BIRDS OF PREY

With a new Birds of Prey movie coming out next year, I might as well do a quick one on this since I did watched the Birds of Prey series that came out last 2002 to 2003 which was aired here in the Philippines some years back.

An all-female superhero team under DC Comics which started since 1996 which was composed of Black Canary and Barbara Gordon who has adopted the codename Oracle for its timeline. The comic series was created y Jordan B. Gorfinkel and Chuck Dixon.

The Birds of Prey Team is mainly all female team but, in some occasion, some male characters become a member of the team. The core team is made up of Barbara Gordon also known as Batgirl or Oracle and Black Canary, and they are later joined by other superheroines teaming up with them. Not only does this team sometimes gets male members but some known supposed villains under the Batman series also gets to join the Birds of Prey, just to name some are Catwoman and Poison Ivy.

The team Birds of Prey has made their appearance in some animated series like Justice League Unlimited where the team was composed of Batgirl, Huntress and Black Canary and two male members acting as their dates while doing their undercover mission. Another appearance of the team was in Batman: The Brave and The Bold series and this time the members are Huntress, Black Canary and Catwoman. So the members or team composition depends on what characters exists in the series leaving only the core members to recruit additional members, just like in The Brave and The Bold, Black Canary is the recurring core member since Barbara Gordon exists in the series only as Batgirl.

Birds of Prey was represented by Black Canary in the Injustice 2 game.

The comic book series also received a live action series titled Birds of Prey starring Dina Meyer as Oracle and Ashley Scott as Huntress and is later joined by Dinah as the third member. Barbara here is paralyzed and is often seen in their headquarters on her wheelchair and Huntress introduced here as the daughter of Batman and Catwoman. The series aired from 2002 to 2003 the series only had 13 episodes with the trio facing off with Harley Quinn as the main villain in the series.

I was not able to watch all 13 episodes of the series as far as I can remember, but the series for me during that time was something that I would wait for each week, and since I rarely had internet connection back then nor did I cared how many episodes does one series has during that time I just watch it until they do a rerun or a new series takes over its timeslot. I am not a total DC or Marvel geek but knowing that a series is a supposed part Batman I think that was a reason why I got glued in the series specially when Huntress was said to be the daughter of Batman and Catwoman that peeked by interest to watch it. The series by the way was a so-so rating for my taste, I just watched the series thinking Batman will later appear later in some episodes.

Now jumping to 2019 a trailer for the a new Birds of Prey series came out where this time the main character is Harley Quinn as she teams up with Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to protect a young girl named Cassandra Cain (who also later goes by the name Batgirl in later stories). The new Birds of Prey is out to protect Cassandra Cain from Black Mask, the supposed main villain for the new Birds of Prey.

His new Birds of Prey is a film that will take place after the Suicide Squad storyline where Harley Quinn is seemingly left Joker and has teamed up with Birds of Prey members Huntress (Helena Bertinelli), Black Canary and Renne Montoya.

I have not seen Suicide Squad yet so since this movie will be out by next year I still have a chance to go and find me a copy of the Suicide Squad movie since Birds or Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is said to be events to take place after the story of the other movie.

Other than the regular team up of the various members of the Birds of Prey, for me I sometimes consider the random all girl team up in DC may they be pure superheroines or some female villains joining their ranks, I consider them as the Birds of Prey. So yeah I know some will disagree on that but that is just my own opinion on their random team ups that later ends up fighting against the same opponent. Since Birds of Prey is often composed of women from both sides teaming up you can expect some of them will be fighting or performing in a rather not so conventional ways or how others are used to seeing them fight their opponents. Rather also Birds of Prey is most of the time out of the box mix of heroes and villains teaming up against one opponent.

Pictures from the internet credits to the owners of the pictures

Youtube channel The Rap Sheet for the video of 2002 Birds of Prey

Youtube  channel KinoCheck International for the Birds of Prey 2020 trailer

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