I used to refer to Gotham as DC’s twist on Muppet Babies, but I’m officially eating my hat about those jokes, because the upcoming TV show DC’s Superhero Girls created an alternate universe that put all of DC’s heroines in high school together (and also makes them all high school-aged). Watch the trailer above and you’ll see what I mean.
Who’s the headmistress, by the way? Is that supposed to be Amanda Waller? Because … if it is, then maybe all of this can be explained as some sort of elaborate governmental experiment to make all of DC’s heroes and villains high school-aged and to force them to participate in teenage activities, such as clique-building and pre-calculus. This is a world in which Catwoman and Beast Boy are the same age, for some reason. Something happened here.
Actually, this show looks super adorable to me. Sure, it’s completely non-canonical, but that’s okay; I’m pretty chill about that sort of thing, especially given that this appears to be a DC comics show that is explicitly aimed at girls. I think the intended audience for this show probably skews much younger than, say, Teen Titans or Young Justice, which featured some pretty serious violent and perilous situations for the kids. This show looks more like Clone High (which was a fantastic show, by the way) — a show where the characters faced far less serious problems, but still got into some funny situations from time to time.
Lastly, let me just emphasize this again: even though this is a show about a co-ed high school (called Superhero High School, because … sure), the show is about the girls who attend the school specifically. There’s boys on the show, but the girls got the show named after ’em. This is a superhero show that is for girls. I’m typing that over and over because I’m kind of shocked, especially given that the cancellation of Young Justice and Teen Titans allegedly happened because “too many girls” liked those shows. Even if this show looks “too girly” to you (which — come on), you have to admit that its existence alone feels like a step in the right direction.
(via Comic Book Resources, image via DC Superhero Girls)
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