Screen Rant

  • Young Justice is doing a better job adapting DC Comics characters than Black Lightning. 1 / 8

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  • Windfall - a former supervillain turned Outsiders member - is a good example of this. 2 / 8

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  • Young Justice introduced Windfall as a juvenile delinquent struggling to control her powers 3 / 8

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  • Black Lightning had a more generic teenage girl struggling to control her wind powers. 4 / 8

  • Dr. Helga Jace was an Outsiders ally, who eventually betrayed the team in the comics. 5 / 8

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  • Young Justice expanded her character and gave her a romantic subplot with Black Lightning. 6 / 8

  • Black Lighting, by contrast, turned her into a generic mad scientist villain. 7 / 8

  • Black Lightning is not bad but it is less true to the Outsiders comics. 8 / 8

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