Teen Girls With Powers

[humandoodad]

Can anyone think of a tv show, besides The Secret World of Alex Mack, that centered around a superpowered preteen/teen girl main character type premise? Cartoons count (though not Anime, because yeah, mllelaurel is right, there's a shittonne of that) .*

I'm coming up with nada and so I'm wondering, since I loved Alex Mack so much because it was a girl my age with superpowers. Also, her powers were hella awesome.

I can think of tons of preteen/teen guy shows offhand.


Books are easier to think of with powered girl protangonists.


*Editing on to clarify, as I am so bad at expressing myself without help (hi people in comments asking questions! Thank you! Sincerely!). I'm talking about shows that were aimed at older kids, preteens, teens. That the main character was a powered girl, the one that the narrative was specifically about. I'm forgetting the word for it. Even in ensemble casts, often there is one person who the story is most about, even if there are times when it focuses on other people.

Comments

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Well, there's Buffy, obviously, but I assume you're asking for pre-Buffy shows, or just plain others.

Umm... a great number of magic girl anime would qualify. Western stuff, though, I'm having trouble thinking of.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

Heh. Buffy. Truuuuue. I forgot that she started out young.

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Yep! She was sixteen in season one.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

Then, ye verily, under the rules I just made up-- she totally counts.

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Do you mean shows aimed at adults, like Buffy, or at kids?

I guess there was Sabrina the Teenage Witch, but that was more of a sitcom than an adventure show. (She also had a cartoon spin-off later on, though.)

[speshope.livejournal.com]

I would say aimed at the preteen/teen range. Buffy started out aimed at that demo, which I forget.

Oh yeah, Sabrina! I loved that show too. Until it just got tired and sad. *laughs*

[blueraccoon.livejournal.com]

Does Firefly count? River kinda had super powers. She was also crazy, but hey, you take what you can get...

[speshope.livejournal.com]

She wasn't really the focus of the show though. I mean, she was the catalyst, but it wasn't told from her perspective or with a focus on her narrative really.

I need to work on wording questions better and more clearly.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that she's superpowered, but Kim Possible. She-Ra. Jem & The Holograms. *feels lame* The X-Men cartoon felt really female-centered to me, especially since the intro character to the series was Jubilee. The Powerpuff Girls. Um.

I keep wanting to say Clarissa Explains it All, but she wasn't superpowered so much as just super awesome.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

Kim Possible! Totally.

I think the reason I fell in love with the X-Men cartoons (and thus X-Men) was because it started out with Jubes. A teen girl into a crazy superpower situation. I don't know if they did that on purpose to draw what girl audience they could, but it totally worked on me.

Heee. Yeah, Man, I was heartbroken when that show ended. I keep trying to put Veronica Mars into the catagory for similar reasons.

[theashgirl.livejournal.com]

The first thing I thought of when I saw Alex Mack was Clarissa. Even though it doesn't fit. And I'd so forgotten about the awesomeness that was Alex Mack, which is sad.

I will have to ponder this further.

Also, I have a secret love for Kim Possible. Or at least I did for a while.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

I watched Kim Possible religiously over one summer when I was home living with the parents.

[theashgirl.livejournal.com]

I love the naked mole rat.

Damn, now I want to watch Alex Mack. Gaaaah.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

Rufus!

I knooow, me too.

[theashgirl.livejournal.com]

Link to where you can buy the entire four season box set of Alex Mack for $40. (http://www.fanpop.com/external/25083)

Link to complete episode listings for Alex Mack. (http://www.tv.com/the-secret-world-of-alex-mack/show/325/episode_listings.html?season=0)

Link to at least some of the episodes online. (http://www.fanpop.com/spots/the-secret-world-of-alex-mack/videos/filter/episode)

Behold the power of the internet.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

Aaaamaaaziiing! You're an internet goddess.

[tinyklutzygirl.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I am going to sound like the biggest freak ever, but. That's So Raven. Thank you, babysitting for kids who watch the Disney channel.

Um. Yeah I can think of other young girl centered stuff, but there's no superpowers involved. Sigh.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

aaagh gaaah. I hate that show. lol. She drives me nuts.

[tinyklutzygirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's such a stupid show. But, it fits into your requirements, hence my mentioning it :)

[speshope.livejournal.com]

It totally does.

[pearllessoyster.livejournal.com]

i LOVED alex mack!!

In the Nickelodeon vein, there's always Ka-blam! (which nobody seems to remember but me) which was a bunch of semi-regular skits, I'm sure one of them had to have a super powered girl.

And Rainbow Brite? Yeah, she was totally animated and in outer space, but I had Rainbow Brite bedsheets.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

I remember Ka-blam mostly for the weird ass Action Figures parts.

heee. Rainbow Brite. A little younger than the audience I was thinking of, but true all the same.

[pearllessoyster.livejournal.com]

action league now? =AWESOME

Haha, yeah, I didn't watch much tv.. Mostly sesame street and stuff where the women were heroes in the feminist way. Which is kind of the same thing....lol

[the-rocklobster.livejournal.com]

OUT OF THIS WORLD!!!!! It was this show from the 80's, and the girl, Evie, could freeze time by tapping her two index fingers together!!!!

[speshope.livejournal.com]

OMG I loved that show so damn much! How could I have forgotten! I had a total crush on her dad. Or her dad's voice. Since he was like... in a box or whatever.

I can still sing a good portion of the theme song.

[the-rocklobster.livejournal.com]

I just won at life, didn't I? Admit it.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

You really, really did.

[the-rocklobster.livejournal.com]

:* MWAH!

[autumnyte.livejournal.com]

OMG! I had completely forgotten about that show, and it was my favorite show back in the day.

Thank you for bringing the fond memories flooding back.

[the-rocklobster.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome!

[the-rocklobster.livejournal.com]

Anytime! As Fre can tell you... four out of five people agree I'm awesome ;x

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing we probably won't have hanging out time again till Thursday because of gas costs?

[speshope.livejournal.com]

Yeah, unless you want to bus it to somewhere closer to me.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Call or email me later about this evening? I'll be at home, not on campus. And what are your thoughts about Spiderman? We *could* do it the midnight showing tonight, since we'll be out late anyway and the theatre's near your house, but I know you have Latin tomorrow, so. Tomorrow? Saturday? Sunday?

[speshope.livejournal.com]

I do have Latin tomorrow and a bunch of other stuff to do, so I wouldn't want to be worn out. I think Sunday's our best bet.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Sunday sounds good!

[speshope.livejournal.com]

Bien. I will probably be done with class early today, as it's a midterm. So I will give you a call.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Here are the times for spiderman this afternoon at valley river:

# 12:10
# 12:40
# 1:10
# 1:40
# 2:10
# 3:20
# 3:50

I'd rather go sooner rather than later, and do food shopping afterwards (I'd like to try Trader Joe's, actually). Call me later and let me know what you think is best.