Vixen is an animated web series that airs on CW Seed and is part of the Arrowverse!
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- Vixen is an American animated web series
- It is also known as DC Comics’ Vixen
- From executive producers Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg
- It debuted on August 25, 2015
- On The CW’s online streaming platform, CW Seed
- It is based on the DC Comics character Mari McCabe / Vixen
- A costumed superhero crime-fighter with the power to mimic the abilities of any animal that has ever lived on Earth
- The series is set in the Arrowverse
- The same fictional universe as Arrow, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow
- In January 2016, the series was renewed for a second season
- Which premiered on October 13, 2016
- After her parents were killed in Africa by local corruption, Mari McCabe inherits her family’s Tantu Totem
- Gaining the powers of the animal kingdom
- Using them to fight as Vixen to stop threats like those that claimed her family
- In January 2015, The CW announced that a six-episode animated web-series centered on Vixen from Marc Guggenheim would be debuting on CW Seed in late 2015
- And would be set in the Arrowverse with Arrow and The Flash
- In total, the six episodes encompass one 30-minute story
- The series, described as an “origin story”
- It is set in Detroit, Michigan
- And “prominently” features characters from Arrow and The Flash
- Keto Shimizu and Brian Ford Sullivan, writers on Arrow, also serve as writers for Vixen
- At the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International, it was revealed that the series would debut on August 25, 2015
- With new episodes debuting weekly
- In July 2015, Guggenheim revealed the series takes place around episode S03E15 and S03E16 of Arrow
- Blake Neely, composer of Arrow and The Flash, composed the music for Vixen along with Nathaniel Blume
- In January 2016, CW President Mark Pedowitz announced that The CW had renewed Vixen for a second season of six episodes
- Again totaling about a half-hour of content
- Pedowitz also stated he regretted not airing the entire series as a half-hour special on The CW
- Something he hoped to do with season two
- In January 2017, in terms of renewing Vixen for a third season, Pedowitz said, “We haven’t had that discussion, but based on the success of [the second] season I have no reason why not to”
- The entire series made its broadcast debut on The CW on August 30, 2017
- IGN’s Jesse Schedeen gave the series a 7.3/10, praising the action sequences, the animation and the tone
- Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club gave the series a “B+” rating
- Guggenheim stated that if the series was successful, a live-action series centered on the character could be possible
- Echikunwoke appeared as the character on Arrow during the fourth-season episode “Taken”
- In which Mari aided Oliver Queen and his team in rescuing his kidnapped son
- After Vixen’s appearance on Arrow, Pedowitz reiterated again that it would be possible for the character to spin out to her own live-action series
- Or potentially join the characters on Legends of Tomorrow
- It was originally intended for Echikunwoke to reprise her role in the second season of Legends of Tomorrow
- But she was unable to do so due to previous commitments
- Maisie Richardson-Sellers was ultimately cast to portray Amaya Jiwe
- The grandmother of McCabe who also operated as Vixen
- Kuasa appears throughout the third season of Legends of Tomorrow, portrayed by Tracy Ifeachor
- While Chuck McCabe appears in the episode “I, Ava” and is portrayed by Eli Gabay
- The events of the season end up retroactively changing the continuity of Vixen
- Resulting in an altered timeline where Zambesi was never destroyed
- And Mari shares the Vixen mantle with Kuasa
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