Supergirl in the Multiverse Earth-96.0

This week out begins my month-long look at the DC Super Hero Girls universe as a way to get excited for the series’ return to comics at the beginning of June with DC Super Hero Girls: High School Reunion. To start off, we’re actually going to take a look a bit earlier with Super Best Friends Forever. Super Best Friends Forever was a (very) short lived DC Nation series of shorts from 2012 centering around Supergirl, Batgirl, and Wonder Girl and their friendship. Throughout the 5 shorts we get to see the trio of besties get into some shenanigans but we don’t get too much in the way of development past them being girl best friends. The reason I’m including and starting out with Super Best Friends Forever is because both this show and the later Super Hero Girls were both created by Lauren Faust, and both have a similar style of goofy storytelling with teen girl heroes. SBFF is generally considered a predecessor to the Super Hero Girls line of products which is why I have designated it as 96.0, 96 is the designation for DC Super Hero Girls as a whole (including both versions of the show) so I figured why not also list SBFF along with it.

Supergirl herself is never named as such but it does seem like this is the Kara Zor-El version of the character. Most of her character exploration is done through the episode Grounded where we see Supergirl being grounded by Superman for some unshown reason and she has been grounded from super-heroing and forced to stay on the Kent farm. This information does point towards this version of Supergirl being related to Superman both because of her being on the Kent farm as well as taking his grounding seriously. Potentially, since it is the Kents and not the Danvers that she’s staying with could point to this Supergirl having been adopted by the Kents, but it’s not clearly stated. One of the main stylistic choices done in this series was giving the SBFF all different body types and with that we get Supergirl being a bit bigger and I personally think it’s a great look. Otherwise the costume is fairly standard with the blue shirt and red skirt, but her sleeves are at the 3/4 length which I’m a big fan of.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. The Super Best Friends Forever Supergirl is standing in the foreground and flexing her arm. Behind her you can see the night sky and a city skyline. A spotlight shines down on her from the top right. The top right also features a motif of Supergirl’s S symbol with a 96.0 on it.