Family (including Mary) in at least one.

Maybe they get some sort of waiver to use the Shazam characters but can only use them for a limited amount of episodes...
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