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Birds of Prey (Comic Book)
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Birds of Prey is a DC Comics series running from 1999 to 2009, relaunched in 2010, and relaunched again as part of the New 52 in 2011, created and originally written by Chuck Dixon. It features ex-Batgirl Barbara Gordon after she was paralysed at the hands of The Joker in Alan Moore's The Killing Joke and reintroduced in the Suicide Squad series of the early-90's. Now the tech-savvy Oracle, she is a wheelchair using computer genius who leads a team of superheroines from a high-tech HQ. Originally located in the Clocktower in Gotham City, her headquarters was later moved to Metropolis and then to Platinum Flats.Under Dixon the team centered around Oracle and the Black Canary as they began working together and building a personal relationship in addition to their professional relationship. When Gail Simone took over writing duties she introduced the Huntress, and several storyarcs later Lady Blackhawk to round out the core group, with heavy emphasis within the story that their family was just as important as their crime fighting adventures. This teaming persisted until Canary's departure, around the time of her marriage to Green Arrow, after which the Birds took on a more fluid line up with Huntress and Lady Blackhawk as senior field team leaders, and Misfit as regular Bird-in-training. However, the rest of the team was filled in such a way that it seemed like any female character from The DCU might show up next. Manhunter also became a regular during this period, supplemented by other heroes as needed.Gail Simone eventually left the series and was replaced as writer by Sean McKeever and later Tony Bedard. Under Bedard's pen, the team moved to the new locale of Platinum Flats, where they were joined by the mysterious Infinity and focused on fighting the "Silicon Syndicate". However, soon after the location move the series was cancelled, along with the Nightwing and Robin titles, in the wake of Final Crisis and the death of Batman. The separate characters were either transferred to other titles or quietly dropped from active publication and the final arc was left unresolved.The title was revived in May 2010 under Gail Simone and Ed Benes, initially featuring a Brightest Day banner, with Oracle, Black Canary, Huntress and Lady Blackhawk back in Gotham and Hawk and Dove as new regulars. This was a popular move. Gail's final issue was #13, released June 8, 2011, after which there was a two issue guest arc by Marc Andreyko, naturally featuring Manhunter.In September of 2011, Duane Swierczynski and Jesus Saiz took over creative control of the series with the company-wide New 52 relaunch. The New DC team is composed of Dinah Drake Lance (Black Canary, mother of previous star Dinah Laurel Lance), Tatsu Yamashiro (Katana), new creation Evelyn Crawford ("Starling"), Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy), and Barbara Gordon (Batgirl). Huntress (now Helena Wayne, not Helena Bertinelli) has some connection to the team, though her adventures were detailed in her stand-alone miniseries and the Worlds' Finest ongoing series, with any connections to the Birds currently remaining a mystery. A little over a year after the relaunch, it was announced that Strix, a former member of the Court of Owls would be joining the team. The series floundered creatively after Swierczynski left, and was cancelled at issue #34.In 2016, the title was relaunched as Batgirl and the Birds of Prey as part of DC Rebirth, with Shawna and Julie Benson as writers and Claire Roe as the artist. Like many of the Rebirth titles, the new series was launched with the goal of hearkening back to the pre-New 52 version of the team, with the group now consisting of Batgirl (Barbara Gordon), Black Canary and Huntress.Foillowing a 5 year hiatus after the end of the Bensons' run, Kelly Thompson and Leonardo Romero will be relaunching the team in Sepetember 2023.The series served as the basis for a live-action TV series which took a different approach to things. The core of the team is Huntress (daughter of Batman and Catwoman, as per her pre-Crisis backstory), Dinah, a touch-telepath and the daughter of Black Canary, and Oracle (Barbara Gordon, forced to give up being Batgirl after becoming paraplegic). Harley Quinn serves as the Big Bad. Tropes for this iteration of the concept can be found in the article Birds of Prey (2002).In September 2010, Simone wrote an episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold which featured the team in a leading role. Though the character interactions were similar to those featured in the comics, Oracle was omitted from the team due to her absence from the show's established canon (and, according to the creators, rights issues). However, her role as the third member of the team was filled by Catwoman, who herself occasionally worked with the Birds, primarily during Chuck Dixon's run.A movie set in the DC Extended Universe was released on February 7th 2020, titled Birds of Prey (and The Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn). It's the first R-rated DCEU movie, and features a rather creative cast of Harley Quinn, Black Canary, Huntress, Renee Montoya, and Cassandra Cain. Barbara Gordon is not featured as she has not yet been introduced to the DCEU. | |
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Secret Identity | |
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Secret Identity: Oracle remains Barbara Gordon in her time off, masquerading as the owner/operator of a hi-tech company to explain some of her equipment purchases. Huntress lives as Helena Bertinelli, a school teacher in Gotham. She is also, starting during Gail Simone's run on the series, a capo in the Gotham Mafia, which she uses to deconstruct organized crime from within. Black Canary is a complicated example; early issues had her explain that she no longer bothered with a secret identity because she no longer had a personal life to protect, and she used her real name and code name interchangeably. However, later issues had her maintain a life as florist Dinah Lance and made references to keeping her civilian and superhero lives separate, but while "on duty" she continued to introduce herself with her real name and was publicly recognized as Black Canary while "off duty". She even has a Justice Society of America credit card that she can use to purchase airline tickets without raising any attention. How this all reconciles with other events (such as her very public marriage to Green Arrow/Oliver Queen without anybody then knowing that Arrow and Queen are the same person) has yet to be explained. | |
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Honor Among Thieves | |
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Honor Among Thieves: As a Mafia Princess Helena Bertinelli is more than familiar with the concepts of criminal "honor" and hates the very concept, since all it does is provides excuses and justifications for their actions. This comes to a head when Black Canary and Lady Shiva are forced to fight a duel to the death over an affair of honor involving yet another criminal, the White Canary, and the end result is just that people will die for no good reason. | |
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Katanas Are Just Better | |
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Katanas Are Just Better: Katana is depicted as being capable of dispatching scores of gun-toting opponents with her namesake weapon. | |
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Urban Legends | |
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Oracle was originally an Internet Urban Legend, spoken of in chat-rooms and forums without much credibility, but over time has become a famed Internet celebrity known to heroes, villains and the general population. This has led to some problems, as she is supposed to be a mysterious legend. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: At its initial inception, Birds of Prey was a major departure for the character of Black Canary. She abandoned her campy and flashy fishnet outfit for a more "practical" bodysuit fitted with all sorts of gadgets and compartments. When first showing Canary her new outfit, Oracle even goes out of her way to take a dig at Canary's old costume and reputation. The tone of the book itself was also new for many of the characters; the team rarely dealt with the sort of cosmic baddies and cartoonish villains that Black Canary faced in the Justice League, instead focusing on more real world threats like terrorism, human trafficking and drug dealing. | |
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Boisterous Bruiser | |
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Boisterous Bruiser: Lady Blackhawk, though one of the sweetest and kindest women you will ever meet, is a lady who loves herself a good rumble and is always happy to run screaming into battle. | |
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Relationship Upgrade | |
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Relationship Upgrade: Savant and Creote go from being Just Friends to... dating? Lovers? Whatever their exact status, it becomes explicitly romantic when Creote's feelings for Savant are revealed. | |
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Villain Team-Up | |
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Villain Team-Up: Catwoman, aware that Black Canary is still wanted by the police, asks if she is interested in a "super-villain team-up." | |
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Sorry, I'm Gay: During an undercover investigation, Black Canary states that if she is hit on by a male lab technician, she'll shrug off his advances by claiming that she's dating Starling. | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy: When Huntress began poking around the Oregon compound (See Brainwashed above) cult leader Brushaw had the cultists mob her en-masse. During the the Silver Age in Blackhawk, Zinda Blake (Lady Blackhawk) was captured by villainous Nazi operative Killer Shark, who used a chemical potion to brainwash her, forcing her to take up the identity of the costumed Queen Killer Shark. She battles her former comrades several times before she was freed of the effects of the potion. Later in Birds of Prey, she was captured again by Killer Shark (who was revealed to be the grandson of the original), help beat and caught her teammate Huntress (Helena Bertinelli), lead Killer Shark to the original one treasure. Zinda was freed with some help from her teammate Helena Bertinelli, and Killer Shark was defeated. In Blackhawk, Zinda Blake Queen Killer Shark's personality was cold and ruthless to the point that she had no loyalty to Killer Shark, having abandoned him twice and even outright betrayed him. While in Birds of Prey, Zinda Blake Queen Killer Shark's personality is entirely loyal to Killer Shark, with her being completely in love and devoted to him, to the point that it's implied that she had a sexual relationship with the original Killer Shark and is more than willing to sleep with the current Killer Shark while thinking he his grandfather. | |
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The Rival | |
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The Rival: Spy Smasher to Oracle. | |
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Custom Uniform of Sexy | |
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Custom Uniform of Sexy: One of Huntress's costumes is a leotard with a weird little cutout for her midriff — this was lampshaded in series and Simone eventually changed the costume. Huntress' explanation for the change: "Seven-hundred sit-ups a day". Its continued presence (and absence) seems to depend on the writer (and artist), and Simone said that there were plans to get it changed again once the relaunch moved past its first few issues. Unfortunately, the New 52 relaunch removed Huntress from the series before this promised change could take place. | |
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Stripperiffic: Huntress' belly window and hotpants. | |
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Vulnerable Convoy: The "Apokolips Express" kicks off when oracle gets a tip-off that there is a planned breakout from a train transporting meathuman prisoners to The Slab. The breakout happens... by teleporting the train to another planet! | |
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Embarrassing Hospital Gown | |
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Embarrassing Hospital Gown: In issue #71, Dinah is taking Barbara out of the hospital in a hurry on her bike. Barbara is still in a hospital gown and Dinah jokes that she better put on a coat or get dressed unless she wants to flash her butt to every cab driver in Gotham. | |
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Nigh-Invulnerability: Hawk and Dove are the physically strongest of all the Birds, and Hawk once put himself in a helicopter with the express intention of it being blown up. | |
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Dare to Be Badass | |
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Alternate Company Equivalent: Fearless Defenders, launching in February 2013, is already being called "Marvel Birds of Prey". (Confirmed team members are Valkyrie, Misty Knight and Dani Moonstar) Domino (2018) featured a similar group built of Domino herself, Diamondback, and Outlaw, who share many traits with the Birds, which makes perfect sense considering this book is written by Gail Simone herself, who has openly admitted to trying to create a 'Marvel counterpart' to the Birds. When the book ends, the trio are joined by several other related heroines (and Deadpool) to form the Hotshots, to give them a similar name. | |
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Aborted Arc: Gail Simone's final arc, with Junior as the main villain was derailed by Flashpoint. It ended after just two issues (it looks like it was supposed to be a 4 or 6 parter) on a cliffhanger with the Birds having discovered Junior's in Gotham, barely escaping with their lives and Oracle trying to work out a plan to get her. Although another two issues were published prior to the reboot they had a different writer and featured Those Wacky Nazis as the villains. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Huntress spends most of her duel with Lady Shiva (which lasts several pages) getting beaten to a bloody pulp. After an assassin threatens to murder her students, Huntress jumps her and pummels her to within an inch of her life. During Black Canary's training that simulated what Lady Shiva experienced, she had a burlap bag thrown over her head and was forced to fight off a dozen or so men. While she took some of them out, they eventually overpowered her and beat her until she lost consciousness. | |
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Super Wheelchair | |
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Super Wheelchair: Averted. Barbara has never had anything except a normal wheel chair, propelled by muscle-power and without any extra gadgets. In early 2011 Gail Simone requested submissions from fans of the series to design Barbara's new chair, which she planned to make her "official" chair, and she listed several guidelines for the design. Oracle's wheelchair must be "fairly light, functional, and modern. Expense is not an issue, but obtrusiveness is, she wouldn't want anything that people will notice, in the same way that she doesn't really dress to be noticed when going outside. We want something maneuverable and versatile." The idea of "hidden missile launchers" was specifically forbidden because "It doesn't fit her character... Oracle is not Professor X or the Baby Cart Assassin." | |
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Non-Indicative Name: "Black Canary" really has nothing to do with Dinah Lance's skills, behavior, powers or history; ditto her mother, who originated the title. She does refer to her sonic wail as her "Canary Cry," but it is never implied to actually sound like a real canary and she had the name before her powers arose. The team itself, for that matter—the only ostensible reason for calling them the Birds of Prey is that they all happen to be women (and even that doesn't always fit, given Hawk's membership following Brightest Day). Lampshaded in a Blue Beetle comic: | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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The team at one point had three blonde womennote though technically Black Canary is a brunette who bleaches her hair. Dove has white hair, but previously had blonde hair in her secret identity. To better differentiate her, she was given white hair in both identities for Birds of Prey. The trope receives a Lampshade Hanging when Hawk refers to "the blonde with the legs" when talking about Lady Blackhawk, who he doesn't know well at that point. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Happens to Spy Smasher after Oracle gets fed up with her leadership. It starts with Babs beating the crap out of her. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2af6bbeb | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2be271c7 | type |
Hollywood Hacking | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2be271c7 | comment |
Hollywood Hacking: Oracle. She once took down the Internet with a few keystrokes. Yes, the entire Internet. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2be271c7 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2c27353f | type |
Was It Really Worth It? | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2c27353f | comment |
Was It Really Worth It?: Black Canary was kidnapped, taken around the world and ends up facing Lady Shiva for the first time all because she has a grudge against Archer Braun. Was it worth it? Yes, it was (See Woman Scorned below). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2c27353f | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2f94135c | type |
Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2f94135c | comment |
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Oracle follows this rule and enforces it on her operatives. When Black Canary and Huntress meet for the first time, tracking down the same criminal, Oracle is emphatic that Canary not get involved because of Huntress's tendencies to cross the line. Black Canary ignores Oracle's warning; Huntress does kill him. This leads to obvious friction when Huntress and, later, Manhunter eventually join the team. Oracle's line on this issue softens somewhat by the end of Simone's first run on the title: she tells Huntress to do whatever is necessary to bring the team home safely, even if it means she has "to spill some juice on the carpet." See Unusual Euphemism, infra. Black Canary reminds Lady Shiva of this rule when they team up to avenge their sensei's murder. Shiva responds that she respects Dinah enough to concede a little. That is, Shiva promises to announce when she intends to kill someone, to give Dinah the chance to stop her. After the relaunch, Dinah takes a much freer stance on the issue and is fine with Katana killing mooks in a fight. Her internal monologue explains that Katana was everything she thought she would be, including "lethal," and only reminds her to leave at least one alive for questioning. However, as the series progressed, she began to object to Ivy and Katana's lethal actions. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2f94135c | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2fb61faa | type |
Statuesque Stunner | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2fb61faa | comment |
Statuesque Stunner: Big Barda, the page image, is a minor recurring character before the move to Platinum Flats. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2fb61faa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_2fb61faa | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_309c05ec | type |
Teleporter Accident | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_309c05ec | comment |
Teleporter Accident: Misfit's teleportation powers are extremely advanced (see Required Secondary Powers above), but she cannot bring any living being with her when she "bounces". If she tries, the other being explodes after transport. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_309c05ec | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f | type |
Even Evil Has Standards | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f | comment |
Even Evil Has Standards: Though she has general contempt for concepts like "criminal honor," which usually just lead to only more death for no good reason, Huntress admits that at least the Mafia left families and, especially, children alone. Whatever they did to each other, for whatever stupid reasons, at least children were kept out of the way. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_31f7c194 | type |
Super Window Jump | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_31f7c194 | comment |
Super Window Jump: When Cheshire jumps out a window, pursued by Black Canary, Lady Shiva shakes her head and comments that there is a perfectly good set of stairs. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_31f7c194 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_336c1a31 | type |
Kinda Busy Here | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_336c1a31 | comment |
Kinda Busy Here: Subverted by Huntress, who takes a call from Oracle while beating up some thugs without missing a beat and talks without acknowledging what she's doing. In Secret Six Huntress once herself called Catman while in the middle of a beatdown on some thugs, so it just seems to be something she does. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_336c1a31 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_336c1a31 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_33fbdabc | type |
Forced Prize Fight | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_33fbdabc | comment |
Forced Prize Fight: Misfit and Black Alice were involved in one against each other in 'The Dark Side Club'. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_33fbdabc | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_3403abfc | type |
Mugged for Disguise | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_3403abfc | comment |
Mugged for Disguise: Thorn beats up and ties and gags a nurse in order to steal the woman's outfit as part of an escape plan. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_3403abfc | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_34082c59 | type |
Wolverine Publicity | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_34082c59 | comment |
Wolverine Publicity: The 2016 relaunch is dubbed Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, likely to capitalize on the popularity of the Batgirl of Burnside ReTooling. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_34082c59 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_341b1691 | type |
"Take That!" Kiss | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_341b1691 | comment |
"Take That!" Kiss: After Oracle and Huntress have proven their independence from, and even superiority to, Batman, Black Canary kisses him before sending him on his way. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_341b1691 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_35b429f3 | type |
Weird Trade Union | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_35b429f3 | comment |
Weird Trade Union: Black Canary and Huntress were once sent by Oracle to infiltrate a meeting of dozens of henchpeople who worked for various Gotham criminals. It turns out that they were meeting in order to unionize and demand proper payment and benefits for their work. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_35b429f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_35b429f3 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_372bc105 | type |
Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_372bc105 | comment |
Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Huntress explicitly states to Catman that there is a scale, with Captain Marvel & Superman at one end and The Joker at the other. The middle of that scale, where she herself lives, is filled with gray, but she is at least trying to change her position. Catman, she explains, needs to pick a side, since you cannot just hover in the middle forever. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_372bc105 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_373283c9 | type |
This Cannot Be! | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_373283c9 | comment |
This Cannot Be!: White Canary has two of these while watching the duel between Huntress and Lady Shiva. First, she can't believe Huntress is still conscious, let alone still standing, after Shiva's opening assault. Later, she's aghast that Huntress was able to actually knock Shiva down. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_373283c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_373283c9 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_38b48685 | type |
Born in the Wrong Century | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_38b48685 | comment |
Born in the Wrong Century: Justified. Zinda Blake was originally a fighter pilot and hero from the 1950's who was brought to the early 21st century via Time Travel. Due to her liberal and highly controversial beliefs regarding women's rights, responsibilities and abilities she is more at home now than she was in her original era, but she is struggling to deal with all of her friends and teammates dying of old age. Also, she can hardly get anybody to honor her senior citizens discount. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_38b48685 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | type |
Batman Gambit | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | comment |
Batman Gambit: Cheshire had a complex and well-developed plot to destroy the life of a US Senator, whom she claims is her biological father that raped her mother, take revenge on Black Canary, whom she hates for the relationship Canary shares with her daughter, and kill Lady Shiva along the way, whom she will use as a decoy to fake her own death. The plan moves along (relatively) smoothly, but falls completely off the rails when a few small details drop out of place at the climax when all her enemies come together. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | featureApplicability |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_3a4522df | type |
Pietà Plagiarism | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_3a4522df | comment |
Pietà Plagiarism: The script for the first meeting of Oracle and Black Canary specifically stated that "We’re going for The Pieta" when describing the panel of Canary cradling Barbara. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_3a4522df | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_3a4522df | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_3f92ad39 | type |
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_3f92ad39 | comment |
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Averted when Lady Blackhawk gets mind controlled by Killer Shark. Huntress fights her to try and snap her out of it, but gets knocked out since she was holding back, not wanting to hurt her friend; Zinda was just far too skilled while under the spell. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_3f92ad39 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_3f92ad39 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_401d4116 | type |
Broken Aesop | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_401d4116 | comment |
Broken Aesop: This is a bit of a mix of Broken Aesop and Hard Truth Aesop, but the moral of The Battle Within, the arc from issues 76 to 85, appears to be the fairly stock aesop of "You should accept your friends for who they are and not try to change them," except that what Oracle was trying to change about Huntress is her tendency to kill people. In the end, Oracle apologizes to Huntress, and, in the Dead of Winter story arc (issues 104-108), actually tells Huntress to use deadly force against the Secret Six if she thinks it appropriate, possibly making this the Hard Truth Aesop that sometimes killing people is a good idea. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_401d4116 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4063acfd | type |
Woman Scorned | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4063acfd | comment |
Woman Scorned: | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4063acfd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4063acfd | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | type |
Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | comment |
Shut Up, Hannibal!: Black Canary delivers an immensely satisfying one to Mortis, mid-Mind Rape, effectively telling her to go screw herself. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_41a49201 | type |
Red Skies Crossover | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_41a49201 | comment |
Red Skies Crossover: The series relaunch in 2010 was initially published under the Brightest Day banner, the story of which deals, at least in part, with the heroes resurrected in the aftermath of Blackest Night. The Birds of Prey title was itself resurrected in the aftermath of Blackest Night, but with the exception of having Hawk and Dove on the team it has no connection to the storyline of the event. Apparently realizing this, several issues into the series the Brightest Day banner was removed from the title. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_41a49201 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_41d9aaef | type |
Brainwashed | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_41d9aaef | comment |
When Huntress began poking around the Oregon compound (See Brainwashed above) cult leader Brushaw had the cultists mob her en-masse. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_41d9aaef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_41d9aaef | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_44dd01be | type |
Tagalong Kid | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_44dd01be | comment |
Tagalong Kid: Misfit | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_44dd01be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_44dd01be | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_44fc28e8 | type |
Honor Before Reason | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_44fc28e8 | comment |
Honor Before Reason: Huntress, because she grew up as Helena Bertinelli in the very middle of the Gotham Mafia, is well acquainted with the concepts of criminal honor and respect and the like, and she finds them idiotic and ridiculous. All they do is provide a justification for criminality and offer excuses for the way people act, and when Black Canary is going to fight Lady Shiva to the death over issues that all stemmed from an affair of honor she wants to find a way out of it. Ultimately, she decides to play their own game and challenges Shiva first, so that the matter of "honor" will be settled and Canary will no longer be involved, even though she is aware that she will inevitably die herself; at least Dinah will be able to emerge from the situation alive. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_44fc28e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_44fc28e8 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_46e53efd | type |
Screams Like a Little Girl | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_46e53efd | comment |
Screams Like a Little Girl: Huntress recognizes that when the Calculator screams like a little girl after a few scratches he erases the respect and fear that he used to keep his henchmen in line. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_46e53efd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_46e53efd | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_46ec76fb | type |
Working the Same Case | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_46ec76fb | comment |
Working the Same Case: The very first Black Canary/Huntress meeting came when they were both on the trail of Archer Braun, a criminal who had separately scorned both women in their private lives. Catwoman got involved, too, but she just wanted the money Braun owed her. While Black Canary is battling Cheshire in Hong Kong with Lady Shiva, Oracle is being held prisoner by a corrupt US Senator in Gotham. These seem to be two completely independent stories until these plot threads crash together in a pretty glaring Contrived Coincidence: Cheshire murdered Canary's teacher as part of her plot to destroy the life of that same US Senator! | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_46ec76fb | featureApplicability |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_46ec76fb | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_478ae179 | type |
And Now You Must Marry Me | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_478ae179 | comment |
And Now You Must Marry Me: During the Chuck Dixon run, Ra's al Ghul seduces Black Canary under a false identity and begins a relationship with her. Once she finds out who he really is and naturally tries to end things, he tries to force her to marry him by dumping her into a Lazarus Pit to make her amenable to the idea (and to restore her ability to have children). | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_478ae179 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | type |
Would Hurt a Child | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: The White Canary's threats to kill Sin, Black Canary's adopted daughter/sister, and complete willingness to carry out those threats are one of the issues that makes Huntress rank her beneath even the Gotham mob, which would at least generally leave children out of it, and is also the one tactic that gets Black Canary to cooperate and agree to fight Lady Shiva to the death. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_49fb5ccb | type |
Combat Pragmatist | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_49fb5ccb | comment |
Combat Pragmatist: Huntress, though a trained and experienced martial artist, has nowhere near the natural skill or pure talent that Lady Shiva or Black Canary do, and so has to supplement her abilities with whatever is handy. When fighting Shiva, fully aware that she will almost certainly not survive the encounter, she throws her own blood in Shiva's eyes and remarks that, for all Shiva's skill, she has never had to do the street fighting or brawling that Huntress has done. During her battle with Vixen, Huntress avoids being curb stomped by the powerful heroine by aiming for her face. Since Vixen is a famous African supermodel in her day job, the blows to her face help snap her out of her brainwashed state. Later on, Huntress shoots her with a pistol. Hawk, as the Avatar of War, is more brutal than most of the other members of the birds. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_49fb5ccb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_49fb5ccb | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4acee1ed | type |
Fish out of Temporal Water | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4acee1ed | comment |
Fish out of Temporal Water: Lady Blackhawk | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4acee1ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4acee1ed | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4b045a8a | type |
Villainous Valour | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4b045a8a | comment |
Villainous Valour: The mook in issue #11 of the relaunch, who despite being beaten up, hobbled by a crossbow bolt in the foot and pursued relentlessly does not go down until Catman shows up and tackles him. Huntress even admits to herself that she's impressed by how tough the guy is. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4b045a8a | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4b045a8a | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4c083756 | type |
Signed Up for the Dental | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4c083756 | comment |
Signed Up for the Dental: The failed attempt to unionise the henchmen of Gotham City. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4c083756 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4c083756 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4c095112 | type |
Call to Adventure | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4c095112 | comment |
Call to Adventure: The series literally starts with Black Canary, whose car was in the middle of being repossessed and who was being hounded by other creditors, receiving a phone call from the mysterious Oracle and being invited to join her on an adventure. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4c095112 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4c095112 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4c798fd5 | type |
Shock and Awe | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4c798fd5 | comment |
Shock and Awe: The villain Current appears in the relaunch working for the Calculator, and he has some sort of technology that grants him electrical powers. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4c798fd5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4c798fd5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4c798fd5 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4d0372b | type |
Everybody Knew Already | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4d0372b | comment |
Everybody Knew Already: At the height of Huntress's infiltration of the Gotham Mafia, Barbara Gordon brought her father into the Clocktower and revealed to him her secret life as Oracle. He was suitably surprised and impressed, but when she also told him about her time as Batgirl before her paralysis he explains that he figured that part out years ago. After all, you do not get to be police commissioner by being a slouch. Barbara is glad he accepts her, but regrets how much time and energy she put into hiding her activities when he already knew. At the time of the relaunch Barbara has decided to kill Oracle because the persona has become so well known. Her actual identity is still a mystery, but the mere fact of her existence is known not just by superheroes, but also supervillains and even a lot of average Internet users. Almost all the villains know who she uses for her operatives, and many have made it a personal matter to combat and attempt to kill her or her friends. For a mysterious behind-the-scenes information broker she is simply too much in the spotlight. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4d0372b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4d0372b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4d0372b | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4f362a27 | type |
Implied Rape | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4f362a27 | comment |
Implied Rape: While not outright stated, it is heavily implied when Zinda Blake (Lady Blackhawk) was captured by villainous Nazi operative Killer Shark and brainwashed into being his partner and taking on the identity of the costumed villainess Queen Killer Shark they had a sexual relationship. During a flashback, when Zinda was brainwashed, she was hugging Killer Shark in a suggesting way, and Zinda's friend and teammate Huntress (Helena Bertinelli) stated she was brainwashed into thinking she was Killer Shark's lover. It's said that Zinda does not have memories of her times as Queen Killer Shark; however, it's implied she wants revenge for being used by him. When Zinda was again brainwashed into being Queen Killer Shark by Killer Shark, who was revealed to be the grandson of the original, her brainwashed personality was shown to be completely loyal to Killer Shark. Zinda was completely in love and devoted to Killer Shark, to the point that it's implied that she was more than willing to sleep with the current Killer Shark while thinking he was his grandfather (though thankfully, Killer Shark was defeated before that can happen). | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4f362a27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4f362a27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4f362a27 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4f8037fd | type |
Mook–Face Turn | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4f8037fd | comment |
Mook–Face Turn: Terry, one of the White Canary's students, guides Black Canary to where Sin is being hidden and then helps Sin and her foster parents escape so that Canary can stop the Huntress/Shiva fight to the death. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4f8037fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4f8037fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4f8037fd | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4fc753f | type |
Olympus Mons | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4fc753f | comment |
Olympus Mons: Black Alice has the ability to steal the magical powers of anybody in The DCU. This includes the claws and fur of Cheetah, the sorcerous powers of Felix Faust, and even the wondrous strength of Wonder Woman. However, when she says she can take the powers of anybody, she does mean anybody, and she once took the powers of The Spectre. An emotionally traumatized, angry teenage girl now has the literal power of God's wrath. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4fc753f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4fc753f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_4fc753f | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5009999d | type |
Painting the Medium | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5009999d | comment |
Painting the Medium: Mortis speaks in black speech-bubbles with yellow lettering and borders. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5009999d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5009999d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5009999d | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_506ffa51 | type |
Tears of Joy | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_506ffa51 | comment |
Tears of Joy: Sin is just so damn happy to be having pancakes. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_506ffa51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_506ffa51 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_506ffa51 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: Cheshire murders one of Black Canary's and Lady Shiva's former teachers, poisoning him and six of his students, even though he was frail old man with terminal cancer who would have passed soon, anyway. Why do this? Why start a long chain of violence and death that will spin out of this? | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_50ca4422 | type |
Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_50ca4422 | comment |
Unresolved Sexual Tension: Oracle and Black Canary's relationship has often seemed to verge extremely close to the romantic, but their past (and current) relationships with other characters (Nightwing for Oracle, Green Arrow for Black Canary) is one of the impediments for any sort of Relationship Upgrade. Likewise, even though a sexual attraction has never been explicitly confirmed, the Oracle/Canary relationship is often stated within canon to be one of the factors that prevents any sort of permanent bond with the other halves of the pairings. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_50ca4422 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_50ca4422 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_50ca4422 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_51beab21 | type |
Good Old Fisticuffs | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_51beab21 | comment |
Good Old Fisticuffs: Zigzagged when Huntress and Lady Shiva square off in a fight to the death. Even though she never expects to actually win, Huntress plans to at least injure Shiva by getting close and brawling with her instead of fighting at a proper distance with a refined style. Her logic is that, though Shiva has spent years dueling the most refined and skilled martial artists in the world, Huntress is a street fighter and understands how to get up close and personal in a fight. Huntress does manage a single knockdown on Shiva, but gets beaten into hamburger to do so. Shiva remains unscathed. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_51beab21 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_51beab21 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_51beab21 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53830d | type |
The Internet Is for Porn | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53830d | comment |
The Internet Is for Porn: Barbara might regularly save the world with her on-line connections, and with her world-wide influence she might actually be more dangerous than Superman, but by far the greatest single moment of this series is when we learn that she and Ted Kord "cyber did it" one time. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53830d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53830d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53830d | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | type |
Empowered Badass Normal | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | comment |
Empowered Badass Normal: Strix is a Talon from World War II, and has her Immortality Inducer. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53b6ab6a | type |
Jumped at the Call | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53b6ab6a | comment |
Jumped at the Call: When Black Canary received a call from Oracle offering her a job and adventure (See Call to Adventure above) she ran out of the house before the answering machine had finished playing the message, offering the first taxi she saw her last $20 to get her to the airport right away. She did not even know what the job was, or who Oracle was, and she did not wait to find out. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53b6ab6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53b6ab6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53b6ab6a | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53c9fc92 | type |
Flashback | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53c9fc92 | comment |
Flashback: The long histories of almost all characters are often explored and examined when they impact the current mission. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53c9fc92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53c9fc92 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_53c9fc92 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_554063c6 | type |
If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_554063c6 | comment |
If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: The original Oracle/Black Canary team-up ends with Canary ready to kill Nick Devine, the mastermind behind the Evil Plan, and Oracle explaining why she cannot do it. Eventually, Canary lets him live because he is not worth compromising herself over. The Huntress had cult-leader Sovereign Brushaw at her mercy at the end of her crossbow as Vixen begged her not to cross the line. Huntress lowers her crossbow and allows Brushaw to be taken into custody...and reveals that Vixen should not thank her for anything, her crossbow jammed. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_554063c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_554063c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_554063c6 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_56585e87 | type |
Combat Clairvoyance | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_56585e87 | comment |
Combat Clairvoyance: Archer Braun, the very first foe that Black Canary and Huntress united against, had the ability to know what you would do before you did it. He was able to outfight Lady Shiva, and dialogue indicates that this is an almost common interaction between the two of them. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_56585e87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_56585e87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_56585e87 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_56c55ed8 | type |
I Am Not Left-Handed | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_56c55ed8 | comment |
I Am Not Left-Handed: When Manhunter and Black Canary are fighting, Manhunter refers to all the recent sparring she has done with the likes of Wonder Woman, and how happy she is to now test her skills against such a legendary martial artist like the Canary. However, during the fight she remarks that Canary is not living up to her expectations and she wonders why she has not yet used her Canary Cry. Canary explains that she "is trying really hard not to put [the Manhunter] in the hospital." | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_56c55ed8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_56c55ed8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_56c55ed8 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_570f2124 | type |
Minor Injury Overreaction | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_570f2124 | comment |
Minor Injury Overreaction: Huntress recognizes all the implications for Calculator's future when his henchman see him so unnerved by a minor scratch. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_570f2124 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_570f2124 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_570f2124 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_59938d30 | type |
Better than Sex | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_59938d30 | comment |
Better than Sex: In one issue, Black Canary and Oracle apparently have the best shrimp ever. Black Canary claims if she had two bites of them a day she would never need another man. In one issue, the supervillainess Knockout calls fighting "better than sex and almost as brutal" before a fight with Big Barda. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_59938d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_59938d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_59938d30 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5a365ed2 | type |
Incompatible Orientation | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5a365ed2 | comment |
Incompatible Orientation: Lady Blackhawk took quite a liking to Creote, the hulking wall of tough-as-nails man, but found herself summarily kicked out of the race when she learned that Creote was already in love... with Savant. She apparently decides to make sure this never happens again, as upon meeting Hawk in his civilian identity she asked Dove if he was "fancy". Just prior to the New 52 reboot, it was clear that the Question (Renee Montoya) clearly had a thing for the Huntress. Huntress, meanwhile, did not even know that Question was gay, and was straight herself. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5a365ed2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5a365ed2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5a365ed2 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5b6e57e | type |
Required Secondary Powers | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5b6e57e | comment |
Required Secondary Powers: Oracle is fascinated by Misfit's ability to "bounce" because she seems to avoid all of the problems that other characters have with the power. She never bounces into the same place as an object, she never needs to worry about different environmental factors between her origin and destination, and her range seems to be effectively worldwide, as she bounces from Gotham to Russia in one jump, and across the continental USA in another. She even heals while bouncing, once instantly repairing a bullet-wound to her stomach. This all combines to make Oracle view her as possibly the most powerful teleporter in the DCU. However, though Misfit can bring inanimate objects with her when she bounces she cannot bring any living being with her when she teleports as they explode immediately after transport. It's originally implied that another of her secondary powers to Bouncing is the ability to teleport to a location based on VERY simplistic guidelines. She initially finds Oracle, despite Oracle being a highly secretive member of the Bat Family (yes, even by their standards) and Misfit never showing any particularly remarkable intellect. As such, it's possible that all she needed to do was "Bounce to Batgirl" and that brought her straight to Oracle's sanctum. This would explain why she's so accurate and never telefrags. Further, once her powers were revealed to be magic based (and that she was related to the highly powerful Black Alice) helped provide justification. However, this was likely dropped, as Oracle never comments on the possibility of this incredibly useful application. There was never an explanation as to how she found Oracle, as she eventually left the cast and all of her plot threads were left hanging. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5b6e57e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5b6e57e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5b6e57e | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5b87dd9d | type |
Superhero Paradox | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5b87dd9d | comment |
Superhero Paradox: When the team moves to Platinum Flats they are greeted with outright hostility by the populace and local law enforcement, who explicitly blame the rising number of super-crimes, and the increased crime-rate in general, on the arrival of the Birds. Barbara decides to kill Oracle because of all the attention that the identity attracts. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5b87dd9d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5b87dd9d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5b87dd9d | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5c9caf26 | type |
Civvie Spandex | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5c9caf26 | comment |
Civvie Spandex: Misfit again. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5c9caf26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5c9caf26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5c9caf26 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5d25f366 | type |
You Can Leave Your Hat On | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5d25f366 | comment |
You Can Leave Your Hat On: Multiple issues have had the primarily female cast attending male strip clubs. Some of the members are horrified, and some are delighted. Lady Blackhawk is always a particularly enthusiastic participant. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5d25f366 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5d25f366 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5d25f366 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5fdf73bc | type |
Photographic Memory | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5fdf73bc | comment |
Photographic Memory: It is not mentioned that often, but Oracle has one. Her eidetic memory actually backfires on her: she constantly relives getting shot and paralyzed by The Joker. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5fdf73bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5fdf73bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_5fdf73bc | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_60b21fa3 | type |
The Lancer | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_60b21fa3 | comment |
The Lancer: Huntress, no matter who the hero is. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_60b21fa3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_60b21fa3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_60b21fa3 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_61066d95 | type |
Fictional Counterpart | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_61066d95 | comment |
Fictional Counterpart: The Silicon Syndicate rules the hi-tech city of Platinum Flats and controls, among others, the DC versions of Google, MySpace, eBay, eHarmony and other such conglomerates. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_61066d95 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_61066d95 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_61066d95 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_617f0563 | type |
Heel–Face Turn | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: Poison Ivy, a former eco-terrorist with a massive body count, willingly joins the heroic Birds at Black Canary's behest. The other members don't take kindly to this. She of course left the team in short order. Strix was a former assassin and a member of the Court of Owls, but strove to change her ways after an encounter with Batgirl and Catwoman. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_617f0563 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_617f0563 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_617f0563 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0 | type |
I Have Your Wife | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0 | comment |
I Have Your Wife: The White Canary gets Black Canary and Lady Shiva to agree to a fight to the death by threatening to kill Sin, Black Canary's adopted daughter/sister that she rescued from a life of brutal training to become the new Shiva. Black Canary agrees because she loves Sin, Shiva agrees because she cares for Canary. When Current tries to back out once he realizes he is fighting Black Canary and Batman the Calculator informs him that he is going to do exactly what he agreed to do, "or I take out my displeasure on that girlfriend you don't think anyone knows about." | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_62203642 | type |
Multi-Stage Battle | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_62203642 | comment |
Multi-Stage Battle: Hawkgirl dukes it out with Scandal Savage after the former tried to capture the latter, with Hawkgirl getting a beating and the fight ending after the pair are hit by the Secret Six's van, KOing Hawkgirl. They continue their fight once the Birds and the Six start battling shortly afterward, and Hawkgirl gets the upper hand. The fight still doesn't get resolved since Scandal gets taken out by a stray bullet from Deadshot. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_62203642 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_62203642 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_62203642 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_63d861f8 | type |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_63d861f8 | comment |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Calculator gets Current to stay in the fight past his original intention by threatening to kill the girlfriend that Current thinks nobody knows about. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_63d861f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_63d861f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_63d861f8 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | type |
BadassNormal | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Badass Normal: Oracle, Huntress, Lady Blackhawk, Katana, and Starling. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_643659d4 | type |
Spit Take | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_643659d4 | comment |
Spit Take: Helena cannot hold on to her beer when Zinda complains about how nobody will honor her senior citizens discount. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_643659d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_643659d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_643659d4 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_648fe274 | type |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_648fe274 | comment |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Barbara Gordon is interrogating the Joker for the location of a nuke attack. Once the Joker sees her, he doesn't recognize her and ponders if he was the one that put her in the wheelchair. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_648fe274 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_648fe274 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_648fe274 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_65d658f | type |
Putting the Band Back Together | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_65d658f | comment |
Putting the Band Back Together: Issue #1 of the relaunch involves Black Canary, Huntress, Lady Blackhawk and Oracle reuniting and operating as a team again after separating following the earlier cancellation of the series. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_65d658f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_65d658f | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_66835c91 | type |
The One Guy | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_66835c91 | comment |
The One Guy: Hawk in the relaunch. Apparently, Zinda has already taken something of a liking to him, but she has decided to do some advance recon based on her experiences with Creote. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_66835c91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_66835c91 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_668d2146 | type |
Progressively Prettier | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_668d2146 | comment |
Progressively Prettier: Misfit, though never ugly, was originally a bit plain for a comic-book character and wore loose-fitting clothing over a body that did not measure up to other heroines. As the series progressed, however, her clothing became tighter, she filled out and she might have even become a bit taller. Thankfully, she remained a teenager and never became overly sexualized. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_668d2146 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_668d2146 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_66b98472 | type |
Erotic Dream | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_66b98472 | comment |
Erotic Dream: Issue 3 (Volume 2) has The Penguin, while knocked out, dream about getting some of Huntress, Black Canary, Dove and Lady Blackhawk. Naturally the girls are disgusted. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_66b98472 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_66b98472 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_67a7cd88 | type |
Battle in the Center of the Mind | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_67a7cd88 | comment |
Battle in the Center of the Mind: When Mortis uses her touch on Black Canary, which turns her psyche inward and forces her to relive every bad decision and moment of self-doubt in her life, Mortis follows her powers in and torments Canary herself. However, Canary decides that she is not going to just lie back and take it. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_67a7cd88 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_67a7cd88 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6a696742 | type |
The Power of Love | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6a696742 | comment |
The Power of Love: | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6a696742 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6a696742 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6a696742 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6b2b3b59 | type |
The Reveal | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal: An Asian woman, dressed all in white, shows up at the end of the first issue of the relaunch. Based off her ancestry and her martial prowess, Black Canary believes it to potentially be either Lady Shiva or Cassandra Cain, either of whom stand a very good chance of killing not only Canary, but the Huntress as well. In issue #4 the reveal comes that it is actually... the sister of the Twelve Brothers in Silk? Issue #12 closes with the revelation that Junior is alive and right behind Dove and Black Canary! Issue 2 of volume three ends with the revelation that Black Canary's final recruit is Poison Ivy. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6b2b3b59 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6b2b3b59 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6b2b3b59 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Barbara Gordon is Oracle; a source of wisdom and information beyond the reach of most mortals. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6d1c2b3f | type |
Lip Losses | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6d1c2b3f | comment |
Lip Losses: In one story arc, a SWAT team goes after the assassin Cheshire. She lures one of the men into a false sense of security by kissing him... and then biting off his lower lip. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6d1c2b3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6d1c2b3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6d1c2b3f | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: Creote did not kill himself, but actually staged a suicide as part of Savant's plan to kill himself. Savant's warped ability to perceive time means that he is constantly reliving the brutal torture he underwent at the hands of Hellhound and the Black Spider when Calculator was trying to find Oracle's identity, and after two years he has decided to end it. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6d332aea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6d332aea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6d332aea | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6eb04f1 | type |
"Everybody Laughs" Ending | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6eb04f1 | comment |
"Everybody Laughs" Ending: The final issue before the 2011 DC relaunch, written by guest author Mark Andreyko, closed with Birds laughing together after defeating the schemes of Nazi-clones and their resurrected creator. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6eb04f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6eb04f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6eb04f1 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6f393c7 | type |
Calling Shot Gun | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6f393c7 | comment |
Calling Shotgun: | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6f393c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6f393c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6f393c7 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6fbe3154 | type |
Shot in the Ass | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6fbe3154 | comment |
Shot in the Ass: As Killer Shark is about to kill Lady Blackhawk, her teammate Huntress arrives just in time, shooting two arrows into his butt and knocking him out. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6fbe3154 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6fbe3154 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_6fbe3154 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_716d9138 | type |
Bar Brawl | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_716d9138 | comment |
Bar Brawl: Lady Blackhawk occasionally likes to spice-up her nights out. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_716d9138 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_716d9138 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_716d9138 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7175cb16 | type |
Clark Kenting | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7175cb16 | comment |
Clark Kenting: Black Canary. The original Canary costume involved wearing a long, blonde wig to cover her short, dark hair; removing the wig when out of costume changed not just the color and length of her hair, but also the general shape of her head. However, after several years of using this method to disguise herself she became unhappy with wearing an itchy wig so often and just dyed her hair blonde. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7175cb16 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7175cb16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7175cb16 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_71ee90a7 | type |
Token Super | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_71ee90a7 | comment |
Token Super: For a long time, Black Canary was the only member of the team with a Metahuman ability (her "Canary Cry"). Other members with superhuman powers have since come and gone on short stints (such as Power Girl, Little Barda, Hawk and Dove and Misfit), but Canary is pretty much the most steady member with this advantage. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_71ee90a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_71ee90a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_71ee90a7 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_72f98935 | type |
Heroic Build | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_72f98935 | comment |
Heroic Build: All protagonists, male and female, are sculpted as if from stone. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_72f98935 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_72f98935 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_72f98935 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_73309776 | type |
Psycho Sidekick | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_73309776 | comment |
Psycho Sidekick: Huntress was this to Black Canary pre-reboot. She was extremely loyal to the Canary personally, to the point of be willing to fight a duel to the death against Shiva (a form of suicide), but there was no question that she remained one, if not the, darkest antihero in the DC universe. There were many occasions where one of the other members of the team had to stop Huntress from killing someone. On another occasion, Canary had to stop Huntress from brutalizing an already beaten Mook. Interestingly, however, Huntress did moderate her behavior so that Canary would be comfortable working with her; Canary did not really see Huntress' dark side until Huntress was about to throw Yasemin off a building, and Canary had to talk her out of it. Canary made her final decision to leave the group directly after this incident, which seems not to have been a coincidence. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_73309776 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_73309776 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_73309776 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7360a6b6 | type |
Noble Demon | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7360a6b6 | comment |
Noble Demon: Black Canary and Lady Shiva spend so much time working together against common foes that they actually develop something of a friendship. Neither of them enjoy this, but they take it quite seriously. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7360a6b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7360a6b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7360a6b6 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_754df088 | type |
Put on a Bus | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_754df088 | comment |
It's originally implied that another of her secondary powers to Bouncing is the ability to teleport to a location based on VERY simplistic guidelines. She initially finds Oracle, despite Oracle being a highly secretive member of the Bat Family (yes, even by their standards) and Misfit never showing any particularly remarkable intellect. As such, it's possible that all she needed to do was "Bounce to Batgirl" and that brought her straight to Oracle's sanctum. This would explain why she's so accurate and never telefrags. Further, once her powers were revealed to be magic based (and that she was related to the highly powerful Black Alice) helped provide justification. However, this was likely dropped, as Oracle never comments on the possibility of this incredibly useful application. There was never an explanation as to how she found Oracle, as she eventually left the cast and all of her plot threads were left hanging. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_754df088 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_754df088 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_754df088 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_77b03c0a | type |
Remember the New Guy? | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_77b03c0a | comment |
Remember the New Guy?: Katarina Armstrong (Spy Smasher), a well-received villain that Gail Simone would later use in her series Secret Six, is introduced leading a government operation to dismantle the team and place herself at its head. Flashbacks and dialogue between her and Oracle reveal that she and Barbara Gordon were very close competitors in college who equally excelled in almost all areas. Katarina herself, however, had neither been seen or mentioned prior to her first appearance, not even in other flashbacks or references to Barbara's college life. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_77b03c0a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_77b03c0a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_77b03c0a | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_780a078e | type |
Self-Made Orphan | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_780a078e | comment |
Self-Made Orphan: Misfit is technically one, though she did it accidentally. When her apartment building caught on fire she tried to "bounce" away with her mother and little brother. That is how she found out that any living thing she bounces with her dies en route. She clings desperately to Barbara Gordon and the Birds of Prey because she needs both a surrogate mother figure and the opportunity to atone for accidentally killing her family. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_780a078e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_780a078e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_780a078e | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_78255ad7 | type |
Passing the Torch | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_78255ad7 | comment |
Passing the Torch: When Batman (Dick Grayson) questions if Barbara can really get rid of Oracle, she states that Proxy (Wendy Harris) can handle the data gathering and retrieval. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_78255ad7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_78255ad7 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7919a45b | type |
Duel to the Death | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7919a45b | comment |
Duel to the Death: Black Canary and Lady Shiva have to fight to the death because of manipulations by the White Canary, who will kill Sin, Canary's adopted daughter/sister, if they do not comply. Huntress takes Canary's place in the actual fight, though. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7919a45b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7919a45b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7919a45b | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7a2d9301 | type |
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7a2d9301 | comment |
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: In issue #1 of the relaunch, Lady Blackhawk did not understand the reference to "Putting the Band Back Together". | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7a2d9301 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7a2d9301 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7a2d9301 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7a87fa80 | type |
Animal-Themed Superbeing | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7a87fa80 | comment |
Animal-Themed Superbeing: The name of the team itself invokes this but Catwoman, Black Canary, Hawk, Dove, Lady Blackhawk, and Oracle (when she was Batgirl) fit this trope. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7a87fa80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7a87fa80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7a87fa80 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7ab1aba3 | type |
Plenty of Blondes | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7ab1aba3 | comment |
Plenty of Blondes: The team at one point had three blonde womennote though technically Black Canary is a brunette who bleaches her hair. Dove has white hair, but previously had blonde hair in her secret identity. To better differentiate her, she was given white hair in both identities for Birds of Prey. The trope receives a Lampshade Hanging when Hawk refers to "the blonde with the legs" when talking about Lady Blackhawk, who he doesn't know well at that point. Averted post-reboot, with only a single blonde (Black Canary) on the team. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7ab1aba3 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7ab1aba3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7ab1aba3 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7b0fddcd | type |
Battle Cry | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7b0fddcd | comment |
Battle Cry: Lady Blackhawk is very defensive of what she terms her "special yell thing," which she brought over from her original team. Misfit is very quick to pronounce "Dark Vengeance!" on everybody who gets in her way. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7b0fddcd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7b0fddcd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7b0fddcd | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7bd8307f | type |
The Infiltration | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7bd8307f | comment |
The Infiltration: Huntress, in her real identity as Helena Bertinelli, uses her family's history with the Gotham Mafia to join their organization and rise to the rank capo. As a capo she has access to their networks, personnel and background information and uses this information (And, sometimes, even the criminal power that comes with the position) to advance her war on crime. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7bd8307f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7bd8307f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7bd8307f | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7cc8d769 | type |
Sore Loser | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7cc8d769 | comment |
Sore Loser: Even though Big Barda had the upper hand for a majority of their fight and it ended in a draw at best, Knockout gets extremely angry at even the suggestion that she lost. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7cc8d769 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7cc8d769 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7cc8d769 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7d163c9c | type |
Dating Catwoman | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7d163c9c | comment |
Dating Catwoman: An early storyline has Black Canary dating and almost married to Ra's al Ghul. Granted, she doesn't know who he really is for the majority of the relationship, but the example still stands. Huntress and Catman have an extremely flirtatious relationship that has sometimes verged extremely close to outright romance. Many other characters, minor and recurring, currently or previously dated people on the opposite side of the morality line, with various degrees of success. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7d163c9c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7d163c9c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7d163c9c | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7eb49b31 | type |
Almost Kiss | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7eb49b31 | comment |
Almost Kiss: A violent example. When Super-villain Killer Shark brainwashes Lady Blackhawk into thinking she is Queen Killer Shark, she leads him to his grandfather's treasure. This causes Killer Shark to cry and to reveal that he had originally intended to kill her after he got his treasure, but has changed his mind. As he leans in for a kiss, Zinda subconsciously punches him, breaking his teeth. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7eb49b31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7eb49b31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7eb49b31 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7eb73553 | type |
Bullying a Dragon | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7eb73553 | comment |
Bullying a Dragon: Huntress deliberately insults Shiva during their duel in order to get Shiva to keep hitting her so she can get enough blood in her mouth to spit in Shiva's face. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7eb73553 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7eb73553 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_7eb73553 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_80b5924 | type |
Left Hanging | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_80b5924 | comment |
Left Hanging: The final arc of the series before its cancellation in 2009, dealing with the Silicon Syndicate in Platinum Flats, was dropped when the series ended and was not followed up in either the characters appearances in other comics or when the series returned in 2010. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_80b5924 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_80b5924 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_80b5924 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_82b48dc | type |
Stupid Jetpack Hitler | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_82b48dc | comment |
Stupid Jetpack Hitler: The final arc of the series before the relaunch, written by guest author Mark Andreyko, revolved around a mission undertaken by Lady Blackhawk, Phantom Lady and the original Black Canary to destroy a Nazi cloning lab set up in Argentina after the close of WWII. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_82b48dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_82b48dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_82b48dc | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_83b44e80 | type |
Straight Gay | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_83b44e80 | comment |
Straight Gay: Creote possesses no camp mannerisms or affectations, and is simply a man who happens to be gay. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_83b44e80 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8409a385 | type |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8409a385 | comment |
Helena Bertinelli is Huntress; she hunts criminals. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8409a385 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_84e52fb4 | type |
Instant Taste Addiction | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_84e52fb4 | comment |
Instant Taste Addiction: Sin actually starts crying Tears of Joy when she first eats pancakes, but the maple syrup is what she particularly loves. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_84e52fb4 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_85bcc5a8 | type |
Lampshaded Double Entendre | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_85bcc5a8 | comment |
Lampshaded Double Entendre: Barda's mighty mega-rod. Huntress and Judomaster have such fun with this that even Lady Blackhawk knows that they are talking dirty. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_85bcc5a8 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_864009e9 | type |
Pirate Booty | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_864009e9 | comment |
Pirate Booty: Lady Blackhawk (Zinda Blanke) was captured and brainwashed by supervillain Killer Shark into thinking she was his partner, Queen Killer Shark. She helped beat and capture her teammate Huntress (Helena Bertinelli). It was revealed that this Killer Shark was the grandson of the original one that brainwashed her when she battled him in the 40s, and he wanted her to lead him to his grandfather's treasure. She led Killer Shark to his grandfather's treasure, but she broke free of her brainwashing and, with the help of her teammate Huntress defeated Killer Shark. Later while Zinda and Helena are bragging to their friends about defeating Killer Shark, one of their friends asks if they can borrow some of their treasure, implying that they took the treasure Killer Shark wanted for themselves. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_864009e9 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_86af7ab0 | type |
Badass Biker | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_86af7ab0 | comment |
Badass Biker: Both Canary and Huntress, at times. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_86af7ab0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_88088476 | type |
Cheap Costume | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_88088476 | comment |
Cheap Costume: Misfit's "Batgirl" outfit. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_88088476 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | type |
Back from the Dead | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | comment |
Back from the Dead: The "Whitewater" storyline deals with the return of Tora Olafsdotter, the former JLI member known as Ice, as part of a plot to return Russia back to the Soviet Union. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_898d0f32 | type |
Teeth Flying | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_898d0f32 | comment |
Teeth Flying: When Black Canary corners the Calculator after fending off Mortis' Mind Rape, she administers a stern punishment right across the jaw. Black Canary loses a molar in a brawl with the 12 Brothers in Silk. Huntress knocks out one of the Brothers' teeth earlier in that same fight. Lady Blackhawk punches Killer Shark so hard that two of his teeth get stuck in her knuckles. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_898d0f32 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_898d0f32 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8a4988bb | type |
Mind Rape | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8a4988bb | comment |
When Black Canary corners the Calculator after fending off Mortis' Mind Rape, she administers a stern punishment right across the jaw. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8a4988bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8a4988bb | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63 | type |
Reed Richards Is Useless | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63 | comment |
Reed Richards Is Useless: The "Silicon Syndicate" seems to have realised that most of the rest of the super-community is even more useless than Mr. Fantastic, and they decided to exploit that. By reverse-engineering supervillain technology for resale they have managed to take complete control of Platinum Flats, the high-tech capital of the world, and now generate a revenue greater than most countries. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8c49c29e | type |
Zig-Zagging Trope | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8c49c29e | comment |
After the relaunch, Dinah takes a much freer stance on the issue and is fine with Katana killing mooks in a fight. Her internal monologue explains that Katana was everything she thought she would be, including "lethal," and only reminds her to leave at least one alive for questioning. However, as the series progressed, she began to object to Ivy and Katana's lethal actions. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8c49c29e | featureApplicability |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8c49c29e | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8e7467e | type |
The Psycho Rangers | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8e7467e | comment |
The Psycho Rangers: The Secret Six guest-starred in an arc towards the end of Gail Simone's run, serving as a collective Evil Counterpart for the whole team and bringing lots of Foe Romance Subtext with them. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8e7467e | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8e7467e | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8e81e57f | type |
Voice with an Internet Connection | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8e81e57f | comment |
Voice with an Internet Connection: Oracle, especially to those who do not know her true identity and thus only confer with her over radio. Babs confers with a "council" of fellow hackers at one point, each of whom is represented only by a voice, an icon on the screen and addressed with the name of a color (Oracle is green). We never learn who any of them are, although it is implied that "Blue" is Ted Kord....with whom Babs once "cyber did it." | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8e81e57f | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8f732211 | type |
External Retcon | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8f732211 | comment |
External Retcon: Justice League: Cry for Justice, a six-issue limited series, revealed that the villain Prometheus had been mind wiped by the Martian Manhunter and placed in an asylum after his first appearance; all his subsequent appearances had been a separate person impersonating Prometheus. This was done with the intention of explaining his later appearances where the supposed JLA-Level villain was defeated by B-list opponents. However, this also retconned his appearance in the One Year Later arc of Birds of Prey, where he showed the expected skill and experience of his original appearance, but is now revealed as having been the imposter instead. See also Take That! below. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8f732211 | featureApplicability |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_8f732211 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_912ca714 | type |
Heroes Unlimited | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_912ca714 | comment |
Heroes Unlimited: Once Black Canary left the team the line-up became very fluid, with Huntress and Lady Blackhawk as central characters supported by a rotating roster of other female heroes. Gypsy begins to appear just before Canary's departure and slowly fades away after she is gone and Big Barda, Judomaster and Hawkgirl appear for individual missions. Manhunter and Misfit (an original creation) become semi-regular team members and are joined by Infinity shortly before the series is cancelled. A dozen other heroines (from Power Girl to The Question) are shown as receiving invitations to join the team or having been active in past missions. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_912ca714 | featureApplicability |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_912ca714 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_92f674e5 | type |
Revenge | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_92f674e5 | comment |
Revenge: Cheshire's complex and convoluted gambit to kill Black Canary, Lady Shiva and a powerful US Senator, after having already killed Canary and Shiva's old teacher, boils down to the extremely simple fact that she dislikes these people and feels the have wronged her in the past (Canary cares for Cheshire's daughter in her stead, the senator is her biological father who raped her mother, and Shiva...well, for Shiva she just needs an unidentified Asian corpse to serve as a decoy). Here there is no grand Evil Plan, no scheme for money or power, she just wants these people to hurt. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_92f674e5 | featureApplicability |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_92f674e5 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_932da128 | type |
Monster Clown | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_932da128 | comment |
Monster Clown: Good ol' Mistah J shows up in a three-part arc pretty early on, and returns for a truly disturbing (but also triumphant) arc right at the end in the last issues before the series was cancelled. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_932da128 | featureApplicability |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_932da128 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_93b92ca4 | type |
Lousy Lovers Are Losers | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_93b92ca4 | comment |
Lousy Lovers Are Losers: In issue #68, Helena tells Dinah and Barbara that Roy Harper/Arsenal was terrible in bed, and even takes the opportunity to make a pun about arrows. note This was actually a Take That! by Gail Simone who was unhappy Judd Winick wrote that Arenal and Huntress had a one night stand in Outsiders (2003). | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_93b92ca4 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_950bbfa7 | type |
Take a Third Option | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_950bbfa7 | comment |
Take a Third Option: When Black Canary and Lady Shiva are forced to face each other in a duel to the death, they have each accepted it as an inevitability. Neither one wants it, but they are not even trying to get out of it. Huntress, on the other hand, has no intention of watching what would be essentially an execution if Canary and Shiva did fight, so she challenges Shiva first, which cancels the Shiva/Canary fight altogether (Now she just needs a fourth option to get herself out of the fight, because she does not want to die either.) | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_950bbfa7 | featureApplicability |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_950bbfa7 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_95b875b1 | type |
Not Me This Time | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_95b875b1 | comment |
Not Me This Time: When Black Canary's old mentor was murdered while she visited him in Hong Kong, even though he was terminally ill and would have died soon anyway, Canary and Lady Shiva quickly assumed that the supervillainess Cheshire committed the crime. They have a history of animosity and the means of the crime, poison, happened to be Cheshire's specialty. However, after Black Canary tracked Cheshire down, attacked and captured her, she found out that Cheshire did not do it; rather, it was the deed of a corrupt US senator who arranged the murder specifically so it would point to Cheshire. The two of them were enemies and he hoped Canary would deal with Cheshire for him. However, they eventually discover that it really was Cheshire after all. She made it look like she was being framed so that Canary would help her get back to the US as part of her own Evil Plan. | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_95b875b1 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9736fbe0 | type |
Bat Family Crossover | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9736fbe0 | comment |
Bat Family Crossover: | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9736fbe0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_984ef9ef | type |
"Not So Different" Remark | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_984ef9ef | comment |
"Not So Different" Remark: While Barbara is more emotionally stable than Batman and is actually willing to let people get close to her without being compelled to push them away, she can be every bit the manipulative control freak that he is. When Huntress was first merging with the team she called out Barbara on her secret attempts to "fix" Huntress (Huntress took issue with being considered "broken") and left the team. As she left, she accused Barbara of turning out to be a manipulative jackass just like Batman. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_984ef9ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_984ef9ef | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_99b22790 | type |
The Knights Who Say "Squee!" | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_99b22790 | comment |
The Knights Who Say "Squee!": In issue #8 of the relaunch Black Canary and Batman end up fighting side-by-side against the Caculator's minions, and their combined prowess leaves Helena dumbfounded. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_99b22790 | featureApplicability |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_99b22790 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9ae0ead1 | type |
Villains Out Shopping | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9ae0ead1 | comment |
Villains Out Shopping: Issue #13 features Oracle calling Catman to get information on a foe the Birds are facing, and it is revealed that she caught him while he was frying an egg for his dinner. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9ae0ead1 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | type |
Evil Counterpart | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | comment |
Evil Counterpart: The Calculator serves as Oracle's, especially under Bedard's pen. Tabby Brennan was introduced as the even Eviler Counterpart for the Huntress, but was killed off quickly. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Throughout issue 12, hints are dropped that Junior is the villain of the story, from the hiring of two redheaded twins to act as security, to being referred to as "Mister J", to mutilated dolls hanging from the ceiling of the building. This all culminates in Black Canary and Dove discovering an empty crate with a telephone and a notepad, as Junior sneaks up on them, scissors in hand. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: The series is very arc-based and frequently refers back to previous events in this and other series that lead to the current moment. The second arc of the relaunch, dealing with the Calculator's resumed attempts to learn Oracle's identity, refers back to the last time he and Oracle came into conflict. This occurred in the Batgirl (2009) title and resulted in a Battle in the Center of the Mind and subsequent Mind Rape. While thinking about her last encounter with the Calculator (See note immediately above) Oracle explains that the last time the superhero community erased the memories of a villain it nearly destroyed them all. This refers to Identity Crisis (2004), where Zatanna used magic to alter the personality of Dr. Light and wound up damaging his mental competency. Dr. Light himself appears in Black Canary's hallucination at the end of the issue. After Oracle dies, Black Canary and Huntress reflect above Gotham's skyline and are approached by Catwoman, who claims she is there to offer her condolences. She points out that she was there at the very beginning of the outfit and that Oracle always played fair with her, so she is going to donate a significant sum to a homeless shelter in Oracle's name. The first issue of Duane Swierczynski's run mentions Black Canary being framed for murder, which occurred at the start of Gail Simone's short-lived second run on the title. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9e4ed124 | type |
Mundanger | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9e4ed124 | comment |
Mundanger: Though supervillains and large scale Evil Plans remain an important staple of the series, the Birds deal with a lot of real world and everyday issues, including human trafficking, drug dealers, kidnapping and the like. A lot of the arcs are plausible and even likely crimes simply transferred into the flashy world of superheroes. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9e4ed124 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9e943076 | type |
One-Man Army | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9e943076 | comment |
One-Man Army: Black Canary. When she swapped lives with Lady Shiva her training culminated in her singlehandedly stopping an army, with tanks, from destroying the village where her training took place. A lot of writers often forget that Canary is a member and former leader of the Justice League of America, composed of some of the most powerful individuals on the planet, and she is regarded as one of the top twenty martial artists alive; she is not a street fighter, she is one of the Big Guns. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9e943076 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9f7769a2 | type |
The Gunslinger | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9f7769a2 | comment |
The Gunslinger: Lady Blackhawk and Starling. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9f7769a2 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9f970427 | type |
Secret-Keeper | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9f970427 | comment |
Secret-Keeper: Barbara eventually reveals to her father her activities as Oracle, which stunned him greatly but also made him very proud. However, when she then goes on to reveal that she used to be Batgirl he explains that that part he already knew. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9f970427 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969 | type |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969 | comment |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: In the run after Gail Simone left as head writer, the Birds begin to battle the "Silicon Syndicate," a super-human mafia operating out of (and controlling) Platinum Flats, the high-tech capital of the world. However, instead of robbing banks or holding the world for ransom these criminals have simply taken control of the enormous Internet companies operating out of the city and are using their legitimate revenue sources to rake in such massive amounts of money that even the Joker thinks they are too valuable to kill. By controlling the DC equivalents of Google, MySpace, eBay, eHarmony and other such conglomerates, their yearly profits can be measured not in the millions or billions, but in trillions, and nobody in the world is even aware that they exist. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9fc04a54 | type |
Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_9fc04a54 | comment |
Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: "I am heterosexual to the bone". | |
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More Expendable Than You | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_a0b0840c | comment |
More Expendable Than You: Huntress challenges Lady Shiva to a duel in order to prevent Black Canary from doing the same thing, since in Canary's current condition she has almost no chance of surviving the encounter. Huntress feels that, if somebody has to die, let it be herself, since Canary has a family and loved ones and a life to lose. Huntress ultimately survives the encounter, and Canary explains to her that she has a just as much of a family and loved ones as Canary does. | |
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It's Personal | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_a0db7803 | comment |
It's Personal: Black Canary and Lady Shiva team up against Cheshire when she murders their old teacher, a frail old man who was dying of cancer and would have passed soon. He was yet another father figure for Canary, and for Shiva he was "an old man who never never had an evil thought for anyone, who saw people as something better than they were..." | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_a30c287 | type |
Good Parents | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_a30c287 | comment |
Good Parents: When Barbara Gordon is being hijacked by Brainiac, Black Canary uses a picture of Babs's father Jim Gordon, to help pull her back from oblivion. As she explains it, and as we see throughout the series, if there ever was a father, this man was it. | |
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How Did You Know? I Didn't | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_a49f4fb2 | comment |
How Did You Know? I Didn't: When Cheetah has tackled Black Canary and threatens to rip her throat out Huntress shoots Cheetah in the shoulder, face and throat. | |
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Healing Factor | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_a5fb0d24 | comment |
Healing Factor: Strix has one. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_a65288e2 | type |
Ascended Extra | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: Katana was a minor guest-star in the first volume but became a main character at the start of volume 3. | |
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Due to the Dead | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_a679184b | comment |
Due to the Dead: Catwoman donates a sizable sum to a homeless shelter in Oracle's name, explaining that she was a part of the Birds from the very beginning and Oracle always played fair with her. | |
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Handicapped Badass | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_a7b324e | comment |
Handicapped Badass: Oracle. | |
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Code Name | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_a7defafd | comment |
Code Name: Barbara Gordon is Oracle; a source of wisdom and information beyond the reach of most mortals. Helena Bertinelli is Huntress; she hunts criminals. Dinah Lance is Black Canary; her name has no direct connection to what she does or her powers. Hank Hall and Dawn Granger are Hawk and Dove, matched avatars for War and Peace, respectively. Zinda Blake has no secret or code name at all; Lady Blackhawk is a publicly recognized, and trademarked, title stemming from membership on the Blackhawks. Tatsu Yamashiro is Katana; the same name as her weapon of choice. Ev Crawford is Starling; so far, no real connection to her skillset. Pamela Isley is Poison Ivy; her abilities involve controlling sentient plantlife. Mary, a former Talon, is Strix, Latin for "Owl". | |
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"No Peeking!" Request | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_a91f07ee | comment |
"No Peeking!" Request: In Issue #106, Helena needs to quickly change out of her dress and into her Huntress outfit, and asks Creote (the only male in the room) to turn around. Given he's Straight Gay and wouldn't care, he gives her a Fascinating Eyebrow, but she answers back a Death Glare and demands him to turn around anyway. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_a94eaaa4 | comment |
Odd Friendship: Black Canary and Lady Shiva. "Friends" may be pushing it a little far, but they are amicable acquaintances with a shared history and civil interactions. They have, on occasion, gone for drinks together, trained together and worked together. However, they also remain potentially mortal enemies from diametrically opposite sides of the good/evil divide. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_aaece264 | type |
Rousing Speech | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_aaece264 | comment |
Rousing Speech: In their first team-up, Oracle is speaking to Canary as she is fighting Lynx and, when it seems like Lynx has won, Oracle explains that Dinah does not have the luxury of dying here and she better get up and DO something about it. Afterwards, Dinah actually comments that it was a nice speech. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_aaf19fae | type |
Doesn't Like Guns | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_aaf19fae | comment |
Doesn't Like Guns: | |
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Worth It | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ac546cd4 | comment |
Worth It: Black Canary believes that yes, being kidnapped to the former Soviet Union and facing Lady Shiva in deadly combat was worth it to get revenge on the man who never called her back (See Woman Scorned above). | |
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Clock Tower | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ace5eb40 | comment |
Clock Tower: Their original base in Gotham. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_acf33d00 | comment |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When Mortis uses her power on Black Canary, forcing her to confront every bad decision and instance of self-doubt in her life, Canary is catatonic and unable to stop the visions. However, when Mortis begins to personally taunt Canary and mentions that her friends have abandoned her Canary recognizes the lie. Her friends would never abandon her, and Mortis can now get the hell out of her brain. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: In issue #1 of the relaunch, Black Canary and Huntress find themselves facing an Asian woman who is a very skilled martial artist, but whose identity is obscured. Based on her ancestry and skills two possible identities come to Canary's mind: Cassandra Cain or Lady Shiva. After she makes this deduction she acknowledges that there is a very good chance neither she nor Huntress will get out of the situation alive. #3 gives a series of these to the entire team as everything goes to hell in a short amount of time. In issue #8, Current, a hired gun working for the Calculator, tries to break away when he realizes he is fighting Black Canary and Batman. In Issue #10, Mortis recognizes the implications of Black Canary escaping her Mind Rape. In issue #12, when Huntress learns that the team is up against Junior she begins screaming for Oracle to pull Canary and Zinda out of the building. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ad54954f | type |
Punk in the Trunk | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ad54954f | comment |
Punk in the Trunk: At one point, Catwoman accidentally finds Lady Shiva stuffed inside a car trunk with her mouth taped shut. After realizing that the bound woman is a sociopathic killer, she is understandably hesitant to release her. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_adf84dea | type |
What Beautiful Eyes! | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_adf84dea | comment |
What Beautiful Eyes!: Catman is recognized by a hostage, which leads Huntress to deduce his role in the robbery she is following, because of his green eyes, which stand out amongst everybody else. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Almost everyone has a few of these moments. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_aec6516c | type |
Goth Girls Know Magic | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_aec6516c | comment |
Goth Girls Know Magic: Black Alice is a Goth-styled anti-hero with the ability to effectively steal the powers of any magical being and temporarily use them as her own. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b032e4ed | type |
Ms. Fanservice | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Lady Spellbinder, due to her revealing costume. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b032e4ed | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b2280b66 | type |
Retcon | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b2280b66 | comment |
Retcon: In the Blackhawk comic series, when Zinda Blake was brainwashed by Killer Shark to be his partner Queen Killer Shark, she had no loyalty to him. She abandoned Killer Shark to escape the Blackhawks twice in Blackhawks #200 and #204. And when Killer Shark and Queen Killer Shark capture the Blackhawks in #225, she betrays him, threatens his henchman to turn on him, and imprisons him with the Blackhawks. In Birds of Prey, her brainwashed personally is shown to be completely loyal to Killer Shark, with her being completely in love and devoted to him, to the point that it's implied that she has been sleeping with him in the past. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b22fdc19 | type |
Stacked Characters Poster | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b22fdc19 | comment |
Stacked Characters Poster: #12: Black Canary, Catwoman, Oracle, a disguised parademon, and a train are all depicted arranged on the cover at various sizes. Vol 1 #37: Robin, Black Canary, and Blue Beetle are stacking in a sort of floating arrangement on the cover. Vol 1 #91: Huntress, Oracle and a blindfolded man are stacked at various sizes lighted by a spotlight on the center of the cover. Vol 2 #10: The cover depicts a veiled Barbara holding the Oracle mask with Black Canary, Huntress, Lady Blackhawk, Batgirl, Red Robin, Robin V, Hawk and Dove, and both Batmen stacked in fighting stances behind her. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b2adf5ad | type |
Destructo-Nookie | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b2adf5ad | comment |
Destructo-Nookie: Issue 109 features the aftermath of Knockout and Scandal Savage's lovemaking. Let's just say it's a good thing their motel room was cheap. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b2cb7993 | type |
Brains and Brawn | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b2cb7993 | comment |
Brains and Brawn: Oracle and Canary, during Dixon's run. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b2f26025 | type |
Genki Girl | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b2f26025 | comment |
Genki Girl: Misfit | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b4754f84 | type |
The Worm That Walks | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b4754f84 | comment |
The Worm That Walks: The villain Entity is a nanobot swarm that consumed an industrial spy and maintained his basic humanoid shape. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b5060b63 | type |
The Lad-ette | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b5060b63 | comment |
The Lad-ette: Lady Blackhawk can order beer in many languages and hold her own in a Bar Brawl with ease. | |
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Take That! | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
A more good-natured jab than some Take Thats, Misfit, who originally appeared claiming to be Batgirl, disparages Stephanie Brown's costume. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b6064061 | type |
Power of Trust | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b6064061 | comment |
Power of Trust: In the relaunch, when Batgirl tries to warn Canary that Starling has been compromised by their brainwashing villain, Canary responds that Starling is in fact the only member of the team that she trusts. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b66699a2 | type |
Mundane Luxury | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b66699a2 | comment |
Mundane Luxury: When Black Canary took Sin away from her Training from Hell to be her generation's Lady Shiva, one of the first things they did when they got to the States was to go out for breakfast with the other Birds. Sin is driven to Tears of Joy after trying a pancake. This just makes Dinah even more determined to adopt her. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b949eac | type |
Involuntary Battle to the Death | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b949eac | comment |
Involuntary Battle to the Death: Lady Shiva and Black Canary are forced to have a Duel to the Death by the White Canary, who wants vengeance and to restore her family's honor, and is forcing the issue by threatening to kill Sin, Canary's adopted daughter/sister, if they do not cooperate. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_b949eac | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ba72eebb | type |
Waif-Fu | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ba72eebb | comment |
Waif-Fu: With the proper use of leverage, training and skill even a slimly built woman can defeat a large man, or numerous large men, in hand-to-hand combat, but none of that explains how they are able to put enough oomf behind a punch to knock them across the room. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ba72eebb | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bc3cb7ff | type |
Clear My Name | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bc3cb7ff | comment |
Clear My Name: The "White Canary" arc begins with Black Canary being framed for the murder of a kidnapper that she had captured earlier in the issue. Later issues reveal that, even with the defeat of the White Canary, she is still wanted by the police. | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bd30d87c | type |
They Call Him "Sword" | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bd30d87c | comment |
Tatsu Yamashiro is Katana; the same name as her weapon of choice. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bd30d87c | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bebf0356 | type |
Mission Control | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bebf0356 | comment |
Mission Control: Oracle again, and Savant and Creote on occasion. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bebf0356 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bf1255fa | type |
Really Gets Around | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bf1255fa | comment |
Really Gets Around: When Black Canary and Huntress get angry at each other they tend to forget that they are highly trained and lethal combatants and instead fall back on the old standbys of calling each other names, including pointing out that Huntress "was a brazen hussy on a twenty-four man patrol." Despite her reputation, however, Helena never quite seems to earn the title (See also Take That! below). | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bf1255fa | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bf9163d9 | type |
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bf9163d9 | comment |
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Canary, Huntress and Oracle, with Lady Blackhawk taking a more active role and thus the mantle of 'blonde' after Dinah's departure. Note that the stereotypical roles do not apply, and Canary is not a natural blonde. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bf9163d9 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bfaff026 | type |
Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bfaff026 | comment |
Arrogant Kung Fu Girl: Lady Shiva, who is constantly training and retraining herself to eternally improve her martial arts abilities. She also challenges any combatants whom she deems worthy, testing herself against them, testing them against her, and learning from them/removing them as threats for the future. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_bfaff026 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b | type |
Subverted Trope | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b | comment |
The Huntress had cult-leader Sovereign Brushaw at her mercy at the end of her crossbow as Vixen begged her not to cross the line. Huntress lowers her crossbow and allows Brushaw to be taken into custody...and reveals that Vixen should not thank her for anything, her crossbow jammed. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c197275d | type |
Ethereal White Dress | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c197275d | comment |
Ethereal White Dress: An Asian woman calling herself the "White Canary" shows up at the end of issue 1 of the relaunch. Her costume makes sense once her identity is revealed : In Asian fashion she is wearing white in mourning for her brothers, the Twelve Brothers in Silk, who she killed after their defeat at Black Canary's hands to uphold her father's honor. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c197275d | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c313d43a | type |
True Companions | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c313d43a | comment |
Though their partnership eventually grew into true companionship, in the early issues under Chuck Dixon Oracle and Canary had an almost adversarial relationship over the radio, with Canary frequently disregarding Oracle's advice/instructions and even turning off their link completely. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c313d43a | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c36cba70 | type |
Mooks | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c36cba70 | comment |
In issue #8, Current, a hired gun working for the Calculator, tries to break away when he realizes he is fighting Black Canary and Batman. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c36cba70 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c4500946 | type |
Break His Heart to Save Him | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c4500946 | comment |
Break Her Heart to Save Her: After a fashion. Issue #11 of the relaunch features a team-up of Huntress and Catman, who had a history of flirtation and mutual attraction in their past encounters, tracking down a team of museum thieves that had taken a hostage. At the end of the issue Huntress reveals that she has deduced that Catman was a member of the thieves all along and warned him to never cross her path again. However, it is then revealed that Catman planned the whole event for this specific outcome, since he wanted Huntress to think of him as truly bad person and therefore not get involved in his horrendous life. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c4500946 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c558da6a | type |
Gunship Rescue | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c558da6a | comment |
Gunship Rescue: When Calculator has kidnapped Huntress, Lady Blackhawk and Dove, Oracle comes to their rescue in an attack helicopter that lays waste to the whole area (with rubber bullets, of course). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c558da6a | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c67af1b0 | type |
Big Bad Wannabe | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c67af1b0 | comment |
Big Bad Wannabe: The seemingly innocent teenage daughter of a mob boss arranges for her dad to be taken out right under the Birds' nose. She then goes to his various captains in a meeting to declare herself the new boss. Instead of being accepted, they literally laugh at the idea of letting a teenage girl run a mafia family. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c67af1b0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Gail Simone has revealed that her Brave and the Bold will feature a reference to Catman, Huntress' on-again/off-again boyfriend from the Secret Six (which, incidentally, is also written by Simone). Cassandra Cain, the second Batgirl, was mentioned in Issue #10 and Red Robin (Tim Drake) wonders why she does not have access to Oracle's new hideout and activities. Barbara explains that she does not see giving out access as a privilege, but as a burden, and Cassandra has enough issues of her own to deal with right now. This also refers to Gail Simone's own efforts to feature Cassandra in at least a guest spot in the series, which she had said was upcoming, but which could not be implemented because of factors at DC Comics. In Issue #25 Ted Kord flies the Beetle around Bludhaven with Oracle and recreates several of Nite Owl's scenes from Watchmen in the process. For bonus points Nite Owl was originally supposed to be Ted Kord. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c82e751f | type |
Unspoken Plan Guarantee | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c82e751f | comment |
Unspoken Plan Guarantee: The second arc of the series relaunch, "The Death of Oracle," is established in the first issue as Barbara's plan to eliminate the Oracle identity by faking its death. However, even though bits and pieces are revealed, and a lot more is hinted and implied to other characters, the actual plan is never revealed, not even in narration. Oracle and Huntress just refer obliquely to "the plan" and, when events happen, that this is/is not in "the plan." | |
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| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c82e751f | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | type |
Legacy Character | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | comment |
"Black Canary" really has nothing to do with Dinah Lance's skills, behavior, powers or history; ditto her mother, who originated the title. She does refer to her sonic wail as her "Canary Cry," but it is never implied to actually sound like a real canary and she had the name before her powers arose. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ca7ec334 | type |
Two Lines, No Waiting | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ca7ec334 | comment |
While Black Canary is battling Cheshire in Hong Kong with Lady Shiva, Oracle is being held prisoner by a corrupt US Senator in Gotham. These seem to be two completely independent stories until these plot threads crash together in a pretty glaring Contrived Coincidence: Cheshire murdered Canary's teacher as part of her plot to destroy the life of that same US Senator! | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ca7ec334 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab | type |
Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: The first Oracle/Black Canary team-up featured Nick Devine, a man who specialized in developing industry in third world nations, but was really providing shoddy work and pocketing large amounts of the cash, then covering up his substandard business practices by having "terrorists" destroy his efforts. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cc4d190a | type |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cc4d190a | comment |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Babs taking down Brainiac. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cc4d190a | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cd809603 | type |
Tank Goodness | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cd809603 | comment |
Tank Goodness: When training in Asia Black Canary is forced to single handedly stop an army that is coming to eliminate the village. They have tanks. Canary stops them all by herself. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cd809603 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cd809603 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ce0b2b21 | type |
Monochrome Casting | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ce0b2b21 | comment |
Monochrome Casting: In a series of conversations about race in comic books on Tumblr, Gail Simone has acknowledged that, in her opinion, it sends a bad message that all of the main characters in the book are straight white women, most of whom have blue eyes. To rectify this Gail has said that she will be using two non-white heroines, Cassandra Cain (one of DC's few Asian vigilantes) and the Question (a Hispanic lesbian) as guest operatives in coming issues [1] and will be working on a long term solution to fix the lack of color in the book. However, in the same Tumblr post where she admitted that the lack of diversity in the book was a problem she pointed out that she had used many minority heroines such as Lady Shiva, Judomaster and Vixen in guest roles during the first volume. She also briefly added Grace Choi from The Outsiders to the team's roster when they guest starred in Secret Six #7. Following the New 52 reboot, the Japanese heroine Katana finally joined the team, and the African American vigilante Strix was inducted into the group after her departure. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_ce0b2b21 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cf9b131f | type |
Muscles Are Meaningless | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cf9b131f | comment |
Muscles Are Meaningless: When Black Canary and Savant eventually square off she does not fight using leverage, speed or an exploitation of her natural advantages, but instead matches him blow-for-blow in what is almost a direct conflict of strength in addition to skill. Given their different sizes and build, for Canary to even approach Savant in terms of raw strength she would need superpowers above and beyond her Canary Cry, but she still overpowers him and brings him to his knees. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cf9b131f | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cffd71bd | type |
MostCommonSuperpower | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cffd71bd | comment |
Most Common Superpower: Look at the picture at the top of this page. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cffd71bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_cffd71bd | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d08595d3 | type |
Broken Bird | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d08595d3 | comment |
Broken Bird: Barbara becomes Oracle after being shot in the spine. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d08595d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d08595d3 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d0dec645 | type |
New Super Power | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d0dec645 | comment |
New Super Power: His origin has not been revealed, but when Current was arguing with Calculator he explained that he had only recently gotten his electrical powers. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d0dec645 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d35d77e0 | type |
Hacker Cave | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d35d77e0 | comment |
Hacker Cave: The Clocktower. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d35d77e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d35d77e0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d5b3df2d | type |
Dark Action Girl | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d5b3df2d | comment |
Dark Action Girl: Lady Shiva is a recurring character and, sometimes, a protagonist. Much of her appearances focus on her relationship with Black Canary, which seems to be something neither of them enjoy, but are compelled to pursue for their own reasons. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d5b3df2d | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d5dc7c27 | type |
Pajama-Clad Hero | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d5dc7c27 | comment |
Pajama-Clad Hero: Barbara spends almost all of her time in civvies, and occasionally shows up in pajamas. One example in issue #11 of the relaunch shows her pajamas, which naturally has the Bat symbol on them, and complementary bunny slippers. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d5dc7c27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d5dc7c27 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d66cd0e6 | type |
Training from Hell | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d66cd0e6 | comment |
Training from Hell: Black Canary trades lives with Lady Shiva during the One Year Later event in order to help humanize the vicious killer. While Shiva was working with the Birds, Canary lived in an Asian jungle (never identified where) and underwent the brutal training that Shiva herself underwent while being trained to become Lady Shiva. She is beaten, starved, beaten some more, and sent singlehandedly against an entire army (with tanks) to protect the village where this is happening. She undoubtedly becomes a better fighter, but she recognizes all the problems inherent with this sort of training and leaves, taking little Sin with her, because she recognizes how badly this will damage a human psyche. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d66cd0e6 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d69653a | type |
Tontine | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d69653a | comment |
Tontine: Apparently the Blackhawk Squadron had a tontine, a bottle of champagne, "won" by Zinda Blake when she was flung into the future. | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d69653a | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d7ee7a25 | type |
Painted-On Pants | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d7ee7a25 | comment |
Painted-On Pants: Not the predominant art style of the series, but there were occasional shifts in staff and this trope would occasionally come into play when new pencilers/inkers would join the book, clearest when Vixen guest-starred in the original run and on Huntress in the relaunch. With Hawk & Dove their superhero outfits do not come off and are literally skin-tight. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d7ee7a25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d7ee7a25 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d848560f | type |
Unusual Euphemism | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d848560f | comment |
Unusual Euphemism: When Oracle tells Huntress to use deadly force if necessary to bring the team home safely, she uses the expression "even if you have to spill some juice on the carpet." | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d848560f | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d848560f | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d9cf40fa | type |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d9cf40fa | comment |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d9cf40fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d9cf40fa | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d9d2c40b | type |
Amazon Brigade | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d9d2c40b | comment |
Amazon Brigade: Obviously, though male characters frequently appear as allies to the team. Hawk, appearing in the 2010 relaunch, appears to be the first male to actually be on the team. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d9d2c40b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d9d2c40b | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d9d8fd35 | type |
Battle Butler | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d9d8fd35 | comment |
Battle Butler Lady Blackhawk serves as the teams chauffeur and pilot, but also joins them on their combat assignments. Creote serves as one for Savant. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_d9d8fd35 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_db9940c4 | type |
Famed In-Story | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_db9940c4 | comment |
Famed In-Story: The Black Canary is well-known amongst the world martial arts community and is held up as a measuring stick of combat skill within the hero community. Her reputation is not as wide-spread as some other heroes, but those "in the know" have heard of her and her legendary prowess Oracle was originally an Internet Urban Legend, spoken of in chat-rooms and forums without much credibility, but over time has become a famed Internet celebrity known to heroes, villains and the general population. This has led to some problems, as she is supposed to be a mysterious legend. | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_db9940c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_db9940c4 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_dfb71617 | type |
Male Gaze | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_dfb71617 | comment |
Male Gaze: Every issue drawn by Ed Benes. | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_dfb71617 | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_e0828de1 | type |
Deathbringer the Adorable | |
| Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_e0828de1 | comment |
Deathbringer the Adorable: Plucky teenager Misfit's catchphrase is "Daaaaaark Vengeance!" | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_e0828de1 | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: Black Canary deliberately tries to reform Lady Shiva through friendship and human contact, even agreeing to be her student in martial arts and briefly exchanging lives. Shiva is aware that this is Dinah's goal, and she goes along with it because she wants to make Dinah stop. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Helena Bertinelli. When she is fighting Lady Shiva, one of the best martial artists in the world, she keeps taking more punishment specifically so that she can throw her own blood in Shiva's face. She ultimately survives the encounter for the sole reason that she kept fighting even though everybody (including herself) knew it was a hopeless fight, and this drew it out long enough for Black Canary to find and remove the reasons for the fight in the first place. The anonymous mook in the introduction of issue #11. Huntress herself admits that the man definitely has courage and determination as he keeps trying to run after she has forced him to crash his bike and then shot him in the foot as he scaled a building. When she finally reaches him he actually tries to fight her, with a gaping wound in his foot, and Helena wonders what is keeping him going after she already hobbled him. He does go down, eventually, but not before drawing a gun and being tackled by Catman. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: Spy Smasher. She blackmails Babs into giving her leadership of the Birds, then disrespects them by not listening to their advice during missions. She's also arrogant and bureaucratic. | |
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Meaningful Rename | |
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Meaningful Rename: Most of the code names that the characters use relate to either their skills, methods or histories, and they pick these names specifically to represent such facets of themselves. No, we have no clue what Black Canary was going for. | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia: Issue #8 of the relaunch discusses when Oracle and Calculator dueled within their minds in issue #12 of the Batgirl (2009) series. Oracle mentions here that, as the Calculator inevitably imagined his own mind as a computer, she was able to delete the files that contained her true identity, removing that information from his memory. However, it seems that this action has resulted in currently-unspecified damage to his mind that he believes is going to prove terminal. | |
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Freudian Trio | |
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Freudian Trio: The classic line-up: Superego: Oracle/Barbara Gordon — intellectual, rational, the little voice telling you what to do. Id: Huntress/Helena Bertinelli — brilliant but impulsive and emotional, fundamentally amoral. Ego: Black Canary/Dinah Lance — more balanced, mediates between the other two. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: After finding Sin, Black Canary breaks up Huntress and Shiva's duel to the death. Shiva is determined to finish the fight since she gave her word, but Black Canary reminds her that she only agreed to fight in such a duel, and did not agree on when that fight would happen. | |
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The Vamp | |
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The Vamp: Talia Al-Ghul is a recurring character in the Batman mythos, one of the Batman's more long-term and complicated relationships, and she often fluctuates between ally and enemy as Batman and her father, Ra's Al-Ghul, battle one another. For her guest appearances in Birds of Prey, however, she has decided to exploit her extremely well-formed figure to manipulate and dominate the men she targets, starting with the father of Black Alice. | |
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Bound and Gagged | |
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Bound and Gagged: Used quite frequently in the book: In order to escape being arrested at the hospital where she is staying, Thorn disguises herself as a nurse. While searching for Thorn, Black Canary finds the real nurse, as well as a police officer, bound and gagged underneath a bathroom sink. Inside her own psyche, Rose Forrest usually keeps her psychotic alter-ego, Thorn, shackled to a brick wall. At one point Rose creates an iron clamp for Thorn's mouth when she will not stop shouting at her. When Cheshire plans on faking her death, she leaves Lady Shiva tied up and gagged inside of a trunk with a bomb. Ironically, Catwoman of all people is the one who rescues her. The very first issue has Black Canary tying up and gagging a security guard while infiltrating a mansion. Another issue had a scene where Huntress was gagged and handcuffed to a pipe by a brainwashed Lady Blackhawk. One issue had a scene where Huntress used duct tape to truss up and silence the Penguin. Gail Simone wrote a Birds of Prey episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold which had Black Canary, Catwoman, and Huntress tied up by mobsters, with Canary gagged. | |
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Villainous Harlequin | |
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Villainous Harlequin: Dr. Harleen Quinzel makes a wonderful guest-appearance as everyone's favorite off-kilter Harley Quinn. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: Issue #10 of the second volume closes with a gathering of the "Bat Family," the primary superheroes of Gotham City, each of whom have their own on-going series. Present are Batman (Dick Grayson), Batman (Bruce Wayne), Batgirl (Stephanie Brown) and Red Robin (Tim Drake). Misfit (Charlotte Gage-Radcliff) is also present, her first appearance in the relaunch, but she does not have an independent series of her own. Issue #1 of the third volume opens with Black Canary meeting with Barbara, who has now become the new Batgirl and left for her own solo title. Batgirl appears in issue #4 of the series. | |
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Duct Tape for Everything | |
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Duct Tape for Everything: Oracle defeated Lady Spellbinder, an immensely powerful illusionist, by covering up her eyes with duct tape. | |
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Fighter, Mage, Thief | |
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Fighter, Mage, Thief: The three main characters in the classic line-up each fit one of these archetypes: Oracle, who, with her hacking abilities, can gain knowledge and harm enemies from a great distance, but, being a paraplegic, is not as good (though not completely helpless) in close combat, is the wizard; Black Canary, who, being the best martial artist of the three, and having the canary cry for dealing with more powerful enemies, is the best close combatant, is the fighter (although her ability to soak up damage is not appreciably greater than the others'); Huntress, being the best at and most reliant upon stealth, and using a crossbow as her primary weapon, is the thief. | |
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Befriending the Enemy | |
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Befriending the Enemy: Black Canary attempts this with Lady Shiva. Shiva is interested in Canary because of her rapidly-increasing martial arts skills and wants to face her in a Duel to the Death and later comes to owe her an important debt. Canary tries to use this to befriend and reform Shiva, but Shiva knows this and actively resists. | |
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A Handful for an Eye | |
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A Handful for an Eye: Huntress throws her own blood in Shiva's face during their fight, reasoning that Shiva has never before had to fight somebody so familiar with gutter tactics as to try that. | |
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Mafia Princess | |
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Mafia Princess: Helena Bertinelli, who would grow up to become the Huntress. | |
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Evil Plan | |
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The original Oracle/Black Canary team-up ends with Canary ready to kill Nick Devine, the mastermind behind the Evil Plan, and Oracle explaining why she cannot do it. Eventually, Canary lets him live because he is not worth compromising herself over. | |
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Go-Go Enslavement | |
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Go-Go Enslavement: Lady Blackhawk is kidnapped and brainwashed by super villain Killer Shark and even has her own super villain outfit, here◊, here◊ and here. | |
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Faking the Dead | |
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Barbara decides to kill Oracle because of all the attention that the identity attracts. | |
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Canon Immigrant | |
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Canon Immigrant: Issue 37 of the first volume brought in an In Name Only version of the Condiment King from Batman: The Animated Series, a Lean and Mean teenaged former fast food worker turned willing criminal named Mitchell Mayo who was Red and Black and Evil All Over.note Detective Comics #1000 would bring in a Truer to the Text version of the original (an adult named Buddy Standler who's stocky and clad in blue and white), though it's unclear if he was a comedian like in B: TAS or even if this version was Brainwashed and Crazy like the original Standler or this version was himself a case of Adaptational Villainy. | |
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With Friends Like These... | |
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With Friends Like These...: Though their partnership eventually grew into true companionship, in the early issues under Chuck Dixon Oracle and Canary had an almost adversarial relationship over the radio, with Canary frequently disregarding Oracle's advice/instructions and even turning off their link completely. The reboot series portrays similar issues between the new members. Katana and Starling initially end up in a brawl with Poison Ivy after she is first inducted into the team, and Batgirl repeatedly states how disgusted she is that known killers like Ivy and Katana were even allowed into the group in the first place. | |
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished | |
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Usually played straight, especially considering how many fights everyone gets into. A notable aversion occurs during Huntress and Lady Shiva's duel, where Shiva beats up Huntress to the point that her face is a swollen, bloody mess by the end. Another aversion happens after Oracle and Spy Smasher's fight when Spy Smasher shows the beginnings of a black eye. | |
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Removing the Earpiece | |
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Removing the Earpiece: Black Canary has, on occasion, deliberately removed her radio receiving earpieces in order to separate herself from Oracle's control. | |
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Cut Short | |
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Cut Short: The original run of the series was abruptly cancelled in the middle of the Platinum Flats arc with the Silicon Syndicate. The arc was not followed up on in either other series or after the comic returned to publication. The relaunched series will be again relaunched, starting at issue #1, after the publication of issue #15. This occurs right at the conclusion of a mini-arc featuring Junior, a character previously introduced in Secret Six, and who was established as a new recurring foe for the Birds. | |
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Death Seeker | |
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