In the comics, Laurel Lance has a sonic “canary cry,” but other iterations of the character have removed this power and focused solely on her martial arts skills or given her a canary cry by way of a technological enhancement. One thing that’s not clear yet is whether or not Black Canary will be a metahuman. We see several shots in the first look footage of Black Canary holding a microphone, suggesting a similar angle. Smollet-Bell’s Black Canary looks is directly inspired by her redesign by writer Brendan Fletcher and artist Annie Wu, who reimagined the character as a crime-fighting rock star.

If her look is any indication, we expect Huntress to be the most deadly member of the Birds of Prey, and perhaps even more unpredictable than Harley Quinn when it comes to how far she’ll go.

In the comics, Batman often found himself in contention with Huntress due to her penchant for ultraviolence, drive for revenge and unfocused anger. There’s a homemade vigilante aspect to Huntress’ look, one that suggests she’s not yet part of the Bat-family and has only recently begun her work as a crossbow-wielding hero. She’s also wearing a chain as a shoulder belt, which is as great a sign of a tough exterior as anything. Winstead’s Huntress is rocking combat boots and black military attire with a cut-off midriff that evokes her purple, white and black comic book costume. In the comics, Birds of Prey began with Huntress and Black Canary, and those two characters may be the most anticipated of the film’s introductions.

Harley Quinn definitely looks to be the most flashy character in the Birds of Prey crew. We also see her sporting her mallet and bat from Suicide Squad. Sporting shorter hair and frilled sleeves that appear to be made in part from caution tape, Harley Quinn isn’t sporting a comic book costume but one that still speaks directly to the character’s wild sensibilities and newfound freedom following her breakup with the Joker. The Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad was very much inspired by Debbie Harry, and Birds of Prey’s Harley appears to be drawing inspiration from another ’80s pop star: Cyndi Lauper. There were rumors that Birds of Prey would jettison Harley’s tattoos and look from Suicide Squad in an attempt to distance itself from that film’s poor critical reception, but Yan and Robbie appear to have found a balance in incorporating what worked in Ayer’s film and making it their own. While we’re still a while away from seeing how these actors will inhabit these comic book icons, the looks shown off in this footage give us some indication of what we can expect from their characterizations. Yan, while seemingly employing a bit more subtlety in some of the costume choices, looks to have employed a fashion identity for these characters that doesn’t remove them from the world of Suicide Squad. Regardless of the criticism Suicide Squad faced in regards to its aesthetic, it’s a look that gave the film a strong visual identity, and highlighted both the comic book source material along with punk and contemporary hip-hop fashion. While David Ayer’s Suicide Squad received a sizable amount of criticism for its grungy, Hot Topic look, Yan’s Birds of Prey isn’t entirely divorced from that look while simultaneously creating its own ’80s music video sensibilities and what appears to be a range of costume changes. The first look at Birds of Prey presents these characters not as superheroes and supervillains, but as rock stars. One of the biggest takeaways from the Birds of Prey footage is the aesthetic. APO/FPO, Afghanistan, American Samoa, Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Cook Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guyana, Haiti, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macau, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Micronesia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Tajikistan, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.S.'Barbie' Trailer Teases an Existential Doll Crisis Alongside New Dua Lipa Single

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