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My take on the version of Power Girl who probably stands the best chance of appearing in any live action incarnation.Power Girl has had several origins in the comics, while not nearly as murky as Wonder Girl/Donna Troy's, they have never lent themselves to sounding good when you explain them, particularly outside the comic medium. Then in the early to mid 2000's the animated Justice League series provided a reasonable alternate origin, ditching the 'Kara Zor-El from Earth 2 who found herself on Earth 1' and 'Atlantean Princess who only thought she was from Krypton' in favour of 'enhanced clone of Supergirl'.
Her codename was Galatea and she was a perfect Kryptonian clone created by Emil Hamilton for the government. She shared a similar personality to the animated Supergirl ( which was based on Power Girls comic book personality far more than Supergirls ) but was even more eager to prove herself superior and outwardly confident, masking her being sensitive about her origins and her existence. Galatea was an antagonist throughout the series against the Justice League, but i stand by my view that had the series not been canceled, Galatea would have become Power Girl to replace Supergirl ( who in the series left for the far future ).
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Yeah, I'm thinking they would have gone that direction as well. Β However, I felt that JLU was being watered down after the CADMUS/Brainiac arc and it was painfully obvious that the "Bat Ban" and limitations on on use various characters were being ordered by the higher ups at WB. Β However, I will say the late Dwayne Mcduffie and crew still did an awesome job with what they had (c'mon, they made Question a cool character).
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I always thought it a waste that just as the animated series was making people interested in the Question, DC decided to kill him off in the comics.
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Yeah...And don't get me started on the New 52 debacle.
And then there's poor Rene Montoya who I think would have been fine on her own instead of being a convenient warm body to be a replacement. I don't know, maybe if they devoted more storytelling and building her up into the role, I might have been okay with it. But no, it was basically: "Montoya is Question now, that's it."
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Now THIS is just epic!! Power Girl is one of my favorite DC heroes, but one of the biggest issues I've always seen with her since Crisis on Infinite Earth's is that she from an Earth 2 that no longer existed, and this problem was later exacerbated by the fact a NEW Earth 2 showed up and she became stuck on it for a time but with ANOTHER Power Girl being there and THAT Power Girl being native to it... So the Power Girl we know was in fact some kind of anomaly that was immune to the universal rewrites, when even HIGH LEVEL beings like gods and 5th dimensional imps were effected by that reboot, and no one ever even tried to fix the problem to any satisfying degree.
I always saw at least 2 possible origins for her that could have honestly worked, since DC has just given up and made a new Power Girl for the main Earth and put Karen back on Earth 2 as... "Superwoman" and man does that seem like a massive cop-out.Β
1: Clark's ACTUAL in-universe cousin with Supergirl being a clone of HER.
2: Galatea's origin, but instead of being a clone of Supergirl alone, she's a human hybrid clone like Superboy to avoid the "Bizarro Effect" that comes from trying to clone WHOLE Kryptonians. Given a virtual childhood and so on by CADMUS, similar to the Ultimen from JLU, BUT the difference being she finds out far sooner. Difference being, wouldn't burn out like the Ultimen clones since she was designed to be able to last indefinitely as they needed her(Obvious Kryptonian weaknesses still applying as countermeasures of course).Β
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Thanks 
Either of your suggestions would work, and neither require her to jam an 'S' symbol on her
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Exactly! Hell! DCAU Supergirl had an origin that'd work! Kryptonian planet in the same solar system, a meteor storm made up of the shattered pieces of Krypton destroys the planet, a 12 year old Kara In-Ze(Her DCAU name) gets sent off in a ship to avoid the destruction, managing to beat the odds as all others were struck by the meteor storm. She gets to Earth, gets adopted, spends years blending in and learning about Earth before even THINKING of becoming a superhero, then becomes Power Girl.
I admit, I borrowed a lot of that from that new Supergirl show coming out but... Damn it, that's a REALLY good origin for Power Girl!!! Even IF she's got the same name as Kara Zor-El, it could just be waved off considering different planet and never even MET Kara before she came to Earth. Could be a common Kryptonian name for girls or something. I LOVE Power Girl to death, but DC has always just screwed the pooch with her origin SO MUCH!!Β
I mean take what happened after Crisis on Infinite Earths. They established that she is an entirely different species than Superman.... Okay. Then they went with the fact her powers are magical and she's an ancient Atlantian... Then turns out she's an Earth 2 Kryptonian... Okay here's the problem.
Earth 2 Kryptonians produce internal energies, thus causing them to naturally have superhuman powers naturally, which was very different from most other known Kryptonians. Earth 2 Kryptonians naturally produce and maintain these power levels regardless of being in a yellow or red sun. Originally the level of power that these Krytonians had in comparison to other dimensional Kryptonians were far lower than those of other dimensions such as the Earth 1 dimension. However some Earth 2 Kryptonians had advanced to higher levels, a possibility being that perhaps yellow sunlight does in some capacity enhance their powers.
Simple right? However.... Power Girl has been shown as being WEAKENED by red sunlight... If she was an Earth 2 Kryptonian this should not apply!!! So even when they had Power Girl's origins "fixed" Pre-New 52 they did not.... At all.
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The flipping from kryptonian to atlantean to kryptonian should have been easy to dismiss as sorcerer/villains messing with her mind, and in some ways it all gave her a mild touch of angst about herself that i felt influenced the Galatea version, displayed ion the animated show when Supergirl taunted her about not being 'real'. Funny thing is I always felt that for both the animated Supergirl and Galatea characters, they borrowed a lot of comic book Powergirls personality aspects rather than Supergirls.
You're right about the names, it could easily be a common one
To be honest, i like her using the name Karren Starr,Β (and 'Kara' as a nickname that her friends call her ), but no matter what her origin, i prefer Power Girl being at arms length from Superman, else she winds up stuck in his shadow, which is what has happened in the recent comics.
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Yeah, really I've always seen it like this. Power Girl is Supergirl if she was fully realized. The independent heroine that's just... I hesitate to say BETTER. I like Supergirl too! Not as much as PG, but I do. That being said, Supergirl to me always represented what Power Girl would be at the start(Had she ended up on Earth as a teen instead of her early 20's). Mostly unused to life on Earth, still figuring things out, clinging onto Krypton by wearing the House of El symbol and trying associate herself with her last living family by wearing a similar costume.Β
Karen on the other hand? I honestly see as Kara grown up. Not TOO much older, but old enough to be where she wants to be her own person and her own hero without constantly being compared to Superman. Not that she doesn't LIKE him, but she just doesn't wanna be seen as "Oh it's Superman's cousin!" for the rest of her life(Which given how Kryptonians are sometimes shown aging could be a WHILE).
I think a lot of the reason WHY we always see Supergirl being played more like PG is that... There's just more to her character in a lot of places. Supergirl is like... Any other alien who suddenly ends up on Earth, she's awkward, naive, doesn't know much if anything about Earth culture, it's a trope that usually only works if the character is new... Obviously Supergirl is not. A personality more like Karen's? Essentially means she's a fast learner/actually TRIES a lot harder to adapt to Earth(Or in some cases enjoys Earth a lot) instead of pining over Krypton. That's not to say that's a BAD thing, but ultimately? It's a character stage Kara never entirely grows out of, whereas Karen has. Hell, the new Supergirl show, in a lot of areas, seems to be pulling from the Power Girl pool too!Β
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Great job! I recently finally caught up with all of the Justice League / Unlimited cartoons and she was a great character over there. Loved the epic assault on the watchtower. But yes, I also would have liked to see her become a heroine in the end...
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I miss the Timmverse. It was a very cool world, kind of unique with this shared universe, and a vibe that I liked much better than the comics that were done at that time. Indeed, it could have gone on much longer with all this source material, but still, there's a lot of great stuff to watch and re-watch.
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She looks great; I love this drawing of her!!! Nice pose and everything.Β
I wish they'd continued with her too in JLU; actually I wish they'd continued JLU in general it could have covered so much more!Β
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Thankyou, i was rather pleased with this one
JLU was a great series, and you're right it could have gone on for so much longer with it's use of DC's roster of heroes.
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I agree with you, awesome job dude
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Right and now they are replacing her altogether, just like what happened when "Superboy Prime" was running loose, because Superman was in legal disputeΒ
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That sounds like a positive comment to me
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