Injustice 2: 6 Cancelled Characters You Need To See
4. Detective Chimp
Detective Chimp is just about the best DC character you've probably never even heard of, which is why it's such a shame his big break in the gaming medium was cut short during the conceptual stage of development.
Created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, DC's most famous chimp (Gorilla Grodd notwithstanding) has been a member of both the Bureau of Amplified Animals and Justice League Dark. He's also pretty much Sherlock Holmes if he was a monkey - what's not to love?
Brandishing a pistol and a nifty little bandanna, this design of Chimp is tailor made for the chaotic playgrounds of the Injustice-verse, and though he didn't appear in the sequel in the end, one can only hope he makes his way to at least one screen before the decade's over.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
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