User blog comment:Baneares/Coldhearted countdown/@comment-4789909-20120309142435/@comment-4789909-20120309190957

Then the problem is that they are working in an established verse. Once there is a world where other superheroes exist any hero, male or female, that is created they cease to have any real independence. They tend to have heritage or teachers or lovers and those tend to be people who have an association with the established heroes in that verse.

Teams are something that form out of the necessity of an audience. Most heroes work out to be really boring if you don't have other people for them to interact with on an equal basis. Hero and the civilian-in-distress becomes dull fast whereas hero and other hero keeps interactions fun and fresh. A girl made for a team isn't so much of the problem so long as its not a girl made for the team so that a) women don't complain b)since boys like boobies so a girl will sell or c)the male characters then have people to date. If there's a girl on a team and she has her own story, reasons and motivations and interacts with the team as a hero, and if other members of the team were created for the team, then the "team" issue dissipates.

So here's a challenge (origin of character aside) find any superhero who has no ancestry within the superhero mythology(aka no mom dad aunt uncle cousin grandparent great-grandparent. great-aunt or uncle or any other family member who has ever been or trained a hero), and no children, no lovers,no teachers or students who could be deemed part of the superhero community and has never been on any team nor teamed up with another hero in any of the character's history. And can be recognized as a superhero by someone who has never read a comic.