Talk:The Mysterious Mare Do Well/@comment-91.77.6.211-20121017152706/@comment-174.99.3.249-20130129065747

I agree - definitely based on the cover illustrations from the Shadow novels.

For those who have never heard of The Shadow, he was a detective who secretly assisted the police in a series of old radio dramas and pulp novels. The radio episodes were almost invariably teased with "Who know what evil lurks in the hearts of men?  The Shadow knows!" On the radio, he was voiced by several different actors, but the most iconic voice for him came from Vincent Price. Many of The Shadow's character traits were incorporated into the original Bat Man, and a Shadow expy (The Gray Ghost) appeared in Batman Beyond.

And I agree, the Aesop was particularly anvilicious in this episode, but I think Dashie's hubris was sufficient to merit it.

As for the original Mare-Do-Well, who saved Cherry Berry after she hijacked Twilight Sparkle's balloon, I think she was either literally a masked stranger - perhaps an itinerant loner with a true hero complex - or Luna.