Becky Botsford

Becky Botsford is the secret civilian identity of WordGirl. She is the adopted daughter of Sally and Tim Botsford, and TJ's older sister.
Despite Becky looking, sounding, and often behaving the same as WordGirl—being able to perfectly define any word, having a monkey sidekick, making bad excuses to leave when a villain is at large, failing to cover her face whatsoever in her superhero outfit, and arguably letting her other identity slip on a frequent basis—few suspect that she is the hero of the city. She tries to keep her civilian life a secret so that she can have an otherwise normal upbringing and a right to privacy from the supervillains she fights.
Becky has a spherical head, a green sweater, a purple skirt and headband, and a surprisingly prescient obsession with a merchandised television show about magic ponies.
For all of Becky's heroic qualities, she notably demonstrates signs of linguistic prescriptivism. She seems to view language as set in stone with words having correct and incorrect usages, even when she can understand the speaker's intent. When she accidentally wishes herself into an alternate timeline where people use "sandwich words" whose substitutions are amply clear from context, Becky gets herself in trouble by protesting this linguistic and cultural feature as "wrong".
It has also been theorized that Becky is aware of her fictional status. She frequently has conversations with the WordGirl show's narrator, and sometimes breaks the fourth wall for her own benefit, despite constraining herself at other times to build the audience's suspense and avoid resolving the story too easily.
Category:Females
Category:Superheroes
Category:Children
Category:Heroes