# Black Canary shows up at MTV Europe Music Awards **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 4, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490 "2005-11-04T15:48:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Psycho\_Pirate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Psycho\_Pirate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psycho_Pirate)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/1 "2005-11-04T15:48:01Z")
Ok, not really, but look at [this picture](http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20051103/capt.jj10711032057.portugal_mtv_awards_jj107.jpg?x=221&y=345&sig=mipSTHXI0NLWQMyBpYMC6g--) of Madonna. I’m a proud unabashed comic geek, but did anybody else get a “Black Canary” vibe off of this picture? ---
**Author:** ![Psycho\_Pirate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Psycho\_Pirate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psycho_Pirate)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/2 "2005-11-04T17:10:30Z")
Here are [some](http://www.caseyjonesart.com/commissions/images/canary.html) [pictures](http://www.actionfigurecollectors.com/images/news/dcdirect/JL_BlackCanary_Maq.jpg) of Black Canary for reference. Though, judging from the responses, I guess it _is_ just me. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/3 "2005-11-04T17:18:28Z")
Pretty close resemblance. Please let it be coincidence. We don’t want Madonna as a super-hero, do we? ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/4 "2005-11-04T18:07:53Z")
…I don’t see it… Does Black Canary wear purple leather? ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/5 "2005-11-04T18:09:01Z")
Whoa… having looked at the Animation styled statue… I have to say I see it now. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/6 "2005-11-04T18:16:40Z")
Madonna’s become even more crotch-centric than I thought possible. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/7 "2005-11-04T20:27:25Z")
Wow. You’re right. (And I am a massive Canary fan.) ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/8 "2005-11-04T20:34:35Z")
> [@Psycho Pirate](#): > > Ok, not really, but look at [this picture](http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20051103/capt.jj10711032057.portugal_mtv_awards_jj107.jpg?x=221&y=345&sig=mipSTHXI0NLWQMyBpYMC6g--) of Madonna. I’m a proud unabashed comic geek, but did anybody else get a “Black Canary” vibe off of this picture? Actually, I got a pathetic old skank clinging desperately to forotten relevance vibe from Madonna. ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/9 "2005-11-04T21:35:43Z")
Ditto the skank bit. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/10 "2005-11-04T21:56:09Z")
Her costume does look Black Canary-ish. Is there a movie in the works? One hopes not, if Madonna’s gonna be involved … ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/11 "2005-11-04T22:16:08Z")
For the love of Og, why won’t this woman go away? ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/12 "2005-11-04T22:52:43Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > For the love of Og, why won’t this woman go away? Step 1: Yoga + Kabbala Step 2: ??? Step 3: Eternal Life! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/13 "2005-11-04T22:56:38Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > Step 1: Yoga + Kabbala > Step 2: ??? > Step 3: Eternal Life! Step 2: Sell soul to Satan and felate him thrice daily ---
**Author:** ![Psycho\_Pirate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Psycho\_Pirate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psycho_Pirate)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/14 "2005-11-04T23:02:20Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Actually, I got a pathetic old skank clinging desperately to forotten relevance vibe from Madonna. Well, if pathetic old skank Black Canary is your thing, then [this picture](http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/allstarbatman/ASBR_Cv3_Variant.jpg) is for you. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/15 "2005-11-04T23:04:40Z")
[Madonna](http://www.drudgereport.com/flashmtv.htm) > [@](#): > > Afterwards an awe-struck Robbie Williams - who won Best Male - said: "She looked amazing, I watched with my mouth open all the way through her performance. > > “She’s an absolute legend and she makes us all look like amateurs.” > > And he joked: “I can’t believe she’s 89 and looks like that.” > > Madonna’s muscle-bound figure prompted show host Borat, aka comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, to say: “It was very brave of MTV to start the show with a transvestite.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/16 "2005-11-05T02:24:30Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Step 2: Sell soul to Satan and felate him thrice daily Guy Richie is Satan? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/17 "2005-11-05T02:51:28Z")
> [@Little Bird](#): > > Guy Richie is Satan? Nah, he’s lucky if he gets it once a week. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/18 "2005-11-05T04:30:09Z")
She’s got the same hairstyle now that all the girls in the yearbook photos from 1978 did. That style lasted well into the mid-eighties where I grew up. It gave me an odd shudder, ghosts of unpleasant memories of junior high school. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-canary-shows-up-at-mtv-europe-music-awards/329490/19 "2005-11-05T05:24:40Z")
Have you seen her latest video? It was the first time I looked at her and saw a 40-ish mom trying to be cool. Painfully bad. Susan