Justice League "Fury, Parts 1 & 2" Talkback (Spoilers)

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Revival you say? Man, I hate old threads that get resurected. But I never was a fan of this story arc anyway. I just watched a little bit of it anyway. I haven't even been watching the reruns much.
-As you said, Wonder Woman needs an identity BAD! I mean that first part was just kind of silly.
- SUperman was a Superwuss in this episode.
-Batman did have some good line though.
-I guess I'm done ranting.
 
I liked this ep. even though it was a man-bashing one. I'm glad HG didn't feel the same way was others did and at the end Diana came around too, I think. It was nice to see Bats display his samuri skills against Sakuri. I also this that whole Hippolyta/Diana think should've been addressed. I liked this ep. both parts. It's on my short list of favs.

OH, and showing the men of JL with mask on was really weird to see. I think they should be normal in the watchtower. I know the whole secret ID thing, but hopefully in S2 they can address that issue so that we can see them in normal things. That would be nice to see.
 
I really enjoyed this episode as well as part 1. I thought it was a great opportunity to see the women in action and capable of handling an emergency on their own and with a little luck. I also thought the palette of colors was more interesting than previous episodes. The shot of Batman and Wonder Woman on top of the roof in part 1 was dark and moody as well as nice to look at.
I only have a few minor gripes. Number 1 is that Wonder Woman is only alive because Aresia threw a panel at her that threw her clear of the explosion. Not a decisive win. Number 2 is that as good as Aresia's origin was, we still haven't seen WW or Hawkgirls. and that just plain hurts . :) And by the way VortexInfinite- the word you meant was genocidal(said in a non-condescending, helpful way) :)
 
"Fury" airs tonight

Tonight at 2 a.m. ET Cartoon Network airs the Justice League arc, Fury. This thread is a new merge of the original talkbacks for Part 1 and Part 2. Season One talkbacks now match our Season Two talkbacks, which is one per arc because the episodes originally aired in one hour blocks.

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Episode #16 - Fury, Part 1
Original Airdate - April 7th, 2002

When a renegade Amazon named Aresia takes over Lex Luthor's old gang, Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl must team up to stop her from destroying Man's world.

Episode #17 - Fury, Part 2
Original Airdate - April 14th, 2002

With the man's population quickly dropping, Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman rush to stop Areshia from unleashing her plague upon the world.

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I don't know about you all, but personally I'm happy to finally see this one air after "Injustice For All."
 
Was the asian warrior chick the DCAU version of Shiva?
 
I think this a great episode, and gives WW and Hawkgirl some time to shine, as well as having them work together for the first time. This is a real girl power episode, and I enjoyed it a lot, WW and Hawkgirl played off each other very nicely in there situation, and we got another nice villan to add to JL's gallery.

Part 1: This episode starts off to a great start with Batman single-handling taking down almost the entire Injustice Gang, sure a bit unbelievable, but fun to watch nonetheless, and when you think about it, since he's already faced most of them before, I'm sure he would've been prepared and have a logical plan to take out all of them. Loved how the brought back Hippolyta and Themiscara for this episode. It was a great idea to make the villan from WW's home, and made even more sense as the episode progressed. Loved when Hawkgirl was sneaking around the island to discover stuff about Aresia. Her origin story was very tragic, and even more tragic when we find out what irony it has in part two. It was also cool that she put in the part about Aresia's training and trasnformation into an Amazon in there. Aresia's virus, disease thing was very clever and I loved how she slowly one by one took out each male member of the JL with the virus. Ok, this episode was a bit slow though, the stuff with the Injustice Gang wasn't that thrilling, and the covered up the true purpose of this episode. Oh, and WW shopping part at the beginning. That was really funny. But anyways, Batman's revelation that this virus is contagious and is only affecting the male half was a nice cliffhanger to part two, as you knew he could only last out for so much longer.

Part 2: This episode starts out really nice, with the remaining 3 members, tidiously running around the city trying to control the chaos and with the inability of any male firefighters or police to assist them. Batman stopping the runaway bus was a nice scene, but afterwards we're only left with 2, WW and Hawkgirl. These two played off each other great. While WW you could tell couldn't see anything wrong with the annihilation of man, Hawkgirl proves her point many times. It was cool seeing WW and Hawkgirl, as well as the rest of the female population take control of the situation. The final 10 minutes was great. When Aresia kidnaps Hippolyta, there's a nice fight between her and SS and Tsukuri vs. WW and Hawkgirl. The finale was great, WW did a great job showing off the amount of power she has by decommishioning the aircraft, and fighting SS and trying to protect Hawkgirl in the Javelin. The ultimate revelation that Aresia was saved by man, was ironic indeed. The modified scene to origin had a very touching scene when Hippolyta buried the man who save her. Of course this doesn't change her mind, but leads to a brutal fight between her and WW, while Hawkgirl is making sure that the missles of the gas aren't launched.

Overall, it was great to get another Amazon character who shares the same motives and vision, only uses those to higher extent than others. The plot was simple yet made sense, we got to see our female characters take charge and interact with each other in a great way. The action was good, but the animation was a bit lacking, and the episode did get slow at points and felt empty like they could've added more. Some parts they extended way too long, and while it was cool to see and Amazon villan, this one was bland, and just not to threatning at all. But, those are just minor flaws to a pretty good episode.

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I was pretty uneven with "Fury" since it aired before "Injustice for All". From the plot, it was obvious it would focus on Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl. The interaction between these characters was good. Favorite Quote:
HG: "Who wants to live in a world without men?"
WW: "They can't possibily be that essential to your esistence."
HG: "Don't knock it 'till you've tried it, Princess." :D :D
 
For whatever it counts after four years since this entry was originally posted, I give it a 5. This is what got got me hooked 4 years ago in the Justice League AND the Justice League Unlimited episodes...
 
I wanted to mention that actress Julie Bowen did such a fantastic
job voicing Aresia. It's ashamed that they didn't bring her back
from the dead to be a part of Luthor's Legion Of Doom in JLUnlimited.
Julie Bowen's vocal performance was one of the best female villains
of the intire series.
 
I don't remember her having any especially good lines. Her character design was dull as driftwood. Honestly, Aresia doesn't get much love from me.

She was devised as a villain that would allow Diana and Shayera the opportunity to banter about their differences, and frankly even that portion of the episodes wasn't especially entertaining or enlightening. So Diana's a virgin and doesn't really get man's world yet? Okay. And? Shayera thinks the Amazons are man-hating and judges Diana? Okay. And?

Don't get me wrong - I still think it's one of the better JL season one episodes, but from a visual standpoint, from a writing standpoint AND factoring in that this new made-up character came at the cost of someone else from the WW books appearing, I can't say I love it.

Oddly, Star Sapphire stands out to me in this one. Hippolyta too.
 
She was devised as a villain that would allow Diana and Shayera the opportunity to banter about their differences, and frankly even that portion of the episodes wasn't especially entertaining or enlightening.

Good observation, DisneyBoy. I'd go farther and say the contrasting of Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl's differences was almost NEVER interesting throughout the course of the show. It wasn't specifically bad in this episode, so at the time I didn't think anything of it. However, when I think of the painful squabbling between these two characters, I somewhat regret this episode even more.

I didn't like much of season 1, and I felt this episode contributed to the problem.
 
It's Ladies' Night at Aglets Are Sinister as we take a look at the Justice League episode "Fury," as well as its main antagonist, the mysterious Aresia.
Huhn, I didn't have that Katana quote from Toyfare. You always think you have all them... lol.

I agree Wayne Enterprises probably had a stake in Gotham Biotech. And in addition, I figured Poison Ivy created some new killer plant and Batman stopped her but a small remnant was recovered and sent for study at Gotham Biotech so Batman was keeping light tabs on them just in case. And that paid off.

Whoa, idk if I ever realized Bergduffs appeared in that many of the DCAU shows. Neat.

Ha ha, yeah, I assumed after Paradise Lost, Batman did some light snooping and figured out the location of Themyscira then WW found out after the fact.

Nice detective work yourself with the Yugoslav / Kasnia parallels. Never thought to check Terrific's coordinates.

As yeah, those books and how Aresia knew to target all those places was always a head scratcher to the point of did she have an unrevealed partner / mentor for any of this to feel sensible. For the obvious reasons you mentioned, Ares seemed like the perfect candidate.. well only. Then even with Aresia seemingly being Kasnian, it would track since we know Ares' plans for Kasnia didn't stop with her.

Hippolyta and rules. Yeah... it comes to the point where it gets pretty meta in The Balance, she goes screw it and helps Diana.

Neat trivia about the JL Adventures comic.
 
Nice detective work yourself with the Yugoslav / Kasnia parallels. Never thought to check Terrific's coordinates.

As yeah, those books and how Aresia knew to target all those places was always a head scratcher to the point of did she have an unrevealed partner / mentor for any of this to feel sensible. For the obvious reasons you mentioned, Ares seemed like the perfect candidate.. well only. Then even with Aresia seemingly being Kasnian, it would track since we know Ares' plans for Kasnia didn't stop with her.
The thing is that it wasn't me. Apparently, somebody who edits the DC Animated Universe Wiki did, and apparently they had to tweak it to fill in the coordinates that Mister Terrific's head obscures (the first digit is obviously a "5," the second one is unknown).

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You know, the more I look at this image, the more the conspiracy theorist in me wants to say that maybe Aresia is Ares' daughter. Obviously, all they have in common is blond hair, but I suppose a familial connection could have been made had the creative team decided to go that route.

In a perfect world, I would have loved to see a Justice League / Wonder Woman original movie where Diana returns to Kasnia to help Queen Audrey, gets her rematch with Ares, Aresia returns, and we finally find out why Kasnia is such a conflict-heavy area (i.e. why Ares is so interested in this specific territory).
 
The thing is that it wasn't me. Apparently, somebody who edits the DC Animated Universe Wiki did, and apparently they had to tweak it to fill in the coordinates that Mister Terrific's head obscures (the first digit is obviously a "5," the second one is unknown).

In a perfect world, I would have loved to see a Justice League / Wonder Woman original movie where Diana returns to Kasnia to help Queen Audrey, gets her rematch with Ares, Aresia returns, and we finally find out why Kasnia is such a conflict-heavy area (i.e. why Ares is so interested in this specific territory).
It must be a strategic reason for him. Like it's a lynchpin nation that if war breaks out in Kasina the spillover easily spreads to the nearby regions and then brings in the world powers and in his mind ignite another world war. But he seemed to vastly underestimate the Justice League. Shrug, they always do.

Yeah, bringing it back to Fury, they left themselves a possibility of bringing Aresia back if a good pitch came along with the typical vague death no body scenario. Idk, could have been a guest shot in the underworld in The Balance or something. Shrug.
 

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