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was originally made from clay just like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