Perhaps the most desired teamup between counterparts that never occured was with the Batmen, who never actually met (although they did work on a case together tackling the same foe in different eras). However, a close second would be with the Last Daughters of Krypton, Supergirl of Earth-One and Power Girl of Earth-Two.While Kara Zor-El and Kara Zor-L physically looked identical, they were each distinct in their personalities and perspectives. The former aka Supergirl had actual interactions into her early teenage years with her parents and fellow Kryptonians in one their world’s two surviving metropolises, Argo City, jettisoned from Krypton-One during that planet’s explosion. Then, when sent to Earth-One, she was immediately bonded to her cousin Kal-El and modeled herself after his alter ego of Superman.
Whereas the daughter of Zor-El imitate her cousin, her doppelgänger the daughter of Zor-L refrained from doing this. Raised from infancy by cybernetic representations of her parents and other Kryptonians within the artificial dreamworld fabricated aboard her Symbioship into her late teen years, she only had experience with idealized versions of real people. When the first actual person she met was her much older cousin Kal-L, she felt somewhat disillusioned by his overprotectiveness, and formed her own distinct identity as Power Girl.
These divergent life experiences would’ve made an interesting dynamic, had the two women met in person. Actually, they did meet once, albeit briefly, and their interchange speaks volumes as to how they viewed one another.When a cosmic entity known as the Adjudicator came first to Earth-One then three other parallel planes of existence including Earth-Two, Earth-X and Earth-I(mmortality) with his synthetic minions to plague those planets, Womder Woman enlisted the aid of heroines on her world and others. Among these were Kara Zor-El and Kara Zor-L, the former assisting Madame Xanadu and Phantom Lady on Earth-X and the latter assisting the Huntress and Black Canary on Earth-Two.
During their final confrontation with the Arbitrator, the Maidens of Might had a brief one panel interaction that showed a rather lack of mutual respect that their cousins shared. Then they parted along with their fellow heroines rather abruptly when this odd case concluded. Perhaps Supergirl heard from her cousin Kal-El about his first meeting with Power Girl, when her counterpart flirted with him! Apparently, being her own cousin’s Earth-One counterpart did not dissuade Power Girl from hitting on him!
Power Girl returned to Earth-One for annual Justice League/Justice Society teamups. And Supergirl once joined the Justice League on an adventure versus the Commander on Earth-Two, and met her counterpart's Justice Society allies. Despite these cross-dimensional visits between the Girls of Steel, these two never again met. Perhaps the reason is the adjoining frame of a potential interaction between the two Girls of Steel. As a result, these Girls of Steel weren't able to build a lasting relationship like the Supermen, Flashes, Green Lanterns, and others of their two worlds.
By the time they'd have a chance to start over with one another, the Crisis on Infinite Earths occurred, leading to the tragic death of Supergirl in the Anti-Matter universe, while Power Girl was left behind. At that point, realizing her cosmic twin made the ultimate sacrifice to save all reality while she herself was left behind to safeguard her adopted world. Power Girl undoubtedly formed a new respect for Supergirl she may not have had previously.
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