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What is your favourite type of Supergirl?
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I also like the idea of a supergirl who enjoys using her powers and flaunting her superiority. I don't mean by bullying ordinary people but when she encounters nasty folk who deserve it, she should be a little bit snarky and mischievous as she shows off how easily she can defeat them.
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Each to his own but I'm not keen on the incredibly muscular superwoman, To me, the whole appeal is that she should look like a normal young woman but be possessed of incredible powers.
I also like the idea of a supergirl who enjoys using her powers and flaunting her superiority. I don't mean by bullying ordinary people but when she encounters nasty folk who deserve it, she should be a little bit snarky and mischievous as she shows off how easily she can defeat them.
John
See I totally agree I love this version of a Supergirl as well someone for instance who is a bartender and she can easily break up a fight with her pinky and or lift someone out of there chair and throw them out if she pleases too and guess what everyone would be second guessing "did I just see that?" And why because they're drinking hahaha
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shadar post=76706 userid=13850There are so many ways to portray Kara Zor El, and the comics, movies and TV have tried a bunch of them. My favorite settings, out of the ones that the comics tried with mixed success, are: 1) A coming-of-age story where she's trying to fit into a 1970's/80's/90's-era High School of the USA type. She was raised and educated on Krypton, with its hyper-advanced science, so the academics and social structure of an Earth high school is radically different, and would make her kind of an innocent at first. Maybe a location where she also hangs out with surfers (rebellious outsiders and stoners in some eras) to ride the waves. (Tricky given the 'over 18 only' rules of SWM. But then, she was born before Kal El, even if most of that was spent hibernating. So technically...) 2) As a new college student at a University, and dealing with the various alien/enhanced/biological freak characters that are somehow drawn to her, along with the usual issues of being a college Freshman combined with the public sensation of being Supergirl. The way the media and police and military would react to someone who was super but didn't do things like Superman. A bit more of a vigilante and a wild-card. 3) As a grown woman, in her thirties but looking younger, who has a rich history as not only Linda Danvers, but as Supergirl. I'd enhance what the comics did along those lines by having her married and with daughters who are doing the insane coming-of-age thing and are also super like their mom and look like her. Lots of interesting themes to explore in that world. But has even worse SWM age limitations of Option 1. I did NOT like settings in the comics where she was a TV camera operator for a News station or an actress on a soap opera or a counselor on a college campus. Those were poor and dull roles for someone who had to fly off without notice to do her Supergirl thing. Nor did I like the role where she was part of the entertainment media ala the Supergirl TV show. Clark was a reporter back in the waning days of the great newspapers (50's), and that worked, especially with Lois, but the whole TV show CatCo thing, with a newsroom staff full of the kind of people who would never actually be in a newsroom, with Kara working as a personal assistant (and dumping ground) for an arrogant, narcissistic woman -- it basically sucked. I know what they were trying to do -- to show that the greatest of all could also be the least of all -- but it was painful. Shadar
1) & 2) Helen Slater as a high school student but also secretly Supergirl when, after standing up to use her supervision in the classroom, replies to her enquiring tutor, asking her for a prompt answer, she innocently says "one million, 475 thousand, 2 hundred and ten"...or words to that effect, causing hilarity in the classroom and her teacher to reach for his calculator and say "how could she possibly know that?"
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Even better, one of the guys in school, a socially inept but brilliant geek, takes an interest and starts to pay close attention to her, discovering other oddities about Linda that he has to investigate. She tries to avoid him, but he is determined to figure out the strangeness of the new girl in school, who the closer he looks, the more interesting she gets. Even if everyone else is ignoring her and being mean to her because she's 'just that odd girl from the orphanage'.
shadar post=76706 userid=13850There are so many ways to portray Kara Zor El, and the comics, movies and TV have tried a bunch of them. My favorite settings, out of the ones that the comics tried with mixed success, are: 1) A coming-of-age story where she's trying to fit into a 1970's/80's/90's-era High School of the USA type. She was raised and educated on Krypton, with its hyper-advanced science, so the academics and social structure of an Earth high school is radically different, and would make her kind of an innocent at first. Maybe a location where she also hangs out with surfers (rebellious outsiders and stoners in some eras) to ride the waves. (Tricky given the 'over 18 only' rules of SWM. But then, she was born before Kal El, even if most of that was spent hibernating. So technically...) 2) As a new college student at a University, and dealing with the various alien/enhanced/biological freak characters that are somehow drawn to her, along with the usual issues of being a college Freshman combined with the public sensation of being Supergirl. The way the media and police and military would react to someone who was super but didn't do things like Superman. A bit more of a vigilante and a wild-card. 3) As a grown woman, in her thirties but looking younger, who has a rich history as not only Linda Danvers, but as Supergirl. I'd enhance what the comics did along those lines by having her married and with daughters who are doing the insane coming-of-age thing and are also super like their mom and look like her. Lots of interesting themes to explore in that world. But has even worse SWM age limitations of Option 1. I did NOT like settings in the comics where she was a TV camera operator for a News station or an actress on a soap opera or a counselor on a college campus. Those were poor and dull roles for someone who had to fly off without notice to do her Supergirl thing. Nor did I like the role where she was part of the entertainment media ala the Supergirl TV show. Clark was a reporter back in the waning days of the great newspapers (50's), and that worked, especially with Lois, but the whole TV show CatCo thing, with a newsroom staff full of the kind of people who would never actually be in a newsroom, with Kara working as a personal assistant (and dumping ground) for an arrogant, narcissistic woman -- it basically sucked. I know what they were trying to do -- to show that the greatest of all could also be the least of all -- but it was painful. Shadar
1) & 2) Helen Slater as a high school student but also secretly Supergirl when, after standing up to use her supervision in the classroom, replies to her enquiring tutor, asking her for a prompt answer, she innocently says "one million, 475 thousand, 2 hundred and ten"...or words to that effect, causing hilarity in the classroom and her teacher to reach for his calculator and say "how could she possibly know that?"
That ultimately leads to a friendship and things only he knows about her, discovering bit by bit that the little lost and lonely Linda Lee is not what she pretends to be. Which ultimately takes him down the path of becoming Supergirl's trusted sidekick.
A classic story that I've been imagining over and over since I was in junior high school (as we called them then). Back when stories were written by hand or maybe with a manual typewriter if others were expected to read them. Think -- no copy machines, no computers and the only way for a kid to produce multiple copies was to write or type them all out again to make another copy. When only the school and church offices had mimeograph machines with their noxious chemicals and adults who were the only ones allowed to run them and only for official business.
So basically one copy of a story got handed around to friends until it fell apart or someone lost it. Bizarre to think I'm still writing that same story in different forms sixty years plus in the future. Not sure what that say about me, but I don't care. I'm still enjoying it.
Shadar
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