History YMMV / Powergirl

* ReplacementScrappy: The new Power Girl, Tanya Spears is already on her way to becoming this. Mainly because [[InNameOnly she has little-to-nothing to do with Kara, yet is still using the name]]. Her design and concept is liked, but the sheer fact that she's taken the Power Girl title and Kara has been PutOnABus in favor of her has made fans resent the character. Also she's a case of AffirmativeActionLegacy, making it look like [[TokenMinority DC has only introduced the character in a desperate attempt to look progressive]], similar to ComicBook/WallyWest's random RaceLift over in ''Franchise/TheFlash'' (before it was retconned to be a different relative of the West family).

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: ''World's Finest'' is this incarnate; make the totally heroic Power Girl a dodgy AntiHero, change her costume and remove the most famous aspects of said costume, and team her up with [[{{Franchise/Batman}} Huntress]] when Power Girl has always been a solo hero... it's like DC wanted to use a different character entirely before deciding to slap Power Girl's name onto it.
** Her post-''World's End'' interpretation, who is absurdly hostile to everybody including Huntress (and this attitude created a RelationshipResetButton with Val-Zod, which some people actually had come to like) doesn't have many fans, to put it nicely.
** And not long before that, Judd Winick's run immediately followed up on Jimmy Palmiotti's, replacing energetic fun with a far more serious and long winded conspiracy story that was more interested in tieing into ComicBook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost than Power Girl.
** Leah Williams' run has been derided by many long-term fans for making various changes to Power Girl's character, such as her citizen name being changed from Karen Starr to Paige Stetler (with "Paige" being a pun on the initials of her superhero alias), as well as her shift in characterization from an assertive and confident woman to someone who is more socially awkward and angsty. As [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvcMEeboG1k&t=1s this video]] by ''Casually Comics'' points out, the latter change makes her feel too similar to Supergirl and undermines what makes Power Girl unique as a character.

** Her citizen name being changed from Karen Starr to Paige Stetler (with "Paige" being a pun on the initials of her superhero alias) in Leah Williams' run has not suited well with many fans.

** Her post-''World's End'' interpretation, who is absurdly hostile to everybody including Huntress (and this attitude created a RelationshipResetButton with Val-Zod, which some people actually had come to like) doesn't has many fans, to put it nicely.

** Her citizen name being changed from Karen Starr to Paige in Leah Williams' run has not suited well with many.
* WhatTheHellCostumingDepartment: Power Girl's New 52 costume got this reaction from fans. Even when she went back to the more classic looks, the fact that very shortly afterwards [[spoiler:to honor a fallen Superman, the version of her home universe that had (alongside Lois Lane) raised her from the moment she arrived to Earth (seriously, she saw Lois as a ''second mother'' because of this)]] she put the "S"-shield where the "boob window" normally is made people ''explode''.

* NeverLiveItDown: No matter what she does, or how well a character she's written, Power Girl will always be mostly known as the patron saint of GagBoobs.

* [[MyRealDaddy My Real Mommy]]: While she was created by Gerry Conway, Ric Estrada and Wally Wood with the latter (apparently) coming with the idea of her having a big chest. Amanda Conner is considered the definitive artist for Power Girl as she draws her in a way that makes her look bubbly, muscular, buxom and mature-yet-attractive unlike past (and future) artists that either make her look too old or just Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} in a white leotard/bodysuit.

** Back in her solo series, there was a lot of this between Kara/Power Girl and Atlee/Terra, with a bit of PrecociousCrush subtext on the part of the latter. There was a bit of FoeYay between Kara and Satanna, though in more of a CombatSadomasochist way.

* BrokenBase: The boob window. It's either too iconic to be removed or an embarrassing, shamefully exploitative part of Power Girl's costume that makes it impossible for audiences to taker her seriously.

* {{Narm}}: Power girl saying the reason she has a Boob Widow is that she wants to have her own symbol to fill it in, but she can't think of one. And she tries to sell it like it's something Heartwarming.

* Narm: Power girl saying the reason she has a Boob Widow is that she wants to have her own symbol to fill it in, but she can't think of one. And she tries to sell it like it's something Heartwarming.

* WhatTheHellCostumingDepartment: Power Girl's New 52 costume got this reaction from fans. Even when she went back to the more classic looks, the fact that [[TooGoodtoLast very shortly afterwards]] [[spoiler:to honor a fallen Superman, the version of her home universe that had (alongside Lois Lane) raised her from the moment she arrived to Earth (seriously, she saw Lois as a ''second mother'' because of this)]] she put the "S"-shield where the "boob window" normally is made people ''explode''.

* IronWoobie: Pre-New 52 Kara, natch. She lost pretty much everything, her home, her family, her best friend, her entire universe... then during ''Infinite Crisis'' she relearns who she is, finds her cousin again... only for him to be beaten to death by an evil counterpart of his and die in her arms, leaving her alone again. And yet she still soldiers on.

** Her post-''World's End'' interpretation, who is absurdly hostile to everybody including Huntress (and this attitude created a RelationshipResetButton with Lor-Zod, which some people actually had come to like) doesn't has many fans, to put it nicely.

* ReplacementScrappy: The new Power Girl, Tanya Spears is already on her way to becoming this. Mainly because [[InNameOnly she has little-to-nothing to do with Kara, yet is still using the name]]. Her design and concept is liked, but the sheer fact that she's taken the Power Girl title and Kara has been PutOnABus in favor of her has made fans resent the character. Also she's a case of AffirmativeActionLegacy, making it look like [[TokenMinority DC has only introduced the character in a desperate attempt to look progressive]], similar to Wally West's random RaceLift over in ''Franchise/TheFlash''.

* TheWoobie: Karen lost her home planet as a child and then later on her entire universe. She was also deceived into thinking she wasn't a Kryptonian which put some distance between her and Superman for a time.