DC Super Hero Girls

DC Super Hero Girls or DC Superhero Girls (in various countries) is an American superhero web series and franchise created by Warner Bros. Consumer Products and DC Entertainment that launched in the third quarter of 2015.

In 2017, DC revealed that the DC Super Hero Girls line would be reimagined by Lauren Faust, who had previously worked on The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. This resulted in a full rebrand for the franchise, centralized around an eponymous television reboot of the same name, which began airing on Cartoon Network in March 2019. The rebooted series was heavily inspired by Faust's DC Nation Shorts entry Super Best Friends Forever from 2012, while carrying over certain themes from the earlier DC Super Hero Girls web show.

Premise
At Super Hero High School, well-known DC heroes, both male and female, attend challenging classes and deal with all the awkwardness of growing up with the added stress of having unique superpowers.

Announcement
The franchise was announced in April 2015. The range is to include books from Random House, Lego tie-ins and action figures from Mattel.

Website
The website was launched in early July 2015. Characters featured at launch were: Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Katana, and Bumblebee. Other characters including Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, Star Sapphire, Beast Boy, Cheetah, Hawkgirl and Catwoman also appear. Amanda Waller is featured as the principal of the series' setting Super Hero High. Many other DC Comics Heroes and Villains appear in the background as cameos.

Cast and characters
DC Super Hero Girls has various characters inspired by the DC Universe. Certain characters are voiced by actors who have performed as the same characters previously. The characters listed below are listed on the franchise's website:

Web series
The DC Super Hero Girls has a series of animated shorts on YouTube and their site centered on the young heroes and villains attending Super Hero High. The first season premiered on 1 October 2015. The second season premiered on 21 April 2016. The third season premiered on 26 January 2017, while the fourth season premiered on 18 January 2018.

Television series
In 2019, the DC Super Hero Girls franchise was rebooted as a TV series developed by Lauren Faust (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Wander Over Yonder), with a continuity separate from that of the previous version of the franchise. Shorts connected with the series began to be released online on 10 January 2019 (the first short had previously received a sneak peek screening with showings of Teen Titans Go! to the Movies), and the full series premiered on Cartoon Network on 8 March 2019.

Novels
Random House is publishing a series of text-only novels. Each novel focuses primarily on one character's experiences as a student at Super Hero High. Lisa Yee has written every one so far. American "big box" retailer Target has released special editions of the Wonder Woman and Batgirl novels that include additional materials (character profiles and posters).

Graphic novels
DC is publishing a series of graphic novels.

Comics
DC is publishing a digital-first comics series. These issues are later collected in printed editions.


 * DC Super Hero Girls - Past Times at Super Hero High (12 digital issues starting 5 October 2016)
 * DC Super Hero Girls - Out of the Bottle (12 digital issues starting 12 April 2017)
 * DC Super Hero Girls - Spaced Out (12 digital issues starting 20 November 2017)
 * DC Super Hero Girls - Weird Science (14 digital issues starting 28 March 2019)