History Recap / Supergirl2015S3E6Midvale

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Kara tries to be there for Alex in the wake of her broken engagement, but Alex cruelly throws the six months Kara spent distancing herself from her and her friends over Mon-El back in her face.
--->'''Kara''': You want to talk, it might help?\\
'''Alex''': ''(defensively)'' You don't get to do that.\\
'''Kara''': What!?\\
'''Alex''': You don't get to shut down for six months after Mon-El goes and sit there and tell ''me'' to talk!
** The flashback shows that even years after Kara arrived on Earth, Alex still resents Kara because her presence disrupted her content life with her parents by resulting in Jeremiah having to leave and Eliza forcing Alex to act as a mentor/babysitter.
** Teenage Kara hates living on Earth because, unlike her cousin, she still remembers and misses her life on Krypton and her family. It's compounded by the fact her upbringing there resulted in her classes being either too easy (Kryptonians learn calculus at a younger age) or difficult (she has no basic knowledge of US history) and she struggles to fit in with the other students' social behavior.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Deconstructed as SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs and the teacher promptly goes to jail for statutory rape. Josie, the student in question, tried to justify the relationship to her soon-to-be-former best friend Alex by claiming the age gap (ten years) isn't that large and that no one will care in five years when she's older. What Josie fails to realize is that in five years, it's assumed she'll be mature enough to realize a guy that old who is willing to have a relationship with a teenager (his student, no less) is a sexual predator. It's also implied that in the state where Midvale is located, the age of consent is 18 (it varies between 16 and 18, depending on the state).[[note]]Midvale is mentioned as being near the US-Canada border, so assuming the ages of consent are the same as in real life, this would place it in either Idaho or North Dakota.[[/note]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The song "Fake Do-Gooders" by The Eames Era plays during a montage of Alex and Kara competing with each other. "Fake Do-Gooder" turns out to be a rather appropriate description of [[DirtyCop the episode's villain.]]

* JerkJock: Kara flat out states that she ''hates'' the school's football players. They hardly do much to invalidate such an opinion.

** Earlier, Kara suspected the JerkJock since Kenny had something on him. It turns out he was smoking pot and only threatened to beat up Kenny if he tells anyone.

* SecretSecretKeeper: At the end of the episode, one of Kenny's telescope images reveals that he knew Kara was an alien, and that he didn't care. When Kara learns this, she admits that if he were in front of her right now, she'd kiss him. As an adult Kara even calls him a "keeper of secrets".

** Teenage Kara hates living on Earth because, unlike her cousin, she still remembers and misses her life on Krypton and her family. It's compounded by the fact her upbringing there resulted in her classes being either too easy (Kryptonians learn calculus at a younger age) or difficult (she has no basic knowledge of US history) and struggles to fit in with the other students' social behavior.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Kenny Lee, Kara's high school friend.

* WholePlotReference: The entire flashback is essentially Series/{{Riverdale}}.
** On a Supergirl-related note, the plot of the flashback also has quite a few passing similarities to the story ComicBook/{{Supergirl Being Super}} from 2016.

* AlphaBitch: Alex was revealed to be this in high school (crossed over with some AcademicAlphaBitch) along with her friends, including Josie. After her adventure with Kara in solving Kenny's murder, however, she takes Kenny's place on the totem pole as a social outcast -- not that she really minds, in the end.

* AlphaBitch: Alex was revealed to be this in high school along with her friends, including Josie. After her adventure with Kara in solving Kenny's murder, however, she takes Kenny's place on the totem pole as a social outcast -- not that she really minds, in the end.

* AbsenteeActor: Samantha, Lena, James and for the first time in the series, Winn, are absent for this episode.

* AlphaBitch: Alex was revealed to be this in high school. After her adventure with Kara in solving Kenny's murder, however, she takes Kenny's place on the totem pole as a social outcast -- not that she really minds, in the end.

** Alex in the flashback acts this way, blaming Kara for everything wrong in her life. Given that she is a teenager dealing with a new sister and the (presumed) death of her father, this might be justified or at least understandable. She gets better.

** Alex in the flashback acts this way, blaming Kara for everything wrong in her life. Given that she is a teenager dealing with a new sister and the (presumed) death of her father, this might be justified or at least understandable.

* AssholeVictim: Both the pot-smoking bully as well as the pedophile teacher were not guilty of killing Kenny, but their legal repercussions were still deserved.
* BigBrotherWorship: Well, more like big/little cousin worship, Kara is shown to idolize Clark/Superman as a teenager, and initially openly wishes she could live and fight evil with him and not the Danverses.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sheriff Collins sure seems like a friendly, helpful, and considerate small town lawman at first, doesn't he? Turns out he's anything but.

** J'onn is shown keeping an eye on Kara and Alex, taking the form of an FBI Agent identical to Alura to help her through her problems, honoring his promise he made to Jeremiah to watch over the Danvers.

* DisappearedDad: During their high school years, Alex's dad is still presumed dead at the time. Alex blames Kara for it.

* FantasticRacism: Both in the flashback as well as in the present during her chat with her adopted mother, Kara still shows light signs of this, insisting that she isn't human and mild contempt for humanity.

* TheGhost: Kara mentions Clark's friend Chloe, and is in contact with her during the investigation of Kenny's death, but is neither seen nor heard.

* HumiliationConga: The JerkJock is overpowered by a girl half his size in front of his teammates, is forced to admit to using pot, and gets suspended for it.
* InVinoVeritas: Alex gets very [[BrutalHonesty blunt]] and downright mean after being drunk.

** Teenaged Alex acts that way, blaming Kara for everything wrong in her life. Given that she is a teenager, this might be justified or at least understandable.

* TeacherStudentRomance: Deconstructed as SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs and the teacher promptly goes to jail for statutory rape. Josie, the student in question, tried to justify the relationship to her soon-to-be-former best friend Alex by pointing out the age gap (ten years) isn't that large and that no one will care in five years when she's older. What she fails to realize is that in five years it's assumed she'll be mature enough to realize a guy that old that is willing to have a relationship with a teenager (his student no less) is a sexual predator. It's also implied that, in the state where Midvale is located, the age of consent is 18 (it varies between 16 and 18, depending on the state).[[note]]Midvale is mentioned as being near the US-Canada border, so assuming the ages of consent are the same as in real life, this would place it in either Idaho or North Dakota.[[/note]]

** J'onn's fake FBI agent is played by Creator/EricaDurance, who played ComicBook/LoisLane on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', and is named Noel Neill, the name of the actress who played ComicBook/LoisLane on ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman''.

* OriginStory: The beginning of Kara and Alex's sisterhood is the focus of the episode.

* RealityEnsues:
** Kara tries to be there for Alex in the wake of her broken engagement, but Alex cruelly throws the six months Kara spent distancing herself from her and her friends over Mon-El back in her face.
--->'''Kara''': You want to talk, it might help?\\
'''Alex''': ''(defensively)'' You don't get to do that.\\
'''Kara''': What!?\\
'''Alex''': You don't get to shut down for six months after Mon-El goes and sit there and tell ''me'' to talk!
** The flashback shows that even years after Kara arrived on Earth, Alex still resents Kara because her presence disrupted her content life with her parents by resulting in Jeremiah having to leave and Eliza forcing Alex to act as a mentor/babysitter.
** Teenage Kara hates living on Earth because, unlike her cousin, she still remembers and misses her life on Krypton and her family. It's compounded by the fact her upbringing there resulted in her classes being either too easy (Kryptonians learn calculus at a younger age) or difficult (she has no basic knowledge of US history) and struggles to fit in with the other students' social behavior.

* TeacherStudentRomance: Deconstructed as RealityEnsues and the teacher promptly goes to jail for statutory rape. Josie, the student in question, tried to justify the relationship to her soon-to-be-former best friend Alex by pointing out the age gap (ten years) isn't that large and that no one will care in five years when she's older. What she fails to realize is that in five years it's assumed she'll be mature enough to realize a guy that old that is willing to have a relationship with a teenager (his student no less) is a sexual predator. It's also implied that, in the state where Midvale is located, the age of consent is 18 (it varies between 16 and 18, depending on the state).[[note]]Midvale is mentioned as being near the US-Canada border, so assuming the ages of consent are the same as in real life, this would place it in either Idaho or North Dakota.[[/note]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Sheriff Collins murdered Kenny, and is perfectly fine with trying to do the same to Alex.

* BigBrotherWorship: Well, more like big/little cousin worship, Kara is shown to idolize Clark/Superman as a teenager, and initially openly wishes she could live and fight evil with him and not the Danvers.

* LittleMissBadass: Kara as a 15-year-old is quickly able to save Alex from being killed by Sheriff Collins. She also easily overpowers a jock who she suspected of murdering Kenny.