Some DC characters that would adapt really well to TV series

[JokerLedger]

Nightwing is the easiest.
Very minimal cgi... plus you don't need to deal with Batman.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

I think people think I'm kidding, but I'm dead serious. HAWK AND DOVE would make a fantastic television show.

I don't think you're kidding. I agree.

 

[alexdunn]

How about a show that's like Smallville but with Dick Grayson. It would be before Robin and it would have teen dramma and love interests? Why don't they make shows like that!!??

 

[NotFadeAway]

I'm really into the idea of a sequel/spinoff for The Flash with Wally West.

Make it happen, Warner Bros.

If I can be completely honest, I have always believed Wally's story would best fit a television series, not a movie. There is some much depth and room for stories with Wally, it should not be wasted on just a movie. The effects would not be that costly, the speed effect isn't hard to produce.

Wally or Nigthwing would make for the best tv.

 

[The Major]

How about a show that's like Smallville but with Dick Grayson. It would be before Robin and it would have teen dramma and love interests?

A super-hero tv show doesn't have to just copy Smallville to work.

They'd be better off using other methods which make each show unique and relevant.

Why don't they make shows like that!!??

They are.

 

[The Major]

If I can be completely honest, I have always believed Wally's story would best fit a television series, not a movie. There is some much depth and room for stories with Wally, it should not be wasted on just a movie. The effects would not be that costly, the speed effect isn't hard to produce.

Agreed.

Wally or Nigthwing would make for the best tv.

They aren't the only ones with potential in tv. Checkmate, Bertinelli's Huntress, Question and others could do it with the right execution.

 

[3dman27]

hank and don hall aka the ORIGINAL hawk and dove would be perfect for tv their lower level powers[ twice their normal abilities]would be easy to simulate and the villians were generally normal humans

 

[NotFadeAway]

Agreed.



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This way, Barry Allen fans can have there origin flick, and Wally fans can watch the character grow over the course of a television series. Hell, if they don't want to have the costume on Wally, and just leave him with his powers, I'd be ok with that. This is where Alexis Denisof would be perfect if he was 10-12 years younger.

"The Flash:Legacy".......could be the title.

 

[alexdunn]

A super-hero tv show doesn't have to just copy Smallville to work.

They'd be better off using other methods which make each show unique and relevant.


They are.

I was being sarcastic becasue they are making that show and its going to be terrible...

 

[The Major]

I was being sarcastic becasue they are making that show

My mistake. Sarcasm is harder to catch in writing.

and its going to be terrible...

It might be good.

Though I'm extremely skeptical it'll be any better then Smallville at best.

They really need to stop using that show as the only formula to make a DC character work on tv.

I wonder why they're completely aping Smallville's premise, too. A Nightwing tv show would be much more interesting. They probably avoided that route since Birds of Prey failed, which is a silly reason to not do it.

 

[alexdunn]

Why not jsut a Bat-family show with a big ensemble cast? Kinda like Heroes but with Batman and better.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

I'd like to see a Dial H for HERO series. Maybe a real Superboy series. With the clone, not Smallville.

 

[The Major]

Why not jsut a Bat-family show with a big ensemble cast? Kinda like Heroes but with Batman and better.

True.

Personally I'd go with something like Outsiders or a lesser Bat character.

Batman has had plenty of films, tv shows and cartoons to show his potential. Its time to share the resources around a bit to the lesser properties even if he's in the cast. They don't make him the star of it.

 

[Flash Facts]

If I can be completely honest, I have always believed Wally's story would best fit a television series, not a movie. There is some much depth and room for stories with Wally, it should not be wasted on just a movie. The effects would not be that costly, the speed effect isn't hard to produce.

Wally or Nigthwing would make for the best tv.

Waid's run itself should be able to last a few seasons. I'd still like to see him on the sliver screen though.

 

[UA-Archangel]

My mistake. Sarcasm is harder to catch in writing.

Not to the skillful writer.

 

[Ceb-Man]

hank and don hall aka the ORIGINAL hawk and dove would be perfect for tv their lower level powers[ twice their normal abilities]would be easy to simulate and the villians were generally normal humans

I agree.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Challengers of the Unknown. They are a nonpowered version of the Fantastic Four.

When acquaintances miraculously survive a plane crash unscathed, they conclude that since they are "living on borrowed time" they should band together for hazardous adventures. The four — pilot Kyle "Ace" Morgan, daredevil Matthew "Red" Ryan, strong and slow-witted Leslie "Rocky" Davis, and scientist Walter Mark "Prof" Haley — became the Challengers of the Unknown. Soon famous, the Challengers accept many "unknown challenges" from The Pentagon, mad scientists, and people with a problem. Over time the "Challs" establish the hollowed-out Challengers Mountain as headquarters. Later they adopt an hourglass logo to symbolize time running out. They encounter genies, common and sophisticated thieves, rocs, aliens and robots good and bad. Their adventures later veer toward superheroics, and take in everything from occult menaces to Bermuda Triangle mysteries. The Challengers travel through space, time, and other dimensions. They encounter the likes of the Doom Patrol, Deadman, Swamp Thing, Jonny Double, and the Sea Devils, with whom they fight the criminal group Scorpio.[3] June Robbins, a computer genius and archaeologist, joined the Challengers for many adventures as an "honorary" or "girl" Challenger.
When Red is killed,[4] a teen rock star/engineering genius immediately wages a vendetta against the three-man team. "Tino Mannaray" turns out to be Martin Ryan, Red's kid brother, who blames the team for his death. Red eventually returns; though blown up, he had been dosed with shape-changing Liquid Light and rendered amnesiac, but still nearly conquered the Pacific as a Tiki god.
As the team's challenges become more occult, Red's brother Tino is blinded. Red donates an eye to his brother and dons an eye patch. Eventually Red receives an eye transplant. Prof becomes possessed by an evil spirit and is shot by a villain. While he recovers, Corinna Stark, a mysterious blond with mystical knowledge, invites herself onto the team. The Challengers fight occult alien-monsters in backwoods villages and dark dreams, and Rocky and Red fight for Corinna's affection.
The Challs are later semi-retired, their mountain a theme park, and their adventures disregarded as cooked-up articles in a tabloid, The Tattletale. The nearby town has renamed itself Challengerville, managing to thrive on the team's name. A cosmic entity, which prides itself as "the personification of all evil", influences the entity Multi-Man to blow up the mountain. The town is destroyed. Hundreds die, including, seemingly, Prof and June. The surviving Challengers are placed on trial, but eventually freed with the testimony of Superman. They are, however, ordered to disband.
A tabloid reporter, Moffet, becomes involved with the group after several unexplained incidents. Moffet began to piece together many seemingly unrelated massacres. Red became a violent, vigilante mercenary. Ace became an addled mystic, losing new-found friends due to inattention and incompetence. Rocky became lost in a life of luxury and ended up in an insane asylum.
Eventually the three reuinted and with Moffet's aid, found a strange portal near what was once Challengerville. They discovered Prof and June, pregnant, 'alive' in a strange 'phantom zone'. The dark demon confronted them and the final battle came down to Moffet and one neutron bomb. The decision to attack was literally taken out of his hands by Multi-Man, who sacrificed himself to destroy the demon.
"The New Challengers of the Unknown", including ghostly Prof and June, were poised to take on menaces in the dark corners of the world.
Later, four new Challengers pursue X-Files-like horrors. They are Clay Brody, NASCAR driver; Brenda Ruskin, physicist; Kenn Kawa, radical games designer; and Marlon Corbet, commercial pilot, who also miraculously survived a plane crash. They stopped sacrificial wackos, drug-juiced zombies, vengeful ghosts, Amazon cults, H. P. Lovecraftian monsters, mass suicides, humming buildings, and other oddities. They were advised by Rocky Davis, older and grayer and alone. It was eventually revealed the original Challengers were dematerialized by a mad scientist's ray-weapon. The same ray caused both plane crashes, as well as others. Soon the original Challs reappeared, helped the young Challs defeat the madman, then walked back into oblivion (minus a wounded Rocky) to shut down a runaway Tesla field. The young Challengers vowed to fight on.
Superboy discovers the missing Challengers - Ace, Red, Prof, and June - in Hypertime. The team was waging guerrilla war against Black Zero (a Superboy variant). With Black Zero defeated, the team returns to Earth, but loses Red along the way. Reunited with Rocky in Metropolis, hosted by Rip Hunter, the original Challengers vow to explore Hypertime, "the greatest unknown", to find Red.
Two Challengers partake in Infinite Crisis. Rocky Davis and Prof Haley help stem the escape of prisoners from Blackgate Prison,[5]. Rocky fights in the Battle of Metropolis. He is one of dozens of heroes fighting the opposing army of the Secret Society of Supervillains. The Soceity is ultimately defeated.[6].
Later, on a world without superheroes, a blogger, a hip hop artist, an eco-terrorist, and two others discovers they'd been genetically enhanced and chip-programmed to be soldier-pawns by the Hegemony, a cabal of billionaires who secretly run that world. Made slaves on a Moon base, three Challengers blow up the base, escape to Earth, and declare war on the Hegemony until (like the obliquely mentioned earlier Challengers) their "borrowed time" runs out.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Similar to the failed Birds of Prey. I had high hopes for that show. It had a lot of potential, but fell victim to the writers strike at the time.

It fell victim to a bad concept, ripped off from Dark Angel.

 

[Primal Slayer]

If they followed the comics, a BOP show would be great! Along with Checkmate. Catwoman, Flash, Teen Titans all could also make good tv shows.

 

[BatJeff7786]

I'd watch a Green Arrow series. That character was the only reason I kept watching Smallville in season 6. I finally gave up in season 7.

 

[The Guard]

It fell victim to a bad concept, ripped off from Dark Angel.

It fell victim to subpar writing, subpar acting, and action that was only remotely believeable.

 

[QWoods]

Since the Graysons show didn't pick up The CW could do a Catwoman show. It go with the Dark Knight movies. The show will show how she becomes Catwoman and her many adventures. After the season finale of whatever season she could be in the Dark Knight sequel and the next season will be her life after the Dark Knight sequel.

But Catwoman on FX would be way hotter and exciting. I think

 

[mythicalheroes]

How about Adam Strange ? Maybe Warner Bros can adapt a TV series pilot. I was hoping they can make one. SCI-FI channel can earn the rights from the DC Universe.

SCI-Fi hasn't got any rights from the DC and Marvel Universe. Back in the 90's Lynda Carter's role on WONDER WOMAN were resumed and so is THE INCREDIBLE HULK which stars David Bring Cosby. Do you all think it's time for SCI-FI to adapt the DC Universe characters ?

It's just an honest question to make a decision.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Adam Strange could be an awesome show. I'd watch it.

Sandman would be a cool series, not the Gaiman, the JSA one.

 

[The_Mighty_Thor]

SCI-Fi hasn't got any rights from the DC and Marvel Universe. Back in the 90's Lynda Carter's role on WONDER WOMAN were resumed and so is THE INCREDIBLE HULK which stars David Bring Cosby. Do you all think it's time for SCI-FI to adapt the DC Universe characters ?
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They would have to buy the rights to what ever character they wanted to do and with the feature film industry popping out a couple of comic book based movies every year i doubt they could get the rights to any good characters.