And with that Virginia Madsen embarked on the path of providing voices. 2002 would see her lend her dulcet tones to the DC Animated Universe in Dr Sarah Corwin. She’s a new character never before seen in either the mainline DC Comics Universe or the Animated one.
Sarah would debut in the Justice League cartoon episodes The Brave and The Bold which made up the 12th and 13th episodes of the first season.
In the episodes The Green Lantern and The Flash uncover a plot by Grodd to destroy the hidden Gorilla City.
The story starts when The Flash is chases down a truck that is wreaking havoc in Central City, he stops the truck with help from The Green Lantern. Once the chase is over they find it been driven by two scientists, but both men don’t really seem to have any clue what they’ve done. In the back of the truck they find some isotopes, but no explanation.
Flash and Green Lantern visit the Laboratory where they work and speak to Sarah Corwin. She’s unable to help them, or so she says…
While there they get a call about a Gorilla raising hell downtown, they take off to find the Gorilla trying to escape the Police. Once again they stop the car but while talking to the Gorilla Flash is shot by a ray beam by none other than, Sarah Corwin.
This sends The Flash into a hallucinatory fit and when he wakes up he’s in Jail. The police show him video footage of him stealing the isotopes from the Police compound. Unable to explain his actions he enlists the help of The Green Lantern again to track down the Gorilla they stopped earlier.
When they eventually do find him they find out he’s actually the Security Chief of a Gorilla City in Africa where a species of super intelligent Gorillas have hidden themselves away. He introduces himself as Solovar and goes onto explain that a rogue Scientist named Grodd has invented a way to control all the other Gorillas in the City and has nefarious ideas about his new found power. Grodd was able to be stopped by the other Gorillas but now he’s seeking his revenge.
Solovar has tracked down Grodd to Central City by finding emails between him and, Sarah Corwin.
This is all The Flash needs to hear as he tears off to confront Sarah, but before he can do he’s caught by Grodd.
It’s a typical story from the DC Animated Universe, I won’t ruin any more of it in case you want to watch it for yourself – And, I recommend you do.
I’m a BIG fan of the DC Animated Universe, I’ve watched it for years and while I won’t claim to have seen all it has to offer I do own more than a couple of the Blu-Rays etc.
Virginia does her thing here. She doesn’t have a massive amount of lines to say but when she does, well – Unless you knew it was her then you wouldn’t be able to tell. She uses her voice to good effect here and actually acts with it, unlike others that show up in the DCAU in guest roles.
Availability:
Good. You can pick up the episodes as part of the bigger box set, or it got a stand alone disc release known as Justice League: The Brave and The Bold with two other episodes from the show included.
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