Squirrel Girl: Difference between revisions

 

Doreen is not to be confused with fellow squirrel girls [[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|Grace T. Sciuridae]] and [[Blaz Blue|Makoto Nanaya]].

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[And This Is For]]: Squirrel Girl's letting her squirrels defeat a [[Mook]] for Monkey Joe. (He couldn't care less.)

* [[Petting Zoo People|Animal-Person]]: Squirrel Girl is pretty much exactly that (i.e. the squirrel equivalent of a [[Catgirl]]).

* [[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]].")

* [[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]].

* [[Attack Attack Attack]]: She's perfectly capable of delivering cans of ass-whooping like this, as Wolverine can attest. And that's without getting to the animal empathy thing (Wolvie's reasonably wary of the ''army'' of squirrels she summons when he manages to get her in an armlock).

** 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]]!

** She recently handed Wolverine his ass on a silver platter while sparring.

* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: Squirrels vs. Dr. Doom.

* [[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]].

* [[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]]

* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: Most of her victories are off-panel and we only see the results, not the actual fights.

* [[Parody Sue]]: Squirrel Girl is practically the living embodiment of this.

* [[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.

** 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]]

{{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''...

 

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