Best: DCAU Justice League: Hawkgirl aka Shayera Hol

Worst: Legends of Tomorrow: Hawkgirl/Hawkman

Best: Young Justice relationship Wally West/Artemis Crock

Worst: BoP/Smallville/Arrow Dinah Laurel Lance

Best: Smallvilles Lex Luthor

Worst: DCEU Lex Luthor

Best: DCAU Mr.Freeze

Worst: Supergirl Jimmy/James Olsen

Best: Young Justice Aqualad

Worst: Batman & Robin Batgirl/Barbara Wilson

Best: The Flash Wally West & Iris West

When it comes to adapting comic book characters it can sometimes be a slippery slope. Comic fans expect to see the most popular version of their faves adapted closesly to their comic counterpart. However showrunners/Directors often want to put their own spin on a character which can either be really good or REALLY bad. They will often sight "we have our own continuity" "there are many versions of the character to choose from". If an adaption is good then most fans are able to come to terms with the change but if an adaption is bad, they will let you know.Here are what I consider some of the best and worst DC Comics adaptions for tv/film.When the Justice League animated series debuted there were A LOT of changes from what fans knew of the line up in the comics. Hawkgirl being a founder member was one of them. Hawkgirl is probably the best case of the "many versions of the character", she has had her origins changed left and right. While Shayera Hol in the comics was a Thanagarian police force much the same to the DCEU version, she was constantly attached to Hawkman. The DCAU adaption of the character made Hawkgirl the primary Hawk, her connection to Hawkman briefly touched upon but for the most part she was her own woman. The DCAU sent shockwives in the League when it was revealed that Shayera had come to Earth as a spy for her people. She ended up choosing Earth and started up a relationship with John Stewart, the resident Green Lantern shying away from the common couple canon of Hawkman/Hawkgirl.When Legends of Tomorrow was gearing up for a spin off, the Arrowverse put A LOT of effort into establishing the characters that would join the show. Hawkgirl aka Kendra Saunders appeared on The Flash to help gear up LoT but the character had one tiny problem: She didn't know she was secretly Hawkgirl! The character spent majority of her time on LoT trying to gain control of her newfound powers while also being stuck in a love triangle with Hawkman and The Atom. Hawkman himself didn't have much personality and was killed halfway through the first season only to come back and go on new adventures with Hawkgirl...off screen. The two characters were considered a failure and havent been seen since.Here's the thing about changing up iconic relationships in the comics...if you are going to change it up it better be damn good and Young Justice made Wally and Artemis into a damn good couple. The other good thing? It didnt come at a cost to Wallys comic book love Linda Park since the show chose to leave the character out all together so you couldn't form a connection with her and Wally/Artemis just had that strong of a relationship. They were complete opposites, they propped each other up, and their relationship didn't hinder either character.They usually say 3rd time is a charm but for some reason that just didn't apply to DLL who is better known as Black Canary. While each version had something endearing about them, they were either so drastically different! BoP Dinah turned into Dinah Redmon, a meta human who had telekinesis and telepathy....while they kept the characters comic origin of her mother being the original Black Canary, her name was now Carolyn Lance and Dinah never even intended to don the Black Canary mantle.Smallvilles version of Dinah was fairly accurate but she had barely had any connection to Oliver Queen and worse..she was just under utilized and played 2nd fiddle to almost everyone.Arrow....well..while I love KC in the role, Arrow just decided to screw the character over in every way imaginable. She and Oliver are childhood friends/lovers but he cheats on her with her sister oh and she goes by her middle name, Laurel. She becomes a lawyer to mirror Rachel from Batman Begins, the writers end up ditching the Oliver/Laurel romance and thus just start to not to care for the character. It takes her nearly 40 episodes for her to find out that Oliver is the Arrow and is allowed to join his team. Her sister starts out as the original (Black) Canary who dies and thus Laurel takes up the mantle in her honor, Laurel suits up in the 3rd season only to be killed off in the 4th season and replaced by Dinah Drake...who in the comics is the characters mother even though Laurels mother was named Dinah...mess. She was stripped of all of her fighting skills from the comics, rich history, wasnt a meta human, and made baby vigilante to the team, suiting up after Roy Harper.When Smallville debuted and it was not about SuperMAN but more of SuperBOY, the origins of Clark Kent, adding Lex Luthor to that was a bold move. While the two have had brief interactions as kids in various Superman origins, none of them delved into the evolution of Lex Luthors descent to the dark side, all the while being one of Clarks best friends. Smallville made you care about Lex Luthor as a human being and is probably one of the best adaptions of the character.While Smallville made Lex into one of their best and most compelling characters...Zack Snyders version of the character for the modern big screen was less so in just about every single way. In Batman v Superman, Lex Luthor is a young billionaire scientist who is very cooky and complete opposite to Superman. Nothing about the character was intimidating or fairly interesting. Clarks first interaction with the character and Lex already knows Clark is Superman, how to defeat him, it was just a mess.I'll just let the wiki speak for itself "Prior to Batman: The Animated Series, Mr. Freeze had been a rather poorly received, clownish villain from the old live action Batman television series and the DC Comics of the 1960s. This continued on into an earlier animated series produced by Filmation, in which Mr. Freeze was an extraterrestrial villain who would use "freeze" puns, such as demanding ransom or he would freeze Gotham. Paul Dini and Bruce Timm re-imagined the entire history and motivation of Mr. Freeze to produce a villain that could be taken as both a believable character and a deadly, serious threat. The creative team invented the character of the terminally ill Nora Fries to flesh out the backstory of a fully-realized tragic villain. It was the first complete overhaul of a pre-existing character in the DCAU, and to this day it was arguably the most successful."Here is an example of yet another drastic change of a very well known comic character. When Supergirl launched they took Supermans best friend and turned him into Supergirls best friend. The character no longer went by Jimmy because he was all grown up and moved to National City to become his own man, instead of working at the Daily Planet as Lois Lanes photographer, he now works at CatCo as a writer/editor in charge/owner or whatever. Nothing about James Olsen reminds you of Jimmy Olsen, they might as well be two completely different characters not related to one another outside of their names. Superman has guest starred on Supergirl but he and James are given barely any screen time together. James was originally intended to be Supergirls big love interest but that was dropped after the first season and in a deja-vu moment from Arrow, the writers no longer knew what to do with the character. Right now he is a part time vigilante known as Guardian and usually appears for 5 mins an episode. Supergirl spends less and less time at CatCo and thus finding ways to insert James into the plot is hard.When Young Justice premiered, many of the sidekicks were the classic versions from the comics but when it came to Aquaman, they gave him a completely new and original sidekick to take over the Aqualad mantle. In the comics, Garth aka Tempest was the classic Aqualad, sidekick to Aquaman but Young Justice changed that and instead made Garth into one of Aquamans friends who studies magic in Atlantis. The new Aqualad aka Kaldur chose to study under Aquaman. YJ gave Kaldur a great backstory with him being the son of Black Manta, Aquamans greatest nemsis. Kaldur also has lead the team and gone deep under cover, pretending to turn evil making him far more interesting then Garth.While there have been multiple Batgirls, the original has always been Barbara Gordon, daughter to Batmans ally Jim Gordon. When Batman & Robin came to the big screen, they decided to change Barbara Gordon to Barbra Wilson...niece to Alfred Pennyworth. While Barbara Gordon became Batgirl of her own accord, in the movie Alfred planned Barbara to suit up, leaving her an encrypted disk, which contained all of Batman's secrets. The film was just a wreck and really goofy so the changes just didn't help the characters change from her iconic version.The Flash came under fire for making Iris West into a black woman instead of a white woman but the team didn't stop there, with changing Iris' ethnicity many wondered what it would mean for Wally, who was her nephew. They changed Wallys ethnicity to match Iris and went one step further in changing him from her nephew to her long lost brother! While the show has treated both characters poorly, the sibling relationship between the two characters is one of the best changes to them as a family. They have a greater bond, are perfect together, and the West family have been a staple in The Flash.Source: me + 2 What are your favorite/least favorite character changes from comics to tv/movies?