Power Girl may be hotter than Supergirl, but Supergirl still is hot and better character
Keep in mind that you have about as much chance of changing my mind as I do of changing yours.
1987 WAS post reboot. To give you an example, go back and re-read "Old Ties" in Adventures of Superman #429 where post-Crisis Superman threatens Cat Grant's ex for custody of her son. As in, he goes to his apartment and openly threatens him. All because he liked her. This was a private custody case that had nothing to do with him. He has absolutely no reason to involve himself in it at all. Or "Personal Best" where he reverts to his GA self and starts dangling gangsters off of roofs after Perry White's son is kidnapped. Or lets an ordinary human punch him. Both written by Marv Wolfman. THE biggest writer DC had in the 1980s. Maybe the problem isn't which "version" it is, maybe the problem is the general attitude of that decade. And the ones before it. Maybe things were just more accepted back then that wouldn't be acceptable today. Even if the reboot had taken place two years earlier, you would still run into the same problems. Humans evolve. It's just the nature or society. All we can do is be better in the future.
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Wouldn't mind Earths with no sidekicks.
That's almost certainly it. There's no corporate impetus to get PG "right" like there is for Supergirl and if they don't hit the desired metrics for sales, they try something very different until the IP blows up or fizzles out. It's why Supergirl has historically changed personalities every, what, five years?
Evil, virtuous, upbeat party girl, angry loner, all-American sweetheart, everygirl with a big shadow to get out from, depressed survivor of a doomed world, PG ripoff-- PICK ONE, DC!
That's my biggest problem with Kara. I like some, don't like others, but they gotta settle on something and lock in. With the TV show, maybe they're finally found their groove, but man it's taken a while!
I bolded what I think people generally think of when they think of Supergirl.
The non-bolded are usually what when DC tries to shake things up with the characters only for fans to reject it, at least from what I've seen. Nobody really likes evil Supergirl any more then they like evil Mary Marvel.
Actually, while depressed survivor of a doomed world is certainly an interesting take (though mine would have been "grieving" and not depressed) that I very much enjoy the idea of, it's certainly not one that I, a person only casually interested in Supergirl, generally think of. Seems like it was a later additional to the mythos. At least, in the older ones I read, she didn't seem to be all that upset.
I do agree on the the turning her evil thing being annoying and rejecting it. But then, I feel that way for every hero, so she's not special to me in that way.