History Characters / Supergirl

** In Issue #8, Kara meets Sihoban, who [[UniversalTranslator can translate any language]]. She's able to communicate with Kara and helps her adjust to life on Earth.

At first acting as Superman's "secret weapon" while she developed her powers in secret under the assumed name of Linda Lee Danvers, Supergirl eventually burst onto the superhero scent as the Maid of Might. She had a long and illustrious career fighting evil--she became best friends with fellow superheroine ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} I (Barbara), became a member of the {{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} (and struck up a romance with Brainiac 5), and even saved her parents from the past and helped them found New Krypton on the distant planet of Rokyn. She gained her own sidekicks in the form of Streaky the Super-Cat and Comet the Super-Horse.

* InterspeciesRomance: With [[{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} Brainiac 5]].

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SuperpowerLottery: Since she's a Kryptonian like Superman, she has the same powers as him.

* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Understatement.

At first acting as Superman's "secret weapon" while she developed her powers in secret under the assumed name of Linda Lee Danvers, Supergirl eventually burst onto the superhero scent as the Maid of Might. She had a long and illustrious career fighting evil--she became best friends with fellow superheroine {{Batgirl}} I (Barbara), became a member of the {{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} (and struck up a romance with Brainiac 5), and even saved her parents from the past and helped them found New Krypton on the distant planet of Rokyn. She gained her own sidekicks in the form of Streaky the Super-Cat and Comet the Super-Horse.

* NightmareFuel: In-universe.

* FoeYay: With Lex.

* FoeYay: With Buzz.

* EvilIsSexy: During her brainwashing as a Female Fury she practically was this trope

* HotAmazon: She trained with them.

A purple shape-shifting creature from a PocketDimension, she was created by that universe's LexLuthor and patterned after the [[{{Superman}} New Earth Superman]]. When that universe was attacked by Phantom Zone escapees that were no match for her, Pocket Universe Lex sent Matrix to recruit New Earth Superman, but was too late to save the universe. Matrix was later taken in by Superman to be raised by Supes' adoptive parents and eventually became the first PostCrisis Supergirl. She later accidentally fused with Linda Danvers below, and made her the next Supergirl.

At first acting as Superman's "secret weapon" while she developed her powers in secret under the assumed name of Linda Lee Danvers, Supergirl eventually burst onto the superhero scent as the Maid of Might. She had a long and illustrious career fighting evil--she became best friends with fellow superheroine {{Batgirl}}, became a member of the {{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} (and struck up a romance with Brainiac 5), and even saved her parents from the past and helped them found New Krypton on the distant planet of Rokyn. She gained her own sidekicks in the form of Streaky the Super-Cat and Comet the Super-Horse.

Characters who have, at one point in their careers, have been called {{Supergirl}}.

[[WMG:Supergirl (Pre-Crisis)]]
->'''AKA:''' Linda Lee Danvers / Kara Zor-El

[[WMG:Supergirl I]]
->'''AKA:''' Matrix

[[WMG:Supergirl II]]
->'''AKA:''' Linda Danvers

* ShoutOut / CanonImmigrant: Her second costume is based on her {{DCAU}} counterpart's.

[[WMG:Supergirl III]]
->'''AKA:''' Cir-El

[[WMG:Supergirl IV]]
->'''AKA:''' Linda Lang / Kara Zor-El

[[WMG:Supergirl 1,000,000]]
->'''AKA:''' Ariella Kent

[[WMG:Supergirl (Cosmic Adventures)]]
->'''AKA:''' Linda Lee / Kara Zor-El

* TearJerker: Her appearance in the DC Christmas special with Deadman a few years after ''CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.

* NaiveNewcomer: So naive she shacked up with LEX LUTHOR!

* ReplacementScrappy: For Matrix.

* TheScrappy

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Writer Sterling Gates finally reconciled her origins and gave her a personality that was palatable to the fans. Artist Jamal Igle moved her away from MsFanservice, drawing her more like human being than a stick, and lengthening her skirt and putting shorts under it.

* DorkAge: And how.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: MarkWaid was the first to make her a likable character in ''Supergirl and the {{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}, but it was Sterling Gates who seems to have made it permanent in her main series.

* {{Squick}}: JephLoeb said he based her on his teenage daughter. Now go back and read the AbusiveParents example above.

* TheWoobie: The poor girl has now survived three holocausts, [[DoomedHometown two home]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom planets exploding]] from under her, and losing her parents twice.

* ToyShip: With Klarion ''BUM BUM BUM'' The Witch Boy.

* {{Retcon}}: That thing about her father raising her as an assassin and having her stand around naked all the time? It was just a hallucination she experienced due to latent kryptonite poisoning. [[AuthorsSavingThrow THANK GOODNESS]].

* GooGooGodlike: Comes with being the daughter of Linda Danvers and an alternate Superman. She is most likely second only to Superboy-Prime when it comes to raw power.

Superman's older cousin, Kara Zor-El survived the destruction of Krypton thanks to her father, Zor-El, putting a protective force-field around Argo City that sent it hurtling into space. However, the citizens of Argo came under attack from the evil alien Brainiac, so before they were conquered, Zor-El and his wife Alura placed their daughter in a spaceship and sent her to Earth where she care for her young cousin Kal-El.

* ShoutOut/CanonImmigrant: Her second costume is based on her {{DCAU}} counterpart's.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Wonder Girl in the TeenTitans. They nearly kissed in ''Supergirl: Identity''.

!Kara Zor-El (Pre Crisis)

!Matrix

!Linda Danvers

!Ariella Kent

* ComboPlatterPowers
* CloudCuckooLander
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Understatement.
* EnfanteTerrible: How everyone else views her, as this six-year-old is too naive and innocent to realize that she destroys everything around her whenever she moves.
* GooGooGodlike: Comes with being the daughter of Linda Danvers and an alternate Superman. She is most likely second only to Superboy-Prime when it comes to raw power.
* NightmareFuel: In-universe.
* PsychicPowers
* RandomTeleportation: How she explores the cosmos.
* RedBaron: Supergirl 1,000,000 and R'E'L The Destroyer of Worlds.
* TimeTravel
* ToyShip: With Klarion ''BUM BUM BUM'' The Witch Boy.
* WalkingTheEarth: Walking ''the multiverse''.

!Cir-El

!Kara Zor-El (PostCrisis)

!Cosmic Adventures Supergirl

At first acting as Superman's "secret weapon" while she developed her powers in secret under the assumed name of Linda Lee Danvers, Supergirl eventually burst onto the superhero scent as the Maid of Might. She had a long and illustrious career fighting evil--she became best friends with fellow superheroine {{Batgirl}}, became a member of the LegionOfSuperHeroes (and struck up a romance with Brainiac 5), and even saved her parents from the past and helped them found New Krypton on the distant planet of Rokyn. She gained her own sidekicks in the form of Streaky the Super-Cat and Comet the Super-Horse.

* InterspeciesRomance: With [[LegionOfSuperHeroes Brainiac 5]].

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: MarkWaid was the first to make her a likable character in ''Supergirl and the LegionOfSuperHeroes'', but it was Sterling Gates who seems to have made it permanent in her main series.

* FlyingBrick: Even moreso than Superman.

* MsFanservice: To a vomitous point at first, especially considering she was underage. This was thankfully later dropped.