Supergirl: No, listen to me. I have to say: I know you love me, and that's why you feel a need to act like my big brother of my dad... But you're neither one! I'm capable of recognizing my own mistakes, Kal! I don't need my nose rubbed in them! Maybe I'm not perfect like you—
Superman: Hey, I'm not—
Supergirl: Maybe I need learn things the hard way. But I am learning! I want to be a family with you and Uncle Jon and Aunt Martha, but I don't need your... validation! I can get by on my own terms, and I'm doing just fine, and—
Superman: I know.
Superman: Hey, I'm not—
Supergirl: Maybe I need learn things the hard way. But I am learning! I want to be a family with you and Uncle Jon and Aunt Martha, but I don't need your... validation! I can get by on my own terms, and I'm doing just fine, and—
Superman: I know.
— Supergirl #22
Supergirl: You think I should stop—?
Superman: No. But Kara, you spend so much time trying to save everyone else, to be the hero that everyone expects you to be, you don't get a chance to realx. You're Supergirl twenty-four hours a day, and I think it's starting to hurt more than help. If the world doesn't need you all the time — maybe you should try just being a part of the world.
Superman: No. But Kara, you spend so much time trying to save everyone else, to be the hero that everyone expects you to be, you don't get a chance to realx. You're Supergirl twenty-four hours a day, and I think it's starting to hurt more than help. If the world doesn't need you all the time — maybe you should try just being a part of the world.
— Supergirl Volume 5 #34
And how do we know you're even the real Winslow Schott? I've seen one of your robots before — no, two of them. One here in Gotham, the other on New Krypton. And that one had a part in my world's destruction. A small part, sure, but an important one. Your work is very well made. Impossible to tell apart from real, live human beings, even with my X-Ray vision. So please. Answer Ms. Grant's questions, or else another outburst like that will lead me to believe you're one of Schott's automatons... and I'll start probing to make sure you're real.
Doctor Fate: In you, Supergirl, can you imagine the poison, the pain, the dark that resides in your psyche?
Supergirl: Wait, you're saying I'm manifesting this change in me?
Dr. Fate: Color of costume, color of eyes? Not much change outwardly, the rest... the bulk of it is your attitude. Recently, the loss of your planet all over again. And your father. And your mother. I'd say you have a pretty obvious case of "Survivor Guilt".
Supergirl: And it's killing me?
Supergirl: Wait, you're saying I'm manifesting this change in me?
Dr. Fate: Color of costume, color of eyes? Not much change outwardly, the rest... the bulk of it is your attitude. Recently, the loss of your planet all over again. And your father. And your mother. I'd say you have a pretty obvious case of "Survivor Guilt".
Supergirl: And it's killing me?
