Technically girls (and boys, and potatoes) are naturally radioactive as they contain a small amount of radioactive isotopes occurring naturally. When I slept on a regular radioactive couch after eating a regular radioactive potato I became the hero known as Couch Potato!
Joseph Lee
9 days ago
If we're going with a new origin, how about a squirrel who ate the Human-Human Fruit?
Daniel Ellingson
9 days ago
There was a character in the comics called "Girl Squirrel" who might have claimed this origin, but she turned out to be something else. Ah, well.
Reminds me of the backstory for "The Crimson Chin" who was bit in his chin by a radioactive handsome actor which gave him amazing chintastic powers and a amazing chintastic costume, also his chin became about half a metre to a metre long.
Squirrel Girl was a mutant, until Disney had issues with Fox, but rather than make her an Inhuman, decided it better fit her character to say she was just born how she is but doesn't have an X gene or inhuman gene or alien genes. So fan theories can go crazy about her origins all they want.
I thought (and she thought for years) that she was a mutant but the wiki says she's not "She suffered a modification in her genes for unknown reasons". No further info. Kinda annoying.
Human-level intelligence, massive size (for a squirrel), and opposable thumbs all seem like powers a squirrel might hope to gain from being bitten by a radioactive girl.