Captain Atom and Maxima

Maxima makes her interests plain to the Captain, even telepathically assuming the angelic form of his wife to try and encourage his receptiveness, yet she finds herself taking an interest in Nathaniel beyond the practicality of extending her royal bloodline.



While i'm a fan of the idea of Powergirl and Captain Atom having a romantic relationship built on their friendship,  Maxima and Captain Atoms brief but actual romantic relationship in 1993 to 1995 in the comics was a likeable but short lived idea.

After they had met and the Justice League had split into three, i tended to see Maxima more or less filling the position of unofficial right hand that Powergirl once did in Nathaniel's team, the main difference was that Maxima largely applauded and encouraged Nathaniel's increasingly aggressive and proactive approach to superheroics, where you would have expected Kara to have -quite rightly- reined him in ( during this period Powergirl was in a team led first by Hal Jordan and then by Wonderwoman ).

Even after the relationship abruptly ended Maxima did seem to have feelings for Nathaniel, which from a woman who regarded love or romance as unimportant, was more than she ever previously expressed for Superman, even if she did start hounding Superman again, which felt like lazy writing ( they could have at least had her gone chasing after Lobo ).