This profile is about the sword-and-sciencery (new word !) heroine Starfire, back in 1976. Only a young woman’s sword and her courage will challenge the inhuman hordes who would enslave her people !

A Legion of Super-Heroes enemy and Fatal Five replacement member. Acid touch, experienced mercenary.

Another agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., mostly for those Marvel Universe campaigns where S.H.I.E.L.D. plays an important role. More of a technical type, but fairly senior.

From the early 2010s Gail Simone series The Movement, in the DC Universe. Renegade Laotian-American ex-cop with an attitude, a sword, wings and two angry angry fists.

An obscure robot who nearly beat the Avengers in 1965. Strong fighter. Article comes with a section about the continuity mysteries of Sin Cong/Siancong.

An expy of Street Fighter’s Ryu who appears in a number of SNK brawling games. Fairly generic martial arts hero.

A young but remarkably proficient kid sister type, from the Art of Fighting and King of Fighters brawling video games. Tee hee !

The world’s first mechanised ninja Robin Hood in full armour, from Soul Calibur and Tekken fighting video games.

The samurai type in the schlocky Endworld 1980s post-apocalyptic novels.