Could power girl be Lois and Clark's daughter or grand daughter?

[davids]

With power girls origin now up in the air. [no more atlantean, her recenet vunerability to kryptonite.]

The fact that in the superman comics Lois is talking about wanting a baby. Could powergirl be their time lost daughter or grand daughter?

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It's possible, I suppose, but I doubt it.

I can't imagine DC would lock themselves into a set timeline with that sort of move.

And besides, the Power Girl situation is supposedly going to be resolved in JSA, not in the Super-titles.

[Gaz]

Couldn't it be a Cable/Rachel Grey type situation?

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Couldn't it be a Cable/Rachel Grey type situation?With Cable, they already had a kid to work with. Like I said, that sort of thing wouldn't be impossible, but I can't really see DC deciding to go there (davids's entire posting history aside).

With Rachel, they were using the MU's alternate reality set-up. DC could potentially use Hypertime to achieve the same effect, but they've been hesitant to do so of late.

I'd say the latter is more likely than the former, but neither seems really probable to me.

[Smarty Jones]

Though I hope that Power Girl is not made to be the child of Clark Kent and Lois Lane. But on another note, I have never understood why DC continues trying to bring in a Supergirl analogue when Power Girl exists.

[Legato]

Not gonna happen. On the other hand it has the potential to be a pretty interesting Elseworlds story.

[yenaled]

I thought she was going to be linked the gem world.

suppose she could be a Daxanite.

[Eliseu Gouveia]

Blondeness cames from recessive genes.

I´d imagine that it´s not very likely that two parents with black hair (dominant genes) would give birth to a blonde girl (recessive gene), but someone more gifted on all things genetic can probably enlihghten you better than me :)

[Bordnlazy]

She could always end up being Kon-el's daughter!!!!!!!! :eek: HA! so what really the origin on this character? I trying to find info and am finding myself getting confused?!?!?!

[Gaz]

She could always end up being Kon-el's daughter!!!!!!!! :eek: HA! so what really the origin on this character? I trying to find info and am finding myself getting confused?!?!?!
We don't know, it keeps getting changed.

[Lorendiac]

Blondeness cames from recessive genes.

I´d imagine that it´s not very likely that two parents with black hair (dominant genes) would give birth to a blonde girl (recessive gene), but someone more gifted on all things genetic can probably enlihghten you better than me :)

I'm no geneticist, but if I remember the way they explained it in my high school biology textbook once upon a time . . . Lois could easily have a "black-haired dominant gene" paired with a "blond-haired recessive gene" and we wouldn't know the difference because only the black hair would show. If Clark were in the same situation, and if the two of them successfully reproduced, the odds would break down like this:

25% chance: The kid gets two black-haired genes, one from each parent.

50% chance: The kid gets one black-haired gene from one parent, and one blond-haired gene from the other, and ends up with dark hair.

25% chance: The kid gets two blond-haired genes, one from each parent, and ends up with fair hair.

Of course, all this rests upon the fascinating assumption, totally against everything we think we know about genetics, that Kryptonian genes and Earth-human genes would be able to mix together to produce offspring, even though they are two entirely different species that developed on different planets. The fact that Superman superficially resembles an Earthman of Caucasian descent does not mean anything about his genes being compatible.

I've had this on my mind because my next installment of my "Superhero Reproduction" series, almost completed and probably to be posted on these forums later this week, includes a full discussion of all of the different answers writers have come up with to the question of "What would happen if a Kryptonian Male tried to get an Earthwoman pregnant?"

One thing that's become extremely clear to me is that DC's Official Policy on the subject is: "We REFUSE to tie ourselves down to a single Official Policy on the subject!"

Isn't that courageous of them? ;)

(Incidentally, speaking of Power Girl possibly being retconned as the child of Lois and Clark, I once read a rumor that Power Girl was originally pitched to an editor that way at the very beginning, way back in the 70s! She would have been revealed as the daughter the Earth-2, Golden Age versions of Lois and Clark had been raising at home for the last 18 or 20 years or so, the same way the Huntress in the 1970s was presented to us as the grown daughter of Earth-2's Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle after their own happy marriage back in the 50s. But apparently someone at DC thought that would be too darn confusing when there was already a cute blond girl who was like a younger and feminine version of Superman - the Earth-1 Supergirl. So Power Girl became her Earth-2 analog until Crisis rearranged everything.)

[Paradox]

davids just makes things worse:

With power girls origin now up in the air. [no more atlantean, her recenet vunerability to kryptonite.]

The fact that in the superman comics Lois is talking about wanting a baby. Could powergirl be their time lost daughter or grand daughter?

Good lord, I hope not. That sounds like something Chris Claremont would do (and has done, ad nauseum). Even the silly Arion-related origin was better than THAT!

[sikkbones]

i was thought powergirl original origin was more realistic than the whole argo city bs from the supergirl movie....

how dumb is dc to have retconned a character out of exsistance that had a movie based on her.

[Lorendiac]

i was thought powergirl original origin was more realistic than the whole argo city bs from the supergirl movie....

how dumb is dc to have retconned a character out of exsistance that had a movie based on her.

Well, not all movies are equally impressive. Last year I finally watched that movie straight through for the first time in my life. I can see why it didn't pose a big reason to keep Supergirl around. If it had been better-written and had made a few hundred million at the box office, I imagine nobody ever would dared to suggest it was time to get rid of the original Supergirl. But I don't think that movie was wildly successful when it came out, so perhaps her enemies at DC were able to use it as "proof" that the old Supergirl had become useless and expendable?

[Stanlos]

I hope Peege comes out of this okay and doesn't get kilt on top of the further dissing going on in JSA. Poor thing.

[amphetamine]

We don't know, it keeps getting changed.

Reminds me of something someone said on a forum during the whole "who is the Identity Crisis killer?" speculation:

Power Girl did it. "I kill one wife per month until someone explains my origin."

I'm not sure if she has Hawkman beat on the origin re-writes, though.