List of female superheroes

Criteria: Hmm. 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 category 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 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

• Grae, Camarin. Paz (Blazon Books, 1984) (A woman has an accident and finds that she now has the power to change what people believe.)

• Welsh, Lindsay. 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: Warrior Princess" (90s) "Wonder Woman" (70s) "The Bionic Woman" (70s)

Films / Video

"The Ambiguously Gay Duo # 8 'Boys'" (Director: J. J. Sedelmaier; 1999; USA; 3 minutes; video; animation) "Ginger Snaps" (Director: Grace Walcott; 2000; USA; 12 minutes; video) "Hete Roy" (Director: J. J. Sedelmaier; 1998; USA; 3 minutes; video; animation) "Wonder Woman: Battle with the Basher" (Directors: Cary Curran & Brian Winkowski; 1997; USA; 6 minutes; video)

Graphic Novels & Comix

SubGurlz by Jennifer Camper. (Cleis)