The trailers just don't stop coming. While plenty of highly-anticipated new reveals graced viewers' screens during DC's virtual FanDome event, a few others managed to fly a bit under the radar. Obscured by the more high-profile offerings, it doesn't mean they're any less worthy of excitement. In fact, based on this little teaser for The CW's Naomi, it's probably more accurate to say that fans should be paying far more attention.
On that note, among all the big-ticket appearances at FanDome like The Flash and a new look at Matt Reeves' The Batman, the event also included the first teaser trailer for The CW's upcoming series based on the DC character Naomi McDuffie, a.k.a. Powerhouse. The series, titled Naomi, will focus on the titular teenage hero as she searches for her own destiny. Her adventure will take her throughout the Multiverse, revealing hidden secrets and new discoveries surrounding already famous heroes, potentially including a certain high-flying alien with a penchant for tights.
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The teaser sees Naomi (played by Kaci Walfall) in the middle of class when she's interrupted by a curious text from a friend. It reads that some sort of stunt is going down in the town square and that it involves Superman himself. Wasting no time, Naomi bolts out of the room with a quick apology to her teacher and skateboards off to where the action is, excitedly explaining, "I need this for my site." However, once she gets to the street, something begins to affect her and she falls to the ground, looking up to see a familiar red and blue blur streaking across the sky just before losing consciousness.
The character of Naomi only just debuted as part of the DC comics in 2019, offering an interesting opportunity for the TV adaptation to shape a sizeable chunk of her story and characterization going forward. In her universe, the Earth's damaged ozone layer exposed the planet to a new form of radiation, turning a number of people into superpowered metahumans. As the child of two of those affected, she quickly becomes a target as an infant. So her parents sent her to the "Prime Universe" to save her, sacrificing themselves in the process. Here, she was found and raised by former alien soldier Greg McDuffie and his human wife Jen, which eventually led to her growing up into the young woman last seen passed out on a sidewalk.
Naomi was announced for The CW in February before being officially ordered as a series in May. Produced and written by Emmy Award-winner and Selma director Ava DuVernay alongside Arrow writer Jill Blankenship, the series will follow the energy-based superhero on a journey of discovery. Fittingly, the character herself is named after the late comic book writer Dwayne McDuffie, who always strove for more inclusion when it came to minority characters. So while she's young in both years and comic issues, hopefully, she'll end up living up to that legacy.
It's always a treat to see more diversity and representation, particularly in the ultra-mainstream world of comic book movies and shows. A young Black woman in the lead role of such a project bodes well for the future of such pursuits.
Naomi will air on The CW in 2022.
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