I made a joke here about how every one here has slept with at least one other person in this photo. Then I figured what the heck, let’s rank these ships. I’ll be keeping it to just couples, as including throuples would take a lot more time and they don’t really interest me. I’m also not necessarily going to go by the main comic continuity versions of these characters as much as whatever I think would be the best version of the ship. Lastly, please understand: I’m aware many of these ships involve characters who have never interacted before. That’s never stopped me before and it’s not going to stop me now lmao
#10: Kendra x Nia. Shoutout to their live action actresses both being queer in real life, but this is one of the few ships that I can’t quite see the picture here.
#9: Jo x Nia. This is another one where I just can’t quite see the picture here either. However, they are the only two women here that DC actively allows to be queer and not just for Pride marketing or Elseworlds, so they’ve got that going for them.
#8: Diana x Nia. Listen, Nia is my third favorite character here (with Diana as my #1), so I don’t love that most of her ships are this low, but it is what it is. Diana Prince being Diana “It’s called chemistry. I have it with everybody.” Prince is also doing some heavy lifting to keep this pairing from being lower. That being said, I think a version of Nia closer to her CW Supergirl incarnation’s age but with the personality of her comic book counterpart (one that isn’t constrained by the limitations of network television) and just about any Diana could be a fun, May/December-ish, queer romance.
#7: Diana x Jo. While I don’t remember seeing them interact, they’re both canonically bisexual, so the chances of them ever getting together may be low, but it’s never zero.
#6: Jo x Kendra. The DCAU Justice League gave us the blueprint for how a Lantern/Hawk relationship could work. Making it queer just makes it better in my opinion.
#5: Jo x Kara. I think if Jo around the time of Far Sector had come across a Woman of Tomorrow-era Kara, these two could’ve had a beautiful disaster of a fling together.
#4: Diana x Kendra. Again, one can simply turn to the DCAU Justice League to see the appeal lol. I know the show used Shayera instead of Kendra, but I think they have similar enough personalities (at least DCAU Shayera does with most versions of Kendra I’ve seen) that their different origins doesn’t really matter.
#3: Kara x Kendra. I’m giving this the slight edge over Diana x Kendra due to recency bias because of the new DCU Superman movie. Did I ship them before this movie? No. Did they share a scene together? Also no. But vision is the ability to see potential in what others overlook lol. For starters, they’re both assholes flawed, possibly even broken (to very different extents.) Being two young women in their 20’s with seemingly small social circles, it’s not hard to imagine them gravitating towards one another because of that. Would it be healthy? Probably not, but not every relationship is going to be… and as readers, sometimes we can enjoy a little toxic yuri… as a treat (especially if, as I headcanon, Kendra may have been the one to introduce Kara to alcohol, gave Kara the idea of traveling to red sun planets in order to feel the effect of alcohol and/or was the partner Kara chose to lose her virginity with.) Secondly… they’re both hot hahahaha
#2: Kara x Nia. Superdreamer is just an underrated ship.
#1: Diana x Kara. I have so many thoughts on them bahahahahahaha
They’re my #1 & #2 favorite female DC characters of all time
They’re DC’s #1 & #2 female characters who deserve to and should be allowed to kiss more women. Diana’s canonically bisexual, Kara is consistently bi-coded, they’re both kissing women in multiple Elseworlds, so there’s no harm in one more (they wouldn’t work in DC main continuity.)
My love for Supergirl really didn’t start until the CW Supergirl series, where she’s depicted in her mid-to-late 20’s. I’ve gone back and read all her post-Crisis comics since then but Benoist is closer to the version of the character I picture in my head when I think of Kara and Diana together.
Are they my first choice of queer romance for each other? No, but they’re probably within the top 4-5 pairings that I have for both of them. It also helps that Kara has no endgame love interest in the comics (she’s been with like one person more than she’s been with any other but they haven’t been together in forever and in my opinion, that ship is better than some worse alternatives but still pretty overrated.) And Diana has Steve… so she basically has no endgame love interest in the comics (Steve’s boring, he’s always been boring, he’s been killed off three times for being boring, most of her best stories don’t feature Steve as her love interest and Diana has now spent more of her history not being with him than she has spent with him.)
The benefit of them not being my first choice of relationship for the other is that both characters are often depicted as being likely immortal, while most of their love interests are not. I do enjoy the idea of them coming together later in their lives as well.
While their relationship would mean that they don’t have a human love interest to keep them grounded, which is one of the main arguments against het S*perwonder, I’d be willing to take that trade off here. 1) None of the other arguments against het S*perwonder really applies to Diana x Kara (Superwlwonder?) and 2) when people bring up the human love interests keeping Diana and Clark grounded, they’re referring to Steve and Lois, respectively. Diana x Kara doesn’t interfere with the iconic Clois and as I stated earlier, I don’t care for Steve, so it’s less of an issue here.
They’re already canon in DC’s Dark Knights of Steel (Zala = Kara, you can’t change my mind.)
I got excited for Dark Knights of Steel II next year, so this seems like a good opportunity for me to end this by resharing the image that broke my brain three years ago:
