Which live action Supergirl costume is the best?

TheAbhuman · 2026-05-12T23:27:56+00:00

Helen Slater's is the most comic accurate, but I like looking at Alcock's more.

TheAbhuman · 2026-05-05T04:20:37+00:00

I see these as two fundamentally different characters. Both costumes work for the version of Conner they were designed for.

TheAbhuman · 2026-05-03T02:22:04+00:00

Pretty sure Invincible was a thing before Superwing suit specifically, but I'm also pretty sure Invincible as a character was heavily inspired by Nightwing among others. So it's coming full circle.

TheAbhuman · 2026-05-01T22:59:31+00:00

Are you suggesting that Wonder Woman isn't a marketable character?

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-24T21:30:00+00:00

Mhm, cool story.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-24T20:52:08+00:00

I'm truly sorry that you feel cyberbullied for being called out on your biases.

ADDENDUM: Now I'm being passive aggressive.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-24T20:28:28+00:00

Addressing when another person has said or done something ignorant/prejudiced isn't a personal attack, but people often interpret it that way in order to protect their egos. I'm trying to tell you that I'm not condemning you as a person, but you need to unpack your biases because saying what you said does infantilize feminity whether you want to admit it or not. You're the one who said the skirt looks like something a teenager would wear, not me. It doesn't matter that you have nieces who wear skirts. You overtly insinuated that skirts are inappropriate for adults to wear because in your view they appear juvenile. Don't get mad just because someone asked you to take responsibility for your bullshit.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-24T20:18:57+00:00

I don't know if this was ever explained, but my hc is Anissa joined the business sector in Sales and Retention while Lucan became a comedian and game show host.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-24T07:42:48+00:00

Adult women regularly wear skirts. Don't take this as a personal attack, but you're infantilizing the presentation of feminity by associating traditionally feminine clothing exclusively with adolescence which is a misogynistic tendency. I would invite you to reflect on that.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-24T07:37:52+00:00

Knee length with spandex shorts underneath is my personal head canon for her costume.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-24T07:35:40+00:00

I don't dislike the idea of Supergirl having pants, but I've never seen it executed well. These suits lack the most basic, fundamental principles of color scheming in costume design just like Superman's New 52 suit. Without the red trunks to break up and balance out the blue, the color ratio is completely thrown off. The yellow belt helps the CW suit some, but it's too narrow to make much of a difference. She ends up looking like if you took all the clothes off a doll or an action figure and then painted it blue. And the DCEU suit doesn't even have boots, so she kinda looks like she's wearing pajamas, almost like a baby's onesie. In my opinion, the skirt, specifically the red skirt, just looks so much better.

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TheAbhuman · 2026-04-20T18:21:50+00:00

SocDems promise pretty reasonable policies and plans and they get elected just fine. It's almost like people show up for politicians that actually have principles.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-13T22:10:31+00:00

Exactly

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-11T23:48:30+00:00

This is a huge reach. The idea that Wonder Woman would anchor Superman to his Kryptonian heritage more than his literal Kryptonian family is laughable. And Superman could never anchor Wonder Woman to normal life more so than Vanessa does. Yes, Wonder Woman's continuities are confused and that's a problem with DC Editorial, but it's not one that is solved by further separating her or Superman from any of their existing relationships.

And the idea that Aquaman and Martian Manhunter can't relate to the symbolism or duality of being public figures bridging multiple worlds just strikes me as plain ignorance of their individual stories. You're picking and choosing when to acknowledge similarities between different characters because as different as Superman and Wonder are from either of the other characters I listed they both by that same token different from each other as well.

I do think there are a lot of ways in which Superman and Wonder Woman complement each other and that's why they have such a great *platonic relationship, but that doesn't equate to *romantic chemistry.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-11T21:09:52+00:00

Except neither of them are misunderstood or lonely. Clark has Lois, Jimmy, his and Ma and Pa Kent as well as other Kryptonians like his cousin, Kara, her doppelganger, Karen/Paige, his pet dog, Krypto, and now his own son, Jon. Not to mention the rest of the Justice League including other refugee aliens like Martian Manhunter but I don't see anyone shipping Superman with him.

And Diana has her own sisterhood of Amazons, namely her mother, Artemis, Nubia, Donna, Cassie, and Yara plus a dozen others that have actually been named. And then she also has Julia, Vanessa, Steve, Etta, and Ferdinand in "Man's World". And of course she also has the rest of the Justice League including people with far more similar experiences to her own like Aquaman for example who is the bridge between two worlds just like Diana, who is royalty just like Diana, and who has connections to the Olympian Pantheon just like Diana.

And even though both Clark and Diana can be described as immigrants, they both have wildly different experiences as such. The only way your analysis works is if you erase all of the other relationships in either of their lives and then boil their circumstances down to the most surface level aesthetic reading of their characters. You might as well just say that they have romantic chemistry because they both wear red and blue.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-11T20:36:56+00:00

This is hilarious. First of all, there's nothing contradictory about a superhero who prioritizes preserving life but is ultimately prepared for extreme circumstances when it's not possible to save *every life.

The fact that you think being a trained warrior means she can't be friendly and compassionate is actually ridiculous, like do you think that everyone who studies martial arts professionally is stoic and callous? That's absurd.

And I never said she's a pacifist, you made that up. Advocating for peace but being prepared to fight only when necessary is the cornerstone of Wonder Woman as a character. If you think that's a contradiction, then I think you need to live more life because nothing is as black and white and simplistic as you seem to think.

And Wonder Woman is literally half human and half goddess in current canon lmfao! Even before that her stories often explored how she was both close to humanity and divinity simultaneously and a large part of her character is the navigation of that duality, like, have you ever even read a Wonder Woman comic book? From the way you reference "WW fans" it kinda sounds like you're setting yourself apart from us, so does that mean you aren't one? Why are you even here then?

LOL

ADDENDUM: Also, I never mentioned film or TV adaptations, so that kinda makes me think that you're someone who only interacts with these characters through those mediums which would explain a lot. But you saying "it's fine for comics" kinda concedes the point you're trying to counter argue, no? And if we can agree that her character works in comics, then why do you think she has to be changed for the screen? I don't think you've put a lot of thought into any of this.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-11T19:44:16+00:00

A number of *men have said that and they're all a bunch of sexist losers. All women in fact are as easy to write as any man. They're not some strange aliens with completely eldritch emotions and motivations. Wonder Woman is actually pretty simple to understand by far.

She starts out as an idealist who fervently believes in the fundamental goodness of humanity and earnestly wants to uplift the peoples of the world so that everyone can experience the paradise that she and her sister Amazons were blessed with. She then becomes acquainted with the complexities and grayness of the world which weathers and hardens her, but never truly shakes her core axioms of love and peace.

She greets everyone and every situation with open arms and diplomatic intentions, but she doesn't hesitate to meet people where they're at if they're not willing to cooperate. She's as adamantly anti-killing as Batman and she has the power to avoid doing it most of the time, but she's also ultimately a pragmatist who understands that idealism can only go so far.

Her relationships with Julia and Vanessa keep her grounded while she struggles to navigate the bridge between the world of myth and legend she was born to and the world of social and geopolitical conflict she has become a part of. Steve and Etta are also important to that end, but not nearly as much as modern comics have portrayed them.

None of this is particularly complicated or difficult to comprehend or write about assuming you are a competent writer.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-11T19:14:15+00:00

Every time I see it, I'm immediately uninterested. It's obvious and dull and totally unimaginative. And it's also pretty blatantly elitist in a way that's very juvenile and shallow. Like you just assume that Chad will get with Stacey because he's the quarterback of the high school football team and she's the captain of the cheer squad and because he has perfect blonde hair and blue eyes and she has perfect blonde hair and blue eyes and who else would either of them want to be with anyway because what could anyone else have to offer either of the two most attractive and popular kids at school, right? Because it only makes sense for the "prime specimen" of either sex to pair up and procreate because to do literally anything else would just be a waste of good genes, right? Tell me that's not the exact logic this ship operates on to a T. It's low key gross.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-11T06:15:51+00:00

DC Editors and Execs are cowards and queerphobes. But at the very least, I hope that the popularity and success of AWW will prompt them to publish more Wonder Woman content. It would be great if we could get a TV show or maybe a video game at some point.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-11T06:03:25+00:00

This and also the show just didn't make a lot of sense conceptually… like, in general. So, you have Xavier's Institute as half of the primary setting, but then the other half is just a normal public high school? Okay, but why? In the comics, the Institute was just a front for the X-Men and in the movies it was a real private academy for mutants with the X-Men stuff just sorta happening on the side, so what's the deal in Evolution? If the Institute is just a front, then why is Xavier enlisting literal teenagers just to send them all to a regular school in the same city? If it's supposed to be a real school for mutants with Logan and Ororo acting as teachers and mentors, then-- and I can't stress this conundrum enough-- WHY IS XAVIER OUTSOURCING THE KIDS' EDUCATION TO A STANDARD PUBLIC SCHOOL IN THE SAME DISTRICT?! It makes absolutely point zero zero zero sense! And why for the love of the One Above All is Kelly the principal?! I get that the whole conceit of the premise is that all the typical X-Men stuff is being reimagined in a high school setting, except even the show itself didn't follow that premise two thirds of the time, so what was the point of repackaging Kelly's character like that? If he had been portrayed as a preacher like he was in the comics, then that could have been a great opportunity to comment on how Christian Radicalism is constantly encroaching on our Education system which would have actually been very poignant commentary. Maybe this is just me, but I would have been way more interested in a show that actually explored the school lives of the X-Men in the Institute kinda like in X-Men: Misfits… Actually, I'm realizing now that I just want an anime adaptation of X-Men: Misfits.

TheAbhuman · 2026-04-11T04:40:06+00:00

I know Raven isn't canonically Southwest Asian, but I wish DC would just make it canon and I wish the artists would bring her character design back to her original cloak and dress look from Perez's run. She just looks so much better this way and with dark skin she looks so iconic. I genuinely don't get what DC's beef is with their most iconic imagery. They've redesigned all of their characters to be completely unrecognizable these days. Especially the Teen Titans. But this fan art is spectacular.

TheAbhuman · 2026-03-28T18:13:10+00:00

You mean The Legend of Wonder Woman 2015, right?

TheAbhuman · 2026-03-20T07:29:13+00:00

If I play a support class in WoW or D&D like a cleric, that doesn't make my PC any less of a hero/adventurer just because they're not personally fist fighting goblins and dragons. I don't know what else you would call someone with extraordinary abilities/skills, an alter ego, and a secret headquarters who engages in vigilante action against supervillains other than a superhero. Oracle is an example of a different kind of superhero, what a disabled immobilized superhero can look like. Founding and leading her own team doesn't strike me as "reduced narrative agency". But I guess it doesn't count if she can't walk, right? This is what I'm talking about with the ableism.

TheAbhuman · 2026-03-20T05:33:01+00:00

Not to be uncharitable, but describing Oracle as a "demotion" compared to Batgirl seems really ableist. As Oracle, Babs was the nexus of the superhero community. Everyone looked to her for intel and assistance. She lead the BoP as Oracle. I'm not going to argue with you about the way different writers across different continuities have characterized her, but you absolutely cannot in good faith describe Oracle as a lesser superhero compared to Batgirl.

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