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.

[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.)

[blueraccoon.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!!!!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

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

[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.