She is the only character in the Batman mythos to serve as both Robin and Batgirl. Also ranks #5 on Who Is The Greatest Robin? The Best Boy Wonder Debate Also ranks #9 on All Bat-Family Members & Sidekicks, Ranked Also ranks #16 on The Best Sidekicks in Comics 118 Pixie Marv...
A prominent supervillainess with an ecological focus, Poison Ivy inhabits the DC universe and is expertly played by Uma Thurman in the 1997 film Batman & Robin. With botanical prowess and a fierce devotion to protecting nature, she commands respect and authority both in and out of her domain...
Superhero sidekicks have been around since the earliest days of comics. Batman had Robin, Captain America had Bucky, Superman had an entire army of super-powered kids and animals - for a time, it seemed that every superhero had to have a younger version of themselves running around and stumb...
I mean, Batman and Nightwing had some rough stuff to deal with growing , but... but you -- you were raised to be that guy there, and you turned yourself into one of us. That's... pretty intimidating." -Robin Cassandra Cain is one of my favorites mostly for the very simple but ...
Heart Beats <1,000 Heart Beats (real name April) is a new let's player from Scotland. She tends to do live streams of her game play throughs and her current series include Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Beyond: Two Souls and Batman: The Telltale Series. She's very self-deprecating and...
G. (2008). Gender trouble: Frank Miller's revision of Robin in the Batman: Dark Knight series. Journal of Popular Culture 41(2), 321-336. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2008.00505.x Ulaby, N. (2008, September 4). The "Bechdel Rule," defining pop-culture character. NPR...
now, before batgirl there was a batwoman, created as a foil and love interest for batman (and to show that there was nothing untoward going on between batman and robin). but she was too equal, and eventually the publisher wrote her out, recapitulating the biblical myth of lilith, ad...
now, before batgirl there was a batwoman, created as a foil and love interest for batman (and to show that there was nothing untoward going on between batman and robin). but she was too equal, and eventually the publisher wrote her out, recapitulating the biblical myth of lilith, ad...
Here are Newsarama's picks for thebest female superheroesof all time! 25. Witchblade (Image credit: Top Cow) The mid-'90s launched a female superhero craze that, in many cases, was focused far more on cheesecake art and boundary-pushing costume design than on craft and storytelling. ...
Starfire is a princess turned superhero.Her adventures range from interplanetary intrigue to kid-friendly adventures on Earth, often paired with Dick Grayson’s Robin. Appearing in numerous DC comics, Starfire attracted a new generation of fans thanks to her role in the animated seriesTeen Titans,...