Supergirl continues to show its love for what came before

The folks at Supergirl continues to cull characters and storylines from print but also other adventures of the past, animated and live-action....
Talented Whedon fave Dichen Lachman is Roulette on Supergirl. Photo/FilmBook
Talented Whedon fave Dichen Lachman is Roulette on Supergirl. Photo/FilmBook

Talented Whedon fave Dichen Lachman is Roulette on Supergirl. Photo/FilmBook

Supergirl comes at us again as October turns to November, and the Fall season winds down, with another episode plot ripped not just fromDC’s comic pages but from its animated division and television past.

When Kara and Earth sister Alex (Chyler Leigh) investigate an alien death as a homicide, they and cop BFF Maggie Sawyer (Floriana Lima) discover and infiltrate an underground fighting ring featuring aliens as the main attraction. The impresario is a femme fatale who goes by Roulette (frequent Joss Whedon player Dichen Lachman), who is able to trap both Supergirl and J’onn J’onnz into her cage of death.

And Jonn finds out he is not the only Martian to enter the ring. A mysterious young woman, M’gonn (Sharon Leal), claimed she is the last surviving daughter of Mars. She also happens to be one of Roulette’s best fighters and harbors some dark secrets.

Nerdy fanboys will notice right away what fans of the Superman mythos that series developers Ali Adler, Greg Berlanti, and Andrew Kreisberg are too.

Take the villain of the week as Exhibit A: Roulette is a character that is only 15 years old but she made the jump from page to screen rather quickly. Most famously, the sinister matchmaker turned up on Justice League Unlimited voiced by Virginia Madsen; appearances on Smallville soon followed. And now she proves popular enough for a third go on another DC show early in only its second season.

First and foremost, the image everyone thinks of when it comes to Maggie Sawyer. Photo/DCU Wiki

First and foremost, the image everyone thinks of when it comes to Maggie Sawyer. Photo/DCU Wiki

For Exhibit B, look no further than Maggie Sawyer who featured prominently in the WB’s stellar Superman Animated Series. Nothing done by that show will ever be topped, no matter what, so the only recourse is to pay homage to it.

Supergirl can try but the program’s primary charm lies in its reverence for its source material — the larger umbrella of Superman stories, characters, and continuity more than the Last Daughter of Krypton’s own history and corpus.

 

 

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Eric is a columnist and the resident film critic for The Pit. He also acts and is a multitalented filmmaker.
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