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‘Batwoman’ Casts Javicia Leslie as New Series Lead
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Xenon
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Wasn't interested in the show before, not interest now either. I'm not the target audience but there's a joke name I just have to resist making.
DeafTourette
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In the comics, Batwoman is Kate Kane. A cousin of Bruce Wayne's. She doesn't know it initially but she's inspired to become Batwoman after Batman rescues her from some thugs. She's a lesbian and instead of renouncing that she's gay in the military, she takes the dishonorable discharge and goes out as an out gay woman.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
She's been in 3 animated movies... Batman vs Robin, Batman: Bad Blood and Justice League: Apokolips War... Are you talking about those depictions or did you think Batwoman was Batgirl?
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
I believe she was in Batman Hush as well, I might be misremembering. Those were definitely mediocre and/or just cameos for her. But I was talkin more of Mystery of the Batwoman.
It might be the worst Batman thing period. Worse than George Clooney nipples. Worse than the Dark Knight Returns sequels. How do you go from Mask of the Phantasm and Sub Zero to THAT.
sobaka770
Banned
Good choice. They are not casing Kate Kane so a new character can be of any race. Plus she's young, with talent and she's hot so they increase their viewer demographic by a bit. First season was actually quite decent story-wise.
Lol at those who say she got it mainly cause she's black, such a sad state of mind.
Lol at those who say she got it mainly cause she's black, such a sad state of mind.
HaveButOneLife
Banned
Netflix is woke too.
greenteaforme
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Pretty sure they already said the next Batwoman character is going to be a drug dealer who lives in a van. Doesn't seem like great representation. Could make for an interesting character though, who knows
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Revolutionary
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Here she is...
DESTROYA
Member
The hair is totally distracting, never watch the series and wonder how they explain the change or even worse just outright ignore it.
OnThePathToWisdom
Member
What a great way to stay anonymous...have your giant identifiable hairdo sticking out...
Pejo
Member
Cute but that hair seems like it's gonna get caught in shit like crazy, hell even just filming.Here she is...
Sleepydays
Banned
So CW stands for Clown World?
I agree the hair is ridiculous, but how else will they make her look as black as possible.
DESTROYA
Member
You can’t ignore it , but I wonder how the explain the stark difference.How dare they make a non popular character a different race! It will never work!
mortal
Gold Member
lol isn't protecting your identity the entire point of wearing the suit?Here she is...
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Even after reading about the previous Batwoman (comic accurate story reasons too) y'all still think THAT'S supposed to be her real hair? Just like for Kate Kane, it's a wig. That helps hide her identity.
Y'all can't be THIS clueless, can you? Especially since it was explained for Kate when Season 1 was airing.
mortal
Gold Member
The red wig was a stark contrast to her actual hair and she also wears eyeliner to further conceal her identity. At least that version made some practical sense.
If the point if to conceal one's identity, then why is the wig here especially mimicking naturally curly hair?
They're going out of their way to make sure we all know that she's black. Like it's obviously her, and anyone looking to expose her can easily make the connection lol.
DeafTourette
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No... No they can't easily expose her because her hair doesn't even look like the wig ... Even though it can. There's a thing called styling. Black women can style their hair a ton of ways.
DeafTourette
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It's be great if people stopped thinking black women only had hair ONE way. One of my closest friends is a black woman with naturally long wavy/big curly hair ... and no she isn't mixed.
mortal
Gold Member
I feel like you didn't understand my post whatsoever and immediately inferred me saying something about black women's hair...No... No they can't easily expose her because her hair doesn't even look like the wig ... Even though it can. There's a thing called styling. Black women can style their hair a ton of ways.
No shit women can style their hair how they want, goes without saying.
The red wig is actually in line with the Batwoman comics at the very least. So why is this wig especially mimicking naturally curly hair?
You can already tell who she is with her eyes and mouth region being exposed.
No one care about your closest friend's hair. I'm criticizing the cowl.
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DeafTourette
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Ok. So you're criticizing the cowl. The same cowl that could have still exposed Kate Kane and Bruce Wayne based on your observations...
Ok
Labolas
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I think you're having a completely different argument here. No one is saying black women can't have different styles or that couldn't be a wig she's wearing but it's obviously the costume, particularly the cowl that's the problem. She isn't making any attempt to hide her identity when she is supposed to her identity a secret. They wanted to let you know that this BLACK WOMAN in the costume and this was blatant.
And there isn't a lot of black women running around Gotham. And if she's someone of notoriety then this makes even less sense.
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TyphoonStruggle
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If you're a black woman with curly-hair trying to hide your identity, why would you wear a curly-hair wig??? I would think if she's using her wig to hide her identity she should actually wear something that works to that effect.
But let's be honest here. If she was a wearing a straight-hair wig that hid her identity effectively, many people from the twitterati left would say that the actor is being oppressed by western standards of beauty.
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Piku_Ringo
Banned
Well, sewing in miles of Yaki into her scalp to go out crime fighting, might take too long.
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mortal
Gold Member
Compared to this one? Hardly.
Forsythia
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finowns
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New girl doesn't look any dumber than this:
You’re not wrong.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Batman's jawline and mouth are clearly seen in every iteration of him from the original show to Justice League. If anyone could see Batman, they could tell it's Bruce Wayne. Same with Kate Kane's Batwoman.
Why is this any different? The same amount of jawline and mouth is visible with Ryan's.
That's not an afro, bro. It's just a curly hair wig.
And it's a prop the costume design team added. Not Ms. Leslie.
El Pistolero
Banned
Just in: The Joker is a Vegan youtube Makeup artist, Catwoman a Hijab wearing Chinese computer wiz, Double-Face a gender-fluid political activist and Bane, according to the latest news, a gay Mexican fitness instructor.
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Let's be honest here. Batwoman is one of the stupidest looking superheroes every created.
And let's be even more honest, this version looks better than Ruby Rose (which wasn't hard, I admit), plus, you can throw a pebble and find a better actress than Ruby Rose, so all in all, this should be an improvement.
I say improvement, not good. Unless you're Mythbusters you can't really polish a turd.
And let's be even more honest, this version looks better than Ruby Rose (which wasn't hard, I admit), plus, you can throw a pebble and find a better actress than Ruby Rose, so all in all, this should be an improvement.
I say improvement, not good. Unless you're Mythbusters you can't really polish a turd.
lock2k
Banned
New girl doesn't look any dumber than this:
OK, this looks retarded.
And the new one does just as much. LMAO
God that looks stupid
So much for keeping a secret identity. It's like Sailor Moon - bitch looks exactly the same when transformed. Fucking lol.
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EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
95% of Batman is Bruce Wayne the other 5% is villains, side characters, city etc. no disrespect to women this character just sucks.
mortal
Gold Member
Some are definitely better than others, admittedly (the Nolan Batman for example.)
Still makes more practical sense compared to this one, because they're weren't going out of their way to advertise the new ethnicity of batwoman for no reason.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
I still don't get what you're saying.
Ryan was a drug runner... Not a cop. And she isn't the only black woman in Gotham. Eating she's really identifiable holds no water because she isn't on billboards or TV like Bruce Wayne was
mortal
Gold Member
You don't get what I'm saying?
New Batwoman is black, but let's also design her with a wig mimicking naturally curly hair...for some reason.
Also I never mentioned her being a cop as that's not relevant. She doesn't have to be the only black woman in Gotham to be identifiable when her most identifiable facial features are clearrly visible lol
It's just a bad cowl design imo.
Nolan's Batman had him speaking entirely different register for his Batman persona to further distance himself from Bruce.
Even with Bruce being a public figure it would be more difficult to make the connection based on the combination of the cowl, the difference in voice & behavior.
