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{{quote|''"Maybe it's just me, but I'm not crazy about super hero stories where [[Dark Age|everything's all dark and moody]]. Personally, I like the ones where [[Silver Age|good guys fight giant apes on the moon and stuff]]. Remember those? I do. That was back when comic book worlds were places you wanted to escape ''to''... not ''[[Crapsack World|from]]''."''}}
Doreen Green is the mutant known as '''Squirrel Girl''' -- or, depending on who you ask, either ''The Anti-Life'' or ''The Slayer Of All That Breathes''. She is also, believe it or not, ''[[Marvel Comics]]' most powerful hero''.
Doreen's (official) powers are enhanced strength, speed, agility, and reflexes, as well as the ability to leap several stories. She possesses small razor sharp claws in place of fingernails, and she's able to use small retractable knuckle spikes. She can communicate with squirrels, which she uses to attack and/or distract her enemies (as well as [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]). She also has a semi-prehensile tail (which she can use to cuddle herself with). Oh, and her lips taste like hazelnuts.
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Doreen is not to be confused with fellow squirrel girls [[El Goonish Shive|Grace T. Sciuridae]] and [[BlazBlue|Makoto Nanaya]].
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** Unsurprising - you can't pep-talk someone out of a traumatic, partially-drug induced and reinforced psychosis.
** She has now suffered an actual defeat, albeit as a end of comic gag, at the hands of Danielle Cage the infant daughter of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. The baby temporarily acquired powers like Spider-Man's, and defeated Squirrel Girl by sneaking up behind her and covering her with web until she couldn't move. ''Nobody'' tell [[Doctor Doom]]!
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Yep, she's from the True North.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Cute. Fuzzy. Talks to squirrels. Lips taste like hazelnuts. Defeated Doctor Doom, The Mandarin, Giganto, MODOK, Thanos, Terrax, Bug-Eyed Voice, Bi-Beast, Deadpool (twice!), Pluto, Fin Fang Foom, Baron Mordo, Korvac, and Ego the Living Planet...
** She recently{{when}} handed Wolverine his ass on a silver platter while sparring.
* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: Squirrels vs. Dr. Doom.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Did You Just Punch Out Different Cthulhus Several Times, At Least One Of Them Twice?]]: Self-explanatory.
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* [[Greek Chorus]]: [[Fourth Wall Observer|Fourth Wall Observers]] Monkey Joe and Tippy-Toe (and even Squirrel Girl herself) discuss and use Tropes such as [[Armed with Canon]], [[Biting the Hand Humor]], [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]], [[Stuffed in The Fridge]], and [[This Loser Is You]].
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: In one issue of his own comic, [[Deadpool|the evil, evil man]] is looking for his Squirrel Girl underwear.
* [[Got the Call on Speed Dial]]: At the age of 14, Squirrel Girl attacked both Dr. Doom and Iron Man in order to become Iron Man's sidekick. As an (
** Especially considering that she's a mutant, a group traditionally treated like crap on Earth 616. Instead, the media seems to love her.
*** As a correlation Tigra (the other furry girl) is Magical but most people think she is a mutant (with the appropriate reactions), she doesn't correct them. Could Tigra like being counted among the ranks of Squirrel-Girl?
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* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: Control over squirrels doesn't seem so stupid when they're defeating Dr.Doom.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Squirrel Girl accuses the Bug-Eyed Voice of committing a criminal offense because he is stalking Speedball. She does this while ''she's'' occupied in stalking Speedball.
* [[First-Name Basis]]: She is the ''only'' person allowed to call [[Wolverine]] by his actual name, James. ''Even his wives'' have only called him "Logan". In turn, he always calls her "Doreen".
* [[Impossible Task Instantly Accomplished]]: Just ask Thanos.
* [[In a Single Bound]]: She can leap several stories up into the air.
* [[Informed Attribute]]: Her alleged power level. She never actually displays powers beyond increased (but still lower than, say, Spider-Man) strength and agility, along with the ability to control squirrels. She gets an amazing amount of mileage out of the squirrel control, but any villain that can't be beaten by having a small, furry critter wriggle under his armor she beats
* [[Ironic Echo Cut]]: [http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4338/sgthanos.jpg Squirrel Girl's victory over Thanos, who possessed the power to screw the Multiverse].
* [[Killer Rabbit|Killer Squirrel]]
* [[Little Bit Beastly]]: Her mutations have given her several squirrel-like features, including claws, pronounced incisor teeth, and her long tail.
* [[Medium Awareness]], [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]], and [[No Fourth Wall]]: Squirrel Girl is fully aware that she is in a comic book, but due to contractual issues she is only allowed to break the fourth wall during the recaps. However, Monkey Joe and Tippy-Top are not limited by that limitation, so for them there is no fourth wall.
* [[Mutants]]
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* [[Take That]]: A fair bit of Squirrel Girl's dialogue and surrounding plot points consist of these, aimed at whatever the writer finds annoying about pretty much every other comic in existence (the escapism quote above, Batman's in-universe status as an urban legend, etc.). Then, just to make sure [[Viewers are Morons|no one missed the reference]], often one of the squirrels will pop up at the corner of the page and [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|state outright what it meant]].
** Then there was the whole shot at <s>Bleedball</s> Penance. She tries to convince him he's not at fault, citing all the other stuff that other heroes have done that was so much worse (but managed not to get blamed for). Eventually, he cuts her off for not understanding, culminating in him shouting how he's "deep" now and repeatedly smashing his head into a wall to show how "deep" he is. Very subtle.
* [[Speaks Fluent Animal|Talks To Squirrels]]: One story shows she can even teach "squirrelese" to someone else.
* [[Time Travel]]: She attempted to travel into the past in order to romance pre-Penance Speedball. But somehow she traveled into the future...
** It's actually a very sly reference. When Squirrel Girl tries to travel to the past, she sets the time machine to take her to "Speedball's second to last coordinates" (the last time Robbie Baldwin was Speedball prior to the events of [[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]], since if she showed up in Stamford, she'd be one of the victims of Nitro's explosion). Prior to Civil War, Speedball's last appearance in a Marvel comic ''was in a comic set in the year 2099.''
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