
Who Is Nubia Of DC Comics? | The Original Wonder Woman Of Themiscyra!
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00:00 what is up Earth's Mightiest subscribers 00:05 it's Ernie Blerd Without Fear welcome 00:08 back to the channel okay so today we are 00:13 gonna be talking about one of my 00:15 favorites one of my favorite DC Comics 00:18 heroes and I know she doesn't get a lot 00:20 of love but that's okay because we're 00:22 gonna give her some love today and her 00:24 name is Nubia we are gonna talk about 00:29 her and all that that entails right now 00:32 but first well that's it that intro wise 00:36 grass on the arena one is brother last 00:38 game chief any songs they prefer to last 00:41 that's any beautiful adrift and her 00:43 purple eyes you can't see me you sleepy 00:45 wonderin how about priests whatever 00:47 losses that would be before we get 00:50 started if you want to see more awesome 00:51 comic book videos like this ring it only 00:53 takes two clicks to become one of 00:54 Earth's Mightiest subscribers click 00:57 quick Nubia first appeared in Wonder 01:01 Woman number 204 in 1973 and was created 01:05 by Robert can occur and Don heck Nubia 01:09 was originally made from clay just like 01:13 Wonder Woman but this time the clay was 01:17 black not white she was even brought to 01:20 life by Aphrodite just the same as Diana 01:24 but Nubia was kidnapped by Aries so 01:27 Nubia did not get the same powers that 01:30 Wonder Woman had at least not exactly 01:33 Aries also called Mars back then as well 01:36 because you know Roman mythology and 01:38 they just stole God's because their God 01:41 sucked Ares raised Nubia to be his 01:44 standard bearer and champion all the 01:47 while Nubia was being brainwashed by a 01:50 special ring that kept her past and 01:53 circumstances of her being in Ares 01:55 employ a mystery to herself it would be 01:58 years later until Wonder Woman would 02:00 break the spell clouding new be his mind 02:03 by reflecting the light of the Sun 02:05 towards newbies ring finger using her 02:08 magic brazzers generating enough heat to 02:11 make the ring 02:12 expand and fall off with the spell 02:15 broken this led to her turning on the 02:17 God of War and taking his army of 02:20 warriors and turning them into champions 02:22 of peace it's at this point in her 02:25 publication history that Nubia would 02:27 learn from Queen Hippolyta that she is 02:30 in fact Diana's quota fingers black twin 02:34 sister pre-crisis Nubia wielded a magic 02:39 sword created by the God of War Ares 02:41 which was the only weapon on earth 02:43 capable of counteracting Wonder Woman's 02:46 own magic lasso of truth and like Diana 02:49 she could glide on air currents and 02:52 possessed superhuman levels of strength 02:55 agility stamina reflexes durability and 02:59 speed in 1999 Nubia was revamped by jose 03:04 el young and brian Denham becoming Nubia 03:08 with an apostrophe in the middle as 03:10 opposed to just Nubia and no longer 03:13 being touted as the quota fingers black 03:15 twin sister of Diana made from black 03:18 clay but an entirely separate entity 03:21 simply another Amazon who won the 03:23 tournament of Grace and wonder that 03:26 Diana had won only Nubia would be the 03:30 Amazons first champion she was also 03:33 charged with protecting the entrance to 03:35 the River Styx and Tartarus 03:38 now post-crisis Nubia utilizes an 03:41 enchanted sword and wears an enchanted 03:44 set of armor that allows her to travel 03:46 back and forth to Hades at will as well 03:49 as any other magical or mythical realm 03:52 she chooses to visit this newer version 03:54 of Nubia was also blessed by the Gorgons 03:57 with a gift of cold sight which is the 04:00 ability to turn anyone she looks at into 04:03 stone on top of all that she possesses 04:05 over 3,000 years worth of combat 04:08 experience she's proficient in Themis 04:11 gear and combat arts hand-to-hand combat 04:13 as well as weapons combat 04:16 she's also effectively immortal as all 04:19 famous gear and Amazon's tend to be 04:22 allowing her to look as young 04:23 she was in her early 20s after all these 04:27 years she can however be killed under 04:30 certain circumstances typically being 04:32 beheaded post-crisis Nubia still 04:35 possesses the superhuman strength 04:37 agility stamina reflexes durability and 04:39 speed of her pre-crisis incarnation with 04:43 the added bonus of a healing factor 04:45 post-crisis Nubia could live as much as 04:48 100 tons and was more than capable of 04:51 taking on even Diana without showing any 04:53 signs of being in a fight her speed and 04:55 reflexes are on par with Wonder Woman's 04:58 which means at the very least she's on 05:01 par with Superman considering the fact 05:03 that Batman has even gone as far as to 05:05 say that Wonder Woman's reflexes are 05:07 faster than Superman's and if that's the 05:10 case that means so is newbies her 05:12 agility durability and stamina are also 05:14 on par with Wonder Woman's she also has 05:17 superhuman levels in all five senses 05:19 sight hearing taste touch and smell this 05:23 is a direct result of her Amazonian 05:25 physiology considering that all Amazons 05:28 are gifted with the gifts of five 05:31 Olympian goddesses Artemis Athena 05:33 Demeter Hestia and Aphrodite Nubia also 05:37 like any other theme skier and does not 05:40 require food water or really any type of 05:44 nourishment to maintain her life force 05:47 but this is only so long as she stays on 05:50 thin mascara just like any other Amazon 05:53 and she can also fly albeit with magical 05:56 assistance and if that weren't enough 05:57 she's also a fairly skilled Archer her 06:00 only real weakness to speak of is 06:02 bullets and other piercing projectiles 06:04 same as pretty much all Amazons and even 06:07 men they tend to be more of a minor 06:08 inconvenience than anything else and 06:11 house for some interesting little side 06:12 notes the pre-crisis version of Nubia no 06:15 longer exists 06:16 following the DC Comics event crisis on 06:19 Infinite Earths which resulted in the 06:21 collapse of the multiverse technically 06:23 pre-crisis version of her does tend to 06:26 appear here and there but the original 06:30 version of Nubia no longer exist during 06:33 Wonder Woman earth 1 volume 1 we learned 06:36 that Queen Hippolyta the mother of Diana 06:39 and Nubia were and possibly still are 06:42 lovers 06:43 however that's hardly surprising 06:44 considering that the island of Amazonia 06:47 is 100% made up of women who believe in 06:50 free love 06:51 during the injustice series Nubia sides 06:54 against Wonder Woman she was even 06:56 appointed as the new Wonder Woman famous 06:58 Kira after Diana had thrown in her lot 07:01 with Superman's regime 07:02 unlike Diana Nubia has little to no 07:06 interest in the world beyond the mascara 07:08 it's one of the few ways her and Diana 07:10 are incredibly different you know other 07:14 than the obvious one in Final Crisis we 07:17 first learn of the earth 23 version of 07:20 Nubia who is the Wonder Woman of her 07:22 earth rather than Haley from the mascara 07:24 like the Wonder Woman earth 1 volume 1 07:27 Nubia she comes from an island called 07:29 Amazonia Nellas getting to some media 07:32 though newbie has never actually 07:34 officially appeared on television or in 07:37 any movies in any official capacity 07:38 she's had a lot of close calls getting 07:41 introduced on the little and big screen 07:44 in 1975 producers of ABC's Wonder Woman 07:48 TV series had originally wanted actress 07:51 Teresa Graves who some of you may 07:53 recognize as the titular character from 07:57 get Christy love or that man bolt they 08:00 wanted her to play Diana's black sister 08:03 unfortunately when the show was moved to 08:05 CBS in 1977 the plans for that for 08:09 whatever reason were not carried over so 08:12 she never officially appeared an eerily 08:15 similar character did happen to appear 08:17 in the 1974 TV film Wonder Woman 08:21 starring Kathie Lee Crosby another 08:23 Amazon named on Jayla who was played by 08:26 a Nitra Ford ventures away from Paradise 08:29 Island the same as Wonder Woman does but 08:31 instead of becoming a hero she becomes 08:33 an emesis of Wonder Woman 08:34 now this is not Nubia but originally it 08:38 was supposed to be 08:39 now although she is yet to make any 08:41 other appearances and media outside of 08:42 that comedian and actress Tiffany 08:45 Haddish had recently campaigned to play 08:47 the character Nubia in a Wonder Woman 08:49 sequel or Nubia solo film since this 08:52 news came out and nothing else has come 08:54 of it 08:54 Haddish even seemed to be incredibly 08:57 familiar with the character even listing 08:59 off some obscure facts that I have just 09:01 used in this video 09:02 speaking of comedians Leslie Jones once 09:05 came out on stage while gal gadot hosted 09:08 SNL in a Wonder Woman costume in don't 09:11 theoretically she is only dressed as the 09:15 movie version of Diana Prince 09:17 this is probably the closest we'll get 09:18 to seen anything like Nubia on the small 09:21 screen now as for who I would like to 09:23 play a character like Nubia on the 09:26 bigger small screen we actually have my 09:28 sights set on actress nafisa Williams 09:31 and for those of you who are fans of 09:33 shows like Black Lightning you're 09:35 probably already familiar as she plays a 09:37 disappears 09:38 aka Thunder she's also had roles on 09:41 shows like twin peaks' 09:43 One Life to Live and code black in the 09:46 festival Williams is a very talented 09:48 actress she's already accustomed to 09:49 playing a strong confident cared for so 09:52 I don't think a character like Nubia is 09:54 anywhere outside of her scope or ability 09:56 she's also a very beautiful woman so she 09:58 definitely has the ability to pull off 10:00 the look of Nubia as well and much like 10:03 any other time I do little fan castings 10:06 like these if I don't pick an actor 10:07 actors that you think is better it's 10:10 probably because I have something else 10:11 in mind for them but anyways now as for 10:14 recommended reading there's really not a 10:15 lot to say about her all I could really 10:17 recommend is to check out the first 10:18 three issues that she appeared in which 10:20 was Wonder Woman vol 1 issues number 204 10:23 through 206 and I also recommend earth 1 10:28 volume 1 by Grant Morrison and Yannick 10:31 Paquette newbee is another 10:33 those black characters that because of 10:35 the time when they came out that had 10:36 very problematic origins but at the same 10:38 time I feel like they've been able to 10:40 grow past that and kind of distance 10:42 themselves whether it's by virtue of the 10:44 storytelling or because other writers 10:47 and creative teams came along and 10:48 cleaned it up I still think that you 10:50 know she's a character who still endures 10:52 even today in the current Wonder Woman 10:55 rebirth run she doesn't get a lot to do 10:57 unfortunately but such as life but 11:00 anyways let me know what you think about 11:01 the character Nubia sound off in the 11:05 comments say you made it to the end of 11:07 the video awesome for you if you enjoyed 11:09 this video and if you made it this far I 11:10 don't see how you didn't do me a favor 11:12 Hulk smash that like button and if you 11:14 want to see more awesome videos like 11:15 this one make sure you click subscribe 11:17 so you can become one of Earth's 11:18 Mightiest subscribers and tap that Bell 11:21 so you know when I post up also feel 11:23 free to go check out my patreon where if 11:24 you're chucking a buck you can get early 11:26 access to most of my videos up to a week 11:28 early 11:29 any of you have time make sure you swing 11:31 by nerd 901 com where you can find more 11:33 of my content as well as other amazing 11:35 stuff anyways until next time I love you 11:38 3,000 plus ultra