DC Superhero Girls: Get To Know Supergirl

The new take on the DC Superhero Girls is cranking out new material on YouTube as a sort of preamble to the ongoing show. This has included 'Get to know' mini-sodes about each of the characters.

And finally we got the 'Get to Know' Supergirl short. View here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBJZQGmTS4I

It is clear that Batgirl is going to be the straw that stirs the drink here. She is the narrator of these 'Get to Know' videos. And I love this opening shot of Supergirl rescuing Babs in a classic Superman/Lois pose.

Maybe if we are lucky, Babs will say the classic 'Who's got you?' line.

But the rest of the short gives us a primer on Kara. If we think that the DCSHG are in some ways analogs of show runner Lauren Faust's take on My Little Pony then it is clear that Supergirl is the Rainbow Dash of the group.

And that means Supergirl is 20% cooler.

What the short consists of are simple statements describing Supergirl with one or two adjectives while giving us a scene that relates.

Here there appears to be a wave of bunnies running down the street and Supergirl is streaking to the front. We hear that she is Fearless.


What I love here is the art with a lot of great forced perspectives and wild action. Love this as she veers in front of the 'camera'.

Later, she is in a junkyard fighting what appears to be some construct of trash and/or mannequins.

We hear she is strong as she flies up to the camera and bashes some construct.

Again, the perspective here is strong as we see her fly right up through our point of view.

And then we hear she might be too strong as she slams the Danvers' car door shut and bends it.

I do like the idea that she considers herself a rebel and the Danvers are all rainbows and unicorns and hippy-dippy love. That will be grist for the mill.

She is a rebel and a rocker.

We see her head banging in a club. We see her rocking out in her room.

For me, I do have to wonder if this will eventually be some sort of way that she is trying to differentiate herself from her cousin. He is the purest hero there is. She doesn't want to live in his shadow. So maybe she puts in this rebel person.

She also wants you to think like she doesn't care.

I love this emo look of hers, staring off into the distance.

And I like the look of the spiky, unkempt hair. It is sort of Saiyan in a way.

Even this look of the leather jacket leans towards Gotham Garage look.

But even though she wants you to believe she doesn't care, she is really a 'big softie'. We see her snuggling with two bunnies.

This very much has a Rainbow Dash feel to it.

As I said before, I don't mind a little feisty, irascible Kara in this show. The characters each have a role to play; Supergirl is the one who pushes the norm. She looks like she punches first and asks questions second. And she looks like she has a fun time doling out the super-heroics. Those are, in essence, small parts of the comics character that are just exaggerated here.

I'm eager to see more.
Big softie

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