Power Girl

The Maiden of Might!!!

Kara Zor-L is from Krypton in the Earth-2 DC Universe and is that universe’s analogue to Supergirl.   Kara’s spaceship left Krypton at the same time as her more famous cousin, however her ship took much longer to get to Earth.  When Kara finally made her debut, Superman had already married his Lois and was Editor-In-Chief of the Daily Star.

Taking the name Karen Starr, Kara began her life on Earth and became a successful businesswoman dealing with computers.  Power Girl takes her place in the Justice Society as her cousin’s obvious replacement and has a long lasting friendship with The Huntress, Helena Wayne.

First Appearance

Created By:  Gerry Conway, Ric Estrada, & Wally Wood

Powers

Flight – Power Girl can break free of gravity and travel unimpeded through the air.

Immunity to Adverse Temperature – Power Girl has no problem operating in areas where the temperature would cause a normal person considerable problems.

Immunity to Disease – Power Girl’s super immune system fights off most, if not all, Earth based viruses and bacteria.

Immunity to Toxins – Power Girl can withstand poison and toxic attacks with ease.

Invulnerability – Power Girl is extremely durable and hard to damage physically.

Safe in Space – Power Girl can travel through the vacuum of outer space with no ill effects.

Super Breath – Power Girl can exude a powerful blast of air from her lungs.

Super Hearing – Power Girl has the ability to hear sounds from a great distance and pinpoint where those sounds are located.

Super Intelligence – Power Girl is keenly smart and due to Kryptonian science has a basic knowledge of most Earth sciences and some sciences not on Earth yet.

Super Speed – Power Girl is insanely fast.

Super Strength – Power Girl is almost incalculably strong.

Super Ventriloquism – Power Girl can throw his voice over distances.  Presumably he learned to do this to help with the cultivation of his secret identity.

Vision Powers – Power Girl possesses four distinct vision powers.

• Heat Vision – Power Girl can send heat beams out of his eyes gentle enough to warm someone or cook food or laser like as a particularly brutal attack or to melt objects.
• Microscopic Vision – Power Girl can use her vision to see things at a microscopic level.
• Telescopic Vision – Power Girl can see far into the distance for detecting incoming objects or to witness trouble.
• X-Ray Vision – Power Girl can use her vision to see through objects providing those objects are not shielded by lead.

Vulnerabilities

For all of her powers, Power Girl is not completely vulnerable.

Fellow Kryptonians – Of course, when faced with other survivors of Krypton, Power Girl is battling basically a doppelganger and that doppelganger has the same abilities.

Kryptonite – Power Girl suffers various effects depending upon his range to and the color of a chunk of her home planet.  There are many types but the most common are below.

• Gold Kryptonite – Takes away the powers of a Kryptonian.
• Green Kryptonite – Takes away his powers and begins to kill her fairly immediately.  This is the most common form of Kryptonite.
• Red Kryptonite – Causes a mutation in Power Girl’s physiology, mental state, or combination of both for a certain length of time.  Typically 24 or 48 hours, but this has changed over time.

Magic – Power Girl is inordinately not so super when confronted with magical beings.

Mental Control – Power Girl can be controlled via strong telepathic powers.