50 Superheroines Challenge

As we're supposedly heading into the holiday season, here's a bit of fun. The challenge is simple: fifty superheroines from tv and movies, five seconds each -- identify as many as you can! How well will you do..?


Use spoiler tags to hide your answers. I'll post a link to the complete list of who's who in a week. There are no prizes on offer, just bragging rights.

Hint: a few heroines may appear in more than one incarnation.

(Good luck with #18, btw..!)

R5

I'm too lazy to write down my answers but I'm confident I got 42 of them right, missing on a few of the Asian heroines, including #18

Thx for posting, R5!

ElF

Helstar wrote: I didn't know about Sandra Bullock ...

That bionic movie ("Bionic Forever Showdown" I think) was actually being used as a possible launching pad for Kate Mason (a young Sandra Bullock) as the new bionic girl in a spinoff series. Obviously, it never happened. Wonder what ever happened to Sandra Bullock.....

ElF

I'm kind of tempted to call bullshit on the entire video since there are a number of duplicate characters.

Okay I was an asshole.

TwiceOnThursdays wrote: Totally blanking on the woman in pink in #40 though.

Helstar wrote: Come on, less negative remarks, he even specified it in first post "Hint: a few heroines may appear in more than one incarnation."

I completely missed that hint.


Okay this is my current list. There are a few I've never seen in my life.

#18 is not another version Darna.



For those of you wondering about the choice of heroines, here's an insight into the process of how the video was compiled...

The video was deliberately intended to be entertaining for as wide an audience as possible: young and old, Marvel fans and DC, casual and expert, Western and Asian, etc. It was not intended to be a definitive list of superheroines -- the idea was to mix familiar faces, nostalgia, and novelty. Ordering the clips took a hell of a lot of figuring out, a bit like the seating arrangement at a big family dinner. So that viewers didn't get disheartened, there's always a very recognisable face every four-to-five clips, and the clips in-between the easy clips get progressively harder. Further to this, the clips are spaced out as much as possible so that no two similar clips are together: Marvel and DC, live-action and cartoon, English and non-English, old and new, etc. etc. The start and end of the list is slightly easier, to give people a satisfying intro and exit, while the real head scratchers are in the middle. I was aware that viewers would expect super-well-know characters like Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman and Yvonne Craig's Batgirl to be in the mix somewhere, but that meant that I'd miss out on the fun of including obscure alternative versions, so I took the decision to allow some characters to be included multiple times.

All of that was before I started to figure out what source material I had available, and in what quality. I needed to find a five second clip of each heroine that was eye-catching, but worked as a stand-alone. For harder heroines I tried to include some clues in clip, like demonstrating a tell-tale super power or visual. In some cases I had to rip DVDs in order to get at the five seconds I wanted. So it took several days to compile the whole video, including cleaning up all the source material to make it look polished.

I have to admit though, for all the careful science I described above, #18 was put in there as an act of pure evil.

Edit: oh, and btw, if you go onto the video's YouTube page and give it a thumbs up, I think it helps in the rankings. Not sure how much that really helps to be honest, but it probably won't do any harm.

R5

The answers .

A few notes:

I'm surprised someone didn't get #4, given that this was one of Marvel Comics' ventures into the Japanese market (the same initiative that presumably gave us the Japanese Spider-Man show.)

#29 has the distinction of very likely being the first superheroine to lead her own tv show anywhere in the world (as opposed to being a supporting character, like Yvonne Craig's Batgirl.)

#18 is exceptionally rare and I'm not surprised nobody got it, but some of you may have heard tell of another movie featuring its star, Pinky Montilla: the 1973 Supergirl movie (which I don't have any footage from, sadly.)

R5

I went 43/50.....nice job, R5! I should have gotten Fantastika as I think I even own a VCR copy of it....

Unless my math is off, I got 41.