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Rebooted as the Shadow Bandit. He robs his victims in the most violent ways, and keeps a finger as a souvenir.

Actually, I would see a Hawkman movie working as a romance, playing up the reincarnated lovers angle, with Carter rescuing Shiera from Dr. Hastor, as in the origin story. I would keep it purely to the Golden Age story, with no mention of Thanagar.

Can we have Shiera rescuing Carter this time? That would be an interesting reversal!

It would be, and if it were set in the present, I'd think it a great idea; but I'd like to see it as close to the original Golden Age source material as possible.

Of course the likelihood of them ever making such a movie is rather slim.

I'm not too familiar with the Golden Age Hawkman stories. At what point did Thanagar enter the picture?

The Silver Age.

The JLU toon did an interesting thing. Hawkgirl was from Thanagar, but the Shadow Thief and Hawkman both claimed that she was also the reincarnation of an Egyptian princess. How she got reincarnated on a different planet? Well, in her first life she was a Thanagarian who landed on Earth and then became a princess!

That was an interesting blend. I very much enjoyed Hawkman as he appeared in the JSA title about 10 or so years ago and his solo title. There was so much promise for him , Hawkgirl (Kendra), and Dr. Fate (Hector). TPTB at DC have really let so many great characters go for no good reason.

Oh, what a long list that would be. Characters screwed over by DC.

I never liked Hawkgirl from the JLU cartoon. I woud have rather seen Aquaman more often in her place.

Hawkgirl was probably my favorite of the seven League founders in the toon

Of all the versions of the Hawkpeople, I like Tim Truman's 3-part Hawkworld mini-series the best. The monthly book which followed, less so. Truman had originally wanted the Hawkpeople to arrive on Earth during the Golden Age so that he and his collaborators could retell Golden Age stories with a modern spin. TPTB nixed that, insisting it be set in the present day, which led to the continuity fustercluck that has been the Hawkpeople's albatross ever since.

That's interesting. I had always thought it was supposed to be the arrival of the Silver Age versions due to the Thanagarian connections. I hadn't thought of it going all the way back to the Golden Age too.

Hmm... I'm not sure if I realized they'd done it that way on the cartoon, but I always thought something like that would be a nice take on the Hawks, with one of them compelled by dreams to cross the distance between Thanagar and Earth to find the reincarnation of their long lost love...

At the time (1989) the Silver Age was too recent to be re-interpreted yet, while the Golden Age was an underexplored potential (forgive the pun) gold mine.

Just imagine... a Wesley Dodds/ Carter & Sheyera Hall pulp adventure...

>sigh<

Speaking of pulpy takes on the JSA, new Multiversity coming tomorrow!

Funnily enough, the origin had both Hawks landing on Earth from Thanagar. But in the modern day, Hawkman was born on Earth while Hawkgirl was born on Thanagar. Maybe you were ghostwriting this bit in your sleep!

I'm really fond of cartoon Hawkgirl. I remember there was a high-ranking female foe from Thanagar, too. Part of the army that was sent to take her away from Earth...?

The obsessive un-girling of S2's cartoon Legion was so damn irritating. Even our one glimpse of Thanagar was 100% male. Grrrr...

Yes, I remember her. She was part of the original occupying force, and appeared again as part of the group who tried to get revenge on her.

And I am with you on S2 of the toon. We rarely had more than one female Legionnaire featured in each episode. Sigh. At least Violet and Dream Girl (I think) had good episodes.

The Legion cartoon was cute, though it took a few too many liberties with the source material. That's pretty much been the problem with DC's adaptations for other media. It's never faithful enough to the comics for my tastes.

The Legion cartoon made Cos seem like such a tool.

Yeah, especially in the Timber Wolf-fugitive and Karate Kid episodes. He was a lot better in the first season.

I didn't like Timber Wolf's lupine appearance very much. Even though it made Brainy more likeable (which is quite a task), I didn't like his being a little robot boy.

I prefer organic Brainy myself. Healthier for the diet.