# Justice League 3/12 Chickapalooza! (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037 "2006-03-12T13:17:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/21 "2006-03-12T18:25:10Z")
> [@middleman](#): > > It wasn’t the girl fighting that bothered me (I thought it was pathetic, but not overt). It was the way she took off her jacket at the end wearing a low cut nightie looking thing. > > Surely, you thought that was suggestive. I didn’t but it did surprise me for a second, because you didn’t see that she was clothed (bare shoulders) until they pulled back to a wider shot. I don’t think it was meant to be suggestive, just perhaps a poor choice of composition. I really enjoyed this episode. Wonder Woman doesn’t get to be an utter badass all that often, so it was enjoyable here. It reminded me of Gail Simone’s stuff (didn’t she write the first Metabrawl episode?), and I was surprised to see she wasn’t the writer. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/22 "2006-03-12T18:51:16Z")
BTW, I really, really liked watching BC brawl with Fire. She came \*this \* close to smacking the Brazilian Bombshell down without having to use her patented Canary Cry[sup]TM[/sup]. Dang. That was good. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/23 "2006-03-12T19:13:32Z")
BTW I really didn’t realize that was Nightwing til someone told me. I thought it was Blue Devil! :smack: Also, I was surprised Supergirl didn’t show. Why would it have been easier to get WW and not her? ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/24 "2006-03-12T20:08:37Z")
Where was Nightwing? ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/25 "2006-03-12T20:09:02Z")
Notice the Catman cameo at the start? Catman is being turned into a more important character in the DCU, so it’s interesting that they’d feature him. Likewise, with Supergirl’s ep next week, we see something happen that ties into what’s apparently happening with the comics. While the ADCU isn’t exactly the same universe as the DCU, it does seem to introduce things that echo what’s being done in the mainstream DCU. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/26 "2006-03-12T20:12:56Z")
> [@middleman](#): > > Where was Nightwing? He was on the bridge when Canary was going to the Arena. Remember one of the gargoyles on the bridge turned it’s head? ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/27 "2006-03-12T20:25:54Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > Notice the Catman cameo at the start? Catman is being turned into a more important character in the DCU, so it’s interesting that they’d feature him. Likewise, with Supergirl’s ep next week, we see something happen that ties into what’s apparently happening with the comics. While the ADCU isn’t exactly the same universe as the DCU, it does seem to introduce things that echo what’s being done in the mainstream DCU. Who was that he was “fighting”? And from what I’ve heard, the comics and animation guys have little contact. So it’s almost a little eerie that they sync up so well. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/28 "2006-03-12T20:45:22Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > Notice the Catman cameo at the start? Catman is being turned into a more important character in the DCU[…] Are they continuing his evolution from “Villains United”, where it appears he’s being groomed into the sympathetic antihero type (who’s willing to cross the goodguy/badguy no-man’s-land to act as the heroes’ conscience) rather than out-and-out villain? If there was anyone I felt for in that mini, it was Catman. And possibly Scandal. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/29 "2006-03-12T20:49:47Z")
> [@Love Rhombus](#): > > Also, I was surprised Supergirl didn’t show. Why would it have been easier to get WW and not her? WW’s probably the bigger draw. She’s been around longer than Supergirl and is better known. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/30 "2006-03-12T20:51:03Z")
Oh, I’m sure they have SOME contact, whether through mandates, or directly. The writers of both the comics and the shows are somewhat restricted as to what they can have characters doing and what major developments they can have happen. I should note that Canary in the animated series is LESS risque than in the comics. In the comics, she wears fishnets and often has a more revealing boob-compartment. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/31 "2006-03-12T20:52:13Z")
They were definately grooming him into something much more interesting than he’d been. I believe there is going to be an ongoing Secret Six series, and I’d be surprised if he and Deadshot weren’t main characters in it. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/32 "2006-03-12T21:05:42Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > They were definately grooming him into something much more interesting than he’d been. I believe there is going to be an ongoing Secret Six series, and I’d be surprised if he and Deadshot weren’t main characters in it. There’s a mini coming out. No word on the possibility of an ongoing. Its the same Secret Six, minus the obvious members, plus two unrevealed new ones. Gail has said Grundy won’t be with them. She hasn’t said anything about Knockout, but she seems obvious, since Scandal’s still there. ---
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/33 "2006-03-12T21:18:01Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > If there was anyone I felt for in that mini, it was Catman. And possibly Scandal. I really liked Deadshot in that mini. Actually, I just really like Deadshot. If I could pick my lineup for the new Secret Six lineup, I would go with Catman, Deadshot, Scandal, Ragdoll, Knockout and Shade. But I recognize the odds of that are pretty much zero in zero. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/34 "2006-03-12T23:00:44Z")
Oooh, Shade would be awesome in the Secret Six, but somehow I’d be surprised if Gail Simone picks up on James Robinson’s sympathetic immortal dandy antihero version of Shade. I’m also a huge Deadshot fan (and a Catman fan after VU), and I’ll be following the Secret Six no matter who the mysterious sixth member is revealed to be. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/35 "2006-03-13T01:07:00Z")
I wonder, if they are going to really start using Catman, how this affects Williams Street/AdultSwim’s Catman from Perfect Hair Forever? ---
**Author:** ![Orbifold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orbifold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orbifold)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/36 "2006-03-13T02:08:19Z")
> [@Love Rhombus](#): > > Also, I was surprised Supergirl didn’t show. Why would it have been easier to get WW and not her? In addition to **Otto** ’s response, let’s face it: having a character as young as the JLU Supergirl in this particular episode would have pulled it that much closer from “yeah, I can see why they show this at 10:30 at night” to “just plain creepy”. ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/37 "2006-03-13T02:11:01Z")
> [@Orbifold](#): > > In addition to **Otto** ’s response, let’s face it: having a character as young as the JLU Supergirl in this particular episode would have pulled it that much closer from “yeah, I can see why they show this at 10:30 at night” to “just plain creepy”. Supergirl is in her 20s so it’s not that creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/38 "2006-03-13T02:38:01Z")
Not on the show. She’s pretty clearly a teenage girl. ---
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/39 "2006-03-13T02:55:04Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Not on the show. She’s pretty clearly a teenage girl. Not in the comics either. She’s currently supposed to be 15 – younger than Billy Batson. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037/40 "2006-03-13T03:04:18Z")
I always liked Roulette as a villainess, and while this episode’s plot fits in with her M.O. perfectly (controlling heroes to fight in her casino/arena), making this an SSoV plot is a bit problematic., since Luthor could find more important things to do with mind-controlled JLAers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-3-12-chickapalooza-spoilers/348037.md?page=3)