List of female superheroes: Difference between revisions
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Criteria: | Criteria: See comic books. Individual women granted with extranormal powers, usually by cosmic rays, or mutations, or freakish accidents ... Ideally these women use their powers for good! This list will be heavy on alternative forms (i.e., lots of non-books). | ||
Just because you fight and are a hero, doesn't mean you're a super-hero. You have to have supernatural or superhuman powers of some sort to be an actual super-hero. That's the difference between, say, Gabrielle and Xena. Or between Brenda Starr and Wonder Woman. Between Ripley in the "Alien" movies and ... and ... Xena. | Just because you fight and are a hero, doesn't mean you're a super-hero. You have to have supernatural or superhuman powers of some sort to be an actual super-hero. That's the difference between, say, Gabrielle and Xena. Or between Brenda Starr and Wonder Woman. Between Ripley in the "Alien" movies and ... and ... Xena. | ||
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Criteria: See comic books. Individual women granted with extranormal powers, usually by cosmic rays, or mutations, or freakish accidents ... Ideally these women use their powers for good! This list will be heavy on alternative forms (i.e., lots of non-books).
Just because you fight and are a hero, doesn't mean you're a super-hero. You have to have supernatural or superhuman powers of some sort to be an actual super-hero. That's the difference between, say, Gabrielle and Xena. Or between Brenda Starr and Wonder Woman. Between Ripley in the "Alien" movies and ... and ... Xena.
Books
- Character name missing -Camarin Grae, Paz (Blazon Books, 1984) (A woman has an accident and finds that she now has the power to change what people believe.)
- Character name missing - from Lindsay Welsh. Second Sight (Masquerade Books, 1997) - lesbian superhero! after a gay-bashing she gets super-powers (not just the usual superpowers, but also sexual superpowers!)
TV
- Xena from "Xena: Warrior Princess" (1990s)
- Wonder Woman from "Wonder Woman" (1970s)
- The Bionic Woman from "The Bionic Woman" (1970s / 2000s)
- Powerpuff Girls (1990s)
- Andrea Thomas in The Secrets of Isis (1970s)
Graphic novels & comics
- Characters in SubGurlz by Jennifer Camper. (Cleis)
- Batwoman
- Catwoman
- Jean Grey (Phoenix)
- Mystique
- Power Girl
- Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat, etc.)
- Rogue
- Scarlet Witch
- She-Hulk
- Storm
- Supergirl
- Wonder Woman