SQUIRREL GIRL (Doreen Green)
Created By: Will Murray & Steve Ditko
First Appearance: Marvel Super-Heroes #8 (Jan. 1992)
Role: Memetastic Heroine
Group Affiliation: Great Lakes Avengers, The New Avengers
PL 11 (205)
STRENGTH 2
STAMINA 3
AGILITY 5
FIGHTING 8
DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 0
AWARENESS 0
PRESENCE 1
Skills:
Acrobatics 2 (+5)
Deception 3 (+4)
Technology 2 (+2)
Expertise (Animal Handling) 14 (+15) -- Flaws: Limited to Rodents
Perception 4 (+4)
Vehicles 7 (+9)
Insight 3 (+3)
Stealth 4 (+7)
Advantages:
Animal Empathy, Defensive Roll 3, Defensive Attack, Equipment 3 (Squirrely-Gig Helicopter), Improved Defense, Luck 8, Minion 2 (Monkey Joe or Tippy-Toe), Power Attack, Set-Up, Teamwork 2, Ultimate Handle Animal
Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Squirrel-Themed Physiology"
Leaping 2 (30 feet) [2]
"Sharp Claws & Rodent Teeth" Strength-Damage +1 [1]
Movement 2 (Wall-Crawling 2) [4]
"Tail" Extra Limb 1 [1]
Senses 2 (Low-Light Vision, Acute Scent) [2]
Comprehend 2 (Speak to & Understand Animals) (Flaws: Limited to Squirrels -2) [1]
"Force Attacks To Miss" Enhanced Dodge 8 & Parry 8 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst, Affects Others) (Flaws: Extras Limited to Squirrels) [32]
"Screw Up Others" Affliction 11 (Fort; Impaired/Disabled/Transformed to Incompetence) (Extras: Perception Ranged +2, Cumulative) [44]
"Benefit Squirrels/Make Others Suck More"
Enhanced Close Combat 8 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst, Affects Others Only +0) (Flaws: Limited to Squirrels) [8]
Luck Control 2 (Spend & Bestow HP on Others) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (Flaws: Limited to Squirrels) [6]
Luck Control 2 (Negate HPs/Fiats & Force Re-Rolls) [6]
Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Teeth & Claws +8 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Screw Up Others -- (+11 Perception-Ranged Affliction, DC 21)
Initiative +5
Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +3 (+6 D.Roll), Fortitude +5, Will +7
Complications:
Responsibility (The Great Lakes Team)
Responsibility (Squirrels)
Reputation (Most Powerful Super-Hero of All-Time)
Total: Abilities: 42 / Skills: 32--16 / Advantages: 24 / Powers: 107 / Defenses: 16 (205)
MONKEY JOE/TIPPY-TOE
Role: Animal Minion
PL 0 (28)
STRENGTH -5 STAMINA -4 AGILITY -2
FIGHTING -2 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 1 PRESENCE -3
Skills:
Athletics 12 (+7)
Close Combat (Bite) 2 (+4)
Expertise (Survival) 4 (+5)
Perception 4 (+5)
Technology 4 (+4)
Advantages:
Close Attack 5
Powers:
"Animal Senses" Senses 3 (Acute & Extended Scent, Low-Light Vision) [3]
"Natural Weapons- Teeth" Strength-Damage +2 [2]
"Small Size" Shrinking 12 (Feats: Innate) (Extras: Permanent +0) [25]
(-3 Strength, -1 Speed, +6 Defenses, +12 Stealth, -6 Intimidation)
Offense:
Unarmed +3 (-5 Damage, DC 5)
Bite +5 (-3 Damage, DC 7)
Initiative -2
Defenses:
Dodge +4 (DC 14), Parry +4 (DC 14), Toughness -4, Fortitude +0, Will +0
Complications:
Weakness (Small Size)- At their natural size, Squirrels are vulnerable to large creatures- even without good accuracy. Anything of Size Rank -2 or more (human size and up) using a melee attack on a Squirrel effectively strike with Burst Area Damage at their strength rank naturally.
Disabled (Animal)- Squirrels cannot speak to human beings, though they can manipulate things with their paws sort of like humans can with their hands.
Total: Abilities: -24 / Skills: 26--13 / Advantages: 5 / Powers: 30 / Defenses: 4 (28)
-How do you define Squirrel Girl? Basically being Steve Ditko's last worthwhile creation in comics before he went into hiding AGAIN, she was a one-note joke character introduced in a goofy strip where she helped Iron Man defeat DOCTOR DOOM by using an army of Squirrels. After this 1992 debut, she vanished for an eternity, basically being a trivia answer more than anything. Then Dan Slott re-used her for his
Great Lakes Avengers series, and she ended up picking up even MORE insane victories over huge threats, from the minor (M.O.D.O.K.) to the major (Thanos, with The Watcher on hand to declare this the real one and not some clone or something- though Thanos later bragged that his clones can fool even The Watcher, because writers can be butthurt fanboys sometimes, too). Some writers (and fans) lose their feces over things like this, as it "devalues" their favourites or something (me, I grew out of the "my favourite has to always win" mentality years ago- part of why my Builds are so under-powered compared to some, I guess), but nitpicking over something as obviously silly as SQUIRREL GIRL just seems bizarre to me.
-Squirrel Girl was still mainly a one-off Joke Character for a while, popping up only in random books, but in 2014, Marvel actually decided to start a really big PUSH behind her, giving her an ongoing series by a pair of Comedy Comic Book Creators, but it was rebooted by the next year, never having been really successful (the art receieved a LOT of complaints, going from "deliberately cartoony" to being quite grotesque and hideous). Sales were generally about a third of what stuff like
Thunderbolts or
Guardians of the Galaxy get (around 13-15,000 a month), never mind the top sellers of the industry... but slightly better than, say,
Drax or
Pasty Walker, Hellcat. She also appears in the
Hellcat book, and as the least-important (by FAR) member of the Sunspot-led Avengers Idea Mechanics
Avengers book.
-Of course, I'm not that huge a fan anyways. Characters like the Great Lakes Avengers & Squirrel Girl are funny for about a panel or two, and I can't imagine them lasting much longer in my mind. There's some good gags about the nature of comics, and the interpersonal stuff (like Deadpool's Chubby Chaser fetish over Bertha) is OK, but it's altogether not really my thing to read a "happy, wacky" comic book. I like the word gags or occasional jokes in stuff like
Secret Six better. Or characters that are funny because they ACCIDENTALLY suck (Barrage of the Dark Riders... I love his "No Hands Having" ass).
-Squirrel Girl's a basic weaker build, with PL 8 defensiveness because she's hard to hit, but only PL 6 in melee, with a bunch of virtually useless powers (Comprehend Squirrels- not even Animal Control!). But there's some big things about her... Luck 8, something most GMs would probably not want you to have, but you don't beat Thanos without whipping that sucker out there. Joke Characters are kind of hard to stat when they prove occasionally effective, but that goes a long ways. Then there's Luck Control... 2 ranks to screw others up, and 2 ranks to bestow HPs upon Squirrels. THEN there's 11 ranks of Afflicting Others With Suckiness (Perception-Ranged of course), and the ability to make Squirrels into elite fighters (Tippy-Toe & Monkey Joe would become PL 4 Close Combat fighters. Squirrel Girl is a PL-breaking Beast of a build that cannot be stopped. Be afraid.