These are the powers of Power Girl:
Powers
Power Girl originally had powers similar to those of the original Superman: super-strength, flight, invulnerability, X-ray vision, heat vision, and super-hearing. However, after sustaining severe injuries early in her JLE days, she was left significantly weaker, could not fly and lost all of her vision powers and enhanced senses. She eventually recovered her ability to fly, and remains a powerhouse nonetheless.
In the late 1990s, as a result of the controversial Genesis limited series, she was briefly portrayed as having a vulnerability to "raw, unprocessed, natural materials", such that she could not be injured by homicidal androids until one struck her with a broken tree branch. Peter David, who wrote the issue in which that happened, has explained this as having been editorially mandated; the vulnerability to natural materials has since been abandoned.
As of 2005, she has also been shown using her heat and X-ray vision once again, as well as her super-hearing, even though tests indicate her eyes are completely normal. Her control over these powers appears limited and they are expected to be explained as her new origin is clarified. She also has an occasional weakness to kryptonite, which may well be explained by her newly (re)established Earth-Two origins. In pre-Crisis times, kryptonite from one dimension did not work on a Kryptonian from another dimension; this limited immunity may therefore be a result of the merging of dimensions during the Crisis.
huh. thanks. didn't know she'd recovered her powers to the extent she had. i knew she'd had some problems, but wasn't sure where she was. still sounds like she's the physically weakest in the group, but her other powers would certainly help. i'm stil not sure who would take the majority here. i assume mary must have the magical lightning control like billy. anyone ever seen her use it?
i just read some of the formerly justice league series where she DESTROYED captain atom, hence my sudden interest in her . . . powergirl has always as i said been a bit of a mystery to me . . .
Here ya go! 😄
Whenever Mary says the magic word “Shazam”, she is transformed into a superheroine, christened "Mary Marvel" by her brother, who embodies all of these powers:
S for Selena for grace
H for Hippolyta for strength
A for Ariadne for skill
Z for Zephyrus for fleetness (and flight)
A for Aurora for beauty
M for Minerva for wisdom
Although Billy requests that Mary choose a unique superhero moniker, Mary insists upon being called “Captain Marvel” just like her brother, and the two siblings fight crime in Fawcett and around the world as “The Captains Marvel”. Captain (Mary) Marvel has the same powers, from the same benefactors, as the male Captain Marvel. In fact, they both draw their power from one finite percentage of Shazam’s power: when they both use it, each of them is only half as strong, half as fast, and half as invulnerable. After the Captains share their power with crippled friend Freddy Freeman so that he can become Captain Marvel, Jr./CM3, the power is split three ways when all three Marvels are active.
Captain (Mary) Marvel’s costume was originally exactly the same as her original Mary Marvel Fawcett costume. Beginning with Power of Shazam! #28, she began wearing a white costume to distinguish herself from the other Captain Marvel. She also began a romance with her teammate Captain Marvel, Jr, much to her brother's distaste.
Originally posted by leonidas
SHAZAM stands for different things for her? huh. didn't know that. it would seem then that she is NOT as powerful as cm. strength of hippolyta is below herc and wonderwoman.the guys have the strength edge, girls have the versatility edge. i still can't decide to be honest . . .