OK, I’m going to assume that was a typo, and the "f’ is missing.
If I was a bronze/gold superheroine, I think I’d avoid “–girl” or “-lass”. I’m a guy, of course, but I would want to be “-boy” or “-lad”.
If you’re gonna be bronze, you could go with Colossus.
Like the Colossus of Rhodes.
Or Talos, like the Bronze figure on Crete (which showed up as a sorta Colossus of Rhodes in Jason and the Argonauts). OInly, being feminine, I might changed it to Talosia or something*
*Talos wasn’t described as enormous in the ancient writers, or depicted as such in ancient art – he was normal-sized, although bronze.
I’m a guy, but I don’t see any inherent problem with the use of Girl in a superhero’s name any more than Boy. Hell, in common parlance I still hear plenty of people my age refer to each other, same or opposite gender as boys and girls. Really, my larger complaint with Girl is that it’s just lame and overdone. There are certain heroes that get away with it since they’ve been around forever, obviously Superman is the OG, and others like Batman or Spider-man are iconic at this point. But I think it shows a lack of creativity to have a new hero with Man, Boy, Girl, Woman, whatever in the name unless perhaps there’s something particularly fitting in a particular case. I find things like Lad or Lass or variations equally lame because it’s basically the same idea, just with a lamer word.
So, personally, my objection would just be that the name is dumb and, in my mind, it associates more with the classic show Golden Girls than with heroism and crime fight, not because it may be sexist. But, frankly, I don’t think I’d really care to correct it, though I’d be happy to offer my opinion if I were in that situation and asked. And as for a name, meh… let the people figure out. Someone like Batman essentially picked his name when he made his costume, but if she’s going to fight just as herself, eventually something cool will catch on.
There used to be a Triplicate Lass. She could seperate into three identical bodies, the better to fight the bad guys. One of those bodies got killed and she became Duo Damsel I think.
And then another of those bodies got skragged by the Time Trapper when Llornu, Brainy, Imra, and Mon went after him to avenge Superboy’s death. It was all Brainy’s fault. Green-skinned bastich. Probably ruined her marriage too. Oh, how I loathe Brainiac 5. Didn’t realize that till just now. I will pay $676,543,876.56 to whoever takes a Burroughs-Libby continua buggy and punches him in the nads.
Ok, first, I’m gonna need to know what the hell I was smoking when I saved Cheney from the justice he so richly deserves. whatever it was, the buzz done worn off. My apologies to the world.
Second, no to “girl”. Double no to “golden girl”. The first one is diminishing in oh so many ways, and the second sounds like I need my dentures before heading out to stop a bank robbery.
They can call me “Superba”, as if the damn train hasn’t left the station. Time to find a PR firm. I think I’ll have a chat with Anderson about a big upcoming “reveal”…
I have a Ph.D., gosh darnit! Any superhero name I may bear has got to have a Dr. at the start of it! Try again, Mr. Skald-the-Rhymer-putting-words-in-Anderson-Cooper’s-mouth!
I have already explained the Cheney thing. You leapt in without knowing all the details. Happens to Spider-Man all the time. Next time you’ll know better. It’s saving the hippo that’s the real question.
Number One: Lois & Clark’s “meet cute” aside, letting a journalist’s tragically unimaginative preliminary descriptor stick as one’s nom de héroïsme is a bad idea. Trademarking oneself should be taken seriously.
One-A: It can be easy to be led astray on this by animal attraction to a cute journalist of the opposite sex, even if said journalist isn’t really into you.
Number Two: “Golden Girl” evokes Bea Arthur, so no.
Number Three: “Golden Girl”? That’s actually really generic. Oh, I’m tan and have blonde hair! So? Lots of women have that look and can described this way. If you were a pale redhead would you want your working name to be “Creamy Flame-Hair”? Something like “Golden Opal” would at least be unique.
Number Four: I can live with a “Girl” nickname, but my official working alias would probably be something else, maybe even something that sounds like a regular name. You know, a cool action hero name like Dawn Steel had.
Number Five: I’ve had six months to come up with a name, and I’m not going to replace whatever I call myself in my head with some boring thing CNN came up with.
Almost all superheroines still have reasonably proportioned boobs. (Maybe not Elisa Cameron. I said almost all.) It’s just that most superhero-drawing artists don’t know what a reasonable breast size and shape is, living as they do in the artist sweatshops of Mars, where there really aren’t very many Earth women to reference.
I knew that “Golden Girl” sounded vaguely familiar and then I rememberedthis. So I’m going to say “no” to that name.
I also object to becoming golden haired and bronze skinned in my alternate form - do my eyes turn blue too? but that’s a different discussion.
But to the discussion at hand, I could agree to a “Girl” nickname. Not that one, but if someone came up with a really good one, then maybe.
Depending on how “dark” you want to play it maybe: Dr. Demonis, Dr. DragonFire, Dr. Destructo?
If you want to be a pure white-hat then we have these:
Recalling the silly sitcom Captain Nice - Wikipedia you could be Dr. Decent or Dr. Defendo/Defender or Dr. Diamond [a girl-in-distress’s best friend]
