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Originally Posted by IndigoErth
True, it wasn't necessary at all to give her powers. It's already "new" enough that they made the first teen April for a show. The alien hybrid is an odd choice, but she was partly an experiment, so it's more or less reasonably explained. They could have just left it at that though. Not having powers could have pushed the characters into more interesting solutions rather than...April can just levitate someone/something, etc.
Though I'm wondering what they think makes girls with powers OP vs boys with powers... One on a Mary Sue level, sure, though there is also a male equivalent they aren't complaining about?
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The cited example is Teen Titans. The two girls in that show are Raven and Starfire, the former is a demonic witch who will bring about the apocalypse, the latter is an alien princess with powers similar to Superman. The three boys are Robin who has no powers at all, Beast Boy whose powers are very clearly limited and Cyborg who is vulnerable machine errors. Obviously the girls were more powerful but only because their powers didn't have limits or flaws in the same as with the boys', it's not a very good example for citing this problem.
A better example might be Hermione Granger. She doesn't really have more experience with magic than Harry Potter, her background is fairly similar to his (abuse aside) yet she tends to outshine him and most other characters in terms of knowhow, maybe she has less raw potential than him but clearly she is meant to do better in an academic sense since she is better than kids who have grown up around magic. So that might demonstrate the "Mary Sue" tendency a bit better but I'm not sure.
With the Teen Titans example it's just an unfortunate team roster. If you were to make a superhero team that consists of Black Widow, Mockingbird, Elektra, Doctor Strange and Sentry then you could easily make the reverse argument.