Damn! Forgot to preview Justice League Unlimited's episode, "Grudge Fight" before it aired last weekend. Which is a real shame, because this episode has my favorite fetish: girl fights! If you're a Black Canary fan, this one is for you. Dinah has been acting all strange, going out on patrol and almost letting two-bit crooks get the better of her.
The Huntress, who has always had a dicey relationship with Black Canary, notices her lapses and starts trailing Dinah. She discovers that Dinah is fighting on the underground circuit (which previously appeared in the Wildcat episode) run by Roulette. The twist is that instead of heroes fighting criminals, it's heroes vs. heroes-and they are all female! Black Canary is the most popular and victorious of all the heroines in the circuit.
When the Huntress confronts Dinah about her extra curricular activities, they get into a nasty fight in the parking garage. The Huntress discovers that Dinah is under mind control when she kicks Black Canary's earpiece communicator. Snaky Roulette figured out a way to hack into any JLU communicator and put the wearer under her control. The Huntress and Black Canary are captured by Roulette and forced to fight in the arena.
The women have to fight four of the JLU's most formidable heroines: Fire, Vixen, Hawkgirl, and last but not least…Wonder Woman! You can imagine that Dinah's Canary cry isn't much good against WW. If that isn't enough female fighting for you, we've also got Roulette showing off her martial arts skills.
I love this episode. Black Canary is well portrayed as a student of martial arts, and her fiery, competitive relationship with the Huntress is fun to watch. These two can't stop fighting, even up to the very last scene in the show. If you missed "Grudge Fight", well, at least you know what you missed. Nuff said.
All that, AND a "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" cameo by Nightwing! Great episode.
I must have blinked and missed it, though I assume it was somewhere on the road into Bludhaven?
I wasn't as elated by this episode--apart from it teetering delicately on the edge of slash fiction (I mean, mind control girl fights? That's alt.sex.stories material, that is!), there's the plot requirement that NOBODY in the League notices that all the women are wandering off to Bludhaven every night? I suppose with J'onn gone, nobody else can be expected to spot any telltale signs of mind control...
Oh, man, you're right on the money with that slash fiction remark. Gotta go write some to take this episode even further...nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know whad I mean? :-)
This was an excellent episode.
This show will be sorely missed when it goes off the air.