Death Analysis: The Warrior Princess of Tamaran, The Ginger-Skinned Supermodel who can fly, Goddess of the Ghost Sector and New Titan, Starfire

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Origin:

Emotion has long been known to increase our capacities. Happiness improves health, sadness has been shown to increase creativity, and anger allows for bursts of strength beyond what is normally possible. Is it any surprise then that there might be a world that reveres the transformative power of emotion. On the distant world of Tamaran, emotion and passion rule all society.  The Golden skinned natives absorb sunlight for power and release it in their emotional displays. Born to the Royal House of Tamaran were two sisters. However the older of the two, Princess Komand'r was born a genetic freak, unable to fly like the rest of the populace. Thus the crown princess became the second sister Koriand'r. Komand'r in envy sought to usurp the crown from her sister. She betrayed Tamaran, allying with their longstanding enemies the Gordanians and usurped control of Tamaran causing her sister Koriand'r to be sold into slavery.

For 6 years Koriand'r suffered unbearable physical torture and the degradation of slavery. But while her body was broken many times, her spirit was strong and could not be broken. In the course of her enslavement Koriand'r found herself in the possession of the Psions, a species of vile scientists. Curious to see how much energy the stellar-energy absorber could withstand before exploding, Koriand'r was put into a device designed to charge with ever increasing stellar energy. This experiment caused the machine to explode instead and Koriand'r to gain abilities beyond even those of her race.  

With her newfound powers, Koriand'r instigated a slave revolt, overthrowing her captors and made her escape to Earth, foretold there by the Earth Psychic Raven. With the help of Raven's new team of Superheroes known as the Teen Titans, Princess Koriand'r defeated her pursuing captors driving them back. Joining the team, she took the Superhero Moniker that was a direct English translation of her Tamaranian Name and became...Starfire. 

(For the record everything in DC is canon currently. Also the Teen Titans didn't seem affected by the timeline changes in COIE anyway.)

Strength:

Even without her solar based amp, Starfire's strength is at superhuman levels. Without her powers she was strong enough to crack a wall while holding back. Without a solar amp she should be at least comparable to other Tamaranians. Ancient Tamaranians were able to fight creatures capable of boiling away cool mountain lakes with their sheer strength.

Starfire normally is one of the strongest aliens on Earth and as of the current Rebirth Roster Starfire is called by Beast Boy the strongest of the Titans. Starfire proves this by regularly comparing to and surpassing her very powerful teammates. Starfire was very confident in her ability to beat both the second Wonder Girl and Post-Crisis Superboy at the same time. The Post-Crisis Superboy moved the Earth against Doomsday, survived a planetbusting punch to the face, could accidentally crack a planet in half, as well as fighting beings far above planetbusters all the time including Superboy Prime, Gog, and a Doomsday Clone. The Second Wonder Girl was able to take hits from Devastation, defeat a Superman Android, and pull Superboy away from a Black Hole he couldn't break free from. And Starfire was confident in her ability to contain both of them at the same time. Starfire has overpowered the first Wonder Girl, Donna Troy in raw strength. Donna Troy's power was enough to get the upper hand on Superwoman (The Evil Universe counterpart to Wonder Woman) and can knock around the Demon Etrigan. It Took the Daxamite (equal to a Kryptonian) Mon-El and Donna Troy together to hold back Starfire. Mon-El alone was strong enough to move a white dwarf star by himself. Starfire in general has proven herself comparable to superior to Donna Troy in strength at pretty much every possible interval. 

During the Convergence Event, Starfire and Donna fought against the Extremists. Donna would not have been able to beat them. The Extremists are strong enough to be destroy planets and have gone toe to toe with the Justice League. One of them, Lord Havok, reiterates how he has destroyed planets. Even when Donna was the Titaness Troia, stronger then her base state, Starfire is said to be able to defeat her. Starfire was able to knock back Troia with her strength despite Troia trying to kill Starfire. Speaking of Titans, with her raw strength, Starfire was able to physically overpower a Titan Level Giant, steal his weapon and slay him with it. A comparable Titan to this giant and Troia was the Titan Hyperion who was the sun itself. Hyperion and the Titaness Theia were able to rekindle a star of an alien world as well.

Starfire's strength was so excessive she needed to pull her punches or kill one of the Darkstars. Darkstars are strong enough to give even high tier Green Lanterns like Kilowog trouble. Green Lantern Rings autoshields can protect against black holes and supernova. With her might, Starfire was also able to harm Manhunters, who are also Green Lantern Level. Starfire's strength has made a fool of the Herald Level Firestorm.

And these aren't even Starfire's best feats. Starfire has managed to fight Wonder Woman herself effectively. Technically Wonder Woman doesn't even win the fight, it's broken off by a third party arrival. Wonder Woman has handily survived the pressure of a Black Hole and taken 3 Infinite Mass Punches without much damage. Starfire is likely above this baseline. During the New 52 Era, where everyone was 10 years younger due to them being removed from the timeline, Starfire described herself as nearly Superman strong and fast. So how strong was Superman in this era? He was strong enough that supernova were no problem to him and he could survive within a Black Hole. He was also stronger then New 52 Cyborg Superman who claims to have flown through exploding supernova.

Also while Starfire's durability and starbolt power are above her raw strength, her strength should scale to it as Starfire and her older sister Blackfire are regularly able to harm each other with their strikes. Also it should be noted that there is a misconception that Blackfire is more powerful then Starfire. While it is true that Blackfire absorbed more stellar energy and has more raw starbolt power, Blackfire spent too much time focusing on her starbolt power, and not enough on her physical power and so in physical strength, Starfire proved the superior.

Durability:

Starfire has described her skin as "quite impervious" and I quite concur. First off, it clearly scales to her starbolt power. Back in the day, villains would use Starfire's own attack her ALL the time. Here's a little compilation I made of some of the times. Starfire has managed to survive an amped blast from Blackfire. At the time Blackfire was amped so that Starfire mistook her power for X'Hal's, the Goddess of the Tamaranians. How strong is X'Hal? X'Hal mere birth as the living god was enough to cause the energy of a supernova. X'Hal can casually consume a star with her power and it is said that X'Hal can destroy an entire star system, twice. Starfire has even withstood a blast from Blackfire when she was even stronger then that. 

Similar to strength, Starfire is similar to Donna Troy, and has many times taken hits from her, even surviving attacks from Troia, Donna's mad Titaness version. She's also survived a blast from Hyperion the Titan. Even more impressive then this, Starfire survived an attack from the King of the Titans Cronos as well as shield Donna Troy from the interdimensional attack of Titaness Thia, who at the time was able to overpower even Zeus. These versions of Cronos and Zeus should be well above Hyperion who, again, was the Sun. Also it's stated a war between these versions of the Titans and the Olympians would shake the cosmos.

Starfire was able to survive the blast of a cannon that would later do damage to the Extremists who, as mentioned above, are planet destroyers that have fought the Justice League. A surprise blast from a Green Lantern Level Manhunter barely wounded Starfire. Starfire was able to shield Green Lantern Jessica Cruz from radiation that was threatening her.

Starfire's durability is high enough to let her not get one-shot by some of the world's heaviest hitters. She was able to survive a blast from New God Orion. For comparison Orion's shockwave threatened to destroy the Earth despite being on the Moon. Starfire was able to survive the Sonic attack of Silver Swan which just one issue later knocked around Wonder Woman (who if you recall can take stellar+ attacks without much trouble). Starfire was also able take a hit from Envy with Wonder Woman's powers. Context: Envy was copying the Titans' mentor figures trying to exploit their subconscious envy at their masters power and so did have their full capacity. Envy was specifically able to copy Barry Allen's power at his height. She was also able to endure a hit from the Demon Shazam, Sabbac.

Oh and one more feat. During Infinite Crisis there appeared a Galaxy Sized Black Hole that could destroy galaxies. This Cosmic Storm was moving the universe off-balance, threatened to destroy the universe and created an unprecedented warping of the spacetime continuum. Starfire was one of the heroes capable of surviving near the event horizon of this black hole, requiring massively cosmic durability to survive, even accounting for surface area and distance from center, and speeds capable of not being immediately sucked in. 

Speed:

Starfire is fast enough to travel between the worlds with ease. She can easily fly quickly from the Moon to the other side of the Earth's surface. Even her weaker teammate Robin can avoid the light blasts of Doctor Light. Starfire herself is no stranger to dodging surprise laser attacks. However that's only beginning to scratch the surface. 

Starfire can fly across the void of space on her own power. That planet was earlier stated to be half a parsec away. At even an hour of travel that would be ~14,300c. Even in her backstory she was able to fly vast distances in space to get to Earth. Starfire has flown light-years just to retrieve one of her friends' jacket. 

When serious Starfire can go even faster, she was able to save Donna Troy from the inter-dimensional attack of Titaness Thia suggesting she's even faster then her. During the New 52 Era Starfire claimed to be nearly as fast as the New 52 Superman. How fast was this version of Superman? Fast enough to travel to Earth in 60 days from the edge of the universe. Even using the observable universe in real life this would require speeds of over 273 Billion c. This is consistent with how the Titans from earlier mentioned being able to traverse the universal seas.

However that's not even the limit as both are the speeds of an early Starfire. Later on Starfire was able to catch up to Supergirl despite Supergirl having a headstart. She was confident in her abilities to contain Superboy and Wonder Girl. Superboy and Supergirl were fast enough to fly to the Source Wall at the end of the universe in a short amount of time. Superboy was also faster then an Imperiex Probe who traveled across the universe to serve the will of Imperiex. Starfire was also able to catch up to Wonder Woman's invisible jet. The invisible jet was capable of flying into other dimensions in seconds. All of these feats would require speeds of quadrillions of times the speed of light. 

Also she kind of tagged Jesse Quick one time, a speedforce user and one of the fastest people alive. She doesn't scale to this in movement speed but she was able to react and move her arm fast enough that Jesse didn't notice and avoid it, so it's likely her attack/reflex speed is even higher.

Starbolt:

Starfire's experimentation by the Psions gave her an ability not shared by her species, the ability to release bolts of stellar energy, called starbolts. It is said that Starfire wields power that defies measure and imagination. Starfire has the power of the sun raging within her 24/7 which is why she is called a walking solar flare and can conjure the living flame of a star. 

Starfire's power is enough to destroy a wall by accident while she is sleeping. With just one finger she is able to reduce automatons to ash. She can destroy a building with a crook of her finger. Starfire's starbolt was able to tear through a distant mountain. Starfire was able to convincingly replicate the heat of a nuclear weapon being able to set a desert ablaze with the heat of 100 suns.

Getting more serious, Starfire's starbolt was able to break the grip of the Chida beast her strength could do nothing too despite the fact that Starfire was weakened. Her starbolt was also effective on Enhanced Blackfire who was earlier mistaken for X'Hal. It is also an effective weapon compared to her fellow Titans Members. The Starbolt was effective against Wonder Girl, could have killed Cyborg (disguised as Wildabeast) and was able to force back Demon Raven. Starfire in fact was said to be the only one of the Titans Assembled, Cyborg and Donna Troy included, that could put down Demon Raven.

Remember how powerful Green Lantern Auto-Shields are? Well Starfire's starbolts can overwhelm them. Her blast worked on a Green Lantern, as well as Sinestro and completely one-shot Black Lantern Terra. She was also able to blast a Manhunter on the same tier of power and cause it to release Harbinger. Starfire's starbolt can even be compared to the high tiers of the DC Earth. Starfire matched Jon Kent's Heat Vision with her starbolt. Starfire's starbolt worked on Atlas in combination with Donna Troy, and Atlas was said to be nearly as strong as Superman. During the New 52 Era, there was a Superman Enemy named Lord Helspont, a Galactic Warlord. Lord Helspont was strong enough to tank New 52 Superman's Heat Vision and overpower him. During the New 52, Blackfire and Starfire actually reconciled and Blackfire actually tried to change. When Lord Helspont killed Blackfire for trying to protect her sister, Starfire's power became strong enough to harm even him. Starfire's power has proven effective against Envy with Wonder Woman's powers and against Wonder Woman herself. Starfire's power lives up to the description of defying measure and imagination by challenging even the gods. Her Starbolt power proved able to harm Cronos, King of the Titans. In a fair fight she was able to defeat the powerful New God Devilance the Pursuer. The likely weaker New God Lightray was able to create a sun and shatter a planetoid while weak.

 Starfire can also unleash an even bigger omndirectional energy burst called a nova:

Starfire's nova increases her already magnificent power. It was able to destroy Brainiac's ship whose shields can tank supernova. It was able to one-shot Enhanced Blackfire mistaken for X'Hal herself. It was able to destroy numerous Chida beasts that could tank her normal attacks. That said the technique is highly exhausting to use. As an energy-intensive omndirectional stellar energy burst, and given the two species implied connection, it's possible this ability is related to the Kryptonian Solar Flare. 

Starfire can control the intensity of her starbolts at will and can focus them to give them more damaging potential. She can concentrate her beam to a pencil thin point. She is very accurate with her starbolts. She can shoot the guns out of enemy hands and hit a missile at vast distance. She has at times demonstrated the ability to fire her starbolts hundreds of kilometers.

Starfire can fire several starbolts from each hand at once, at least 5. Also this one time she created an energy ball that fired several bolts from it. Not sure what advantage if any this gives. She also has a few other tricks she can do with her starbolts. She can create an impromptu shield with her starbolt beam or cauterize a wound with a low level starbolt. A flash of her starbolt can create a bright blinding light or Starfire instead can maintain a less bright light for a while

Starfire can also implode her starbolts rather then explode them, causing them to suck in nearby energy.

First usage of energy-draining, Starfire can make her starbolts implode rather then explode, sucking up nearby energy. Speaking of which...

Energy Absorption:

Starfire's power comes from sunlight. Interestingly Earth's Sun is weaker then Tamaran's, suggesting that most of Starfire's feats are technically slightly weakened Starfire. Starfire's solar based powerset does suggest she can run out overtime but this is unlikely in combat due to how efficient it is. A few hours of solar charging can allow Starfire to survive for days underground. Starfire can take in even more solar energy in systems with multiple suns. Too much light can overwhelm Starfire's body, though her body will adapt and process it eventually even making her stronger overtime.

Because Starfire's body subsists on stellar energies, she does not need oxygen to breath and can survive in a vacuum fine. Starfire can drain energy from her surroundings as well, which she used against a Kryptonian. Humorously, just regular blasts of her solar power was enough to depower Bizarro.

Starfire can drain energy from others and absorb enemy fire.

Heat/Fire Manipulation:

Starfire can emanate heat and fire. Merely touching her skin melted Red Hood's gun. She can shoot fire from her hands or more commonly her hair can set alight and she can use it as a weapon theoretically. Her hair fire can burn tanks and regularly stretches long distances:

The last one of which demonstrates astronomical distances. 

Language Absorption:

Starfire can assimilate languages through kissing. This takes about 1-2 minutes to fully absorb the language depending on it's complexity. Technically it's not just kissing but any physical contact that allows Starfire to absorb languages but kissing seems most efficient. Also Starfire finds it most fun. This ability extends to animals. Starfire has used this ability tactically once to figure out whether Superman was Superman or a Robot Duplicate. 

Enhanced Senses:

Starfire is stated to have superior eyesight (sorry it's hard to read, can't find a clearer scan). She can see through cloaking devices, hear things while unconscious, and can feel alcohol stimulating her on a cellular level. As the Tamaraneans are descended from a catlike species, their enhanced senses make a degree of sense.

Interestingly these senses are all based on perceiving things close by more clearly rather then perceiving things at a greater distance which Starfire has no particular feats off.

General Resistances:

Starfire's Tamaranean physiology combined with her particular powers, give her resistance to a number of abilities. She has a large pain resistance, not flinching at the pain of having an inexperienced Supergirl using her Heat Vision to cauterize her wound. She has a resistance to pressure point combat as her pressure points are off the points on a Human. Her alien physiology resists sedatives and knockout gas. She has resistance to freezing even the freezing of Mr. Freeze who previous was freezing large sections of a city. She also technically survived a hit from the Horseman of Death.

Starfire's energy are so overflowing that attempts to weaken her energy or power are resisted. An Energy dampener cannot contain Starfire's power, she can forcefully break out of power inhibiters and she was able to resist the power nullification technology of Crux.

Starfire's mind is also harder then normal to effect. Lie Detectors don't work on Starfire because of her alien physiology, her memories are particularly hard to read and Phobia could not control Starfire because Starfire is not ruled by her fears. Also Starfire's emotions are overwhelming and impossible to stop. An apathy field could not affect Starfire.

Remember the giant cosmic storm from Infinite Crisis? It's closure caused massive amounts of energy to be released as well as massive time and reality warping yet Starfire survived perfectly fine near that event.

Enhanced Love:

Because of her strongly emotional nature, Starfire has a superhuman capacity for love, even redeeming one of The Dominators. This allowed her to destroy a Blight Lord with a kiss

Enhanced Beauty:

Starfire has a superhuman level of beauty that tends to distract her opponents in combat. Her beauty draws the attraction of men, women and animals. A species of sentient rock people found Starfire attractive. Starfire's beauty would make half the women in America envious and the other half want to kill her.

What I'm getting at here is she's very pretty.

Healing:

Starfire is trained and skilled at healing though it's at a fairly low non superhuman level (basically the equivalent of regen (low) )

Skill:

The Tamaraneans are a warrior race. There were no better fighters then them. Perhaps a biased source, but they clearly are on an interstellar level as in the distant future the Tamaraneans have conquered the entire space sector they live in.

Starfire herself has been fighting since before she learned to crawl. Even powerless Starfire was able to knock out people infected with murder-rage with her bare strikes despite hold back so as to not kill them. She also knows a nerve strike that can knock unconscious. She was taught to fight by the fabled Warlords of Okaara and is good enough to defeat Blackfire's best warriors.

Starfire's skill is like that of an Amazon, a race of immortal warrior women who have trained in the arts of war for thousands of years. In a way Starfire is more of an Amazon then Donna Troy ever was. Starfire can spar with the Amazon Artemis. Starfire was able to best Donna Troy in skill 4 times in a row. And outside of Starfire, only Wonder Woman was able to best Donna Troy in skill. Fittingly Starfire was said to rival Wonder Woman herself in skill. Bear in mind that Wonder Woman regularly fights Ares, who is all conflicts across history, all war and fighting skills. Also when Donna was the Mad Titaness Troia, Starfire was again able to match Troia in skill despite Troia trying to kill Starfire this time.

Intelligence:

While Starfire might be naive to Earth ways, she is very smart in general. She is described as a tactical genius for one of her clever plans. She is trained in the art of war and recognizes a trap and saved Rann and the Milky Way via clever deduction. She was also able to defeat an energy-absorber, her usual weakness, via clever tactical thinking  Starfire also broke a bunch of children out of Hell from a demon's grip by clever manipulation. In addition she is a good tracker, able to track down Nightwing in Gotham despite his stealth skills.

Weaknesses:

Starfire has several weaknesses. Starfire originally had difficulty recognizing Earth customs and faces though she has gotten better about this. Also, according to Donna Starfire is a "impulsive, reckless, lunatic". Starfire always acts on her emotions as a woman of Tamaran. The People of Tamaran revere emotion and passion and Starfire can be impulsive and prone to just listening to her emotions.

Her power is dependent on sunlight and she can breath in the void of space since there is the same sunlight, even more sunlight since it's less diffused by atmosphere. However, underwater where light is more diffused or underground without prior solar charge, Starfire can't breath naturally. She also weakens with less sunlight.

Starfire is also holding back constantly as her full power (IE Nova) is highly draining to her. She also once claimed she was Honor Bound to introduce herself. This has only come up once.

Oh and she also sucks at tennis.

Personality:

Starfire is impulsive, emotional and prone to sudden bursts of passion. She is loving towards her friends and wrathful towards her enemies. While initially she was as much a Tamaranean as anyone, she acted as a reconciliation between the two worlds and philosophies, learning some level of self control and rationality from her Earth friends while also teaching them to be more free with their emotions. This union's philosophy led to a planetary utopia, and so while she does not wish to be she is worshipped as a goddess in the Ghost Sector. 

Starfire's greatest trait is her uncontainable spirit. Despite enduring torture that no ordinary being could bear, in 6 years of the most wretched slavery and physical abuse, Starfire never once lost her resolve or dignity. And eventually Starfire even forgave her sister Blackfire. Because she knows the only way to be truly free of slavery is to be free of the past, to be free of hatred.

Starfire is the spirit of freedom and passion, a liberator of all bodies, minds and souls from slavery and despair. 

Summary:

+Tier 9

+Stellar+ Strength/Durability, higher with Nova

+MFTL Speed (Quadrillions), possibly higher reflex/attack speed

+Energy Projection (multi-stellar energy blasts, can modulate intensity and focus, Stellar+ Level)

+Energy Constructs (Energy Ball and Shield)

+Energy Absorption

+Energy-Draining

+Elemental Projection (Heat/Fire, Light)

+Does not need oxygen to breath

+Language Absorption (Physical Contact)

+Enhanced Senses (Sight, Hearing, Touch)

+Enhanced Love and Beauty

+Low Level Healing

+Superhuman Skill (Low A Tier to Mid A Tier, Possibly High S Tier scaling from WW and Ares)

+Clever and Tactical Genius

+Resistance to Pain, Pressure Points, Sedatives, Knockout Gas, Freezing, Emotional Manipulation, Energy-Draining, Power Nullification

+Potential Resistance to Death Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Reality-Warping

-Reliant on Solar Energy (Can be overwhelmed by massive influx of energy, can run out if kept away from sunlight or if using Nova)

-Impulsive and Over-Emotional

-Holds Back

-Honor-Bound to introduce herself?

-Sucks at Tennis

Possible Opponents:

Starfire vs Gamora:

Apparently Gamora is Marvel Equivalent of Starfire. Did a quick preliminary research and seems even enough to do, and I know how much everyone wants another Marvel vs DC fight :P But anyway these two are both fairly well known due to their inclusions in the MCU and the Teen Titans animated series. As such it would probably go well.

Starfire vs Bubbles:

I've done profiles for both of these two now and I'm gonna be honest, it actually seems fairly even comparing their finished profiles. The two are both the hearts of their respective teams, and the bright optimistic girly ones. Also apparently CN tried to have a rivalry between these two with their two maligned adaptations Teen Titans Go and PPG2016 which means that something of quality might come from those two. ;)

Next Time:

Huge thanks to my friend Thor for making this outstanding Next Time Trailer. I really feel like he did an amazing job capturing the characters this time and contrasting them with this trailer.