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=== And now for the rest: ===
* [[Action Girl]]: Considered the strongest woman on Earth by many! Including herself.
* [[Aborted Arc]]: Whoo boy, where do we even begin? With the unceremonious cancelation of her 2009-2011 series to make way for the [[New 52]] reboot, several aspects of Power Girl's character were rewritten, and in some cases, completely written out, including several clearly planned future storylines and arcs. Some of these include:
** Virtually her entire supporting cast. While members of her cast would appear after the New 52, they were often characters who were not ''primarily'' Power Girl characters, and didn't really interact with her nearly as much anymore.
** A storyline involving a character named Mazin, a [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold|kind-hearted but broody Muslim man]] wrongly imprisoned after being 'mistaken' for being a terrorist, joining the Justice Society. Considering [[Ms. Marvel|we wouldn't really get a major Muslim superhero until a few years later]], this one especially stings.
** A potential storyline involving a group of Power Girl [[Cosplay Otaku Girl|cosplayers]] who banded together to rescue Power Girl from a [[Villain of the Week]]. The youngest of which, a girl named Margot, was revealed to actually had gained superpowers in the final panel.
** One of the last storylines featured a cloned version of Power Girl named Divine. Divine was pretty clearly set to become an arch-nemesis for Power Girl if the reboot were not to occur, which was something Power Girl never really had.
** Even after the reboot, she couldn't catch a break. Although the [[Earth 2]] saga had more-or-less a definitive ending with The Society ending up in a much more peaceful version of Earth 2, the story did set itself up to having more arcs and stories set in this seemingly idealistic world. However, like clockwork, DC decided its multiverse was too convoluted and so Infinite Frontier was written to streamline things once again. One of the results was fusing every 'mainline continuity' in DC into one mega-universe, which brought the characters from Earth 2 into Prime Earth.
* [[Amazonian Beauty]]: She is oftentimes drawn with the physique of a bodybuilder, especially when she's featured next to Supergirl.
* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]]: After his final defeat {{spoiler|Ultra-Humanite}} is going to have his memory erased and be reintroduced into society. He does not seem happy with the plan, but he is accepting of the future... until Power Girl turns her back and he swears that it will ''never'' be over between them. It is unknown how much of his original nature will remain after his mind wipe.
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* [[Big Applesauce]]: She has now moved to Manhattan.
* [[Big Bad]]: When breaking into New Cadmus, which is being orchestrated by Max Lord, Kara and Nico actually comment that this is the headquarters of the bag guy that is behind ''everything''.
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: While she is a [[Human Alien]] on the surface, her biological structure is anything but. This is emphasized in ''Justice League Europe #9'', where a surgeon finds her physiology "twisted like dough" and many organs "duplicated", indicating she has multiple organs that humans have only one of.
{{quote|'''Surgeon:''' [[Black Comedy|My God, is ''that'' her ''liver''?]]}}
* [[Blue Eyes]]: Classic, beautiful blue.
* [[Brainwashed]]: Max Lord hits Power Girl with a mental suggestion to go kill the Justice League International. She sees everyone on the team as another hero ([[Captain Atom]] as [[Superman]], Fire as [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Starfire]], Ice as [[Supergirl]], Rocket Red as [[Green Lantern]] Hal Jordan and Booster Gold as [[Batman]]) and hears all their dialogue as plans to conquer and rule humanity.
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* [[Character Development]]: From her "victim to raw materials" days in the 90s, she was brought into the [[Justice Society of America]] and eventually became its Superman equivalent (until Earth-22 Superman arrived) and, later, the team's first chairwoman.
* [[Chest Insignia]]: A notable ''lack'' of one, she has what is termed a "boob window." Because of her [[Continuity Snarl|long and complicated history]] there have been numerous explanations as to why, exactly, she has this window. The current story behind it is kind of sad - she could not think of a symbol, so she left it blank and never filled it and is actually undergoing a minor identity crisis as she tries to figure out where she fits in the world. Though not all reasons have been as poignant, they are all intentional and rational. Previously, one of her explanations was that the window gave a clear indication of who and what she was: Strong, feminine and yes, big-breasted. If people were overly preoccupied or distracted by the last part that was their problem, not hers, [[Big Breasts, Big Deal|she would not be bound by what they thought of her.]]
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: After the author/artist switch to Judd Winick and Sami Basri, Terra, who had been Power Girl's sidekick/partner/sister throughout the early issues, is neither seen nor mentioned. Instead, a new character named Nicco, who was never mentioned before, suddenly becomes her sidekick.
* [[Clark Kenting]]: Her disguise as Karen Starr for most of her existence has been tying her hair back. That is it. She herself explains that her large breasts actually help keep her identity secret, especially considering the [[Cleavage Window]], [[Distracted by the Sexy|since they draw attention away from her face.]] In issue #22, Superman himself advises her to make Karen Starr a real person, not just a costume. She gets a makeover to make Karen appear more different from Power Girl, involving a business suit, red hair, and, of course, glasses. [[Lampshade Hanging|The reveal alternates panels between her and Clark Kent to highlight their similar disguises]].
* [[C-List Fodder]]: The Blue Snowman is the initial villain of the Vartox arc, and is introduced with the caption "'''Blue Snowman'''...'''Life Expectancy''': Panel 4, Page 14"
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* [[Clothing Damage]]: She suffers from this a suspiciously large amount. Her costume is often portrayed as being hardly more resilient than Empowered's. She never lets it slow her down though.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: "Divine," the [[Evil Twin|evil]] [[Cloning Blues|clone]] of Power Girl, has black hair opposed to PG's blonde, but is otherwise identical in every way.
* [[Composite Character]]: In DC Super Hero Girls (where this Trope applies to many regulars), Power Girl and Supergirl are the same character. Kara already has PG's hairstyle and personality, taking on the "Power Girl" persona as a second identity when everyone believes she is dead.
* [[The Conscience]]: During her team-ups with Harley Quinn, Power Girl often reprimands her for her immoral actions and tries to stir her in the right direction.
* [[Continuity Snarl]]: Power Girl's origin is unusual in that it lampshades the utter failure of past writers to come up with a legitimate way of maintaining her character's existence in the face of endless rewrites of the DC universe's history. There is no way the character can exist in the currently "valid" history- and her character development directly involves her attempts to deal with that fact. She is the cousin of Earth-2 Superman, but it is explicitly the pre-Crisis Earth 2. The new similar Earth-2 created following the 52 event has its own Power Girl cementing our Power Girl's status as an orphan of the old Multiverse.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: She tends to develop this kind of relationship with those younger than her:
** Terra is probably the most notable relationship of hers like this, though it borders on being Gal Pals. The two hang out ''a lot'', with Power Girl always dishing out advice in both superheroing and basic life.
** Fisher was a more short-lived example. Fisher was a young kid who saw pictures of Karen Starr changing into Power Girl and saved them on his hard-drive. Despite these pretty gross circumstances, Power Girl ''did'' grow to care for the kid and helped him through his awkward teenage stuff.
** Nicco was a young employee at her company, who after the [[Art Shift]], served as her de-facto sidekick in the stead of Terra. Though the two had a much rockier relationship, Power Girl ''did'' care for him and did her best to treat him well.
** [[Harley Quinn]], kinda. Harley had the ''[[Depraved Bisexual|hots]]'' for Power Girl and did everything in her power to get in her pants, but Power Girl tended to treat her like how she treated all of her other younger sidekicks.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Not as crazy as [[Batman|some]], but Power Girl has repeatedly stressed that Terra needs to wear her uniform ''all the time'', [[Dressed in Layers|under her regular clothing if need be]], so she will always be ready for danger to strike at any moment.
* [[Crossover]]: Issue #20 is directly continued in ''Justice League: Generation Lost'', which follows up on Power Girl's [[Brainwashing]] at the hands of Max Lord to kill the Justice League International.
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** In Power Girl's [[Crossover]] with ''Justice League: Generation Lost'' Power Girl has been [[Brainwashed]] into believing that the members of the Justice League International are other heroes planning to conquer and rule humanity. The members of JLI, dreading the destruction and loss of life that would come from fighting Power Girl in earnest (Assuming they could ''survive'' such a fight), try to get through the brainwashing and have her recognize them.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: They are ''not'' "monsters," they are ''G.E.L.F.s.'' It is not that hard to remember.
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Downplayed, but still kinda there. Power Girl isn't really a jerk, but she is a lot rougher than other members of the Superman Family and has been shown to be ever-so-slightly more willing to kill than other heroes, but still remains as an extremely moral, kind-hearted, and caring individual at the end of the day.
** Played straight during the [[New 52]]. Honestly you'd be hard-pressed to find many moments of her doing heroic stuff in her run of ''World's Finest''. Although she does have a few acts of kindness, much of her adventures were self-serving, or even villainous in nature such as endangering employees of rival corporations. By the end of ''Worlds' Finest'' and the start of her adventures on Earth 2, she became a lot more like a typical superhero
* [[Just for Pun]]: "Oh yeah, this ''[[Dishing Out Dirt|rocks]]!''"
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Ultra-Humanite and Satanna are already well past the [[Moral Event Horizon]], they were murderers and psychopaths long before this series started, but when they put Atlee's brain inside the burned gorilla body it is just '''wrong'''.
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