Misfit: Sugar and Spice and Maybe Not So Nice
So I was discussing The Best Comic Ever with arionhunter and one of the things that came up was an image in our heads.
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And then Alice thinks to herself, "Boy did I call *her* wrong."
The thing about Misfit is --
Misfit is sweet. Misfit is perky. Misfit is innocent. Misfit does things like teleport into a battle hugging herself and hero-worship Batgirl. Misfit is the type who would learn Japanese solely so she could sing along with Puffy Ami Yumi. Misfit says B.F.F. with a complete lack of irony.
Misfit is also the girl who snuck up on Barbara freaking Gordon. Misfit went hand-to-hand with Huntress and Black Canary. Then she took a bullet for Huntress. And then went hand-to-hand with Oracle, after getting *shot*.
The first time we see Misfit, she's in the Batgirl outfit and she takes down a gang of armed muggers. She uses a tire rim to beat a man's face in.
Misfit? Freaking *scary*.
She doesn't know where her powers come from. She has the skill to go hand-to-hand with a metahuman woman trained by Lady Shiva who spars with Wonder Woman, who also happens to have quite the partner standing *right there*. Huntress is no slouch.
And then she gets *shot*. And she still is able to fight Oracle, a woman who was Batgirl and who was trained by Richard Dragon.
She knows Oracle's name. Let me repeat that, guys: Random Redhead Chick *knows Oracle's name*. Lex freaking Luthor doesn't know who Oracle is, but this sixteen-year-old kid does.
How did she learn this information? *How*? Where did she learn to *fight* like that? Why?
Man. We don't even know her name.
Misfit, in some ways, scares me more than Oracle. Which is saying *something*.
... Hey, Marcelo? I don't suppose you're getting Misfit bunnies?
Click link. Read. Then come back.
And then Alice thinks to herself, "Boy did I call *her* wrong."
The thing about Misfit is --
Misfit is sweet. Misfit is perky. Misfit is innocent. Misfit does things like teleport into a battle hugging herself and hero-worship Batgirl. Misfit is the type who would learn Japanese solely so she could sing along with Puffy Ami Yumi. Misfit says B.F.F. with a complete lack of irony.
Misfit is also the girl who snuck up on Barbara freaking Gordon. Misfit went hand-to-hand with Huntress and Black Canary. Then she took a bullet for Huntress. And then went hand-to-hand with Oracle, after getting *shot*.
The first time we see Misfit, she's in the Batgirl outfit and she takes down a gang of armed muggers. She uses a tire rim to beat a man's face in.
Misfit? Freaking *scary*.
She doesn't know where her powers come from. She has the skill to go hand-to-hand with a metahuman woman trained by Lady Shiva who spars with Wonder Woman, who also happens to have quite the partner standing *right there*. Huntress is no slouch.
And then she gets *shot*. And she still is able to fight Oracle, a woman who was Batgirl and who was trained by Richard Dragon.
She knows Oracle's name. Let me repeat that, guys: Random Redhead Chick *knows Oracle's name*. Lex freaking Luthor doesn't know who Oracle is, but this sixteen-year-old kid does.
How did she learn this information? *How*? Where did she learn to *fight* like that? Why?
Man. We don't even know her name.
Misfit, in some ways, scares me more than Oracle. Which is saying *something*.
... Hey, Marcelo? I don't suppose you're getting Misfit bunnies?