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* ButtMonkey: She frequently gets captured by the Main/VillainOfTheWeek and has to be rescued by Superman every time, and anytime she tries to fight the villain, it usually won't work.

* ButtMonkey: She always gets captured by the Main/VillainOfTheWeek, as she somehow attracts more of the villains, lampshaded by Dan Turpin.

* ShesGotLegs: It seems like whenever Lois is on screen, [[MaleGaze it's a full-length point of view]] of her long shapely legs that are presented due to her mini-skirt.

* ShesGotLegs: She usually wears short skirts or dresses that display her long shapely legs.

* ShesGotLegs: She always wears a short skirt to show off her legs.

* ShesGotLegs: She has nice legs and her costumes are prone to showing them off.

* AlliterativeName: '''L'''ois '''L'''ane

->'''Voiced in French by:''' Laura Blanc (''Superman: The Animated Series'', Season 2), Dorothée Pousséo (''Superman: The Animated Series'', Season 3), Chantal Macé (''The New Batman Adventures''), Caroline Victoria (''Justice League Unlimited''), Célia Charpentier (''Justice League Unlimited'', replacement voice)

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Emil Hamilton justifies siding with Luthor by blaming Superman for threatening his life at the end of ''Superman: The Animated Series''. The reason Superman had threatened him is because Hamilton had initially refused to help save a wounded Supergirl's life, due to Kryptonians being treated as criminals after Darkseid temporarily turned Superman Brainwashed and Crazy. Hamilton was more concerned about saving his own ass than helping someone he'd previously called a friend, or saving a heroine who had risked her life to protect Earth from her brainwashed cousin.]]

* BareYourMidriff: Both the non-civilian outfit and, at least once, her regular clothes.

* TheCameo: In "Hereafter", she can be seen with the Kents and Lana at Superman's funeral.

* PutOnABus: At the end of [[spoiler:"Far From Home", she stays in the future with the Legion]].

* SuperpowerLottery: She has all the powers of Superman: EyeBeams, NighInvulnerability, SuperStrength and XRayVision and more.

* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: "S" is for Supergirl too.

* FightOffTheKryptonite: Against Metallo, memorably.
* FlyingBrick: Her powers are on par with Superman.

* HumanAliens: All the Kryptonians are outwardly indistinguishable from humans, despite obvious biological differences.

* MagicSkirt: For both her two costumes.

* SuperpowerLottery: She has all the powers of Superman: EyeBeams, NighInvulnerability, SuperStrength and XRayVision.

* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: Joins the Justice League during ''Unlimited''. Normally Supergirl was an independent hero that aided the Justice League when necessary.
* TwinTelepathy: In Supergirl's dreams, she relives the memories of her EvilTwin Galatea.

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: [[spoiler: Hardly.]]

-->'''Terrorist''': Let's make an example of this hero. A very tragic example, I'm afraid, Miss...?
-->'''Lois''': Lane.
-->'''Terrorist''': Lane? Lois Lane? [[OhCrap The one Superman always saves?!]]
-->'''Lois''': 'Fraid so.

-->'''Lois Lane''': Bizarro?
-->'''Dan Turpin''': You know this guy? Figures. All the whackos come to you.

->'''Voiced in French by:''' Christophe Lemoine (''Superman: The Animated Series'')

--> ''"Yeah, yeah, and you walked ten miles on your bare feet to work every day."''

* PutOnABus: At the end of [[spoiler:"Far From Home" she stays in the future with the Legion]].

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* OlderThanTheyLook: Because she was put into stasis after Krypton exploded, then found and brought to Earth by Superman a few decades later, she is still a teenager in terms of biology, while being chronologically older than Superman who was just an infant at the time.

* ProphecyTwist: Benefits from one.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She was a teenager when Krypton was destroyed, before being revived years later.

* AdaptationNameChange: She's basically the comics' [[ComicBook/{{SuperGirl}} Kara Zor-El]]. In the comics, In-Ze was her mother Allura's maiden name. The change was done because at the time, DC had an executive policy of, [[ExiledFromContinuity No Kryptonians other than Superman]]. The writers changed her last name and made her an inhabitant of the planet Argo as part of a [[LoopholeAbuse loophole]] to allow them to bypass the Krptonian Ban with the explanation of, "She is technically not from Krypton". Thus, allowing the writers the ability to utilize a Kryptonian Supergirl, rather than one of the Non-Kryptonian versions in the comics at the time.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: ZigZagged. While she is technically still a Kryptonian, she was born on the Kryptonian colony of Argo rather than Krypton.

* AdaptationNameChange: She's basically the comics' [[ComicBook/{{SuperGirl}} Kara Zor-El]]. In the comics, In-Ze was her mother Allura's maiden name. The change was done because at the time DC had an executive policy of [[ExiledFromContinuity No Kryptonians other than Superman]]. The writers changed her last name and made her an inhabitant of the planet Argo as part of a [[LoopholeAbuse loophole]] to allow them to bypass the Krptonian Ban with the explanation of, "she is technically not from Krypton". Thus, allowing the writers the ability to utilize a Kryptonian Supergirl, rather than one of the Non-Kryptonian versions in the comics at the time.

* AgeLift: Unlike the pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El, who was born on a chunk of Krypton after its destruction (thus really was younger than Clark), Kara In-Ze is technically older, with the time in cryogenic suspension explaining why she's mentally and physically younger. This was later [[RetCanon adapted into the comics]] when ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'' reintroduced Kara Zor-El into the Post-Crisis continuity.

* LoopholeAbuse: As mentioned above, her name and origin were slightly altered as part of a loophole utilized by the writers to bypass DC's then editorial ban of Kryptonians other than Superman.

* AdaptationNameChange: She's basically the comics' Kara Zor-El. In the comics, In-Ze was her mother Allura's maiden name. The change was done because, as a result of her altered origin, she's not part of the El family here.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: A minor example. She's from Krypton's sister planet Argo, who's inhabitants were descended from Kryptonian colonists.
* AgeLift: Unlike the pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El, who was born on a chunk of Krypton after its destruction (thus really was younger than Clark), Kara In-Ze is technically older, with the time in cryogenic suspension explaining why she's mentally and physically younger. This was later RetCanon to the comics when ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'' introduced the post-Crisis Kara Zor-El.

* CaptainErsatz: Of the pre-Crisis Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}, Kara Zor-El (who was later rebooted into post-Crisis continuity). The reason that she wasn't Kara Zor-El outright was that DC had the editorial mandate of "Superman is the last Kryptonian, period." So the writers had to slightly modify her origin and name to fit the series.

* LastOfHerKind: Much like how Superman is the last Kryptonian, Supergirl is the last surviving Argoan.

* LoopholeAbuse: She's not Kryptonian, because DC mandated that Superman was to be the last one. Sure, she's from the same ''species'' as the Kryptonians (who colonized her planet ages ago), her home planet was rendered uninhabitable in the same disaster that destroyed Krypton, and she is similarly its last survivor... but she's from Argo, not Krypton, so it passed the legal department.

* AgeLift: Unlike the pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El, who was born on a chunk of Krypton after its destruction (thus really was younger than Clark), Kara In-Ze is technically older, with the time in cryogenic suspension explaining why she's mentally and physically younger. This was later RetCanon to the comics when ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' introduced the post-Crisis Kara Zor-El.

* HiddenDepths: For a supposed teen without much experience in things, "Feeding Time" shows that he understands morse code when Superman's imprisoned away by Parasite and clangs on the pipes he's strapped to for Jimmy's attention.

* IntrepidReporter: As always, if something bizarre happens in Metropolis, Jimmy will probably follow at Lois' or Superman's heels as they investigate it...or even go after the story himself.

* NiceGuy: In spite of occasional snarkiness, he's one of the most cheerful, friendly people in the series. He also steps in to help people who are in trouble (such as evacuating Angela Chen's pilot after her helicopter crashed on a collapsing bridge). This explains why he and Superman get along so well.

** PantyShot: Subverted in "Girls' Night Out" where she flies around in a miniskirt. The inherent problem with such an act can be viewed in [[http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/IAmWearingSpidermanUnderwear/vlcsnap-2009-12-04-18h18m05s128.png this scene.]].

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* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:Despite Superman apologizing for threatening him to save Supergirl's life, he still feels betrayed and it's what causes Hamilton's StartOfDarkness]].

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Funnily enough, she's a subtler-than-normal version of this, as she regularly wears one to work.