Supergirl TV Series is being work on.

[Guy Gardener]

In the New 52, Powergirl and Supergirl are genetically identical enough to fool the Kryptonian bioscanner to the door of her own Fortress (underwater spaceship) BUUUUUT Powergirl is older than Supergirl. Dialouge in the comic (I am not being disgusting, this happened.) mentioned a huge difdference in breast size, that would be explained by one of them being 17 and the other 27.

I assume that that means that Powergirl came out of stasis from her interstellar trip from Krypton 5 years or more earlier than Supergirl did in Earth I's Universe.

 

[JD]

Power Girl is the Supergirl from an alternate universe, right? So does that mean Melissa Benoist would play her too, or does she usually look different from Kara in the comics?

 

[theenglish]

In the New 52, Powergirl and Supergirl are genetically identical enough to fool the Kryptonian bioscanner to the door of her own Fortress (underwater spaceship) BUUUUUT Powergirl is older than Supergirl. Dialouge in the comic (I am not being disgusting, this happened.) mentioned a huge difdference in breast size, that would be explained by one of them being 17 and the other 27.

I assume that that means that Powergirl came out of stasis from her interstellar trip from Krypton 5 years or more earlier than Supergirl did in Earth I's Universe.

Wow, do you read every single DC comic?

So that is a big change from previous incarnations of the character.

 

[Commander Richard]

Power Girl is the Supergirl from an alternate universe, right? So does that mean Melissa Benoist would play her too...?

I was thinking that she should. Power Girl is bulkier and has larger breasts but I suppose they could either have those features be less pronounced or they could just ignore it and simply do the costume and shorter hair.

 

[Guy Gardener]

In the New 52, Powergirl and Supergirl are genetically identical enough to fool the Kryptonian bioscanner to the door of her own Fortress (underwater spaceship) BUUUUUT Powergirl is older than Supergirl. Dialouge in the comic (I am not being disgusting, this happened.) mentioned a huge difdference in breast size, that would be explained by one of them being 17 and the other 27.

I assume that that means that Powergirl came out of stasis from her interstellar trip from Krypton 5 years or more earlier than Supergirl did in Earth I's Universe.

Wow, do you read every single DC comic?

So that is a big change from previous incarnations of the character.

"Own" sorta, "read" no.

The current Supergirl is really hard to digest, but I push myself because I loved the Peter David run so much.

World's Finest which was Earth II Batman's Daughter paling about with Earth II Superman's cousin, while they were exiled on Earth I started off good, and the bits where Helena tired bonding with her alt Universe half brother Damian Al Ghul brought a tear to my eye.

Powergirl vs Harley Quinn, which I think replaced World's Finest (Since Convergence) seems to be some idiot's idea to make money, and not a lot much else, so I can't stomach the idea of cracking the spine on issue two.

If you didn't live 30 thousand Km away, of course I'd invite you over to rifle through my collection, put your feet up and have a good read, so I'll put a pin in that.

 

[theenglish]

In the New 52, Powergirl and Supergirl are genetically identical enough to fool the Kryptonian bioscanner to the door of her own Fortress (underwater spaceship) BUUUUUT Powergirl is older than Supergirl. Dialouge in the comic (I am not being disgusting, this happened.) mentioned a huge difdference in breast size, that would be explained by one of them being 17 and the other 27.

I assume that that means that Powergirl came out of stasis from her interstellar trip from Krypton 5 years or more earlier than Supergirl did in Earth I's Universe.

Wow, do you read every single DC comic?

So that is a big change from previous incarnations of the character.

"Own" sorta, "read" no.

The current Supergirl is really hard to digest, but I push myself because I loved the Peter David run so much.

World's Finest which was Earth II Batman's Daughter paling about with Earth II Superman's cousin, while they were exiled on Earth I started off good, and the bits where Helena tired bonding with her alt Universe half brother Damian Al Ghul brought a tear to my eye.

Powergirl vs Harley Quinn, which I think replaced World's Finest (Since Convergence) seems to be some idiot's idea to make money, and not a lot much else, so I can't stomach the idea of cracking the spine on issue two.

If you didn't live 30 thousand Km away, of course I'd invite you over to rifle through my collection, put your feet up and have a good read, so I'll put a pin in that.

Be careful--I might take you up on that when I'm back in the old country for a visit. I imagine that you are actually much different in person--quiet, reserved, non-judgmental, always say please and thank you, and never miss tea time.

 

[Icemizer]

I agree with Guy PG & HQ is a waste of paper. Thankfully I believe it's only a limited series but not limited enough.
Loved Powergirl in her JSA run and her own title started off fairly well but eventually went nowhere. Her Earth II stories were enjoyable.

 

[kirk55555]

Power Girl is the Supergirl from an alternate universe, right? So does that mean Melissa Benoist would play her too...?

I was thinking that she should. Power Girl is bulkier and has larger breasts but I suppose they could either have those features be less pronounced or they could just ignore it and simply do the costume and shorter hair.

Eh, I honestly don't think they were meant to look the same when they were both on the same Earth pre-2011 reboot. They actually didn't interact that often, but I think its one of the rare cases where other universe versions of people in comics don't look the same.

Either way, Power Girl has a whole different attitude than Supergirl. She's actually my favorite DC superheroine, but I'd hope she either never showed up on Supergirl, or wasn't just Supergirl playing her. I don't think it would work well. But, honestly, I think we're more likely to see Power Girl on The Flash. She could easily show up because we know Flash will meet Earth 2 Flash, and she's different enough that having her on The Flash wouldn't step on the metaphorical toes of Supergirl.

 

[Guy Gardener]

A different origin for Power Girl is that she is an Atlantean who'd been in Stasis for 20 thousand years, and was... I have to making this up. GOOGLE!???

Yup, from Original Crisis (1985) to final Crisis (2005), she was Atlantean. Arion's granddaughter. I think she had Amnesia and it took her a while to work out where she was from and why she had a Superman-like power-set.... Which would put her inside the Aquafamily of titles and side step any involvement with the Superman Embargo from Upstairs that the Flash and Arrow are feeling.

Of course, if Kara is Atlantean and not kryptonian, then why the frakk would she look like Melissa?

I think a real question that we haven't addressed is the multitude super powers and plethora of super hero secret identities that Jimmy Olsen has had since the (second) Roosevelt Administration.

• Speed Demon - In 1956, a month before the debut of Barry Allen as the new Flash, Jimmy drank a potion produced by a Professor Claude and briefly gained super-speed.[36]

• Radioactive - After being exposed to a radioactive substance, Jimmy began to irradiate everything in his presence.[37]

• Super-Brain - Jimmy briefly evolved into a "man of the future" with superhuman mental powers.[38]
• Monstrous beard growth — The machinations of the sinister Beard Band cause Jimmy to grow an immense beard.[39]

• Gorilla - When Jimmy switched minds with a gorilla, he went about his reporting duties as a gorilla in Jimmy's clothes.[40]

• Elastic Lad - As Elastic Lad, Jimmy by serum or by alien virus could sometimes stretch himself, akin to Elongated Man or Plastic Man.[41] As Elastic Lad, Jimmy was inducted as an Honorary Member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.[42] In the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity, Jimmy was afflicted with uncontrollable and painful elasticity by the Eradicator.[43] It had to be genetically edited out.

• Alien-form - Aliens transformed Jimmy into a telepathic Jovian for a week.[44] Fortunately, this turned out to be a Jovian week... which is much shorter than an Earth week, about 70 hours = slightly less than three days.

• Fire-Breather - An accident involving an experiment gives Jimmy fire-breath.[45]

• Human Octopus - After eating an extraterrestrial fruit, Jimmy grew four extra arms. According to Superman, this was actually a hallucination, but Jimmy suspected that Superman said this to teach him a lesson since Jimmy had foolishly ignored advice from the Man of Steel that would've saved him a lot of trouble.[46]

• Genie - Jimmy found a genie's lamp and was tricked into replacing its villainous occupant.[47]

• Wolf-Man - In the vein of the 1957 Michael Landon film I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Jimmy found himself transformed into a werewolf.[48]

• Woman - Jimmy would occasionally go undercover dressed as a woman in #44,[49] #67,[50] #84,[51] and #159.[52][53] Grant Morrison paid a brief homage to this in the JLA: Earth 2 graphic novel[54] and in All-Star Superman.[55][56]

• Morbidly Obese - Jimmy tried to get fat in an attempt to stop a jewel smuggling and to impress a Circus Fat Lady.[57]

• Giant Turtle Man - One of Jimmy's most frequently cited transformations was that of his turning into a giant turtle man.[58]

• Human Porcupine - After rejecting the romantic advances of an imp from the 5th Dimension.[59]

• Flamebird - This is the name he took as a costumed superhero, with Superman disguised as Nightwing, in the shrunken Kryptonian city of Kandor.[60] These names were inspired by two native Kryptonian birds, the nightwing and the flamebird, but the relationship between Nightwing and Flamebird intentionally paralleled the crime-fighting team Batman (a night-winged creature) and Robin (a flame-colored bird).

• Bizarro Jimmy - Although Jimmy has a counterpart on Bizarro World, he was briefly turned into a Bizarro himself.[61]

• Hippie - Investigating a colony of hippies at "Guru Kama's Dream Pad", Jimmy grew a beard and participated in a mock "hate-in".[62] On the cover of this story's issue, Jimmy is wielding a sign that says "Superman is a freak-out!"

• Viking - Jimmy put on Viking armor and mistakenly thought he'd been transported 1000 years backward in time.[63]

• Steelman - after a volcanic eruption hurls Jimmy and an experimental interdimensional travel device into an alternate universe, Jimmy develops his own superpowers as a result of the transit to the (unnamed) "Earth-X" but is vulnerable to fragments of Mount Tipton from his own universe ("Tiptonite"). He adopts a fusion Superman/Batman outfit and launches his own superhero career as Steelman, facing a Joker-masked Clark Kent, secretly the leader of the LUTHAR League before his return to his own universe of origin.

 

[theenglish]

Yup, from Original Crisis (1985) to final Crisis (2005), she was Atlantean. Arion's granddaughter. I think she had Amnesia and it took her a while to work out where she was from and why she had a Superman-like power-set....

This was one of those cases where writers just ignored COIE because at the end of that series it was clearly established that she was and "had always been" Superman's cousin.

 

[Christopher]

This was one of those cases where writers just ignored COIE because at the end of that series it was clearly established that she was and "had always been" Superman's cousin.

Not so much ignored as retconned; it was revealed that she'd believed she was Superman's cousin but that those memories were false, implanted by her Atlantean father to obscure her true identity until the time was right.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresource...out-bad-power-girls-magical-virgin-pregnancy/

 

[Hound of UIster]

Yup, from Original Crisis (1985) to final Crisis (2005), she was Atlantean. Arion's granddaughter. I think she had Amnesia and it took her a while to work out where she was from and why she had a Superman-like power-set....

This was one of those cases where writers just ignored COIE because at the end of that series it was clearly established that she was and "had always been" Superman's cousin.

Before Infinite Crisis was on the table Geoff Johns had hinted about fashioning a new origin for her either related to the DCU future or in some other way related to the Superman mythos.

Yup, from Original Crisis (1985) to final Crisis (2005), she was Atlantean. Arion's granddaughter.

This is wrong. The origin about her being related to Arion was already retconned c. 2002-03 in the JSA story Princes of Darkness by Johns. All that remained was whether she would have a brand new origin or have her original origin restored. In the end the originalist argument won.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Wow. "Originalist". I think that's a word that a racist political party could use to slide in under the radar and get some traction.

 

[theenglish]

This was one of those cases where writers just ignored COIE because at the end of that series it was clearly established that she was and "had always been" Superman's cousin.

Not so much ignored as retconned; it was revealed that she'd believed she was Superman's cousin but that those memories were false, implanted by her Atlantean father to obscure her true identity until the time was right.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresource...out-bad-power-girls-magical-virgin-pregnancy/

Okay, that is just...odd.

 

[Nerys Myk]

IIRC, in the preCrisis Continuity, Power Girl was probably younger than Supergirl. PG being in her late teens when introduced, while SG was in her early twenties at that time. ( the 70s)

 

[Guy Gardener]

When did Power Girl show up in precrisis Earth II continuity.

This whole Spear of Destiny crap suggesting that Kryptonians, and others couldn't end the war over night should'a been moot, because Power Girl unlike raised in the Breadbasket (wait how did the Dust Bowl effect his origin? Superman is sunlight powered, and there was less to no sunlight in 1930s Kansas.) Clark Kent, might actually park in orbit and throw a couple tons of moon rocks at Berlin, and if she wouldn't becuase the thought of murdering half a million Germans gave her a frowny face, a nuts and bolts human pragmatist like Ted Knight certainly should have had the boy parts to do just that with his cosmic rod.

Supergirl is from a planet so Alien that her childhood might as well be the future and everybugger on Earth today is a gibbering baboon whom she is humouring... But Supergirl is hardly ever written like that. Although the JLU cartoon, when the Legion asked her to go live in the 30th century with them all, Kara didn't even pack her bags. I may be imaginaing it, but I think as she was passing through the time portal upstream she said somehting like "Finally, I can get a real coffee."

 

[Dick Whitman]

For many years DC seemed to more interested in holding on to the name "Power Girl" than anything about the character. Not only did her origin change but she was put in a completely different costume too.

I liked the Supergirl clone Galatea who appeared on Justice League Unlimited. Whose designed was based on Power Girl. Because that is basically who the character started off as a knock off of Supergirl. If she had simply been named the Earth 2 Supergirl the character probably would have been just a footnote in her history.

I also thought Galatea was an appropriate, if intended to or not, commentary on the post Crisis Supergirl. The Matrix version of the character was also artificially created.

 

[theenglish]

When did Power Girl show up in precrisis Earth II continuity.

This whole Spear of Destiny crap suggesting that Kryptonians, and others couldn't end the war over night should'a been moot, because Power Girl unlike raised in the Breadbasket (wait how did the Dust Bowl effect his origin? Superman is sunlight powered, and there was less to no sunlight in 1930s Kansas.) Clark Kent, might actually park in orbit and throw a couple tons of moon rocks at Berlin, and if she wouldn't becuase the thought of murdering half a million Germans gave her a frowny face, a nuts and bolts human pragmatist like Ted Knight certainly should have had the boy parts to do just that with his cosmic rod.

Supergirl is from a planet so Alien that her childhood might as well be the future and everybugger on Earth today is a gibbering baboon whom she is humouring... But Supergirl is hardly ever written like that. Although the JLU cartoon, when the Legion asked her to go live in the 30th century with them all, Kara didn't even pack her bags. I may be imaginaing it, but I think as she was passing through the time portal upstream she said somehting like "Finally, I can get a real coffee."

1976 according to her wikipedia page, which I just looked up yesterday because of your post:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Girl

 

[Guy Gardener]

I suppose that makes sense since I have vague memories of "Karen" hanging out with Infinity Inc, the children of the Justice Society.

 

[Turtletrekker]

New trailer. "Her story".

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ej58dTQVRI[/yt]