DC Super Hero Girls
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DC Super Hero Girls is a DC animated cartoon created by Lauren Faust, who also made the show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. This cartoon serves as a reboot of the original DC Super Hero Girls web-series and toyline from 2015. It premiered on Cartoon Network on March 8, 2019.
Why It's Super
- The show has a very pleasing, streamlined art-style and fluid animation.
- The songs, specially the theme song, are very catchy and entertaining.
- The voice acting is great, especially from Tara Strong, Nicole Sullivan, Grey Griffin, Kari Wahlgren, Myrna Velasco, Kimberly Brooks, Cree Summer, Cristina Milizia, Mallory Low, etc.
- It has many likable characters, especially the Super Hero Girls, who all save the day with their unique personalities and skillsets in their own ways (even if they quite similar to Mane Six from Faust's previous work, see trivia).
- Barbara Gordon/Batgirl is the comic-relief of the group, as she's known to be bubbly, cheerful, confident, fun-loving, funny, ambitious, and downright optimistic who is a creative problem solver. She is also a fangirl of Batman and her determination makes her destined to be his future sidekick.
- Kara Danvers/Supergirl is the muscle of the group, as she is quite a rebel and is known as the "cool kid" in school. She's tomboyish, brash, boisterous, macho, and very hot-headed, but is also a kind woman who will sometimes stand up for others, and can easily express her emotions.
- Diana Prince/Wonder Woman is the leader of the group, as she is heroic, courageous, confident, and caring for her friends. She also tries learning how to use social media and technology, to which she finds to be quite confusing.
- Zee Zatara/Zatanna is the most fashion-focused girl of the group, as she is stylish, prissy, and a stickler for rules who could, but not always be bragging about herself, but is also good, helpful, and loyal to her friends. She's also considered to be the most beautiful, nice and cute character, and is also the most favorite by fans.
- Jessica Cruz/Green Lantern is the pacifist of the group, as she is an easy-going, kind person who likes to help people and believes that everyone needs a friend. She actively refuses to hit anyone (aside Hal Jordan) since she doesn't believe in violence.
- Karen Beecher/Bumblebee is the voice of reason of the group, as she can be very shy and nervous who often stumbles and mess up her words around. When she has to, she is brave, heroic, and will never try, but will do to save the day. Although super shy, that doesn't mean she doesn't know how to put bad guys in their place.
- The Super Villain Girls are quite likable in their own ways as well, with each one having interesting personalities based on a deadly motivation in a similar vein to seven deadly sins.
- Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn is a funny girl who loves doing jokes, but shows her mischievous side as a villain. She can be kind of insufferable sometimes, mainly when she meets the Super Hero Girls. She is also known to be vengeful, especially when Robin makes fun of Babs. Her motivation represents chaos.
- Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire is known to have some of her personality traits, mostly being obsessed with Hal, to keep intact. She's known to be super clingy as well, but can be seen as a sympathetic type, since Hal broke up with her over text, not helping that he even put a smiley face in it. She is also known to be ruthless as a villain. Her motivation represents envy.
- Selina Kyle/Catwoman is known to be pretty intelligent and sassy, and has a "cat-like" persona. She is also somewhat kleptomaniac, due to having a likeness to secretly stealing things, even if they aren't particularly valuable of some sort. Her motivation represents greed.
- Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy is a lonely girl that cares deeply about plants. Her love of plants also causes her to put her "lives" above humans. She is willing to kill anyone that she deems to be dangerous to plants. Her motivation represents hate.
- Doris Zeul/Giganta is known to be a big bully who has a mindset very similar to the stereotypical jock. She has absolutely no interest in books, learning, or academics, thus she often skips class. Her motivation represents violence.
- Leslie Willis/Livewire is a troublemaker who likes causing a lot of naughtiness with others. She also wants to get likes of her videos of people being humiliated. Her motivation represents sadism.
- It tends to poke fun at the DC lore. For example, the episode "#SuperWho" pokes fun at Superman being perfect and always winning everything.
- As a matter of fact, it's basically Teen Titans Go! done right. Both shows are wacky superhero comedy satires, but DCSHG has more likable characters, more action scenes, and has better animation.
- It also pokes fun at pop culture in very fun and creative ways. One example is the famous Twilight parody Just Before Dusk that mocks the former's terrible acting and creepy romantic scenes.
- The writing and comedy is really clever, with the pacing being very fast.
- In fact, that one face Zatanna, aka Zee Zatara, makes in the episode, #AllAboutZee, is a reference to both the Surprised Patrick meme from The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie and the face Br'er Fox made in Song of the South, and it's just hilarious!
- It has awesome and dynamic action scenes.
- It teaches some good lessons for kids, as it talks about topics such as bullying and caring for the environment.
- It managed to fix some stuff that the original web-series got wrong. In the original web-series, Harley Quinn, Star Sapphire, and Poison Ivy were heroes for some reason. In this show, they've been rightfully restored to their villainous nature.
- Despite dumbing down some male characters, (see BQ#2) they don't represent them as useless or inferior, as there are some episodes like “DC Super Hero Boys” where the main cast is seen working with the Invincibros (the main team of male superheroes in the show) as a team, which gives a good message about equality and teamwork. There are also episodes where the boys are seen hanging out with the girls.
- Unlike popular belief, DC Super Hero Girls is NOT a feminist show. The pilot #SweetJustice lets very clear that the main characters are not perfect and have significant flaws, both physical and emotional that they have to overcome. Some examples: Supergirl is vulnerable to magic and kryptonite, and her anger issues and overconfidence will often prevent her from thinking straight leading weaker yet more cunning villains like Catwoman to outsmart her, or Bumblebee who's significantly weaker than the rest of the girls and is very afraid of facing danger directly. Both male and female characters have their share of heroic and morally questionable, triumphal, and pathetic moments.
- While it has a good count of cliches, it manages to give them a unique twist that makes them entertaining and sometimes unpredictable.
- It has some good sub-plots, particularly Barbara Gordon and Harleen Quinzel being best friends in their civilian identities, and mortal enemies as Batgirl and Harley Quinn, which is very interesting.
- Not only is it considered better than the original web-show, but it's also arguably one of the best animated reboots in modern animation.
- It spawned two crossovers with Teen Titans Go! called "Superhero Feud" and "Space House".
- It also spawned video games called "DC Super Hero Girls Blitz" on mobile and "DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power" on Nintendo Switch.
- This show, with cheerful and fun dynamism, is similar to Freakazoid!, but the latter is positively regarded as better than its own modern series.
Bad Qualities
- It has a share of weak episodes from the show, such as “Crushing It”, “Breaking News”, “Retreat”, “Scrambled Eggs”, “Super Wonder Bat Bee Zee Lantern Mobile”, “Drama Queen” (the lowest-rated episode of the series) and “Tween Titans”.
- Though not as much as Teen Titans Go! or the third season of Turbo F.A.S.T, there are some episodes that contain filler with Scrambled Eggs and Super Wonder Bat Bee Zee Lantern Mobile being the worst offenders out there since these two are complete filler episodes that felt more like rejected Teen Titans Go episodes in terms of writing and served no real impact on the show overall and therefore can be skipped entirely.
- Some of the fan-favourite heroes (particulary males) such as Dick Grayson/Robin, Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, and sometimes even Hal Jordan/Green Lantern can be rather idiotic, unlikable, and mean-spirited compared to their comic book counterparts, though thankfully not at the point of demonizing them as Birds of Prey did.
- Some characters like Mr. Chapin, Shane O'Shaughnessy, and especially Lena Luthor are also unlikable.
- Speaking of which, some of the characters from the original web-series have gotten flanderized from their comic book counterparts.
- Lois Lane went from being an aggressive, career-minded, yet hardworking and beautiful news reporter to an annoying Ron the Death Eater and Mary Sue clone of Courtney from Total Drama who once forced the Super Hero Girls to stop fighting crime just to expose them. Thankfully, she has redeemed herself since Season 2.
- The Teen Titans, just like Teen Titans Go! went from being mature teenagers to immature pre-teen characters who bullies other characters and doing dangerous stuff for fun.
- While the voice acting is great, there are a few characters that tend to have irritating and annoying tones in their voices at times, especially when yelling, such as Star Sapphire, and sometimes even Zatanna.
- Speaking of which, the voice acting was actually terrible and extremely annoying in Scrambled Eggs, due to nearly everybody yelling the majority of the lines, which is just unacceptable.
- Much like Monster High, The designs of characters (except for Supergirl, Zatanna, Bruce Wayne/Batman (in civilian), Dick Grayson, Lois Lane, etc.) are pretty different compared to comic book counterparts.
Trivia
- The Super Hero Girls are somewhat similar to the Mane Six from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic; Batgirl is similar to Pinkie Pie, Supergirl is similar to Rainbow Dash, Wonder Woman is similar to Twilight Sparkle, Zatanna is similar to Rarity, Green Lantern is similar to Applejack, and Bumblebee is similar to Fluttershy.
- In fact, Batgirl has the same voice as Twilight Sparkle, Tara Strong.
- The show is inspired by Super Best Friends Forever, a short created by Lauren Faust that aired on the DC Nation block on Cartoon Network in 2012.
- A short of the show called #TheLateBatsby aired in front of Teen Titans Go! To The Movies in theaters.
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