10 Comic Book Characters That Need The Brightburn Treatment

Zatanna hasn’t had the best time of it with DC adaptations. She’s still not the the DCEU, either in movies or TV, and while there do appear to be plans to bring her over eventually, with the way DC have been squandering their potential and launching into reboots, nothing is really set in stone.

Injustice: Gods Among Us, where you’d expect her to play a pivotal role, given it's a DC fighting game, relegated her to DLC.

Is she a big enough character for her to get a full scale Brightburn adaptation? Pfft, heck no. But there’s a lot of potential for a spin off comic (which you feel Brightburn could benefit from too, even after the movie) to explore a horror styled Zatanna.

Eternally peppy, there’s a lot of potential to turn her dark. With such a high point to fall from, Zatanna offers a deep well. She can be a little campy, but then so can Joker, and he works for horror just fine.

Brightburnt Zatanna would be Joker’s Dark Knight pencil trick on acid. All her typically funky magic tricks, transformed into some of the most diabolical ways to kill ever.

Her history as a stage magician is inherently creepy too, and lends itself to a horror/Brightburn spin well.