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6 on Legends of Tomorrow Season 5, Episode 3 Review - Final GirlsEach season of Legends of Tomorrow pits the team against a new monster-of-the-week threat, usually caused by some mistake one of the Legends made in the season previous. This year, it's the Encores - evil people sent to Hell, given a second chance to wreak havoc on Earth. The Encores thus far have been historical figures,…
You know how it goes. If a character gets sucked into a mirror in a sci-fi story, one of two things happens. Either they enter a freaky mirror world, or they get replaced by a mirror person. Last week left us off with Iris getting sucked into a mirror by some terrifying mirror hands, and…
Good things come to those who wait. After two episodes of setup, Black Lightning and his team finally drop in on the Markovians for a super-powered battle that doesn't skimp on special effects or fight choreography. The rescue mission doesn't go quite as planned, but it doesn't disappoint, either. And we get a pretty great…
"Who are you guys?" asks a new character as they step onto the Waverider for the first time. "We're idiots," Mick Rory replies. Whether he knows it or not, this seems to be the anthem for the Legends, the dumbest and best show in the Arrowverse. This week, they're taking on a Bugsy Seigel-sized ego…
What do you do when you knew for a fact that you were supposed to die--and then didn't? That's the idea behind the CW's now-canceled Lucy Hale vehicle Life Sentence. It's also a big part of this week's episode of The Flash, the first back from the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. Everyone in Barry's life…
It's fair to say that opinions are divided on the movies of the so-called DC Extended Universe. One thing both critics and diehards seem to agree on, though, is that Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn was a bright spot--maybe the only bright spot--in Suicide Squad. Between that movie, the Batman Arkham games, and a multi-media assault from…
Black Lightning set up a clear conflict early into the season: the Markovian army wants to capture powerful metahumans and turn them into tools for war. The A.S.A. wants to stop them but plans to weaponize the metahumans for themselves in the process. In the middle is the town of Freeland. The ASA has been…
Who is Harley Quinn? That totally depends on where you jump into her story, and that's part of what makes her great. Often times, when we dig into a character's backstory to profile them, they've been around for decades and undergone countless transformations and resets. They appeared on other labels or have had multiple secret…
I'm a 1980s and 1990s kid. To even conceive of walking past a figure like McFarlane's Batman: The Animated Series Batman and not picking it up causes me emotional stress. A couple weeks earlier, the store I bought this figure at had put a few of the figures out before street date. I tried to…
After a season-long occupation, Freeland's resistance started fighting back last week and hit the ASA hard. There's still work to do, though, and the team is ready to get to it if only they could start communicating with each other. Beware spoilers for Black Lightning Season 3, Episode 11, "The Book of Markovia: Chapter Two: Lynn's Addiction."…
Neither Oliver Queen nor Greg Berlanti could've imagined the world they were creating when Arrow began. The dark, gritty, and violent show spawned a universe of optimistic, powerful, heroes. Arrow began as a follow-up of sorts. Smallville had ended and another grounded comic book show probably made a lot of sense at the time. Then, Berlanti,…
The Arrowverse is doing a bunch of doppelganger stuff over the last couple of weeks. Supergirl had extra Brainys, then double Winns, and now Batwoman has twice the usual Beth Kanes. Was this planned or is it just happenstance? The end result is that we're getting to see a lot of CW actors flexing their…
We're in full-on post-Crisis territory, and characters are starting to get used to their new normal. In National City, Kara is wary of Lex's motives, and he's eating up every sideways glance she gives him. J'onn, as we'll find out, has stepped into his expanded role eagerly. As one of Earth's paragons, he wants to…
Arrow's final season has been really, really good. It has been focused and has used seven seasons of characters and back story to give us the kind of closure and sense of history that shows almost never get. As someone who has stuck around with the show since the early days--I discovered it on Netflix…
Legends of Tomorrow is the stupidest show. The show is rife with plot holes and sketchy acting. And yet, it's the most earnest and genuine of the CW DC shows and has some of the most fleshed-out characters in the Arrowverse. Season 5 began with the final episode of Crisis on Infinite Earths, but the…
After a long holiday break, Black Lightning's back. We catch up with him as he returns from his time hanging out with some kid named The Flash. Having watched his family burned away by anti-matter, he's more than a little excited to see that when the Spectre restored the universe, Jefferson's family came with it.…
In the aftermath of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, nothing is quite the same as it was. But by all accounts, it seems like Supergirl has more to adjust to than anyone else so far. Not only has her world merged with that of Earth-1 and Black Lightning's un-numbered Earth, but one of her world's greatest…
With the Crisis on Infinite Earths now over, it's time for both us and our heroes to do what you have to do after a big vacation or some serious drama: go back to normal, everyday life. The first character to step back into the world is Kate Kane--Batwoman. At first, it doesn't seem like…
The Crisis on Infinite Earths is over, and it did what a DC Crisis always does: end a lot of worlds. But while it assembled the Arrowverse, it didn't completely flatten the Multiverse. A final montage showed us the worlds that the Spectre created with his dying breaths. Here's what we ended up with: Earth-Prime:…
We had to wait an entire month for it, but the Crisis on Infinite Earths has ended, and the two-hour finale, which encompassed Arrow and the Legends of Tomorrow, didn't disappoint as it did exactly what a DC Crisis does before giving the heroes time to wrap up the story. In case you hadn't guessed,…
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This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com