Harley Quinn: The Animated Series

I feel Kiteman would be easy to track. "I wonder what direction he fled in?" is answered instantly by checking the wind direction. Of course, if smart he could play into that, ride the wind a few blocks South, then drop into the subway and ride the train North where nobody is looking for him.

Also, technically without a line anchoring him to the ground he's no longer a kite, he's just a glider. Still, massive props for inventing a compact glider that you can stow and deploy in a backpack at the press of a button.

Plus it's just hard to have Kite Man seem competent at all without giving everybody else the Idiot Ball.

Hell, even Gordon could deal with Kite Man easily by just shooting the kite.

Not if he drops smoke bombs and flies outside the range of bullets.

Plus I'm sure there are plenty of ways to make him competent without making everyone else stupid.

Isn't the usual method of making any villain threatening just giving them goons and deathtraps?

Just slap a kite on them and you're good to go.

Drone knite bombers!

Now I want to see kites with bombs attached to them and whole Gotham police has to fly these kites because the bombs will go off if they touch the ground.

The obvious best weapon for a theoretical competent Kite Man would be stealth. Just borrow from history (and historical fiction) and make him a ninja.

CBR gave a list of characters they'd like to see in season 3:

• Power Girl
• Black Canary
• Deadshot
• Livewire

It would be nice to see Power Girl in an animated series for once.

It would be interesting to see what route they took with Power Girl and Harley's view of her c.f.: known better for fan service than actual competence/personality.

Livewire was at the wedding.

The article does mention that.

https://pressroom.warnermediagroup.com/gb/media-release/hbo-max-highlights-august-2020

Both seasons will he put on HBO Max on August 1.

If Livewire shows up, I wonder if they'll continue the running trend of her turning good in ever continuity except the one that actually created her.

She's also pretty bad in DC Super Hero Girls (2019)

So I watched the first episode.

At first I was really concerned with all the gratuitous "mother fuckers" in there and needless gore, but there wound up being a surprising amount of heart and genuinely funny moments.

But seriously. After the third motherfucker in the first minute I was concerned. I have no issues with swearing, but I was worried it would confuse vulgarity for comedy.

I think the show kind of starts out frontloading the profanity, probably to enforce the idea that it's R-rated. It either eases out from there, or the writing learns to use the profanity more naturally. I'm not sure, it's been a while since I've seen the first few episodes.

I dunno, I feel like they did it on purpose to say "Hey, parents, just letting you know, this shit's R-rated, not PG-13. Got that? Fucking good, let's keep going then."

It's like how the beginning of each of Luke Cage's seasons had (censored) sex scenes and such even though it's not really the kind of thing that's present in the rest of the series. It's to show off that the series is R-rated early on, something that gets dropped as it actually starts going.

I hope this show popularizes this version of Kite Man, King Shark and Clayface. They were consistantly fantastic.

Edited by Zeromaeus on Aug 15th 2020 at 4:58:53 AM

Agreed - though since all three are so nice that they barely qualify as villains, I'm not sure they would work in a story where they are antagonists rather than Villain Protagonist.

As long as they're still at least Affably Evil , then it could work out.

We also need King Shark to be Constantine's ex.

I can see them adapting a more dudebro Kite Man in other media since he's a joke villain anyway, but the other two wouldn't work for pure villain characters.

I feel like a sophisticated posh ham Clayface would work.