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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Half the fun of Philomena Cunk is she's like half right or at least you can see where she starts from.

I'm not into comics but now i'm genuinely curious; is there a comic story where the radiation turned a woman super? Only one springs to my mind is fantastic 4s invisible woman, which, you know, there's some subtext. I'm also not counting things like She-Hulk cause that lacks originality.

Is there more turtles turned super by ooze or radiation than women?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

There just aren't a lot of women supers with cultural staying power in the first place, and getting powers from radiation was a trope from a time there were less than average.