![]() ![]() ![]() Likewise for Spider-Man, Superman, and most other particularly popular superheroes. But Batman has become such a pervasive part of our cultural history that even people who aren’t lifelong superhero fans generally accept his premise without too much reservation. If Batman never existed until now, you couldn’t create a new character who dresses up like a giant bat and have anyone take him remotely seriously. Most famous comics characters are ridiculous, but because they’re more famous, we’re so used to them that it rarely feels that way. If that description of Grodd sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. Why? Because Grodd is a massive hyper-intelligent gorilla with overwhelming psychic powers. But the secret truth is that none of these more renowned villains are actually as good as Gorilla Grodd. Even within Flash’s rogue gallery (not to be confused with The Rogues), Grodd usually takes a back seat to the likes of Captain Cold, Weather Wizard, and the Reverse Flash. DC has many villains far better known than Grodd. Or Lex Luthor, Darkseid, Two-Face, or any number of other choices. So why am I so excited for this? Because Grodd is actually the best villain in all of DC Comics. Arrow and The Flash have been able to plow through so many notable villains and other characters - one of the shows’ best traits - precisely because they didn’t have to worry about future conflicts with the films.Īnd now, that ability to go full fan-service is about to reach its arguable peak, with tonight’s Flash giving us the first full episode with Gorilla Grodd - titled, appropriately, “Grodd Lives.” Of course the CW shows should be separate. They chose to keep the emerging DCCU separate from the CW shows, and I quickly realized that, for the first time in my life, I had been wrong. There was a moment last fall, around the time WB was announcing the expansion of its movie superheroes into a shared cinematic universe, when I thought the studio should take advantage of its already-developed small-screen heroes and fold those versions of (Green) Arrow and the Flash into its new big-screen venture. ![]()
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