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Warning : This lineament contains SPOILERS forStargirlseason 1 , episode 7 , " Shiv Part One . "
The latest instalment of DC Universe’sStargirlsaw Blue Valley High School ’s nonmigratory mean - missy Cindy Burman take up the identicalness of the villain Shiv . While this was n’t a shock to fans of the originalStars and STRIPEcomics which inspired the series , the episode did introduce a novel twist to keep thing fresh for amusing readers . It also added a tragic ingredient to the report that will likely leave behind Courtney Whitmore feeling responsible for for her challenger taking up a dark route .
Out of all the many series produced for the DC Universe streaming service , Stargirlhas remain the truest to its beginning cloth . This is due tothe show being a passion projectof showrunner and comic Bible writer Geoff Johns . The show ’s cardinal account arc has pull out intemperately upon Johns’Stars and STRIPEcomics , which first introduced the character of Courtney Whitmore and see Golden Age sidekick Pat " Stripsey " Dugan take on a new expansive role piloting a lawsuit of mechanically skillful armor .
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throw that , it makes sense that the series would stay truthful to its roots in precede Cindy " Shiv " Burman , who was the closest matter Courtney Whitmore had toan archenemy in the funnies . Beyond being opposed to one another as adolescent girls set about to maintain a costume bequest , the two were fierce competition in high-pitched school . Cindy Burman did everything she could to turn the great unwashed against the neophyte to Blue Valley High , especially after her would - be swain began take a shit advances on the more kind - hearted Courtney . Both girls also play as a mirror to each other as hero and scoundrel , brag corresponding business leader and preparation .
Shiv In The Comics
Cindy Burman first appear inStars and STRIPE # 1 in August 1999 , where she was ground as the head cheerleader of Blue Valley High School and the queen bee of the popular youngster . Cindy had it out for Courtney Whitmore from the very beginning , get off her in the lunchroom and sending her intellectual nourishment flying onto the head teacher . Cindy ’s sniping at Courtney became more marked after it became vindicated that Josh Hamman , believed by most to be the in force look boy in school , retrieve Courtney ’s company more piquant than Cindy ’s .
The rivalry between the two teenagers move on to their costumed personas when Cindy made her first public visual aspect as Shiv inStars and STRIPE # 7 . The daughter of a Golden Age villain known as the Dragon King , Cindy had been trained since birth to take over a position of powerfulness in her father ’s organisation . For year , the Dragon King had operated in secret in Blue Valley , kidnapping youngster and brainwashing the most physically and mentally capable specimen into soldiers for his army . It was his ultimate goal to seize the United States by using his thinker - restraint applied science on a national scale to take over all of the young people , who were more susceptible to his technology than adults .
Unfortunately for the Dragon King , his plan was baffle by Courtney Whitmore and her heroic allies and he was kill when his base of operations was blown up . orphan and yen for revenge , Shiv proved an easy enlistee for Johnny Sorrow ; an opposition of the original Justice Society of America , who was reformingthe Injustice Society of Americaand willing to offer her a plaza at his side . Shiv prove an apt student and an first-class counter for Courtney Whitmore , who had as well been enroll into the novel Justice Society of America as Stargirl . The two would face each other repeatedly , whenever the two teams clashed .
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Shiv’s Powers and Skills In The Comics
Shiv is strong , faster , and more undestroyable than the typical teenage girl . While this is partly the result of training required by her father , Cindy Burman also underwent a serial publication of intensive operating theater mean to make her into something more than human . While the exact detail of these procedures were pull up stakes to the reader ’s mental imagery , it was unmortgaged that they were painful to undergo , as the normally stoical Shiv was visibly frightened by the promise of " further sweetening " should she flunk in a mission .
Shiv ’s codename came from the most obvious of these enhancements ; a serial of sub - dermal vane hold back within her wrist and ankles . Like Wolverine from X - Men , Shiv could unfold or retract these blade whenever she wished . Shiv also possess some cast of sub - dermal armour , as she was shown shrug off hits that should have incapacitated a normal homo and she once made reference to having work done on her armour , despite her panoplied costume not appearing any different .
Shiv ’s chief weapon is a golden stave with an ornamental dragon ’s chief . Presumably the product of her begetter ’s effort to fuse science and sorcery , the stave is capable of breathe fire through the mouth of the dragon ’s head . The staff can also become renovate , its dig breaking into segment so it can slide like a serpent . In this pattern , the staff is open of bring forth electricity of sufficient mogul and heat to short out the STRIPE armor and weld the access code hatch keep out ; a fact Pat Dugan discovered when he became trap inside his armour during his first battle with Shiv .
Despite this telling arsenal and her congenital powers , Shiv is not entirely pendant on her munition and implants . Shiv is a master of multiple martial artistry and a unsafe hand - to - hand fighter , capable of kill a man twice her size with her barren hands . Armed with her usual equipment , she present a challenge that even Stargirl andthe Cosmic Staffare sorely pressed to meet .
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Shiv In Stargirl
Played by Meg DeLacy , Stargirl ’s take on Cindy is true to the comics in most respect . Cindy is still a bastardly girl who could giveRegina George a run for her moneybut her reason for disliking Courtney have been change . Rather than being covetous that a boy she wish prefers Courtney to her , Cindy takes it personally when she offered Courtney a opportunity to join her cheerleading team and Courtney turn her down . The two almost reconciled when they were pull to be lab partners in " Shiv Part One , " and Cindy , still smarting from the rejection of her good booster and her boyfriend , require Courtney if she ’d wish to hang out with her rather than going to the bragging Homecoming dance . However , Cindy turned nerveless once again after Courtney was ask to the dance at the last minute and asked Cindy if they could hang out some other weekend .
Stargirlalso vary the kinship between Shiv and Dragon King in one of import respect . In the strip , Dragon King was eager to have his daughter conjoin his organisation and take a station by his side , pushing her beyond her limits like a bromide stage parent projecting their dreams of stardom onto their child . On the show , Dragon King bid for Shiv to join the Injustice Society someday , but he think her to be unready for the responsibleness that came with being a supervillain , despite her protest to the contrary and her increase boredom with the petty games she play in hightail it Blue Valley High School . This resulted in Shiv aching to prove herself to her father despite her immatureness , much as Courtney Whitmore wish to prove to her stepfather that she could be a bomber without his helper .
This pencil lead to a climactic battle as the two destined enemies encounter for the first time , when Cindy discovered Stargirl breaking into the Injustice Society ’s cloak-and-dagger den . Determined to essay herself and vote out the enemy that had her father and his allies running scared , Cindy defied her father and acquire up the armor and staff he had ready apart for the futurity . serve it to say the rivalry between Shiv andStargirlseems certain to become a major subplot of the serial , even beyond the upcoming episode " Shiv Part Two . "
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