Forgotten Justice League - Day 7 (Hawkgirl)

 

Day 7 - Forgotten #JubloggsticeLeague

Hawkgirl

 

Forgotten Justice League members:

 

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 7 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

 

The original Hawkgirl was created by Garner Fox and Dennis Neville and first appeared in Flash Comics issue 1 in January 1940.  One of DC's earliest super-heroines, Hawkgirl has appeared in many of the company's flagship team-up titles including Justice Society of America and Justice League of America.

 

Several incarnations of Hawkgirl have appeared in DC Comics, all of them characterized by the use of archaic weaponry and artificial wings, attached to a harness made from the special Nth metal that allows flight. Most incarnations of Hawkgirl work closely with a partner/romantic interest Hawkman.

 

Since DC's continuity was rewritten in the 1985 series Crisis on Infinite Earths, Hawkgirl history has become muddled with several new versions of the character appearing throughout the years, some associated with ancient Egypt and some with the fictional planet Thanagar. These versions of the character have starred in several series of various durations.  Hawkgirl was asked to join the JLA in Justice League of America, volume 1, issue 146.  

 

A version of Hawkgirl named Kendra Saunders and played by Ciara Renée made a cameo appearance in the first-season finale episode of CW's television series The Flash, titled "Fast Enough." She also dates Barry Allen's best friend Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes) prior to meeting Carter Hall/Hawkman (Falk Hentschel). In "Legends of Today", Kendra and Hall are targeted by Vandal Savage (Casper Crump), leading Barry and Cisco to seek Oliver Queen's (Stephen Amell) aid against the immortal. From this encounter, Kendra learns that she is the re-incarnation of an ancient Egyptian warrior priestess named Chay-ara, and that she can transform into the winged, vicious Hawkgirl. In the Arrow crossover episode "Legends of Yesterday," Kendra and Carter join Barry and Oliver's fight against Savage, but although they are killed in the initial confrontation, Barry manages to travel back in time and avert their defeat, providing Kendra with the necessary incentive to remember her and Carter's original death and work out a means of taking the staff from Savage. Despite learning her destiny with Carter, Kendra remains affectionate with Cisco. Renée reprises her role from The Flash as Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl in the CW's DC's Legends of Tomorrow, where she joins Rip Hunter's team against Vandal Savage. During their search, it is revealed that Savage can only die for good if he is stabbed by Kendra- or one version of her- with a dagger that Chay-ara was holding when she died the first time, with the first attempt to kill him resulting in Carter's death when Carter attempts to kill Savage himself. During the course of the series, she develops a new relationship with Ray Palmer, which becomes more complex when they spend two years trapped in the 1950s posing as a married couple due to the tensions of an inter-racial couple in that era after the rest of the team are forced to leave them behind, as well as the complexities of her long-term 'relationship' with Carter. She reunited with Carter who's reincarnated as Scythian Torvil, one of Savage's soldiers, in "Leviathan".