Hawkgirl

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This is about Hawkgirl, a character that is probably unfamiliar to most of you. So here's the skinny:

She's from a planet called Thanagar, where she was a police officer. Her story is that she was chasing a criminal and got caught in some pseudo-scientific thingamajig which shot her molecules halfway across the universe to Earth. She decided to stick around and fight crime, since she didn't know how to get back home.

That all turned out to be a lie.

She was actually the advance party from her home world, sent there to scout Earth's defenses. See, Thanagar has been at war with these other aliens for hundreds of years, and she was sent to Earth to recon so they could determine how best to protect the Earth from the bad aliens.

This also turned out to be a lie.

That was the story that Hawkgirl was told, but the truth is that she was sent there to learn how best to take over Earth long enough to build a hyperspace bypass which would aid the Thanagarians in their war. Unfortunately, the hyperspace bypass would destroy Earth, thereby upsetting the natives.

Hawkgirl objected to having been used by her own people to betray her new people, so she decided to betray the Thanagarians by helping the Justice League stop their Evil Plan.
However, the Justice League still felt disgruntled and betrayed from the first betrayl, especially Green Lantern, with whom Hawkgirl had recently begun a relationship. Turns out Hawkgirl's got a Hawkman: the commander of the Thanagarian army and mastermind of the Evil Plan. They're betrothed. GL is less than pleased. Hawkgirl is extremely confused, and now, so are you.

Please direct all questions to Bruce Timm.

Or, you could just watch the video.