DC Super Hero Girls (TV series)

DC Super Hero Girls is an animated action-adventure series delevoped by Lauren Faust based on the original web series with the same name. The new series debuted with a theatrical short, #TheLateBatsby, in 2018, and was continued with a Web Series called DC Super Hero Girls Super Shorts in early 2019, which serves as a prelude to the TV series which premiered on Cartoon Network on March 8, 2019.

Plot

The series follows the adventures of teenage versions of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Bumblebee, Batgirl, Zatanna and Jessica Cruz, who are students of Metropolis High School.^[1]

Cast

Main Characters

Grey Griffin – Diana Prince/Wonder Woman
Tara Strong – Barbara Gordon/Batgirl
Nicole Sullivan – Kara Danvers/Supergirl
Kari Wahlgren – Zee Zatara/Zatanna
Myrna Velasco – Jessica Cruz/Green Lantern
Kimberly Brooks – Karen Beecher/Bumblebee

Supporting Characters

Tara Strong – Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn, Barbara-Ann Minerva/Cheetah, Ursa
Grey Griffin – Lois Lane, Doris Zeul/Giganta
Nicole Sullivan - Beatrice Zeul, Bizarro Girl
Cristina Milizia – Pamela Lillian Isley/Poison Ivy
Fred Tatasciore – Commissioner Gordon, Mr. Chapin, Ethel, Lucy
John de Lancie – Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze
Keith Ferguson – Bruce Wayne/Batman, Robin, Alfred Pennysworth, Shane O'Shaughnessy, Jeremiah Danvers, Francis Zeul
Cree Summer – Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Hippolyta
Jessica McKenna – Garth Bernstein/Aqualad, Paulette
Jason Spisak – Hal Jordan/Green Lantern, Kilowog, Shaggy man, Ace of Spades
Phil LaMarr – Barry Allen/The Flash, jimmy, Mr. Zatara, Carter Hall/Hawkman
Mallory Low – Leslie Willis/Livewire
Will Friedle - Lex Luthor
Cassandra Morris - Lena Luthor
Kari Wahlgren - Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire, Alura Zor-el
Kimberly Brooks - Eliza Danvers
Dee Bradley Baker - Ace the Bat-hound, Krypto the superdog
Alexander Polinsky - Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin
Max Mittelman - Clark Kent/Superman
Yuri Lowenthal - Steve Trevor
Eddie Perino – Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
Liam O'Brien - General Zod
Rina Hoshino – Tatsu Yamashiro/Katana
Kevin Michael Richardson - Dex-Starr
Griffin Puatu as Mortimer Drake/The Cavalier

Production

Due to the success of the web-series of the same name, a televised iteration of the series was announced on May 2017. Faust, who had developed the cult favorite Super Best Friends Forever shorts, serves as executive producer. Grey Griffin, Tara Strong, and Nicole Sullivan each reprise their roles from Super Best Friends Forever. A year later, a poster showing the first look of the main characters was released. The series is animated by the Canadian studio Jam Filled Entertainment.

Several of the writers for this series had previously worked on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, another show developed by Faust. Also, her series is the second collaboration of Tara Strong and John de Lancie, who respectively voiced Twilight Sparkle and Discord on Friendship Is Magic.