'I remember getting a tweet from a mom and she was saying that her and her daughter were watching ‘The Flash’ and her daughter was like, 'Mommy, Iris West is so beautiful—she looks just like me. Does that mean that I’m beautiful too?'” Candice Patton said.
Williams’ character Thunder on “Black Lightning” also represents the LGBTQ community, another group that often lacks representation in the superhero world.
“When I found out that she was the first Muslim American superhero, I felt the weight of that. I think the really smart thing that my show did which every show should do, is when they hired me, they hired a Muslim American writer,” Ashe said. “Representation matters so much. It’s so important that little Brown children all over the world are seeing someone like me and being like, ‘Oh, that opens my mind to that possibility.
Leslie, who will take on the role of Batwoman in the show’s second season, explained that she would use her character’s mask to her advantage.
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