When Wondy was... Dakota Fanning?

[ebailey140.insanejournal.com]

Some highlights from one of my favorite JLU episodes, "Kid Stuff", in which Diana, Clark, Bruce, John... and Etrigan are tranformed into children, with Dakota Fanning voicing Diana.




And, the last three pages of Wonder Woman V2 #62, which ended the Perez run. The War of the Gods is over, though not everyone survived. Perez's final issue was about the characters closing chapters of their lives and beginning new ones, including the Amazons, Steve, Etta, and Ed, with Diana trying to figure out what she should do, next. Nessie, meanwhile, is graduating Junior High, and we conclude with a little meta and Fourth Wall breaking.

Comments

[tsuki_the_geek.insanejournal.com]

Kid Stuff is one of the most amazingly fun JLU episodes ever! This and the "Silver Age" episode "Legends." Like with the end of Perez's run, meta-stories are just awesome.

[leikomgwtfbbq.insanejournal.com]

Kid Stuff was one of my favorites simply because of Kid!Batman and Kid!Etrigan.

I wish there were Kid!Flash and Kid!J'onn, though. That would've been even more awesome. Or maybe the universe would've exploded from the sheer awesome.

[colonel_green.insanejournal.com]

Given how amateur/immature the adult Flash was, there wouldn't really have been any difference worth showing with a younger version of him.

[sherkahn.insanejournal.com]

You make it sound like it is a bad thing!

He would seem to be like Dash from the Incredibles, though.

[magus_69.insanejournal.com]

Conversely, he could have been the most serious of the lot. Sometimes it goes the other way.

[janegray.insanejournal.com]

That letter was incredibly sweet.

[janegray.insanejournal.com]

Unfortunately, my enjoyment of Kid Stuff was ruined by the ending. Watching the guy, who wasn't even particularly evil, get a fate worse than death was incredibly depressing. It would have been much better if he had just died.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

I may have to watch the episode again (yay! an excuse) but Mordred was a malevolent little shit wasn't he? The fact he'd been a brat for so long just makes him creepier.

[janegray.insanejournal.com]

Malevolent, yes. Outright evil, no, I don't think so. He did try to make his "subjects" happy, listening to their requests and granting them, and he chose to banish the adults rather than killing them or even harming them in any way (of course, if they had stayed trapped in that crappy dimension, sooner or later they would have starved to death or something; but I doubt Mordred planned that: I'm arguing that he was not really evil, not that he was not dumb).

He certainly deserved a harsh punishment, but, if you ask me, the kind of horrific punishment he got was way too much, I really don't think he deserved that. Death would have been a far kinder fate.

[unknownscribler.insanejournal.com]

Oh, Mordred was all sorts of evil, he just filtered it through a child's unsophisticated mindset. Remember he's been kicking around since the Dark Ages.

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

are non-high school graduations as common as fiction makes them out to be? I know I never had one.

[unknownscribler.insanejournal.com]

We got one for Yr 10 (but that may have been due to the fact that strangely our school only went to year 10 and I had to go elsewhere for 11 & 12. But given that in many places you can leave the education system at the end of year 10, a graduation ceremony at that point does seem logical.

[colonel_green.insanejournal.com]

My elementary school had a going-away ceremony for all the Grade Sixes; not with robes and stuff, but we got certificates. I can't remember about Junior High.

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

I had one for elementary school (grade five, although it was very casual), one for middle school (grade eight), and high school.

[gwalla.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

I "graduated" from middle school and junior high, so yeah. I think it's been an increasing trend.

[morgana006.insanejournal.com]

My grade school (grade Eight - there was no middle school or junior high or whatever since the school was tiny) had a much more classy graduation than my high school's. It had a dance and dresses and awards and everything. My high school graduation was just a bit tacked on to the end of the Closing Ceremonies (with us in uniform) and a dinner later.

I think it really depends on the school.

[colonel_green.insanejournal.com]

For three of the four Little Leaguers, they do a great job of playing their kid-personas against their adult ones; Superboy is just kinda there, though.

I particularly like Batman's struggle to use his I AM TEH NIGHT schtick when it just comes across as cute.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Oh, I dunno-- Superboy's complete inability to get what was going on with Diana was pretty good:

Kid Superman: What's with them?
Kid Green Lantern: Man, for somebody with like fifty different kinds of vision, you are so blind...
Kid Superman: What?

[colonel_green.insanejournal.com]

That was funny, but what does it have to do with the adult Superman?

[brandiweed.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Supes is often perceived as a naive farmboy, even as an adult.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

That's one of the things I most liked about his characterization in the 90s cartoon (STAS). You can catch him off guard if you hit him with something that he hasn't seen before and isn't expecting. But he's not dumb, and if you try the same trick on him again...

[jkcarrier.insanejournal.com]

Speaking of meta, I love how Little John makes himself a Kyle-style crab mask and a Hal-style boxing glove.

[bariman1987.insanejournal.com]

He also had a much wilder imagination as a child, so he was making very elaborate constructs, instead of the standard green energy beams and forcefields he makes as an adult. It could be argued that li'l!John is actually more powerful than his adult self.

[joysweeper.insanejournal.com]

*laughs* Little Batman's fighting style is all kid. A few years back all the Justice League videos were on Youtube and I watched some of them(mostly because The Great Brain Robbery had been described and I was curious), but I guess they got taken down. Boo.

...And yet,

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*laughs* Little Batman's fighting style is <i>all</i> kid. A few years back all the Justice League videos were on Youtube and I watched some of them(mostly because The Great Brain Robbery had been described and I was curious), but I guess they got taken down. Boo.

...And yet, <a href= http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=webslingspiderswing&view=videos all the epsisodes of Spectacular Spider-Man</a> are up... Gonna have to make some time.

[joysweeper.insanejournal.com]

Fail HTML is fail. Meant to link here (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=webslingspiderswing&view=videos).

[kingrockwell]

They still have a bunch of Justice League eps on Youtube, I was watching 'em a couple weeks ago. Didn't look for Unlimited eps since I have the DVDs, but I saw a few links in the Related bar.

[joysweeper.insanejournal.com]

Hmm. I didn't see those, but then I didn't click to open it in a new tab. Definitely going to have to look into this once I've finished my paper.

(Procrastinate! Procrastinate!)

[neuhallidae.insanejournal.com]

Bitty!Etrigan is still the best thing ever.

[kingrockwell]

Lil' John is my favorite. "I'm gonna make a lawn mower and chew 'em up!"

[sistermagpie.insanejournal.com]

Batman's last line is classic. I haven't been a kid since I was 8. Oh Bruce, you were totally a kid.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

Yes, Bruce, YOUR PARENTS ARE DEAD. We know.

[sessile29.insanejournal.com]

Lying on the ground, twitching....

[proteus_lives.insanejournal.com]

Kid Stuff is one of my favorite episodes of JLU. I'm a Marvel man but JLU ruled!
"I'm gonna tell!" Ha!

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

I seem to recall Fanning admitting, in an early interview, that she's just a little bossy in RL. So, good fit. :)

[liarashadowsong.insanejournal.com]

Wow, "Kid Stuff" is just made of cute. I haven't seen that episode in so long that I'd almost forgotten how adorable the mini-League is. Pity we didn't get to see some other superheroes teeny (tiny!Flash, anyone?) too, though baby Etrigan mostly makes up for it.

[neuhallidae.insanejournal.com]

Considering the video was about hilarious bits, I'm surprised they didn't include Copperhead's spazzing at the beginning. "It's Judgment Day, and we've gone to the bad place! The bad place!"

AWW

[etrigan.insanejournal.com]

I always loved Baby Etrigan! XD