by Mr. Cryptic » July 5th, 2012, 10:16 am
I'd say that out of the heroes of Victory City, Ishtar is the most powerful. It's a little tricky to say that one heroine is the best, since some have weaknesses others don't have. Ishtar can be defeated by a number of different methods. This might be kind of a weird comparison, but I imagine Ishtar being kind of like a vampire, in that vampires are mostly invulnerable, but very susceptible to a certain kinds of attacks (crosses, garlic, sunlight, etc.). Ishtar is like that in that there is a list of things that can stop her (irridite, overuse of her own powers, extreme sexual arousal, her need for intercourse to dissipate prana, etc.).
Brickhouse is similar in strength and invulnerability to Ishtar. I want to give my other heroines some room to grow. I don't imagine Ishtar getting more powerful than she is, since she's already the queen of the gods.
Pitbull is a lot like Wolverine, and probably similar in power. I originally imagined her having a bite attack (instead of a claw attack). I decided it would be better to not be so literal and instead make her really good at grabbing and pinning opponents. She's not nearly as strong as Ishtar or Brickhouse, but she has a superhuman ability to find pressure points and weaknesses in order to pin more powerful foes in wrestling holds.
Sonic Siren's offensive ability is pretty good, although her blast are not strong enough to hurt Brickhouse (at least we can assume that since her blasts didn't phase Ultra Maxima who has Brickhouse's power). Siren can also hypnotize with her voice, but she hasn't been shown using that yet (I don't think her hypnotic abilities are quite as powerful as some others). I'd like to do more with both of these characters eventually.
Ocelot Woman is BCs character, so I try to keep her true to his stories. She's kind of like Ishtar, in that she can be captured easily sometimes, but she's tends to escape too. I infer from her stories that her lasso is pretty powerful (like Wonder Woman's). She can alter memories, and I kind of inferred that she could use the lasso to restore Maria Jones' will.