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    Default Supergirl's civillian name

    In your ideal world, would she use Kara or Linda? Lee or Danvers or Lee Danvers?

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    Personally, I like Linda Danvers.

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    I prefer Linda Lee. If only to avoid confusion with Carol Danvers.

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    I like Kara Danvers despite the fact it sounds like Carol Danvers. Or maybe even on some level, because of it. I maintain that naming Mar-Vell's blonde supporting character "Carol Danvers" was a deliberate similarity, that only got more pronounced when she became Ms. Marvel.

    Especially if Kara wasn't initially planning to be a super-hero, it makes sense to me that she'd prefer not to use a fake name that she'd have trouble responding to at first.

    Plus, it adds another level of distinction between Kara and the other "Linda Danvers" who fused with Matrix.
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    My first exposure to the character was the Supergirl movie where she was Linda Lee, so I lean toward that or Linda Lee Danvers.

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    I liked how Red Daughter introduced herself as Linda Lee when she was faking being a waitress in season 4 of the TV show. I prefer Kara because it sounds a little more exotic than Linda.

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    I like Kara Danvers. Probably just because that's the name I first knew her by.

    Would be quite happy to see Linda Lee show up now and then as a minor identity Kara uses when she's trying to be sneaky, like Batman's Matches Malone or Superman's Chad.
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    Considering my lack of love for Carol Danvers, I wouldn't mind if Supergirl reclaimed her civilian surname.

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    Since her Krypton name is Kara, I think her Earth name should be Linda Danvers I don't mind the same last name as with Deadpool and Deathstroke with Wilson

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascended View Post
    I like Kara Danvers. Probably just because that's the name I first knew her by.

    Would be quite happy to see Linda Lee show up now and then as a minor identity Kara uses when she's trying to be sneaky, like Batman's Matches Malone or Superman's Chad.
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    I assume he means Chaz.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Osiris-Rex View Post
    I liked how Red Daughter introduced herself as Linda Lee when she was faking being a waitress in season 4 of the TV show. I prefer Kara because it sounds a little more exotic than Linda.
    Sounds more modern too. How many teenagers nowadays are called Linda?

    Batgirl has actually acknowledged that her name Barbara is old fashioned for a character her age, but at least it's justified by her being named after her mother. There's no such reasoning for Supergirl.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adekis View Post
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    He gets his hair like that and grows a beard via kryptonian tech. But Bendis originally wanted Clark to just flex his *really* hard and grow a beard, but DC was to scared of how absurdly powerful Superman would become with the ability to flex facial hair into being. They were right fear it...
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    For the sake of getting back at Carol Danvers, there is some sweet revenge in Kara Danvers. But it's stupid--in the way that the SUPERGIRL TV show seems to embrace its stupidity--because Kara is her Kryptonian name. It makes it too obvious that Kar Zor-El and Kara Danvers are one and the same. At least be a little creative by calling her Karen Danvers--or better yet Carol Danvers. Carol would be perfect because it sounds enough like Kara Zor-El that there's an association, yet it's such a common American name that it doesn't call attention to itself.

    However, since the classic Supergirl was always Linda Lee Danvers, that's the alias I have the greatest affection for. I got my mind set on her--and for my money Linda was much cuter than Supergirl.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Kelly View Post
    For the sake of getting back at Carol Danvers, there is some sweet revenge in Kara Danvers. But it's stupid--in the way that the SUPERGIRL TV show seems to embrace its stupidity--because Kara is her Kryptonian name. It makes it too obvious that Kar Zor-El and Kara Danvers are one and the same. At least be a little creative by calling her Karen Danvers--or better yet Carol Danvers. Carol would be perfect because it sounds enough like Kara Zor-El that there's an association, yet it's such a common American name that it doesn't call attention to itself.

    However, since the classic Supergirl was always Linda Lee Danvers, that's the alias I have the greatest affection for. I got my mind set on her--and for my money Linda was much cuter than Supergirl.

    Okay, since I'm not a fan of Carol Danvers, I never bothered to look up if she's named Carol Danvers as some twisting of the names Kara Zor-El -> Carol.

    Great, now I'm now even more bitter.

    Edit: Weird, I don't see your image on your post, but it shows up in my quoted reply. I'm using Chrome, if the mods are at all curious.

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    The people that worked at Marvel back then--like Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway--claim it's pure accident. After all, Carol Danvers when she first appeared wasn't a super-hero. It was only about ten years later that she became Ms. Marvel. But that doesn't explain it for me, since they knew about Linda Danvers (aka Kara), so naming a Marvel supporting character for a DC character doesn't seem that incredible (given Thomas and Conway were always putting these kinds of references into their stories). And when I bought MS. MARVEL No. 1, it seemed obvious to me that they wanted a comparison to Supergirl.

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