“ | Call me the Kryptonian crusher, coz I just blasted Stupid-girl into oblivion! | ” |
#PowerSurge is the thirtieth episode of Season 1 of DC Super Hero Girls.
Plot[]
While fighting Livewire at a power plant, Supergirl is seemingly disintegrated by a massive lightning blast. She survives and returns to the hideout, but learns from a news broadcast that the public believes her to be dead. Seeing the chance to break away from the complaints over all the damage caused by her fights, she adopts the new identity of Power Girl, along with a less abrasive personality. She passes herself off as a counterpart of Supergirl from an alternate Earth and soon gains popularity, but her ego causes a rift with the other girls. After Livewire publishes an unflattering account of her fight with Supergirl, Power Girl angrily dismisses both it and her friends' attempts to remind her of what Supergirl stood for. During a fight at the reopened power plant, Livewire blasts Power Girl into a crater and boasts about defeating her as easily as Supergirl. Power Girl takes her friends' words to heart and resumes her Supergirl identity to knock out Livewire. The villain is arrested, and Power Girl "leaves" Earth as the workers start complaining about the newly wrecked plant all over again, to Supergirl's annoyance.
Characters[]
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Cast[]
- Kimberly Brooks as Karen Beecher/Bumblebee
- Grey Griffin as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman
- Mallory Low as Leslie Willis/Livewire
- Max Mittelman as Clark Kent/Superman
- Tara Strong as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl
- Nicole Sullivan as Kara Danvers/Supergirl/Powergirl
- Fred Tatasciore as News Reporter
- Myrna Velasco as Jessica Cruz/Green Lantern
- Kari Wahlgren as Zee Zatara/Zatanna
Trivia[]
- This episode aired online after one year of original web series' episode, "For the Girl Who Has Everything".
References[]
- When Zee tries to give Kara a new superhero outfit, some of the costumes references the following:
- The first outfit comes from Superman: The Animated Series;
- The second coming from the 2001 Justice League animated series; and
- The third one is from the 1984 Supergirl movie.
- Zee giving Kara a new suit is based of the 1992 and 2019 Aladdin, when Genie gives Aladdin a prince suit in the live action remake and turning Abu to various animals in the animated one.
- Kara refers to the television show host who interviews her as Hellen, a possible allusion to Ellen DeGeneres and her eponymous daytime talk show.
- This is the first episode that Diana wears glasses, like from the doll version.
- Supergirl and Powergirl both mention "Earth-One" and "Earth-Two," a reference to the two primary universes of DC Comics in the Golden and Sliver Age of Comics. Powergirl is even known as "Kara Zor-l," a reference to the missing "e" in Kryptonian names.
- Superman mentions "Earth-5", which actually exists in the DC multiverse.
- In the Spanish-American version, when the Super Hero Girls see Kara as Power Girl in the interview, Zee says: "¿No quieren torcerle el cuello?" (translation, "Don't you want twist her neck?"), referring to Man of Steel film, where Superman breaks General Zod's neck.
Errors[]
- When Powergirl is about to punch Barbara, Barbara is suddenly wearing her Batgirl mask and Powergirl's cape is missing.