Big Time Hollywood Superhero Pitches

[Onimaru]

Yknow who would make a good fit for a live action superhero TV series? As much as I'm loathe to admit it, as I hate him as a character...

...Nightwing

Think about it. He's a man-whore, so there's built-in drama and angst. He's the grown-up version of Robin which instantly gives him recognizablity which, while not quite on par with "young Superman", is a little more palpable than the previous live action Birds of Prey show. His antics aren't SUPER high profile so there's no need for huge movie budget or anything. His costume is pertty simple, so they can take any liberties they need to with it (as long as they don't put him back in his 70s style duds). Plus it would be great for guest stars, with semi-serious live action depictions of assorted B and C listers (Arsenal? Creeper? Blue Beetle?) who would otherwise never make it onto a show.

Or at least that's what I think. And as Buffy proved, I can enjoy a good action show even if I don't like the main character. I dare you to think of a more marketable DC-comics based hour-long drama TV series. I DARE YOUUUU.

[Noah Johnson]

Hmmm. Pitch it as a twentysomething coming of age story. Batman as emotionally cold father figure, Robin who tried for years to win his approval, finally rejecting the role Batman chose for him and going out on his own. The character's physically incredible, capable of pushing the human body to its utter design limits, but his human interaction is weird because he grew up being trained as a detective and he can't always turn that off. He's never had a "normal" life and it takes him time to get the hang of it.

His emotional arc is that at the beginning, he's still trying to win Batman's approval even though he says he's not. As he develops, though, and faces totally different challenges than his mentor ever did, he becomes his own man. Also, we could get some good emotional material out of his natural parents, his memories of them and their deaths, etc.

Villainwise... we'd want a couple big arc-villains, at least two and maybe introduce one more as the first couple get used up. We'd definitely want to avoid the Smallville freak-of-the-week problem; how fast did THAT get old? Maybe first season, he's fighting gangs in Bludhaven, gradually realizing that even as he plays one gang against another, there's someone else pulling the strings on all of them. We'd have a hard time making Blockbuster interesting on TV... much of the characterization derives from his backstory. Might be doable, though, and would give us a chance to introduce Torque, the most visually interesting villain since Two-Face.