Dream-Teaming Round 11: Ladies' Night!

Birds of Prey

Rebuilding after the dissolution of the original team by Barbara Gordon, the BoP has been reconstituted to a moneymaking organization dedicated to the hunting down and capturing of dangerous criminals. The group acts to make the streets safer, while using it to their own personal goals.

Donna Troy (Field Leader)
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The powerhouse of the group, Donna is chosen as natural leader of the team given her experience and vast power. With superhuman strength, speed and flight Donna is the perfect choice to lead this team of super heroines. She also works to keep some of her more dangerous teammates in check in order to rebuild the team's standing among the superhuman community.

Kate Spencer (Legal)
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The last remaining member from the original team, the Manhunter is brought on to not only capture the criminals they chase down, but to make sure they stay in jail. Using her vast technological know-how and willingness to get the job done no matter what, Kate is one of the meanest women on the BoP.

Grace Choi (Enforcer)
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Given a huge salary like the rest of her teammates, Grace joins the team as pure muscle. Being sent in to clean up the messes that no one else can handle, breaking several people's bones along the way. Using her invulnerability and strength to her advantage, Grace is the tank of the group.

Beatriz Bonilla de Costa (Wetworks)
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Having a former Checkmate Op on the team can never be a bad thing, which is why Fire has been chosen as head spy for the group. Utilizing her flame powers and espionage knowledge, Bea is the BoP's best chance at getting in and out of a place; if she doesn't kill her partner first.

Selina Kyle (Wetworks)
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The other skilled espionage agent on the BoP, Selina is brought in because she can steal information on anyone at any time, no matter what. Being a former criminal she is kept under wraps, but is one of the most useful members of the team, despite getting on every last nerve of Bea on Special Ops.

Pamela Lillian Isley (Containment)
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Brought on for her ability to control plant-life and affect the environment, Pamela is a key to the BoP's many victories against the villains they hunt down. Seen by some on the team as more of a liability than an asset, Poison Ivy still has power in that she knows the true identity of their director.

Harleen Quinzel (Anarchy)
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The member of the BoP most willing to get her hands dirty, Harley Quinn is also the least stable of the team. Brought in alongside Ivy and Catwoman on special requirements, Harley is kept on a short leash by Donna. Quite literally the most insane member of the BoP, Harley is brought in to be even more dangerous than their villain quarry. But how will she react when the team has to hunt down the Joker?

Renee Montoya (Internal Affairs)
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With as many villains as they have on the team, the BoP needs someone who can keep them all in line. Given an unlimited budget to solve mysteries and keep an eye on her more anarchical teammates, the Question acts as the team's conspiracy theorist. From her findings though, Renee finds that something insidious is happening around the BoP.

Talia al Ghul (Director)
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The unknown director of the team until the end of the first arc, Talia al Ghul is using the BoP to prove to Dick Grayson that she is a changed woman, so that he can help her unite with her beloved once he comes back from the dead; or so she says. In truth Talia has set up the organization to further some goal unknown to the Birds.

Writer: Me

Artist: Terry Dodson
 
Birds of Prey: A Once and Future Myth

The Story:
There have been some serious changes in the DC universe. There's a new Batman, Superman is dealing with the events of New Krypton, and everyone is still reeling from the events of Blackest Night. These kinds of changes have far reaching effects that trickle down and touch every hero. One example of this is the Birds of Prey. Many of it's members have found themselves too busy in other areas to commit to the team. Oracle realizing this has asked Donna Troy to head up an all new Birds of Prey. Donna is not interested; she's busy with the Titans, and has been having bouts of weakness for a few weeks now. She's not sure she should be leading any team at the moment, but agrees to meet with Barbara to at least talk about it.

Once there, she's hit by another bout of weakness. But this time it's different. Her ears are ringing, her vision is blurry, she feels like her body is being stretched out of proportion. Eventually it passes, but when it does, she's not where she was before. Standing before her is an old man who claims to be Coeus, Titan god of the moon. He has summoned her to the future because something is happening on Themyscira, home of the Amazons, that could affect all of reality. Donna must put together a team of heroes and investigate. But since no man may set foot on Themyscira, she is limited to the heroines of the future.

The Team:
Donna Troy
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Donna is a natural leader, and usually a powerhouse. But whatever is happening on Themyscira is still affecting her powers. She is the key to this story.

Saturn Girl
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Saturn Girl and the rest of the team are the future's young heroes. But they're out of their element here. The mythological forces in the universe have been silent for centuries. Those in their time that even still know about them have always though they were simply mythology and not real. They're in for a surprise.

Triplicate Girl
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Shrinking Violet
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Lightning Lass
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Shadow Lass
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The Writer:
Mark Waid
The Artist:
Andy Kubert
 
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Not sure about the whole recruitment drive but love the idea of connect the all female team with Themyscira's law
 
Not sure about the whole recruitment drive but love the idea of connect the all female team with Themyscira's law

thanks,
the recruitment drive was just a way to connect it to the actual birds of prey.
Actually, i'll just change it to Donna going to meet Babs to talk about heading up the new team.
 
The Pitch:
The original Birds of Prey have disbanded post Blackest Night so that they can each deal with their own problems. Unfortunately, super powered crime is on the rise worldwide with various meta-humans and organizations trying to take advantage of a weakened world. The U.N. has designated this as Checkmate's problem and tasks them with restoring order. Checkmate high command assigns Katarina Armstrong (a.k.a. Spy Smasher) to put together a team and clean up this mess. Katarina decides to call her strike team the Birds of Prey mostly because it would piss off Barbara. She also wanted to use the former members but most of them told her to shove it when they heard the team answered to the U.N. and Checkmate. Time to bribe and/or blackmail some talent into servitude---uh, I mean, recruit noble heroes for a noble cause! Yeah, that's it...

The Team:

Katarina Armstrong a.k.a. Spy Smasher
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Team leader, even though not many people on the team like her they do respect her skills. An expert at unarmed combat and marksmanship, Katarina's real boon to the team is her political connections which will be of incalculable value during (illegal) operations in other countries. Spy Smasher runs a tight ship and won't tolerate any hesitations, dissent, or sass. Some team members believe that she started this team just so she could rub it in Oracle's face...Katarina will neither confirm nor deny this accusation.

Tora Olafsdotter a.k.a. Ice
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Elemental type powers are welcome on any team and Spy Smasher was all too happy to recruit Ice to the team. Ice was all too happy to be a part of something again, feeling that her life had been lacking direction after her resurrection. A potential major player power-wise Ice is nominally a support fighter, but she has started to show signs that she has the ability to go toe to toe with major villains. She just has to get the confidence first.

Lori Zechlin a.k.a. Black Alice
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A dour girl with the ability to borrow the magical abilities of magic based being in the DCU, Lori has been a villain as much as she has been a hero but either way she has potential to be the magical powerhouse of the universe. Unfortunately she is a bit of a wild card since for now her powers can only take the magic power from one random being at a time (unless she can see her target) and she often lacks the experience to control the powers she "borrows". However, Katarina has decided that the pros outweigh the cons and has offered Black Alice training and to wipe her record clean. In return Lori has to be loyal, follow orders, and not try to kill her team members especially-

Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe a.k.a. Misfit
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After the original Birds Of Prey broke up, Misfit took it the hardest since she saw the Birds as more of a family than a team. She jumps at the chance to join the new team (even though Black Alice is there), as extra incentive Spy Smasher promises to tell her more about the nature and possible extent of her powers. While Charlotte's powers are mostly teleportation and quick healing, they are magical in nature so her full potential is unknown. This makes her something of a potential wild card, but one that Katarina believes she can control without too much trouble.

Cynthia Reynolds a.k.a. Gypsy
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A pro at being stealthy, with a PhD in illusions and low level telepathy. Cynthia Reynolds has proven herself in the past and was a member of Oracle's Birds of Prey before they disbanded. Gypsy accept the offer to join so she can keep an eye on the teams younger members and so she can make sure Spy Smasher isn't up to anything. Of course Spy Smasher is aware of this, but any spook worth their salt knows that the most powerful weapon is the information you gather, and since Gypsy's specialty is infiltration and reconnaissance Spy Smasher is willing to put up with a little mistrust. However, Katarina will be keeping an eye on Miss Reynolds' activities.

Cassandra Caine a.k.a. Agent 99
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The former Batgirl is one of the most powerful non-powered individuals on the planet, so of course Katarina would want to recruit her...though she took a little persuading. Cassandra was forced to join or else she would have been arrested for crimes committed during her stint as leader of the League of Assassins, which then might have revealed her connection to Batman and Bruce Wayne. Not wanting to bring trouble to her foster family so soon after Bruce's death, Cassandra decides to handle this on her own. Upon joining the team Spy Master issues her the new identity of Agent 99 complete with full face mask (think Vega from Street Fighter) to hide her identity from non-team members. Agent 99 is master of stealth, and various forms of combat and receives a utility belt similar to her old Batgirl one. Cassandra is not sure what she has gotten herself into, but if she performs admirably then she will be cleared of all criminal charges and can go home to her (dysfunctional) family.

Grace Choi a.k.a. Grace Choi
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Grace Choi does not particularly like Katarina Armstrong, much less the idea of working for her. Good thing an obscene paycheck goes a long way towards changing a girl's mind. The last addition to the team (not to mention the easiest to convince to join) Grace fills out what the team was sorely lacking: physical power, or as Misfit told Gorilla Grodd "She'll slap the taste out cho mouth!". Grace then told her to "Shut up." before backhanding Grodd into a car.

First Arc: It's a Jungle Out There
Spy Smasher begins recruiting for her team, finishing just in time to be dispatched to London based on a report of a small army of mutant animals attacking the populace. When the Birds arrive they are forced to fight the mutants, eventually the creatures retreat and Spy Smasher orders Gypsy to follow them to their home base. She does and learns that the creatures seem to be the product of a drug formed from a partnership between the Gotham City crime boss The Great White Shark, and the Cheetah! Meanwhile the rest of the team discovers that the mutants turn back into their previous forms (they were originally dogs, cats, birds, etc.) once the drug burns itself out. They here Gypsy start to tell them what is going on, all of a sudden her com goes out. Black Alice gets lucky and manages to jack Zatanna's powers and teleports the team to where Gypsy is, when the arrive they find Cheetah standing over an unconscious Gypsy, and Great White Shark ready for them with more mutants. The Birds Spring into action with Ice and Misfit fighting Cheetah, Agent 99 and Spy Smasher taking on Great White Shark, and Grace Choi and Black Alice handling the mutants. Eventually the heroes pull through and win the battle and are ready to go home when Cassandra starts thinking about how things don't add up: this kind of thing is neither Shark's or Cheetah's M.O., and she didn't see any scientists that could have made the mutation drug. She is about to voice her opinion when the team is psychically attacked by Gorilla Grodd! Grodd had been keeping everyone mind controlled and was using Shark's finances and Cheetah's blood to create his drug, the animals were merely the test run before Grodd would introduce the drug to London's water supply. Grodd then starts to attack the team's minds trying to give each of them aneurysm, but Misfit's body starts teleporting around the room in an attempt to protect itself. It works and Misfit manges to distract Grodd long enough for the rest of the team to recover, which leads to Grace laying the smack down on Grodd. Victorious, the team arrests the criminals, alerts the authorities, and heads back to HQ.

Creative Team:
Jason Aaron (writing), Salvador Espin (art)
 
Damn.

I knew I forgot to do something yesterday. Alright, round ends tonight. Send your votes tomorrow and I'll announce a winner tomorrow night.
 
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You think we should take a break? Or would that kill it completely?

I'll try to make the next one more interesting.
 

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