User blog comment:Baneares/Coldhearted countdown/@comment-4789909-20120309142435

let's see...are we assuming we can count anyone who's shown up in movies or television as fair game on the girl super heroes we can name as mainstream? Also are we limited to dc on this 'cause a lot of people could name female x-men along with Black Widow (Avengers movie comes out May 4th a huge number of people will see that one so...)? Also assuming being part of a team with men doesn't remove the term "independent," do you mean independent as in, not directly associated with a male counterpart?

Anyways as for female dc superheroes: Black Canary Huntress Oracle (I've known about her since before I ever picked up a comic so even though she was originally batgirl...I think she counts) Catwoman (debatable) Hawkgirl (While there's also Hawkman...do to the Justice League/Unlimited...I think people are more famililiar with her on a whole) Fire Ice Vixen Raven Starfire Zatanna

Anyways when I was about 5 years old this drove me nuts. But by the time I was 10 and the Birds of Prey tv series came on (along with the x-men movies) I felt satisfied with the whole female superhero situation.