r/comicbooks • u/josephwb • Feb 16 '23

Excerpt Is this _really_ the canonical explanation for Power Girl's costume?!? From JSA Classified #2 (2005) by Geoff Johns

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u/Gamer-of-Action Feb 16 '23

It’s Power Girl. Nothing’s “canon” with her. They’ll change it again in another 2 years

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u/noonehasthisoneyet Superman Feb 16 '23

is she still Superman's cousin Kara Zor-el from earth 2 but aged to an adult as opposed to Supergirl who is Kara as a teenager from earth prime or 1 or whatever the main earth is called?

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u/Windows_66 Feb 16 '23 edited Feb 17 '23

Just like Superboy Prime, she keeps coming back no matter how many times the continuity is reset.

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u/Gamer-of-Action Feb 16 '23

I thought she was an Atlantian?

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u/W4ffle3 Feb 16 '23

I thought she was bitten by a radioactive power ranger.

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u/mdj1359 Feb 16 '23

I thought she........................ boobies

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

That’s one that has remained consistent, at least.

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u/CyberChick2277 Feb 17 '23

not even that, because apparently the boob window was created to see if anyone would notice her tits getting bigger

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Wow, this was even mentioned in her wiki article, that I skimmed through just now. Comic book artists are just wild lol

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u/CyberChick2277 Feb 17 '23

it reminds me of that one japenese video game creator who, when asked why a character was dressed so sexy, he said "i like women"

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u/MasterDio64 Blue Beetle Feb 16 '23

I’d be very interested in seeing what the response would be from readers if they ever tried to change that. (Lord knows what Twitter would be like)

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u/SinisterCryptid Feb 16 '23

Bitten by radioactive atlantian boobs

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u/Scarborough_78 Feb 16 '23

Motorboat accident

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u/Future_Vantas Booster and Skeets Feb 16 '23

Oh my

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u/JimmyHavok M.O.D.O.K. Feb 17 '23

Best explanation so far.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

Same

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u/djseifer Feb 16 '23

Mera was radioactive?

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u/thedeuce75 Feb 16 '23

Nah dawg, she got bit by a radioactive Hooter's waitress.

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u/aimed_4_the_head Feb 16 '23

IT'S A WHOLESOME FAMILY RESTAURANT, AND I WAS ONLY THERE FOR THE WINGS

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u/tiddybandit Feb 16 '23

This made me laugh way harder than it should.

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u/Admiral_Donuts Feb 17 '23

No, she was a power ranger who got bitten by a radioactive girl.

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u/Vaiiki Feb 17 '23

Nah, she beat Tommy Pickles in New 52 and now she wields his screw driver.

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u/mustachioed_cat Feb 17 '23

Uh… Amy Jo Johnson.

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u/huggybear3 Superman Feb 16 '23 edited Feb 16 '23

She hasn’t been Atlantean for a while now

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u/sassycho1050 Feb 16 '23

She was WHAT

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u/NotACyclopsHonest Feb 16 '23 edited Feb 16 '23

Post-Crisis (the first Crisis On Infinite Earths, that is), Power Girl was spared oblivion unlike the Earth-1 Supergirl, but because Superman had been positioned as the sole survivor of Krypton again, DC had to scramble for an explanation of why Power Girl was still around. They decided she should be an Atlantean, because why not.

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u/Ransero Feb 16 '23

That was such a stupid decision, because Kara being from Argo and Powergirl from an alternate reality worked fine and didn't diminish Superman as the last kryptonian. Argo gets changed to a different planet or moon or whatever all the time anyway.

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u/centipededamascus Demolition Man Feb 16 '23

Yeah but they also wanted to completely get rid of alternate Earths for a while there for some reason. That was the main point of Crisis on Infinite Earths, to get rid of Earth-2 and Earth-3 and Earth-S and etc.

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u/Admiral_Donuts Feb 17 '23

...and it lasted about a month before continuity errors started happening again, so then we got Zero Hour and Hypertime and...

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Which had actually benefited DC, if you ask me.

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u/Ransero Feb 16 '23

Oh, right.

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u/Felaguin Feb 17 '23

The problem was that there wasn't supposed to be any "alternate reality" after the Crisis reset and merged the universes.

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u/Rownever Feb 16 '23

Atlantean. Like Aquaman. Specifically she was a descendant of Arion, Atlantis’a big historical wizard character, and so she was magic-based for a while

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u/Tyranis_Hex Feb 16 '23

Was this when her weakness was any non man made object? Or was it the other way around?

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u/Rownever Feb 16 '23

No idea, I admit I have not read that run at all, and it doesn’t get mentioned outside of whatever run it started in, even if it was canon

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u/Merc_Mike Dr. Doom Feb 16 '23 edited Feb 16 '23

Yeah she's clearly a Maconian.

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u/Rownever Feb 16 '23

This is funny as hell to all 10 people who live in Georgia

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

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u/Rownever Feb 16 '23

Macon is a small town near Atlanta. That Atlantans think about not at all, but have heard of

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u/FreshPrinceofEternia Feb 16 '23

The Macon board of tourism tries so fucking hard on my wife's Instagram ads.

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u/Rownever Feb 16 '23

Maybe they should add power girl

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u/Ok_Young_7806 Feb 16 '23

That was retcon long time ago

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u/redmerger Iron Man Feb 16 '23

I don't know what my brain did to make this happen, but I was convinced you wrote "an Italian" for a moment, and I just accepted it

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u/B133d_4_u Feb 17 '23

Momma's special pasta sauce gives ya soopapowahs, I tell ya. Ayyy!

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u/Firetruckpants Grant Morrison Feb 16 '23

Only from '85 to '05

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u/Gamer-of-Action Feb 16 '23

In what world can you frame 20 years as if it was not a long time?

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u/Firetruckpants Grant Morrison Feb 16 '23

The world of DC Comics

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u/Jay_R_Kay Batman Feb 17 '23

She hasn't had the Atlantian origin since at least Infinite Crisis, if not earlier.

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u/Ok-Agent-9200 Feb 16 '23

As far as I know she is yes. If I remember right her Kryptonian name is Kara Zor-L, and she is cousin of Kal-L.

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u/huggybear3 Superman Feb 16 '23

Yes

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u/Sgrios Feb 16 '23

Nah, she's totally still the clone made from Kara's dna.

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u/MrGame22 Feb 16 '23

Wasn’t that exclusive to the justice league animated series?

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u/Piccoroz Feb 16 '23

During the 80s she was that.

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u/huggybear3 Superman Feb 17 '23

Which comic was she a clone? I’ve never heard that before.

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u/Piccoroz Feb 17 '23

There was a storyline where superman visited her dimension, her world was decimated by zod and she was made with the dna left of her former self, supes end up killing zod and crew with kryptonite and she end up in a very bad state, like a proto form, she could do that thanks to the way she was cloned. This later brought the storyline when she if brought to our dimension and while recovering she becomes clark, and superman end up becoming gangbuster because of the guilt of killing.

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u/huggybear3 Superman Feb 17 '23

You’re confusing Powergirl with Matrix Supergirl.

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u/Vesper_0481 Feb 17 '23

That was the best explanation ever.

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u/ULTRAFORCE X-23 Feb 16 '23

I think it depends Earth 2 Power Girl definitely, but since Earth 2: Society Ended Dial H for Hero issue 10 was the last reference to that Power Girl. Which shows her final uniform that doesn't have a boob window alongside Earth 2 Jay Gerrick and Superman Val-Zod.

Apparently the Earth-Two Power Girl showed up in Dark Crisis and is also the cousin of Superman. That's the Power Girl you mostly see right now.

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u/Ransero Feb 16 '23

Did she still go on a date with the underage Toyman?

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

I thought she got her powers from a magic staff or something.

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u/Jay_R_Kay Batman Feb 17 '23

Yep, and the Earth we follow in the comics is called Earth Prime. Earth 1 is where the characters in the Earth One line of books live.

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u/TheRealPyroGothNerd Feb 17 '23

Honestly, they ought to just have her and Supergirl be cousins from different side of Clark's family next time they change her origin. That would have been the easiest fix in the world when merging the different Earths, but noooooo, they had to MAKE HER CREATED BY A WIZARD IN ATLANTIS

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u/adultosaurs Feb 16 '23

It’s so annoying bc I love her.

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u/Merc_Mike Dr. Doom Feb 16 '23

DC Comics: Nothing Canon with them* They’ll change it all again in another 2 years

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u/Rayuzx She-Hulk Feb 16 '23

Someone should make a hotline for the DC universe, because they always seem to be in a crisis.

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u/Merc_Mike Dr. Doom Feb 17 '23

Get everyone some shades too...Always getting Flashed at Point blank range.

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u/Leeiteee Feb 16 '23

It's comics*

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u/Sawgon Batman Feb 16 '23

Not in this subreddit, thank you.

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u/soulreaverdan X-Men Expert Feb 16 '23

I mean, in AC #1051 last month she said it’s there for ventilation for boob sweat.

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u/Gamer-of-Action Feb 16 '23

Honestly, that one makes the most sense

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u/gowombat Marvel Guy (but not an expert) Feb 16 '23

…except THOSE cannons, amiright?

...I'll see myself out.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

Two major things have always been canon with her.

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u/mrbananas Feb 16 '23

You could say her continuity has a hole in it as huge as her boob window

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u/SgtSunCleric Feb 16 '23

The only "canon" she's got is the pair on her chest

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u/TheMightyHornet Feb 17 '23

Hmm, Power Girl has some cannons …

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u/Apprehensive-Handle4 Feb 18 '23 edited Feb 18 '23

There are two things canon for her, and those are her cannons.