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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Supergirl's eyes's red glow intensified during her fight against Lobo as she got angrier. At the beginning [[http://www.readcomics.net/images/manga/supergirl/28/13.jpg their eyes give off a faint red light]]. At the end [[http://infinitecomix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/SprGrl-28-2.jpg they pour red fire]], complete with KirbyKrackle.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Supergirl's eyes's red glow intensified during her fight against Lobo as she got angrier. At the beginning [[http://www.readcomics.net/images/manga/supergirl/28/13.jpg their eyes give off a faint red light]]. At the end [[http://infinitecomix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/SprGrl-28-2.jpg they pour red fire]], complete with KirbyKrackle.KirbyDots.
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* WillfullyWeak: Even when she went out of her mind due to the influence of the Red Ring, Supergirl instinctively held back because she didn't want to hurt anybody.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Supergirl's eyes's red glow intensified during her fight against Lobo as she got angrier. At the beginning [[http://www.readcomics.net/images/manga/supergirl/28/13.jpg their eyes give off a faint red light]]. At the end [[http://infinitecomix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/SprGrl-28-2.jpg they pour red fire]].
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* TookALevelInKindness: Bleez became somewhat kinder and nicer after joining Guy's group.
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** Supergirl matured during her Red Lantern stint, getting over her anger and brattiness and becoming a better person.
** Bleez became somewhat kinder and nicer after joining Guy's
** Supergirl matured during her Red Lantern stint, getting over her anger and brattiness and becoming a better person.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Subverted. Usually Kara doesn't like killing. However she [[spoiler:executes the last Worldkiller]] reasoning that "This is not murder. It is the end of a terrible mistake."
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Subverted. Usually Kara doesn't like killing. However ThouShaltNotKill:
** Subverted in Supergirl #27. Supergirl is horrified when she[[spoiler:executes the last Worldkiller]] apparently kills mass murderer and hitman 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".
** Subverted again in Supergirl #33. She [[spoiler:executed an artificial, genocidal body-snatching alien abomination]] reasoning that "This is not murder. It is the end of a terrible mistake."
** Subverted in Supergirl #27. Supergirl is horrified when she
** Subverted again in Supergirl #33. She [[spoiler:executed an artificial, genocidal body-snatching alien abomination]] reasoning that "This is not murder. It is the end of a terrible mistake."
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* ZettaiRyouiki: Most of Supergirl's costumes include a mini-skirt or hotpants and boots. Her [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/3/36774/2012509-1_7937413665.jpg New 52 outfit]] and her Red Lantern [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hY90kbHsVuA/VLb0FxzfYHI/AAAAAAAAhz8/2r12WafOmwU/s1600/rocafort%2BRL-02.jpg uniform]] include a leotard-like armour and knee-length red boots.
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When Guy is trying to get Kara to leave in ''Red Lanterns #32'', she argues that she can't stop being a Red, and she doesn't belong anywhere else. Guy replies she can find her way because she's stronger than them and stronger than she thinks.
-->'''Supergirl:''' But even if I do go... the Ring... I can't take it off. I'm a Red forever. Without you and the others, how will I -- What am I supposed to do?\\
'''Guy:''' You'll find your way. You're strong, Kara. You didn't choose this life, but I've seen enough in our time together to know that you can make something of it. You're better than all of us.
-->'''Supergirl:''' But even if I do go... the Ring... I can't take it off. I'm a Red forever. Without you and the others, how will I -- What am I supposed to do?\\
'''Guy:''' You'll find your way. You're strong, Kara. You didn't choose this life, but I've seen enough in our time together to know that you can make something of it. You're better than all of us.
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* SurvivorGuilt: During a talk, Kara confided to Guy that she feels guilty about surviving Krypton's destruction, and she feels she'll be making up for it her whole life, even though she knows she couldn't have saved her world.
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* CoolShip: The Kaalvar, Red Lanterns' flagship. It's large, sleek and is armed with a WaveMotionGun.
* CoolStarship: The Kaalvar is a large, impressive-looking, silver-grey starship.
* CoolStarship: The Kaalvar is a large, impressive-looking, silver-grey starship.
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* DeathFromAbove: In "Red Lanterns 32", Bleez asked Zox [[spoiler:to use the Kaalvar laser cannon to blast her and Rankorr from space.]]
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* ItsAllMyFault: Atrocitus drove Rankorr mindlessly mad, ravaged Ysmault, shattered the Central Battery, poisoned the Blood Lake... to get back on Guy for defeating him. So Guy blames himself for everything Atrocitus does.
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* HeroicBSOD: Kara had a breakdown after finding out that if she took her ring off, she would die.
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* HeroicBSOD: Kara had a breakdown after finding out meeting and beating Lobo, believing everyone wanted to manipulate her and she belonged nowhere. She was so upset and furious that she became a Red Lantern. A while later she was told that she would be a Red Lantern forever because she would die if she took her ring off, she would die.Power Ring off. She fell to her knees in despair and fury, threw her head back and screamed while incandescent light poured from her eyes.
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Supergirl's eyes glowing or -God forbids- flaring are a very scary sign that she's getting really pissed off, and someone is about to be pummelled and/or blasted: they glowed red when she fought Lobo and beat him up brutally, when she accepted her Red Ring, before smashing down a whole alien invader force...
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* DespairEventHorizon: Combined with a RageBreakingPoint, this is what creates Red Lanterns. A case in point is Supergirl, who after trouncing Lobo was feeling confused, hurt, betrayed, hopeless... and downright furious.
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** Combined with a RageBreakingPoint, this is what creates RedLanterns. Lanterns.
** A case in point isSupergirl, Supergirl. She starts out a nice, happy-go-lucky girl. Then her father placed her in suspended animation inside a rocket and launched her out of Krypton. When she wakes up, she finds herself stranded on an alien, primitive world. Her family, her friends, her old life... are gone forever because her home world exploded nearly thirty years ago. Then she goes through several months of endless battles. Meanwhile, she appears to be unable to connect with her only living relative, she doesn't manage to fit in with Earth's people or keep any friends, and everyone she meets wants to decide what is better for her or tries to use her. She falls in love with someone, and then she finds out that her crush was a murderous bastard who after trouncing Lobo was manipulating her. She has a chance to save her planet, and she fails... Then she runs into and fights Lobo, who intentionally presses her {{Berserk Button}}s until she flips out. After pummelling him, Kara is mad like hell and feeling confused, hurt, betrayed, hopeless... confused and downright furious.utterly hopeless, thinking she belongs anywhere and can trust no one.
** Combined with a RageBreakingPoint, this is what creates Red
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* BadassArmFold: She did this several times. One of those times happened ''during a battle'': she flew in the battlefield, punched an enemy across the city, folded her arms and ''glared''.
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* BullyingADragon: Lobo spent a long while pissing her off until she blew up and pummeled him.
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* BullyingADragon: In the beginning of the story, Lobo spent picks a long while pissing fight with Supergirl. Knowing he can't go toe-to-toe with her, he mocks her, taunts her, presses her off until {{Berserk Button}}s... so she blew up gets angry and pummeled him.fights more sloppily. She certainly got angry. And then she proceeded to pummel him savagely.
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* BigDumbBody: Subverted. [[spoiler:Wordkiller-1]] transferred his soul into the body of [[spoiler:Supergirl]] because she was crazy powerful and inmensely strong, and he thought she was only a stupid girl. By the time he realized she wasn't dumb at all and [[spoiler:she had outsmarted him to force him out of her body and kill him, it was too late.]]
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* PossessionBurnout: Worldkiller-1 burns out any body he possess if his host isn't strong enough to contain his spirit. In the last issue he possessed a baseline human, and his victim's body melted in a matter of seconds.
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* BodySurf: As Supergirl is fighting [[spoiler:the Diasporan leader, her real enemy -Worldkiller-1-]] emerges through the leader's damaged body and tries to snatch Kara's body. When she forces him out he transfers his spirit into the bodies of random bystanders -who are burn out nearly instantly- until Kara agrees to let him surf into her body.
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* BigDamnHeroes: During the invasion of planet Grax, a Diasporan is about to kill a little girl. All of sudden Supergirl shows up and punches him across the city.
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* PintsizedPowerhouse: Supergirl is tinier than her teammates and she's stronger, faster and sturdier than any Red Lantern.
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* BigBrotherMentor: Guy became one to Supergirl, helping her find herself and manage her anger.
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** Guy became one to Supergirl, helping her find herself and manage heranger.anger.
** Subverted. Superman thinks he must help and guide his teen cousin. Everyone thinks she would be better off with him... but Supergirl, who protests that she doesn't need or want any help. So Superman has to say Guy he couldn't keep her with him if she doesn't want to stay.
** Guy became one to Supergirl, helping her find herself and manage her
** Subverted. Superman thinks he must help and guide his teen cousin. Everyone thinks she would be better off with him... but Supergirl, who protests that she doesn't need or want any help. So Superman has to say Guy he couldn't keep her with him if she doesn't want to stay.
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* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: In Supergirl #27, Supergirl kicks Lobo so hard that she -apparently- kills him. Kara is so upset that she swears she didn't want to kill him and she cries she doesn't know her own strength.
-->'''Supergirl:''' I don't even know my own strength!
-->'''Supergirl:''' I don't even know my own strength!
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* RedheadedHero: Guy Gardner is a redhead and leader of a group of Red Lanterns. Under his –questioned- leadership they actually try to be heroes and fight evil.
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* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: Shioban runs into Supergirl right after her transformation when Kara is overwhelmed with rage. Shioban wonders what turned her best friend into that rage monster (she suspects drugs or poison) and she tries to reach her out.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: After being freed by the Red Lanterns, the people of Ysmault declares that they'll follow their saviors' example and hunt their enslavers down and "erase" them. Guy warns them not to become like the monsters they're going to fight.
-->'''Guy:''' We came because we heard a monster was loose in our sector. It's our job to clean up the monsters. So. Do what you gotta do. Put people on trial. Punish them how you like. But watch out you don't turn into monsters. Because then we'd be back for you.
-->'''Guy:''' We came because we heard a monster was loose in our sector. It's our job to clean up the monsters. So. Do what you gotta do. Put people on trial. Punish them how you like. But watch out you don't turn into monsters. Because then we'd be back for you.
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''Red Daughter of Krypton'' is a twelve-issue ''Franchise/Superman''/''Franchise/GreenLantern'' [[BatfamilyCrossover crossover]] story arc published in 2014, with Tony Bedard, Charles Soule and Robert Venditti as the writers. After the events of Red Lanterns #27 and ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' #27 -which serve as a prologue-, the proper story begins in Supergirl #28, Supergirl #29 and Green Lantern #29 and continues through the Red Lanterns and Supergirl titles, concluding in Supergirl #33.
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''Red Daughter of Krypton'' is a twelve-issue ''Franchise/Superman''/''Franchise/GreenLantern'' Franchise/{{Superman}}/Franchise/GreenLantern [[BatfamilyCrossover crossover]] story arc published in 2014, with Tony Bedard, Charles Soule and Robert Venditti as the writers. After the events of Red Lanterns #27 and ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' #27 -which serve as a prologue-, the proper story begins in Supergirl #28, Supergirl #29 and Green Lantern #29 and continues through the Red Lanterns and Supergirl titles, concluding in Supergirl #33.
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[-[[caption-width-right:350:"She's done with people pushing her around, taking advantage of her, and betraying her. She's done feeling helpless, lost and discarded. She's done with hope, faith and acceptance. Now, all that's left is rage."]]-]
->Dad. Kal. H'el. Siobhan. They ''ALL'' let me down. They all broke my heart. And now ''THIS''. No more. Nobody gets away with hurting me ever again. Not ''THIS'' time!
''Red Daughter of Krypton'' is a twelve-issue ''Franchise/Superman''/''Franchise/GreenLantern'' [[BatfamilyCrossover crossover]] story arc published in 2014, with Tony Bedard, Charles Soule and Robert Venditti as the writers. After the events of Red Lanterns #27 and ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' #27 -which serve as a prologue-, the proper story begins in Supergirl #28, Supergirl #29 and Green Lantern #29 and continues through the Red Lanterns and Supergirl titles, concluding in Supergirl #33.
A short while after the events of ''ComicBook/HelOnEarth'' and ''ComicBook/KryptonReturns'', Supergirl picks a fight with ''Comicbook/{{Lobo}}'' in the research facility known as "The Block". Realizing he can't go toe-to-toe with a Kryptonian, Lobo does everything he can to push her buttons and to make her so irrationally angry that she can't fight effectively.
However, Kara has been having a very hard time since she arrived in the planet. She's only fifteen and she's already lost her home... twice. Her home-world is gone, her parents and all her friends are dead, her relationship with [[Franchise/{{Superman}} her only living relative]] is strained, she doesn't manage to fit into Earth, and apparently everyone she meets wants to decide what is better for her, use her or betray her after earning her trust. She's confused, heart-broken, and above all very, very angry. So, Lobo's taunting uncorks a volcano of rage in her that acts like a magnet to one of the new red power rings created by Atrocitus.
From that point on, Kara gets tangled up in the Lantern corps wars, and she has to learn several harsh truths about herself in order to grow as a person.
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!!Tropes:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Invoked. [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] isn't interested in Kara romantically, but after he spends a while talking about wanting Supergirl's body and them being made for each other, Kara feels sick.
-->'''Worldkiller-1:''' Can not you see that both of our lives have led to this union?\\
'''Supergirl:''' Stop. Just stop. You make us sound like lovers, and it's turning my stomach.
* ActionBomb: Supergirl can release the solar energy within her as an explosion without harming herself. She used this ability to [[spoiler:knock down Worldkiller-1]].
* ActionGirl:
** Supergirl is one of the greatest and most powerful heroes of Earth.
** Bleez is another female Red Lantern, and a very dangerous and vicious fighter.
* AnIcePerson: Tora uses her ice powers to help Guy and his Red Lanterns when they fight Shadow Thief in Red Lanterns #28.
* AntiHero:
** Kara becomes short-tempered, irrational and mad... and even so, she wants to use her powers to protect and help innocent people and punish evildoers.
--->'''Supergirl:''' So it took the Red Ring of Rage for me to finally find acceptance. So what? This planet will live. And I pummel anyone who says otherwise.
** Most of heroes regard Red Lanterns as violent jerkasses. Inhabitants of worlds saved by Gardner's team consider them saviors and freedom fighters.
* ApologeticAttacker: Every so often Kara's temper overwhelms her, she hurts someone or destroys something accidentally, and then she apologizes.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Skallox is a very arrogant BloodKnight who trusts his fighting skills completely, and openly claims that he has no weaknesses.
* BadassCrew: All members of the Red Lantern Corps are certified –and nutty- badasses.
* BadassMoustache: Guy has a very large and bushy moustache.
* BatmanGambit:
** Lobo tries to use Supergirl's rage against her by taunting her into not holding back. As such, Dr. Veritas teleports them out of the Block to prevent their fight from damaging it. Once outside, Lobo calls his ship and flies to Supergirl's old apartment in New York, hoping to calm her down. He then tries to be friendly to her offering to mentor her so she can learn to control her rage. Big mistake. Supergirl has had it with people trying to manipulate her and gives him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
** [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1 had taken over the body of the Diasporan leader and wanted to steal Supergirl's body.]] However he couldn't destroy his host body. So he goaded Supergirl to use her EyeBeams on him until she reduced his body to ashes involuntarily.
* BattleAura: Kara's body stores and emits sunlight. Kara can use her battle aura to lit up dark areas or burn some enemies [[spoiler:such like Worldkiller-1]].
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Sheko invaded Supergirl’s mind to read her memories and judge her, but Alura's memory stopped her and forced her out.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace:
** The Diasporans can survive in the vacuum of space. That capability works against them when Supergirl notes that she can blow their ships up without killing them.
** Supergirl and Superman don't need to breathe because they are sun-powered Kryptonians.
** The Lantern Corps can survive in space because their rings' force field provides a self-recycling oxygen bubble.
* BerserkButton:
** God helps you if Kara realizes you're trying to manipulate her.
** Until she got her mind back right after getting her ring, mentioning Superman around Kara was a bad idea.
** If Zilius Zox's body doesn't look perfectly round, don't mention it. Just don’t do it.
* TheBerserker: During her Red Lantern phase, Supergirl genuinely enjoyed finding evil jerkasses and pummeling them.
-->'''Kara:''' The Red Ring on my fist chose me. It made me part of a team. We seek out injustice and we punch it in the teeth. And it feels good.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Kara was nice most of the time... until several idiots thought that driving her mad was a good idea rather than downright suicidal.
* BeyondTheImpossible: Supergirl [[spoiler:took her Red Lantern Ring off and survived]]. No one had ''ever'' done that before. It was supposedly impossible.
* BigBrotherInstinct: It's complicated, but both Clark and Kara count (Kara is technically at least fifteen years older, but due to suspended animation shenanigans, Clark is a grown man while she's still a teenager):
** When Superman found out that Kara had become a Red Lantern, her reaction was shouting “What have you done to my cousin?”
** It was when [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] mentioned that he would go after her cousin that Supergirl recovered and defeated him.
* BigBrotherMentor: Guy became one to Supergirl, helping her find herself and manage her anger.
* TheBigGuy: Even though she's a tad tiny, Kara fulfilled this role in her team due to being the strongest member ''by far''.
* BlessedWithSuck: Supergirl is one of the most powerful female heroes. Due to her power, a lot of people have tried to use her or manipulate her; to the point that she feels she can't trust anybody.
-->'''Supergirl:''' This strength, this power -- It's been like a curse. But I refuse to be a victim anymore!
* BodySnatcher: [[spoiler:The fifth Worldkiller]] is a [[spoiler:living Kryptonite armor suit]] that attaches to a host and steals his or her body. It tried to snatch [[spoiler:Supergirl's body]] after its previous host died.
* BoundAndGagged: In order to transport her safely, the Green Lanterns gagged and chained Kara and placed her inside a containment cell.
* BreathWeapon: In addition to her hurricane breath and freezing breath, Kara can spew corrosive plasma when she becomes a Red Lantern.
* BrokenBird: Kara has lost her parents, her planet is gone and she has been manipulated by most of people she has met... and in reaction she's gotten tougher.
-->'''Worldkiller-1:''' Look at you! The universe tried its best to destroy you and it only made you stronger.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: After [[spoiler:removing her Red Ring, Supergirl wears again the S-shield.]]
* BrutalHonesty: During a battle, Supergirl tells a girl run and hide. Since the girl hesitates because she refuses to abandon her mother's body, Skallox points out that her mother is dead.
-->'''Supergirl:''' You. Find someplace to hide.\\
'''Girl:''' But my mom --\\
'''Skallox:''' Your mother is dead! Now run for your life.\\
'''Supergirl:''' You couldn't put that more gently?\\
'''Skallox:''' Seriously, new girl? Gently?
* BullyingADragon: Lobo spent a long while pissing her off until she blew up and pummeled him.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Zilius Zox is a round head with arms and legs attached to the sides.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Guy Gardner is the unofficial leader of the Red Lanterns who haven’t sided with Atrocitus. It’s a very distressing job leading a team of psychotic, short-tempered {{Blood Knight}}s with little regard for authority, especially when he tries to be the voice of reason, and his new role has driven a wedge between him and his former friends…
* CharacterDevelopment: The storyline's intended goal was Kara confronting her darkest and ugliest side, and eventually getting over her anger and confusion and becoming the IdealHero that Supergirl is meant to be.
-->'''Tony Bedard:''' What it boils down to is that Kara's life has been one disaster after another since arriving on Earth. As she reacts to this the way any teenager would, she can come across as angry, mopey or whiny. I want her to be a positive, likable character who embraces the responsibilities that come with her newfound power. So I'm trying to use this encounter with Lobo and her moment in the Red Lantern Corps as a pivot point to work through her anger/resentment and emerge as the Supergirl we'd all like to see.
* ChekhovsGunman: At the beginning of the book, some aliens were seen floating in several pods in the background. Later on, Supergirl fought four of them, and Regen revealed that there was a fifth worldkiller. [[spoiler:Guess who fights Supergirl at the climax of the storylilne?]]
* CheshireCatGrin: When Supergirl met her cousin during the events of ''Comicbook/SupermanDoomed'', she had a huge and disturbingly wicked grin.
* ChestInsignia: Supergirl shares Superman's "S" shield which is the emblem of the House of El. During her Red Lantern tenure, she wore the symbol of the Red Lantern Corps: a circle and two crooked lines on its right and left sides. However, her insignia was slightly different: it was drawn inside a diamond instead of a circle.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Red Lanterns #29 features Kara burning her old costume while Superman tries to stop her and Guy holds him back. Kara never tries to destroy her Supergirl costume, and Guy actually tries to talk her into staying with her cousin.
* CruelToBeKind: Guy kicked Kara out of the team because he thought Atrocitus would kill them all and Supergirl didn’t deserve that.
* DespairEventHorizon: Combined with a RageBreakingPoint, this is what creates Red Lanterns. A case in point is Supergirl, who after trouncing Lobo was feeling confused, hurt, betrayed, hopeless... and downright furious.
* {{Determinator}}: Supergirl never quits. Never. Not even when she's poisoned with Kryptonite, her body is getting stolen by an alien abomination, and her heart has stopped. Her mother taught her to never give up.
-->'''Supergirl:''' But then I thought of mother. I remembered all I had to live up to. A daughter of the House of El never quits. I wasn't about to be the first.
* DoomedHometown: Kara has lost her home-world twice. She tried to settle down in Earth but she left the planet because she felt she didn't belong there. Later on, she got kicked out of the Red Lanterns. Finally she decides that maybe she can make a life and a place for herself on planet Earth after all.
* DominoMask: Kara wears a red one during her Red Lantern tenure.
* DropTheHammer: Rankorr forms a hammer construct to fight Atrocitus.
* DyingAsYourself: When [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1 is taking over Kara's mind,]] she [[spoiler:removes her Red Ring]] as a last resort to kill it while she can still think for herself.
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] is an omnicidal, shape-shifting, sentient alien black goo which steals -and often consumes- bodies and is bonded with an indestructible armor suit. And it's nearly as strong and invulnerable as a Kryptonian. And it isn't vulnerable to Kryptonite.
* EyeBeams: Kara's heat vision is her best and most used weapon. She blew spaceships up, boiled a tsunami off and [[spoiler:burned Worldkiller-1's host body out]] with it.
* FantasticRacism: Zilius Zox is a spherical alien. He doesn't like a lot Green Lantern B'ox because B'ox is literally a square.
* FearfulSymmetry: Supergirl and Silver Banshee do this during their fight in Supergirl #29.
* FlyingBrick: Supergirl is one of the ultimate examples: super-strength, super-speed, invulnerability, flight… during the story she destroys spaceships by ramming through them.
* {{Foil}}: Lobo to Supergirl. Says writer Tony Bedard: "Lobo is there as a sort of dark reflection of her. They're both super-powerful loners left over from dead planets. Lobo has channeled his power and rage into becoming the most dangerous bounty-hunter/assassin in the galaxy. Supergirl's still trying to figure out what to do with her power and her lot in life. Tangling with Lobo will show her one path she might go down. It's really a cautionary tale for her, and she'll come away knowing that she could easily end up like him if she doesn't get her act together."
* ForbiddenChekhovsGun: At the beginning of the arc, the Red Lanterns explain Supergirl that she can never, ever, take her ring off since she would die. [[spoiler:At the end of the story, Kara removes her ring to try to kill an enemy that was taking over her body.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Kara feels like this the whole time. She genuinely believes no one wants her around because she is too dangerous.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Lobo's plan to fight Supergirl consisted in pissing her off. He succeeded. He drove her so mad that she flew off the handle and crushed him like a bug.
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] tried to take over [[spoiler:Kara's body]]. She let him so he didn't steal the body of an InnocentBystander.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Bleez is a beautiful, blue-skinned woman.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Kara grabbed a Diasporan and used him like a bat to bash enemies with during the battle of planet Grax.
* HairTriggerTemper:
** Due to several months of frustration and letdowns, Kara was very... irritable and snappy for a while.
** To be fair, all Red Lanterns have anger issues.
* HasAType: When Guy jokingly asks Skallox and Zilius Zox if they're getting a crush on Kara, the latter replies: "Meh. Not nearly spherical enough."
* HeroWithBadPublicity:
** Even when they ''try''' to be heroes, Red Lanterns are generally regarded as violent, dangerous, blood-thirsty sociopaths.
** Subverted when Superman and Guy Gardner talked. Superman admitted that Hal had nothing good to tell about the Red Lanterns but he added that he judges people based on what they do, not what people say about them, and he forms his own opinions.
* HeroicBSOD: Kara had a breakdown after finding out that if she took her ring off, she would die.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Kara tried to kill herself]] to destroy the [[spoiler:Kryptonian Worldkiller]].
* HesBack: At the end of the story, [[spoiler:Kara becomes Supergirl again, and accepts that she’s the protector of her new home: Earth.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Lobo thought that an angry Supergirl would fight sloppily. So he got her angry... to the point she exploded and trashed him.
** The King of planet Primeen got a judge executed to protect his son. His actions got Sheko -the aforementioned judge- so furious that she became a Red Lantern and killed them all.
* HoistHeroOverHead: In Supergirl #33, Kara does this to [[spoiler:a living Kryptonian suit]] before hurling it into the Sun.
* HotBlooded: Kara has always been emotional and passionate in every incarnation, but in this story she can hardly control her emotions. She is furious, upset and sees to that everybody knows it.
* HumanAliens: Played straight with Kara and her cousin, although most of aliens that she met during her Red Lantern tenure were vaguely humanoid, at the best.
* HurlItIntoTheSun: Kara essentially did this [[spoiler:to ''herself'' to try to get rid of a Red Lantern ring without it killing her. It worked.]] And then she did it to [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]].
* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: Shioban runs into Supergirl right after her transformation when Kara is overwhelmed with rage. Shioban wonders what turned her best friend into that rage monster (she suspects drugs or poison) and she tries to reach her out.
-->'''Shioban:''' Kara...? I'm your friend, remember? Whatever's happened, you don't have to hurt anyone.
* ImStandingRightHere: When Superman talks to Guy about his cousin, he preemptively says "And yes, Kara, I know you're behind me and listening to this."
* InappropriateRoleModel: Invoked by Guy Gardner, who believes Kara should stay with her cousin because the Red Lanterns aren't exactly role models even at their best.
* InItForLife: In Red Lanterns #30 -properly titled "Forever"-, Supergirl learns that she'll be a Red Lantern forever because she'll die if she takes her ring off. Predictably, she isn't happy about it (initially).
* InnocentBystander: When the Red Lanterns fight the Diasporans in planet Grax, Kara saves an innocent little girl who was about to be killed. Later on, [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1 threatens with body-snatching an innocent bystander unless Kara lets it take over her body.]]
* ItIsDehumanizing: Shay alternates between using "her" and "it" to talk about Blaze because she doesn't know how to refer to other-dimensional demons.
-->'''Soldier:''' "Her"...? I thought we were hunting for an "it".\\
'''Shay:''' She looks female, but who really knows if gender even applies to a demon from another dimension?
* ItsPersonal: Supergirl hates the Worldkiller weapons and the Diasporans because they kill planets, and she's an orphan of a dead world.
-->'''Supergirl:''' How could anyone make it their mission in life to murder whole worlds? Can you imagine what an abomination that is to an orphan from a dead planet? [...] This world-killing stuff... it hits a nerve. It makes me furious, and the ring just fans the flame!
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In spite of her brittle attitude, heated temper and anger issues, Supergirl was the nicest and most considerate Red Lantern. She even chided one of her teammates for not being tactful enough.
* JustTryingToHelp: When Supergirl confronted and taunted Superman during the events of ''Comicbook/SupermanDoomed'', she was genuinely trying to help him by showing that he could use his angry side to protect others.
* KangarooCourt: Judge Sheko became a Red Lantern because kangaroo courts on planet Primeen were the rule, the concept of justice had been turned into a joke, and when she tried to make her job fairly, she got shot.
* KeystoneArmy: The Diasporan army surrendered after Supergirl defeated their leader.
* KryptoniteFactor:
** Silver Banshee managed to contain Supergirl for a short while when they fought because her sonic attacks are magic, and Kryptonians are vulnerable to magic.
** Kara was weakened when she fought [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] because Earth's atmosphere was poisoned with kryptonite.
* LargeAndInCharge: The leader of the Diasporans is also the biggest of them all.
* LastOfHisKind: Discussed. Hal and Guy -who had never met Supergirl before- are shocked to learn that there's another living Kryptonian besides Superman, who was supposedly the last one.
* LeaveMeAlone: When Superman and Supergirl argue, he reminds her that she wanted him to leave her alone to live her own life since she showed up on Earth.
* LeotardOfPower: Unlike previous incarnations, Supergirl's outfit lacks a skirt.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Deconstructed. Guy tries to convince Ice to get back together, stating that she keeps him sane. She replies that isn't a good foundation for a relationship.
-->'''Guy:''' Come on, babe. Give me a shot. I need this-- out there... It's no easy. I need a reason to keep it together.\\
'''Tora:''' Guy, you have your good qualities. But you must see why the idea of being your sole link to sanity is less than appealing to me. The weight of that -- we'd never get out from under it.
* MadeOfIndestructium: Kara’s outfit and cape never get damaged, not matter what happens to her. Justified since her Supergirl costume is Kryptonian armor, and her Red Lantern uniform is made of raw energy.
* MamaBear: Alura is fiercely protective of her daughter... even when she's only a memory! She stopped Sheko when the Red Lantern tried to invade Supergirl's mind and demanded that she left her daughter alone.
* ManipulativeBastard: Lobo played with Supergirl's anger and loneliness, hinted that they were not so different and if they worked together he could help her to take control of her own life. It was all a plot to save his butt. However, Kara had already dealt with manipulative bastards and saw through his words.
-->'''Lobo:''' I'm offering you a way to take ownership of your life. This planet's too smalltime for the likes of you, Kara Zor-El. You were meant for bigger things.\\
'''Kara:''' You know what I am sick and tired of? People acting like they know me-- like they only want what's best for me.\\
'''Lobo:''' Now, hold on--\\
'''Kara:''' NO! Everyone I meet makes plans for me. Everyone ends up trying to use me. Even Shay. Even Kal. And now you. Well, I am finished with users.
* MassOhCrap: When Kara gets her Red Lantern Ring everyone stares at her with "Oh, GOD, She's going to kill us all NOW!" horrified expressions.
* MilkingTheGiantCow: Supergirl does this right after pummeling Lobo.
* MindRape: Sheko does this to her victims to judge whether they are innocent or guilty.
* MundaneUtility: As seen in a flashback in Supergirl #29, Kara once used her heat vision to roast a marshmallow.
* MyBloodRunsHot: While she’s a Red Lantern, Supergirl’s blood is burning hot.
* MyGreatestFailure: During a talk with Guy, Kara confesses that she feels guilty for Krypton's destruction, even though she intellectually knows there was nothing she could do to save it.
-->'''Supergirl:''' And now Krypton's lost forever. There was nothing I could do to save it, but it feels like I'll be trying to make up for that the rest of my life.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: After spending several months being used, manipulated and betrayed, Kara promises herself that she'll not be hurt again.
* NeverMyFault: When Kara stops [[spoiler:the living Kryptonian suit from taking over her body]], it attaches to an InnocentBystander and blames Supergirl for "forcing him" to do that.
* NiceGuy: In spite of her angst and anger issues, both of which she outgrows, Supergirl is, in her own way, every bit as sweet and kind as her cousin.
* NighInvulnerability:
** Being a Kryptonian, Supergirl is very, very hard to hurt. In Red Lanterns #29, she tanks a missile tipped with star core matter.
** Superman had no one scratch after being swatted with an ocean liner.
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: When Lobo taunts Supergirl, stating that she's afraid to cut loose, Kara goes ballistic.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: In Supergirl #28 Lobo taunted her until she exploded and pummeled him until he stopped moving and talking.
* NoodleIncident: In Supergirl #32 it's mentioned briefly that Kara did a short side trip before entering the solar system. In Action Comics#32 -part of the ''ComicBook/SupermanDoomed'' storyline- it's revealed what she did during that trip.
* NotSoDifferent: Lobo comments that he was like Supergirl a while ago:
-->'''Lobo:''' I know, because I was like you once. Bitter. Alone. Mad as Hell. But I didn't let it consume me. I put it to work.
* OhMyGods: In Supergirl #33, Kara says "Because Rao apparently thought my day wasn't being hard enough”.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Supergirl is fifteen... although that's because she spent almost thirty years in suspended animation. She insists that she's more mature than she looks.
-->'''Supergirl:''' My entire planet was destroyed. My civilization is gone. That makes you grow up fast.
* PerpetualFrowner: Most of Red Lanterns count, but during her tenure, Kara seldom smiled (although she occasionally smirked smugly).
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Any Kryptonian or Lantern Corps member counts due to their vast and numerous powers. When Kara gets her Red Lantern Ring, though, she becomes one of the most dangerous things in the ''universe''.
-->'''Shay Veritas:''' How'd she get a Red Lantern Ring? [...] A Kryptonian wearing one of those is an extinction level threat--!
* PietaPlagiarism: In Supergirl 33, [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1 holds a dying Kara]] in his arms before [[spoiler:hurling her into the Sun]].
* PlayingPossum: After his "Driving Supergirl Mad" plan backfired completely, Lobo pretended to be dead until she stopped bashing him and left.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Shioban tried to reach Supergirl out when she turned into a Red Lantern. It seemed to be working... until a N.Y.P.D. VTOL came along, and Kara felt threatened.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner:
** In Supergirl #28, after Kara shots Lobo's ship down:
--->'''Lobo:''' Bloody Nass! That ship was custom built! The things I did just to pay for it...!\\
'''Kara:''' Don't worry... You'll pay for them ALL.
** During the battle in planet Grax:
--->'''Diasporans:''' Rage Lanterns! This is not your fight! Do not interfere!\\
'''Zilius Zox:''' Oh, we're interfering, all right...
** Shortly after:
--->'''Supergirl:''' Fine, Skallox! You want to see me get mad? Watch this!
* PowerGlows: After Kara [[spoiler:took a literal sunbath]], her body gave off a golden glow.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: When the Red Lanterns fought the Diasporans for first time, Kara punched one of them ''across a city''.
* RageBreakingPoint: She's been through hard times during her time on Earth, leading to a lot of built up rage. Her fight with Lobo is the final straw, as his attempt to manipulate her causes her to thrash him.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: During her final battle against the Diasporans, Supergirl took advantage of her invulnerability to ram through their mothership and destroy it.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A mild case. After Supergirl went off on him, Superman pointed out that she's clinging to her anger for so long that she can't get rid of it now:
-->'''Superman:''' You know what, Kara? Ever since you showed up on Earth, you've been trying to get me to do one thing -- leave you alone to let you live your own life. You've been so focused on just being angry -- yes, you lost your home, and that's terrible, but you can't bring it back.\\
'''Supergirl:''' What are you saying?\\
'''Superman:''' You've been choosing anger instead of acceptance for so long that you've become anger. You want to be your own person? Good. Be your own person. I just hope you like who you turn out to be.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: During an argument with Hal, Guy makes very clear that he considers being stationed at Ysmault leading a group of Reds to be this.
-->'''Guy:''' After everything, after you made me give up my whole life to come to this rock?
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Supergirl's eyes's red glow intensified during her fight against Lobo as she got angrier. At the beginning [[http://www.readcomics.net/images/manga/supergirl/28/13.jpg their eyes give off a faint red light]]. At the end [[http://infinitecomix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/SprGrl-28-2.jpg they pour red fire]].
* RedheadedHero: Guy Gardner is a redhead and leader of a group of Red Lanterns. Under his –questioned- leadership they actually try to be heroes and fight evil.
* RedIsHeroic: Kara's Supergirl costume has red cape, pants and boots. Her Red Lantern uniform is red and black.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Sheko got shot after finding her planet's Crown Prince guilty, she was so absolutely furious that she became a Red Lantern, and decided to burn everyone who were responsible for her death.
* RubberForeheadAliens: In Supergirl#30, Kara finds Graxians. They're blue-skinned humanoids with cow-like ears.
* SadisticChoice: In Supergirl 33, Kara must choose between letting an innocent person die and letting [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1 steal her body.]]
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Sheko was executed because she judged the prince of her world for his crimes and she refused to let him get off for what he had done. Then the man who was supposed to execute the prince tried to kill her instead, and her fury attracted a Red Lantern Ring.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Skallox is incredibly tempted to do this after hearing about Atrocitus wanting to create nine new Red Lanterns, but Zilius dissuades him from it.
* SkywardScream: Kara threw her head back and screamed when Skallox said her ring was bonded with her forever.
* StarfishAliens: One of the allies of Atrocitus resembles a giant, orange, fish-headed cricket. Green Lantern B'ox is literally a polyhedron.
* SubspaceOrHyperspace: Green and Red Lanterns use Hyperspace to travel across the universe. In Supergirl #32 Kara jumped into Hyperspace to go from Mongo to Earth.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Siobhan let her Silver Banshee self out during her fight with Supergirl. Despite of her fears, she manages to keep it under control.
* SuperpowerLottery: Kara is a full-blooded Kryptonian with the full power pack (super-strength, super-speed, invulnerability, super-senses, flight, heat vision, freezing breath...). And if it were not enough, she has a Red Lantern Ring. When she says she might just be the most dangerous thing in the universe, she is pretty right.
* SuperStrength: Part of the Kryptonian pack. In Red Lanterns #29, Supergirl and Superman have a short fight. When she picks an ''ocean liner'' easily, swats her cousin with it and Superman ''tanks'' it, it becomes apparent how massively strong Kryptonians are.
* TakingYouWithMe: After her plan to destroy [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] fails, [[spoiler:Supergirl]] decides that the only way to kill it is killing herself before it steals her body, so [[spoiler:she removes her red ring]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Red and Green Lanterns don't get along ''at all''. However, Hal's squad and Guy's group worked together to help Supergirl to get her mind and her sanity back.
* TenMinuteRetirement: Kara gave up on being Supergirl when she became a Red Lantern. At the end of the storyline she dons her blue-and-red outfit again.
* ThighHighBoots: Her [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/3/36774/2012509-1_7937413665.jpg New 52 outfit]] and her Red Lantern [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hY90kbHsVuA/VLb0FxzfYHI/AAAAAAAAhz8/2r12WafOmwU/s1600/rocafort%2BRL-02.jpg uniform]] include knee-length red boots.
* ThisMeansWar: Atrocitus destroys the Red Power Battery to declare war on Guy and his Red Lanterns.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Subverted. Usually Kara doesn't like killing. However she [[spoiler:executes the last Worldkiller]] reasoning that "This is not murder. It is the end of a terrible mistake."
* TookALevelInBadass: How do you increase Supergirl's badassery? Giving her a Lantern Ring.
* TookALevelInIdealism: Supergirl attracted a Red Ring because she was mad, confused and hopeless, and she believed she didn't belong anywhere. At the end of the story she has outgrown her anger and confusion, is more confident and more mature, and thinks maybe Earth can become her new home after all.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After becoming a Red Lantern, Kara became harder to put up with for a while.
* TookALevelInKindness: Bleez became somewhat kinder and nicer after joining Guy's group.
* TranslatorMicrobes: Lantern Rings are -literally- universal translators... although Kara wondered if her ring's translator was broken when the Diasporan leader called her "their newest Champion".
* TrashOfTheTitans: As seen in Supergirl #29, Shioban's apartment is a dumpster, and she actually likes that way.
* TraumaCongaline: Kara becoming a Red Lantern is the result of one: After spending one decade sleeping she woke up only for finding out that her world, her family, her old life... were dead and gone. In a lapse of few months she was used and betrayed by most of people she met, including her first crush. She couldn't keep any friend and she couldn't make a connection with her only living relative. And then Lobo taunted her...
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Supergirl and Bleez are the only female members of Guy's group. Bleez was actually glad that Supergirl joined because she wasn't the only girl anymore.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: People often underestimate Supergirl, even if they know what her power levels are:
** Lobo thought that Supergirl would fight worse if he pressed her buttons. It turned out that Kara doesn't get careless when she gets angry: she gets more dangerous.
** Guy ordered Supergirl not to let Bleez -who was wounded- leave med bay. Bleez stated that she had no time to socialize with children and tried to shove Kara away of the door she was blocking. Yup. Good luck with that.
** [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] thought that Supergirl couldn't do anything to stop him. But it appears that fighting a Kryptonian after she's just taken a bath in the Sun isn't a good idea.
* UnstoppableRage: In the beginning of the storyline, Lobo taunted Supergirl until she blew up and pummeled him.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Kara befriended Siobhan "Silver Banshee" Smythe shortly after arriving in Earth. However she broke it off when she thought Siobhan was using her. When they meet again in Supergirl #29, they fought. Shioban blamed herself for their friendship's end, but after a while Kara thought she was the one ruined it.
* WhatTheHellHero: Kara calls both her cousin and her team out on keeping things from her and making plans about her without thinking about what she wants:
-->'''Supergirl:''' You don't understand. And neither do you. I'm not a piece of luggage. I'm not a problem for the grownups to solve.\\
'''Superman:''' It's not like that. We all just want to help you.\\
'''Supergirl:''' You're doing it again. Who says I need any help?
* WorthIt: After Supergirl bashes him, Zilius becomes again spherical instead of looking like a punctured balloon. He says: “Worth It”.
* WrongAssumption:
** Lobo taunted Supergirl during their whole fight, thinking that she'd fight sloppily if she got angry. It turned out that blind rage makes her more dangerous instead of more ineffective.
** During the events of ''Comicbook/SupermanDoomed'', Supergirl, who was using her anger to protect the galaxy, assumes Clark's just "getting in touch with his angry side" and can use his [=SuperDoom=] form for good.
* YouAreNotMyFather: Kara says this line after Guy tells she shouldn't drink booze because she's just a kid.
-->'''Supergirl:''' You're not my parent, Guy Gardner, and from what I understand, you don't even lead this team.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After meeting Supergirl, [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1 decides that he doesn't need its old host body anymore because Kara would make for a better container, and destroys its body.]]
* YouShallNotPass: Sheko tries to read Kara's memories. But a memory of Alura firmly declares that raping her daughter's mind is NOT happening:
-->'''Sheko:''' You... You can see me?\\
'''Alura:''' OF COURSE I can see you. Now GET OUT of our home!\\
'''Sheko:''' Who are you...?\\
'''Alura:''' Alura Zor-El! Praetor of Argo City! And you trespass at your peril!
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->'''Supergirl:''' My mind is free of all the rage and confusion now. I know who I am, and I know what you are -- a mockery of life. This is not murder. It is the end of a terrible mistake.
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[-[[caption-width-right:350:"She's done with people pushing her around, taking advantage of her, and betraying her. She's done feeling helpless, lost and discarded. She's done with hope, faith and acceptance. Now, all that's left is rage."]]-]
->Dad. Kal. H'el. Siobhan. They ''ALL'' let me down. They all broke my heart. And now ''THIS''. No more. Nobody gets away with hurting me ever again. Not ''THIS'' time!
''Red Daughter of Krypton'' is a twelve-issue ''Franchise/Superman''/''Franchise/GreenLantern'' [[BatfamilyCrossover crossover]] story arc published in 2014, with Tony Bedard, Charles Soule and Robert Venditti as the writers. After the events of Red Lanterns #27 and ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' #27 -which serve as a prologue-, the proper story begins in Supergirl #28, Supergirl #29 and Green Lantern #29 and continues through the Red Lanterns and Supergirl titles, concluding in Supergirl #33.
A short while after the events of ''ComicBook/HelOnEarth'' and ''ComicBook/KryptonReturns'', Supergirl picks a fight with ''Comicbook/{{Lobo}}'' in the research facility known as "The Block". Realizing he can't go toe-to-toe with a Kryptonian, Lobo does everything he can to push her buttons and to make her so irrationally angry that she can't fight effectively.
However, Kara has been having a very hard time since she arrived in the planet. She's only fifteen and she's already lost her home... twice. Her home-world is gone, her parents and all her friends are dead, her relationship with [[Franchise/{{Superman}} her only living relative]] is strained, she doesn't manage to fit into Earth, and apparently everyone she meets wants to decide what is better for her, use her or betray her after earning her trust. She's confused, heart-broken, and above all very, very angry. So, Lobo's taunting uncorks a volcano of rage in her that acts like a magnet to one of the new red power rings created by Atrocitus.
From that point on, Kara gets tangled up in the Lantern corps wars, and she has to learn several harsh truths about herself in order to grow as a person.
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!!Tropes:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Invoked. [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] isn't interested in Kara romantically, but after he spends a while talking about wanting Supergirl's body and them being made for each other, Kara feels sick.
-->'''Worldkiller-1:''' Can not you see that both of our lives have led to this union?\\
'''Supergirl:''' Stop. Just stop. You make us sound like lovers, and it's turning my stomach.
* ActionBomb: Supergirl can release the solar energy within her as an explosion without harming herself. She used this ability to [[spoiler:knock down Worldkiller-1]].
* ActionGirl:
** Supergirl is one of the greatest and most powerful heroes of Earth.
** Bleez is another female Red Lantern, and a very dangerous and vicious fighter.
* AnIcePerson: Tora uses her ice powers to help Guy and his Red Lanterns when they fight Shadow Thief in Red Lanterns #28.
* AntiHero:
** Kara becomes short-tempered, irrational and mad... and even so, she wants to use her powers to protect and help innocent people and punish evildoers.
--->'''Supergirl:''' So it took the Red Ring of Rage for me to finally find acceptance. So what? This planet will live. And I pummel anyone who says otherwise.
** Most of heroes regard Red Lanterns as violent jerkasses. Inhabitants of worlds saved by Gardner's team consider them saviors and freedom fighters.
* ApologeticAttacker: Every so often Kara's temper overwhelms her, she hurts someone or destroys something accidentally, and then she apologizes.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Skallox is a very arrogant BloodKnight who trusts his fighting skills completely, and openly claims that he has no weaknesses.
* BadassCrew: All members of the Red Lantern Corps are certified –and nutty- badasses.
* BadassMoustache: Guy has a very large and bushy moustache.
* BatmanGambit:
** Lobo tries to use Supergirl's rage against her by taunting her into not holding back. As such, Dr. Veritas teleports them out of the Block to prevent their fight from damaging it. Once outside, Lobo calls his ship and flies to Supergirl's old apartment in New York, hoping to calm her down. He then tries to be friendly to her offering to mentor her so she can learn to control her rage. Big mistake. Supergirl has had it with people trying to manipulate her and gives him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
** [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1 had taken over the body of the Diasporan leader and wanted to steal Supergirl's body.]] However he couldn't destroy his host body. So he goaded Supergirl to use her EyeBeams on him until she reduced his body to ashes involuntarily.
* BattleAura: Kara's body stores and emits sunlight. Kara can use her battle aura to lit up dark areas or burn some enemies [[spoiler:such like Worldkiller-1]].
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Sheko invaded Supergirl’s mind to read her memories and judge her, but Alura's memory stopped her and forced her out.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace:
** The Diasporans can survive in the vacuum of space. That capability works against them when Supergirl notes that she can blow their ships up without killing them.
** Supergirl and Superman don't need to breathe because they are sun-powered Kryptonians.
** The Lantern Corps can survive in space because their rings' force field provides a self-recycling oxygen bubble.
* BerserkButton:
** God helps you if Kara realizes you're trying to manipulate her.
** Until she got her mind back right after getting her ring, mentioning Superman around Kara was a bad idea.
** If Zilius Zox's body doesn't look perfectly round, don't mention it. Just don’t do it.
* TheBerserker: During her Red Lantern phase, Supergirl genuinely enjoyed finding evil jerkasses and pummeling them.
-->'''Kara:''' The Red Ring on my fist chose me. It made me part of a team. We seek out injustice and we punch it in the teeth. And it feels good.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Kara was nice most of the time... until several idiots thought that driving her mad was a good idea rather than downright suicidal.
* BeyondTheImpossible: Supergirl [[spoiler:took her Red Lantern Ring off and survived]]. No one had ''ever'' done that before. It was supposedly impossible.
* BigBrotherInstinct: It's complicated, but both Clark and Kara count (Kara is technically at least fifteen years older, but due to suspended animation shenanigans, Clark is a grown man while she's still a teenager):
** When Superman found out that Kara had become a Red Lantern, her reaction was shouting “What have you done to my cousin?”
** It was when [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] mentioned that he would go after her cousin that Supergirl recovered and defeated him.
* BigBrotherMentor: Guy became one to Supergirl, helping her find herself and manage her anger.
* TheBigGuy: Even though she's a tad tiny, Kara fulfilled this role in her team due to being the strongest member ''by far''.
* BlessedWithSuck: Supergirl is one of the most powerful female heroes. Due to her power, a lot of people have tried to use her or manipulate her; to the point that she feels she can't trust anybody.
-->'''Supergirl:''' This strength, this power -- It's been like a curse. But I refuse to be a victim anymore!
* BodySnatcher: [[spoiler:The fifth Worldkiller]] is a [[spoiler:living Kryptonite armor suit]] that attaches to a host and steals his or her body. It tried to snatch [[spoiler:Supergirl's body]] after its previous host died.
* BoundAndGagged: In order to transport her safely, the Green Lanterns gagged and chained Kara and placed her inside a containment cell.
* BreathWeapon: In addition to her hurricane breath and freezing breath, Kara can spew corrosive plasma when she becomes a Red Lantern.
* BrokenBird: Kara has lost her parents, her planet is gone and she has been manipulated by most of people she has met... and in reaction she's gotten tougher.
-->'''Worldkiller-1:''' Look at you! The universe tried its best to destroy you and it only made you stronger.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: After [[spoiler:removing her Red Ring, Supergirl wears again the S-shield.]]
* BrutalHonesty: During a battle, Supergirl tells a girl run and hide. Since the girl hesitates because she refuses to abandon her mother's body, Skallox points out that her mother is dead.
-->'''Supergirl:''' You. Find someplace to hide.\\
'''Girl:''' But my mom --\\
'''Skallox:''' Your mother is dead! Now run for your life.\\
'''Supergirl:''' You couldn't put that more gently?\\
'''Skallox:''' Seriously, new girl? Gently?
* BullyingADragon: Lobo spent a long while pissing her off until she blew up and pummeled him.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Zilius Zox is a round head with arms and legs attached to the sides.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Guy Gardner is the unofficial leader of the Red Lanterns who haven’t sided with Atrocitus. It’s a very distressing job leading a team of psychotic, short-tempered {{Blood Knight}}s with little regard for authority, especially when he tries to be the voice of reason, and his new role has driven a wedge between him and his former friends…
* CharacterDevelopment: The storyline's intended goal was Kara confronting her darkest and ugliest side, and eventually getting over her anger and confusion and becoming the IdealHero that Supergirl is meant to be.
-->'''Tony Bedard:''' What it boils down to is that Kara's life has been one disaster after another since arriving on Earth. As she reacts to this the way any teenager would, she can come across as angry, mopey or whiny. I want her to be a positive, likable character who embraces the responsibilities that come with her newfound power. So I'm trying to use this encounter with Lobo and her moment in the Red Lantern Corps as a pivot point to work through her anger/resentment and emerge as the Supergirl we'd all like to see.
* ChekhovsGunman: At the beginning of the book, some aliens were seen floating in several pods in the background. Later on, Supergirl fought four of them, and Regen revealed that there was a fifth worldkiller. [[spoiler:Guess who fights Supergirl at the climax of the storylilne?]]
* CheshireCatGrin: When Supergirl met her cousin during the events of ''Comicbook/SupermanDoomed'', she had a huge and disturbingly wicked grin.
* ChestInsignia: Supergirl shares Superman's "S" shield which is the emblem of the House of El. During her Red Lantern tenure, she wore the symbol of the Red Lantern Corps: a circle and two crooked lines on its right and left sides. However, her insignia was slightly different: it was drawn inside a diamond instead of a circle.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Red Lanterns #29 features Kara burning her old costume while Superman tries to stop her and Guy holds him back. Kara never tries to destroy her Supergirl costume, and Guy actually tries to talk her into staying with her cousin.
* CruelToBeKind: Guy kicked Kara out of the team because he thought Atrocitus would kill them all and Supergirl didn’t deserve that.
* DespairEventHorizon: Combined with a RageBreakingPoint, this is what creates Red Lanterns. A case in point is Supergirl, who after trouncing Lobo was feeling confused, hurt, betrayed, hopeless... and downright furious.
* {{Determinator}}: Supergirl never quits. Never. Not even when she's poisoned with Kryptonite, her body is getting stolen by an alien abomination, and her heart has stopped. Her mother taught her to never give up.
-->'''Supergirl:''' But then I thought of mother. I remembered all I had to live up to. A daughter of the House of El never quits. I wasn't about to be the first.
* DoomedHometown: Kara has lost her home-world twice. She tried to settle down in Earth but she left the planet because she felt she didn't belong there. Later on, she got kicked out of the Red Lanterns. Finally she decides that maybe she can make a life and a place for herself on planet Earth after all.
* DominoMask: Kara wears a red one during her Red Lantern tenure.
* DropTheHammer: Rankorr forms a hammer construct to fight Atrocitus.
* DyingAsYourself: When [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1 is taking over Kara's mind,]] she [[spoiler:removes her Red Ring]] as a last resort to kill it while she can still think for herself.
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] is an omnicidal, shape-shifting, sentient alien black goo which steals -and often consumes- bodies and is bonded with an indestructible armor suit. And it's nearly as strong and invulnerable as a Kryptonian. And it isn't vulnerable to Kryptonite.
* EyeBeams: Kara's heat vision is her best and most used weapon. She blew spaceships up, boiled a tsunami off and [[spoiler:burned Worldkiller-1's host body out]] with it.
* FantasticRacism: Zilius Zox is a spherical alien. He doesn't like a lot Green Lantern B'ox because B'ox is literally a square.
* FearfulSymmetry: Supergirl and Silver Banshee do this during their fight in Supergirl #29.
* FlyingBrick: Supergirl is one of the ultimate examples: super-strength, super-speed, invulnerability, flight… during the story she destroys spaceships by ramming through them.
* {{Foil}}: Lobo to Supergirl. Says writer Tony Bedard: "Lobo is there as a sort of dark reflection of her. They're both super-powerful loners left over from dead planets. Lobo has channeled his power and rage into becoming the most dangerous bounty-hunter/assassin in the galaxy. Supergirl's still trying to figure out what to do with her power and her lot in life. Tangling with Lobo will show her one path she might go down. It's really a cautionary tale for her, and she'll come away knowing that she could easily end up like him if she doesn't get her act together."
* ForbiddenChekhovsGun: At the beginning of the arc, the Red Lanterns explain Supergirl that she can never, ever, take her ring off since she would die. [[spoiler:At the end of the story, Kara removes her ring to try to kill an enemy that was taking over her body.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Kara feels like this the whole time. She genuinely believes no one wants her around because she is too dangerous.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Lobo's plan to fight Supergirl consisted in pissing her off. He succeeded. He drove her so mad that she flew off the handle and crushed him like a bug.
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] tried to take over [[spoiler:Kara's body]]. She let him so he didn't steal the body of an InnocentBystander.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Bleez is a beautiful, blue-skinned woman.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Kara grabbed a Diasporan and used him like a bat to bash enemies with during the battle of planet Grax.
* HairTriggerTemper:
** Due to several months of frustration and letdowns, Kara was very... irritable and snappy for a while.
** To be fair, all Red Lanterns have anger issues.
* HasAType: When Guy jokingly asks Skallox and Zilius Zox if they're getting a crush on Kara, the latter replies: "Meh. Not nearly spherical enough."
* HeroWithBadPublicity:
** Even when they ''try''' to be heroes, Red Lanterns are generally regarded as violent, dangerous, blood-thirsty sociopaths.
** Subverted when Superman and Guy Gardner talked. Superman admitted that Hal had nothing good to tell about the Red Lanterns but he added that he judges people based on what they do, not what people say about them, and he forms his own opinions.
* HeroicBSOD: Kara had a breakdown after finding out that if she took her ring off, she would die.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Kara tried to kill herself]] to destroy the [[spoiler:Kryptonian Worldkiller]].
* HesBack: At the end of the story, [[spoiler:Kara becomes Supergirl again, and accepts that she’s the protector of her new home: Earth.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Lobo thought that an angry Supergirl would fight sloppily. So he got her angry... to the point she exploded and trashed him.
** The King of planet Primeen got a judge executed to protect his son. His actions got Sheko -the aforementioned judge- so furious that she became a Red Lantern and killed them all.
* HoistHeroOverHead: In Supergirl #33, Kara does this to [[spoiler:a living Kryptonian suit]] before hurling it into the Sun.
* HotBlooded: Kara has always been emotional and passionate in every incarnation, but in this story she can hardly control her emotions. She is furious, upset and sees to that everybody knows it.
* HumanAliens: Played straight with Kara and her cousin, although most of aliens that she met during her Red Lantern tenure were vaguely humanoid, at the best.
* HurlItIntoTheSun: Kara essentially did this [[spoiler:to ''herself'' to try to get rid of a Red Lantern ring without it killing her. It worked.]] And then she did it to [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]].
* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: Shioban runs into Supergirl right after her transformation when Kara is overwhelmed with rage. Shioban wonders what turned her best friend into that rage monster (she suspects drugs or poison) and she tries to reach her out.
-->'''Shioban:''' Kara...? I'm your friend, remember? Whatever's happened, you don't have to hurt anyone.
* ImStandingRightHere: When Superman talks to Guy about his cousin, he preemptively says "And yes, Kara, I know you're behind me and listening to this."
* InappropriateRoleModel: Invoked by Guy Gardner, who believes Kara should stay with her cousin because the Red Lanterns aren't exactly role models even at their best.
* InItForLife: In Red Lanterns #30 -properly titled "Forever"-, Supergirl learns that she'll be a Red Lantern forever because she'll die if she takes her ring off. Predictably, she isn't happy about it (initially).
* InnocentBystander: When the Red Lanterns fight the Diasporans in planet Grax, Kara saves an innocent little girl who was about to be killed. Later on, [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1 threatens with body-snatching an innocent bystander unless Kara lets it take over her body.]]
* ItIsDehumanizing: Shay alternates between using "her" and "it" to talk about Blaze because she doesn't know how to refer to other-dimensional demons.
-->'''Soldier:''' "Her"...? I thought we were hunting for an "it".\\
'''Shay:''' She looks female, but who really knows if gender even applies to a demon from another dimension?
* ItsPersonal: Supergirl hates the Worldkiller weapons and the Diasporans because they kill planets, and she's an orphan of a dead world.
-->'''Supergirl:''' How could anyone make it their mission in life to murder whole worlds? Can you imagine what an abomination that is to an orphan from a dead planet? [...] This world-killing stuff... it hits a nerve. It makes me furious, and the ring just fans the flame!
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In spite of her brittle attitude, heated temper and anger issues, Supergirl was the nicest and most considerate Red Lantern. She even chided one of her teammates for not being tactful enough.
* JustTryingToHelp: When Supergirl confronted and taunted Superman during the events of ''Comicbook/SupermanDoomed'', she was genuinely trying to help him by showing that he could use his angry side to protect others.
* KangarooCourt: Judge Sheko became a Red Lantern because kangaroo courts on planet Primeen were the rule, the concept of justice had been turned into a joke, and when she tried to make her job fairly, she got shot.
* KeystoneArmy: The Diasporan army surrendered after Supergirl defeated their leader.
* KryptoniteFactor:
** Silver Banshee managed to contain Supergirl for a short while when they fought because her sonic attacks are magic, and Kryptonians are vulnerable to magic.
** Kara was weakened when she fought [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] because Earth's atmosphere was poisoned with kryptonite.
* LargeAndInCharge: The leader of the Diasporans is also the biggest of them all.
* LastOfHisKind: Discussed. Hal and Guy -who had never met Supergirl before- are shocked to learn that there's another living Kryptonian besides Superman, who was supposedly the last one.
* LeaveMeAlone: When Superman and Supergirl argue, he reminds her that she wanted him to leave her alone to live her own life since she showed up on Earth.
* LeotardOfPower: Unlike previous incarnations, Supergirl's outfit lacks a skirt.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Deconstructed. Guy tries to convince Ice to get back together, stating that she keeps him sane. She replies that isn't a good foundation for a relationship.
-->'''Guy:''' Come on, babe. Give me a shot. I need this-- out there... It's no easy. I need a reason to keep it together.\\
'''Tora:''' Guy, you have your good qualities. But you must see why the idea of being your sole link to sanity is less than appealing to me. The weight of that -- we'd never get out from under it.
* MadeOfIndestructium: Kara’s outfit and cape never get damaged, not matter what happens to her. Justified since her Supergirl costume is Kryptonian armor, and her Red Lantern uniform is made of raw energy.
* MamaBear: Alura is fiercely protective of her daughter... even when she's only a memory! She stopped Sheko when the Red Lantern tried to invade Supergirl's mind and demanded that she left her daughter alone.
* ManipulativeBastard: Lobo played with Supergirl's anger and loneliness, hinted that they were not so different and if they worked together he could help her to take control of her own life. It was all a plot to save his butt. However, Kara had already dealt with manipulative bastards and saw through his words.
-->'''Lobo:''' I'm offering you a way to take ownership of your life. This planet's too smalltime for the likes of you, Kara Zor-El. You were meant for bigger things.\\
'''Kara:''' You know what I am sick and tired of? People acting like they know me-- like they only want what's best for me.\\
'''Lobo:''' Now, hold on--\\
'''Kara:''' NO! Everyone I meet makes plans for me. Everyone ends up trying to use me. Even Shay. Even Kal. And now you. Well, I am finished with users.
* MassOhCrap: When Kara gets her Red Lantern Ring everyone stares at her with "Oh, GOD, She's going to kill us all NOW!" horrified expressions.
* MilkingTheGiantCow: Supergirl does this right after pummeling Lobo.
* MindRape: Sheko does this to her victims to judge whether they are innocent or guilty.
* MundaneUtility: As seen in a flashback in Supergirl #29, Kara once used her heat vision to roast a marshmallow.
* MyBloodRunsHot: While she’s a Red Lantern, Supergirl’s blood is burning hot.
* MyGreatestFailure: During a talk with Guy, Kara confesses that she feels guilty for Krypton's destruction, even though she intellectually knows there was nothing she could do to save it.
-->'''Supergirl:''' And now Krypton's lost forever. There was nothing I could do to save it, but it feels like I'll be trying to make up for that the rest of my life.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: After spending several months being used, manipulated and betrayed, Kara promises herself that she'll not be hurt again.
* NeverMyFault: When Kara stops [[spoiler:the living Kryptonian suit from taking over her body]], it attaches to an InnocentBystander and blames Supergirl for "forcing him" to do that.
* NiceGuy: In spite of her angst and anger issues, both of which she outgrows, Supergirl is, in her own way, every bit as sweet and kind as her cousin.
* NighInvulnerability:
** Being a Kryptonian, Supergirl is very, very hard to hurt. In Red Lanterns #29, she tanks a missile tipped with star core matter.
** Superman had no one scratch after being swatted with an ocean liner.
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: When Lobo taunts Supergirl, stating that she's afraid to cut loose, Kara goes ballistic.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: In Supergirl #28 Lobo taunted her until she exploded and pummeled him until he stopped moving and talking.
* NoodleIncident: In Supergirl #32 it's mentioned briefly that Kara did a short side trip before entering the solar system. In Action Comics#32 -part of the ''ComicBook/SupermanDoomed'' storyline- it's revealed what she did during that trip.
* NotSoDifferent: Lobo comments that he was like Supergirl a while ago:
-->'''Lobo:''' I know, because I was like you once. Bitter. Alone. Mad as Hell. But I didn't let it consume me. I put it to work.
* OhMyGods: In Supergirl #33, Kara says "Because Rao apparently thought my day wasn't being hard enough”.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Supergirl is fifteen... although that's because she spent almost thirty years in suspended animation. She insists that she's more mature than she looks.
-->'''Supergirl:''' My entire planet was destroyed. My civilization is gone. That makes you grow up fast.
* PerpetualFrowner: Most of Red Lanterns count, but during her tenure, Kara seldom smiled (although she occasionally smirked smugly).
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Any Kryptonian or Lantern Corps member counts due to their vast and numerous powers. When Kara gets her Red Lantern Ring, though, she becomes one of the most dangerous things in the ''universe''.
-->'''Shay Veritas:''' How'd she get a Red Lantern Ring? [...] A Kryptonian wearing one of those is an extinction level threat--!
* PietaPlagiarism: In Supergirl 33, [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1 holds a dying Kara]] in his arms before [[spoiler:hurling her into the Sun]].
* PlayingPossum: After his "Driving Supergirl Mad" plan backfired completely, Lobo pretended to be dead until she stopped bashing him and left.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Shioban tried to reach Supergirl out when she turned into a Red Lantern. It seemed to be working... until a N.Y.P.D. VTOL came along, and Kara felt threatened.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner:
** In Supergirl #28, after Kara shots Lobo's ship down:
--->'''Lobo:''' Bloody Nass! That ship was custom built! The things I did just to pay for it...!\\
'''Kara:''' Don't worry... You'll pay for them ALL.
** During the battle in planet Grax:
--->'''Diasporans:''' Rage Lanterns! This is not your fight! Do not interfere!\\
'''Zilius Zox:''' Oh, we're interfering, all right...
** Shortly after:
--->'''Supergirl:''' Fine, Skallox! You want to see me get mad? Watch this!
* PowerGlows: After Kara [[spoiler:took a literal sunbath]], her body gave off a golden glow.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: When the Red Lanterns fought the Diasporans for first time, Kara punched one of them ''across a city''.
* RageBreakingPoint: She's been through hard times during her time on Earth, leading to a lot of built up rage. Her fight with Lobo is the final straw, as his attempt to manipulate her causes her to thrash him.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: During her final battle against the Diasporans, Supergirl took advantage of her invulnerability to ram through their mothership and destroy it.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A mild case. After Supergirl went off on him, Superman pointed out that she's clinging to her anger for so long that she can't get rid of it now:
-->'''Superman:''' You know what, Kara? Ever since you showed up on Earth, you've been trying to get me to do one thing -- leave you alone to let you live your own life. You've been so focused on just being angry -- yes, you lost your home, and that's terrible, but you can't bring it back.\\
'''Supergirl:''' What are you saying?\\
'''Superman:''' You've been choosing anger instead of acceptance for so long that you've become anger. You want to be your own person? Good. Be your own person. I just hope you like who you turn out to be.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: During an argument with Hal, Guy makes very clear that he considers being stationed at Ysmault leading a group of Reds to be this.
-->'''Guy:''' After everything, after you made me give up my whole life to come to this rock?
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Supergirl's eyes's red glow intensified during her fight against Lobo as she got angrier. At the beginning [[http://www.readcomics.net/images/manga/supergirl/28/13.jpg their eyes give off a faint red light]]. At the end [[http://infinitecomix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/SprGrl-28-2.jpg they pour red fire]].
* RedheadedHero: Guy Gardner is a redhead and leader of a group of Red Lanterns. Under his –questioned- leadership they actually try to be heroes and fight evil.
* RedIsHeroic: Kara's Supergirl costume has red cape, pants and boots. Her Red Lantern uniform is red and black.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Sheko got shot after finding her planet's Crown Prince guilty, she was so absolutely furious that she became a Red Lantern, and decided to burn everyone who were responsible for her death.
* RubberForeheadAliens: In Supergirl#30, Kara finds Graxians. They're blue-skinned humanoids with cow-like ears.
* SadisticChoice: In Supergirl 33, Kara must choose between letting an innocent person die and letting [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1 steal her body.]]
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Sheko was executed because she judged the prince of her world for his crimes and she refused to let him get off for what he had done. Then the man who was supposed to execute the prince tried to kill her instead, and her fury attracted a Red Lantern Ring.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Skallox is incredibly tempted to do this after hearing about Atrocitus wanting to create nine new Red Lanterns, but Zilius dissuades him from it.
* SkywardScream: Kara threw her head back and screamed when Skallox said her ring was bonded with her forever.
* StarfishAliens: One of the allies of Atrocitus resembles a giant, orange, fish-headed cricket. Green Lantern B'ox is literally a polyhedron.
* SubspaceOrHyperspace: Green and Red Lanterns use Hyperspace to travel across the universe. In Supergirl #32 Kara jumped into Hyperspace to go from Mongo to Earth.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Siobhan let her Silver Banshee self out during her fight with Supergirl. Despite of her fears, she manages to keep it under control.
* SuperpowerLottery: Kara is a full-blooded Kryptonian with the full power pack (super-strength, super-speed, invulnerability, super-senses, flight, heat vision, freezing breath...). And if it were not enough, she has a Red Lantern Ring. When she says she might just be the most dangerous thing in the universe, she is pretty right.
* SuperStrength: Part of the Kryptonian pack. In Red Lanterns #29, Supergirl and Superman have a short fight. When she picks an ''ocean liner'' easily, swats her cousin with it and Superman ''tanks'' it, it becomes apparent how massively strong Kryptonians are.
* TakingYouWithMe: After her plan to destroy [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] fails, [[spoiler:Supergirl]] decides that the only way to kill it is killing herself before it steals her body, so [[spoiler:she removes her red ring]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Red and Green Lanterns don't get along ''at all''. However, Hal's squad and Guy's group worked together to help Supergirl to get her mind and her sanity back.
* TenMinuteRetirement: Kara gave up on being Supergirl when she became a Red Lantern. At the end of the storyline she dons her blue-and-red outfit again.
* ThighHighBoots: Her [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/3/36774/2012509-1_7937413665.jpg New 52 outfit]] and her Red Lantern [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hY90kbHsVuA/VLb0FxzfYHI/AAAAAAAAhz8/2r12WafOmwU/s1600/rocafort%2BRL-02.jpg uniform]] include knee-length red boots.
* ThisMeansWar: Atrocitus destroys the Red Power Battery to declare war on Guy and his Red Lanterns.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Subverted. Usually Kara doesn't like killing. However she [[spoiler:executes the last Worldkiller]] reasoning that "This is not murder. It is the end of a terrible mistake."
* TookALevelInBadass: How do you increase Supergirl's badassery? Giving her a Lantern Ring.
* TookALevelInIdealism: Supergirl attracted a Red Ring because she was mad, confused and hopeless, and she believed she didn't belong anywhere. At the end of the story she has outgrown her anger and confusion, is more confident and more mature, and thinks maybe Earth can become her new home after all.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After becoming a Red Lantern, Kara became harder to put up with for a while.
* TookALevelInKindness: Bleez became somewhat kinder and nicer after joining Guy's group.
* TranslatorMicrobes: Lantern Rings are -literally- universal translators... although Kara wondered if her ring's translator was broken when the Diasporan leader called her "their newest Champion".
* TrashOfTheTitans: As seen in Supergirl #29, Shioban's apartment is a dumpster, and she actually likes that way.
* TraumaCongaline: Kara becoming a Red Lantern is the result of one: After spending one decade sleeping she woke up only for finding out that her world, her family, her old life... were dead and gone. In a lapse of few months she was used and betrayed by most of people she met, including her first crush. She couldn't keep any friend and she couldn't make a connection with her only living relative. And then Lobo taunted her...
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Supergirl and Bleez are the only female members of Guy's group. Bleez was actually glad that Supergirl joined because she wasn't the only girl anymore.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: People often underestimate Supergirl, even if they know what her power levels are:
** Lobo thought that Supergirl would fight worse if he pressed her buttons. It turned out that Kara doesn't get careless when she gets angry: she gets more dangerous.
** Guy ordered Supergirl not to let Bleez -who was wounded- leave med bay. Bleez stated that she had no time to socialize with children and tried to shove Kara away of the door she was blocking. Yup. Good luck with that.
** [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1]] thought that Supergirl couldn't do anything to stop him. But it appears that fighting a Kryptonian after she's just taken a bath in the Sun isn't a good idea.
* UnstoppableRage: In the beginning of the storyline, Lobo taunted Supergirl until she blew up and pummeled him.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Kara befriended Siobhan "Silver Banshee" Smythe shortly after arriving in Earth. However she broke it off when she thought Siobhan was using her. When they meet again in Supergirl #29, they fought. Shioban blamed herself for their friendship's end, but after a while Kara thought she was the one ruined it.
* WhatTheHellHero: Kara calls both her cousin and her team out on keeping things from her and making plans about her without thinking about what she wants:
-->'''Supergirl:''' You don't understand. And neither do you. I'm not a piece of luggage. I'm not a problem for the grownups to solve.\\
'''Superman:''' It's not like that. We all just want to help you.\\
'''Supergirl:''' You're doing it again. Who says I need any help?
* WorthIt: After Supergirl bashes him, Zilius becomes again spherical instead of looking like a punctured balloon. He says: “Worth It”.
* WrongAssumption:
** Lobo taunted Supergirl during their whole fight, thinking that she'd fight sloppily if she got angry. It turned out that blind rage makes her more dangerous instead of more ineffective.
** During the events of ''Comicbook/SupermanDoomed'', Supergirl, who was using her anger to protect the galaxy, assumes Clark's just "getting in touch with his angry side" and can use his [=SuperDoom=] form for good.
* YouAreNotMyFather: Kara says this line after Guy tells she shouldn't drink booze because she's just a kid.
-->'''Supergirl:''' You're not my parent, Guy Gardner, and from what I understand, you don't even lead this team.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After meeting Supergirl, [[spoiler:Worldkiller-1 decides that he doesn't need its old host body anymore because Kara would make for a better container, and destroys its body.]]
* YouShallNotPass: Sheko tries to read Kara's memories. But a memory of Alura firmly declares that raping her daughter's mind is NOT happening:
-->'''Sheko:''' You... You can see me?\\
'''Alura:''' OF COURSE I can see you. Now GET OUT of our home!\\
'''Sheko:''' Who are you...?\\
'''Alura:''' Alura Zor-El! Praetor of Argo City! And you trespass at your peril!
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->'''Supergirl:''' My mind is free of all the rage and confusion now. I know who I am, and I know what you are -- a mockery of life. This is not murder. It is the end of a terrible mistake.
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