# Why No Mighty Isis? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603 "2019-03-27T12:54:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603/21 "2019-03-27T17:17:20Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > I don’t find the character uninteresting. And whatever most people might think, she preceded Storm, so she’s not a ripoff. And Hydrox came before Oreo. Doesn’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603/22 "2019-03-27T17:20:17Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > What do you find interesting about the character? I ask because those of us who remember the Saturday morning show don’t recall any details about the character. I couldn’t have even told you that she controls the weather and I follow superheros. I remember her quite well. Okay, her character in itself wasn’t riveting. A calm competent teacher, who as Isis flew standing up so she could regally descend from the heavens when doing her superhero bit. The big pull for me back then was the ancient Egypt hook. The Field Museum’s Treasures of King Tutankhamen exhibit was a recent memory then, and had sparked off an Ancient Egypt craze among my friends and I. Well, hell, I was thirteen, and Egypt was extremely cool, what with Hatshepsut and Cleopatra and Nefertiti and all. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603/23 "2019-03-27T18:29:05Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > I remember her quite well. Okay, her character in itself wasn’t riveting. A calm competent teacher, who as Isis flew standing up so she could regally descend from the heavens when doing her superhero bit. The big pull for me back then was the ancient Egypt hook. The Field Museum’s Treasures of King Tutankhamen exhibit was a recent memory then, and had sparked off an Ancient Egypt craze among my friends and I. Well, hell, I was thirteen, and Egypt was extremely cool, what with Hatshepsut and Cleopatra and Nefertiti and all. Ah, yes, I forgot, her amulet had once belonged to Hatshepsut. I can’t recall if the show coincided with my class study and field trip to see Tut but I too really dug the Egyptian part. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603/24 "2019-03-27T20:20:37Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Ah, yes, I forgot, her amulet had once belonged to Hatshepsut. I can’t recall if the show coincided with my class study and field trip to see Tut but I too really dug the Egyptian part. [You and I weren’t the only ones.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbavuReVF4) Did any other traveling museum tour ever arouse that much hoopla as King Tut? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603/25 "2019-03-27T21:11:20Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > The big pull for me back then was the ancient Egypt hook. And the short skirt. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603/26 "2019-03-27T21:39:03Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Lack of name recognition is not THAT big a hurdle. The Guardians of the Galaxy had pretty much zero name recognition and it’s still one of Marvels biggest hits. The problem is that it looks like a very uninteresting derivative character, “Storm ripoff” would be most people’s reaction. It’s a gigantic hurdle. When the MCU said they were putting out guardians of the galaxy there was a lot of disbelief and criticism because of the lack of name recognition. But the MCU had a string of gigantic successes and could afford to take a chance. And of course that chance paid off because it was a really enjoyable movie. DC hasn’t built up that kind of reputation. I know I went to see guardians on opening weekend without seeing reviews just because what the hell it was a Marvel movie. I’m not doing that with a DC movie. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603/27 "2019-03-27T21:39:47Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > And the short skirt. For you maybe, but I was too much of a straight female to get wound up over that. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603/28 "2019-03-27T21:43:46Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > For you maybe, but I was too much of a straight female to get wound up over that. And now that I think of it, how come male adolescents got Isis and her super short skirt while female adolescents got Billy Batson and his lame full body jumper?:mad::mad::mad: ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603/29 "2019-03-27T21:56:52Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > I did watch the show occasionally, and was suitably impressed by Joanna Cameron’s charms. Lovely woman! I would have loved to have seen more superheroic action, though. I don’t remember her doing much by the way of fight scenes. Sadly, this is [a more typical action scene.](https://youtu.be/sNHuAMDssqU?t=1031) Then Wonder Woman came along and [stomped that kind of storytelling to death.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQR4ZNfXz80) ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603/30 "2019-03-28T00:16:06Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Okay, the name Isis has an unfortunate connotation in today’s world, but maybe that could be overcome. Or else change her name to Hathor or something. Hathor was a cow though, so that might still be fraught with issues. How about an Electra Woman and Dyna Girl movie? I think that was a segment on the same show as Isis. However, decades of memory decay on top of the original gelatification of my brain from childhood addiction to Saturday morning programing has left me a bit fuzzy on that point. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603/31 "2019-03-28T01:46:29Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > How about an Electra Woman and Dyna Girl movie? I think that was a segment on the same show as Isis. However, decades of memory decay on top of the original gelatification of my brain from childhood addiction to Saturday morning programing has left me a bit fuzzy on that point. Fuzzy cuzzit wuzzint. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603/32 "2019-03-28T01:52:33Z")
How about Hathor fights a corrupt police squad called the Blues. Then you could call it _Even Cowgirls Get the Blues_ ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603/33 "2019-03-28T04:21:13Z")
Are you talkin’ about some Jo-anna Cameronses and pet bird Tut that can be telepathic? Hell yeah! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-mighty-isis/831603.md?page=1)