r/Hawkman

I'm gonna say it. Wonder Woman needs one, Green Arrow needs one too, Zatanna needs one as well just like the Hawks need one. Batman is one of my favorite superhero in DC Universe but I'm tired of him being the only one who gets to have multiple of projects every year. Others deserve the spotlight the same way he got it since 60s until today.

I know that some people had the idea of an animated show to be inspired by Indiana Jones, having them being on adventures around the world but to me, I would go and use the classic formula which means setting Carter and Shiera in Midway City and have them being the local heroes that protect it. It's been ages that we didn't have a superhero show where the hero protects his city other than Batman and Superman. For once, it would be a new environment that he will explore and where their rogue gallery will finally have a chance to get adapted and reinvinted for fit more in this direction.

For the backstory, I would go with the golden age one with the reincarnation but modernized : Carter Hall being an archeologist and Shiera Sanders being a museum curator are the superheroes Hawkman and hawkwoman expect that in version they hate each other at first, being rivals to one and other on who should be the local hero of Midway City, calling the other one faker but little by little they start show respect, eventually end up being friends until falling in love. And then they will discover they're the reincarnations of egyptian lovers that got killed by a evil priest Hath Set who here is known as Anton Hastor and will their archenemy throughtout the show just like Joker and Lex Luthor are to Batman and Superman.

That was idea of a series pitch. What do you think ? What are your ideas for an animated show ?

Don't get me wrong that show. Honestly, I wish it would have gotten more seasons than only two but what amazed me the most is how this animated series for kids was able to show more love and respect to some characters' lore than other DC projets that "tried" to be more mature (Wonder Woman fans know what I mean).

But there's another character that get the same level of justice and that character is Carter Hall aka Hawkman (he was voiced by Phil Lamarr who voiced Green Lantern in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, damn...). I need to admit, I was kinda worried when I saw using him in the show because his other interpretations was not good at all but I started to watch it I was pleasantly surprised. No, really.

Especially in his deticated episode #TheBirdAndTheBee. This episode gives exactly a good depiction on Carter Hall's Hawkman and also Shiera Saunders. I think what I loved in this plot is what Carter says about their reincarnation cycle. He said that sometimes in some other lives, he was the one who didn't remember their love story in this version and sometimes Shiera is the one who remembers. Honestly, thank you so much. I was getting pretty sick of Carter being always the only one with the memories of past lives because it put them on equal terms, something DC barely wants to do with the Hawks. Something that I also like is that in the episode is Kareen who's being the creep here, gathering informations on her and not Carter for once but the most heartbreaking aspect of it is the ending where he's finally about to have date with Shiera, he gets attacked by Hath Set who is the one responsible for their cycle. Thank you again DC Superhero Girls for respecting the lore. Hath set walks away because they didn't have a date yet but promises to come back when their love story will start again and because of that, Hawkman makes a hardest decision : giving up the idea of them being happy together and not coming at their date night. (dude, you couldn't just stand her up like that, seriously). He just realized the only for him to love and have her safe is from afar.

Oh my god, why DC didn't do that with DCAU and I know the Hawks was supposed to appear as a couple in Superman TAS. I'm so grateful towards DCSHG for respecting a character that receiving too much crap for nothing.

I was thinking about it and remembered reading on the wiki how she is hostile to him but in other things she and him were friends/partners in superhero stuff.

This is one of the most interesting and endearing parts of Hawkman and one of the reasons Geoff Johns' run is my favorite. That book brings up the number of people that Carter has lost throughout his many lives and how he still remembers them, sort of as a prison of memory, but never being able to be with his friends, mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters that he had. This is one of my favorite parts of Hawkman like I said but what do you think?

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Maybe in an alternate timeline, Absolute Hawkman wasn't written lazily and we got to see his absolute verse rogues. What would you do for them?