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3. Power Girl

No, she isn’t on this list for the reasons YOU’RE assuming she is. I’m not thirteen, thank you very much.

Power Girl’s post-crisis, pre-other crisis backstory was remarkably confusing, so I’m not even gonna acknowledge it. Atlantians were involved. It’s THAT kind of confusing. But her retconned/original origin was simple: she’s earth-2’s version of Supergirl. See? Simple.

She’s older and much more brash and direct, but she is the dimensional counterpart to good old Kara Zor-El. And that brashness is why I love her as a character. She’s unapologetically forthright, and never regrets speaking her mind, even if it turns off others.

There’s a wonderful issue of Geoff Johns’s initial JSA run in which Power Girl talks about her personal philosophy with Hawkgirl and Stargirl and confronts the fact that many of her male counterparts may find her very unpleasant because of her unwillingness to roll over and take a backseat just because of her gender. In response, she tells the girls that, no matter what, they should “always show them what you got.”

Good advice for us all.