DC Entertainment is about to achieve something that Marvel Studios hasn't. When Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) opens on February 7, it will be the first comic book movie starring an all-female superteam. And assuming the CW picks up the Arrow spinoff and Birds of Prey-inspired Green Arrow and the Canaries series, DC will have the same on TV next fall as well. But what makes the Birds of Prey so special ? And why has 2020 become their year? As it turns out, there are a lot of reasons: some good, some complicated, some mercenary. Let's start with the most important reason first, though: The Birds of Prey are pretty great. In the comics, the team's core trinity is made up of Batgirl, Black Canary, and the Huntress, although it's worth noting that when the Birds of Prey first formed—and for most of their existence—Batgirl was not actually Batgirl at the time. Barbara Gordon had been paralyzed by the Joker in 1988's infamous Killing Joke , hung up her Batgirl cowl, and become the computer genius/brilliant strategist Oracle for years before she teamed up with Black Canary for a 1996 one-shot comic subtitled… Read full this story
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