Talia (DC animated universe)

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Talia
Played by Helen Slater Appeared in Batman: The Animated Series Superman: The Animated Series Batman Beyond First appearance Off Balance No. of appearances 5 episodes Current status Active Adapted from Talia
Characteristics
Alter ego Talia Al Ghul
Created by
Denny O'Neil

Talia, a DC Comics fictional enemy and love interest of Batman, appeared in Batman: The Animated Series, played by Helen Slater and other animated series in the DC animated universe continuity by Olivia Hussey.

Contents 1 Appearances 2 DC animated universe biography 3 Design 4 Action figure 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Appearances

1. Off Balance
2. The Demon's Quest, Part I
3. The Demon's Quest, Part II
4. Avatar
5. The Demon Reborn
6. Out of the Past

[edit] DC animated universe biography

Talia first appears in Off Balance as an agent from a mysterious organization helping Batman recover a weapon stolen from WayneTech by Cuont Vertigo, a terrorist who used to belong to the same organization until he betrays it. The fist met after Batman is knocked unconscious by Vertigo's agents and she saves and nurses him. Together they defeat the villain, but Talia reveals she isn't sent to return the weapon to the authorities, but to deliver it to her organization, which turns out to be The Shadow Society lead by her own father Ra's Al Ghul.

As she is flying to a Shadow Society a base and reporting to her father through video communicator, she is asked to test the weapon, but realising it was a bout to explode, she has to throw it.

In The Demon's Quest, Part I after Robin is kidnapped, Ra's Al Ghul traspasses the Wayne Manor and the Batcave to show Batman a picture in which Robin is tied along with Talia and to team up to find them. After Batman finds them, he reveals he knew all along Ra's Al Ghul is the real kidnapper, who then reveals the whole thing was a test to prove if Batman would make a worthy heir along with Talia, who reveals to be in love with him. However, Batman refuses and stops his plans to destroy most of the world, after which Ra's fall into a Lazarus Pit during a climatic duel. Batman kisses Talia good bye and returns to Gotham.

After stealing a mystic Egiptian scroll Bruce Wayne donates to the Gotham Museum in Avatar, Batman realises Ra's Al Ghul isn't actually dead and that he is trying a new method to extent his life, so he goes to Talia to tell her the news and get her aid to track him down. They develop the rite Ra's is planning would end up killing him insteas and get in time to help him. When Batman decided to turn him to the authorities, Talia betrays him to rescue her father.

Ra's Al Ghul has more than eight hundred years, and in Showdown it is revealed that Talia has had older brothers, but only she has proven to be worthy as his heir.

She next appears in Superman: The Animated Series episode, The Demon Reborn, in which she steals yet another mystic object from Metropolis and defeats Superman twice, the second one to kidnap him in order to aid her now aged father get Superman's youth an powers through some acient native American magic. In Batman Beyonds episode Out of the Past, her final appearance, or at least the final appearance of her body, Bruce reveals she kay a key role helping Batman defeat her father in an event called The Near Apocalipse of 09 and then formed an organization devoted to repair her father's damage to the world.

In the episode, she pops up looking the exact same as she does in The Demon Reborn to seduce aged Bruce Wayne into using the Lazarus pit to get his youth back. As the episode develops, Batman, who is now Terry McGinnis discovers Talia is actually Ra's Al Ghul, who discovered a way to transfer his mind into other bodies. At first he was limited to close family, so he had to sacrifice his daughter, but after discovering how to do it with other people, he chooses Bruce as his next target. In the end, Ra's Al Ghul dyes in an explosion with Talia's body.

[edit] Design

Talia wears her distinctive dark brown hair letting it fall halfway over her face, making her look somewhat mysterious. In her first apeearance she wears a modified version of the "spy suit" she wears in the comics, only in he series is dark blue instead of pink. In later appearances she wears some sort of arabic revealing clothes (The Demon's Quest) and then some acheologist/adventurer-like cothing a la Doc Savage. After Batman: The Animated Series, she is redesigned with smaller eyes and less lines. The costumes are basically the same spy and adveturer suits, only she wears the spy one with the zip all the way up and the boots ans gloves are tighter and the same color as the suit.

[edit] Action figure

In 2000 ^{[citation needed]}, a Talia action figure modeled after the Batman: The Animated Series design was released Kenner, along with Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Batgirl in a Gotham Girls 4-Pack set. The figure had the uniform she wears in Off Balance and comes with the gun she uses in that episode. It is remarkably similar to the Bruce Timm design of the character. The same figure with darker clothes was later released as part of another four-pack with Ra's Al Ghul, Batman and Robin.

[edit] See also

• Talia

Batman: The Animated Series characters
Heroes:	Batman | Alfred | Robin / Dick Grayson | Batgirl | Robin / Tim Drake
Villains:	The Joker | Harley Quinn | The Penguin | Catwoman | Two-face | Poison Ivy | Rupert Thorne | The Scarecrow | Ra's Al Ghul | Talia | The Mad Hatter | The Ventriloquist and Scarface | Clayface | Killer Croc | Mr. Freeze | The Riddler | The Phantasm | Bane | Man-bat | Firefly | The Ninja | The Clock King | Baby Doll | Roxy Rocket | Hugo Strange | Doctor Milo | Maxie Zeus | The Terrible Trio | Calendar Girl | H.A.R.D.A.C. | Red Claw | Roland Daggett
Supporting Characters:	James Gordon | Harvey Bullock | Summer Gleeson | Leslie Thompkins | Lucius Fox | Renee Montoya | Earl Cooper | Hamilton Hill | Andrea Beaumont | Carl Beaumont | Matthew Thorne | Thomas and Martha Wayne
Other heroes:	The Creeper | Etrigan the Demon | Jonah Hex | Zatanna | Supergirl | Batwoman | The Gray Ghost

[edit] External links

• The World's Finest, a site with a complete guide to the DC animated universe. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.
  • Talia Batman: The Animated Series bio
  • Talia Superman: The Animated Series bio
  • Talia Batman Beyond bio
• DCAUResource.com, a very documented site when it comes to DC fictional biographies.
  • Talia at DCAUResource.com
• The Animated Batman, an Unofficial Guide, a site with a complete guide to Bruce Timm's Batman. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.