YMMV / Supergirl (1996)

• I Am Not Spock: People operate under the assumption that the Supergirl throughout this entire volume is Linda Danvers, when Linda didn't become the sole Supergirl until #51. From the beginning, Supergirl was Matrix and Linda Danvers sharing a body after Matrix merged with Linda to save her life. For the first nine issues, the status quo had been Matrix using Linda's name and appearance as a secret identity. Starting from #10, the actual Linda began to manifest in their shared existence until Supergirl gradually became a combined form of the two women (think of Garnet from Steven Universe).
• Nightmare Fuel: The first nine issues of the series had a lot of this, especially thanks to Gary Frank's artwork when it comes to conveying a character looking particularly unhinged.
  • In the second issue, Matrix is given a look at what kind of person Linda Danvers was. An unrepentant murderer and willing member of the very cult that tried to sacrifice her. Mae gets to see the aftermath of the first time Linda ever killed someone, as the woman looks positively giddy describing what a rush she felt as it happened.
  • The seventh issue gives us Linda's Start of Darkness, as Matrix delves further into her memories. She sees the moment Linda started losing faith in humanity, when she walked in on her pastor beating his wife in a fury in their home. The next day Linda saw some men removing a rug from the house, with a familiar looking scrap of bloody fabric falling out. Fast forward several years later and some good manipulation from Buzz, and Linda's presented both the pastor and his new wife (who promises to make "last time" look like nothing when she gets her hands on Linda). That's when Buzz gives Linda a case of knives.
  • The eighth and ninth issues gives us Tempus Fugit, a demonically-possessed Dick Malverne, who proceeds to kill Fred and Sylvia Danvers. At which point Supergirl gets angrier than we've ever seen her, and she starts shedding tears of blood as flames appear around her deciding she's going to murder Tempus and Buzz.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Buzz's Hazy-Feel Turn can be very hard to take seriously as more discussion about how he essentially groomed and raped Linda as a teenager has become prevalent. The flashbacks to Linda's Start of Darkness showed Buzz targeted Linda since she was a young woman, and spent most of Linda's teen years slowly corrupting her until they had sex. It's not that different from what Deathstroke did to Terra.