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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.
According to her official Marvel powergrid, ''[[Word of God|all of Doreen's stats are through the roof]], at the same level as the [[Guardian of the Multiverse|Living]] [[Physical God|Tribunal]]''.
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Squirrel Girl is best characterized as being a [[Silver Age]] character being completely out of place in modern comics; she will frequently [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|break the fourth wall]] to mention this. The fact that she frequently wins against more powerful enemies using ridiculous means can also be seen as a throwback to the Silver Age.
Doreen is not to be confused with fellow squirrel girls [[El Goonish Shive|Grace T. Sciuridae]] and [[
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* [[Petting Zoo People|Animal-Person]]: Squirrel Girl is pretty much exactly that (i.e. the squirrel equivalent of a [[Catgirl]]).
* [[Animal-Themed Superbeing]]
* [[Armed with Canon]]: In her first appearance, Squirrel Girl defeated Doctor Doom. Another writer showed Doom explaining that it was actually a Doombot. Yet, in ''GLX-Mas'', we are told that she really did defeat Dr. Doom (we are also presented with a new picture, thus hinting that she has defeated Dr. Doom at least ''twice''). And to really hammer in the point, in ''Deadpool/GLI'', Squirrel Girl invades Latveria by herself, and Dr. Doom is afraid to even think about challenging her (with an accommodating statement by Tippy-Toe that since her first victory against Dr. Doom was written in by [[Steve Ditko]], it's fully canon -- "[[Take That|So deal with it, fanboy]].")
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: While [[Deadpool|the evil, evil man]] fought Daredevil, he warned him about the walking nukes such as the Iron Mans, the Thors, and the Squirrel Girls. And then he fought Cable, he warned him about the psychos such as himself, Dr. Doom and Squirrel Girl. Inverted, since Squirrel Girl ''really is'' that dangerous, but averted in that she's a superhero ''and'' she rarely causes any sort of collateral damage.
* [[Ascended Meme]]: Squirrel Girl's original one-shot appearance became a meme in Internet forums, which led to her becoming a permanent recurring character in the Marvel universe as part of the [[Great Lakes Avengers]].
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* [[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.
* [[Double Entendre]]: She carries around nuts for her squirrel friends in 'nut sacks' on her utility belt.
* [[Everythings Nuttier With Squirrels]]: Squirrel Girl is even nuttier than [[Deadpool|the evil, evil man]].
* [[Fun Personified]]: Arguably the flagship character of this trope. Considering [[Dysfunction Junction|the rest of the 616 universe]], this is what makes her really [[Mood Dissonance|out of place]].
* <s>[[Fastball Special]]</s> ''[[Fastball Special|Fuzzball Special]]!'': She threw Tippy-Toe at M.O.D.O.K. this way. [[Shout-Out|Alley-Oop!]]
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*** 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?
** Also, do you know why she accepted to become Danielle Cage's nanny? Making ends meet side, she was hoping for a spot with the New Avengers. And she could've gotten it (she came this close from beating the freakin' Wolverine with help of her squirrel buddies!) if [[Fear Itself (Comic Book)|Skadi hadn't waged war on America as she was saving a random guy from getting beat up.]] It turns out she grew so fond of little Dani, her first thought was to rush to Avengers Mansion and guard her. But then those War Machines started bombing the mansion... {{spoiler|But then Daredevil saved the day.}}
* [[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.
* [[Impossible Task Instantly Accomplished]]: Just ask Thanos.
* [[In a Single Bound]]: She can leap several stories up into the air.
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* [[Progressively Prettier]]: In her first appearance, Squirrel Girl looked really weird. Nowadays...well, it depends on the artist, but she's generally depicted as being much, much, ''much'' cuter than she looked in her first appearance.
** She arguably looks her best in Marvel's one-shot Valentine's Day special ''I ? Marvel: Masked Intentions''.
* [[Rage Against the Author|Rage Against The Readers]]: Squirrel Girl after Monkey Joe's death.
* [[Reconstruction]]: What would you call a Silver-Age-appropriate character in the age of [[Deconstruction]]?
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The main reason she can get away with her [[Memetic Badass]] status.
* [[Rule of Funny]]: Probably the only reason she can get away with being so overpowered.
* [[Showy Invincible Hero]]
* [[Stalker with a Crush]] and [[Stalking Is Love]]: Squirrel Girl's crush over [[New Warriors|Speedball]], and how. She defeats his enemies for him, she breaks into dungeons for him, she invades sovereign countries for him, she travels through time for him, and her fan letters to him are screened by the FBI! And ignoring that time when he was too deep for her, he has responded to her crush with what's seemingly equal attraction.
* [[Super Speed]] / [[Super Reflexes]]: As Squirrel Girl likes to remind us, she has Squirrel Agility. Which means that she has the proportionate speed and [[Super Reflexes|reflexes]] of a squirrel.
* [[Take Our Word for It]]: Every takedown of a top tier villain, except for that first one against Dr. Doom.
* [[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]].
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* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|What Kind Of Lame Power Is Talking To Squirrels Anyway?]]: [[Heart Is an Awesome Power|Averted hard]]. If you don't believe me, then look at her track record. [http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/4/43469/875257-squirrelgirl04_super.jpg She defeated Dr. Doom by letting her squirrels ZergRush him!]
{{quote|'''Dr. Doom''': "'''CONFOUND''' these wretched rodents! For every one I fling away, a dozen '''MORE''' vex me!"}}
** She defeated M.O.D.O.K by letting Tippy-Toe slip through his defenses. She let The Thing defeat Bi-Beast by having her squirrels distract him. And she was directly aided by Tippy-Toe while breaking into Thunderbolt Mountain. And that's not even getting into ''her other powers''...
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: She may have been strangled by that E-List Mook during the big brawl in ''Great Lakes Avengers: Misassembled #4'', but that was just to let him stand where she wanted him in order for her to let the other squirrels avenge the murder of Monkey Joe. She could have defeated him herself but [[It's Personal|it was personal.]]
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