Karen Starr (Earth-77)

**Karen Starr,** also known as Power Girl, is a young superheroine and vigilante operating in National City on Earth-77.

## Biography

She makes her first appearance crash-landing outside of National City in her pod. Upon exiting it, she’s approached by some perverted campers, who attempt to grope and kiss her, but she uses her super strength and invulnerability to effortlessly fight them off.

## Powers

* **Kryptonian Physiology**: After being exposed to light from a “yellow” sun after crash-landing, Karen is gifted with amazing powers. These include:
	+ **Solar Energy Absorption**
	+ **Heat Vision**: Karen can consciously fire focused beams of intense heat at a target just by looking at it. She can vary the heat and area affected, making it one of her more deadly powers.
	+ **Super-Hearing**: Karen’s hearing is sensitive enough to hear any sound at any volume, pitch or distance. With skill and concentration,
	+ **Enhanced Vision**: Karen’s vision processes the entire electromagnetic spectrum as well as allowing vast control over selective perception and focus. This umbrella ability includes the following:
		- **Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision**: She can see well into most of the electromagnetic spectrum. She can see and identify radio and television signals as well as all other broadcast or transmitted frequencies. Using this ability, she can avoid detection by radar or satellite monitoring methods. This also allows her to see the aura generated by any living thing.
		- **Telescopic Vision**: Karen can also see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics somehow. Though limited, the exact extent of the ability is undetermined.
		- **X-Ray Vision**: She can see through any volume of matter except lead. Karen can also see things behind solid, opaque objects as if it were not there.
		- Microscopic Vision: She can see extremely small objects and images down to the atomic level.
		- **Infrared Vision**: Karen can see with better acuity in darkness, and to a degree, in total darkness.
	+ **Flight**: Power Girl is able to fly at supersonic speeds.
	+ **Invulnerability**: Due to her dense molecular structure and supercharged bio-electric aura, Karen’s body is nigh-invulnerable to extreme forces. In addition, her extends this protection against toxins and diseases.
	+ **Enhanced Immunity**
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**: Karen is able to maintain continuous strenuous physical action for an indefinite period of time, though she could occasionally require eat, drink, and sleep.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Karen’s strength is augmented by yellow solar radiation interacting with the greater than human density, resilience and biological efficiency of her musculature. Her strength is very impressive, as it enables her to perform physical feats that are beyond humans, such as moving a mountain top without said rock crumbling under its own mass or bending a steel beam with minimal effort.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Power Girl is able to move at incredible speed by sheer force of will. This extends to her perceptions and allows for feats such as catching (or dodging) bullets in mid flight as well as covering vast distances in little or no time. This also confers to:
		- **Superhuman Agility**
		- **Superhuman Reflexes**
	+ **Super-Breath**: Power Girl is able to create hurricane force winds by inhaling air from her lungs then releasing it. She can chill the air as it leaves her lungs to freeze targets. She can also reverse the process to pull large volumes of air or vapor into her lungs.
	+ **Longevity**: Power Girl can live longer than regular humans, so f not forever.

### Abilities

* **Genius Level Intellect**
* **Hand-To-Hand Combat**
* **Seduction**
* **Mathematics**

### Weaknesses

* **Kryptonian Physiology**: Power Girl possesses the same potential weaknesses as average Kryptonians. These include:
	+ **Vulnerability to Kryptonite**
	+ **Vulnerability to Magic**
	+ **Tickling**