Kara Zor-El: Supergirl Appreciation 2020

[Gaelforce]

New year, new thread!

This thread is for the Maid of Might, Supergirl!

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[KangMiRae]

Here's a cool art piece of Supergirl and Batgirl together by Otto Schmidt. I've got to say, I really like this Batgirl costume!
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[HandofPrometheus]

Here's a cool art piece of Supergirl and Batgirl together by Otto Schmidt. I've got to say, I really like this Batgirl costume!
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Yes, I'm loving that batgirl suit. It feels a bit too huntress but it looks nice.

Also how old is Kara? It's like they always try to stick her in Babs generation but shes like incredibly younger. Babs is a women and Kara is still a child its weird. They need to stop de-aging her and make her the same age as Babs.

[KangMiRae]

Yes, I'm loving that batgirl suit. It feels a bit too huntress but it looks nice.

Also how old is Kara? It's like they always try to stick her in Babs generation but shes like incredibly younger. Babs is a women and Kara is still a child its weird. They need to stop de-aging her and make her the same age as Babs.

I think it's the purple that's making it look very Huntress-y, but I think they could tweak it a bit and make it Babs' own. However, the tweaking should be minor. I really like simple costumes for my heroes, suits that aren't busy busy (especially for my Bats). Too many new costumes look ugly because they're chunky and visually noisy.

Here, in the artwork, I think Kara is being depicted as being Babs' age, maybe a year or three younger, but around the same age. And I totally agree with you about the aging they do to Kara! I am so sick of them making Supergirl a teenager!

She should not be in highschool having highschool adventures and dramas like prom, boyfriends, and all this other lame stuff I'd find in a freaking Ms. Marvel book from Marvel. She's been around for so long yet they always seem to de-age her into a highschooler and drift her away from Babs' and her generation. DC really need to get off of this and let her be a young woman, that should be her status quo. She should be with and around the Titans circle and age. This is part of the reason why she's always stuck in this weird limbo or bubble of her own in the DC universe. She can't ever break out as a character fully because they keep her tied to this age gap/lack of a defining hero generation!

[Digifiend]

Babs was 21 in the New 52, and Kara was 16 in Rebirth. Babs is now in her late twenties (having been aged up around the time she changed her costume from the Burnside look to her current one), while Kara's age hasn't come up since Bendis took over Superman. I always thought though, that since Supergirl Rebirth tried to synergise her with the TV show, she shouldn't have been juggling school with her job at CatCo - she should've been old enough not to go to school. Hopefully once she's freed from her current Jokerisation, she'll be treated as an adult in her mid twenties, as she should be. There's no reason she shouldn't be around the same age as Batgirl and Nightwing.

[KangMiRae]

Babs was 21 in the New 52, and Kara was 16 in Rebirth. Babs is now in her late twenties (having been aged up around the time she changed her costume from the Burnside look to her current one), while Kara's age hasn't come up since Bendis took over Superman. I always thought though, that since Supergirl Rebirth tried to synergise her with the TV show, she shouldn't have been juggling school with her job at CatCo - she should've been old enough not to go to school. Hopefully once she's freed from her current Jokerisation, she'll be treated as an adult in her mid twenties, as she should be. There's no reason she shouldn't be around the same age as Batgirl and Nightwing.

It’s literally one of the most blatant cases of character stagnation I’ve seen. And unlike other character stagnations, ‘cause you know the Big Two prevent characters from growing too much, Kara being in her twenties rather than teens isn’t even detrimental to the longevity of the character property compared to, say, Spider-Man being married and having a kid with MJ (not saying I agree with Marvel’s ideology behind keeping Peter single and young forever).