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* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: She was created by DC to be for Superman what Mary Marvel was for Fawcett Comics character Captain Marvel.
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* TripleShifter: In the early 80's, Kara went through an era during which she hardly had any sleep. She was working as a soap opera actress, which was extremely time-consuming and only left nighttime to operate as Supergirl. She was going mad due to the lack of sleep (her body doesn't need the rest but her mind does) and private life, so in ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' issue #376 she quits her job and tells her cousin she is moving to Chicago because she cannot juggle her job and her hero duties.
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[[Characters/SupermanCentralRoguesGallery Central Rogues Gallery]] ([[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Alexander "Lex" Luthor]], [[Characters/SupermanBizarro Bizarro]], [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Vril Dox/Brainiac]], [[Characters/SupermanCyborgSuperman Cyborg-Superman]], [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], [[Characters/SupermanDoomsdayCharacter Doomsday]], [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]], [[Characters/SupermanMisterMxyzptlk Mister Mxyzptlk]], [[Characters/DCComicsMongul Mongul]], [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryPhantomZone Phantom Zone Criminals]] [[[Characters/SupermanGeneralZod General Zod]]]) | [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryAToL A-L]] | [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryMToZ M-Z]] ([[Characters/SupermanSuperboyPrime Superboy-Prime]])\\
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[[Characters/SupermanCentralRoguesGallery Central Rogues Gallery]] ([[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Alexander "Lex" Luthor]], [[Characters/SupermanBizarro Bizarro]], [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Vril Dox/Brainiac]], [[Characters/SupermanCyborgSuperman Cyborg-Superman]], [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], [[Characters/SupermanDoomsdayCharacter Doomsday]], [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]], Characters/{{Lobo}}, [[Characters/SupermanMisterMxyzptlk Mister Mxyzptlk]], [[Characters/DCComicsMongul Mongul]], [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryPhantomZone Phantom Zone Criminals]] [[[Characters/SupermanGeneralZod General Zod]]]) | [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryAToL A-L]] | [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryMToZ M-Z]] ([[Characters/SupermanSuperboyPrime Superboy-Prime]])\\
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** Subverted in ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton''. Supergirl is horrified when she apparently kills mass murderer and hitman [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]] after kicking him. Then he takes advantage of her distress to catch her off guard, and almost fries her brains with an ultrasonic device. Right there and then she decides he has "got it coming".
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** Subverted in ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton''. Supergirl is horrified when she apparently kills mass murderer and hitman [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]] Characters/{{Lobo}} after kicking him. Then he takes advantage of her distress to catch her off guard, and almost fries her brains with an ultrasonic device. Right there and then she decides he has "got it coming".
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* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Kara is usually a nice, kind and compassionate woman, but she absolutely detests Brainiac. In "ComicBook/LetMyPeopleGrow", she actually grins when Brainiac apparently accidentally shrinks himself into oblivion. She also absolutely hates the Anti-Monitor, and it is not because he was the one who killed her. As she tells it during their battle, she has always defended the sanctity of life, but the murderer of the Multiverse is a blasphemy who does not deserve to exist.
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* EvilCostumeSwitch: The black costume sported by Dark!Kara.
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* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Kara is usually a nice, kind and compassionate woman, but she absolutely detests Brainiac. In "ComicBook/SupermanBrainiac", the mere sight of a Brainiac drone triggers her heat vision. She also absolutely hates Superwoman for her role in the death of her father.
* EvilCostumeSwitch:The Her evil duplicate Dark Supergirl wears a black costume sported by Dark!Kara.version of her costume.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: ''ComicBook/SupergirlsBigBrother'' reveals that her parents adopted her in part to fill the emptiness in their lives after their biological son died.
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** In ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica #134'', Supergirl joins the League to help find a missing Superman. They find an alien race called the Krill, who force the Leaguers to fight Despero, one of their worst and oldest enemies. Despero is sent up against Supergirl, and one of the Krills thinks she can't possibly win... and then she trashes him. Firstly [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r7RkMZ0zyx8/UN3CSbJhNWI/AAAAAAAAVH4/aLvVgA9AKVA/s1600/jla+134-05.jpg she grabs him and throws him hard enough to put him into orbit]], and then [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KFA-bEU6jaE/UN3CSit9ehI/AAAAAAAAVH8/B12ebfp-Hb4/s1600/jla+134-06.jpg she flies out of the planet, meets Despero in space and knocks him out with one punch]].
* UnstoppableRage: Kara is -- usually -- a very nice, kind person, but she's also a HotBlooded, short-tempered teenager who protects her loved ones fiercely, and she has occasionally gone on a rampage. In the ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', when the Anti-Monitor threatened with killing her cousin Superman, she went berserker and almost killed him. Yes, she nearly killed a being that devours ''universes''.
* UnstoppableRage: Kara is -- usually -- a very nice, kind person, but she's also a HotBlooded, short-tempered teenager who protects her loved ones fiercely, and she has occasionally gone on a rampage. In the ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', when the Anti-Monitor threatened with killing her cousin Superman, she went berserker and almost killed him. Yes, she nearly killed a being that devours ''universes''.
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** In ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica #134'', Supergirl joins the League to help find a missing Superman. They find an alien race called the Krill, who force the Leaguers to fight Despero, one of their worst and oldest enemies. Despero is sent up against Supergirl, and one of the Krills thinks she can't possibly win... and then she trashes him. Firstly [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r7RkMZ0zyx8/UN3CSbJhNWI/AAAAAAAAVH4/aLvVgA9AKVA/s1600/jla+134-05.jpg she grabs him and throws him hard enough to put him into orbit]], and then [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KFA-bEU6jaE/UN3CSit9ehI/AAAAAAAAVH8/B12ebfp-Hb4/s1600/jla+134-06.jpg she flies out of the planet, meets Despero in space and knocks him out with one punch]].
* UnstoppableRage: Kara is -- usually -- a very nice, kind person, but she's also a HotBlooded, short-tempered teenager who protects her loved ones fiercely, and she has occasionally gone on a rampage. In the''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', when the Anti-Monitor threatened with killing her cousin Superman, she went berserker and almost killed him. Yes, she nearly killed a being that devours ''universes''.
* UnstoppableRage: Kara is -- usually -- a very nice, kind person, but she's also a HotBlooded, short-tempered teenager who protects her loved ones fiercely, and she has occasionally gone on a rampage. In the
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Arriving on Earth, Kara found that she had been in suspended animation for decades and her cousin was now an adult while she was still a teenager. Adopting her cousin's mantle as Supergirl, she trained under both Franchise/{{Batman}} and Franchise/WonderWoman, and eventually moved in with Lana Lang, pretending to be her niece. Throughout her career, she would battle inner demons which sometimes manifested as a violent, blackclad Supergirl (hereafter referred to as Dark!Kara).
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Arriving on Earth, Kara found that she had been in suspended animation for decades and her cousin was now an adult while she was still a teenager. Adopting her cousin's mantle as Supergirl, she trained under both Franchise/{{Batman}} ComicBook/{{Batman}} and Franchise/WonderWoman, ComicBook/WonderWoman, and eventually moved in with Lana Lang, pretending to be her niece. Throughout her career, she would battle inner demons which sometimes manifested as a violent, blackclad Supergirl (hereafter referred to as Dark!Kara).
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* DefusingTheTykeBomb: Subverted with Post-Crisis Kara. An early story stated that her father trained her to be a weapon, and Superman -- with aid of Batman and Franchise/WonderWoman -- took her in and acted this way toward her. However her abusive father was eventually retconned as a hallucination caused by Kryptonite poisoning when the real Zor-El showed up and turned out to be a pretty nice guy.
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* DefusingTheTykeBomb: Subverted with Post-Crisis Kara. An early story stated that her father trained her to be a weapon, and Superman -- with aid of Batman and Franchise/WonderWoman ComicBook/WonderWoman -- took her in and acted this way toward her. However her abusive father was eventually retconned as a hallucination caused by Kryptonite poisoning when the real Zor-El showed up and turned out to be a pretty nice guy.
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* HeroicBSOD: Kara Zor-El had one of these after [[spoiler:the destruction of]] ''Comicbook/NewKrypton''. Superman hugged her while she cried in space, and she considered quitting the hero gig for a while.
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* HeroicBSOD: Kara Zor-El had one of these after [[spoiler:the destruction of]] ''Comicbook/NewKrypton''.''ComicBook/NewKrypton''. Superman hugged her while she cried in space, and she considered quitting the hero gig for a while.
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* HappilyAdopted: Kara's foster parents are Jeremiah and Eliza Danvers who first appeared in ''Comicbook/SupergirlRebirth'' # 1. Although they are technically her DEO-appointed handlers, they established a strong rapport after a few weeks.
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* HappilyAdopted: Kara's foster parents are Jeremiah and Eliza Danvers who first appeared in ''Comicbook/SupergirlRebirth'' ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth'' # 1. Although they are technically her DEO-appointed handlers, they established a strong rapport after a few weeks.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Kara was a teenager when her father put her in a spaceship. The ship put her body in stasis and landed on Earth years later; which is why her baby cousin [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kal-El]] looks older than her.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Kara was a teenager when her father put her in a spaceship. The ship put her body in stasis and landed on Earth years later; which is why her baby cousin [[Franchise/{{Superman}} [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Kal-El]] looks older than her.
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Upon landing, Kara joined the ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' and was adopted by Franchise/WonderWoman. She saw the Society as her family and Lex Luthor -- Society's main backer -- as a friend and mentor. In a world which had never heard of Superman, she became world's mightiest hero.
Several years later, a kidnapping forces Kara to team up with Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}, Gotham City's nearly dictatorial protector. In the process, she learns of her cousin's fate, Luthor's true self and makes a new friend.
Several years later, a kidnapping forces Kara to team up with Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}, Gotham City's nearly dictatorial protector. In the process, she learns of her cousin's fate, Luthor's true self and makes a new friend.
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Upon landing, Kara joined the ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' and was adopted by Franchise/WonderWoman.ComicBook/WonderWoman. She saw the Society as her family and Lex Luthor -- Society's main backer -- as a friend and mentor. In a world which had never heard of Superman, she became world's mightiest hero.
Several years later, a kidnapping forces Kara to team up withComicbook/{{Batgirl}}, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, Gotham City's nearly dictatorial protector. In the process, she learns of her cousin's fate, Luthor's true self and makes a new friend.
Several years later, a kidnapping forces Kara to team up with
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Dick Malverne, one of her main Love Interests. Depending on the artist, his hair is red or reddish-brown. For bonus points, her HeterosexualLifePartner is Barbara Gordon alias ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, a FieryRedhead.
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Linda dated Post-Crisis Dick Malverne, who is definitely a [[http://static3.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/1/15776/1281121-dick.jpg redhead]].
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She had a long and illustrious career fighting evil -- she became best friends with fellow superheroine ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} I (Barbara), became a member of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes (and struck up a romance with Brainiac 5), and even saved her parents from the past and helped them found New Krypton on the distant planet of Rokyn. She gained her own sidekicks in the form of Streaky the Super-Cat and Comet the Super-Horse and occasionally joined the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica.
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She had a long and illustrious career fighting evil -- she became best friends with fellow superheroine ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} I (Barbara), became a member of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes (and struck up a romance with Brainiac 5), and even saved her parents from the past and helped them found New Krypton on the distant planet of Rokyn. She gained her own sidekicks in the form of Streaky the Super-Cat and Comet the Super-Horse and occasionally joined the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica.
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** In ''The Daring Adventures of Supergirl'' vol. 1 #12, while several mooks are shooting at her:
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* InterspeciesRomance:
** The first Supergirl's boyfriends were a human, a green-skinned Coluan, an Atlantean merboy, and, er, her horse Comet. Well, he wasn't ''really'' a horse and he was in human form at the time, admittedly, but there was still a kind-of relationship between them after he was turned back; it probably helped that he retained most of his intelligence.
** With Brainiac 5 from ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''.
** The first Supergirl's boyfriends were a human, a green-skinned Coluan, an Atlantean merboy, and, er, her horse Comet. Well, he wasn't ''really'' a horse and he was in human form at the time, admittedly, but there was still a kind-of relationship between them after he was turned back; it probably helped that he retained most of his intelligence.
** With Brainiac 5 from ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''.
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* InterspeciesRomance:
** TheIconicOutfit: Kara's costume has an iconic, easily and instantly recognizable look: Superman's costume minus the pants plus a blue or -- usually -- red skirt. She has worn many different outfits since the late 1950's, but most of them are variations of her first Supergirl's boyfriends gendered costume. Her most famous and most popular uniforms are: [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7QQPWxg_JyM/TMKZnbDKTiI/AAAAAAAAAYE/AahjbMCBG-E/s1600/Action+Comics+252.jpg Original]], [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/b8/2a/da/b82adaf27eb50dfd7bc768752f2d2852.jpg "Hot pants"]] and [[http://www.therobotsvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/SupergirlFlashdance2.jpg "Headband"]].
* InterspeciesRomance: Kara's first suitors werea human, a green-skinned Coluan, an Dick Malverne (human), Jerro (an Atlantean merboy, and, er, her horse Comet. Well, he wasn't ''really'' a horse and he was in human form at the time, admittedly, but there was still a kind-of relationship between them after he was turned back; it probably helped that he retained most of his intelligence.
** Withmerboy), Brainiac 5 from ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''.(a Coluan alien), and Biron (a centaur).
** The
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* MeteorMove: Supergirl does this in ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica #134'' when she fights Despero (one of the worst enemies of the League). First [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r7RkMZ0zyx8/UN3CSbJhNWI/AAAAAAAAVH4/aLvVgA9AKVA/s1600/jla+134-05.jpg Kara grabs him and throws him hard enough to put him into orbit]], and then [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KFA-bEU6jaE/UN3CSit9ehI/AAAAAAAAVH8/B12ebfp-Hb4/s1600/jla+134-06.jpg she flies out of the planet, meets Despero in space and knocks him out with one punch]].
* MinidressOfPower: Her IconicOutfit.
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* MeteorMove: Supergirl does this in ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica #134'' when she fights Despero (one of the worst enemies of the League). First [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r7RkMZ0zyx8/UN3CSbJhNWI/AAAAAAAAVH4/aLvVgA9AKVA/s1600/jla+134-05.jpg Kara grabs him and throws him hard enough to put him into orbit]], and then [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KFA-bEU6jaE/UN3CSit9ehI/AAAAAAAAVH8/B12ebfp-Hb4/s1600/jla+134-06.jpg she flies out of the planet, meets Despero in space and knocks him out with one punch]].
* MinidressOfPower:Her IconicOutfit.She wore a knee-length blue/red skirt for most of her career.
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* NaiveNewcomerNaiveNewcomer: Teen Kara sometimes got in trouble due to being unaware of Earth customs.
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* ThePollyannaThePollyanna: No matter what happened to her, Kara always to be positive and overcome her hardships.
* RetGone: Subverted. Kara was supposed to be retconned out of existence after the Crisis by editorial fiat, but although nobody remembered her she still popped up every so often during the 80's and 90's. Several Crisis events later, her death is remembered and possibly undone.
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* UnstoppableRage: Kara is -- usually -- a very nice, kind person, but she's also a HotBlooded, short-tempered teenager who protects her loved ones fiercely, and she has occasionally gone on a rampage:
** In the ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', when the Anti-Monitor threatened with killing her cousin Superman, she went berserker and almost killed him. Yes, she nearly killed a being that devours ''universes''.
** In the ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', when the Anti-Monitor threatened with killing her cousin Superman, she went berserker and almost killed him. Yes, she nearly killed a being that devours ''universes''.
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* UnstoppableRage: Kara is -- usually -- a very nice, kind person, but she's also a HotBlooded, short-tempered teenager who protects her loved ones fiercely, and she has occasionally gone on a rampage:
**rampage. In the ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', when the Anti-Monitor threatened with killing her cousin Superman, she went berserker and almost killed him. Yes, she nearly killed a being that devours ''universes''.
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* YourMagicsNoGoodHere:
** Kara loses access to her powers in red sunlight.
** In ''Demon Spawn'', Kara is kidnapped and brought to the Innerverse, an AlternateDimension in where her powers don't work.
** Kara loses access to her powers in red sunlight.
** In ''Demon Spawn'', Kara is kidnapped and brought to the Innerverse, an AlternateDimension in where her powers don't work.
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* YourMagicsNoGoodHere:
**YourMagicsNoGoodHere: Kara loses access to her powers in red sunlight.
**the Phantom Zone. In ''Demon Spawn'', Kara is kidnapped and brought to the Innerverse, an AlternateDimension in where her powers don't work.
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* AbusiveParents: In her first (retconned out of canon) origin, her father made her kill her classmates, sent her to kill her cousin and stood around with her while she was naked. In contrast to the previous origin, it's her KnightTemplar mother who verges on this at points after her father's death. She never goes farther than being verbally abusive to Kara, though. Her father, on the other hand, was a doting NiceGuy.
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* AbusiveParents: In her Her first (retconned out of canon) origin, origin stated that her father made her kill her classmates, sent her to kill her cousin and stood around with her while she was naked. In contrast to the previous origin, it's Later it was revealed/retconned that her KnightTemplar mother who verges on this at points after her father's death. She never goes farther than being verbally abusive to Kara, though. Her father, on the other hand, father was a doting NiceGuy.nice guy, whereas her mother was harsh and verbally abusive.
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* RetCanon: Her second costume is based on Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Supergirl. It's explained in-story that Linda fashioned it from things she found in a costume shop, after Matrix (who wore a classic version of the costume) was forced to leave her.
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* RetCanon: Her second costume is based on Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' Supergirl. It's explained in-story that Linda fashioned it from things she found in a costume shop, after Matrix (who wore a classic version of the costume) was forced to leave her.her.
* RetGone: She was retconned out of existence after ''Flashpoint''.
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[[folder:Super-Girl]]
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->''First Appearance:'' ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #123 (1958)
Super-Girl was an artificial entity created when Jimmy Olsen used an Indian totem to wish for a crime-fighter who helped Superman out. Unfortunately, Super-Girl was clumsy and clueless, and she even jeopardized Clark's secret identity.
Nonetheless, Super-Girl ends up saving Superman from death by Kryptonite, at the coste of her own life. As dying from radioactive poisoning, Super-Girl crawls back to Jimmy Olsen's apartment and asks him to wish her out of existence, regretting that she was unable to help Superman.
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->''First Appearance:'' ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #123 (1958)
Super-Girl was an artificial entity created when Jimmy Olsen used an Indian totem to wish for a crime-fighter who helped Superman out. Unfortunately, Super-Girl was clumsy and clueless, and she even jeopardized Clark's secret identity.
Nonetheless, Super-Girl ends up saving Superman from death by Kryptonite, at the coste of her own life. As dying from radioactive poisoning, Super-Girl crawls back to Jimmy Olsen's apartment and asks him to wish her out of existence, regretting that she was unable to help Superman.
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->''First Appearance:''
Super-Girl
Lucy was
A few weeks later, Lucy starts attending Clark Kent's high school in Smallville. Lucy piques Clark interest because she is a good student and a fine athlete, and although she is initially unpopular, she becomes famous after punching one runaway thief. Newspapers begin calling her "a Supergirl", unintentionally revealing her location to Norvello, who orders his henchmen to bring her back.
Meanwhile, Smallville's Mayor asks Superboy and Lucy to co-host the upcoming Smallville's sports festival. Lucy attends the event wearing a female version of Superboy's costume, and Clark uses his powers to make Lucy seem a real Supergirl.
After the event, though, Lucy is kidnapped and dragged back to
* AChildShallLeadThem: Lucy is the Queen of Borgonia, although she is young enough to be Superboy's classmate.
* BlessedWithSuck: Lucy's royal blood has gotten her imprisoned, persecuted, threatened and smeared by a power-hungry tyrant.
* DoingInTheWizard: Played with. Since people treats Lucy as a Supergirl, Superboy helps her pretend she has powers during a sports event. However, Superboy warns beforehand he will be using tricks to make her look like a super-heroine.
* GildedCage: Lucy lived in a lavish palace...which she had not been allowed to leave since she was a little child.
* KingIncognito: Lucy pretends to be a normal girl as living in Smallville.
* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: After forcing her to wear an iron mask, Norvello arranges a public hearing to tell Lucy's subjects that their queen despises them so that she loses popular support, sure that she will not refute his claims because he will get her killed.
* ManInTheIronMask: Norvello gets an iron mask locked over Lucy's head and melts the key, planning to keep her masked and locked up while he carried out a smear campaign against her.
* MistakenForSuperpowered: Superboy uses his powers stealthily to make people believe that Lucy is superhuman.
* NewTransferStudent: Lucy enrolls in Smallville's high school with the name of Lucy Regent.
* NobleFugitive: Sick of being unable to lead a normal life, Lucy flees to America to live like an anonymous girl, free of duties and obligations.
* OrphansOrdeal: Lucy is her country's queen because her parents passed away ten years before, but she allows Norvello to make decisions on her behalf.
* PuppetKing: Norvello keeps Lucy isolated and unaware so that he can rule her country as he sees fit.
* PutOnABus: After Superboy has busted Norvello's coup, Lucy is not mentioned again.
* ReluctantRuler: Even after Norvello has been outed and jailed, Lucy is unwilling to be a queen. However, her maid Elena convinces her that her country needs her.
* UptownGirl: Played with when Lucy develops a crush on Clark. On the one hand, she is a princess, and he is son of a small-town shopkeeper. On another hand, he is the world's first and mightiest superhero, and she is a mere human.
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->''First Appearance:'' ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #123 (1958)
Super-Girl was an artificial entity created when Jimmy Olsen used an Indian totem to wish for a crime-fighter who helped Superman out. Unfortunately, Super-Girl was clumsy and clueless, and she even jeopardized Clark's secret identity.
Nonetheless, Super-Girl ends up saving Superman from death by Kryptonite, at the coste of her own life. As dying from radioactive poisoning, Super-Girl crawls back to Jimmy Olsen's apartment and asks him to wish her out of existence, regretting that she was unable to help Superman.
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!!Tropes associated to this character:
* BlessedWithSuck: Lucy's royal blood has gotten her imprisoned, persecuted, threatened and smeared by a power-hungry tyrant.
* DoingInTheWizard: Played with. Since people treats Lucy as a Supergirl, Superboy helps her pretend she has powers during a sports event. However, Superboy warns beforehand he will be using tricks to make her look like a super-heroine.
* GildedCage: Lucy lived in a lavish palace...which she had not been allowed to leave since she was a little child.
* KingIncognito: Lucy pretends to be a normal girl as living in Smallville.
* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: After forcing her to wear an iron mask, Norvello arranges a public hearing to tell Lucy's subjects that their queen despises them so that she loses popular support, sure that she will not refute his claims because he will get her killed.
* ManInTheIronMask: Norvello gets an iron mask locked over Lucy's head and melts the key, planning to keep her masked and locked up while he carried out a smear campaign against her.
* MistakenForSuperpowered: Superboy uses his powers stealthily to make people believe that Lucy is superhuman.
* NewTransferStudent: Lucy enrolls in Smallville's high school with the name of Lucy Regent.
* NobleFugitive: Sick of being unable to lead a normal life, Lucy flees to America to live like an anonymous girl, free of duties and obligations.
* OrphansOrdeal: Lucy is her country's queen because her parents passed away ten years before, but she allows Norvello to make decisions on her behalf.
* PuppetKing: Norvello keeps Lucy isolated and unaware so that he can rule her country as he sees fit.
* PutOnABus: After Superboy has busted Norvello's coup, Lucy is not mentioned again.
* ReluctantRuler: Even after Norvello has been outed and jailed, Lucy is unwilling to be a queen. However, her maid Elena convinces her that her country needs her.
* UptownGirl: Played with when Lucy develops a crush on Clark. On the one hand, she is a princess, and he is son of a small-town shopkeeper. On another hand, he is the world's first and mightiest superhero, and she is a mere human.
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[[folder:Super-Girl]]
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->''First Appearance:'' ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #123 (1958)
Super-Girl was an artificial entity created when Jimmy Olsen used an Indian totem to wish for a crime-fighter who helped Superman out. Unfortunately, Super-Girl was clumsy and clueless, and she even jeopardized Clark's secret identity.
Nonetheless, Super-Girl ends up saving Superman from death by Kryptonite, at the coste of her own life. As dying from radioactive poisoning, Super-Girl crawls back to Jimmy Olsen's apartment and asks him to wish her out of existence, regretting that she was unable to help Superman.
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A purple shape-shifting creature from a PocketDimension, she was created by that universe's Lex Luthor and patterned after the New Earth Franchise/{{Superman}}. When that universe was attacked by Phantom Zone escapees that she was no match for, Pocket Universe Lex sent Matrix to recruit New Earth Superman, but was too late to save the universe.
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A purple shape-shifting creature from a PocketDimension, she was created by that universe's Lex Luthor and patterned after the New Earth Franchise/{{Superman}}.Superman. When that universe was attacked by Phantom Zone escapees that she was no match for, Pocket Universe Lex sent Matrix to recruit New Earth Superman, but was too late to save the universe.
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* NaiveNewcomer: So naive she shacked up with [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor LEX LUTHOR]]! In her defense, the Lex Luthor of her world was a heroic individual, so she carried those expectations with her into the main universe. Also at the time he was posing as his own son and so wasn’t thought to be the “evil” Luthor. Once she realized the main version of Lex was using her, she was terrifying.
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* MythologyGag: She is supposed to be the artificial lifeform which Lex was designing in "ComicBook/HowLuthorMetSuperboy".
* NaiveNewcomer: So naive she shacked up with[[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor LEX LUTHOR]]! Lex Luthor. In her defense, the Lex Luthor of her world was a heroic individual, so she carried those expectations with her into the main universe. Also at the time he was posing as his own son and so wasn’t he wasn't thought to be the “evil” Luthor. Once she realized the main version of Lex was using her, she was terrifying."evil" Luthor.
* NaiveNewcomer: So naive she shacked up with
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* PutOnABus: Matrix merged with a New God named Twilight, and focus on Peter David's run on ''Supergirl'' shifted solely to the latter.
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* PutOnABus: Matrix merged went into comic limbo after merging with a New God named Twilight, and focus on Peter David's run on ''Supergirl'' shifted solely Twilight.
* RetGone: After ''Infinite Crisis'' nobody seems tothe latter.remember Matrix even existed.
* RetGone: After ''Infinite Crisis'' nobody seems to
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* {{Shapeshifting}}: She was a protoplasmic life-form and had a malleable genome, so she could assume any humanoid form of similar mass. She could even use her psi-power to rearrange the molecular structure of fabrics, and alter clothing and costumes with her thoughts.
** After Matrix merged with Linda, she underwent a form of ShapeshifterModeLock; having "defined" herself as Linda and Supergirl, she could only shift between these two forms and nothing else, and also lost her ability to become invisible.
** After Matrix merged with Linda, she underwent a form of ShapeshifterModeLock; having "defined" herself as Linda and Supergirl, she could only shift between these two forms and nothing else, and also lost her ability to become invisible.
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* {{Shapeshifting}}: She was a protoplasmic life-form and had a malleable genome, so she could assume any humanoid form of similar mass. She could even use her psi-power to rearrange the molecular structure of fabrics, and alter clothing and costumes with her thoughts.
**thoughts. After Matrix merged with Linda, she underwent a form of ShapeshifterModeLock; having "defined" herself as Linda and Supergirl, she could only shift between these two forms and nothing else, and also lost her ability to become invisible.
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* TinMan: Part of what drove her was her perceived lack of humanity. After Matrix merged with Linda Danvers, she was given the opportunity to live as a regular human. Although everyone who knew it really was Matrix stated she had more of a soul than Linda did up to that point, including Linda.
* UnstoppableRage: During her mini-series back in TheNineties, when discover that her lover Lex Luthor had made thousands of clones of her from the residue he collected after her fight with Doomsday. She was very close to killing him too.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: She struggled with shaping an identity for herself and feared she truly was nothing but a lump of protoplasm, but as many people believed, she did have a soul and even if she was an artificial construct, she was human.
* WomanScorned: When she finds out Lex is evil.
* UnstoppableRage: During her mini-series back in TheNineties, when discover that her lover Lex Luthor had made thousands of clones of her from the residue he collected after her fight with Doomsday. She was very close to killing him too.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: She struggled with shaping an identity for herself and feared she truly was nothing but a lump of protoplasm, but as many people believed, she did have a soul and even if she was an artificial construct, she was human.
* WomanScorned: When she finds out Lex is evil.
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* TinMan: Part of what drove her was her perceived lack of humanity. After Matrix merged merging with Linda Danvers, Linda, she was given the opportunity to live as a regular human. Although everyone who knew it really was Matrix stated she had more of a soul than Linda did up to that point, including Linda.
* UnstoppableRage:During her mini-series back in TheNineties, when discover that Matrix was very close to killing her lover Lex Luthor when she discovered he had made thousands of clones of her from the residue he collected after her fight with Doomsday. She was very close to killing him too.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: She struggled with shaping an identity for herself and feared she truly was nothing but a lump of protoplasm, but as many people believed, she did have a soul and even if she was an artificial construct, she was human.
* WomanScorned: When she finds out Lex is evil.Doomsday.
* UnstoppableRage:
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: She struggled with shaping an identity for herself and feared she truly was nothing but a lump of protoplasm, but as many people believed, she did have a soul and even if she was an artificial construct, she was human.
* WomanScorned: When she finds out Lex is evil.
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->I thought I was fighting '''Xenon'''! What the hell--? '''Auntie Monitor'''?! Who's her partner, Uncle Screen Saver?
Linda Danvers was a troubled teenager who joined a cult and was involved in many illicit and illegal activities, manipulated by her boyfriend Buzz. Little she knew, Buzz was a demon that intended use her as a sacrifice. Buzz attempted to kill Linda to release a demon, but Supergirl Matrix intervened to save her life, accidentally becoming merged with Linda. Linda and Matrix became the new Supergirl, and Linda began to fight criminals and demons to redeem herself.
Linda Danvers was a troubled teenager who joined a cult and was involved in many illicit and illegal activities, manipulated by her boyfriend Buzz. Little she knew, Buzz was a demon that intended use her as a sacrifice. Buzz attempted to kill Linda to release a demon, but Supergirl Matrix intervened to save her life, accidentally becoming merged with Linda. Linda and Matrix became the new Supergirl, and Linda began to fight criminals and demons to redeem herself.
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Linda Danvers was a troubled teenager who joined a demonic cult and was involved in many illicit and illegal activities, manipulated by her boyfriend Buzz. Little she knew, Buzz was a demon that intended use her as a sacrifice. Buzz attempted to kill Linda to release a demon, but Supergirl Matrix intervened to save her life, accidentally becoming merged with Linda. Linda and Matrix became the new Supergirl, and Linda began to fight criminals and demons to redeem herself.
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* TheAtoner: For her sins as a cultist and several other mistakes.
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* TheAtoner: For her sins as a cultist demon worshipper and several other mistakes.
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* CanonImmigrant / RetCanon : Her second costume is based on Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Supergirl. It's explained in-story that Linda fashioned it from things she found in a costume shop, after Matrix (who wore a classic version of the costume) was forced to leave her.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Peter David gave this quality to her and it has since passed over to future incarnations of the Supergirl character.
* DePower: After being separated from Matrix, Linda found herself with reduced powers. She could no longer shapeshift into her "Supergirl" form, and all of her angelic powers were lost. In addition, Linda's strength and durability were reduced by half, she lost her ability to fly and produce psionic blasts, and instead was only able to leap around 1/8th of a mile in a single bound.
** But, after encountering Twilight as the new Earth-Born Angel of Fire, Linda regained all of the powers that she'd possessed while initially merged with Matrix, sans her ability to assume her "Supergirl" form. Her strength and durability returned to their original levels and she was able to fly and produce psionic blasts of force once more.
* DespairEventHorizon: She crossed this twice. The first time was after witnessing her pastor beat his wife to death when she was a young girl. The second time was after she was forced to send the pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El back to her universe and her eventual death, as well as losing her daughter even though she'd been told Ariella would be spared from erasure.
* DePower: After being separated from Matrix, Linda found herself with reduced powers. She could no longer shapeshift into her "Supergirl" form, and all of her angelic powers were lost. In addition, Linda's strength and durability were reduced by half, she lost her ability to fly and produce psionic blasts, and instead was only able to leap around 1/8th of a mile in a single bound.
** But, after encountering Twilight as the new Earth-Born Angel of Fire, Linda regained all of the powers that she'd possessed while initially merged with Matrix, sans her ability to assume her "Supergirl" form. Her strength and durability returned to their original levels and she was able to fly and produce psionic blasts of force once more.
* DespairEventHorizon: She crossed this twice. The first time was after witnessing her pastor beat his wife to death when she was a young girl. The second time was after she was forced to send the pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El back to her universe and her eventual death, as well as losing her daughter even though she'd been told Ariella would be spared from erasure.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Peter David gave this quality to her and it has since passed over to future incarnations of the Supergirl character.
She was very sarcastic.
* DePower: After being separated from Matrix, Linda found herself with reduced powers. She could no longer shapeshift into her "Supergirl" form, and all of her angelic powers were lost. In addition, Linda's strength and durability were reduced by half, she lost her ability to fly and produce psionic blasts, and instead was only able to leap around 1/8th of a mile in a singlebound.
** But, afterbound. After encountering Twilight as the new Earth-Born Angel of Fire, Linda regained all of the powers that she'd possessed while initially merged with Matrix, sans her ability to assume her "Supergirl" form. Her strength and durability returned to their original levels and she was able to fly and produce psionic blasts of force once more.
* DespairEventHorizon: She crossed thistwice. The first time was after witnessing her pastor beat his wife to death when she was a young girl. The second time was after she was forced to send the pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El back to her universe and her eventual death, as well as losing her daughter even though she'd been told Ariella would be spared from erasure.
* DePower: After being separated from Matrix, Linda found herself with reduced powers. She could no longer shapeshift into her "Supergirl" form, and all of her angelic powers were lost. In addition, Linda's strength and durability were reduced by half, she lost her ability to fly and produce psionic blasts, and instead was only able to leap around 1/8th of a mile in a single
** But, after
* DespairEventHorizon: She crossed this
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* FallenAngel: [[spoiler: In Reign in Hell #6, Linda reappears in the Doctor Occult backstory. She appears as a fallen angel summoned by Lilith but mysteriously released. In Reign in Hell #7, Linda uses her flame vision to kill some injured demons who were huddled around a tiny campfire, Dr. Occult is horrified by her willingness to kill innocents. Linda believes that no one in Hell is innocent, and then accuses Dr. Occult of being a damned soul. Linda says she does not deserve to be trapped in Hell, and that she would see everybody burned to char before she accepted being kept in there. Dr. Occult casts a spell to show Linda who she really is, and she flies away in horror.]]
* GodOfFire: [[OurAngelsAreDifferent She is an Earth-Born Angel of Fire.]]
* GodOfFire: [[OurAngelsAreDifferent She is an Earth-Born Angel of Fire.]]
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* FallenAngel: [[spoiler: In Reign ''Reign in Hell Hell'' #6, Linda reappears in the Doctor Occult backstory. She appears as a fallen angel summoned by Lilith but mysteriously released. In Reign ''Reign in Hell Hell'' #7, Linda uses her flame vision to kill some injured demons who were huddled around a tiny campfire, Dr. Occult is horrified by her willingness to kill innocents. Linda believes that no one in Hell is innocent, and then accuses Dr. Occult of being a damned soul. Linda says she does not deserve to be trapped in Hell, and that she would see everybody burned to char before she accepted being kept in there. Dr. Occult casts a spell to show Linda who she really is, and she flies away in horror.]]
* GodOfFire:[[OurAngelsAreDifferent She is an Earth-Born Angel of Fire.]]
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* RetCanon: Her second costume is based on Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Supergirl. It's explained in-story that Linda fashioned it from things she found in a costume shop, after Matrix (who wore a classic version of the costume) was forced to leave her.
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** Once Supergirl and Superboy attempted to punch Darkseid. They were amped up by Highfather to insane amounts and let's remember they could ''pull an entire galaxy's worth of planets without said power up''. None of their punches [[NighInvulnerability even hurt]] Darkseid and barely even catches his attention.
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** Once Supergirl and Superboy attempted to punch Darkseid. They were amped up by Highfather to insane amounts and let's remember they could ''pull an entire galaxy's worth of planets without said power up''. None of their punches [[NighInvulnerability even hurt]] In "ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga" she beats Darkseid and barely up, even catches his attention.punching him through one planet, before being defeated.
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* DistaffCounterpart: To ComicBook/{{Superman}}. She used to provide the page's image.
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* DistaffCounterpart: To ComicBook/{{Superman}}.Superman. She used to provide the page's image.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Kara's first story has her to agree with Superman's plan to not use her powers without permission and then using them anyway as soon as her cousin's back is turned.
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[[folder:Matrix]]
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->All of sudden, I don't feel so bad about not having parents.
A purple shape-shifting creature from a PocketDimension, she was created by that universe's Lex Luthor and patterned after the New Earth Franchise/{{Superman}}. When that universe was attacked by Phantom Zone escapees that she was no match for, Pocket Universe Lex sent Matrix to recruit New Earth Superman, but was too late to save the universe.
Matrix was later taken in by Superman to be raised by Supes' adoptive parents and eventually became the first ComicBook/PostCrisis Supergirl.
She later accidentally fused with Linda Danvers, and made her the next Supergirl.
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->All of sudden, I don't feel so bad about not having parents.
A purple shape-shifting creature from a PocketDimension, she was created by that universe's Lex Luthor and patterned after the New Earth Franchise/{{Superman}}. When that universe was attacked by Phantom Zone escapees that she was no match for, Pocket Universe Lex sent Matrix to recruit New Earth Superman, but was too late to save the universe.
Matrix was later taken in by Superman to be raised by Supes' adoptive parents and eventually became the first ComicBook/PostCrisis Supergirl.
She later accidentally fused with Linda Danvers, and made her the next Supergirl.
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->All of sudden, I don't feel so bad about not having parents.
A purple shape-shifting creature from a PocketDimension, she
->''First Appearance:'' ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #123 (1958)
Super-Girl was an artificial entity created
Nonetheless, Super-Girl ends up saving Superman from death by Kryptonite, at the
Matrix was later taken in by Superman to be raised by Supes' adoptive parents and eventually became the first ComicBook/PostCrisis Supergirl.
She later accidentally fused with Linda Danvers, and made her the next Supergirl.
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* BornAsAnAdult: Super-Girl is formed as a fully grown-up woman.
* DestructiveSavior: Her inexperience causes her to mess up repeatedly: she tries to put a fire out and blows the roof up, she blows out a safe's door instead of melting the lock...
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Her final words:
-->'''Super-Girl:''' (sobbing) ''"Farewell, Jimmy! Give my... my love to Superman..."''
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: All this blonde heroine wanted was to help people, and she regrets she was unable to help Superman as she dies.
* HeroicSacrifice: She gets poisoning Kryptonite when she saves Superman from a chunk of Kryptonite.
* KryptoniteFactor: Even though she is not Kryptonian, she is also vulnerable to Kryptonite.
* RetGone: Nobody brings the former blonde Superman's partner up when Kara Zor-El shows up because Super-Girl's adventures became non-canon after her debut issue.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Since she is an artificial being wished into existence, she is only known as Super-Girl.
* PrimaryColorChampion: She wears a female version of Superman's blue-and-red costume.
* SuperpowerLottery: She was devised as a female Superman, and has the full Kryptonian combo.
* UnwantedAssistance: Superman complained that Super-Girl made every trouble worse every time she tried to help him.
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[[folder:Matrix]]
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->All of sudden, I don't feel so bad about not having parents.
A purple shape-shifting creature from a PocketDimension, she was created by that universe's Lex Luthor and patterned after the New Earth Franchise/{{Superman}}. When that universe was attacked by Phantom Zone escapees that she was no match for, Pocket Universe Lex sent Matrix to recruit New Earth Superman, but was too late to save the universe.
Matrix was later taken in by Superman to be raised by Supes' adoptive parents and eventually became the first ComicBook/PostCrisis Supergirl.
She later accidentally fused with Linda Danvers, and made her the next Supergirl.
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* BornAsAnAdult: Super-Girl is formed as a fully grown-up woman.
* DestructiveSavior: Her inexperience causes her to mess up repeatedly: she tries to put a fire out and blows the roof up, she blows out a safe's door instead of melting the lock...
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Her final words:
-->'''Super-Girl:''' (sobbing) ''"Farewell, Jimmy! Give my... my love to Superman..."''
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: All this blonde heroine wanted was to help people, and she regrets she was unable to help Superman as she dies.
* HeroicSacrifice: She gets poisoning Kryptonite when she saves Superman from a chunk of Kryptonite.
* KryptoniteFactor: Even though she is not Kryptonian, she is also vulnerable to Kryptonite.
* RetGone: Nobody brings the former blonde Superman's partner up when Kara Zor-El shows up because Super-Girl's adventures became non-canon after her debut issue.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Since she is an artificial being wished into existence, she is only known as Super-Girl.
* PrimaryColorChampion: She wears a female version of Superman's blue-and-red costume.
* SuperpowerLottery: She was devised as a female Superman, and has the full Kryptonian combo.
* UnwantedAssistance: Superman complained that Super-Girl made every trouble worse every time she tried to help him.
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[[folder:Matrix]]
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->All of sudden, I don't feel so bad about not having parents.
A purple shape-shifting creature from a PocketDimension, she was created by that universe's Lex Luthor and patterned after the New Earth Franchise/{{Superman}}. When that universe was attacked by Phantom Zone escapees that she was no match for, Pocket Universe Lex sent Matrix to recruit New Earth Superman, but was too late to save the universe.
Matrix was later taken in by Superman to be raised by Supes' adoptive parents and eventually became the first ComicBook/PostCrisis Supergirl.
She later accidentally fused with Linda Danvers, and made her the next Supergirl.
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Twice over in DC Rebirth when Wonder Woman accidentally summons gods from the Dark Matter Multiverse because [[DiabolusExMachina she didn't consider the words of a prayer carefully enough]] and they start driving every human on the planet suffering a CrisisOfFaith into murderous rampages. Less than {{five second|foreshadowing}}s after Steve Trevor warns her of what to consider if even super humans like Cheetah are being affected Supergirl sucker punches Wonder Woman before screaming that "Rao is dead", demonstrating it's not just humans Diana has to watch out for. Supergirl is quickly restrained and brought to her senses by Wonder Woman, but Supergirl herself was just to setup Wonder Woman being [[AlienAbduction kidnapped by more aliens]] who came to Earth specifically because of the gods she ''just'' allowed into their multiverse.
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Twice over in DC Rebirth when Wonder Woman accidentally summons gods from the Dark Matter Multiverse because [[DiabolusExMachina she didn't consider the words of a prayer carefully enough]] and they start driving every human on the planet suffering a CrisisOfFaith into murderous rampages. Less than {{five second|foreshadowing}}s Right after Steve Trevor warns her of what to consider if even super humans like Cheetah are being affected Supergirl sucker punches Wonder Woman before screaming and screams that "Rao is dead", demonstrating it's not just humans Diana has to watch out for. Supergirl is quickly restrained and brought to her senses by Wonder Woman, but Supergirl herself was just to setup Wonder Woman being [[AlienAbduction kidnapped by more aliens]] who came to Earth specifically because of the gods she ''just'' Wonder Woman allowed into their multiverse.
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* KidSidekick: To Superman.
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* KidSidekick: To Superman. Only physically however, as she is chronologically older than him and simply had her physical development interrupted.
* SerialEscalation: Silver Age Supergirl was a relentlessly sweet person who would shut down before she lashed out unless there was a ''really'' good catalyst her fury. Post Crisis Linda Danvers was an abrasive hedonist to contrast this. Post Crisis Kara Zor-El continues the trend being a bratty, callously destructive and sarcastic to the point of making Post Crisis Danvers seem subdued.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: You kinda expect her to be more easy-going, especially if you're most familiar with the Kara from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' as many casual fans are. So the fact that she can become so infuriated that a Red Lantern ring is draw to her is unusual. After her Red Lantern phase, though, she appears to have got over it.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: You kinda expect her to be more easy-going, especially if you're most familiar with the Kara from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' as many casual fans are. So the fact that she can become so infuriated that a Red Lantern ring is draw drawn to her is unusual. After her Red Lantern phase, though, she appears to have got over it.
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* AlternateSelf: Supergirl and ComicBook/PowerGirl are the exact same person from different universes. Power Girl is ''very'' reluctant to meet her mainstream universe self at first partly because she is worried the universe would explode if they actually touched. When they finally meet in ''Supergirl'' #19, [[spoiler: the universe is fine, the two Karas psychically bond, kick butt together and the only snag is Supergirl's fortress AI mistaking Supergirl for a clone and trying to destroy her]].
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* AlternateSelf: Supergirl and ComicBook/PowerGirl are the exact same person from different universes. Power Girl is ''very'' reluctant to meet her mainstream universe self at first partly because she is worried the universe would explode if they actually touched. When they finally meet in ''Supergirl'' #19, [[spoiler: the universe is fine, the two Karas psychically bond, kick butt together and the only snag is Supergirl's Kara's fortress AI mistaking Supergirl the other Kara for a clone and trying to destroy her]].
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: New 52 she's convinced she needs to kill Wonder Woman by H'El, who makes her own intentions to slay Supergirl clear. Diana ultimately neglects her kill shot when she has an opening and successfully convinces Supergirl that H'El's plan to revive Krypton isn't worth the cost.
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->''Fisrt Appearance:'' ''Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 4)'' #5 (1990)
Laurel Gand Andromeda was a Daxamite heroine created to fill Supergirl's role in the Legion. See the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes characters page.
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[[folder:Kara from Odiline]]
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->''First Appearance:'' ''Superman/Aliens'' #1 (1995)
Kara was a native of planet Odiline. She was born on Argo City, named after the original Kryptonian city because Odilians were huge Krypton fanboys. When Odiline also exploded, Argo survived thanks to the forcefield dome surrounding the city.
The Odilians tried to keep themselves alive as hoping for some kind of help finding them. Unfortunately, they were found by a very aggressive alien species who started preying on them. When Superman finds the floating city, Kara is the only survivor.
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!!Tropes associated to this character:
* {{Expy}}: As a blonde, blue-eyed alien named Kara born in a floating space ghost town called Argo City, she was Kara Zor-El with her serial numbers filled off.
* HumanAliens: She looks exactly like an Earthborn human girl.
* LastOfHisKind: She is the last Odilinian alive.
* PutOnABus: She is last seen flying an escape pod and heading into deep space. She is not seen or heard of again.
* SoleSurvivor: Kara is the only Odilinian who wasn't blown up together with her planet or eaten by Xenomorphs.
* UncertainDoom: Despite being believed dead by Superman, she also escaped from Argo. However, it is unknown where her escape pod was heading to, and whether it had enough food, oxygen and fuel to keep her alive during her trip.
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->''Fisrt Appearance:'' ''Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 4)'' #5 (1990)
Laurel Gand Andromeda was a Daxamite heroine created to fill Supergirl's role in the Legion. See the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes characters page.
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[[folder:Kara from Odiline]]
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->''First Appearance:'' ''Superman/Aliens'' #1 (1995)
Kara was a native of planet Odiline. She was born on Argo City, named after the original Kryptonian city because Odilians were huge Krypton fanboys. When Odiline also exploded, Argo survived thanks to the forcefield dome surrounding the city.
The Odilians tried to keep themselves alive as hoping for some kind of help finding them. Unfortunately, they were found by a very aggressive alien species who started preying on them. When Superman finds the floating city, Kara is the only survivor.
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* {{Expy}}: As a blonde, blue-eyed alien named Kara born in a floating space ghost town called Argo City, she was Kara Zor-El with her serial numbers filled off.
* HumanAliens: She looks exactly like an Earthborn human girl.
* LastOfHisKind: She is the last Odilinian alive.
* PutOnABus: She is last seen flying an escape pod and heading into deep space. She is not seen or heard of again.
* SoleSurvivor: Kara is the only Odilinian who wasn't blown up together with her planet or eaten by Xenomorphs.
* UncertainDoom: Despite being believed dead by Superman, she also escaped from Argo. However, it is unknown where her escape pod was heading to, and whether it had enough food, oxygen and fuel to keep her alive during her trip.
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* OppositeSexClone: In a Pre-Crisis story she was cloned. And her clone was a boy called himself Superlad
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* OppositeSexClone: In a Pre-Crisis story ''ComicBook/Supergirl1972'' #10, she was cloned. And her clone was a boy called himself SuperladSuperlad
* ParadoxPerson: Even though DC went to great lengths to ensure that she couldn't exist in the new universe, the original Kara Zor-El continued appearing in Post-Crisis stories such like ''ComicBook/ShouldAuldAcquaintanceBeForgot''.
* ParadoxPerson: Even though DC went to great lengths to ensure that she couldn't exist in the new universe, the original Kara Zor-El continued appearing in Post-Crisis stories such like ''ComicBook/ShouldAuldAcquaintanceBeForgot''.
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[[Characters/SupermanCentralRoguesGallery Central Rogues Gallery]] ([[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Alexander "Lex" Luthor]], [[Characters/SupermanBizarro Bizarro]], [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Vril Dox/Brainiac]], [[Characters/SupermanCyborgSuperman Cyborg-Superman]], [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], [[Characters/SupermanDoomsdayCharacter Doomsday]], ComicBook/{{Lobo}}, [[Characters/SupermanMisterMxyzptlk Mister Mxyzptlk]], [[Characters/DCComicsMongul Mongul]], [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryPhantomZone Phantom Zone Criminals]] [[[Characters/SupermanGeneralZod General Zod]]]) | [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryAToL A-L]] | [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryMToZ M-Z]] ([[Characters/SupermanSuperboyPrime Superboy-Prime]])\\
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** Subverted in ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton''. Supergirl is horrified when she apparently kills mass murderer and hitman ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'' after kicking him. Then he takes advantage of her distress to catch her off guard, and almost fries her brains with an ultrasonic device. Right there and then she decides he has "got it coming".
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** Subverted in ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton''. ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton''. Supergirl is horrified when she apparently kills mass murderer and hitman ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'' [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]] after kicking him. Then he takes advantage of her distress to catch her off guard, and almost fries her brains with an ultrasonic device. Right there and then she decides he has "got it coming".
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* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Kara hardly wears helmet, even though some of her enemies like Reactron have used headgear. One reason why she doesn't wear mask is to increase people's trust, showing she has nothing to hide. Of course, her invulnerability means she doesn't need protection. Subverted in "ComicBook/TheUnknownLegionnaire", wherein she builds and wears a lead helmet when she loses her memories due to her instinctive need to protect her secret identity.
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* AnimalLover: Kara adores animals, especially cats, adopting one tabby cat and naming him Streaky in "ComicBook/SupergirlsSuperPet", and being known to [[ComicBook/TheComingOfAtlas frolick with lions]]. She also semi-adopts a horse in "ComicBook/TheSuperSteedOfSteel", and is fond of her cousin's dog Krypto.
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* AnimalLover: Kara adores animals, especially cats, adopting one tabby cat and naming him Streaky in "ComicBook/SupergirlsSuperPet", and being known to [[ComicBook/TheComingOfAtlas frolick with lions]]. She also semi-adopts a horse in "ComicBook/TheSuperSteedOfSteel", and is fond of her cousin's dog Krypto. And in ''Action Comics #259: "The Cave-Girl of Steel"''), Kara travels to the prehistoric age specifically to see dinosaurs.
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* AnimalLover: Kara adores animals, especially cats, adopting one tabby cat and naming him Streaky in "ComicBook/SupergirlsSuperPet", and being known to [[ComicBook/TheComingOfAtlas frolick with lions]]. She also semi-adopts a horse in "ComicBook/TheSuperSteedOfSteel", and is fond of her cousin's dog Krypto.
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* HurtingHero: Being one of the most powerful beings in the planet will not protect you from emotional pain, heartache or will bring your loved ones back. Kara's parents sent her to Earth because Argo City was dying. [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton1959 She loses her parents and her home, and she is dumped by her cousin into an orphanage]] that she hated. Her heroic duties interfere with her personal life to the point that [[ComicBook/Supergirl1972 she cannot keep a steady boyfriend]] and has to quit a job. [[ComicBook/StarfiresRevenge Often she feels torn]] because she wants to live like a normal woman but her vast powers entail great responsibilities. [[ComicBook/Supergirl1982 Late in her career]] she meets an OldFlame and realizes what she still feels something for him [[ComicBook/YoungLove two weeks before his demise]]. And then she fights a dimension-eating EldritchAbomination [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths to save her beloved cousin and the whole Multiverse]], and gets killed and forgotten.
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* HurtingHero: Kara was fifteen when her planet exploded. Shortly after, her surviving hometown Argo City was destroyed by ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}'s robots. [[ComicBook/SupermanBrainiac Her parents apparently give their lives]] to send her to Earth, but she spends thirty-five years in suspended animation until [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004 she at last lands on a baffling, alien land]]. Yet still, she tries to adapt to her strange new home and become a hero, even though the people whom she protects do not trust her and look down on her. Eventually, her parents and the last remains of her people are blown up by humans, and even so she keeps determined to save and help people.
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* HurtingHero: Kara loses her planet and her parents and [[ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton she becomes stranded in a strange, alien world]]. She is hounded and harassed by villains, and she almost gets killed because she would rather die than let innocent people die. She is manipulated by a man who breaks her heart when he proves to be evil, loses her only friend and [[ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton joins a group of questionable anti-heroes]] only because she is desperate for friends. Still she never stops being a hero, even when she gets -further- hurt, traumatized, abused or depowered.
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* ComboPlatterPowers: Supergirl was created after Superman had got most of his power upgrades, so she had a lot of different powers from the beginning. In ''ComicBook/ActionComics #252'' she uses her super-strength, hurricane breath and x-ray vision... in the same page!
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* ComboPlatterPowers: Supergirl was created after Superman had got most of his power upgrades, so she had a lot of different powers from the beginning. In ''ComicBook/ActionComics #252'' her first appearance she uses her super-strength, hurricane breath and x-ray vision... in the same page!page.
* CousinOliver: Kara Zor-El was sixteen, and Superman and his supporting cast were in their thirties, when she was introduced as a way to attract young female readers. Unlike other examples, though, Kara became a hit among readers who found her charming and adorable. It probably helped that, unlike other examples, Supergirl had her own strip and only made guest appearances in the other ''Superman'' books, so nobody felt that they were being forced to put up with her presence.
* CousinOliver: Kara Zor-El was sixteen, and Superman and his supporting cast were in their thirties, when she was introduced as a way to attract young female readers. Unlike other examples, though, Kara became a hit among readers who found her charming and adorable. It probably helped that, unlike other examples, Supergirl had her own strip and only made guest appearances in the other ''Superman'' books, so nobody felt that they were being forced to put up with her presence.
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* AbusiveParents: In her first origin, her father made her kill her classmates, sent her to kill her cousin and stood around with her while she was naked. See {{Retcon}} below. In contrast to the previous origin, it's her KnightTemplar mother who verges on this at points after her father's death. She never goes farther than being verbally abusive to Kara, though. Her father, on the other hand, was a doting NiceGuy.
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* AbusiveParents: In her first (retconned out of canon) origin, her father made her kill her classmates, sent her to kill her cousin and stood around with her while she was naked. See {{Retcon}} below.naked. In contrast to the previous origin, it's her KnightTemplar mother who verges on this at points after her father's death. She never goes farther than being verbally abusive to Kara, though. Her father, on the other hand, was a doting NiceGuy.
Unfortunately, Kara soon lost her alliance with the DEO and her good standing among the National City residents. Before long, the coming of Rogol Zaar and his claims of destroying Krypton led Kara to travel through the galaxy to find out the truth. When she returned to Earth, her parents were mysteriously gone. She was investigating their disappearance when she got tangled with ''ComicBook/DCYearOfTheVillain'', becoming one of the Infected by The Batman Who Laughs.
In the aftermath of that event, Kara took part in ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'', which once again upended and changed the story of the DC Universe. It is not known how that event exactly affected Supergirl's history, but it restored a version of her original debut, as well as her death in ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' (it remains unexplained how she got better).
In the aftermath of that event, Kara took part in ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'', which once again upended and changed the story of the DC Universe. It is not known how that event exactly affected Supergirl's history, but it restored a version of her original debut, as well as her death in ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' (it remains unexplained how she got better).
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* PutOnABus: Same as Linda below. Matrix merged with a New God named Twilight, and focus on Peter David's run on ''Supergirl'' shifted solely to the latter.
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* HurtingHero: Linda was a troubled teen who was manipulated by her boyfriend into joining a cult and committing crimes. Said boyfriend attempted to sacrifice her to draw a demon into the world. She survived and became a hero to redeem herself. Unfortunately, every time she starts being happy, something happens that puts her through the wringer again.
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* PutOnABus: After her series ended, Linda pretty much dropped out of Franchise/TheDCU. She hasn't been consigned to CanonDiscontinuity, but she's barely ever mentioned anymore, either.
* PutOnABusToHell: Literally. [[spoiler: In Reign in Hell #1, the team of Shadowpact attacks Linda Danvers in her Gotham City apartment, which makes Linda fight back. She manifests the flaming wings she had while merged with Matrix, but still loses to the collective powers of Blue Devil and Enchantress. However she is teleported to Hell, as Hell is recalling all of its "debts".]]
* PutOnABusToHell: Literally. [[spoiler: In Reign in Hell #1, the team of Shadowpact attacks Linda Danvers in her Gotham City apartment, which makes Linda fight back. She manifests the flaming wings she had while merged with Matrix, but still loses to the collective powers of Blue Devil and Enchantress. However she is teleported to Hell, as Hell is recalling all of its "debts".]]
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* PutOnABus: After her series ended, Linda pretty much dropped out of Franchise/TheDCU.Franchise/TheDCU, last seen [[spoiler:in hell during the ''Reign of Hell'' mini-series]] and not since. She hasn't been consigned to CanonDiscontinuity, but she's barely ever mentioned anymore, either.
* PutOnABusToHell: Literally.[[spoiler: In Reign [[spoiler:In ''Reign in Hell Hell'' #1, the team of Shadowpact attacks Linda Danvers in her Gotham City apartment, which makes Linda fight back. She manifests the flaming wings she had while merged with Matrix, but still loses to the collective powers of Blue Devil and Enchantress. However she is teleported to Hell, as Hell is recalling all of its "debts".]]
* PutOnABusToHell: Literally.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Linda was a troubled teen who was manipulated by her boyfriend into joining a cult and committing crimes. Said boyfriend attempted to sacrifice her to draw a demon into the world. She survived and became a hero to redeem herself. Unfortunately, every time she starts being happy, something happens that puts her through the wringer again.
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During the events of ''ComicBook/SupermanSuperleague'', Kal told her he was dying, and he asked her to consider taking over his job. Kara agreed, and after her cousin's death, she joined the DEO --Department of Extra-Normal Operations -- to get her lost powers back. She was given a SecretIdentity, foster parents and moved to National City.
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During the events of ''ComicBook/SupermanSuperleague'', ''ComicBook/TheFinalDaysOfSuperman'', Kal told her he was dying, and he asked her to consider taking over his job. Kara agreed, and after her cousin's death, she joined the DEO --Department of Extra-Normal Operations -- to get her lost powers back. She was given a SecretIdentity, foster parents and moved to National City.
The events of ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' revealed that she and the Pre-Flashpoint Supergirl are the same person, but her memories were altered, her past changed and ten years of her life were removed.City.
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[[folder:Matrix]]
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->All of sudden, I don't feel so bad about not having parents.
A purple shape-shifting creature from a PocketDimension, she was created by that universe's Lex Luthor and patterned after the New Earth Franchise/{{Superman}}. When that universe was attacked by Phantom Zone escapees that she was no match for, Pocket Universe Lex sent Matrix to recruit New Earth Superman, but was too late to save the universe.
Matrix was later taken in by Superman to be raised by Supes' adoptive parents and eventually became the first ComicBook/PostCrisis Supergirl.
She later accidentally fused with Linda Danvers below, and made her the next Supergirl.
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->All of sudden, I don't feel so bad about not having parents.
A purple shape-shifting creature from a PocketDimension, she was created by that universe's Lex Luthor and patterned after the New Earth Franchise/{{Superman}}. When that universe was attacked by Phantom Zone escapees that she was no match for, Pocket Universe Lex sent Matrix to recruit New Earth Superman, but was too late to save the universe.
Matrix was later taken in by Superman to be raised by Supes' adoptive parents and eventually became the first ComicBook/PostCrisis Supergirl.
She later accidentally fused with Linda Danvers below, and made her the next Supergirl.
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* AntiHeroSubstitute: To the original Supergirl. Kara is a classic Cape and Matrix was unpredictable, prone to sudden outbursts of violence, and wore a {{Stripperific}}, spiky version of her costume for a while. To sum up, DC replaced [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/2a/7f/5b/2a7f5bfad3d75f836a24e71da0ad5655.jpg Kara Zor-El]] with [[http://static3.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/0/4/34957-5263-39047-1-supergirl.jpg this]]. This gets deconstructed later on when Mae became dangerously close to permanently turning into a cold blooded killer after several traumatic experiences, but found the resolve to stop before she actually killed someone upon remembering murdering someone evil doesn't justify the act.
* ArtificialHuman: She is an artificial life-form called the "protoplasmic matrix", that Lex has used to create Matrix, who resembled his true love, the deceased alternate-reality Lana Lang. Lex had also patterned her physiology to resemble Superman's, whom he had seen by using one of his many inventions to look into the mainstream universe.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: She was one of a number of heroes implanted with Trigon Seeds during one of Raven's FaceHeelTurn stints.
* EvilMakeover: When Matrix went crazy she shifted her costume into something sleeveless with spiked bands around her arms.
* FlyingBrick: via Psychokinesis.
* {{Foil}}: To Superman in a sense. While Superman was raised on Earth from infancy, Mae's experiences with the human race were brand new. Superman was a stranger to humanity as a baby, but humanity shaped him as he grew older to the point he considers himself a human being. Mae had to learn about humanity as a young woman and her experiences began to influence her while struggling with her past and whether or not she could call herself human.
* {{Invisibility}}: One of her lesser-used powers. She could cloak herself (becoming both invisible and inaudible, even to Superman's super hearing).
* NaiveNewcomer: So naive she shacked up with [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor LEX LUTHOR]]! In her defense, the Lex Luthor of her world was a heroic individual, so she carried those expectations with her into the main universe. Also at the time he was posing as his own son and so wasn’t thought to be the “evil” Luthor. Once she realized the main version of Lex was using her, she was terrifying.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: She does this in her ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' miniseries when she finally has enough of Lex's bullshit.
* PutOnABus: Same as Linda below.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The opening arc of Peter David's run pushed Mae past her limit, placing her in situations that tested her moral resolve and forcing her to question her own goodness when told she was merged with a thoroughly corrupted person (Linda). It turned out everything she'd gone through was an attempt by Buzz and his demonic overseers to turn Supergirl over to the dark side, but at the last second she relented.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: She was a protoplasmic life-form and had a malleable genome, so she could assume any humanoid form of similar mass. She could even use her psi-power to rearrange the molecular structure of fabrics, and alter clothing and costumes with her thoughts.
** After Matrix merged with Linda, she underwent a form of ShapeshifterModeLock; having "defined" herself as Linda and Supergirl, she could only shift between these two forms and nothing else, and also lost her ability to become invisible.
* {{Telekinesis}}: Her primary power was telekinesis which she could use to move objects with her mind and enhance her strength, physical durability, and speed to superhuman levels. By levitating herself, she could fly at supersonic speeds.
* TinMan: Part of what drove her was her perceived lack of humanity. After Matrix merged with Linda Danvers, she was given the opportunity to live as a regular human. Although everyone who knew it really was Matrix stated she had more of a soul than Linda did up to that point, including Linda.
* UnstoppableRage: During her mini-series back in TheNineties, when discover that her lover Lex Luthor had made thousands of clones of her from the residue he collected after her fight with Doomsday. She was very close to killing him too.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: She struggled with shaping an identity for herself and feared she truly was nothing but a lump of protoplasm, but as many people believed, she did have a soul and even if she was an artificial construct, she was human.
* WomanScorned: When she finds out Lex is evil.
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->I thought I was fighting '''Xenon'''! What the hell--? '''Auntie Monitor'''?! Who's her partner, Uncle Screen Saver?
Linda Danvers was a troubled teenager who joined a cult and was involved in many illicit and illegal activities, manipulated by her boyfriend Buzz. Little she knew, Buzz was a demon that intended use her as a sacrifice. Buzz attempted to kill Linda to release a demon, but Supergirl Matrix intervened to save her life, accidentally becoming merged with Linda. Linda and Matrix became the new Supergirl, and Linda began to fight criminals and demons to redeem herself.
Linda enjoyed many adventures fighting evil alongside other heroes, but after the events of ''ComicBook/ManyHappyReturns'', in which she was unable to save the original Earth-One Supergirl, she retired.
After her retirement, Linda made a brief appearance in ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman #24-25'' when several Supergirls join forces to free Superman from the Source Wall, and several appearances in ''ComicBook/{{Shadowpact}}'' and ''Reign of Hell''.
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* TheAtoner: For her sins as a cultist and several other mistakes.
* BreakTheCutie: Linda goes through this... several times. As soon as she gets better, she goes through Hell again.
* CanonImmigrant / RetCanon : Her second costume is based on Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Supergirl. It's explained in-story that Linda fashioned it from things she found in a costume shop, after Matrix (who wore a classic version of the costume) was forced to leave her.
* CapeWings: As the Earth Angel of Fire.
* CorruptTheCutie: What Buzz did to her, though she admits everything she did was of her own free will.
* DeadpanSnarker: Peter David gave this quality to her and it has since passed over to future incarnations of the Supergirl character.
* DePower: After being separated from Matrix, Linda found herself with reduced powers. She could no longer shapeshift into her "Supergirl" form, and all of her angelic powers were lost. In addition, Linda's strength and durability were reduced by half, she lost her ability to fly and produce psionic blasts, and instead was only able to leap around 1/8th of a mile in a single bound.
** But, after encountering Twilight as the new Earth-Born Angel of Fire, Linda regained all of the powers that she'd possessed while initially merged with Matrix, sans her ability to assume her "Supergirl" form. Her strength and durability returned to their original levels and she was able to fly and produce psionic blasts of force once more.
* DespairEventHorizon: She crossed this twice. The first time was after witnessing her pastor beat his wife to death when she was a young girl. The second time was after she was forced to send the pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El back to her universe and her eventual death, as well as losing her daughter even though she'd been told Ariella would be spared from erasure.
* EyeColourChange: Linda Danvers suspected something was off when she saw that her eyes permanently changed from brown to blue, after being rescued from a certain death by a cult. [[spoiler: It's because she WAS dying, and the Matrix version of Supergirl merged with her, causing some of her features to wind up reflected in Linda.]]
* FallenAngel: [[spoiler: In Reign in Hell #6, Linda reappears in the Doctor Occult backstory. She appears as a fallen angel summoned by Lilith but mysteriously released. In Reign in Hell #7, Linda uses her flame vision to kill some injured demons who were huddled around a tiny campfire, Dr. Occult is horrified by her willingness to kill innocents. Linda believes that no one in Hell is innocent, and then accuses Dr. Occult of being a damned soul. Linda says she does not deserve to be trapped in Hell, and that she would see everybody burned to char before she accepted being kept in there. Dr. Occult casts a spell to show Linda who she really is, and she flies away in horror.]]
* GodOfFire: [[OurAngelsAreDifferent She is an Earth-Born Angel of Fire.]]
* HappilyMarried: Spent five years married to the Superman of Earth-One after switching places with Kara.
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Linda dated Post-Crisis Dick Malverne, who is definitely a [[http://static3.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/1/15776/1281121-dick.jpg redhead]].
* HurtingHero: Linda was a troubled teen who was manipulated by her boyfriend into joining a cult and committing crimes. Said boyfriend attempted to sacrifice her to draw a demon into the world. She survived and became a hero to redeem herself. Unfortunately, every time she starts being happy, something happens that puts her through the wringer again.
* MamaBear: Was willing to let the universe fall apart if her daughter wasn't spared from being retconned.
* MoralEventHorizon: In-universe she crossed this while she was allied with Buzz, and it's the whole reason she became an Earth-Angel when merged with Matrix.
* MythologyGag: Pre-Crisis, Linda Danvers was Kara Zor-El's secret identity and the Danvers, Fred and Edna, were her adoptive parents. Post-Crisis, Linda and Kara Zor-El are two separate people, and the Danvers, Fred and Sylvia, are Linda's biological parents.
* PlayingWithFire: After being merged with Matrix for some time, Linda became the Earth-Born Angel of Fire. While she retained her original abilities, she also gained the ability to produce bursts of fire from her eyes (called Flame Vision), form angelic wings composed of flames, and could use her wings to create a flaming portal that allowed her to "shunt" (teleport) long distances.
* PsychicPowers: Upon fusing with the Matrix Supergirl, Linda gained her psychokinetic abilities. Linda was also able to produce concussive blasts of telekinetic energy, typically referred to as "psi blasts."
* PutOnABus: After her series ended, Linda pretty much dropped out of Franchise/TheDCU. She hasn't been consigned to CanonDiscontinuity, but she's barely ever mentioned anymore, either.
* PutOnABusToHell: Literally. [[spoiler: In Reign in Hell #1, the team of Shadowpact attacks Linda Danvers in her Gotham City apartment, which makes Linda fight back. She manifests the flaming wings she had while merged with Matrix, but still loses to the collective powers of Blue Devil and Enchantress. However she is teleported to Hell, as Hell is recalling all of its "debts".]]
* RePower: During her Supergirl stint, her powers changed constantly.
* SecretIdentity: As Linda, though by the end of the series, pretty much everyone knows.
* SuperpowerLottery: She is not a Kryptonian but she is still powerful. She is a FlyingBrick (she has SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, NighInvulnerability and {{Flight}}), with PsychicPowers (telekinesis and for a while, pyrokinesis), and {{Shapeshifting}}.
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[[folder:Cir-El]]
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->I may have been created to mislead you, and tricked into bringing him here -- and maybe I'm not your real daughter, Superman -- but I have learned stuff from you -- like it's my responsibility to go through the time thing and stop all this from ever happening! Be proud of me, dad!
A girl that claimed to be Clark and Lois Lane's daughter from the future. She is later found to be a human girl who was genetically altered by the villain Brainiac to appear Kryptonian.
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* AntiHeroSubstitute: To Linda Danvers. Linda was a troubled teenager who strove to atone for her crimes. Cir-El is a black-wearing, angry, angsty edgy teenager with a dark and troubled past. Although the angst part came more from her split personality Mia, while Cir-El did have some depressed moments she was usually very excitable and eager to do good.
* BlueIsHeroic: She wears a blue cape.
* BoyishShortHair: She is a short-haired ActionGirl.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: She wears a large red "S"-letter.
* ChestInsignia: Her costume exhibits a large red "S" rather than the traditional "S"-shield.
* DaddysGirl: She positively loved Superman when she believed he was her dad and sought nothing but to do right by him and Lois, her "Mom." Even after discovering she wasn't their kid, Cir-El still loved Superman and followed his example by sacrificing herself to save his life.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Her costume is all black and she wants to be a superhero.
%%* DarkerAndEdgier:
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: When it is revealed she was created by Brainiac by grafting some Kryptonian DNA onto the body of Mia with fake memories added.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Brainiac sought to create a fake daughter of Superman as a weapon, and he succeeded so well in regards to the former she went back in time and stopped her creation to save her father.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's a Half-human kryptonian.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Cir-El was thrilled [[http://i.imgur.com/DdJXIiM.jpg when she met Krypto]].
* HeroicBSOD: She has a breakdown when her real origins are revealed.
* HeroicSacrifice: Cir-El realized that she must sacrifice herself to end the cycle that brought Brainiac and the [[BadFuture Futuresmiths]] into reality. She throws herself into a time portal to prevent herself from being born, and thus, prevent the future from ever happening. To add insult to injury, she had ''erased herself'', was brought back to do a major crossover event, then was subsequently sent away ''again'' right afterward.
* KidFromTheFuture: She claimed to be Lois and Clark's kid. She wasn't.
* LeotardOfPower: She wears a black leotard.
* PerpetualFrowner: She seldom smiles.
* PluckyGirl: She eagerly wanted to spend time with her supposed parents and especially loved cuddling with Krypto. Despite the trauma she went through with her identity and finding out her life was a lie, Cir-El still had to resolve to do right by Superman's example and bravely sacrificed her existence to save him.
* RetGone: She has been erased from continuity.
* SplitPersonality: Cir-El was a personality grafted on a troubled young homeless woman named Mia. Unlike Cir-El, Mia hated superheroes and she especially loathed Superman.
%%* SugarAndIcePersonality: Cir-El is the Sugar, Mia is the Ice.
* UnwittingPawn: Of Brainiac and the Futuresmiths to kill Superman.
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[[folder:Kara Zor-El/Linda Lang (Post-Crisis)]]
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->I... I thought I was helping. I mean, what's the use of having all this strength and everything if I can't use it to fix things?
Superman's older cousin, Kara Zor-El survived the destruction of Krypton thanks to her father, Zor-El, putting a protective force-field around Argo City that sent it hurtling into space. However, the citizens of Argo came under attack from the evil alien Brainiac, so before they were conquered, Zor-El and his wife Alura placed their daughter in a spaceship and sent her to Earth where she would care for her young cousin Kal-El.
Arriving on Earth, Kara found that she had been in suspended animation for decades and her cousin was now an adult while she was still a teenager. Adopting her cousin's mantle as Supergirl, she trained under both Franchise/{{Batman}} and Franchise/WonderWoman, and eventually moved in with Lana Lang, pretending to be her niece. Throughout her career, she would battle inner demons which sometimes manifested as a violent, blackclad Supergirl (hereafter referred to as Dark!Kara).
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* ArtificialHuman: She is an artificial life-form called the "protoplasmic matrix", that Lex has used to create Matrix, who resembled his true love, the deceased alternate-reality Lana Lang. Lex had also patterned her physiology to resemble Superman's, whom he had seen by using one of his many inventions to look into the mainstream universe.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: She was one of a number of heroes implanted with Trigon Seeds during one of Raven's FaceHeelTurn stints.
* EvilMakeover: When Matrix went crazy she shifted her costume into something sleeveless with spiked bands around her arms.
* FlyingBrick: via Psychokinesis.
* {{Foil}}: To Superman in a sense. While Superman was raised on Earth from infancy, Mae's experiences with the human race were brand new. Superman was a stranger to humanity as a baby, but humanity shaped him as he grew older to the point he considers himself a human being. Mae had to learn about humanity as a young woman and her experiences began to influence her while struggling with her past and whether or not she could call herself human.
* {{Invisibility}}: One of her lesser-used powers. She could cloak herself (becoming both invisible and inaudible, even to Superman's super hearing).
* NaiveNewcomer: So naive she shacked up with [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor LEX LUTHOR]]! In her defense, the Lex Luthor of her world was a heroic individual, so she carried those expectations with her into the main universe. Also at the time he was posing as his own son and so wasn’t thought to be the “evil” Luthor. Once she realized the main version of Lex was using her, she was terrifying.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: She does this in her ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' miniseries when she finally has enough of Lex's bullshit.
* PutOnABus: Same as Linda below.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The opening arc of Peter David's run pushed Mae past her limit, placing her in situations that tested her moral resolve and forcing her to question her own goodness when told she was merged with a thoroughly corrupted person (Linda). It turned out everything she'd gone through was an attempt by Buzz and his demonic overseers to turn Supergirl over to the dark side, but at the last second she relented.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: She was a protoplasmic life-form and had a malleable genome, so she could assume any humanoid form of similar mass. She could even use her psi-power to rearrange the molecular structure of fabrics, and alter clothing and costumes with her thoughts.
** After Matrix merged with Linda, she underwent a form of ShapeshifterModeLock; having "defined" herself as Linda and Supergirl, she could only shift between these two forms and nothing else, and also lost her ability to become invisible.
* {{Telekinesis}}: Her primary power was telekinesis which she could use to move objects with her mind and enhance her strength, physical durability, and speed to superhuman levels. By levitating herself, she could fly at supersonic speeds.
* TinMan: Part of what drove her was her perceived lack of humanity. After Matrix merged with Linda Danvers, she was given the opportunity to live as a regular human. Although everyone who knew it really was Matrix stated she had more of a soul than Linda did up to that point, including Linda.
* UnstoppableRage: During her mini-series back in TheNineties, when discover that her lover Lex Luthor had made thousands of clones of her from the residue he collected after her fight with Doomsday. She was very close to killing him too.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: She struggled with shaping an identity for herself and feared she truly was nothing but a lump of protoplasm, but as many people believed, she did have a soul and even if she was an artificial construct, she was human.
* WomanScorned: When she finds out Lex is evil.
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[[folder:Linda Danvers]]
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->I thought I was fighting '''Xenon'''! What the hell--? '''Auntie Monitor'''?! Who's her partner, Uncle Screen Saver?
Linda Danvers was a troubled teenager who joined a cult and was involved in many illicit and illegal activities, manipulated by her boyfriend Buzz. Little she knew, Buzz was a demon that intended use her as a sacrifice. Buzz attempted to kill Linda to release a demon, but Supergirl Matrix intervened to save her life, accidentally becoming merged with Linda. Linda and Matrix became the new Supergirl, and Linda began to fight criminals and demons to redeem herself.
Linda enjoyed many adventures fighting evil alongside other heroes, but after the events of ''ComicBook/ManyHappyReturns'', in which she was unable to save the original Earth-One Supergirl, she retired.
After her retirement, Linda made a brief appearance in ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman #24-25'' when several Supergirls join forces to free Superman from the Source Wall, and several appearances in ''ComicBook/{{Shadowpact}}'' and ''Reign of Hell''.
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* TheAtoner: For her sins as a cultist and several other mistakes.
* BreakTheCutie: Linda goes through this... several times. As soon as she gets better, she goes through Hell again.
* CanonImmigrant / RetCanon : Her second costume is based on Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Supergirl. It's explained in-story that Linda fashioned it from things she found in a costume shop, after Matrix (who wore a classic version of the costume) was forced to leave her.
* CapeWings: As the Earth Angel of Fire.
* CorruptTheCutie: What Buzz did to her, though she admits everything she did was of her own free will.
* DeadpanSnarker: Peter David gave this quality to her and it has since passed over to future incarnations of the Supergirl character.
* DePower: After being separated from Matrix, Linda found herself with reduced powers. She could no longer shapeshift into her "Supergirl" form, and all of her angelic powers were lost. In addition, Linda's strength and durability were reduced by half, she lost her ability to fly and produce psionic blasts, and instead was only able to leap around 1/8th of a mile in a single bound.
** But, after encountering Twilight as the new Earth-Born Angel of Fire, Linda regained all of the powers that she'd possessed while initially merged with Matrix, sans her ability to assume her "Supergirl" form. Her strength and durability returned to their original levels and she was able to fly and produce psionic blasts of force once more.
* DespairEventHorizon: She crossed this twice. The first time was after witnessing her pastor beat his wife to death when she was a young girl. The second time was after she was forced to send the pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El back to her universe and her eventual death, as well as losing her daughter even though she'd been told Ariella would be spared from erasure.
* EyeColourChange: Linda Danvers suspected something was off when she saw that her eyes permanently changed from brown to blue, after being rescued from a certain death by a cult. [[spoiler: It's because she WAS dying, and the Matrix version of Supergirl merged with her, causing some of her features to wind up reflected in Linda.]]
* FallenAngel: [[spoiler: In Reign in Hell #6, Linda reappears in the Doctor Occult backstory. She appears as a fallen angel summoned by Lilith but mysteriously released. In Reign in Hell #7, Linda uses her flame vision to kill some injured demons who were huddled around a tiny campfire, Dr. Occult is horrified by her willingness to kill innocents. Linda believes that no one in Hell is innocent, and then accuses Dr. Occult of being a damned soul. Linda says she does not deserve to be trapped in Hell, and that she would see everybody burned to char before she accepted being kept in there. Dr. Occult casts a spell to show Linda who she really is, and she flies away in horror.]]
* GodOfFire: [[OurAngelsAreDifferent She is an Earth-Born Angel of Fire.]]
* HappilyMarried: Spent five years married to the Superman of Earth-One after switching places with Kara.
%%* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* HeroesWantRedHeads: Linda dated Post-Crisis Dick Malverne, who is definitely a [[http://static3.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/1/15776/1281121-dick.jpg redhead]].
* HurtingHero: Linda was a troubled teen who was manipulated by her boyfriend into joining a cult and committing crimes. Said boyfriend attempted to sacrifice her to draw a demon into the world. She survived and became a hero to redeem herself. Unfortunately, every time she starts being happy, something happens that puts her through the wringer again.
* MamaBear: Was willing to let the universe fall apart if her daughter wasn't spared from being retconned.
* MoralEventHorizon: In-universe she crossed this while she was allied with Buzz, and it's the whole reason she became an Earth-Angel when merged with Matrix.
* MythologyGag: Pre-Crisis, Linda Danvers was Kara Zor-El's secret identity and the Danvers, Fred and Edna, were her adoptive parents. Post-Crisis, Linda and Kara Zor-El are two separate people, and the Danvers, Fred and Sylvia, are Linda's biological parents.
* PlayingWithFire: After being merged with Matrix for some time, Linda became the Earth-Born Angel of Fire. While she retained her original abilities, she also gained the ability to produce bursts of fire from her eyes (called Flame Vision), form angelic wings composed of flames, and could use her wings to create a flaming portal that allowed her to "shunt" (teleport) long distances.
* PsychicPowers: Upon fusing with the Matrix Supergirl, Linda gained her psychokinetic abilities. Linda was also able to produce concussive blasts of telekinetic energy, typically referred to as "psi blasts."
* PutOnABus: After her series ended, Linda pretty much dropped out of Franchise/TheDCU. She hasn't been consigned to CanonDiscontinuity, but she's barely ever mentioned anymore, either.
* PutOnABusToHell: Literally. [[spoiler: In Reign in Hell #1, the team of Shadowpact attacks Linda Danvers in her Gotham City apartment, which makes Linda fight back. She manifests the flaming wings she had while merged with Matrix, but still loses to the collective powers of Blue Devil and Enchantress. However she is teleported to Hell, as Hell is recalling all of its "debts".]]
* RePower: During her Supergirl stint, her powers changed constantly.
* SecretIdentity: As Linda, though by the end of the series, pretty much everyone knows.
* SuperpowerLottery: She is not a Kryptonian but she is still powerful. She is a FlyingBrick (she has SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, NighInvulnerability and {{Flight}}), with PsychicPowers (telekinesis and for a while, pyrokinesis), and {{Shapeshifting}}.
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[[folder:Cir-El]]
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->I may have been created to mislead you, and tricked into bringing him here -- and maybe I'm not your real daughter, Superman -- but I have learned stuff from you -- like it's my responsibility to go through the time thing and stop all this from ever happening! Be proud of me, dad!
A girl that claimed to be Clark and Lois Lane's daughter from the future. She is later found to be a human girl who was genetically altered by the villain Brainiac to appear Kryptonian.
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* AntiHeroSubstitute: To Linda Danvers. Linda was a troubled teenager who strove to atone for her crimes. Cir-El is a black-wearing, angry, angsty edgy teenager with a dark and troubled past. Although the angst part came more from her split personality Mia, while Cir-El did have some depressed moments she was usually very excitable and eager to do good.
* BlueIsHeroic: She wears a blue cape.
* BoyishShortHair: She is a short-haired ActionGirl.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: She wears a large red "S"-letter.
* ChestInsignia: Her costume exhibits a large red "S" rather than the traditional "S"-shield.
* DaddysGirl: She positively loved Superman when she believed he was her dad and sought nothing but to do right by him and Lois, her "Mom." Even after discovering she wasn't their kid, Cir-El still loved Superman and followed his example by sacrificing herself to save his life.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Her costume is all black and she wants to be a superhero.
%%* DarkerAndEdgier:
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: When it is revealed she was created by Brainiac by grafting some Kryptonian DNA onto the body of Mia with fake memories added.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Brainiac sought to create a fake daughter of Superman as a weapon, and he succeeded so well in regards to the former she went back in time and stopped her creation to save her father.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's a Half-human kryptonian.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Cir-El was thrilled [[http://i.imgur.com/DdJXIiM.jpg when she met Krypto]].
* HeroicBSOD: She has a breakdown when her real origins are revealed.
* HeroicSacrifice: Cir-El realized that she must sacrifice herself to end the cycle that brought Brainiac and the [[BadFuture Futuresmiths]] into reality. She throws herself into a time portal to prevent herself from being born, and thus, prevent the future from ever happening. To add insult to injury, she had ''erased herself'', was brought back to do a major crossover event, then was subsequently sent away ''again'' right afterward.
* KidFromTheFuture: She claimed to be Lois and Clark's kid. She wasn't.
* LeotardOfPower: She wears a black leotard.
* PerpetualFrowner: She seldom smiles.
* PluckyGirl: She eagerly wanted to spend time with her supposed parents and especially loved cuddling with Krypto. Despite the trauma she went through with her identity and finding out her life was a lie, Cir-El still had to resolve to do right by Superman's example and bravely sacrificed her existence to save him.
* RetGone: She has been erased from continuity.
* SplitPersonality: Cir-El was a personality grafted on a troubled young homeless woman named Mia. Unlike Cir-El, Mia hated superheroes and she especially loathed Superman.
%%* SugarAndIcePersonality: Cir-El is the Sugar, Mia is the Ice.
* UnwittingPawn: Of Brainiac and the Futuresmiths to kill Superman.
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[[folder:Kara Zor-El/Linda Lang (Post-Crisis)]]
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->I... I thought I was helping. I mean, what's the use of having all this strength and everything if I can't use it to fix things?
Superman's older cousin, Kara Zor-El survived the destruction of Krypton thanks to her father, Zor-El, putting a protective force-field around Argo City that sent it hurtling into space. However, the citizens of Argo came under attack from the evil alien Brainiac, so before they were conquered, Zor-El and his wife Alura placed their daughter in a spaceship and sent her to Earth where she would care for her young cousin Kal-El.
Arriving on Earth, Kara found that she had been in suspended animation for decades and her cousin was now an adult while she was still a teenager. Adopting her cousin's mantle as Supergirl, she trained under both Franchise/{{Batman}} and Franchise/WonderWoman, and eventually moved in with Lana Lang, pretending to be her niece. Throughout her career, she would battle inner demons which sometimes manifested as a violent, blackclad Supergirl (hereafter referred to as Dark!Kara).
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->'''Kara:''' Wonder Woman laughed when I begged to join the Justice Society. I'd studied Earth's history, so I knew who she was... I didn't know I'd come to see her as my mother... and the rest as my family.
->'''AKA:''' Linda Danvers / Kara Zor-El of Earth-1098
''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'' universe's Supergirl, Kara was the only one to escape the destruction of Argo City. Her parents sent her to Earth because they had heard of their heroes, never knowing her cousin Kal-El was sent there, too.
Upon landing, Kara joined the ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' and was adopted by Franchise/WonderWoman. She saw the Society as her family and Lex Luthor -- Society's main backer -- as a friend and mentor. In a world which had never heard of Superman, she became world's mightiest hero.
Several years later, a kidnapping forces Kara to team up with Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}, Gotham City's nearly dictatorial protector. In the process, she learns of her cousin's fate, Luthor's true self and makes a new friend.
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* AmazonianBeauty: She is beautiful, tall, and muscular.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Supergirl is nice, kind, polite, and good-natured. Still, when she discovered that [[spoiler:Lex Luthor killed her cousin baby several year ago]], she wanted to kill him.
%%* BoyishShortHair: Her hairstyle.
* BreakTheCutie: Kara was an innocent, nice woman. Then she found out that someone who she thought was a very good person [[spoiler:murdered her baby cousin several years ago, and was manipulating her all along]].
* BrokenPedestal: Lex became this to Kara when she realized what kind of person he really was.
* TheCape: In her cousin's absence, she is world's greatest hero.
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Kara managed to befriend Barbara Gordon, a jerkass who trusted no one, was constantly angry, was cold to other crimefighters and could be stubborn and irrational.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Kara points at Batgirl when she calls her out on being more interested in keeping a well-meaning metahuman out of Gothan than in rescuing a hostage.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Supergirl's eyes glowed red when she wanted to kill Luthor.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Supergirl and Batgirl don't get along well at the beginning, but they turn into this over the course of the story.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Kara thought Luthor was "the most wonderful man in the world". To be fair, he deceived everyone but Batgirl and Bruce.
* HotBlooded: Kara is emotional, passionate, impulsive and stubborn.
* InterspeciesRomance: Subverted. Most of people thought Supergirl and Lex Luthor were together, but their relationship wasn't romantic at all.
* ItsPersonal: Taking Lex Luthor down became a personal matter to her as soon as she discovered [[spoiler:her cousin's corpse]].
* JustFriends: Kara insists that she and Lex are just friends despite of a number of rumors claiming otherwise.
-->'''Barbara:''' My secrets may be the key to saving your boyfriend.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Don't be trite -- we're just friends.
* LastOfHisKind: Kara is ''truly'' the last Kryptonian... [[spoiler:because Lex murdered her baby cousin]].
%%* LovelyAngels: With Batgirl.
* MiniDressOfPower: Subverted. Her adult self wears what wold have been Superman's costume.
* MostCommonSuperpower: This Supergirl is as buxom as her Earth 2 counterpart.
%%* MrExposition: She plays this role.
* NiceGuy: Kara is nice, kind, polite, compassionate, and likes trusting people… too easily.
* ParentalSubstitute: Wonder Woman became Kara's surrogate mother when she showed up on Earth.
* SecretIdentity: It's never stated, but since this universe is strongly based on Earth-One it's presumably Linda Danvers.
* SecretKeeper: She knows Batgirl's secret identity.
* SuperpowerLottery: FlyingBrick with EyeBeams {{Breath Weapon}}s and SuperSenses.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Supergirl is the tomboy to Batgirl's girly girl. Kara is more masculine and aggressive, has a crew cut and wears trousers and sweaters. Batgirl is more female, has long hair, and wears dresses and jewelry.
%%* UnwittingPawn: To Lex Luthor.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Supergirl regarded Luthor as a kind of father… until she learnt that [[spoiler:he murdered her baby cousin]].
* WideEyedIdealist: Supergirl is too trusting and naive. Her naïveté nearly gets her killed.
* YouKilledMyFather: Supergirl wants to [[spoiler:kill Luthor]] after finding out that he murdered [[spoiler:her cousin]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Supergirl is nice, kind, polite, and good-natured. Still, when she discovered that [[spoiler:Lex Luthor killed her cousin baby several year ago]], she wanted to kill him.
%%* BoyishShortHair: Her hairstyle.
* BreakTheCutie: Kara was an innocent, nice woman. Then she found out that someone who she thought was a very good person [[spoiler:murdered her baby cousin several years ago, and was manipulating her all along]].
* BrokenPedestal: Lex became this to Kara when she realized what kind of person he really was.
* TheCape: In her cousin's absence, she is world's greatest hero.
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Kara managed to befriend Barbara Gordon, a jerkass who trusted no one, was constantly angry, was cold to other crimefighters and could be stubborn and irrational.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Kara points at Batgirl when she calls her out on being more interested in keeping a well-meaning metahuman out of Gothan than in rescuing a hostage.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Supergirl's eyes glowed red when she wanted to kill Luthor.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Supergirl and Batgirl don't get along well at the beginning, but they turn into this over the course of the story.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Kara thought Luthor was "the most wonderful man in the world". To be fair, he deceived everyone but Batgirl and Bruce.
* HotBlooded: Kara is emotional, passionate, impulsive and stubborn.
* InterspeciesRomance: Subverted. Most of people thought Supergirl and Lex Luthor were together, but their relationship wasn't romantic at all.
* ItsPersonal: Taking Lex Luthor down became a personal matter to her as soon as she discovered [[spoiler:her cousin's corpse]].
* JustFriends: Kara insists that she and Lex are just friends despite of a number of rumors claiming otherwise.
-->'''Barbara:''' My secrets may be the key to saving your boyfriend.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Don't be trite -- we're just friends.
* LastOfHisKind: Kara is ''truly'' the last Kryptonian... [[spoiler:because Lex murdered her baby cousin]].
%%* LovelyAngels: With Batgirl.
* MiniDressOfPower: Subverted. Her adult self wears what wold have been Superman's costume.
* MostCommonSuperpower: This Supergirl is as buxom as her Earth 2 counterpart.
%%* MrExposition: She plays this role.
* NiceGuy: Kara is nice, kind, polite, compassionate, and likes trusting people… too easily.
* ParentalSubstitute: Wonder Woman became Kara's surrogate mother when she showed up on Earth.
* SecretIdentity: It's never stated, but since this universe is strongly based on Earth-One it's presumably Linda Danvers.
* SecretKeeper: She knows Batgirl's secret identity.
* SuperpowerLottery: FlyingBrick with EyeBeams {{Breath Weapon}}s and SuperSenses.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Supergirl is the tomboy to Batgirl's girly girl. Kara is more masculine and aggressive, has a crew cut and wears trousers and sweaters. Batgirl is more female, has long hair, and wears dresses and jewelry.
%%* UnwittingPawn: To Lex Luthor.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Supergirl regarded Luthor as a kind of father… until she learnt that [[spoiler:he murdered her baby cousin]].
* WideEyedIdealist: Supergirl is too trusting and naive. Her naïveté nearly gets her killed.
* YouKilledMyFather: Supergirl wants to [[spoiler:kill Luthor]] after finding out that he murdered [[spoiler:her cousin]].
to:
* AmazonianBeauty: She AntiHeroSubstitute: To the original Supergirl. Kara is beautiful, tall, a classic Cape and muscular.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Supergirl is nice, kind, polite,Matrix was unpredictable, prone to sudden outbursts of violence, and good-natured. Still, wore a {{Stripperific}}, spiky version of her costume for a while. To sum up, DC replaced [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/2a/7f/5b/2a7f5bfad3d75f836a24e71da0ad5655.jpg Kara Zor-El]] with [[http://static3.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/0/4/34957-5263-39047-1-supergirl.jpg this]]. This gets deconstructed later on when she discovered that [[spoiler:Lex Luthor killed her cousin baby Mae became dangerously close to permanently turning into a cold blooded killer after several year ago]], she wanted to kill him.
%%* BoyishShortHair: Her hairstyle.
* BreakTheCutie: Kara was an innocent, nice woman. Then shetraumatic experiences, but found out that the resolve to stop before she actually killed someone upon remembering murdering someone evil doesn't justify the act.
* ArtificialHuman: She is an artificial life-form called the "protoplasmic matrix", that Lex has used to create Matrix, whoshe thought was a very good person [[spoiler:murdered resembled his true love, the deceased alternate-reality Lana Lang. Lex had also patterned her baby cousin several years ago, and was manipulating her all along]].
* BrokenPedestal: Lex became thisphysiology to Kara when she realized what kind resemble Superman's, whom he had seen by using one of person he really was.
* TheCape: In her cousin's absence, she is world's greatest hero.
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Kara managedhis many inventions to befriend Barbara Gordon, a jerkass who trusted no one, was constantly angry, was cold to other crimefighters and could be stubborn and irrational.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Kara points at Batgirl when she calls her out on being more interested in keeping a well-meaning metahuman out of Gothan than in rescuing a hostage.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Supergirl's eyes glowed red when she wanted to kill Luthor.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Supergirl and Batgirl don't get along well at the beginning, but they turnlook into this over the course of the story.
mainstream universe.
*HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Kara thought Luthor BrainwashedAndCrazy: She was "the most wonderful man in the world". To be fair, he deceived everyone but Batgirl and Bruce.
* HotBlooded: Kara is emotional, passionate, impulsive and stubborn.
* InterspeciesRomance: Subverted. Most of people thought Supergirl and Lex Luthor were together, but their relationship wasn't romantic at all.
* ItsPersonal: Taking Lex Luthor down became a personal matter to her as soon as she discovered [[spoiler:her cousin's corpse]].
* JustFriends: Kara insists that she and Lex are just friends despiteone of a number of rumors claiming otherwise.
-->'''Barbara:''' My secrets may beheroes implanted with Trigon Seeds during one of Raven's FaceHeelTurn stints.
* EvilMakeover: When Matrix went crazy she shifted her costume into something sleeveless with spiked bands around her arms.
* FlyingBrick: via Psychokinesis.
* {{Foil}}: To Superman in a sense. While Superman was raised on Earth from infancy, Mae's experiences with thekey human race were brand new. Superman was a stranger to saving your boyfriend.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Don't be trite -- we're just friends.
* LastOfHisKind: Kara is ''truly''humanity as a baby, but humanity shaped him as he grew older to the last Kryptonian... [[spoiler:because Lex murdered point he considers himself a human being. Mae had to learn about humanity as a young woman and her baby cousin]].
%%* LovelyAngels: With Batgirl.
experiences began to influence her while struggling with her past and whether or not she could call herself human.
*MiniDressOfPower: Subverted. Her adult self wears what wold have been {{Invisibility}}: One of her lesser-used powers. She could cloak herself (becoming both invisible and inaudible, even to Superman's costume.
super hearing).
*MostCommonSuperpower: This NaiveNewcomer: So naive she shacked up with [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor LEX LUTHOR]]! In her defense, the Lex Luthor of her world was a heroic individual, so she carried those expectations with her into the main universe. Also at the time he was posing as his own son and so wasn’t thought to be the “evil” Luthor. Once she realized the main version of Lex was using her, she was terrifying.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: She does this in her ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' miniseries when she finally has enough of Lex's bullshit.
* PutOnABus: Same as Linda below.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The opening arc of Peter David's run pushed Mae past her limit, placing her in situations that tested her moral resolve and forcing her to question her own goodness when told she was merged with a thoroughly corrupted person (Linda). It turned out everything she'd gone through was an attempt by Buzz and his demonic overseers to turn Supergirlis as buxom as over to the dark side, but at the last second she relented.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: She was a protoplasmic life-form and had a malleable genome, so she could assume any humanoid form of similar mass. She could even use herEarth 2 counterpart.
%%* MrExposition: She plays this role.
* NiceGuy: Kara is nice, kind, polite, compassionate,psi-power to rearrange the molecular structure of fabrics, and likes trusting people… too easily.
* ParentalSubstitute: Wonder Woman became Kara's surrogate mother whenalter clothing and costumes with her thoughts.
** After Matrix merged with Linda, sheshowed up on Earth.
* SecretIdentity: It's never stated, but since this universe is strongly based on Earth-One it's presumablyunderwent a form of ShapeshifterModeLock; having "defined" herself as Linda Danvers.
and Supergirl, she could only shift between these two forms and nothing else, and also lost her ability to become invisible.
*SecretKeeper: She knows Batgirl's secret identity.
* SuperpowerLottery: FlyingBrick{{Telekinesis}}: Her primary power was telekinesis which she could use to move objects with EyeBeams {{Breath Weapon}}s her mind and SuperSenses.
enhance her strength, physical durability, and speed to superhuman levels. By levitating herself, she could fly at supersonic speeds.
*TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Supergirl is TinMan: Part of what drove her was her perceived lack of humanity. After Matrix merged with Linda Danvers, she was given the tomboy opportunity to Batgirl's girly girl. Kara is live as a regular human. Although everyone who knew it really was Matrix stated she had more masculine and aggressive, has of a crew cut and wears trousers and sweaters. Batgirl is more female, has long hair, and wears dresses and jewelry.
%%* UnwittingPawn: Tosoul than Linda did up to that point, including Linda.
* UnstoppableRage: During her mini-series back in TheNineties, when discover that her lover LexLuthor.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Supergirl regardedLuthor as a kind had made thousands of father… until she learnt that [[spoiler:he murdered clones of her baby cousin]].
* WideEyedIdealist: Supergirl is too trusting and naive. Her naïveté nearly gets her killed.
* YouKilledMyFather: Supergirl wants to [[spoiler:kill Luthor]]from the residue he collected after finding her fight with Doomsday. She was very close to killing him too.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: She struggled with shaping an identity for herself and feared she truly was nothing but a lump of protoplasm, but as many people believed, she did have a soul and even if she was an artificial construct, she was human.
* WomanScorned: When she finds outthat he murdered [[spoiler:her cousin]].Lex is evil.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Supergirl is nice, kind, polite,
%%* BoyishShortHair: Her hairstyle.
* BreakTheCutie: Kara was an innocent, nice woman. Then she
* ArtificialHuman: She is an artificial life-form called the "protoplasmic matrix", that Lex has used to create Matrix, who
* BrokenPedestal: Lex became this
* TheCape: In her cousin's absence, she is world's greatest hero.
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Kara managed
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Kara points at Batgirl when she calls her out on being more interested in keeping a well-meaning metahuman out of Gothan than in rescuing a hostage.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Supergirl's eyes glowed red when she wanted to kill Luthor.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Supergirl and Batgirl don't get along well at the beginning, but they turn
*
* HotBlooded: Kara is emotional, passionate, impulsive and stubborn.
* InterspeciesRomance: Subverted. Most of people thought Supergirl and Lex Luthor were together, but their relationship wasn't romantic at all.
* ItsPersonal: Taking Lex Luthor down became a personal matter to her as soon as she discovered [[spoiler:her cousin's corpse]].
* JustFriends: Kara insists that she and Lex are just friends despite
-->'''Barbara:''' My secrets may be
* EvilMakeover: When Matrix went crazy she shifted her costume into something sleeveless with spiked bands around her arms.
* FlyingBrick: via Psychokinesis.
* {{Foil}}: To Superman in a sense. While Superman was raised on Earth from infancy, Mae's experiences with the
'''Supergirl:''' Don't be trite -- we're just friends.
* LastOfHisKind: Kara is ''truly''
%%* LovelyAngels: With Batgirl.
*
*
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: She does this in her ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' miniseries when she finally has enough of Lex's bullshit.
* PutOnABus: Same as Linda below.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The opening arc of Peter David's run pushed Mae past her limit, placing her in situations that tested her moral resolve and forcing her to question her own goodness when told she was merged with a thoroughly corrupted person (Linda). It turned out everything she'd gone through was an attempt by Buzz and his demonic overseers to turn Supergirl
* {{Shapeshifting}}: She was a protoplasmic life-form and had a malleable genome, so she could assume any humanoid form of similar mass. She could even use her
%%* MrExposition: She plays this role.
* NiceGuy: Kara is nice, kind, polite, compassionate,
* ParentalSubstitute: Wonder Woman became Kara's surrogate mother when
** After Matrix merged with Linda, she
* SecretIdentity: It's never stated, but since this universe is strongly based on Earth-One it's presumably
*
* SuperpowerLottery: FlyingBrick
*
%%* UnwittingPawn: To
* UnstoppableRage: During her mini-series back in TheNineties, when discover that her lover Lex
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Supergirl regarded
* WideEyedIdealist: Supergirl is too trusting and naive. Her naïveté nearly gets her killed.
* YouKilledMyFather: Supergirl wants to [[spoiler:kill Luthor]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: She struggled with shaping an identity for herself and feared she truly was nothing but a lump of protoplasm, but as many people believed, she did have a soul and even if she was an artificial construct, she was human.
* WomanScorned: When she finds out
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->Hi! My name is Supergirl. What's your name? You guys are slimy. Did you know you're slimy? Are you called the Slimy Guys?
->'''AKA:''' Ariella Kent
The daughter of Linda Danvers and an alternate ''[[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]'' Superman. After her parents were erased by the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' and ComicBook/TheSpectre's interference, Ariella was left to wander space and time on her own.
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%%* ComboPlatterPowers
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Due to her high level of power and young age, Ariella can be highly destructive, as she has not learned to hold back her abilities.
* TheDreaded: Ariella is a humorous example. She's a mere six-years-old girl who obliviously causes chaos and destruction wherever she goes. Several alien civilizations call her [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds]].
* EnfantTerrible: How everyone else views her, as this six-years-old is too naive and innocent to realize that she destroys everything around her whenever she moves.
* GooGooGodlike: Comes with being the daughter of Linda Danvers and an alternate ''Silver Age'' Superman. She is most likely second only to [[ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis Superboy-Prime]] when it comes to raw power.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: She is Earth-One Superman's daughter. She ''can'' move planets.
%%* PuppyLove: With ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy.
* RedBaron: Dura, an alien that had been fleeing from her since Ariella had nearly destroyed his planet, called her "R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds".
* SuperPowerLottery: A hybrid of metahuman/Kryptonian heritage, Ariella possesses vast powers for her young age. She has incredible superhuman strength and speed. She can fly, [[TimeTravel travel through time at will]], [[MindOverMatter move objects via telekinesis]], and teleport anywhere she wishes. She is invulnerable, and ages at an extremely slow rate, energy blasts, energy absorption and also duplication. She also has X-ray vision and heat vision.
%%* WalkingTheEarth: Walking ''the multiverse''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Supergirl (''Cosmic Adventures'')]]
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->I can see through everyone's clothes! I don't want to see through everyone's clothes!
->'''AKA:''' Linda Lee/Kara Zor-El
An alternate version of Earth-One Kara from the all-ages comic, ''Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade''.
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->Hi! My name is Supergirl. What's your name? You guys are slimy. Did you know you're slimy? Are you called the Slimy Guys?
->'''AKA:''' Ariella Kent
The daughter of Linda Danvers and an alternate ''[[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]'' Superman. After her parents were erased by the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' and ComicBook/TheSpectre's interference, Ariella was left to wander space and time on her own.
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%%* ComboPlatterPowers
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Due to her high level of power and young age, Ariella can be highly destructive, as she has not learned to hold back her abilities.
* TheDreaded: Ariella is a humorous example. She's a mere six-years-old girl who obliviously causes chaos and destruction wherever she goes. Several alien civilizations call her [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds]].
* EnfantTerrible: How everyone else views her, as this six-years-old is too naive and innocent to realize that she destroys everything around her whenever she moves.
* GooGooGodlike: Comes with being the daughter of Linda Danvers and an alternate ''Silver Age'' Superman. She is most likely second only to [[ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis Superboy-Prime]] when it comes to raw power.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: She is Earth-One Superman's daughter. She ''can'' move planets.
%%* PuppyLove: With ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy.
* RedBaron: Dura, an alien that had been fleeing from her since Ariella had nearly destroyed his planet, called her "R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds".
* SuperPowerLottery: A hybrid of metahuman/Kryptonian heritage, Ariella possesses vast powers for her young age. She has incredible superhuman strength and speed. She can fly, [[TimeTravel travel through time at will]], [[MindOverMatter move objects via telekinesis]], and teleport anywhere she wishes. She is invulnerable, and ages at an extremely slow rate, energy blasts, energy absorption and also duplication. She also has X-ray vision and heat vision.
%%* WalkingTheEarth: Walking ''the multiverse''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Supergirl (''Cosmic Adventures'')]]
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->I can see through everyone's clothes! I don't want to see through everyone's clothes!
->'''AKA:''' Linda Lee/Kara Zor-El
An alternate version of Earth-One Kara from the all-ages comic, ''Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade''.
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->Hi! My name is Supergirl. What's your name? You guys are slimy. Did you know you're slimy? Are you called
->I thought I was fighting '''Xenon'''! What the
->'''AKA:''' Ariella Kent
The daughter of
Linda Danvers was a troubled teenager who joined a cult and
Linda enjoyed many adventures fighting evil alongside other heroes, but after the events of ''ComicBook/ManyHappyReturns'', in which she was unable to save the original Earth-One Supergirl, she retired.
After her
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%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
%%* ComboPlatterPowers
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Due to her high level of power and young age, Ariella can be highly destructive, as she has not learned to hold back her abilities.
* TheDreaded: Ariella is a humorous example. She's a mere six-years-old girl who obliviously causes chaos and destruction wherever she goes. Several alien civilizations call her [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds]].
* EnfantTerrible: How everyone else views her, as this six-years-old is too naive and innocent to realize that she destroys everything around her whenever she moves.
* GooGooGodlike: Comes with being the daughter of
* PersonOfMassDestruction: She is Earth-One Superman's daughter. She ''can'' move planets.
%%* PuppyLove: With ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy.
* RedBaron: Dura, an alien that had been fleeing from her since Ariella had nearly destroyed his planet, called her "R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds".
* SuperPowerLottery: A hybrid of metahuman/Kryptonian heritage, Ariella possesses vast powers for her young age. She has incredible superhuman strength and speed. She can fly, [[TimeTravel travel through time at will]], [[MindOverMatter move objects via telekinesis]], and teleport anywhere she wishes. She is invulnerable, and ages at an extremely slow rate, energy blasts, energy absorption and also duplication. She also has X-ray vision and heat vision.
%%* WalkingTheEarth: Walking ''the multiverse''.
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->I can see through everyone's clothes! I don't want to see through everyone's clothes!
->'''AKA:''' Linda Lee/Kara Zor-El
An alternate version of Earth-One Kara
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* AlliterativeName: Linda Lee
* BreakTheCutie: Mxy tries this. It doesn't work. She's Supergirl, darnit!
* CloudCuckoolander: With her constant fantasies of "Moon Supergirl".
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: She accidentally broke a desk in half when she put her hand on it. And she put her hand through a wall when she was writing in a chalkboard.
%%* EvilCounterpart: Belinda.
%%* EvilTwin: Belinda.
%%* FriendlyEnemy: With Lena Luthor.
* NaiveNewcomer: She doesn't get most Earth customs.
* NonHumanSidekick: Her cat Streaky and her horse Comet.
* PluckyGirl: Her unending optimism despite all odds infuriate Mxy to no end.
%%* SecretIdentity: Linda Lee.
* BreakTheCutie: Mxy tries this. It doesn't work. She's Supergirl, darnit!
* CloudCuckoolander: With her constant fantasies of "Moon Supergirl".
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: She accidentally broke a desk in half when she put her hand on it. And she put her hand through a wall when she was writing in a chalkboard.
%%* EvilCounterpart: Belinda.
%%* EvilTwin: Belinda.
%%* FriendlyEnemy: With Lena Luthor.
* NaiveNewcomer: She doesn't get most Earth customs.
* NonHumanSidekick: Her cat Streaky and her horse Comet.
* PluckyGirl: Her unending optimism despite all odds infuriate Mxy to no end.
%%* SecretIdentity: Linda Lee.
to:
* AlliterativeName: Linda Lee
TheAtoner: For her sins as a cultist and several other mistakes.
* BreakTheCutie:Mxy tries this. It doesn't work. She's Supergirl, darnit!
* CloudCuckoolander: With her constant fantasies of "Moon Supergirl".
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: She accidentally broke a desk in half when she put her hand on it. And she put her handLinda goes through this... several times. As soon as she gets better, she goes through Hell again.
* CanonImmigrant / RetCanon : Her second costume is based on Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Supergirl. It's explained in-story that Linda fashioned it from things she found in awall costume shop, after Matrix (who wore a classic version of the costume) was forced to leave her.
* CapeWings: As the Earth Angel of Fire.
* CorruptTheCutie: What Buzz did to her, though she admits everything she did was of her own free will.
* DeadpanSnarker: Peter David gave this quality to her and it has since passed over to future incarnations of the Supergirl character.
* DePower: After being separated from Matrix, Linda found herself with reduced powers. She could no longer shapeshift into her "Supergirl" form, and all of her angelic powers were lost. In addition, Linda's strength and durability were reduced by half, she lost her ability to fly and produce psionic blasts, and instead was only able to leap around 1/8th of a mile in a single bound.
** But, after encountering Twilight as the new Earth-Born Angel of Fire, Linda regained all of the powers that she'd possessed while initially merged with Matrix, sans her ability to assume her "Supergirl" form. Her strength and durability returned to their original levels and she was able to fly and produce psionic blasts of force once more.
* DespairEventHorizon: She crossed this twice. The first time was after witnessing her pastor beat his wife to death when she waswriting a young girl. The second time was after she was forced to send the pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El back to her universe and her eventual death, as well as losing her daughter even though she'd been told Ariella would be spared from erasure.
* EyeColourChange: Linda Danvers suspected something was off when she saw that her eyes permanently changed from brown to blue, after being rescued from a certain death by a cult. [[spoiler: It's because she WAS dying, and the Matrix version of Supergirl merged with her, causing some of her features to wind up reflected in Linda.]]
* FallenAngel: [[spoiler: In Reign in Hell #6, Linda reappears in the Doctor Occult backstory. She appears as achalkboard.
fallen angel summoned by Lilith but mysteriously released. In Reign in Hell #7, Linda uses her flame vision to kill some injured demons who were huddled around a tiny campfire, Dr. Occult is horrified by her willingness to kill innocents. Linda believes that no one in Hell is innocent, and then accuses Dr. Occult of being a damned soul. Linda says she does not deserve to be trapped in Hell, and that she would see everybody burned to char before she accepted being kept in there. Dr. Occult casts a spell to show Linda who she really is, and she flies away in horror.]]
* GodOfFire: [[OurAngelsAreDifferent She is an Earth-Born Angel of Fire.]]
* HappilyMarried: Spent five years married to the Superman of Earth-One after switching places with Kara.
%%*EvilCounterpart: Belinda.
%%* EvilTwin: Belinda.HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* HeroesWantRedHeads: Linda dated Post-Crisis Dick Malverne, who is definitely a [[http://static3.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/1/15776/1281121-dick.jpg redhead]].
* HurtingHero: Linda was a troubled teen who was manipulated by her boyfriend into joining a cult and committing crimes. Said boyfriend attempted to sacrifice her to draw a demon into the world. She survived and became a hero to redeem herself. Unfortunately, every time she starts being happy, something happens that puts her through the wringer again.
* MamaBear: Was willing to let the universe fall apart if her daughter wasn't spared from being retconned.
* MoralEventHorizon: In-universe she crossed this while she was allied with Buzz, and it's the whole reason she became an Earth-Angel when merged with Matrix.
* MythologyGag: Pre-Crisis, Linda Danvers was Kara Zor-El's secret identity and the Danvers, Fred and Edna, were her adoptive parents. Post-Crisis, Linda and Kara Zor-El are two separate people, and the Danvers, Fred and Sylvia, are Linda's biological parents.
* PlayingWithFire: After being merged with Matrix for some time, Linda became the Earth-Born Angel of Fire. While she retained her original abilities, she also gained the ability to produce bursts of fire from her eyes (called Flame Vision), form angelic wings composed of flames, and could use her wings to create a flaming portal that allowed her to "shunt" (teleport) long distances.
%%* FriendlyEnemy: With Lena Luthor.
* NaiveNewcomer: PsychicPowers: Upon fusing with the Matrix Supergirl, Linda gained her psychokinetic abilities. Linda was also able to produce concussive blasts of telekinetic energy, typically referred to as "psi blasts."
* PutOnABus: After her series ended, Linda pretty much dropped out of Franchise/TheDCU. Shedoesn't get most Earth customs.
hasn't been consigned to CanonDiscontinuity, but she's barely ever mentioned anymore, either.
*NonHumanSidekick: Her cat Streaky PutOnABusToHell: Literally. [[spoiler: In Reign in Hell #1, the team of Shadowpact attacks Linda Danvers in her Gotham City apartment, which makes Linda fight back. She manifests the flaming wings she had while merged with Matrix, but still loses to the collective powers of Blue Devil and Enchantress. However she is teleported to Hell, as Hell is recalling all of its "debts".]]
* RePower: During herhorse Comet.
Supergirl stint, her powers changed constantly.
*PluckyGirl: Her unending optimism despite all odds infuriate Mxy to no end.
%%*SecretIdentity: Linda Lee.As Linda, though by the end of the series, pretty much everyone knows.
* SuperpowerLottery: She is not a Kryptonian but she is still powerful. She is a FlyingBrick (she has SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, NighInvulnerability and {{Flight}}), with PsychicPowers (telekinesis and for a while, pyrokinesis), and {{Shapeshifting}}.
* BreakTheCutie:
* CloudCuckoolander: With her constant fantasies of "Moon Supergirl".
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: She accidentally broke a desk in half when she put her hand on it. And she put her hand
* CanonImmigrant / RetCanon : Her second costume is based on Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Supergirl. It's explained in-story that Linda fashioned it from things she found in a
* CapeWings: As the Earth Angel of Fire.
* CorruptTheCutie: What Buzz did to her, though she admits everything she did was of her own free will.
* DeadpanSnarker: Peter David gave this quality to her and it has since passed over to future incarnations of the Supergirl character.
* DePower: After being separated from Matrix, Linda found herself with reduced powers. She could no longer shapeshift into her "Supergirl" form, and all of her angelic powers were lost. In addition, Linda's strength and durability were reduced by half, she lost her ability to fly and produce psionic blasts, and instead was only able to leap around 1/8th of a mile in a single bound.
** But, after encountering Twilight as the new Earth-Born Angel of Fire, Linda regained all of the powers that she'd possessed while initially merged with Matrix, sans her ability to assume her "Supergirl" form. Her strength and durability returned to their original levels and she was able to fly and produce psionic blasts of force once more.
* DespairEventHorizon: She crossed this twice. The first time was after witnessing her pastor beat his wife to death when she was
* EyeColourChange: Linda Danvers suspected something was off when she saw that her eyes permanently changed from brown to blue, after being rescued from a certain death by a cult. [[spoiler: It's because she WAS dying, and the Matrix version of Supergirl merged with her, causing some of her features to wind up reflected in Linda.]]
* FallenAngel: [[spoiler: In Reign in Hell #6, Linda reappears in the Doctor Occult backstory. She appears as a
* GodOfFire: [[OurAngelsAreDifferent She is an Earth-Born Angel of Fire.]]
* HappilyMarried: Spent five years married to the Superman of Earth-One after switching places with Kara.
%%*
%%* EvilTwin: Belinda.
* HeroesWantRedHeads: Linda dated Post-Crisis Dick Malverne, who is definitely a [[http://static3.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/1/15776/1281121-dick.jpg redhead]].
* HurtingHero: Linda was a troubled teen who was manipulated by her boyfriend into joining a cult and committing crimes. Said boyfriend attempted to sacrifice her to draw a demon into the world. She survived and became a hero to redeem herself. Unfortunately, every time she starts being happy, something happens that puts her through the wringer again.
* MamaBear: Was willing to let the universe fall apart if her daughter wasn't spared from being retconned.
* MoralEventHorizon: In-universe she crossed this while she was allied with Buzz, and it's the whole reason she became an Earth-Angel when merged with Matrix.
* MythologyGag: Pre-Crisis, Linda Danvers was Kara Zor-El's secret identity and the Danvers, Fred and Edna, were her adoptive parents. Post-Crisis, Linda and Kara Zor-El are two separate people, and the Danvers, Fred and Sylvia, are Linda's biological parents.
* PlayingWithFire: After being merged with Matrix for some time, Linda became the Earth-Born Angel of Fire. While she retained her original abilities, she also gained the ability to produce bursts of fire from her eyes (called Flame Vision), form angelic wings composed of flames, and could use her wings to create a flaming portal that allowed her to "shunt" (teleport) long distances.
* PutOnABus: After her series ended, Linda pretty much dropped out of Franchise/TheDCU. She
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* SuperpowerLottery: She is not a Kryptonian but she is still powerful. She is a FlyingBrick (she has SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, NighInvulnerability and {{Flight}}), with PsychicPowers (telekinesis and for a while, pyrokinesis), and {{Shapeshifting}}.
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->'''Jay Garrick:''' I swear, P. G. -- only you would have the gall to tell the fastest man on Earth-Two to "Hurry Up".\\
'''Karen:''' It's not "gall", Flash -- it's determination!
Superman's cousin and Kara's alternate self on Earth 2.
Kara Zor-L's parents sent their baby daughter to Earth before Krypton's destruction, but because her Symbioship was considerably slower than Kal-L's she spent several decades in suspended animation until her ship finally landed on Earth and she met her cousin. She was adopted by Clark Kent and Lois Lane and eventually joined the ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica''.
After ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', there was no Earth 2, and Power Girl's origins and powers were endlessly retooled. Joining the modern Justice Society before ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', the new Crisis revealed that Power Girl is still Superman's cousin from Earth 2 (the Pre-Crisis Earth 2) restoring her memories and stabilizing her powers.
She is also MostCommonSuperpower incarnate.
[[ComicBook/PowerGirl You can find out more about her in her own article]].
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[[folder:Supergirl of [=Earth-149=]]]
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->You can stop wasting bullets! I have all of Superman's astonishing powers! Gangdom may have suceeded in treacherously killing Superman, but I'm going to carry on his great work!
->'''AKA:''' Linda Lee/Kara Zor-El
In Earth-149 -- an AlternateUniverse seen in ''Superman Vol 1 #149'' -- Lex Luthor managed to murder Superman for good before Kal revealed Supergirl's existence to the world. Kara attended her cousin's funeral assuming her secret identity of Linda Lee, and right after she sought Luthor out, captured him and brought him to the Bottle City of Kandor, where he was put on trial for murder and banished to the Phantom Zone.
Shortly afterward Supergirl took over for her cousin, becoming a popular, beloved and very heart-broken hero.
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->'''Jay Garrick:''' I swear, P. G. -- only you would have the gall to tell the fastest man on Earth-Two to "Hurry Up".\\
'''Karen:''' It's not "gall", Flash -- it's determination!
Superman's cousin and Kara's alternate self on Earth 2.
Kara Zor-L's parents sent their baby daughter to Earth before Krypton's destruction, but because her Symbioship was considerably slower than Kal-L's she spent several decades in suspended animation until her ship finally landed on Earth and she met her cousin. She was adopted by Clark Kent and Lois Lane and eventually joined the ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica''.
After ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', there was no Earth 2, and Power Girl's origins and powers were endlessly retooled. Joining the modern Justice Society before ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', the new Crisis revealed that Power Girl is still Superman's cousin from Earth 2 (the Pre-Crisis Earth 2) restoring her memories and stabilizing her powers.
She is also MostCommonSuperpower incarnate.
[[ComicBook/PowerGirl You can find out more about her in her own article]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Supergirl of [=Earth-149=]]]
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->You can stop wasting bullets! I have all of Superman's astonishing powers! Gangdom may have suceeded in treacherously killing Superman, but I'm going to carry on his great work!
->'''AKA:''' Linda Lee/Kara Zor-El
In Earth-149 -- an AlternateUniverse seen in ''Superman Vol 1 #149'' -- Lex Luthor managed to murder Superman for good before Kal revealed Supergirl's existence to the world. Kara attended her cousin's funeral assuming her secret identity of Linda Lee, and right after she sought Luthor out, captured him and brought him to the Bottle City of Kandor, where he was put on trial for murder and banished to the Phantom Zone.
Shortly afterward Supergirl took over for her cousin, becoming a popular, beloved and very heart-broken hero.
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After ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', there was no Earth 2, and Power Girl's origins and powers were endlessly retooled. Joining the modern Justice Society before ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', the new Crisis revealed that Power Girl is still Superman's cousin
[[ComicBook/PowerGirl You can find out more about her in her own article]].
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[[folder:Supergirl of [=Earth-149=]]]
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->You can stop wasting bullets! I have all of Superman's astonishing powers! Gangdom may have suceeded in treacherously killing Superman, but I'm going
->'''AKA:''' Linda Lee/Kara Zor-El
In Earth-149 -- an AlternateUniverse seen in ''Superman Vol 1 #149'' -- Lex Luthor managed to murder Superman for good before Kal revealed Supergirl's existence to
Shortly afterward Supergirl took over for her cousin, becoming a popular, beloved and very heart-broken hero.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kara was dying to reveal her existence to the world... until Superman got murdered by Lex Luthor. She arrested and punished Luthor, revealed herself and took over for her cousin, becoming a beloved hero, but she lost the only family she had left and thus, is now the last child of Krypton.
-->'''Bystander:''' Good luck! We miss Superman, but we're glad you're taking over for him!\\
'''Supergirl:''' ... I never thought it would turn out this way... all the time I was Superman's secret emergency-weapon, I eagerly looked forward to the day when I could operate openly! Now that it's finally happened, I -- I feel no happiness at the "glory" that's now... mine...
* CanineCompanion: Krypto became her partner after Kal's death.
* HeartbrokenBadass: She hardly smiled after her cousin's death.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Kara became Krypto's owner.
* ImmuneToBullets: Supergirl breaks into the Luthor's lair while he and other criminals are celebrating her cousin's death. Several of them shoot her -- even though she has just informed them that she is Superman's cousin -- and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/superman149_22.jpg she suggests that they stop wasting bullets]].
* LastOfHisKind: With Superman's death, she is the last Kryptonian.
* LatexPerfection: Kara finally reveals herself to the public by crashing Luthor's celebratory party in a full Superman suit and mask, then removing it to reveal herself.
* LegacyCharacter: Kara takes up the role of Supergirl to fight crime and protect Earth after her cousin gets murdered by Lex Luthor.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Luthor thought he was unstoppable after Superman's death and he was going to get away with his murder because he was not aware of the existence of Supergirl.
* SuperpowerLottery: She's an Earth-1 Kryptonian pretty much and just as dangerous as Superman, if not more so, due to her loss.
* TakeUpMySword: Supergirl takes over for her cousin after capturing his murderer.
* WorldsStrongestWoman: Supergirl is unquestionably her world's strongest being after Superman's death (Pre-Crisis Amazons and Martians are noticeably weaker than Kryptonians, there is no Power Girl, and there is no Marvel Family).
* YouKilledMyFather: Supergirl reveals her existence by capturing her cousin's murderer. As she takes Luthor away, she warns a group of gangsters they may have succeeded in treacherously murdering her cousin but they will have to deal with ''her'' now.
-->'''Supergirl:''' My name is... Supergirl! I'm Superman's cousin from Krypton! I've been his secret emergency weapon for years! Luthor, in the name of planet Krypton, I arrest you for murder!
-->'''Bystander:''' Good luck! We miss Superman, but we're glad you're taking over for him!\\
'''Supergirl:''' ... I never thought it would turn out this way... all the time I was Superman's secret emergency-weapon, I eagerly looked forward to the day when I could operate openly! Now that it's finally happened, I -- I feel no happiness at the "glory" that's now... mine...
* CanineCompanion: Krypto became her partner after Kal's death.
* HeartbrokenBadass: She hardly smiled after her cousin's death.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Kara became Krypto's owner.
* ImmuneToBullets: Supergirl breaks into the Luthor's lair while he and other criminals are celebrating her cousin's death. Several of them shoot her -- even though she has just informed them that she is Superman's cousin -- and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/superman149_22.jpg she suggests that they stop wasting bullets]].
* LastOfHisKind: With Superman's death, she is the last Kryptonian.
* LatexPerfection: Kara finally reveals herself to the public by crashing Luthor's celebratory party in a full Superman suit and mask, then removing it to reveal herself.
* LegacyCharacter: Kara takes up the role of Supergirl to fight crime and protect Earth after her cousin gets murdered by Lex Luthor.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Luthor thought he was unstoppable after Superman's death and he was going to get away with his murder because he was not aware of the existence of Supergirl.
* SuperpowerLottery: She's an Earth-1 Kryptonian pretty much and just as dangerous as Superman, if not more so, due to her loss.
* TakeUpMySword: Supergirl takes over for her cousin after capturing his murderer.
* WorldsStrongestWoman: Supergirl is unquestionably her world's strongest being after Superman's death (Pre-Crisis Amazons and Martians are noticeably weaker than Kryptonians, there is no Power Girl, and there is no Marvel Family).
* YouKilledMyFather: Supergirl reveals her existence by capturing her cousin's murderer. As she takes Luthor away, she warns a group of gangsters they may have succeeded in treacherously murdering her cousin but they will have to deal with ''her'' now.
-->'''Supergirl:''' My name is... Supergirl! I'm Superman's cousin from Krypton! I've been his secret emergency weapon for years! Luthor, in the name of planet Krypton, I arrest you for murder!
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kara AntiHeroSubstitute: To Linda Danvers. Linda was dying a troubled teenager who strove to reveal atone for her existence to crimes. Cir-El is a black-wearing, angry, angsty edgy teenager with a dark and troubled past. Although the world... until angst part came more from her split personality Mia, while Cir-El did have some depressed moments she was usually very excitable and eager to do good.
* BlueIsHeroic: She wears a blue cape.
* BoyishShortHair: She is a short-haired ActionGirl.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: She wears a large red "S"-letter.
* ChestInsignia: Her costume exhibits a large red "S" rather than the traditional "S"-shield.
* DaddysGirl: She positively loved Supermangot murdered by Lex Luthor. She arrested when she believed he was her dad and punished Luthor, sought nothing but to do right by him and Lois, her "Mom." Even after discovering she wasn't their kid, Cir-El still loved Superman and followed his example by sacrificing herself to save his life.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Her costume is all black and she wants to be a superhero.
%%* DarkerAndEdgier:
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: When it is revealedherself and took over for her cousin, becoming a beloved hero, but she lost was created by Brainiac by grafting some Kryptonian DNA onto the only family she had left and thus, is now the last child body of Krypton.
-->'''Bystander:''' Good luck! We miss Superman, but we're glad you're taking over for him!\\
'''Supergirl:''' ... I never thought it would turn out this way... all the time I was Superman's secret emergency-weapon, I eagerly looked forward to the day when I could operate openly! Now that it's finally happened, I -- I feel no happiness at the "glory" that's now... mine...
* CanineCompanion: Krypto became her partner after Kal's death.
* HeartbrokenBadass: She hardly smiled after her cousin's death.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Kara became Krypto's owner.
* ImmuneToBullets: Supergirl breaks into the Luthor's lair while he and other criminals are celebrating her cousin's death. Several of them shoot her -- even though she has just informed them that she is Superman's cousin -- and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/superman149_22.jpg she suggests that they stop wasting bullets]].
* LastOfHisKind: With Superman's death, she is the last Kryptonian.Mia with fake memories added.
*LatexPerfection: Kara finally reveals GoneHorriblyRight: Brainiac sought to create a fake daughter of Superman as a weapon, and he succeeded so well in regards to the former she went back in time and stopped her creation to save her father.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's a Half-human kryptonian.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Cir-El was thrilled [[http://i.imgur.com/DdJXIiM.jpg when she met Krypto]].
* HeroicBSOD: She has a breakdown when her real origins are revealed.
* HeroicSacrifice: Cir-El realized that she must sacrifice herself to end thepublic by crashing Luthor's celebratory party in a full Superman suit cycle that brought Brainiac and mask, the [[BadFuture Futuresmiths]] into reality. She throws herself into a time portal to prevent herself from being born, and thus, prevent the future from ever happening. To add insult to injury, she had ''erased herself'', was brought back to do a major crossover event, then removing it to reveal herself.
* LegacyCharacter: Kara takes up the role of Supergirl to fight crime and protect Earth after her cousin gets murdered by Lex Luthor.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Luthor thought hewas unstoppable after Superman's death and he was going to get subsequently sent away with his murder because he was not aware of the existence of Supergirl.
* SuperpowerLottery: She's an Earth-1 Kryptonian pretty much and just as dangerous as Superman, if not more so, due to her loss.''again'' right afterward.
*TakeUpMySword: Supergirl takes over for KidFromTheFuture: She claimed to be Lois and Clark's kid. She wasn't.
* LeotardOfPower: She wears a black leotard.
* PerpetualFrowner: She seldom smiles.
* PluckyGirl: She eagerly wanted to spend time with hercousin after capturing his murderer.
* WorldsStrongestWoman: Supergirl is unquestionablysupposed parents and especially loved cuddling with Krypto. Despite the trauma she went through with her world's strongest being after identity and finding out her life was a lie, Cir-El still had to resolve to do right by Superman's death (Pre-Crisis Amazons example and Martians are noticeably weaker than Kryptonians, there is no Power Girl, and there is no Marvel Family).
* YouKilledMyFather: Supergirl revealsbravely sacrificed her existence by capturing her cousin's murderer. As she takes Luthor away, she warns a group of gangsters they may have succeeded in treacherously murdering her cousin but they will have to deal with ''her'' now.
-->'''Supergirl:''' My name is... Supergirl! I'm Superman's cousinsave him.
* RetGone: She has been erased fromKrypton! I've been his secret emergency weapon for years! Luthor, in continuity.
* SplitPersonality: Cir-El was a personality grafted on a troubled young homeless woman named Mia. Unlike Cir-El, Mia hated superheroes and she especially loathed Superman.
%%* SugarAndIcePersonality: Cir-El is thename of planet Krypton, I arrest you for murder!Sugar, Mia is the Ice.
* UnwittingPawn: Of Brainiac and the Futuresmiths to kill Superman.
* BlueIsHeroic: She wears a blue cape.
* BoyishShortHair: She is a short-haired ActionGirl.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: She wears a large red "S"-letter.
* ChestInsignia: Her costume exhibits a large red "S" rather than the traditional "S"-shield.
* DaddysGirl: She positively loved Superman
* DarkIsNotEvil: Her costume is all black and she wants to be a superhero.
%%* DarkerAndEdgier:
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: When it is revealed
-->'''Bystander:''' Good luck! We miss Superman, but we're glad you're taking over for him!\\
'''Supergirl:''' ... I never thought it would turn out this way... all the time I was Superman's secret emergency-weapon, I eagerly looked forward to the day when I could operate openly! Now that it's finally happened, I -- I feel no happiness at the "glory" that's now... mine...
* CanineCompanion: Krypto became her partner after Kal's death.
* HeartbrokenBadass: She hardly smiled after her cousin's death.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Kara became Krypto's owner.
* ImmuneToBullets: Supergirl breaks into the Luthor's lair while he and other criminals are celebrating her cousin's death. Several of them shoot her -- even though she has just informed them that she is Superman's cousin -- and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/superman149_22.jpg she suggests that they stop wasting bullets]].
* LastOfHisKind: With Superman's death, she is the last Kryptonian.
*
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's a Half-human kryptonian.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Cir-El was thrilled [[http://i.imgur.com/DdJXIiM.jpg when she met Krypto]].
* HeroicBSOD: She has a breakdown when her real origins are revealed.
* HeroicSacrifice: Cir-El realized that she must sacrifice herself to end the
* LegacyCharacter: Kara takes up the role of Supergirl to fight crime and protect Earth after her cousin gets murdered by Lex Luthor.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Luthor thought he
* SuperpowerLottery: She's an Earth-1 Kryptonian pretty much and just as dangerous as Superman, if not more so, due to her loss.
*
* LeotardOfPower: She wears a black leotard.
* PerpetualFrowner: She seldom smiles.
* PluckyGirl: She eagerly wanted to spend time with her
* WorldsStrongestWoman: Supergirl is unquestionably
* YouKilledMyFather: Supergirl reveals
-->'''Supergirl:''' My name is... Supergirl! I'm Superman's cousin
* RetGone: She has been erased from
* SplitPersonality: Cir-El was a personality grafted on a troubled young homeless woman named Mia. Unlike Cir-El, Mia hated superheroes and she especially loathed Superman.
%%* SugarAndIcePersonality: Cir-El is the
* UnwittingPawn: Of Brainiac and the Futuresmiths to kill Superman.
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[[folder:Supergirl (Elseworld's Finest)]]
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->'''Kara:''' Wonder Woman laughed when I begged to join the Justice Society. I'd studied Earth's history, so I knew who she was... I didn't know I'd come to see her as my mother... and the rest as my family.
->'''AKA:''' Linda Danvers / Kara Zor-El of Earth-1098
''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'' universe's Supergirl, Kara was the only one to escape the destruction of Argo City. Her parents sent her to Earth because they had heard of their heroes, never knowing her cousin Kal-El was sent there, too.
Upon landing, Kara joined the ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' and was adopted by Franchise/WonderWoman. She saw the Society as her family and Lex Luthor -- Society's main backer -- as a friend and mentor. In a world which had never heard of Superman, she became world's mightiest hero.
Several years later, a kidnapping forces Kara to team up with Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}, Gotham City's nearly dictatorial protector. In the process, she learns of her cousin's fate, Luthor's true self and makes a new friend.
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* AmazonianBeauty: She is beautiful, tall, and muscular.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Supergirl is nice, kind, polite, and good-natured. Still, when she discovered that [[spoiler:Lex Luthor killed her cousin baby several year ago]], she wanted to kill him.
%%* BoyishShortHair: Her hairstyle.
* BreakTheCutie: Kara was an innocent, nice woman. Then she found out that someone who she thought was a very good person [[spoiler:murdered her baby cousin several years ago, and was manipulating her all along]].
* BrokenPedestal: Lex became this to Kara when she realized what kind of person he really was.
* TheCape: In her cousin's absence, she is world's greatest hero.
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Kara managed to befriend Barbara Gordon, a jerkass who trusted no one, was constantly angry, was cold to other crimefighters and could be stubborn and irrational.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Kara points at Batgirl when she calls her out on being more interested in keeping a well-meaning metahuman out of Gothan than in rescuing a hostage.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Supergirl's eyes glowed red when she wanted to kill Luthor.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Supergirl and Batgirl don't get along well at the beginning, but they turn into this over the course of the story.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Kara thought Luthor was "the most wonderful man in the world". To be fair, he deceived everyone but Batgirl and Bruce.
* HotBlooded: Kara is emotional, passionate, impulsive and stubborn.
* InterspeciesRomance: Subverted. Most of people thought Supergirl and Lex Luthor were together, but their relationship wasn't romantic at all.
* ItsPersonal: Taking Lex Luthor down became a personal matter to her as soon as she discovered [[spoiler:her cousin's corpse]].
* JustFriends: Kara insists that she and Lex are just friends despite of a number of rumors claiming otherwise.
-->'''Barbara:''' My secrets may be the key to saving your boyfriend.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Don't be trite -- we're just friends.
* LastOfHisKind: Kara is ''truly'' the last Kryptonian... [[spoiler:because Lex murdered her baby cousin]].
%%* LovelyAngels: With Batgirl.
* MiniDressOfPower: Subverted. Her adult self wears what wold have been Superman's costume.
* MostCommonSuperpower: This Supergirl is as buxom as her Earth 2 counterpart.
%%* MrExposition: She plays this role.
* NiceGuy: Kara is nice, kind, polite, compassionate, and likes trusting people… too easily.
* ParentalSubstitute: Wonder Woman became Kara's surrogate mother when she showed up on Earth.
* SecretIdentity: It's never stated, but since this universe is strongly based on Earth-One it's presumably Linda Danvers.
* SecretKeeper: She knows Batgirl's secret identity.
* SuperpowerLottery: FlyingBrick with EyeBeams {{Breath Weapon}}s and SuperSenses.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Supergirl is the tomboy to Batgirl's girly girl. Kara is more masculine and aggressive, has a crew cut and wears trousers and sweaters. Batgirl is more female, has long hair, and wears dresses and jewelry.
%%* UnwittingPawn: To Lex Luthor.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Supergirl regarded Luthor as a kind of father… until she learnt that [[spoiler:he murdered her baby cousin]].
* WideEyedIdealist: Supergirl is too trusting and naive. Her naïveté nearly gets her killed.
* YouKilledMyFather: Supergirl wants to [[spoiler:kill Luthor]] after finding out that he murdered [[spoiler:her cousin]].
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[[folder:Supergirl 1,000,000]]
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->Hi! My name is Supergirl. What's your name? You guys are slimy. Did you know you're slimy? Are you called the Slimy Guys?
->'''AKA:''' Ariella Kent
The daughter of Linda Danvers and an alternate ''[[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]'' Superman. After her parents were erased by the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' and ComicBook/TheSpectre's interference, Ariella was left to wander space and time on her own.
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%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
%%* ComboPlatterPowers
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Due to her high level of power and young age, Ariella can be highly destructive, as she has not learned to hold back her abilities.
* TheDreaded: Ariella is a humorous example. She's a mere six-years-old girl who obliviously causes chaos and destruction wherever she goes. Several alien civilizations call her [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds]].
* EnfantTerrible: How everyone else views her, as this six-years-old is too naive and innocent to realize that she destroys everything around her whenever she moves.
* GooGooGodlike: Comes with being the daughter of Linda Danvers and an alternate ''Silver Age'' Superman. She is most likely second only to [[ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis Superboy-Prime]] when it comes to raw power.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: She is Earth-One Superman's daughter. She ''can'' move planets.
%%* PuppyLove: With ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy.
* RedBaron: Dura, an alien that had been fleeing from her since Ariella had nearly destroyed his planet, called her "R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds".
* SuperPowerLottery: A hybrid of metahuman/Kryptonian heritage, Ariella possesses vast powers for her young age. She has incredible superhuman strength and speed. She can fly, [[TimeTravel travel through time at will]], [[MindOverMatter move objects via telekinesis]], and teleport anywhere she wishes. She is invulnerable, and ages at an extremely slow rate, energy blasts, energy absorption and also duplication. She also has X-ray vision and heat vision.
%%* WalkingTheEarth: Walking ''the multiverse''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Supergirl (''Cosmic Adventures'')]]
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->I can see through everyone's clothes! I don't want to see through everyone's clothes!
->'''AKA:''' Linda Lee/Kara Zor-El
An alternate version of Earth-One Kara from the all-ages comic, ''Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade''.
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* AlliterativeName: Linda Lee
* BreakTheCutie: Mxy tries this. It doesn't work. She's Supergirl, darnit!
* CloudCuckoolander: With her constant fantasies of "Moon Supergirl".
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: She accidentally broke a desk in half when she put her hand on it. And she put her hand through a wall when she was writing in a chalkboard.
%%* EvilCounterpart: Belinda.
%%* EvilTwin: Belinda.
%%* FriendlyEnemy: With Lena Luthor.
* NaiveNewcomer: She doesn't get most Earth customs.
* NonHumanSidekick: Her cat Streaky and her horse Comet.
* PluckyGirl: Her unending optimism despite all odds infuriate Mxy to no end.
%%* SecretIdentity: Linda Lee.
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->'''Jay Garrick:''' I swear, P. G. -- only you would have the gall to tell the fastest man on Earth-Two to "Hurry Up".\\
'''Karen:''' It's not "gall", Flash -- it's determination!
Superman's cousin and Kara's alternate self on Earth 2.
Kara Zor-L's parents sent their baby daughter to Earth before Krypton's destruction, but because her Symbioship was considerably slower than Kal-L's she spent several decades in suspended animation until her ship finally landed on Earth and she met her cousin. She was adopted by Clark Kent and Lois Lane and eventually joined the ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica''.
After ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', there was no Earth 2, and Power Girl's origins and powers were endlessly retooled. Joining the modern Justice Society before ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', the new Crisis revealed that Power Girl is still Superman's cousin from Earth 2 (the Pre-Crisis Earth 2) restoring her memories and stabilizing her powers.
She is also MostCommonSuperpower incarnate.
[[ComicBook/PowerGirl You can find out more about her in her own article]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Supergirl of [=Earth-149=]]]
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->You can stop wasting bullets! I have all of Superman's astonishing powers! Gangdom may have suceeded in treacherously killing Superman, but I'm going to carry on his great work!
->'''AKA:''' Linda Lee/Kara Zor-El
In Earth-149 -- an AlternateUniverse seen in ''Superman Vol 1 #149'' -- Lex Luthor managed to murder Superman for good before Kal revealed Supergirl's existence to the world. Kara attended her cousin's funeral assuming her secret identity of Linda Lee, and right after she sought Luthor out, captured him and brought him to the Bottle City of Kandor, where he was put on trial for murder and banished to the Phantom Zone.
Shortly afterward Supergirl took over for her cousin, becoming a popular, beloved and very heart-broken hero.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kara was dying to reveal her existence to the world... until Superman got murdered by Lex Luthor. She arrested and punished Luthor, revealed herself and took over for her cousin, becoming a beloved hero, but she lost the only family she had left and thus, is now the last child of Krypton.
-->'''Bystander:''' Good luck! We miss Superman, but we're glad you're taking over for him!\\
'''Supergirl:''' ... I never thought it would turn out this way... all the time I was Superman's secret emergency-weapon, I eagerly looked forward to the day when I could operate openly! Now that it's finally happened, I -- I feel no happiness at the "glory" that's now... mine...
* CanineCompanion: Krypto became her partner after Kal's death.
* HeartbrokenBadass: She hardly smiled after her cousin's death.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Kara became Krypto's owner.
* ImmuneToBullets: Supergirl breaks into the Luthor's lair while he and other criminals are celebrating her cousin's death. Several of them shoot her -- even though she has just informed them that she is Superman's cousin -- and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/superman149_22.jpg she suggests that they stop wasting bullets]].
* LastOfHisKind: With Superman's death, she is the last Kryptonian.
* LatexPerfection: Kara finally reveals herself to the public by crashing Luthor's celebratory party in a full Superman suit and mask, then removing it to reveal herself.
* LegacyCharacter: Kara takes up the role of Supergirl to fight crime and protect Earth after her cousin gets murdered by Lex Luthor.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Luthor thought he was unstoppable after Superman's death and he was going to get away with his murder because he was not aware of the existence of Supergirl.
* SuperpowerLottery: She's an Earth-1 Kryptonian pretty much and just as dangerous as Superman, if not more so, due to her loss.
* TakeUpMySword: Supergirl takes over for her cousin after capturing his murderer.
* WorldsStrongestWoman: Supergirl is unquestionably her world's strongest being after Superman's death (Pre-Crisis Amazons and Martians are noticeably weaker than Kryptonians, there is no Power Girl, and there is no Marvel Family).
* YouKilledMyFather: Supergirl reveals her existence by capturing her cousin's murderer. As she takes Luthor away, she warns a group of gangsters they may have succeeded in treacherously murdering her cousin but they will have to deal with ''her'' now.
-->'''Supergirl:''' My name is... Supergirl! I'm Superman's cousin from Krypton! I've been his secret emergency weapon for years! Luthor, in the name of planet Krypton, I arrest you for murder!
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