A Problem With Metal Cheetah
Okay time for a rant, the Metal Legion Cheetah makes absolutely no sense, and is another example of writers not getting Wonder Woman Villains. As well as another example of the mishandling of Wonder Woman villains.
So in the DC X Sonic The Hedgehog Metal Legion crossover, in issue 3. Eggman creates robot copies of the Legion Of Doom. Eggman reveals he made them by copying their bio-data.
"When I updated your drab little clubhouse, I took the liberty of installing multiple Bio-Data Scanners. Downloading your unique traits and refining them into superior robot versions."............
Now while at most I could say it would make sense he copied their fighting styles via the scanners, and stole some of their tech due to the lack the Legion Of Doom having biological powers.
There is one character that to me stands out as no making any sense to have done this to.
This character being Cheetah, character whose powers are neither biological now mechanical. Her powers are pure magic, and by extension Eggman should have had no way to replicate them.
This get into how so many writers just don't realize Cheetah's powers are magic, alongside some other things.
So let's establish a few things.
Eggman's robots are not all fast, most of them are a decent speed but no super fast. His fast ones being Mecha Sonic and of course Metal Sonic. The latter is established to be able to keep up with Sonic because their main body is made out of a fuselage. Sonic himself can only run at supersonic speeds.
On top of this, Eggman's robots can get pretty strong, these robots are his boss robots typically.
Robots that Sonic can struggle with, in the end still beats them. Also, Sonic himself is established to have to slow down to fight such opponents, as he has trouble fighting when running at his top speeds.
Also, no matter how durable Eggman build his machines, in the end they are metal and wires. By extension can be destoryed.
With all that being said, there is no reason Metal Cheetah as I am calling it should been able to take on cheetah.
This is because Cheetah herself is by no means a pushover.
Cheetah is one of the fast characters in DC, being official ranked at number 6 barely faster than Wonder Woman.
On top of this fact she can out speed Kid Flash and God Speed aka literally speedsters. Kid Flash aka Wallace being ranked at number 10 the as the last character listed, is a character who can run at light speed.
The last bit also ties into my post on why the Flash is far faster than Sonic.
Cheetah is a character that is also strong and durable enough to go toe to toe with Wonder Woman, aka character is comparable to Superman ins strength and durability.
And of course you have the magic part of her, which Eggman couldn't have copied. Also, if Eggman somehow was able to copy that, this would get into the issue have brought up in a previous post about how Eggman is being written in recent times.
So with all that being said, there is no way the Metal Cheetah should have stood any chance. Cheetah should have immediately ran up to it and broke it like a toothpick.
It shouldn't have even been close to an equal fight, alone ending with Cheetah retreating and the copy basically being unscathed.
This really reminds me of how certain writers have had Cheetah be restrained physically by the likes of Batman and Catwoman, or had her killed by basic bullets.
The disrespect for Wonder Woman's rogues gallery is fricken insane, and this just goes to show why we a bunch of good Wonder Woman adaptations that does her rogues gallery justice. A animated series or game, something like that.
This does also get into a issue with Eggman, as this comic had him build a robot that is far faster than Sonic with strength near Superman level strength if it is meant to be around the same speed and strength of Cheetah.
Also, with this all being disrespectful you have a double edged sword.
Either have Eggman casually built an op magical robot.
Or this is the result of bad writing, and another example of a Wonder Woman villain being mishandled. Meanwhile, the writers are very capable enough to do their own research on the Flash so they can reference picoseconds and Krakkl.
Note, I'm not saying Eggman can't get the upper hand on the Legion Of Doom, can't be a menace, or create powerful tech. Nor am I trying to make a power scaling argument for characters to be unbeatable.
I am pointing how the writers have fumbled Cheetah and seemed to have no done any research into this character.
Now I do have a suggestion to what they could have done instead.
They could have easily used Giganta instead of the Cheetah for the Legion Of Doom. From their have Eggman scan Giganta's bio-data.
The reason I say this is because Giganta's powers are actually biological and aren't magic based. So a robot double made using Biodata would actually have made some sense.
By extension you wouldn't have to worry about the magic and speed issue.
Now yes you could argue the there could still be strength issue given how strong Giganta is. Aka her strength is just human strength but scaled up for her giant sized. She is able to give kryptonians a run for their money when she isn't even at her max size.
But again, it would make some more sense given again Giganta's powers are at least biological, and the you don't have to worry about the super speed issue or the magic issue.
Overall, this just seems like writers once again not understanding Wonder Woman villains, and the likes of Cheetah getting disrespected by not being treated properly.
Written by Eris the Lorekeeper