She is forceful, and “hawk-like,” in battle situations, as well as having an “aggressive warrior” slot that usually sits empty in the Justice League.  

Rather than use the ancient Earth weapons that the Hawks tended to favor in the pages of their own title, Hawkgirl has traded them in for an electrified mace that possesses a range of interesting abilities.  In addition to being brutally effective in battle, the mace interrupt the discharge of a cannon designed to destroy worlds and negate magical spells and barriers.  While nothing has been revealed thus far in terms of its composition, it is possible that the mace is composed of Nth Metal—a metal native to her homeworld that has unique, if unspecified, properties.