Zatanna

## Zee Zatara

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**Zee Zatara**, also known as **Zatanna**, is one of the main characters of the series *DC Super Hero Girls*.

## Development

Zatanna's outfit has a similar design to the ones depicted in the late 1983 and 1984 issues of the comic *Justice League America*, the 2013 comics *Justice League #22* and *#23*, and the 2014 comic *Justice League Dark: Futures End*.

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Concept art, with Green Arrow

Concept art, with Green Arrow

## Depiction

### Magic

Zee is depicted performing many instances of supernatural magic, and her spells are frequently performed while chanting each word in reverse:

* *Adventures in Bunnysitting*: using telekinesis to clean up Kara's room, transforming a concert poster into a Zee Zatara poster, making the rabbit spawn disappear into her hat, casting a "hate spell" that makes the rabbit spawn gather into a giant rabbit monster ("leef ton stibbar evol kaeps I" - "feel not rabbits love, speak I")
* *From Bat to Worse*: unpacking Babs' things with telekinesis ("dnoura sith sevlover" - "around this revolve")
* *Illusions of Grandeur*: making a flower pattern disappear from a shirt and a similar bouquet of flowers appear next to it ("thearw srewolf" - "wreath flowers"), making hair appear on a bald man's head ("spriah" - "hairpiece"), transforming confetti into butterflies ("naf yawa" - "fun away"), vanishing a wardrobe full of gremlins ("snilmerg ib enog" - "gremlins be gone")
* *DC Super Hero Boys*: making herself and Green Arrow disappear ("shinav" - "vanish")
* *The Fresh Princess of Ren Faire*: materializing a magic lancet that is used to defeat Ember

### Career

Zee says in the episode *Adventures in Bunnysitting* that she is going to her very first paid performance as a solo magician. She performs magic at a children’s birthday party in front of a crowd of three children at a park. The performance is interrupted when the spawn of the magical bunnies floods the park. At first Zee and Kara, who was supposed to watch the bunnies and keep them apart, sweep the spawn into Zee's top hat and make them disappear, but more and more keep flooding in. Zee casts a hate spell, but this turns the flood of bunny spawn into a giant bunny monster made up of individual bunny spawn. Kara is eaten by the giant bunny monster but flies out with the two magical bunnies in her hands and breaks the bunnies from their embrace, making all their spawn disappear.

Zee participates as an assistant in her father's magic show in the episode *Illusions of Grandeur*. She is made to "disappear" inside a wardrobe by exiting through a portal.

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From the episode *Beeline*
From the episode *Beeline*
From the episode *Beeline*

From the episode *Shock It to Me*
From the episode *Illusions of Grandeur*

From the episode *Beeline*

From the episode *Beeline*

From the episode *Beeline*

From the episode *Shock It to Me*

From the episode *Illusions of Grandeur*

## Promotional material

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Billboard near the 2019 New York Toy Fair

Billboard near the 2019 New York Toy Fair

Zee is depicted as an actress, writer, and director in the episode *Drama Queen*. She receives positive reviews for her acting in a flashback, and in the episode's current-day she directs and stars in a play she had written.

## Mr. Zatara

Zee's father first appears in the episode *Sweet Justice* and is listed in the credits as "Mr. Zatara". He stands halfway out of a limousine's sunroof, holds out Zee's backpack and calls to her that she forgot her backpack. The backpack immediately appears the very next shot in her hand, and she replies 'Thanks, Daddy. Toodles.' The narrator in the short *Meet Zatanna!* says Zee is the daughter of a famous magician.

Mr. Zatara is more prominently featured in the episode *Illusions of Grandeur*. The episode begins with a shot of the building where Zee lives, with signs featuring Mr. Zatara covering much of the facade, and billboards reading "Zatara" and "Master of Magic". The shot cuts to Mr. Zatara materializing on stage in front of a packed theater. He introduces Zee alternately as his "charming daughter" and "lovely assistant". Mr. Zatara performs his "final trick of the evening" and makes Zee disappear inside a wardrobe that materialized on stage while it's levitating in the air. The audience cheers and gives a standing ovation, and Mr. Zatara bows to the audience. The next scene, Karen says to Zee "the fact that you spend your whole life traveling the whole world entertaining people with your dad, it's so cool" and "you're seriously the biggest celebrity I know."

Mr. Zatara's early career is depicted in the episode *Abracadabrapalooza*. He travels with his daughter Zee, performing in humble venues where his magic tricks often go wrong. Zee says that their performance at Abracadabrapalooza got them a booking agent, their first tour, and eventually led to their residency at the casino. In a flashback, Mr. Zatara tells Zee that his grandfather, Luigi Zatara, gave him a book of magic when he got his *real* magic powers, and in turn Mr. Zatara gave the book to his daughter when she developed her own magic powers.

## References

1. ↑ DC Super Hero Girls - Meet Zatanna! - Cartoon Network at 20 seconds.