In your ideal world, would she use Kara or Linda? Lee or Danvers or Lee Danvers?
In your ideal world, would she use Kara or Linda? Lee or Danvers or Lee Danvers?
Personally, I like Linda Danvers.
I prefer Linda Lee. If only to avoid confusion with Carol Danvers.
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.
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.
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.
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
I assume he means Chaz.
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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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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.
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.