Saturn Girl
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Saturn Girl is a fictional character, a DC Comics superhero, a telepath and a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, an organization of teenage heroes that exists one thousand years in the future. Her alter ego is Imra Ardeen of Titan, the moon of Saturn. She first appeared in Adventure Comics #247 (April 1958).
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Silver Age
During the Silver Age of comics, Saturn Girl was the 30th century hero Imra Ardeen of Titan, a planet of powerful telepaths. She, Lightning Lad, (whom she later married) and Cosmic Boy were the founding members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, an organization of teenage heroes formed to honor the legacy of Superboy. She is the first female character to head a group of superheroes.
Saturn Girl's design has fluctuated over the course of various series reboots. Her first design featured a yellow blouse with black trim, a "Saturn" planet design, her code-name "Saturn Girl" written on the front, and a green skirt and boots. Her second and most familiar design was the red and white blouse with a yellow planet Saturn, red skirt and leggings, and white boots.George Perez provided her with a pink bikini design, but successive retcons have brought back the familiar red and white costume.
Her powers, in her Silver Age incarnation, appeared to be limitless: she could summon distant people, probe human, electronic and animal minds, "push" weakened minds, and even directly control other's thoughts and emotions.
Early '90s Reboot
After the reality warping effects of the Zero Hour series, Imra remained known as Saturn Girl, and a founder of the Legion along with Cosmic Boy and the renamed Live Wire. Initially torn between her two fellow founders romantically, after she was left catatonic from shutting down the Composite Man's mind, and her mentor Aven was only able to restore her to an infant-like state, she demanded Garth, and it was only after he told her he needed her that she was restored to normal.
Later, controversially, after half the Legion, herself included, were stranded in the past by the Emerald Eye, she would unconsciously animate the comatose Cosmic Boy and almost married him in that state before her subconscious mind rebelled, turning Cos into Garth until she shut down the link and Cosmic Boy was properly awakened.
Later still, after Invisible Kid's resignation, she became Legion leader, and stationed Garth as part of a second group of Legionnaires on a spacestation known as the Legion Outpost to avoid the appearance of nepotism, a fact which irritated him for some time until the three founders went on a mission together against a corrupt regime using their identities and the Legion's symbols to prop up his regime, during which they cleared the air. Shortly thereafter, Garth proposed to her and she assented.
Unfortunately, both of them were among a group of Legionnaires stranded in another galaxy (Legion Lost) by a collapsing rift, during which time Imra also created a psychic projection of Apparition to stabilise Ultra Boy. When the deception was discovered, it severely strained her relationships with most of the other "Lost" Legionnaires. She resigned as leader, and soon thereafter Garth sacrificed himself to stop the mad Element Lad and allow the others to return home safely.
On their return home, her mind was strained by what she had gone through, and returned to her home moon of Titan to undergo psychic therapy, when Universo trapped her in an illusion where she had never impersonated Apparition, Element Lad was not a villain, and Live Wire had never died, to prevent her interfering as he absorbed most of the galaxy into a hivemind with himself at the centre. Depressed and angry, when Sensor broke her free, she used her anger to trap Universo in a similar illusion.
Shortly thereafter, when her and Cosmic Boy visited Element Lad's home planet of Trom, they found a resurrected Garth in a crystalline version of Element Lad's body, recreated from electrified crystals Spark had found and placed there. Uncertain of how to react to him, it was some time before they reconciled properly.
"Threeboot"
With the 2005 revamp of the Legion, Imra's personal history has stayed largely the same, although her powers (and those of the Titanian race) have now changed drastically. The Titanians only communicate telepathically, having lost use of their vocal cords due to centuries of evolution.
As a result, Imra only "talks" by broadcasting her thoughts to her fellow Legion members. She is still able to read minds, but cannot express herself in spoken language, which puts her at a disadvantage in those situations where her telepathy is useless.
The extent of her powers, though unknown, is substantially more limited in this modern version. Although she's retained the "soothing" effect of her powers from her Pre-Crisis incarnation, she is unable to probe shielded minds, and must concentrate to exert direct influence on an opponent's brain (such as disrupting an opponent's amygdala). Her mother, (a United Planet ambassador) seems more skilled than her daughter, able to instinctively sense when Imra is using her telepathy.
Imra has always been portrayed as cold, but this latest revamp furthur exaggerates this personality trait. She engages in emotional isolation, and has a very serious, introverted demeanor. This may, in part, be caused by shame over her muteness, which she managed to keep secret from the Legion (with the exception of Lightning Lad) for quite some time. In fact, Lightning Lad seems to be the only one Imra feels comfortable opening up to, a nod to their Pre-Crisis relationship.
Elseworlds and other appearances of Saturn Girl
In The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Saturn Girl appears in the form of a young, precognitive girl befriended by Carrie Kelly, also known as Catgirl. She uses the name Saturn Girl, "on account of she's not born yet". Another notable appearance was in the Amalgam title Spider-Boy Team-Up, where Saturn Girl merged with X-Men member Psylocke to form the character Psi-Girl. She was a member of the Legion Of Galactic Guardians 2099.
Appearances in other media
Saturn Girl appeared in an episode of Superman: The Animated Series with Chameleon Boy and Cosmic Boy. She was voiced by Melissa Joan Hart.