It ’s still a little weird to say out loud , but The CW ’s Green Arrow show Arrow is good . Like , really respectable . Like , a pure compeer of superheroics , availableness and non - superheroic drama for aggregate hearing , and with no need for budget - busting special impression . It ’s possibly the perfect superhero boob tube show , and it take us remember : What other superheroes could benefit from the same treatment ? Because Arrow does have a treatment — it ’s survey three rules that any comedian - based idiot box series would be wise to obey :
• It ca n’t be too special effects - heavy , i.e. too expensive .
• It ca n’t bank too heavily on comics mythology , i.e. too off - putting for non - nerds .
• It has to have something other than the superhero poppycock for mass audiences to get into .
With these in judgment , here are seven superheroes that could utilize – - but also merit — their own Arrow - esque television series .
1 ) Batman
permit ’s address the jumbo Bat - logo in the room , shall we ? Batman — or Nightwing , or Batgirl , or even one of the Robins — would make the best superhero telecasting show ever , in the main because Batman and his Centennial State - workers involve no CG superpowers . But have ’s start out with just Batman . for sure , a few of his villain like Clayface and Poison Ivy might take SFX , but all the Joker , Penguin , Riddler and Catwoman need are kit and a bit on goof - blank make - up , signify the CG - profound villain could show up ince in a while , or even never , since Batman still has plenty of other baddies to manage with . Using Batman : Year One as a templet for a TV show would grant viewers to easily enter the story ( although this would primarily be for Hollywood EXEC , because it ’s doubtful anyone really needs to be eased into Bat - traditional knowledge at this point ) . bring a bit of Bruce Wayne and his attack to create his masking as a shallow socialite among Gotham ’s elite — kind of like Arrow is doing — and you have military rank gold . Alas , DC / WB is still too disturbed about diluting the public ’s desire for Batman movies by make a new Batman TV show , which is stupid , because while there may be a limit to how much Batman the public wants , we ’re not even confining to it yet .
2 ) Nightwing , Batgirl , or Robin
So DC / WB is n’t go to make a Batman TV series . What ’s the next dependable thing ? Batman Lite — i.e. , a show focalize on Nightwing , Batgirl , or even Robin . Then you have the benefits of having a show basically about Batman , but without using the Batman name ( which , again , is phenomenally stupid , but how Hollywood thinks ) . A series about any of these three members of the Bat - family should show them starting out — more necessary for these three than Batman , patently — so Nightwing would arrive in Bludhaven in his first episode , Batgirl would do her Year One , and Robin could perform his first solo missionary post . While some comics fans would shout foul , these shows would want some non - superheroic drama for those hatful audience , meaning Nightwing would belike be in college , Robin in high school , and Batgirl in either , to give them large mold and scenes that do n’t require soldierlike artwork choreography . But the best melodic theme would to be to have a show featuring all three — Nighting , Batgirl and Robin — with Batman as a looming , behind - the - scenery front and occasional guest headliner .
3 ) Daredevil
With the potential exception of the S.H.I.E.L.D. show that ’s actually getting made , Daredevil is absolutely the greatest video serial publication Marvel could be – and should be — doing . Think about it . His superpower is that he ’s a blind guy that can see — a power well within a tv set show ’s SFX budget ( the pits , all you really need is a guy who can parkour and a estimable soldierlike art choreographer and you ’re done ) . His two fully grown foes are a fat crimelord and an assassinator who throws things very accurately ( also crummy , SFX - overbold ) . He mostly fight street offense at Nox , and in the day he ’s a attorney , meaning a Daredevil show is basically a law procedural and a law procedural at once , two of the most popular TV music genre ever — it ’d be like Law & Order , but with a superhero ! Have Matt Murdock just graduate from law school and start his practice , add a few moo-cow - workers , friends , passion interests and opposition in both the courts and the streets , and you have ratings gold ( … as long as you do n’t cast Ben Affleck , plainly ) .
4 ) Power Man and Iron Fist
One guy wire is strong and indestructible . The other is really , really good at martial arts . Neither of these world power is too difficult to portray on screen , but a show about two superheroes for hire who take different cases every week ? That ’s a show that would work . It ’s a standard action - comedy series , where one of the heroes is bullproof and breaks thing more well than most people — imagine Burn Notice , except with world power , and if there were two Bruce Campbells . Unless you wanted to show Luke Cage and Iron Fist confluence and form Heroes for Hire — which would be okay , but probably a little tedious — the smart thing to do would be to have PM and IF hired by someone in the pilot , work her problem , and then hire her to execute the business share of Heroes for Hire ( budget , payroll , taxation , etc . ) to give us a point - of - view into their world .
5 ) Wonder Woman
The CW is currently working on a Wonder Woman in high shoal television receiver series , which may mold , but frankly sounds severe . While it have WW an well-heeled approach point for new viewers , I ca n’t imagine anything a high school place setting would add to Wonder Woman , and I can imagine many ways it would diminish her . So my thought : go forward and free-base a show on Brian Azzarello ’s awesome New 52 Wonder Woman relaunch . Begin the show with Wonder Woman finding out she ’s the girl of Zeus , and entering the Earth ( and family drama on PCP ) of the Hellenic gods . Heck , add Zola , the mortal woman who ’s meaning with another of Zeus ’ kids and have Wonder Woman attempt to protect her while Hera hear to wipe out her , to give mass audiences and an even more accessible point - of - view . The TV show probably would n’t be able to match Cliff Chiang ’s fab Greek god character designs , but they could be play by regular homo without really drop off anything ; and while WW might not be able to inflict stead like Hades , a few good writers could still present tantamount scenes without break a TV show budget . Look , if Supernatural can basically showcase the integral Judeo - Christian pantheon on a CW budget , any net should be able to make this work out exquisitely .
6 ) She - Hulk
There have been few ideas in the comics world more boob tube - quick than Dan Slott ’s “ Single Green Female ” run on She - Hulk . Bruce Banner ’s first cousin Jennifer Walters is hired to work in the Superhuman Law division of the New York business firm of Goodman , Lieber , Kurtzberg & Holliway , where she takes on the bizarre legal difficulty of the Marvel universe . Even don Fox and Sony would keep the right field to Spider - Man , X - Men and Fantastic Four , that leaves pretty much everybody else for Shulkie to defend / Eugene Sue . And by keeping it in the courtroom , not only is it a jurisprudence procedural , but it intend there ’s no need for Jennifer to go green , except for maybe one or two brief action sequences per sequence . Plus , it could be a admixture of drama and comedy like David E. Kelley ’s legal show , which have done quite well for themselves ( and hey , perchance this is what he necessitate after the Wonder Woman pilot debacle).nObviously , deal audiences would hardly understand Marvel minutiae like Starfox ’s “ love pheromone ” and accompanying tribulation for intimate assault , but if you keep the mythology sparkle and focalize on the casing more than the theatrical role , there ’s still plenty of entertainment to be had watching a lawyer seek to defend mass fatigue spandex costume .
7 ) Wolverine and the 10 - Men
There is utterly no way Jason Aaron ’s excellent , screaming , insane Wolverine and the X - manpower — in which Wolverine is headmaster of the rambunctious young mutants of the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning — as awesome as that would be . So forget about the Word of Krakatoa the Living Island attacking , forget about theatre of operations slip to the Savage Land , and just center on the premiss : A bunch of tike , with ability ranging from the awesome to the bizarre , in a uncanny boarding school day together . The dramatic event writes itself — romance , hatred , green-eyed monster , friendships — the whole gamut , peculiarly if they make it during the schoolhouse ’s opening year . While Wolverine would instantly get the show some attention ( and orb ) , any X - Men could be used as teachers and shoal staff . Because of the presumably gravid cast — each of whom would have their own unequaled mutant power — a Wolverine and the X - Men series would in all likelihood be the most expensive show discussed in this list , so it would in all likelihood live and die ground on whether writers could make it think about without spending $ 2 million in CG per installment . Hard , but not out of the question .
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