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What? The one with with the big tail who talks to squirrels?
- Doreen Green, a.k.a. Squirrel Girl
Fanboy #1: Squirrel Girl is Marvel’s Batman. She beats people she shouldn't be able to beat.
Doreen Green is Squirrel Girl, aka either The Anti-Life or the Slayer Of All That Breathes. She is also Marvel Comics' most powerful hero.
She first appeared in a one-shot story in 1992 in an anthology series, Marvel Super-Heroes Special, where after explaining her powers to Iron Man, she showed her invincibility by defeating both Iron Man and Dr. Doom. The story was written by Will Murray and drawn by Marvel Comics legend Steve Ditko. Since the art and story had an old Silver Age touch that didn't take itself seriously was published in the Dark Age that marked The Nineties, the story was notable for how out of place it felt.
Few people actually read the story when it first came out, but after the scans were posted on the Internet, Squirrel Girl slowly became an Internet meme. The fact that Dr. Doom was defeated in such a ridiculous manner, combined with the fact that it was one of the few Doom losses that was never retconned as a Doombot due to the obscurity and ridiculousness of the story, meant that Squirrel Girl became a popular Memetic Badass in Internet fight threads despite having only appeared once in a story no one read. Finally, Squirrel Girl became an Ascended Meme when Dan Slott let her join the Great Lakes Avengers in the Great Lakes Avengers: Misassembled mini-series published in 2005.
She didn’t do anything of real importance during said mini-series other than being cute (and a Naive Newcomer). In fact she faced a low point in her superheroine career by being strangled by a E-List Mook (fortunately, that was just a clever Xanatos Gambit on her part). It wasn’t until her next appearance in the GLX-Mas Special that her most defining trait became known: in that special, she defeated M.O.D.O.K., Terrax, and even Thanos himself, while giving us evidence that she had already defeated Giganto, Mandarin and Dr. Doom. Her next appearances strengthened her status as an invincible hero by having her defeat Deadpool ("you evil, evil man!"), Bi-Beast, and Pluto. This culminated in the Deadpool/GLI Summer Fun Spectacular, where Dr. Doom was shown as being completely afraid to confront her, even after she infiltrated Latveria on her own.
Among her powers are enhanced strength, speed, agility, and reflexes, as well as the ability to leap several stories. She possess small razor sharp claws in place of fingernails, and she's able to use small retractable knuckle spikes. She can communicate with squirrels, which she uses to attack and/or distract her enemies (as well as breaking the fourth wall). Oh, and her lips taste like hazelnuts, and she can cuddle herself with her semi-prehensile tail. And according to her official Marvel powergrid, all of her stats are through the roof.
Squirrel Girl is characterized as being a Silver Age character being completely out of place in modern comics; she will frequently break the fourth wall to mention this. The fact that she frequently wins against more powerful enemies using ridiculous means can also be seen as a throwback to the Silver Age.
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