If DC/WB tasked you with making Power Girl as popular as Harley Quinn...

If DC/WB tasked you with making Power Girl as popular as Harley Quinn, with total authority and no accountability; how would you get it done?

Kill everyone that likes Harley Quinn.

>PG and Harley have the same writer

Was Gray the one keeping PG from being shit?

That'd only work if you killed everyone that likes Power Girl too. AS popular, not more popular.

Naked, all the time.

Make her a slut with big tits who is sexually frustrated because no man can satisfy her (on account of her being kryptonian, but the feminists would just look at it from a "no man is good enough" standpoint).

Instant hit with every girl, same way as Harley Quinn.

And being a blonde slut with huge tits would take care of the male demographic.

Make a MAX-esque imprint where nudity is allowed. Would also be good for a Catwoman book.

ruin her by making her modern
also make a lesbian that beats up a shit ton of men

-Get Gray working with Palmiotti and Conner again.
-Reintroduce Power Girl and Atlee in the Harley Quinn title and make them regulars
-Then do the spinoff Power Girl title

There.

Powergirl, by Platinum Games. Featuring Bayonetta of Team Little Angel as an unlockable character and the two share costumes

Bring back the boob window, bring her back into the main universe and make her boobs bigger than her head.

Make Power Girl into a porn comic. Different kind of popularity, but will make her just as popular if not more so

You really have something with the lesbian angle, but not the angry crazed militant thing.

I know, do an arc where she's exposed to pink kryptonite. That'd work.

Then have her and slutfire hit it off.... that "satisfied her"...

Make a comedy/action cartoon that focuses on her and the rest of the JSA. That's it really, a good/popular show is enough to spawn popularity when it comes to capes.

1. make her tits bigger
2. make her ass, thighs and hips bigger
3. make an 18+ story where all she does is have sex with random thick dickgirls

boom, the money pours in from perverted deviants everywhere, a shit ton of attention is generated because of it and her popularity sky rockets.

same way I'd fix Batgirl

Give her more screentime in the CW shows and Justice League action. She doesn't have to be a slut or have huge tits. She just needs to be more well-known and be portrayed as an interesting character.

Also make Powergirl clothing and costumes more available on Halloween.

Also make a TV series based on Kingdom Come.

I can compromise on the slut thing, but huge tits is an absolute red line.

She can have big prominent tits, but she doesn't have to have huge tits. The boobwindow perfect cleavage might not translate well in live-action unless some prosthetic are used to keep the tits perky looking.

That's Otto isn't it?

Exposure. Put her in the comics, put her in the cartoons, put her in the tv shows, put her in the movies. Just keep throwing her at the wall until she sticks.

Pair her up with Terra and have them be a superheroine duo with healthy amounts of fanservice, humor, action, and depth.

>tfw you think the Switch looks fucking awful but you have to buy it because of Bayonetta 3

This.
I doubt most people even know who Power Girl is.

>her book is now a uniquely 'feel good'/lightly comedic take on the DCU, kind of like a raunchy "guilty pleasure" sitcom equivalent to your standard capeshit
>characterize her as more self aware and accepting to her fan service-y nature, and more "sexually liberated" in her own right too (liable to bait shy, easily flustered fanboys+girls, might try to be a good sport with some autistic weirdos, but will absolutely not fuck around when/if they go too far into her personal space)
>expand her cast of supporting characters and antagonists, possibly tack on some OC legbutt representation - as long as they aren't written in the sanitized liberal image of the LGBT community
>Livewire is her main antagonist, but is really more of an envious, tsundere pest/rival than a full-fledged villain (titlets, when will they learn?)
>"""accidentally""" inject as much stealth fetish fuel into each issue as possible, especially for your fetishes. except for that one, you sick fuck.
>finally: advertising for her book gets spammed to shit everywhere, in lieu of the eternal Harley hype

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>first spoiler
Hooray.
>second
Aw.

Please write for a "World's Finest" ongoing someday.

>put her in a high profile romance with an A list character
>push the romance
>put an A list creative team on her book
>put her in a main team book too
>have her star in a new animated show as one of the main characters
That would at least put her on the path. I mean Harley without her high profile romance with the Joker would have been nothing.

that's gotta hurt

Okay. So. First things first.

Totally new face. Something that doesn't look like a reject from Netherrealm Studios. Less man, more female.

Next, longer hair. Nice and flowing. Make her actually look feminine.

Then I dunno. Make her lesbian I guess. And shove her in everyone's face all the time until people have no choice but to like her. Worked for Harley unfortunately.

Sauce ?

so just another palmiotti/conner run then? i'm fine with that

have her get slimed

Shit taste

go back to /asp/ with that mexican neet mod of yours

Y'all are thinking way too small. Everyone who is going to fap to Power Girl is basically already fapping to Power Girl. As a masturbation tool she's basically close to plateauing. Partially because the popular niche she serves (home grown American blonde with big ol' tiddies) isn't particularly effective among general audiences anymore, not in the same way that Quinn's particular breed of slut or THICC is. And if you think that Quinn's sexiness is why girls like her, you're too horny to think straight. Go to /aco/ or /d/ or /trash/, get your fucking rocks off, and come back here when your head's cleared.

So you have to take a different approach. You could try bringing her onto Supergirl played by a rising star actress. If the take is unique enough, she might catch on.

A big thing is that no one really knows what Power Girl is about right now, nothing that could differentiate her from Harley Quinn or make her more instantly appealing. Sup Forums's gonna hate it, but if you played the Amy S-whatshertits card and made her more open about her sexual endeavors (but NOT making her openly slutty, just making jokes about it in the way that this place hates), she might catch on with the mainstream feminist audience. It's a huge risk though.

Sauce please?

Commonly introduce her in ALL Superman media as an already trained hero who gets stuck here after traveling to our world from another dimension.

Have her highly skilled at superheroics as an already trained hero but make her more relatable by being a fish out of water, she knows fuck all about earth-1 politcs, popular culture etc etc.

Have it part of her backstory that she started super-heroing under the name Power Girl before she hit puberty (with a very different cosutme) and the name stuck.

Shrink the boob window enough to be respectable and not a literal breast window. Personally I like the "removed kryptonian emblem" angle so maybe make it shaped like the outline of Superman's symbol/kryptonian crest.

Play up her tough, blunt and cranky aspects to give wish-fulfillment in a similar manner to Harley- Power Girl does what she wants, all the time. She might not break a window for a purse but she will deck you for coping a feel , or publically berate someone she thinks is being a shit regardless of their personal power or position and to hell with the consequences I saved the world yesterday, no one gets to act like that.

This doesnt mean make her "ggrrrr sexiness evil no fun" she knows she is hot and loves it, but she is hot because she wants to be hot not because she wants people to get off on looking at her. Thats a power fantasy too for a lot of people. She has a sense of humor too, and jokes a lot, but it is a dry sense of humour, wit more than jokes. Imagine a REALLY HOT Sandi Toksvig or sexy female Steven Fry. Also she will relentlessly make fun of and take the piss out of everyone, even Batman and Superman.

We back this up with her actually being a damn good leader and people person from her experiences on earth-2, and that she knows she is stuck here now and wants to make a clean break of it without repeating mistakes she has made in the past. Part of her appeal can be that she is a person who got another chance at her life.

So literally just make her Bayonetta, flaunting her sexuality everywhere but never has any actual sex, interest in any partners or a love interest.

This pretty much- make her understandable and "relatable" while playing up the aspects of her as a power fantasy (that is a power fantasy TO BE HER not to fuck her), clean up the design to give it more mass appeal (larger cape, play up the brooch as it is easily wearable and markatable, covers her ass at least as much as movie Harley's shorts, smaller tit hole), pick a couple of her villains she can physically fight to push along side her...

And then give her push. Giver her a movie. Make her a semi-regular Martian Manhunter / Aquaman level player in the cartoons. Giver her merch and advertising. A tv show even, it can be supergirl for more mature audiences (more complex not more porny).

dude, no man could cum enough jizz in 1000 years to HOPE to penetrate her egg

Make her lactate.

This.

Bayonetta is pretty cool

She's kryptonian.

Make a TV series starring her that is feminist without any of the slogans (Power Girl is aware of her sexuality and doesn't flaunt it but understands the looks she gets without anger).

Make it a slice of life, rarely ever make any presence seem like they'll stay in an episode for longer. It's post Justice League so she's already a member and casually makes reference ("And I was just fucking this guy all night and I finally came SO hard-oh shit my boss is in, bye Kal)

>Livewire is her main antagonist, but is really more of an envious, tsundere pest/rival than a full-fledged villain
Fucking WHEN?

Redesign her so she's not a walking bimbo.
She needs to cosplayable by women, Harley Quinn manages not to look super slutty, but super dominant.

bump

bump for source!

Give her a fucking ongoing for starters

Ass window

give her some villains of her own
since her theme is 'power' rather than 'super', explore what that means
generally approach her more as a human-shaped kaiju than a god among mortals like the hacks do with superman and wonder woman

So a comedy series which concentrates more on her raw physical strength and how she fits into the world in regards to that, rather than being a virtuous paragon?

Literally One Punch Woman.

Mmn... Big booby kaiju...

Give her good villains. Have her punch those villains. Get an artist that's good at depicting punches.

>get an artist that's good at depicting punches
western comics don't have those. Every fight scene ever looks like a fucking freeze frame like a fucking roman period painting but without the quality

hire this man

we like it that way, speedlines are just ugly scribbles.

honestly I was thinking Gogo Bomago but with more action scenes

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a BIG kryptonian

To make PG really successful you make sure 1st you don't fall into the trap of making the book Superman Lite or Wacky Supergirl, where Supergirl and to a lesser extent Superboy should be attached to the hip and be a slave to ongoings of the Superman book, PG should be as far removed as possible except for major major stuff.

this, the villains have to be good no mindless giant crabs and shit with infested her original ongoing like the plague.

keep the Earth 2 shit to a minimum, and it should only be presented as the Silver Age version of it.

Let her fight Cthulhu.
Cthulhu is already so overused he is borderline campy.

>Harley Quinn manages not to look super slutty

Throw her into space.
Have her travel from planet to planet righting wrongs ala Kung Fu.

>spoiler
What if you only have one prominent one that's also fucked up?

Introduce a super cool not at all self insert character who beats everyone up and is super cool and then does lewd stuff to her and maybe panders to the mind control fetish that I totally do not have.

Change the Supergirl TV show into a Power Girl TV show, feature her in a Justice Society animated series, introduce Kara in Man of Steel 2, put her in the main justice league comic, use her as a mascot in some advertising campaign.

>Harley Quinn manages not to look super slutty

Are you for real

Put her in the kind of fun high-concept pulp adventures that Superman could be having if it weren't for power creep and edginess.

Power Girl vs. the underground kingdom of dinosaurs. Power Girl vs. Egorbb, the Comet with a Thousand Brains. Power Girl vs. Queen Elizabeth's time-travelling clockwork army. That sort of tongue-in-cheek pulp stuff.

Then add enough low-key fetish stuff that people can fap to it but not enough that it triggers anyone. Which is what they're doing with Harley already.

>She needs to cosplayable by women, Harley Quinn manages not to look super slutty

FPBP

He was implying that nobody likes Power Girl...

Well, first of all, you have to change her costume. As we've all seen from both the Wonder Woman pants debacle, Batgirl, Squirrel Girl and Harley Quinn's newfound popularity, fangirls won't care about the quality of a female-lead book as long as they can easily cosplay as the main character.

Then you go with the obligatory merchandise whoring. Drop her into as much media as you can within a relatively short amount of time until you can't go one day without her name or likeness popping up in a commercial, Buzzfeed article or Yahoo link.

Other than that, I'd actually try to give her a quality book like she had with the Gray/Palmiotti/Conner run. Keep her fun, self-aware and witty as she used to be while going on bizarre adventures.

Speaking of which, why the fuck didn't DC/Warner Bros do this when they were actually giving her attention?

she does though

Harleys old costume was a skin tight bodysuit. Not super associated with "being slutty" but it sure as fuck FEELS slutty to wear them, especially when they are so tight you cannot wear real underwear beneath them. Try cosplaying green lantern some time it makes you super anxious.

But Harleys new costume is literally just shorts and a t-shirt. Now they are super short and micro shorts and a tshirt that shows a little belly, and those are "asociated" with being a slut, but they DONT FEEL SLUTTY to wear them. Just feels like shorts and a tshirt. Hell they even include tights so its not too cold and doesnt really reveal so much flesh, even if it looks like it does.

The face paint helps with that too, gives a little feeling of anonymity and the power that brings to act differently than normal. Makes you feel powerful, especially with a nice wooden bat or mallet.

Now a costume like Power Girl's has all the problems of a skin tight bodysuit with the added problems of no legs and a huge tit hole. Not only does it feel slutty and look slutty but its cold and uncomfortable, especially compared to shorts and a t-shirt. It doesnt make you feel powerful.

I mean, would you want to wear the male version?

she wears shorts and a tshirt dude

She has an exposed navel. It's hard to get more slutty than that without going nude and pointing at your crotch.
So it's not about what's perceived as slutty but about what makes you feel exposed?
Maybe Kara could have a really iconic civilian getup.

the male version would show abs, not nether regions

Eh an exposed navel is nothing in the modern west dude you see high schoolers in crop tops these days, its not even a proper crop top or boob tube, just a short t-shirt.

And yeah its about the feeling of power. Wonder Woman wear armour and carries weapons, Harley is effectively a very attractive woman wearing fairly normal clothes you might not wear yourself but have seen others wear, plus has what is effectively a mask and big wooden smacking stick.

Spider-Gwen wears a hoody and tights. Doesnt do the vacuum sealed boobs thing.

Honestly I would make Power Girl's costume into a white long sleeved turtleneck with a normal clothing sized kryptonian crest shaped cleavage window, white shorts, sheer-ish tights, long boots, half cape with a brooch with Power Girl's own marketable symbol on it.

Which I would make a Power sign like a computer power button because come on, thats fucking obvious.

You can still show tits and legs, but base the design on what people would wear, even if not in that combination.

Not that guy but ım digging this more

No, YOU would WANT the male version to show abs. Abs don't take the same place as tits.

Male version would either be crotch or ass. Dude ass is appreciated almost as much as girl ass, and those are pretty much the only parts of the male body that fulfill the sexualised-but-not-normally-shown-in-public criteria.

You see dudes with good abs in open shirts or super tight T-shirts.all the time in summer, you don't see girls with power-girl sized tit windows, though they may wear bikini tops. Different connotations.

What even happened that caused Gray and Palmiotti to break up? I don't think they've done anything together in years.

Kinky escapades gone wrong

I hate that fags think they know what an nearly-invincible woman should wear. These posts are everything wrong with modern costume designs.

Dude that wasnt about what a near invincible woman would wear its about what a near invincible man would wear. Why WOULDNT a near invincible man want his dick or ass hanging out? HE IS ALMOST INVINCIBLE!

Plus this thread isnt about clothing designs that make sense for the character of Power Girl to wear, it s about how to give Power Girl public push to make her as popular with everyone (including women) as Harley or Wonder Woman are these days.

And part of that conversation was changing her costume to something that is easier and more comfortable for non fictional non super powered real women who exist in our world to cosplay. Because while Power Girl cosplay is by no means no existent it is no where near as common as Wonder Woman, Harley or even Spider-Gwen cosplay, and that is one factor in these characters rise to popularity.

Its not about what a fictional near invincible woman would wear its about what I, and people like me would wear.

Thing is, women are more interested in muscle and muscle tone than genitals. Men like butts and boobs, women like butts and pecs and abs and arms. All things that are already very visible in spandex suits, but so are female contours. The hole only reveals something that you can't see because the fabric covers it. So for men, I think a chest hole would be the logical equivalent,perhaps with a good amount of chest hair to emphasize the masculinity of it. And also because a hole anywhere else is just going to look more awkward.

Ahhahah fuck guy no i aint, Superman-tier muscles look kind of gross and over imposing and a nice hot dude butt is great, so are nice smooth dude crotches, especially with those V lines.

Look at hot guys as advertised to women on women's magazines. Generally kind of hot, maybe some nice abs or arms, but not ripper and shredded like superheroes. But they look overall nice, comfortable, relaxed and safe.

And dont forget, sure some of us like muscle, but your glutes are muscles too. A hot ass can be a strong ass. Look at that one football guy from that gif/clip a while back with the super jiggley butt, real thicc dude but a lot of that is muscle. You get a nice ass by working out.

Like Power Boy here. Not too ripped, muscular muscles but soft ass and thighs too. Non aggressive but strong, sensual and thicc.

Make her THIC & have her sleep around almost as bad as She Hulk. Watch the tumblrites be confused since she is a 'more realistic' body type yet now an even worse sex object.

Well I don't understand why comics have this obsession with super-dehydrated bodybuilder physiques. It's fancy and all in real life because of the effort it takes to get there, but a swimmer's physique looks just as nice if not nicer, and more natural to boot.

>glutes are muscles too

My point exactly.

> Why WOULDNT a near invincible man want his dick or ass hanging out? HE IS ALMOST INVINCIBLE!

Dr. Manhattan sure thought as much.

>Harley Quinn manages not to look super slutty

Make an animated movie.
Worked for Suicide Squad's popularity.

We all like different things. Most people dont even realize that a lady with a big ass will have big ass muscles.

Me I like my dudes soft and thicc or lithe and skinny, but some muscle on top of that can be pretty damn nice.

>Otto Schmidt art

She has a cock, doesn't she?

As with most things, blame the excesses of the late 80s and 90s for making the cut look the standard.

buddy, these days who doesnt

Yeah, Palmiotti/Conner's run of Peeg was good goofy fun