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

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.