Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities The Vixen is a Major Player Thread

Vixen, actually got a lot of love by Luke McDonnel in JLD and Suicide Squad as well as lots of story time in those books!

She'll always be a Suicide Squad staple foremost for me.

Vixen is one of my favorite DC super-heroines. She's got a neat original characterization and powerset, like Black Canary, and isn't a 'girl version' of anyone.

(Even if she appeared sixteen years after Animal Man, who has pretty much the same powers.)

When the Detroit League first launched, with the amazing Martian Manhunter as their big gun (so often given less to do on a team with Wonder Woman and Superman), and the dynamic and awesome Vixen and Steel characters, I was in love with that era. (Although I was not so much a fan of Vibe or Gypsy...) Also, Aquaman and Zatanna got some decent exposure, two more characters that tended to get sidelined in a 'classic' League lineup with characters like 'the Trinity' or Flash or Green Lantern.

But, yeah, Vixen, all the way. One of my favorite DC heroes, because her powers are just all over the place, and yet easily defined and limited. While she sometimes gets some crazy feats, like 'proportional beetle strength' or 'the speed of 100 gazelle' or something silly, even with 'only' cheetah-speed and falcon flight and shark swimming and electric eel touch and blue whale strength, she's just got ridiculous versatility. Need someone to go fight alongside Aquaman at the bottom of the ocean? She can do that. Need someone who can fly? She can do that. Need any of hundreds of incredible sensory abilities, such as bloodhound tracking, or the ability to sense direction, or create a sonar chirp? She can do that. Need someone who can pistol-shrimp-punch someone so fast and hard that there's a sonic boom and the air catches on fire around her fist? She can do that.

Need someone who can wrap up people in spider-webbing? She can do that too, as long as Marvel's lawyers aren't looking.

That episode was amazing, the fight scenes incredible ... Black Canary vs Huntress then Vixen and Vixen really got to show off all her various powers in a really quick manner with no explanation ... such a great and underated show!

then ... when the four of them Huntress, Hawkwoman, vixen and canary have to fight Wonder Woman ... damn that was good and there were some major heroics against the brainwashed killing machine that is wonder woman.

<wonder woman is a bit like superman here> when the wonder woman i grew up with would be ferclumped by being run over by an elephant or a rhino instead of neatly blocking vixen's attack.

I thought she had some good stuff at the end of JLD during the Luke McDonnel era. (might even have set up the suicide squad stuff)

i prefer her as a JLAer even though she got so much story in SS. I'm glad she came out of the dark period ... but i liked her banter and flirting with bronze tiger.

If there was a big 7 or 12 JLA of mine I would count her in it!