A Certain Pair Cameo in the New Young Justice Episode...

[espanolbot]

Mini-review, so spoilers.

There were two main plotlines in today's episode, with a story involving mainly Roy Harper trying to work out who is trying to kill the negotiator for a peace agreement between the DCU versions of North and South Korea.

And the other involved Superboy and Megan beginning their integration into human society by signing up to the local high school, where they meet a number of characters you can kind of recognise from both the Teen Titans tv show and the comics.

You might recognise these two, for example,


Overall, I thought that it was a fairly good episode, with the school stuff balancing out the political intrigue of Lex and the League of Shadows pretty well. The references to the Teen Titans in Conner and Megan’s school were pretty cute, and I liked the shows depictions of Ra’s and Lex. The Cass Cain/Artemis parallels continue to grow, with a definate David Cain/Lady Shiva vibe being produced whenever the two are together, amongst other things. We’ll see where that plotpoint is going, I guess.

For legality, here is a picture commissioned by Wizard Magazine of Cass and Babs getting into a fight.

Comments

[zechs80]

Huh.. I'm surprised you didn't post the possible Teen Superhero homage: Bumblebee, Cass, M'ggan, Proxy, Empress, Mary Marvel, and Cassie (though maybe Steph or Stargirl? Given Cassie is supposed to actually appear on the show next season).


Plus Herald and Snapper Carr too.

[espanolbot]

Yeah I was going to post some of the other cameos, though I got distracted. XP

I have to say that I did like their version of Lex Luthor. It was hybrid of Clancy Brown, James Marsters and Kevin Spacey, softspoken, intelligent and menacing.

I'm not sure if the blonde is meant to be a reference to Steph though, as she generally has longer hair than that.

[icon_uk]

Agreed, I loved that Luthor never raised his voice, but was calm and analytical throughout. His reasoning was also very logical indeed.

[aaron_bourque]

That might be Katana, not Cass.

[espanolbot]

If they're meant to be references to teenage superheroines, it might be Traci 13, Katana is meant to be significantly older than her... except in Brave and the Bold. There her costume is a reference to Gogo from Kill Bill.

[zechs80]

Can' a person dream this is Cass's second animated venture?

[espanolbot]

I'm my view it already is.

What with Artemis essentially being Cass and all.

[calvision]

Have they confirmed that it's Cassie appearing next season? I was personally hoping for Donna.

[long_silence]

Well Cassie was the one who was actually in the comic version of Young Justice, but that didn't help Tim or Bart. And even though comics Cassie had that relationship with Superboy, the creators have been shoving Superboy/Ms Martian down our throats since the pilot.

Though Cassie's origin is a lot less complicated than Donna's.

I think it could be either Wonder Girl at this point.

[calvision]

Yeah, I would have been sure of Wonder Girl being Cassie had the cartoon used Tim and Bart, but since it's Dick and Wally (and Roy) I kind of started to expect Donna.

Or they might do a Donna with something like Cassie's story? Since Donna's is so complicated.

[long_silence]

Plus they even have Garth running around. Just add Donna and you've got a full set of original Titans, for the first time ever on TV.

They didn't even use the actual Arrowette. They used some strange combination of Tigress and Cassandra Cain. Cassie's chances aren't looking too great.

[eyz]

Woah! Awesome!
'need to check out this episode it seems^^