How much should Supergirl and Powergirl resemble each other?

[mathew101281]

While some earth 1 and earth 2 counterparts are essentially slightly aged doppelgängers (Superman) others are completely different(Flash, Green Lantern). Where does Powergirl and Supergirl fit on the spectrum?

[Vordan]

Current Earth 2 Power Girl is Earth 0 Kara just older which was a plot point in the New 52 Supergirl series.

[Phoenixx9]

I never thought either looked much alike in height, weight, face, hair style nor body. They certainly had different tastes and opinions, such as their costumes. Their personalities and temperament are also different.

I guess, just keep the blonde hair the same

[K. Jones]

Their coexistence is problematic. I mean it's been fun, too. But problematic. Because there's always this push to actually sell Power Girl series. But Supergirl, now more than ever, but also, always, deserves to have a kick-ass popular run with the best talent.

I've definitely always thought "In no universe is Prime Earth Kara Zor-El going to grow up and grow into that body."

But wearing a cool all white costume and having a short grown-up bob haircut seems conceivable, in the sense that every hero changes their look as time goes by, to some degree. Although I've definitely always thought, and this is just coming to exist as formed thoughts and words now, "In no universe is Prime Earth Kara Zor-El ever going to have a boob window on her outfit."

In that way ... I'll say Kara Zor-El ... is an interesting exercise in fictional characters. Because her simultaneous existence as both a youthful, honest and true and slightly virginal self is protected against ever growing up or being tarnished or made impure (or you know, a realistic human woman) by Cosmic Interference. But MEANWHILE she also exists over here ... where she can not only be grown up and more mature emotionally, but can be sexualized and fetishized freely.

This isn't meant to be a negative critique. I'm a painter who works primarily in nudes, so like, sexualization, kink, objectification, subjectifying, can be in the intent of the artist, in the intent of the commissioner, in the intent of the viewer, or just expressed naturally and effortlessly by the subject in a way that just comes through. And sex is part of being a human, and is pretty fun, intrinsic, and not going anywhere. And children figure it out through adolescence, which is kind of the prime age for getting into comic books and graduating to more mature comic books and becoming intelligent readers and thinkers. Kara Zor-El is a fictional character so definitely the power is probably in the pencil, and a franchise player in a media meant for profit, so the power of the purchaser plays a part. That part feels a little more shameless.

But it's interesting to think of Kara Zor-El as simultaneously existing as two Christian pedagogical archetypes, the virgin and the whore, essentially. These are obviously extremes. I don't imagine modern era Super-Kara is actually explicitly virginal or chaste. Nor has Power-Kara ever been especially portrayed as combination sexually promiscuous / morally dubious. But it's still interesting to ponder the relativity of the concept in the same Super-Universe where Superman is also an overt Judeo-Christian archetype.

[Jim Kelly]

My own personal fan fiction is that the differences in their size and weight are due to the conditions on the rocket ships that brought them from Krypton to Earth--and how they've adjusted to life on Earth since then, because of those conditions. Otherwise, if all physical conditions had been the same then they would be twins.

[king81992]

My own personal fan fiction is that the differences in their size and weight are due to the conditions on the rocket ships that brought them from Krypton to Earth--and how they've adjusted to life on Earth since then, because of those conditions. Otherwise, if all physical conditions had been the same then they would be twins.

I always assumed that their diets had something to do with it,PG constantly are junk food during Palmotti 's run.