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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chun-tzu" data-source="post: 353789" data-attributes="member: 1441">This sounds like a case of mainsteam media reporting inaccuracies because they didn't bother to check their facts. It happens all the time in stuff like this, because they figure, who cares, it's just a stupid comic book (or something along those lines). For one thing, there was no Batgirl on Earth-2; the Huntress was their version of Batgirl. Batgirl and the Huntress never teamed-up in any comic series, because they lived in different universes. The Huntress mostly hung out with Power Girl, who was Earth-2's Supergirl.To straighten things out for anyone who's confused, the new series Birds of Prey is loosely based on the Birds of Prey comic by DC Comics. It takes one of the two main characters, Oracle, formerly known as Batgirl. The other character, an adult Black Canary with sonic powers, has essentially been replaced with a version of the Huntress.The Huntress was first created in the Silver Age as the daughter of Batman and Catwoman. Like her parents, she had no powers, but she relied on bat-weapons and a crossbow. She was a member of the Justice Society of America, and later Infinity, Inc., and also appeared in JSA stories in Adventure comics. The creator of the TV show liked this character, and adapted her to the TV show, giving her Buffy/Dark Angel super powers instead of weapons. The Huntress still exists in the current DC Universe, but she is not the daughter of Batman and Catwoman (and she still has no super-powers in the comics).Really, truly, the TV show takes nothing from the comics except some character concepts, and the name. It has some superficial similarities to the Birds of Prey comic, but that's it. Some might call this almost completely original, which others would say it's a total bastardization. It's leaning heavily on the Batman connection to try to get enough viewers to build an audience.</blockquote>

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