History Characters / SupergirlTheCharacter

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: She was created by DC to be for Superman what Mary Marvel was for Fawcett Comics character Captain Marvel.

[[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]])\\

** 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".

* EvilCostumeSwitch: The black costume sported by Dark!Kara.

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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''.

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).

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

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.

* 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.

* HeroesWantRedHeads: Linda dated Post-Crisis Dick Malverne, who is definitely a [[http://static3.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/1/15776/1281121-dick.jpg redhead]].

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.

** In ''The Daring Adventures of Supergirl'' vol. 1 #12, while several mooks are shooting at her:

* 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''.

* 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.

* NaiveNewcomer

* ThePollyanna

* 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''.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

[[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.

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.

* 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.

* PutOnABus: Matrix merged with a New God named Twilight, and focus on Peter David's run on ''Supergirl'' shifted solely to the latter.

* {{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.

* 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.

->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.

* TheAtoner: For her sins as a cultist and several other mistakes.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.]]

* 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.

** 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.

* DistaffCounterpart: To ComicBook/{{Superman}}. She used to provide the page's image.

[[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.

* 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.

%%* BashBrothers: With Wonder Girl. She and Superman and she and Dick Grayson are a platonic, two-gender variant.%%Explain how
%%* BattleCouple: With Brainiac 5.

%%* DefeatMeansFriendship: With Bizarrogirl.
%%* DistaffCounterpart: To the Post-Crisis Superman.

* KidSidekick: To Superman.

* 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.

* 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]].

* OppositeSexClone: In a Pre-Crisis story she was cloned. And her clone was a boy called himself Superlad

[[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]])\\

** 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".

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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!

* 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.

She later accidentally fused with Linda Danvers below, and made her the next Supergirl.

* 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.

* PutOnABus: Same as Linda below.

* 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.

* 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".]]

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.

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.

!Supergirls

[[folder:Kara Zor-El/Kara Danvers (Pre-Crisis)]]

[[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.

* 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.
[[/folder]]

[[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}}.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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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[[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.

* 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]].

[[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''.

* 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.

[[folder:Kara Zor-L/Karen Starr/Power Girl]]
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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.

* 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!