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1	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse, Superman considers two different explanations for Alura's increasingly hostile actions against humanity: either Alura is motivated by the grief of losing Zor-El, or she has always been cold and distant, and Zor-El was her MoralityChain. Since Superman never had any emotional connection to Alura before the events of ''New Krypton'', he reasons any interpretation is equally valid. It should be noted that before her husband's death, Alura was shown to be coldhearted and ruthless. Behind Zor-El's back, Alura instructed Commander Gor and the Kandorian military to abduct several known felons from Stryker's Island Penitentiary and relocate them to the Phantom Zone. Unfortunately, during the breakout, several Science Police guards at Stryker's were killed. When Superman comes and asks Zor-El and Alura for help bring renegade Kryptonians to justice. Alura reveals not only that she ordered the Kryptonians to abduct the prisoners, but she also gave the order to kill the Science Police guards, to the shock and horror of Superman, Supergirl, and Zor-El. Alura was remorseless about the science guard's death and accused Superman of caring more about humanity than his race. This shows that Alura was a coldhearted and ruthless person who cared only about her race, even when her husband was alive. Kara actually brings this up in her last confrontation with her mother; Kara initially thought a few of her father Zor-El last words, watch out for your mother meant to make sure that Alura didn’t get hurt when he was gone, but seeing Alura torture Reactron, made Kara believe that he was warning her to watch out for her mother because he knew how ruthless she is, it’s possible that Zor-El meant that because before he died, he was shocked that Alura ordered the death of human guards and was remorseless of doing that.
2	* ArcFatigue: Unfortunately went down this route after sometime, since the arc later separated into several mini-arcs for a while until ending in ''War of the Supermen''. The introduction of a wholly new population of Kryptonians was a strong and daring idea. The entire status quo of the Superman family was reworked and people were pleasantly surprised that writers had actually done something with the eternal MacGuffin that was the Bottle City of Kandor. But at some point along the way, it became apparent that the story was not going anywhere, that the entire World of New Krypton title was in a holding pattern while the associated titles (''Superman'', ''ComicBook/ActionComics'', ''ComicBook/Supergirl2005'', later ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'') were engaged in crossover storylines. In the end, most of the arc served as setup for successive event stories.
3	* CatharsisFactor: Face it, you cheered when [[spoiler:Luthor killed Gor.]]
4	* CreatorProvincialism: Kandor gets explicitly compared to Manhattan, due to being a multiethnic population, and Hal Jordan also muses how it seems an universal constant that looking for jobs and new beginnings leads to a similar mingling, despite other historically having been many other multiethnic and multicultural cities, born in different ways. Superman also compares the struggles of the Labor guild and their fight for a seat with the American revolution, despite the situation having very little in common, the American revolution being lead by businessman and land owners feeling deprived of their profit by a meddling foreign country and feeling of independence; the struggle of a labour force internal to the nation being underrepresented would actually be much more reminiscing of the ''French'' revolution.
5	* CompleteMonster: [[SociopathicSoldier Reactron]] is at his worst, while ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} is as bad as ever. See Monster/{{Superman}} for more on them both.
6	* MoralEventHorizon: Reactron crosses it in his first appearance, when he kills ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s father while threatening to sexually assault her. General Lane does it when he transforms his daughter Lucy into a superweapon, while Lucy herself does when she murders a scientist for the crime of reporting her unstable condition to her father.
7	* OlderThanTheyThink: In ''ComicBook/LetMyPeopleGrow!'' Superman and Supergirl find a way to restore Kandor to its normal size, and the whole Kandorian populace settles on Rokyn, a remote planet revolving around a red sun.
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Context YMMV / NewKrypton