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Yes. Even her body dissapeared in next pages.
She’s hot! Really wasted this character design if they aren’t playing with her more. She’s dying without dignity, at least recognize how beautiful she was.
Yeah, it's really disappointing how such a pretty character like that just gets taken down without a fight. While she's assumed to be a bloodthirsty enemy who had killed three other monster girls offscreen, It's almost funny how every element in the incident makes her death look pointless and the heroine more evil than her.
Just makes me even more sure that most japanese manga/anime is actually about the villains, because honestly, often these protagonists make the supposed enemies pale in comparison in the evilness the heroes do, but Japan has this weird (often nonexistent) morality where it is apparently OK to shout "I will never forgive you!" and kill someone over the most trivial matter and everyone will accept it saying "yeah it was a matter of honor".
Ah, back in the good old days. Before everybody was so... tender.
Probably the most well known henchwomen(outside of You-know-Who) in Batman. I kinda wish more zako groups got as much screen time as them, since 2 episodes + a small chunk of a movie is quite a lot for a squad of three zako. Makes me wonder how Penguin got them though, normal waitresses turned fighters? Or fighters turned waitresses?While they never actually appeared in the comics and showed up a few times in the New Adventures of Batman animated series, Penguin's hapless trio of henchgirls Jay, Raven, and Lark were so close to perfection as a sexy zako squad that I can't believe the creators didn't have a bit of this fetish themselves. Their designs were never entirely consistent and I could never quite figure out who was who, but just made it even better since it implied that Penguin had a whole bullpen of expendable waitresses ready to go.
Their best appearance was in the episode "The Ultimate Thrill" where they are tasked with tracking down villainess of the week Roxy Rocket, making for a rare bad girl on bad girl fight, which is especially a treat here since Roxy gets to be far more vicious and underhanded than a heroine could be. The henchgirls try to sneak up on Roxy's hangar but are discovered almost immediately, allowing Roxy to get the jump and take them all out in short order. Of course, the best part of this scene is when two of the girls are shoved headfirst into a cockpit, helplessly kicking and screaming as the plane goes careening into a water tower. Their high-pitched wailing and frightful expressions really reinforce that these three are nothing more than simple waitresses that have no business scrapping with a seasoned fighter like Roxy.
They next show up in "Judgment Day" where they help Penguin fleece some other supervillains in a business deal. As Penguin is being chased by the titular Judge, he calls out for Raven and Lark to help only to find that they've been tied and gagged, hanging from the ceiling with looks of despair on their faces. Again this is a rare treat to be able to see zako in peril, and while it would have been nice to actually see them getting defeated and captured, the fact it all happens offscreen just reinforces that these poor girls are totally out of their depth and no threat at all to a serious villain.
Their most extensive appearance to date was in the "Mystery of the Batwoman" movie, where two of them take on Batwoman in fast-paced, high-kicking fight scene. Unlike in their previous appearances, the girls seem much more dangerous and skilled in both acrobatics and martial arts, using those long legs to good effect and really taking it to Batwoman, though I of course prefer to focus the shots they took rather than what they dish out, and Batwoman gives as good as she gets here. In true henchgirl fashion, they are defeated when Penguin fires a "bat-seeking missile" that our heroine dodges at the last minute, blasting the zako instead. While I do like that they got a lot more screen time here and the action is pretty fun, I still prefer them weak and frightened rather than the badasses they are here, and if the goal was to give Batwoman a more difficult fight, better just to increase the numbers of zako rather than making them stronger.
I prefer to believe that they are just ordinary girls that got pressed into action because Penguin was too cheap to hire proper muscle, which would explain their ineptitude in their TAS appearances. Maybe they have training in dance or gymnastics rather than actual martial arts, especially given their slim body types and the types of sports girls usually do. Even in the movie, while they're able to flip and twirl around with ease, they don't manage to actually hurt Batwoman much with their strikes.
I prefer to believe the other way around, it's gotham, the city of crime, I'm sure you can hire zako with a snap of your finger. But imagine you are a thug and you have to wear stupid waitress outfits and serve rich people in a shitty club, this is, imo, way funnier fate XD
You do not want to know how much I would pay to see the Brave and the Bold Ivy henchgirls again. Many make the argument that Ivy can just hypnotize guys or make plant monsters, but Ivy having a personal army of henchgirls just fits so well in my opinion.Another of my favorite villains in Batman is Poison Ivy, who usually uses brainwashed men or plant monsters, but who from time to time is flanked by sexy henchgirls. While it probably makes no sense from a story context for her to do this, from a visual standpoint it couldn't be more perfect especially because the classic Ivy leotard and tights already looks like something a zako would wear, and having her lead a girl gang is just loads of fun.
First up are these nameless gun molls from the backup story in Adventures in the DC Universe #3. As usual, Ivy's plan is quickly foiled and destroying her plant serpent, Batman is able to effortlessly take out both girls before putting down the boss lady. Not terribly memorable or special, unlike the animated counterparts that they were no doubt based on...
Violet and Lily from "Eternal Youth" are, in my mind at least, conclusive proof that the creators of Batman TAS had a zako fetish or at least were actively trying to appeal to it, because really what more could you ask for? The costumes are on point, despite not matching Ivy's color palette they are just the right mix of sexy and generic to make for perfect zako uniforms, and the girls are none too intelligent, capable, or dangerous so you're spending the whole episode just anticipating their humiliating demise. And boy does it deliver there, while Batman was evidently not allowed to hit women in the early seasons of the show, this somehow makes their defeat even more undignified as both are ignominiously tied up with Violet in particular being utterly manhandled which had to have been worse than if Batman had simply put her down with a KO punch. And as a final humiliation, the camera pans up to them stuck in a tree, helplessly moaning and struggling while probably questioning their life choices. They also appeared in the video game, where Ivy now had an entire army of Lilys at her disposal, though once again Batman wasn't allowed to hit them and they had to be disabled with a spray.
More recently we have the Flower Children from the prelude to the Brave and the Bold episode "Mask of Matches Malone." For once Ivy has brought an entire army of henchgirls and seems to have Batman at her mercy, but as it turns out one of girls was actually the superheroine Black Orchid in disguise, and she proceeds to steamroll the whole lot of them before delivering a flying KO punch to Ivy herself. There were some good moments like when the zako piled onto Black Orchid only for her to send them all flying, or when they failed to hit her with their weapons and shot their fellow zako instead, but overall they were definitely less memorable than Violet and Lily and we really needed to see a full episode with them.
