"Huntress" in Arrow 1x17: "The Huntress Returns"

Yeah not really.

The next Batfilm is gonna be UNDER THE HOOD, isn't it? FML

Please note: this post contains graphic images that are not for children.

(I never post warnings like that, but I've never posted those frames from two 1988 Batman stories before.)

Under the Hood is, in fact, the worst Batman story I have ever read. It will probably take me several blog posts to explain exactly why that is. Fortunately I have nothing better to do at the moment, so here's Part 1.

Huntress in Arrow 1x07 and 1x08: "Muse of Fire" and "Vendetta"

This is not a proper review of the episodes: I'm just talking about a character I like quite a lot, and how she was adapted in her first appearances on Arrow.

You want a dark tone, DC? Do the Bat-family. Really!

Interesting article from the occasionally-still-interesting io9 last week. Relevant snippets include:

[Based on the relative receptions of Superman Returns and Bat-Bale], WB decided the grounded and gritty take that worked for Batman would also work for all of DC’s superheroes, including Superman.
[...]
Marvel’s success with its cinematic universe was undeniable, culminating in the 2012 Avengers movie. Warner Bros. saw Marvel working through a 10-year plan for its superheroes and thought that was what they were missing. What they didn’t get was that Marvel’s plan hinged on making a bunch of different kinds of superhero movies and then teaming them up. (I.e., Iron Man wasn’t followed by trying to remake the exact same movie, with the exact same tone, just with a different hero.)
[...]
If Wonder Woman is received well, don’t suddenly decide to replicate it in every other movie. If they suddenly try to turn Aquaman and The Flash into World War I movies, we’ll know Warner Bros. is still not learning what they need to.

And this is the opportunity for me to build off my earlier post about some ideas for a Bat-family Cinematic Universe. (Note: as I'm now in the middle of re-reading No Man's Land for the first time in ten years, I've noticed that I got some details wrong in that post. Nothing too significant to warrant me actually changing it, but yes, Batman's reasons for kicking Huntress out of his club are different than the ones I gave, I know.)