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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In ''Supergirl #24'', after reading Cat Grant's slander, Kara wonders if that woman may be right and [[http://s179.photobucket.com/user/airhikec001/media/blog/comics/pages/Supergirl34_worthy.jpg.html she is worthy of the S-shield]]. [[http://s179.photobucket.com/user/airhikec001/media/blog/comics/pages/Supergirl34_coffeegrin.jpg.html Superman's reply is automatic]]:
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In ''Supergirl #24'', #34'', after reading Cat Grant's slander, Kara wonders if that woman may be right and [[http://s179.photobucket.com/user/airhikec001/media/blog/comics/pages/Supergirl34_worthy.jpg.html she is worthy of the S-shield]]. [[http://s179.photobucket.com/user/airhikec001/media/blog/comics/pages/Supergirl34_coffeegrin.jpg.html Superman's reply is automatic]]:
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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
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* CombatPragmatist:
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** In ''Way of the World'', Supergirl comes upon Clayface. Kara lets him have a couple of blows before showing him she isn't giving him a fair fight by freezing him solid, flying him to the edge of the atmosphere and letting go.
--->'''Supergirl:''' I'm sorry, but you seem confused. Just 'cuz I let you land a few easy blows— that '''doesn't''' mean we're having a '''fair''' fight!
** A few issues later, Silver Banshee challenges Kara. Kara drops a truck on Banshee.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** In ''Way of the World'', Supergirl comes upon Clayface. Kara lets him have a couple of blows before showing him she isn't giving him a fair fight by freezing him solid, flying him to the edge of the atmosphere and letting go.
--->'''Supergirl:''' I'm sorry, but you seem confused. Just 'cuz I let you land a few easy blows— that '''doesn't''' mean we're having a '''fair''' fight!
** A few issues later, Silver Banshee challenges Kara. Kara drops a truck on Banshee.
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* ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon: In "Who Is Superwoman" Reactron has nullified Supergirl's powers but she's pretty good of a fighter to drive him back. Still she's armed with an iron rod and he's geared with energy blasters. So what do he does? Rushing towards Kara to fight her at close quarters.
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* ThatWasNotADream: During ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'', Kara was struck by an altered zeta-beam, disappeared and re-appeared in the 31st century. Upon her arrival, she concluded that she was "dreaming" the Legion and that the 31st century wasn't real. She thought she was dreaming for several chapters.
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* ThatWasNotADream: During ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'', Kara was ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Supergirl is struck by an altered zeta-beam, disappeared and re-appeared zeta-beam which makes her re-appear in the 31st century. Upon her arrival, she concluded Kara is so confused that she was "dreaming" concludes that her life since she left Kyrpton has all been a dream, and she continues believing it's all a dream for several weeks. In ''Supergirl and the Legion Of Super-Heroes'' issue #23 she wakes up, finds herself in a Kryptonian city and believes her dream is finally over... until she runs into her friends Legionnaires and remembers they knocked her out and took her to Kandor. The shock makes her snap out of her dellusion.
-->'''Supergirl:''' All thatthe 31st century stuff in my head about Krypton blowing '''up'''... mom and '''dad''' and... '''everything'''... '''gone'''... it really wasn't real. She thought she was dreaming for several chapters.a '''dream'''.
-->'''Supergirl:''' All that
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* TookALevelInCynic: In "Way of the World", Supergirl fights Aftermath, a villain who used to be a normal person who thought there were good and bad people and bad things only happened to bad people. Then he got crippled [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman when Superman fought Doomsday]], and decided his outlook was a lie and his duty was bring the so-called heroes down.
-->'''Aftermath:''' Once upon a time the world was simple. There were heroes and there were villains and bad thins only happened to bad people. And then Doomsday came. "Luckily", I survived the attack, but by then I'd come to realize-- that sometimes the bad can even afflict the good. And that while we may believe in heroes, there really is no such thing. But why couldn't everyone else see that?
-->'''Aftermath:''' Once upon a time the world was simple. There were heroes and there were villains and bad thins only happened to bad people. And then Doomsday came. "Luckily", I survived the attack, but by then I'd come to realize-- that sometimes the bad can even afflict the good. And that while we may believe in heroes, there really is no such thing. But why couldn't everyone else see that?
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* AnAssKickingChristmas:
** In ''Day of the Dollmaker'', Supergirl is trying to find a child kidnapper at Christmas Eve. With no concrete leads, she combs Metropolis, beating and interrogating every criminal and super-villain she meets until she manages to catch and beat down the kidnapper.
** In the ''DC Universe Holiday Special 2008: A Day Without Sirens'', Kara Zor-El and [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]] team-up to gift Gotham City a crime-free Christmas.
** In ''Day of the Dollmaker'', Supergirl is trying to find a child kidnapper at Christmas Eve. With no concrete leads, she combs Metropolis, beating and interrogating every criminal and super-villain she meets until she manages to catch and beat down the kidnapper.
** In the ''DC Universe Holiday Special 2008: A Day Without Sirens'', Kara Zor-El and [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]] team-up to gift Gotham City a crime-free Christmas.
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* TearsOfRemorse: Kara cried when a bystander accused her from shooting the Air Force One down during ''Amazons Attack''.
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* TearsOfRemorse: Kara cried when a bystander accused her from shooting TearsOfRemorse:
** In issue #20 Supergirl gets tricked into hijacking the Air Force Onedown during ''Amazons Attack''.(long story), only later realizing it was a spectacularly bad idea. Later she cries when she apologizes to a man who is worried about his wife being on the plane.
** In ''New Krypton'', Supergirl captures and takes Reactron to New Krypton so he gets trialed, unaware that ComicBook/LexLuthor has turned him into a ticking bomb able to blow the planet up... which he does. In the aftermath of the destruction Supergirl blames herself -even though she couldn't have known- and cries.
** In issue #20 Supergirl gets tricked into hijacking the Air Force One
** In ''New Krypton'', Supergirl captures and takes Reactron to New Krypton so he gets trialed, unaware that ComicBook/LexLuthor has turned him into a ticking bomb able to blow the planet up... which he does. In the aftermath of the destruction Supergirl blames herself -even though she couldn't have known- and cries.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Subverted. In the final arc, Supergirl has to fight a swarm of rat bots. She isn't afraid of them, but since she's been fighting evil robots and robot-mooks for weeks she's sick of them.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Robots... Why... did it have to be... robots?
-->'''Supergirl:''' Robots... Why... did it have to be... robots?
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
** Kara Zor-El spent three decades trapped inside a space pod in suspended animation. She gets frightened or mad when she's stuck inside a tight, dark space. In ''Girl Power'' she explains this to Raven.
--->'''Supergirl:''' You shouldn't have done that. Don't '''ever''' put me in '''the dark'''. Closed in. It's like I told Superboy. I can't handle it.
** Subverted. In the final arc, Supergirl has to fight a swarm of rat bots. She isn't afraid of them, but since she's been fighting evil robots and robot-mooks for weeks she's sick of them.
-->'''Supergirl:''' --->'''Supergirl:''' Robots... Why... did it have to be... robots?
** Kara Zor-El spent three decades trapped inside a space pod in suspended animation. She gets frightened or mad when she's stuck inside a tight, dark space. In ''Girl Power'' she explains this to Raven.
--->'''Supergirl:''' You shouldn't have done that. Don't '''ever''' put me in '''the dark'''. Closed in. It's like I told Superboy. I can't handle it.
** Subverted. In the final arc, Supergirl has to fight a swarm of rat bots. She isn't afraid of them, but since she's been fighting evil robots and robot-mooks for weeks she's sick of them.
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* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Post-Crisis Kara is frightened of Power Girl because their powers go into overdrive when they touch... and because she turned on Karen temporarily. She apologized later on, but Karen turned her apology down.
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* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Post-Crisis Kara is frightened of Power Girl because rather disliked Supergirl for several reasons: she felt Kara's existence made hers redundant, their powers go into overdrive went haywire when they touch... got closer, and because she turned on Karen temporarily. She apologized later on, but Karen turned her apology down.Kara's early bratty attitude. Although Kara attempted to make amends, they hardly got along.
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* MirrorMatch: Kara is often a victim of this. In ''Girl Power'' Supergirl fights Power Girl and later Dark Supergirl, and in ''Bizarrogirl'' she confronts her Bizarro clone.
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* MindControlEyes: In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #77'', Kara gets glowing red eyes when she is under the influence of Scarecrow's fear toxin.
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* MindControlEyes: MindControlEyes:
** In issue #33, Kara's eyes give off a purple glow as she's under a mind-controlling spell.
** In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #77'', Kara gets glowing red eyes when she is under the influence of Scarecrow's fear toxin.
** In issue #33, Kara's eyes give off a purple glow as she's under a mind-controlling spell.
** In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #77'', Kara gets glowing red eyes when she is under the influence of Scarecrow's fear toxin.
-->Whatever you thought was going on, Cassie-- '''wasn't'''. I came looking for someone I could '''talk''' to.
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* ModestyShorts: Added to her costume from late 2009 until her costume change for the New 52 reboot. According to the artist Jamal Igle, “At the first meeting I had with [Matt Idleson, the editor] after I got the book, he said, ‘I never want to see Supergirl’s panties again'."
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* ModestyShorts: Added to her costume from late 2009 2008 until her costume change for the New 52 reboot. According to the artist Jamal Igle, “At the first meeting I had with [Matt Idleson, the editor] after I got the book, he said, ‘I never want to see Supergirl’s panties again'."
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* MusclesAreMeaningless: When Kara returned in 2004, she looked like a slender, sixteen-year-old... who could bench-press airplanes, lift mountains and outrun ''light''. Writers were easily able to tease the fan base with the idea that teenager might be stronger than her full grown powerfully built cousin Superman. Turns out, he just holds himself back [[WorldofCardboardSpeech due to living his whole life in a world made of cardboard]]. However one of the teases was correct: she can fly faster owing to her smaller size.
* MustMakeAmends: In issue #20 Kara decides to turn over a new leaf and apologize to everyone for her jerkass behavior. That was the first step to become the hero Supergirl is meant to be.
* MustMakeAmends: In issue #20 Kara decides to turn over a new leaf and apologize to everyone for her jerkass behavior. That was the first step to become the hero Supergirl is meant to be.
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* MusclesAreMeaningless: When Kara returned in 2004, she looked like a slender, sixteen-year-old... who could bench-press airplanes, lift mountains and outrun ''light''. Writers were easily able to tease the fan base with the idea that teenager might be stronger than her full grown powerfully built cousin Superman. Turns out, he just holds himself back [[WorldofCardboardSpeech due to living his whole life in a world made of cardboard]]. However one of the teases was correct: she can fly faster owing to her smaller size.
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* MustMakeAmends: In issue#20 #19 Kara decides to turn over a new leaf and apologize to everyone for her jerkass behavior. That was the first step to become the hero Supergirl is meant to be.
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* HeelRealization: In issue #20 Kara realizes she has been a jerkass after beating Dark Angel's trial.
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* HeelRealization: In issue #20 ''Supergirl: Identity'' Kara realizes she has been Zor-El was acting like a jerkass after beating for a while (partially because of Kryptonite poisoning and because of Dark Angel's trial.Angel who was attempting to break her). After getting rid of Dark Angel in issue #19, Kara reflected on her past behavior and realized she needed to change for better.
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* FalseFlagOperation: In ''The Hunt for Reactron'', Reactron and Metallo magically disguise themselves as Supergirl's friend Thara Ak-Var -Flamebird- and attempt to kill her. As Supergirl seeks and attacks the real Flamebird and Nightwing, Metallo and Reactron attack and appear to kill Mon-El in front of a multitude disguised as Supergirl, Nightwing and Flamebird so people blame his murder on the heroes.
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* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Kara's parents sent her to Earth to escape from the shrinking of Kandor and look after her baby cousin, and she eventually became one of the greatest heroes of Earth.
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* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Kara's parents sent her to Earth to escape from the shrinking of Kandor and look after her baby cousin, and she eventually became one of the greatest heroes of Earth. In issue #30, a Jor-El hologram states that even though his son will not remember Krypton, Kara will do, and they'll live through her.
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* FreudianExcuse: In the ''Day of the Dollmaker'' arc, Lana explains Supergirl that Cat Grant is a very unpleasant woman because her son's murder changed her.
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* FreudianExcuse: Catherine Grant spends one whole year smearing Supergirl's reputation and endeavouring to drive her out of Metropolis through her slandering pieces. In the ''Day of the Dollmaker'' arc, Lana explains Supergirl that Cat Grant is a very unpleasant woman because her son's murder changed her.her.
-->'''Lana Lang''': You've got to understand, Kara, Cat's been to '''Hell''' and back with Toyman. You didn't know Cat before her son was killed. She was a '''different''' woman back then. Heck, we all were. [...] Her son Adam was killed rescuing a group of children who were kidnapped by one of Toyman's malfunctioning robots. The robot cut his throat. Cat '''changed''' after that. She didn't '''grieve'''. Instead, she turned '''hard'''. She moved to L.A. and started writing for '''tabloids''', tearing down anyone she could. The more teen stars and starlets she saw parading around town, the angrier and angrier her writing became. [...] Clark thinks Cat became angry that those teens were still alive to make messes of their lives... and her son '''wasn't'''.
-->'''Lana Lang''': You've got to understand, Kara, Cat's been to '''Hell''' and back with Toyman. You didn't know Cat before her son was killed. She was a '''different''' woman back then. Heck, we all were. [...] Her son Adam was killed rescuing a group of children who were kidnapped by one of Toyman's malfunctioning robots. The robot cut his throat. Cat '''changed''' after that. She didn't '''grieve'''. Instead, she turned '''hard'''. She moved to L.A. and started writing for '''tabloids''', tearing down anyone she could. The more teen stars and starlets she saw parading around town, the angrier and angrier her writing became. [...] Clark thinks Cat became angry that those teens were still alive to make messes of their lives... and her son '''wasn't'''.
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* AnatomyOfTheSoul: Several Supergirl's enemies are pieces of her soul, her spirit or emotions given physical shape by magic or Kryptonite. Dark Supergirl is born from her self-loathing and SurvivorGuilt.
-->'''ComicBook/{{Starfire}}''': Listen. When Luthor flew off-- I was pretty out of it, but I thought '''you''' went after him.\\
'''Supergirl:''' I '''did'''. In a way. But it wasn't '''me'''. And it's not a '''good''' thing.\\
'''Starfire:''' What? Like an evil twin?\\
'''Supergirl:''' I... don't know. More like it was part of me.\\
'''Starfire:''' I have a sister. They call her '''Blackfire'''. I feel like I'm responsible for '''every''' bad thing she does.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Yeah, well, in '''this''' case... I think I am.\\
'''Starfire:''' Do you know where this... "she" is?\\
'''Supergirl:''' I do. She's been in my head... Maybe... '''All my life'''.\\
'''Starfire:''' And now? How do you feel having her out?\\
'''Supergirl:''' The truth...? Relieved.
'''Supergirl:''' I '''did'''. In a way. But it wasn't '''me'''. And it's not a '''good''' thing.\\
'''Starfire:''' What? Like an evil twin?\\
'''Supergirl:''' I... don't know. More like it was part of me.\\
'''Starfire:''' I have a sister. They call her '''Blackfire'''. I feel like I'm responsible for '''every''' bad thing she does.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Yeah, well, in '''this''' case... I think I am.\\
'''Starfire:''' Do you know where this... "she" is?\\
'''Supergirl:''' I do. She's been in my head... Maybe... '''All my life'''.\\
'''Starfire:''' And now? How do you feel having her out?\\
'''Supergirl:''' The truth...? Relieved.
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** The first time happens in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman'' #12, when she is [[BrainwashedAndCrazy captured by Darkseid and turned into one of his Furies]]. This was very brief, but during that time she wore, essentially, skintight red-and-black pants and a black bra.
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** The first time happens in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman'' #12, ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', when she is [[BrainwashedAndCrazy captured by Darkseid and turned into one of his Furies]]. This was very brief, but during that time she wore, essentially, skintight red-and-black pants and a black bra.
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** In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman Annual #5'', Supergirl is glad to fight Doomsday, the abomination who slew her cousin.
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** In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman ''Superman/Batman Annual #5'', Supergirl is glad to fight Doomsday, the abomination who slew her cousin.
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* MistakenForProstitute: In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #8'', a naked Kara wanders confused into an alley, having just woken up from her rocket, and is spotted by three workers. One of them mistakes her for a prostitute and decides to play Lothario only to have his hand crushed and be slammed through a wall. The second tries to help his friend. The third wisely proclaims he's not with the other two and offers her his coat.
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* MistakenForProstitute: In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #8'', ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', a naked Kara wanders confused into an alley, having just woken up from her rocket, and is spotted by three workers. One of them mistakes her for a prostitute and decides to play Lothario only to have his hand crushed and be slammed through a wall. The second tries to help his friend. The third wisely proclaims he's not with the other two and offers her his coat.
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** This is even part of Kara’s introduction in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #8''. Some guy crashes onto Kara as she roams the streets of Gotham aimlessly just after her crash-landing.
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** This is even part of Kara’s introduction in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman ''Superman/Batman #8''. Some guy crashes onto Kara as she roams the streets of Gotham aimlessly just after her crash-landing.
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** During one of his first fights against Reactron, she pulls a man out of a building at super-speed and accidentally breaks his arm in three different places.
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** During one of his her first fights against Reactron, she pulls a man out of a building at super-speed and accidentally breaks his arm in three different places.
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* EvilCounterpart:
** Dark Supergirl is a nasty, malevolent and violent EvilTwin created by exposure to black Kryptonite.
** Superwoman (Lucy Lane) is another female with super-powers and complicated family issues. Nonetheless, she's an human with a super-powerful costume, whereas Supergirl is a Kryptonian with natural-born powers. And even though Supergirl stands up to her mother when she crosses one line, Superwoman would make anything to earn her father's approval, no matter how atrocious.
** Bizarro-Girl is Supergirl's imperfect clone. She's more of a backwards loony with a warped sense of morality than an evil twin, though.
** Dark Supergirl is a nasty, malevolent and violent EvilTwin created by exposure to black Kryptonite.
** Superwoman (Lucy Lane) is another female with super-powers and complicated family issues. Nonetheless, she's an human with a super-powerful costume, whereas Supergirl is a Kryptonian with natural-born powers. And even though Supergirl stands up to her mother when she crosses one line, Superwoman would make anything to earn her father's approval, no matter how atrocious.
** Bizarro-Girl is Supergirl's imperfect clone. She's more of a backwards loony with a warped sense of morality than an evil twin, though.
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* CrystalPrison: After capturing Reactron, Supergirl and Flamebird shrank him and put inside a crystal shard in order to transport him to New Krypton where he would be trialed.
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* AlienAmongUs: This is the case for Supergirl, who came to Earth as a teenager rather than being raised here as her cousin.
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* AlienAmongUs: This is Subverted. At the case for Supergirl, who came to beginning, Supergirl feels she doesn't understand Earth as a teenager rather than or Terrans and she doesn't fully fit in. But then ''[[ComicBook/SupermanBrainiac she and Superman rescue]]'' ''[[ComicBook/NewKrypton Kandor]]'' and Kara finds she doesn't fit in with Kryptonians anymore either because she got used to think and act like an Earth woman.
-->'''ComicBook/LanaLang:''' So what's it like over there?\\
'''Supergirl:''' On New Krypton? It's... different. Our people are happy there. The planet itself is beautiful, too, but... It's weird, but beingraised here as her cousin.around other Kryptonians like my mother, I'm really starting to feel... well...\\
'''Lana:''' Alien?\\
'''Supergirl:''' Some of them are so different from humans, Lana. They think differently, they speak differently, they... react differently. I've been on Earth so long, it's been hard for me to fall back into being "just another Kryptonian".
-->'''ComicBook/LanaLang:''' So what's it like over there?\\
'''Supergirl:''' On New Krypton? It's... different. Our people are happy there. The planet itself is beautiful, too, but... It's weird, but being
'''Lana:''' Alien?\\
'''Supergirl:''' Some of them are so different from humans, Lana. They think differently, they speak differently, they... react differently. I've been on Earth so long, it's been hard for me to fall back into being "just another Kryptonian".
-->'''Lightning Lad:''' Hey, Kara, remember wyen you first showed up here, telling us all we were figments of your imagination?\\
'''Supergirl:''' Yeah. Sorry about that.\\
'''Lightning Lad:''' Well, now you really are dreaming.
'''Supergirl:''' Yeah. Sorry about that.\\
'''Lightning Lad:''' Well, now you really are dreaming.
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* ArchEnemy: ArchEnemy:
** Reactron. A lecherous, bullying thug, Benjamin Krullen craved for getting even at Kara because she had the gall to kick his butt when he attacked her without provocation. Over the course of both her solo series and the New Krypton crossover, the two clashed repeatedly, leading to Reactron's murder of Supergirl's father, her mother Alura's Cold-Blooded Torture of Reactron upon his capture, and the eventual destruction of New Krypton when Reactron blew up himself, the planet, and Kara's mother. For both of them the conflict was always personal. Needless to say, Supergirl hates him, and a hallucination looking like Reactron is enough to send her into a murderous rage.
** Superwomanduring the Sterling Gates issues.did aid and abet General Lane to destroy Krypton.
** Reactron. A lecherous, bullying thug, Benjamin Krullen craved for getting even at Kara because she had the gall to kick his butt when he attacked her without provocation. Over the course of both her solo series and the New Krypton crossover, the two clashed repeatedly, leading to Reactron's murder of Supergirl's father, her mother Alura's Cold-Blooded Torture of Reactron upon his capture, and the eventual destruction of New Krypton when Reactron blew up himself, the planet, and Kara's mother. For both of them the conflict was always personal. Needless to say, Supergirl hates him, and a hallucination looking like Reactron is enough to send her into a murderous rage.
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* CatapultNightmare: In ''Supergirl #32'' Kara does this after a bad dream in which she has been buried alive.
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** In ''Supergirl #32'' Kara does this after a bad dream in which she has been buriedalive.alive.
** And in issue #38 after having a nightmare where crowds of angry humans and Kryptonians demand her to choose a side.
** In ''Supergirl #32'' Kara does this after a bad dream in which she has been buried
** And in issue #38 after having a nightmare where crowds of angry humans and Kryptonians demand her to choose a side.
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* CynicismCatalyst: In ''Supergirl #33'', Kara meets Eddie Rose, a man who thought heroes and good things happened to good people... until he got crippled during ''[[Comicbook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday's rampage]]'' and decided that there were no heroes.
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* CynicismCatalyst: In ''Supergirl #33'', Kara meets Eddie Rose, "Aftermath", a man villain that used to be a normal person who thought believed heroes were real and good bad things only happened to good people... bad people until he got crippled during ''[[Comicbook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday's rampage]]'' ''[[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman the first battle between Superman and decided that Doomsday]]'' cost him his legs.
-->'''Aftermath:''' Once upon a time the world was simple. There were heroes and there were villains and bad things only happened to bad people. And then Doomsday came. "Luckily", I survived the attack, but by then I'd come to realize-- that sometimes the bad can even afflict the good. And that while we may believe in heroes, there really is noheroes.such thing.
-->'''Aftermath:''' Once upon a time the world was simple. There were heroes and there were villains and bad things only happened to bad people. And then Doomsday came. "Luckily", I survived the attack, but by then I'd come to realize-- that sometimes the bad can even afflict the good. And that while we may believe in heroes, there really is no
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* SupernaturallyYoungParent:In ''Supergirl #33'', Kara meets Empress, a teenager hero whose deceased parents were magically brought back life as kids.
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* SupernaturallyYoungParent:In ''Supergirl #33'', SupernaturallyYoungParent: In ''Way of the World'', Kara meets Empress, a teenager hero whose deceased parents were magically brought back life as kids.kids.
-->'''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}:''' Your parents... are '''WHAT?!?'''\\
'''Empress:''' It's a long story. But all you need to know is that they were brought back to life.\\
'''Supergirl:''' But as kids...?!?
-->'''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}:''' Your parents... are '''WHAT?!?'''\\
'''Empress:''' It's a long story. But all you need to know is that they were brought back to life.\\
'''Supergirl:''' But as kids...?!?
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: In ''Way of the World'', villain Aftermath wants to turn the public against super-humans because he thinks good people always gets screwed when they fight. So he kidnaps a couple to blackmail their daughter into putting a mind-control hex on ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, and he intends to mind-control Supergirl into causing mayhem until everybody hates her.
-->'''Aftermath:''' NO!!! I only did this to make them understand-- to make the world '''better'''.\\
'''Supergirl:''' I know. But that doesn't mean you're right.
-->'''Aftermath:''' NO!!! I only did this to make them understand-- to make the world '''better'''.\\
'''Supergirl:''' I know. But that doesn't mean you're right.
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* GraveMarkingScene: In "Way of the World", Supergirl visits the graves of the parents of a little child she was unable to save.
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* RiseFromYourGrave: Kara is seen rising from her grave in the [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/a/a1/Supergirl_v.5_28.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080818062145 cover]] of issue #28.
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* RiseFromYourGrave: Kara is seen rising from her grave in the [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/a/a1/Supergirl_v.5_28.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080818062145 cover]] of issue #28. Four issues later, Kara has a nightmare where she has to dig her way out of her grave.
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* TheGlassesComeOff: Supergirl wears glasses and adopts a geeky if snarky behavior when she is being Linda Lang, and she takes them off when she has to perform her hero duty.
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* RiseFromYourGrave: Kara is seen rising from her grave in the [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/a/a1/Supergirl_v.5_28.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080818062145 cover]] of issue #28.
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** In the third issue, Kara kisses Dick before flying away to face Luthor, since maybe she might not be able to do it later.
** In ''Supergirl #51'' Kara kisses Mon-El as he flies to Brainiac's ship.
** In ''Supergirl #51'' Kara kisses Mon-El as he flies to Brainiac's ship.
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** In the third issue, issue #3, Kara decides she'll confront Lex Luthor alone... but before leaving she impulsively kisses Dick before flying away to face Luthor, since maybe she Nightwing "because if half of what they've told me about Luthor is true... I might not be able to do it later.
later..."
**In ''Supergirl #51'' And in issue #51 Kara kisses Mon-El as he flies to towards Brainiac's ship.
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* DeclarationOfPersonalIndependence: Many, many times Kara tells her tremendously overprotective cousin that she can't learn from her mistakes unless he stops babying her, and she needs to stand on her own:
** In issue #0:
--->'''Supergirl:''' Thanks. I'm sure there were a few times, particularly out there on the street, when you wanted to fly in-- but you let me handle it. It's the only way I'm going to learn, Kal.
** Later, in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #850:
--->'''Supergirl:''' And next time, let me fight my own battles. I could've taken her, if you hadn't come in all Papa Bear at her. I swear, you treat me like a four-year-old...
** In ''ComicBook/Supergirl2005'' issue #22, he's finally gotten the message:
--->'''Superman:''' Look, a lot has happened in the last few days, and I need to tell you--\\
'''Supergirl:''' You know something, Kal? I've been dreading this talk for days.\\
'''Superman:''' Kara--\\
'''Supergirl:''' No, listen to me. I have to say: I know you love me, and that's why you feel a need to act like my big brother or my dad-- but you're neither one! I'm capable of recognizing my own mistakes, Kal! I don't need my nose rubbed in them! Maybe I'm not perfect like you--\\
'''Superman:''' Hey, I'm not--\\
'''Supergirl:''' Maybe I need to learn things the hard way. But I am learning! I want to be a family with you and uncle Jon and aunt Martha, but I don't need your... validation! I can get by on my own terms, and I'm doing fine, and--\\
'''Superman:''' I know.\\
** In issue #0:
--->'''Supergirl:''' Thanks. I'm sure there were a few times, particularly out there on the street, when you wanted to fly in-- but you let me handle it. It's the only way I'm going to learn, Kal.
** Later, in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #850:
--->'''Supergirl:''' And next time, let me fight my own battles. I could've taken her, if you hadn't come in all Papa Bear at her. I swear, you treat me like a four-year-old...
** In ''ComicBook/Supergirl2005'' issue #22, he's finally gotten the message:
--->'''Superman:''' Look, a lot has happened in the last few days, and I need to tell you--\\
'''Supergirl:''' You know something, Kal? I've been dreading this talk for days.\\
'''Superman:''' Kara--\\
'''Supergirl:''' No, listen to me. I have to say: I know you love me, and that's why you feel a need to act like my big brother or my dad-- but you're neither one! I'm capable of recognizing my own mistakes, Kal! I don't need my nose rubbed in them! Maybe I'm not perfect like you--\\
'''Superman:''' Hey, I'm not--\\
'''Supergirl:''' Maybe I need to learn things the hard way. But I am learning! I want to be a family with you and uncle Jon and aunt Martha, but I don't need your... validation! I can get by on my own terms, and I'm doing fine, and--\\
'''Superman:''' I know.\\
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* FirstKiss: In issue #0, Supergirl runs into Poison Ivy, and the villain forcefully kisses Kara to put her under mind-control. After pushing Ivy back, Supergirl notes that was her -very weird- first kiss.
-->'''Batgirl:''' That was weird.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Sure was. Especially for my first kiss.
-->'''Batgirl:''' That was weird.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Sure was. Especially for my first kiss.
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: During ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'' she was accidentally sent to the XXXth Century and joined the Legion. She was so confused that in the beginning she thought she was dreaming.
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: During ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'' she was accidentally sent to the XXXth 31st Century and joined the Legion. She was so confused that in the beginning she thought she was dreaming.
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** In '' Comicbook/SupermanBatman'' #19 -later reprinted as ''Supergirl Vol 5'' #0, Supergirl runs into Comicbook/PoisonIvy, and the super-villain plants a kiss on Supergirl's lips to poison her.
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** In '' Comicbook/SupermanBatman'' ''Superman Batman'' #19 -later reprinted as ''Supergirl Vol 5'' #0, Poison Ivy forcefully kisses Supergirl runs into Comicbook/PoisonIvy, and the super-villain plants a kiss on Supergirl's to impregnate her lips to poison her.in some kind of mind-controlling poison. In reaction, Kara pushes her back angrily.
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* TakingTheBullet: In issue #0, Supergirl does this for Batgirl when Poison Ivy mind-controls several cops into shooting her friend.
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: In ''Good-Looking Corpse'', Kara investigates an abandoned clandestine research facility and finds several Kryptonian bodies that have been experimented on.
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* MyParentsAreDead: In "Death and the Family", Kara -in her civilian identity Linda Lang- is told her "aunt" ''ComicBook/LanaLang'' has passed away. When a doctor asks about the rest of her family, she sobs they aren't around anymore.
-->'''Doctor:''' --Are counselors on staff if you'd like to talk to someone, and I'm sure the rest of your family is worried about you--\\
'''Linda:''' No. They're not around. Lana is... was my family here. I have no one else right now.
-->'''Doctor:''' --Are counselors on staff if you'd like to talk to someone, and I'm sure the rest of your family is worried about you--\\
'''Linda:''' No. They're not around. Lana is... was my family here. I have no one else right now.
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: During the Joe Kelly's run, Supergirl gained the ability to grow sharp glass shards from her body. Since it was too stupid and out of nowhere, it suffered the fate of everything what came from that run: it was explained away quickly (Kryptonite poisoning caused her blood to crystallize in the oxygen when she was cut) and never mentioned again.
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: NewPowersAsThePlotDemands:
** During the Joe Kelly's run, Supergirl gained the ability to grow sharp glass shards from her body. Since it was too stupid and out of nowhere, it suffered the fate of everything what came from that run: it was explained away quickly (Kryptonite poisoning caused her blood to crystallize in the oxygen when she was cut) and never mentionedagain.again.
** Parodied in issue #29 during the "Way of the World" arc. Kara fights a villain that at one point brags about his new powers:
--->'''Luzano:''' The same technology that merely repairs Shelley's body is capable of so much more! Hyper-Strength! Hyper-Speed! Plasmagenesis! Yes, that's a word! Hyper-sensual perception!\\
'''Supergirl:''' (incredulous) "Hyper-sensual"?
** During the Joe Kelly's run, Supergirl gained the ability to grow sharp glass shards from her body. Since it was too stupid and out of nowhere, it suffered the fate of everything what came from that run: it was explained away quickly (Kryptonite poisoning caused her blood to crystallize in the oxygen when she was cut) and never mentioned
** Parodied in issue #29 during the "Way of the World" arc. Kara fights a villain that at one point brags about his new powers:
--->'''Luzano:''' The same technology that merely repairs Shelley's body is capable of so much more! Hyper-Strength! Hyper-Speed! Plasmagenesis! Yes, that's a word! Hyper-sensual perception!\\
'''Supergirl:''' (incredulous) "Hyper-sensual"?
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* HostageSituation: In the first Annual, a bank full of people are taken hostage, and Supergirl has to slip into the building and take the bank robbers down without letting anybody spot her.
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* JustToyingWithThem: In story arc "Way of the World", Kara runs into Clayface. She lets the mud monster hit her for a bit before disabusing him of any notion he's a match for her (Kara freezes him solid, flies him way, WAY up and lets him drop).
-->'''Supergirl:''' I'm sorry, but you seem confused. Just 'cuz I let you land a few easy blows-- that '''doesn't''' mean we're having a fair fight!\\
'''Clayface:''' Wh-- What are you... d-doing...?\\
'''Supergirl:''' To call you "lame" and "ever so slightly beneath me" would be the understatement of the century. But it's been a bad few weeks. A shame you just happened to be the whipping boy I was looking for.
-->'''Supergirl:''' I'm sorry, but you seem confused. Just 'cuz I let you land a few easy blows-- that '''doesn't''' mean we're having a fair fight!\\
'''Clayface:''' Wh-- What are you... d-doing...?\\
'''Supergirl:''' To call you "lame" and "ever so slightly beneath me" would be the understatement of the century. But it's been a bad few weeks. A shame you just happened to be the whipping boy I was looking for.
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->'''Supergirl:''' No, listen to me. I have to say: I know you love me, and that's why you feel a need to act like my big brother or my dad... But you're neither one! I'm capable of recognizing my own mistakes, Kal! I don't need my nose rubbed in them! Maybe I'm not perfect like you--\\
'''Superman:''' Hey, I'm not--\\
'''Supergirl:''' Maybe I need learn things the hard way. But I am learning! I want to be a family with you and Uncle Jon and Aunt Martha, but I don't need your... validation! I can get by on my own terms, and I'm doing just fine, and--\\
'''Superman:''' I know.
''Supergirl 2005'' or Supergirl Vol 5 is fifth’s Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} self-named book which began publication in October of 2005, spanning 67 issues and 2 annuals. This series features the modern Kryptonian Supergirl, Kara Zor-El, who first appeared in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman'' storyline ''The Supergirl From Krypton''.
After arriving on Earth and being saved from ''Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}'' by Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, Kara Zor-El tries to adapt to her new home. Unfortunately, she unknowingly suffers from Kryptonite poisoning which alters her behavior dramatically and turns her into a very erratic, unstable and unpleasant person for one whole year, in addition to plague her with horrible nightmares and bad memories.
After recovering from her sickness, Kara sets to clearing their name, reconnecting with her cousin and her new family, rebuilding previously-burned bridges with other heroes and learning how to be a hero herself. However ''[[Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac the coming of]]'' ''Comicbook/{{Brainiac}}'', the rescue of Kandor, the return of her parents and the rise and downfall of ''Comicbook/NewKrypton'' will make her life harder.
Sterling Gates and Jamal Igle’s creative team took over story and art duties respectively in issue #34. Their run -''Supergirl #34-59''- is regarded as one of the best runs of the character. It clocked in at #69 on The Hollywood Reporter's 100 Best Super-Heroes Comic-Books [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/superhero-comic-books-100-best-934371/item/supergirl-by-sterling-gates-jamal-934858 List]]. Creator/MarkWaid’s ''Supergirl and the Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes #16-36'' run is also considered excellent.
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!!''Supergirl (2005)'' provides examples of:
* ActuallyADoombot: Toyman's robots look like real human beings and they are capable of deceive even Kara's XRayVision. In "Day of the Dollmaker" Kara invokes the trope when she warns Toyman that he will answer her questions lest she believes he is a robot and tears him apart to verify it.
-->'''Supergirl:''' And how do we know you're even the real Winslow Schott? I've seen one of your robots before -- no, two of them. One here in Gotham, the other on New Krypton. And that one had a part in my world's destruction. A small part, sure, but an important one. Your work is very well made. Impossible to tell apart from real, live human beings, even with my X-Ray vision. So please. Answer Ms. Grant's questions, or else another outburst like that will lead me to believe you're one of Schott's automatons... and I'll start probing to make sure you're real.
* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength:
** Kara is more hot-headed and more short-tempered than her cousin, but she is also frightened of her own power and she holds back most of time because she doesn't want hurt anybody.
** In the first arc, Clark makes clear that she ''appears'' to be more powerful than him because he is ''always'' holding back.
* AlasPoorYorick: In the cover of issue #47, Alura does this with Reactron's helmet.
* AlienAmongUs: This is the case for Supergirl, who came to Earth as a teenager rather than being raised here as her cousin.
* AllJustADream: In ''Supergirl #22'' after getting hit with a train engine, Supergirl sees herself surrounded by her friends of the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. She's happy until Lightning Lad tells her that she is dreaming.
* AmnesiacDissonance: Subverted. Kara suffered from amnesia when her rocket landed on Earth, and for a while she wondered whether she was a good girl or an evil girl pretending to be good. Eventually she remembered everything [[spoiler:and it turned out that she was really a good girl]].
* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Subverted. Kara is a pretty innocent, naive, scared teenager that cannot remember anything of her past. Batman suspects that her innocence may be an act, especially after Comicbook/{{Darkseid}} kidnaps her and brainwashes her. After being rescued Kara also wonders what kind of person she was. When some of her memories appear to return, they are pretty terrible and she believes she was a bad person before losing her memory. However, [[spoiler:she eventually got her real memories back, which proved she was always a good, well-meaning girl]].
* AntiTrueSight:
** In the "Way of the World" arc, Supergirl broke into a federal detention center and made off with an inmate who could help her save Thomas. As they were standing in a secret lab, she lined the ceiling with lead sheets so Superman would not find them.
** In ''Supergirl #23'' someone has sent a sound-proofed, lead-lined gift box to Kara. Since her SuperSenses cannot scan it, she opens it. It was actually a Batman's test, who calls her and admonishes her for opening it.
* ARareSentence: When Kara and Steph are about to fight a sobbing Dracula (long story).
-->'''Batgirl:''' Nothing sadder than a crying Dracula.\\
'''Supergirl:''' If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that...\\
'''Batgirl:''' You'd have a nickel?\\
'''Supergirl:''' I'd have a nickel.
* ArchEnemy: Reactron and Superwoman during the Sterling Gates issues.
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: During the events of the reviled ''Comicbook/AmazonsAttack'' storyline, in where the Amazons went to war against the US, Supergirl and Wonder Girl suddenly come up with a "brilliant" plan to end the war: kidnapping the President and bringing him to Queen Hyppolita to engage in peace talks with her. Predictably, their plan went awry and their reputations suffered a severe blow because the Amazons shot the Air Force One down and almost killed the President. After fending off an Amazon squad, Kara flies to New York to help, although Cassie reminds her that acting without thinking got them into that mess.
-->'''Wonder Girl:''' But we were only trying to--\\
'''Supergirl:''' Doesn't matter. I have to make up for this somehow, before it's too late. I have to balance the scales.\\
'''Wonder Girl:''' How? By flying off half-cocked again, after what we just did...?\\
'''Supergirl:''' I can't do nothing, Cassie!
* BadassBoast: In ''Supergirl #60'' some kind of portal opens up in front of Kara, and Parasite, Silver Banshee, Metallo and the Kryptonite Man step through it. Kara's reaction?
-->'''Supergirl:''' I hope you don't think you're going to win.
* BareYourMidriff: [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/0/03/Supergirl_Vol_5_54_Virgin.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100513211832 Post-Crisis Supergirl]] wears a midriff-baring shirt. Cat Grant often mocked her by wearing outdated clothes.
* BashBrothers: In this instance, Bash Cousins: Superman and Supergirl.
* BatmanGambit: Superman punches both Supergirl and evil Supergirl, assuming that his real cousin will not retaliate. His plan doesn't work because ''both girls'' fight back.
* BattleBoomerang: Used by Boomer during the Joe Kelly's run.
* BattleCouple:
** Chris Kent -Nightwing- and Thara Ak-Var -Flamebird-.
** Supergirl and Brainiac-5.
* BeamOWar: Due to a temporal misunderstanding, Supergirl and Comicbook/{{Superboy}} engage in an EyeBeam duel during their first meeting. Kara wins by getting enough close to punch Conner.
* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: Kara does this to Lana in order to free her from Insect Queen's control.
* BeautifulAllAlong: In her Linda Lang SecretIdentity, Kara braids her hair and wears glasses in order to look like an inconspicuous, average, geeky girl.
* BeingWatched: In ''Supergirl #0'', Kara is flying back to Earth when she realizes she is being spied via satellite.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Defied. Supergirl frequently and openly mocks her friend Thara's belief in the Kryptonian gods and treats her as a loony who believes she is Flamebird's incarnation. When it is revealed that Thara IS Flamebird, Kara apologizes and feels happy, because if their gods are real, then her deceased father is in a better place.
* BewareTheNiceOnes In ''Supergirl #33'', Kara flew Clayface up to the edge of the atmosphere and dropped him after he got her pissed off.
* BigWhat: In the second Annual, Supergirl has this reaction when she finds out that Brainiac 5 accidentally created a super-bomb while analyzing a mystical statue.
-->'''Brainiac 5:''' It’s a ten-thousand-year-old Brocian hunting statue! Rumored by natives to have "magical" properties when struck by lightning, so I was analyzing its reception to other kinds of energy!\\
'''Supergirl:''' Okay! So what did you hit it with?\\
'''Brainiac-5:''' Uh, I opened the timestream and bombarded it with chronon energy.\\
'''Supergirl:''' WHAT?\\
'''Brainiac-5:''' Obviously that wasn't the best of my ideas!\\
'''Supergirl:''' So what's it doing now?\\
'''Brainiac-5:''' Based on my readings, I'm pretty sure I just created a magical time bomb. And if my calculations are correct, we've got less than four seconds to live.
* {{Blackmail}}: In the ''Day of the Dollmaker'' arc, Cat Grant blackmails Lana into getting Supergirl to help her interrogate Toyman and find several kidnapped children.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: In the ''Day of the Dollmaker'' arc, Cat Grant blackmails Lana to get Supergirl to help her. She claims it was not blackmail.
-->'''Cat:''' And I'm not blackmailing anyone. I merely asked Lana to ask her friend to help me.
* BodyHorror: When her suit gets torn, Superwoman's body becomes deformed and falls apart.
* {{Bookends}}: Sterling Gates' run: In the first issue, Cat Grant wrote an article titled: "Why the World Doesn't Need a Supergirl". In the final issue, Cat wrote a kind of recantation: "The world needs a Supergirl".
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Kara has training in both unarmed and armed combat by Franchise/WonderWoman and the Amazons, and she has been taught Klurkor -a Kryptonian martial art-.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #77'', Scarecrow's fear toxin makes Supergirl believe that Robin is her parents' killer Reactron and attack him.
* BreakingTheBonds:
** In ''Supergirl #2'', Cassie Sandsmark alias Comicbook/WonderGirl binds Supergirl with her magic, unbreakable lasso. Supergirl shrugs it off.
** And in the third issue she breaks a pair of Kryptonite cuffs binding her arms.
* BreakThemByTalking: Sakki, The Hate Furnace, delivered one to Supergirl. He mistakenly believed that she was Superman's daughter and picked at her shame at failing to live up to Superman's example. Sakki and his partner, Gakidou, were also [[EmotionEater emotion eaters]], so Supergirl's despair and other negative emotions served to make them stronger. Unfortunately for them, she [[UnstoppableRage became so angry that they nearly overloaded]], and they found out the hard way that their extra strength isn't ''nearly'' enough to deal with a Kryptonian.
* BreathWeapon: In ''Supergirl #34'', Supergirl fights a flame-spewing griffon. When it belches out flames on her, Kara retaliates with her freezing breath.
* BrokenTears: Kara sheds them after finding out that the Daily Planet is slandering her.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Supergirl wears the S-shield on her costume. It's kind of a BerserkButton to Luthor.
-->'''Luthor:''' Striking a woman -- worse, a girl -- reduces me to the level of some thug -- a hooligan -- on the street. Then, I see that "S" that you so brazenly decided to wear on your less than impressive chest. And I can almost forgive myself.
* BulletCatch: In ''Supergirl #11'', Kara shoots at a pirate mook and catches the bullet before it hits his face.
* BullyingADragon: Cat insults, mocks and taunts Supergirl the whole time. In ''Day of the Dollmaker'' she does do it ''to her face''. She doesn't seem bothered by the fact that she's goading someone who can rip her in half and hurl her remains out of the planet in less than a second.
* BurningWithAnger: Thara does this when Reactron drives her so mad that she becomes Flamebird.
* BuriedAlive: In ''Supergirl #32'' Kara has a nightmare in where she has been buried alive.
* CainAndAbel: During a brief DorkAge, that was thankfully swept away by ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Supergirl's father Zor-El hated his brother Jor, and sent Kara to Earth to kill Jor-El's infant son. Or he just didn't get on with his brother, and knew that Kal-El would "infect" Earth with evil spirits from the Phantom Zone. Or… look never mind, it was retconned away.
* CameBackWrong: Discussed in "The Way of the World". Supergirl tries to save a young cancer victim named Thomas. Unfortunately, Thomas dies, but she thinks a blood transfusion of another super-hero's nanite-laced blood may revive Thomas. Superman tries to dissuade her, stating that "the transfusion might bring Thomas back as something inhuman... a blazing skull, a monster, or worse."
* CameFromTheSky: "The Supergirl from Krypton", had her found by Batman and Superman.
* CarFu: Kara loves this. In issue #34, [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pScx8BN4h3s/SOTRh51_-hI/AAAAAAAABQA/pJGoN9Q9WR4/s320/sg+34+4.jpg Kara drops a garbage truck]] on Silver Banshee.
* CatapultNightmare: In ''Supergirl #32'' Kara does this after a bad dream in which she has been buried alive.
* CatchPhrase: Supergirl's during Gates' run: "Hope, help, and compassion for all."
* CatFight: Kara got into several Cat Fights with Comicbook/PowerGirl, Comicbook/WonderGirl and even [[EnemyWithout a dark version of herself]] in the first issues.
* CatUpATree: Played straight, parodied and invoked several times.
** After Cat slanders her, Kara left a note on her desk, saying: "Cat -- Don't call me if you ever get stuck in a tree. S-Girl"
* ChekhovsGun: In Supergirl #38, someone sends Cat Grant a Supergirl doll. In Supergirl #58 she realized it was the key to find a child kidnapper.
* ChestInsignia: Supergirl's S-shield is her family crest. Luthor kind of ''hates'' seeing it.
* ChildOfTwoWorlds: During the ''Comicbook/NewKrypton'' arc, Kara feels torn between New Krypton -where her people settled in- and Earth -her new home-.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: After her emo teen phase, Supergirl tries to be the kind of hero worthy of her Family crest. Unfortunately, her attempts to help everyone are wearing her out. In ''Supergirl #34'':
-->'''Supergirl:''' You think I should stop --?\\
'''Superman:''' No. But Kara, you spend so much time trying to save everyone else, to be the hero that everyone expects you to be, you don't get a chance to relax. You're Supergirl twenty-four hours a day, and I think it's starting to hurt more than help.
* ClarkesThirdLaw:
** Invoked constantly by a secondary character in the final arc:
--->'''Henry:''' Magic is just the science for which we don't know the rules quite yet!
** Later on, another character said:
--->It only looks like magic if you can't do the math.
* ClarkKenting: Kara followed her cousin's example by using glasses.
* ClarkKentOutfit: "Linda Lang" wears long shirts and trousers to cover her athletic, fit body.
* CleavageWindow: In ''Supergirl #34'' Cat Grant wears a red dress that has an enclosed opening on the top portion right above her cleavage.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Superwoman's costume gives Kryptonian powers… after a fashion.
* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: In ''Supergirl #34'' Kara saved Comicbook/JimmyOlsen and Cat Grant from being hit by falling debris. Unfortunately Cat accidentally got bruised when Jimmy landed on her. Cat was so irate she devoted herself to wage a smear campaign against Supergirl.
* CoolUncle:
** Jonathan and Martha Kent, her cousin's foster parents.
** Lana Lang becomes this to Kara after helping her create her SecretIDentity: her niece Linda Lang.
* CrashingDreams: In ''Supergirl #22'', Kara dreams that she's surrounded by her friends Legionnaires. Then they gradually turn into stone. Kara wakes up and notices she is buried in the rocky ground after a villain dropped a train on her.
* CrazyPrepared: After Krypton's destruction, Zor-El had an escape pod ready in case that he and his wife needed to launch Kara towards Earth. And he fitted it with solar panels in case that Kara needed to be invulnerable before landing!
* CryIntoChest: Supergirl did this to her cousin after [[spoiler:the destruction of New Krypton]].
* CurbStompBattle: During the ''Comicbook/NewKrypton'' arc, Supergirl fights an evil Superwoman. At the beginning Superwoman seems a serious menace, but as soon as Kara finds out about Superwoman's identity and allegiance, the Kryptonian girl trashes the villain every time.
* CynicismCatalyst: In ''Supergirl #33'', Kara meets Eddie Rose, a man who thought heroes and good things happened to good people... until he got crippled during ''[[Comicbook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday's rampage]]'' and decided that there were no heroes.
* DarkerAndEdgier: At the beginning, DC tried to turn post-Crisis Supergirl into a darker, edgier and supposedly more modern Kara Zor-El. It didn’t work.
* DeadpanSnarker: Kara often makes sarcastic remarks when she gets angry. In ''Supergirl #22'' she fights a SuperSoldier who claims to be "your tax dollars at work". After defeating him, she grumbles:
-->'''Supergirl:''' Tax dollars at work, my butt!
* DeathGlare: Kara is just as good-natured as her cousin, but being a teenager, she is fiercer and more short-tempered than Superman. If she is giving you one of these -often accompanied with glowing red eyes-, then you have pissed her off for real, and you last resort is ''praying''.
** In ''Supergirl #58'', a security guard is ogling to Cat Grant's butt. Then Supergirl leans over and ''glares''. He starts and falls backwards.
** Minutes later she's interrogating villain Toyman about several missing children, but he claims that he has done nothing wrong and tries to balk at answering her questions. [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ELZ9b065w8/TOL0JZipsOI/AAAAAAAABbc/aYbRRe9hoz4/s400/Supergirl-58-05.jpg Kara glares at him]] and a second later she [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ELZ9b065w8/TOL0JnqNpWI/AAAAAAAABbk/OyOnrRfJ0Ts/s400/Supergirl-58-06.jpg slams him into the wall and urges him to cooperate as her eyes glow red]].
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Kara and Cassie fight in ''Supergirl #2'' and Kara wins. They become very close friends afterwards.
* DefusingTheTykeBomb: Subverted. An early story stated that Kara's father trained her to be a weapon, and Superman -with aid of Batman and Wonder Woman- took her in and acted this way toward her. However her abusive father was eventually retconned as a Kryptonite-induced hallucination when the real Zor-El showed up and turned out to be a pretty nice guy.
* DestructiveSaviour: Supergirl is the most powerful teenager in the planet. Unfortunately she is still a ''teenager'' and an inexperienced hero, so she is very destructive. Cat Grant uses her inexperience as an excuse to wage a smear campaign against her.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** In ''Supergirl #3'' Supergirl decides to fight Lex Luthor alone. Quickly she realizes her plan is not a brilliant one.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Two seconds and I know. I'm in way over my head.
** In ''Supergirl #20'' -part of the reviled ''Comicbook/AmazonsAttack'' storyline- she explains that she and Wonder Girl hijacked Air Force One because they thought they could end the war by making the President sit down in the same room with the Amazon Queen. When things went south very, very quickly she realized that it was a big mistake.
** In Supergirl Annual #2, Brainiac-5 was analyzing how a mystical statue reacted to different kinds of energy, and he accidentally turned it into a kind of super-bomb. He admitted that it was not a very good plan.
--->'''Brainiac-5:''' It’s a ten-thousand-year-old Brocian hunting statue! Rumored by natives to have "magical" properties when struck by lightning, so I was analyzing its reception to other kinds of energy!\\
'''Supergirl:''' Okay! So what did you hit it with?\\
'''Brainiac-5:''' Uh, I opened the timestream and bombarded it with chronon energy.\\
'''Supergirl:''' WHAT?\\
'''Brainiac-5:''' Obviously that wasn't the best of my ideas!\\
'''Supergirl:''' So what's it doing now?\\
'''Brainiac-5:''' Based on my readings, I'm pretty sure I just created a magical time bomb. And if my calculations are correct, we've got less than four seconds to live.
* DieHardOnAnX: In Annual #1 several bank robbers are holding several hostages. Supergirl cannot tip her identity off (long story), so she breaks a restroom's window, crawls into the place and pretends to be one of the hostages until she has a chance to take the crooks down anonymously.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Kara finds Dick Grayson... distracting. Immensely distracting.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Early on in her career, this was a trouble for Supergirl.
** In ''Supergirl #0'' she tries to save a falling plane, and she accidentally tears a wing off.
** During one of his first fights against Reactron, she pulls a man out of a building at super-speed and accidentally breaks his arm in three different places.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Due to editorial carelessness and a poor understanding of the character, the first years of the book were plagued with this: they tried to turn Kara into an angst-filled and jerkass AntiHero, her personality changed every story, her past was constantly retconned, and subplots were dropped or had no resolution. This Dork Age lasted approximately until ''Supergirl #20'' when Tony Bedard -who is a big Pre-Crisis Supergirl fan and didn't know how she was being written in the time- took over the book.
* EmotionEater:
** The Japanese assassins Gakidou and Sakki, The Hate Furnace not only have {{Intangibility}}, but can feed on negative emotions like lust and anger to boost their strengths to astronomical levels. Supergirl defeated them by simultaneously beating them up and [[UnstoppableRage overloading them]].
** In the same story, Powerboy revealed he can channel others' emotions to fuel his abilities, but the excess emotions caused him to go psycho on Kara.
---> '''Powerboy:''' (to a restrained Supergirl) I ''feel''. Feel everyone else's hate, love, pain, fear... and it becomes ''this''... (forms ball of black energy) Of course, you saw what happens when it goes the other way.
* EnemyWithin: Kara had an evil doppelganger for a short while until she reabsorbed it. Her evil side -dubbed by SG fans Dark Supergirl or Dark Kara- embodies all of Supergirl's repressed anger over the loss of her people, and later it resurfaces and takes over. Remarkably, Dark Supergirl is ''less'' evil during her reapparance. She is pretty much an angry jerkass.
* EnemyWithout: In ''Supergirl #3'' Lex Luthor exposed Kara to black kryptonite. It's not clear whether he knew what exactly it would do to her, but he hoped it would be ''bad.'' Well, it turns out the stuff does ''this,'' and Kara had an evil doppelganger for a while. "Dark Supergirl" later resurfaced as an Enemy Within.
* EntitledBastard: Daily Planet sleazy journalist Cat Grant launched a smear campaign against Supergirl with the intention of driving her away Metropolis. Cat called Supergirl a reckless, out-of-control teenager. Cat accused her from spearheading a Kryptonian AlienInvasion. Cat complained about her out-of-fashion ''dress'' and the ''length of her skirt''. During one year she told over and again that the world doesn't need a Supergirl. And then she ran into trouble and blackmailed Kara into helping her because she couldn't find Franchise/{{Superman}}. And as they teamed up, Cat ''kept'' insulting her.
-->'''Supergirl:''' "The hero the world doesn't need," Cat wrote about me. Some days, though, it sure feels like it does. Though, if there weren't three kids missing, I'm not sure I'd help her. You can't say those kinds of things about a person then expect them to just fly up and give you a hand.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Supergirl hated Cat Grant because she published news articles slandering her. Still she rescued her when villain Dollmaker kidnapped her. Dollmaker couldn't understand why Supergirl would want to save someone she hated.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Kara did this twice. It was based on a Silver Age story in which Supergirl was exposed to a piece of ''red'' kryptonite that created [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Satan_Girl_(Pre-Zero_Hour) Satan Girl]], who likewise wore a black outfit (her version had a cowl and no S-symbol, because her identity was originally a mystery).
** The first time happens in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman'' #12, when she is [[BrainwashedAndCrazy captured by Darkseid and turned into one of his Furies]]. This was very brief, but during that time she wore, essentially, skintight red-and-black pants and a black bra.
** The second time happened when she was hit with black kryptonite in ''Supergirl'' #3, causing an evil duplicate to suddenly emerge from her body... already wearing a black version of her normal costume. Apparently, evil kryptonite clones have black clothing as part of their very nature. This trope was also lampshaded an issue later, when evil Supergirl switched her costume with the original Supergirl's at SuperSpeed, in an attempt to fool Batman and Superman as to who was the evil clone. The black costume returned in a later ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' storyline where a battle with the Omega Man accidentally reawakened the Dark Supergirl persona within her.
* EvilIsPetty: Reactron tried to kill Kara several times, murdered her parents, blew her planet up... because she had the gall to defend herself and beat him when he first attacked her.
* EvilMakeover: Sometimes it happens to Kara. Usually [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Supergirlcostumeswitch_1264.jpg she switches costumes]] and she wears less clothing or wears a black version of her costume.
* EvilMeScaresMe: Supergirl was split into her normal self and an evil alternate personality when exposed to black Kryptonite. Supergirl was frightened of her dark, violent and murderous self because "Dark Supergirl" claimed she was the real Kara, and Supergirl's nice and well-meaning persona was only an act.
* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: In Supergirl vol. 5 #59, Supergirl fights Dollmaker. He ducked when she shot her heat beams and mocked her aim. A second later he realized she wasn't aiming at him. She was freeing Cat Grant.
-->'''Dollmaker:''' Ha! You missed me!\\
'''Cat:''' She wasn't aiming for you, you little bastard.
* EyeScream:
** In ''Supergirl #1'', Wildcat threatens with poking Solomon Grundy's left eye out.
** In ''Supergirl #20'', Supergirl pierces the eye of a Cyclops with a magical arrow.
** In ''Supergirl #41'' a cop puts a bullet through Reactron's left eye.
* FacePalmOfDoom: In ''Supergirl #41'', Reactron clutches a cop's head as burns him.
* {{Faceship}}: Brainiac's ship. It resembles a huge humanoid skull armed with metal tentacles and pincers.
* FakingTheDead: When [[spoiler:Reactron]] is being judged, a mob breaks into the court intending to lynch him. Alura takes advantage of the ensuing chaos to fake his death in order to throw him in a cell and interrogate him.
* FetalPositionRebirth: Post-Crisis Supergirl slept curled-up inside her rocket until she landed on Earth, woke up and exited her pod.
* FingerPokeOfDoom: Kara does this several times:
** To Comicbook/HarleyQuinn in ''Supergirl #0''.
** To a pirate mook in ''Supergirl #11''.
** [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/3/36257/1352064-supergirl_v5_055017_018.jpg To Bizarrogirl]] in ''Supergirl #55''.
* FishOutOfWater: One of the defining traits of modern Supergirl. Unlike her more famous cousin, who left Krypton when he was too young to remember it, Kara spent her formative years growing up in Kryptonian society before she was sent to Earth as a teenager. Understandably, she has a harder time adjusting to life on Earth than Kal-El ever did, as she still considers herself a Kryptonian at heart.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: During ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'' she was accidentally sent to the XXXth Century and joined the Legion. She was so confused that in the beginning she thought she was dreaming.
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Kara's parents sent her to Earth to escape from the shrinking of Kandor and look after her baby cousin, and she eventually became one of the greatest heroes of Earth.
* ForcefulKiss:
** In '' Comicbook/SupermanBatman'' #19 -later reprinted as ''Supergirl Vol 5'' #0, Supergirl runs into Comicbook/PoisonIvy, and the super-villain plants a kiss on Supergirl's lips to poison her.
** In ''Supergirl Vol 5'' #3, Kara Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} impulsively before flying away to face Lex Luthor.
** In ''Supergirl Vol 5'' #51 Kara kisses Mon-El as he flies to Brainiac's ship.
* FriendOnTheForce: Inspector Mike Henderson, member of Metropolis police, Metacrimes Division. He helped Supergirl discover the identity of Superwoman during the ''Who Is Superwoman?'' story.
* FreudianExcuse: In the ''Day of the Dollmaker'' arc, Lana explains Supergirl that Cat Grant is a very unpleasant woman because her son's murder changed her.
* FreudianSlip: Lana Lang tells Cat that her "nephew" Linda lost her father a short while ago to get her off Linda's back. Cat asks her if it was her brother or her sister's husband who died.
* FutureMeScaresMe: Supergirl is scared of her older, alternate self Power Girl.
* GambitPileup: Alura orders her daughter to capture Reactron and bring him back to New Krypton. When Kara drags him along to the planet, a mob tries to lynch him and Alura takes advantage of the ensuing chaos to fake his death, throw him in a cell and make him talk... [[spoiler: which was a bad idea because Luthor and Lane's gambit involved transforming Reactron into a living bomb and setting him off inside of New Krypton]].
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: It happens three times on ''Supergirl: Identity'':
** When Supergirl returns to her apartment, her roommate Boomer aka Captain Boomerang Jr., asks how her day was.
--->'''Supergirl:''' I met a girl tonight.\\
'''Boomer:''' (DoubleTake, then grin) Explain. And ''do not'' leave out ''any'' details.\\
'''Supergirl:''' (hits him with a pillow) Idiot... Another hero in a costume.
** When Supergirl and Wondergirl hug, with Kara's arms around Cassie's neck, and Cassie's arms around Kara's waist.
--->'''Kid Devil:''' Can't talk. Committing image to memory.\\
'''Ravager:''' Someone get a video camera... We'll get two billion hits on Website/YouTube.
** When a guy asks his girlfriend and Supergirl to hug and let him take a picture.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: It happens a lot when Kara gets ''real'' angry. Some instances:
** In ''Supergirl #2'' she has had enough of Wonder Girl trying to bash her head in and refusing to hear her out, so her eyes glow red before knocking Cassie down.
** In ''Day of the Dollmaker'' [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ELZ9b065w8/TOL0JnqNpWI/AAAAAAAABbk/OyOnrRfJ0Ts/s400/Supergirl-58-06.jpg her eyes glow red]] as she faces Toyman and suggests that he answers her questions... or ''else''.
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Insect Queen]] did this to [[spoiler:Lana Lang]] in ''Supergirl #50'''.
* GroundShatteringLanding: In the cover of issue #12, Kara performs a ground-cracking landing (combined with a ThreePointLanding for greater effect).
* HeelRealization: In issue #20 Kara realizes she has been a jerkass after beating Dark Angel's trial.
* HeroesLoveDogs: In her introductory story Kara tried to befriend Krypto, and she was devastated when the dog seemed to dislike her. Later on, they became friends.
* HeroicBSOD: Kara had a breakdown after [[spoiler:New Krypton's destruction]]. Superman hugged her while she cried in space, and she considered quitting the hero gig for a while.
* HeroicBystander: In ''Supergirl #20'', Supergirl is fighting a Cyclops (long story) and being trounced by the giant monster. Then a bystander hands an arrow dropped by an Amazon (long story) over to Supergirl, and she uses it to blind the Cyclops.
* HeroInsurance:
** In ''Supergirl #12'' new hero Terra (now called Atlee) helps Supergirl take out a giant dinosaur; after the battle she uses her earth powers to repair the streets and even fix a fire hydrant. It is later revealed in the Terra miniseries that she apparently does this after every battle.
** Invoked in ''Supergirl #34''. Supergirl fights Silver Banshee in a baseball field, unintentionally trashing the place. Several spectators berate her about it until she flies away, and then they yell that she should clean the place up. So... they successfully drive her away and then they want her to stay and clean up.
* HeroWithBadPublicity:
** She suffers from Kryptonite poisoning when she arrives on Earth, which changes her personality to one of a crazy, self-absorbed, whiny, rude emo teen. After one year she gets her act together and begins acting as an S-wearing hero, but it took some time for her initial behavior being forgotten.
** In ''Supergirl #34'', Daily Planet journalist Cat Grant starts a negative PR campaign to smear Kara. She finally stops one year later when Supergirl saves her life.
* HesBack: Kara wanted to give up being Supergirl after [[spoiler:New Krypton’s destruction]], but she donned her Supergirl costume again to save Metropolis from Bizarrogirl.
* HeterosexualLifePartners:
** Kara and Stephanie Brown alias ''Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}''. They love spending time together and helping each other. And if you pick on Steph, you will never know what hit you.
** Kara and Cassie Sandsmark ''Comicbook/WonderGirl'' were very good friends, too.
* HoistHeroOverHead: In the cover of "Superman Supergirl: Maelstrom" #1, Darkseid's minion Maelstrom is doing this to Supergirl.
* HypocriticalHumor: In issue 2, Supergirl meets Starfire, who tells her she has some of the answers she is looking for.
-->'''Supergirl:''' (thinking) What would a girl who comes from another planet in a faraway galaxy know about -- Oh. Says me, the girl from another planet in a far... Huh.
* IgnoredExpert: Zor-El pleaded with Argo City's Council to find a new world to settle in, reasoning that the shields protecting the city wouldn't last forever. They didn't listen, even though he is the man who designed the dome and his brother was the man who correctly predicted Krypton's destruction.
* IHatePastMe: Karen and Kara don't get along well because Kara was being written as a jerk in the first issues of her book. Kara apologized to Karen after getting her head together, but Karen turned her down.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: In ''Supergirl #50'', Insect Queen took over Lana Lang's body. While Kara beat her up, she tried to reach out to Lana.
-->'''Kara:''' Lana, if you can hear me-- SAY something! Lana! I KNOW you're IN there! Let her body Go, you insect FREAK! Get OUT!
* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: In ''Supergirl #0'', the Calculator is monitoring Kara under Lex Luthor's orders. At one point, she glares straight in the direction of the Calculator’s camera, which is enough for him to freak out in a SpitTake.
* ILoveNuclearPower: Reactron has the ability to control and project nuclear radiation.
* ImmuneToBullets: Kara is bulletproof. Issue #53 provides the Trope Image.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: In the "New Krypton" arc, Lana Lang often coughed or vomited blood. Kara eventually found out that Lana had been keeping her illness from her.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Kara has blue eyes. And after undergoing CharacterDevelopment she is a nice, kind and compassionate young woman.
* InsigniaRipOffRitual: In ''Supergirl #41'', Kara rips the "S"-shield off Superwoman's clothes screaming she is a murderer and she doesn't deserve to wear her family's crest.
* InsistentTerminology: As seen in ''Supergirl #37'', Alura was NOT spying on the Earth’s army. She was merely "monitorizing" them.
* InstantCostumeChange: Kara often takes advantage of her SuperSpeed to change clothes instantly. In ''Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2009}}'' she comes to visit her friend Stephanie Brown and does this to avoid to be caught by Steph's mother.
* ItHasOnlyJustBegun: In ''Supergirl and the Legion of Super Heroes #24'':
-->'''Jeyra Entinn''': You won '''this''' round, Legionnaires... But this is only the beginning...!\\
'''Cosmic Boy''': Wow. Is there some super-villain book of quotes they all work off of?
* ItsAllAboutMe: Reactron attempted to kill Kara several times, slaughtered her parents, blew her new home up and tried to ruin her life... because she trounced him when he attacked her out of nowhere and with no provocation whatsoever.
* ItsPersonal:
** Kara wants to take Reactron down because he murdered her father, blasting him right in front of her.
** Once [[spoiler:New Krypton blows up]], Supergirl goes directly after Lex Luthor and Sam Lane -who orchestrated [[spoiler:her species' genocide]]- and Superwoman -who aided and abetted them-.
** In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman Annual #5'', Supergirl is glad to fight Doomsday, the abomination who slew her cousin.
* JailBait: During the Joe Kelly's issues several older boys constantly hit on her, even though she is sixteen.
* KindheartedCatLover: The same as her Earth-One and Earth-Two counterparts, Kara owns a pet cat called Streaky.
* KubrickStare: Cat Grant does this when she interrogates Toymaker in ''Supergirl #58''.
* LawOfDisproportionateResponse: In ''Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac'', Kara accidentally reveals that Daily Planet's journalist Cat Grant has fake boobs. Later Supergirl accidentally gets Cat slightly bruised while saving her. As a result of this, Cat spends one whole year slandering Supergirl in the hope that her tripe drives the young hero away from Metropolis.
* TheLeader: Supergirl was elected leader of the ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' for a short while.
* LeaveMeAlone:
** Deconstructed. Shortly after showing up on Earth she asked her cousin, Batman and Wonder Woman leave her alone for a while as she figured her new life out. Unfortunately she spent one whole year completely aimless and screwing around due to Kryptonite poisoning altering her personality until she understood she needed help.
** In ''Supergirl #58'', Cat Grant blackmails Supergirl into helping her find a children kidnapper. As they are working together, Cat belittles Kara the whole time until Kara gets tired of it, decides to work on the case on her own, and tells Cat leave her alone.
--->'''Cat:''' But -- But '''WAIT!''' I need --\\
'''Supergirl:''' You need to leave me alone, is what you '''NEED''' to do.
* LetsGetDangerous: In a Franchise/TeenTitans issue, Kara and Miss Martian come to blows. Kara thinks M'gann is not in her League until the Martian girl punches her hard. Supergirl then gets serious and fights Miss Martian hard.
* LightGirlDarkBoy: [[http://im.ziffdavisinternational.com/ign_es/screenshot/default/34450_2te1.jpg As seen here]], Supergirl has blond hair and a fairer skin that her black-haired cousin.
* LittlestCancerPatient: In the storyline "Way of the World'' Supergirl tries to save Thomas, a little boy who suffers from terminal cancer. She swears that she will not let him die [[spoiler:but she fails]].
* LoveHurts:
** Most of guys Kara dates turn out to be jerks, creeps, cheaters, or super-villains. When she dates a guy who is actually nice and well-meaning, she often has to break up with him.
** ''Supergirl #15'''s title is "Love Hurts". She gets involved with Power Boy until she finds out that he is an abusive, evil bastard.
* LovelyAngels:
** She and Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} -''[[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2009}} Stephanie Brown]]''- liked hanging together and teaming up.
** In the zero special issue, Kara teamed up with ''[[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2011}} Barbara Gordon]]''. In reality [[spoiler:"she" was Clayface.]]
* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: During the Sterling Gates' run, General Sam Lane and his minions Reactron and Superwoman used this tactic against the eponymous heroine over and over again: they harass Supergirl and try to murder her, and when Kara defends herself she gets in trouble for aggravated assault and battery, and attempted murder.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Kara fights Silver Banshee at least twice. Superman warns her that Banshee's loud scream never results in instant death as long as she doesn't know your real name... but she can still blow out your eardrums.
* ManOfKryptonite:
** During ''New Krypton'', Reactron was rebuilt as a Metallo expy, complete with a Kryptonite heart —- though in his case it was Gold Kryptonite, the one kind of Kryptonite that could permanently cancel all her superpowers.
** In ''Supergirl #60'', Parasite and Silver Banshee teamed with Metallo and the Kryptonite Man to take Supergirl down. Kara admits that fighting the latter two is a headache, but she is not intimidated and tells them bluntly that they will not win.
* MassOhCrap: In ''Supergirl #20'', Supergirl a bunch of bystanders have this reaction when they see a giant, rampaging Cyclops. And then a bunch of preschool children and her caretaker do this when the Cyclops is moving on them.
* MindControlEyes: In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #77'', Kara gets glowing red eyes when she is under the influence of Scarecrow's fear toxin.
* MisBlamed: The passengers of the Air Force One blamed Supergirl for shooting the plane down during the events of ''Amazons Attack''. It was not Kara's fault but she didn't correct them because she definitely blamed herself.
* MistakenForCheating: In ''Supergirl #2'' Cassie Sandsmark -alias ''Comicbook/WonderGirl''- walks in while Kara and Superboy are having an argument and assumes that the two are engaging in foreplay. She attacks Supergirl and loses, but the misunderstanding is cleared up.
* MistakenForPedophile: Hal Jordan once had to remind himself he "isn't Ollie" to get himself to stop thinking weird thoughts about the seventeen year old Supergirl.
* MistakenForProstitute: In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #8'', a naked Kara wanders confused into an alley, having just woken up from her rocket, and is spotted by three workers. One of them mistakes her for a prostitute and decides to play Lothario only to have his hand crushed and be slammed through a wall. The second tries to help his friend. The third wisely proclaims he's not with the other two and offers her his coat.
* ModestyShorts: Added to her costume from late 2009 until her costume change for the New 52 reboot. According to the artist Jamal Igle, “At the first meeting I had with [Matt Idleson, the editor] after I got the book, he said, ‘I never want to see Supergirl’s panties again'."
* MomentKiller: In ''Supergirl #19'', when Wonder Girl and Supergirl reunited there was the extremely close hug, actual "I love you", leaning in... and being shot with a rocket launcher by Ravager, who apparently enjoys having invulnerable teammates.
* MoodSwinger: Kara suffered wild mood swings in the first issues because of Kryptonite poisoning. She went from fury to happiness to fury to gloominess in a single scene.
* MsFanservice: Post Crisis Kara was a pretty infamous example, what with her cheerleader like costume, being introduced naked and later dressing in low cut jeans with her thong on display, and her constant panty shots when in costume. While most young teenage girls in comics get treated like this, she did it to such a degree that it made many people uncomfortable, and was the source of many of her early criticisms. Editors eventually issued a demand for this to be limited and/or stopped, and thankfully it did.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: When Kara returned in 2004, she looked like a slender, sixteen-year-old... who could bench-press airplanes, lift mountains and outrun ''light''. Writers were easily able to tease the fan base with the idea that teenager might be stronger than her full grown powerfully built cousin Superman. Turns out, he just holds himself back [[WorldofCardboardSpeech due to living his whole life in a world made of cardboard]]. However one of the teases was correct: she can fly faster owing to her smaller size.
* MustMakeAmends: In issue #20 Kara decides to turn over a new leaf and apologize to everyone for her jerkass behavior. That was the first step to become the hero Supergirl is meant to be.
* MyFistForgivesYou: Grace Choi of ''[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]'' tried this on Supergirl as revenge for freezing during a battle and failing to watch her back, but broke her hand despite her formidable strength.
* MythologyGag:
** In ''Supergirl #3'', Supergirl tells Luthor ''[[Comicbook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything "Burn"]]'' before blasting him.
** In issue #41, Kara calls Superwoman a "murderous babootch". In the Silver Age, a babootch was monkey-like animal from Krypton.
* NeckLift:
** Sometimes Supergirl does this when someone pisses her off:
*** In the end of ''Comicbook/NewKrypton'', Supergirl does this to [[spoiler:Sam Lane]] after he has [[spoiler:successfully engineered the death of New Krypton and the Kryptonian genocide]].
*** In the beginning of the ''Day of the Dollmaker'' storyline (''Supergirl vol. 5 #58''), [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ELZ9b065w8/TOL0JnqNpWI/AAAAAAAABbk/OyOnrRfJ0Ts/s400/Supergirl-58-06.jpg she does this to Toyman]] during an interrogation when she thinks he's lying. Her GlowingEyesOfDoom stress that she's serious and furious.
** In ''Supergirl #51'' Alura attacks Comicbook/{{Superboy}}. When Supergirl finds them, he is grabbing the neck of Alura and is about to punch her out.
** Luthor neck-lifts Kara in issue #3.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Kara has got this issue. On the one hand, she is one of the mightiest heroes of her universe; on the other, she is cousin of THE greatest hero of her universe. She struggles to walk out of his shadow, but it's hard to shake the "Superman's younger cousin" label off, especially when he -together with Batman and Wonder Woman- tried to train her and mentor her when she arrived on Earth. And at the beginning she messed up... a lot. After a monumental screw-up, she thought that her cousin was about to lecture her, and she stated that she was finally learning and she didn't need his validation. To her surprise, Clark agreed.
-->'''Supergirl:''' No, listen to me. I have to say: I know you love me, and that's why you feel a need to act like my big brother or my dad — But you're neither one! Maybe I need to learn things the hard way. But I am learning! I want to be a family with you and Uncle Jon and Aunt Martha, but I don't need your... validation! I can get by on my own terms, and I'm doing just fine, and —\\
'''Superman:''' I know.\\
'''Supergirl:''' ... ... What?\\
'''Superman:''' I know you're doing fine. That's what I want to talk about. You made one of your worst mistakes ever with Air Force One, but you bounced back from it and did some real good in Washington. And I don't want you feeling like you're in my shadow.
* NewMediaAreEvil: ''Supergirl #60'' has a guy launch an attack on the entire DCU metahuman community by creating a Foursquare-esque smartphone app for people to post metahuman sightings so villains can then track them down and attack them.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: During the Joe Kelly's run, Supergirl gained the ability to grow sharp glass shards from her body. Since it was too stupid and out of nowhere, it suffered the fate of everything what came from that run: it was explained away quickly (Kryptonite poisoning caused her blood to crystallize in the oxygen when she was cut) and never mentioned again.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown:
** Supergirl delivered a brutal beating to Superwoman in issue #41.
** In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman Annual #5'', Supergirl comes face to face with Doomsday. And she is actually glad because she wanted a chance to take him -the monster that killed her cousin- on one-on-one. And then [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rZPp6fU38Dc/TZ2hU0vafII/AAAAAAAALgU/j-hROlN5mCM/s1600/sb+ann+5-10.jpg she does]] and [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qGTS6Gxprnw/TZ2hVXVnGZI/AAAAAAAALgY/vR11S0y5Fow/s1600/sb+ann+5-11.jpg she cuts loose]].
* NotGoodWithRejection: Kara has an unfortunate record of falling for guys who later turn out to be jerks, super-villains ''or'' jerkass super-villains who hate when she sees through their ruse and breaks up with them. When it happens, they try to abuse her... and find out what bullying the obscenely super-powered, temperamental girl is a spectacularly bad idea. Powerboy is a case in point: he brutally beat her up, including dragging her face down the side of a skyscraper, and tied her to a bed. She beat him up, dropped a ''house'' on him and told him never to bother her again.
* NotWhatItLooksLike:
** In ''Supergirl #2'' ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} have an argument and brawl, only for [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Wonder Girl (Cassandra Sandsmark)]] to walk in and assume Superboy is cheating on her and that the two are engaging in foreplay. She attacks Supergirl and loses, but the misunderstanding is cleared up. Cassie didn't even stop to consider that Superboy is the son/clone of Franchise/{{Superman}}, Supergirl's cousin.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Whatever you thought was going on, Cassie -- '''wasn't'''.
** In ''Supergirl #51'' Alura ambushes Superboy. When Kara runs into them, he is neck-lifting her and about to punch her out.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Superboy!? What the Hell are you doing?!\\
'''Superboy:''' Uh... This '''definitely''' isn't what it looks like, Kara!
* NowOrNeverKiss:
** In the third issue, Kara kisses Dick before flying away to face Luthor, since maybe she might not be able to do it later.
** In ''Supergirl #51'' Kara kisses Mon-El as he flies to Brainiac's ship.
* ObliviousToLove: Kara had a ''huge'' crush on Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}. She even kissed him at a point. Dick Grayson's reaction? "Oh, I'm sure she cannot possibly have a crush on me."
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In ''War of the Supermen'', Supergirl [[spoiler:defeats Superwoman for good]]. And that final battle happens completely off panel.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Post-Crisis Kara is frightened of Power Girl because their powers go into overdrive when they touch... and because she turned on Karen temporarily. She apologized later on, but Karen turned her apology down.
* PaintItBlack: In ''Supergirl #3'', Supergirl was exposed to black kryptonite and she was split into her normal self and an evil (and oversexed) alternate personality that wore a black-and-silver version of her normal costume. The black costume returned in a later ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' storyline where a battle with the Omega Man accidentally reawakened the Dark Supergirl persona within her.
* PardonMyKlingon: In ''Supergirl #34'', Kara says "Cat Grant is a total snagriff" after Cat smears her publicly. Clark agrees.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Cat Grant is a total snagriff.\\
'''Superman:''' Yes, she is.
* ParentalAbandonment: Kara loses her parents when they send her to Earth to save her from Comicbook/{{Brainiac}}. After a while Kara finds out that they are still alive after all... and they get murdered soon after. So she lost them ''twice''.
* ParentalSubstitute: Kara has several parental figures: her cousin Superman, his foster parents Jonathan and Martha Kent and Lana Lang.
* PedestrianCrushesCar:
** This is even part of Kara’s introduction in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #8''. Some guy crashes onto Kara as she roams the streets of Gotham aimlessly just after her crash-landing.
** In the [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/2/22/Supergirl_v.5_10.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080818062513 cover]] of ''Supergirl #10'', another car crashes into Kara while she's standing in the middle of the road.
* PercussiveTherapy: In issue #33, Kara is severely distraught after failing to save a child. Then she runs into super-villain Clayface and decides he is exactly the punching bag she is looking for.
* PietaPlagiarism: In ''Supergirl #36'' storyline, Supergirl holds [[spoiler:her father's body while he dies]].
* PinchMe: In ''Supergirl #22'', Kara's dream starts to fade as soon as Lightning Lad explains that she is dreaming.
* PlayingWithFire: Thara Ak-Var is a pyrokinetic.
* PowerfulAndHelpless: In "Way of the World", Supergirl fails to save a boy that is dying from cancer, and she has to accept her incredible powers can't fix everything.
* PowerLossMakesYouStrong: During a fight Reactron nullifies Supergirl's powers with Golden Kryptonite. He thinks he has already won when Kara rises up and [[http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j84/registrationisstupid/supergirl/SupergirlV54014.jpg beats the crap out of him]], telling she trained with Batman, the Amazons and is a first level practitioner of Klurkor- a Kryptonian martial art.
-->I trained with Batman. With the Amazons. I know first level Klurkor. Just because I can't use heat vision doesn't meant I'm helpless.
* PortalDoor: In ''Supergirl #60'' a group of villains use portals to find and harass heroes.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner:
** In issue 2:
--->'''Supergirl:''' You think you know '''ANGER?''' I'LL SHOW YOU ANGER!
** In issue #41:
--->'''Superwoman:'''And don't bother trying to put up a fight, girl. I'm just as invulnerable as you are.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Good. That means I won't have to hold back, you murderous babootch.
* ThePromise: In "Way of the World", Supergirl promises a boy who is dying from cancer that he will not die. She will not allow it. She moves Heaven and Earth to find a cure in time [[spoiler:but at the end, she fails]].
* PromotionToParent: Superman serves this role for his younger cousin. Ironically, Kara expected to raise her baby cousin when she arrived on Earth, but her ship was delayed and she put in suspended animation, and when she crash-landed on Earth, Kal was nearly twice his age.
* ProperlyParanoid: In ''Supergirl #0'', Kara is being spied by Luthor's henchman Noah Kuttler alias Calculator. Suddenly she turns towards the camera, freaking Noah out. Luthor tells him he's just being paranoid and Supergirl can't be aware of him. She is, though.
* TheRealRemingtonSteele: Supergirl and Comicbook/PowerGirl assumed the identities of Flamebird and Nightwing while operating inside Kandor.
* RealityEnsues: In "The Way of World", Kara meets a little boy that is dying from cancer and vows to save his life. Kara fails and has to learn that her powers cannot do anything.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Lois gave Cat a very scathing -and very right- speech, accusing her from having become a war-mongering tool.
-->'''Lois Lane:''' Are you even a '''reporter''', Cat? Don't you have a '''shred''' of integrity? Or is '''pandering''' with lies and innuendo just that much '''easier''' for you? This '''isn't''' journalism! It's '''PROPAGANDA'''! And '''that''' makes you a '''tool'''. How you can '''stand''' to look at yourself in the mirror, Cat?
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Supergirl does this a lot, especially when she is pissed off.
* ReformedButRejected: After surviving Dark Angel’s trial, recovering from her K-poisoning a bit and getting her head together, Kara sought Power Girl out and apologized for everything. Karen replied she couldn't forgive her or trust her.
* RedHerring: In ''Who Is Superwoman?'' Kara suspects that her old friend Thara Ak-Var is the evil Superwoman who aided and abetted her father's murderer because Thara was Kandor's security head. It turned out that Superwoman is [[spoiler:Lucy Lane]].
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: Supergirl's SecretIdentity is Linda Lang, Comicbook/LanaLang's niece.
* RetGone: A later version of The Dark Angel tried to do this to Kara by trapping her in a horrifying illusion without her knowledge. If Supergirl had mentally, physically, or spiritually broken, Dark Angel would have had the authority to erase her. Supergirl survived the test, but Dark Angel decided to erase her anyway, only to be stopped by her boss, The Monitor.
* RightBehindMe: In ''Supergirl and the Legion of Super Heroes'' #20, the Legion are discussing Supergirl, [[NotNowKiddo ignoring]] Dream Boy, who is trying to warn them she's listening to them.
-->'''Cosmic Boy:''' She makes me nervous, Garth. I can't put my finger on it, but something’s not right about Supergirl. Oh, Boy. She's ''here''... isn't she?\\
'''Dream Boy:''' That's what I've been trying to tell you. She can [[SuperSenses hear every word]]...
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship:
** Kara and ''Comicbook/WonderGirl'' -Cassie Sandsmark-. They even kissed at one point.
** Kara and Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} ''[[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2009}} Stephanie Brown]]''-. They are ''extremely close''.
* SamaritanSyndrome: Kara spends all of her time in her cape until Superman warns her that she will get burned out if she keeps it up and she needs to live like a normal person.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In ''Supergirl #58'', Cat Grant blackmails Supergirl into working with her to find a child-kidnapper... and spends the whole time belittling her. Kara finally has had it with Cat and decides to leave the older woman and work on the case on her own.
-->'''Supergirl:''' That's it. I'm '''gone'''.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: Dollmaker wears a green shirt, purple bow tie and belt and violet overalls.
* SecretIdentity: "Linda Lang", Lana Lang's nephew.
* SecretIdentityIdentity: Kara was Supergirl 24/7 until her cousin warned her that she would eventually burn out and suggested that she came up with a secret identity. Kara created a civilian identity called Linda Lang, but it was merely a disguise. After [[spoiler:failing to save New Krypton]] she briefly considered giving up on being Supergirl and becoming Linda permanently.
* SecretKeeper:
** Supergirl knows Clark Kent is Superman, Bruce Wayne is Franchise/{{Batman}}, Diana Prince is Franchise/WonderWoman and her dear friends Stephanie Brown and Cassie Sandsmark are Batgirl and Wonder Girl.
** Superman, Comicbook/LoisLane, Pa and Ma Kent (she calls them Uncle Jonathan and Aunt Martha) and Lana Lang know that Linda Lang is Supergirl. Lana actually helped Kara set it up, pretending that she is her niece. Stephanie Brown also knows her secret identity.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In ''Supergirl #23'', Kara opens a sound-proofed, lead-lined gift that mysteriously appeared in her apartment, which was a test from Batman who calls her and admonishes her for opening it.
* SecurityCling: Supergirl clings to Superman and sobs after [[spoiler:the destruction of New Krypton]].
* SelfMadeOrphan: In Supergirl #58, Toyman's son Dollmaker tried to kill his father.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Subverted. In ''Supergirl #32'', Kara has the chance to travel back to the past. She thinks of fixing all of her mistakes and doing it right this time... but then she decides that the past is the past and she must accept this and move on.
* ShootingSuperman: Usually played very straight, but subverted with Reactron. A cop manages to hurt him when aiming for his left eye, one of the only areas unprotected by his armor.
* ShutUpHannibal: After Kara is brutally beaten up by Powerboy, including having her face '''dragged down the side of a skyscraper''', she wakes up in a bed next to a StalkerShrine devoted to her, bound in powerful, alien-tech restraints. Powerboy says a big speech about how much he loves her, that he knows best, and that the beating was her fault for making him angry. Supergirl blasts him with heat vision, calls him out that he's an asshole and that no one should ever hit someone that they love, then drops his house on him. He tries to escape, while still ranting, but Supergirl catches up to him and [[GroinAttack kicks him in the groin]].
-->'''Powerboy''': "Look, I'm just going to lay it all out because honesty is important in a strong relationship... I was born on Apokolips. Taken from the Armagetto Slums to serve [[{{ComicBook/Darkseid}} You-Know-Who]]... [[TrainingFromHell He made me strong]], trained me in the ways of the Earth so I could [[TheMole come here as a "hero" and]]... Well, it doesn't really matter anymore, because it changed the the day you came to Apokolips. [[LoveAtFirstSight The most beautiful thing I had ever seen]]. Ever ''felt''. From that moment, I knew I had found my "Missing Half". I knew we would be together. And then you left... I couldn't eat. Sleep. Think. I knew that my true destiny wasn't with Darkseid and his stupid plans... So I followed you across the universe. I watched you try so hard to fit in, to find your way. All I wanted to do was hold you. Tell you how beautiful you were. But I knew you weren't ready to hear it... Sometimes we have to fall all the way down before someone can lift us up. You could be something so special, Kara... But you're lost. You're lost and you're too weak to find your way alone. Whenever you try... the monster in you comes out. Is this what you what to be?" (''cups her face'') "You need someone to take care of you, Kara. Someone who ''loves'' you to build to up... To make you into something you can be proud of. I love you, Kara. We can be perfect together, if you'll just let me fix you."\\
'''Supergirl''': (''[[ShutUpHannibal destroys her restraints and burns his hand with heat vision]]'') "We need to break up."\\
'''Powerboy''': "Aaaaaigh! What did you do?!"\\
'''Supergirl''': "You hit me. You said you loved me... And you '''hit me'''." (''punches him through a wall to the outside'')\\
'''Powerboy''': "Y-You made me hit you! Because you don't listen, like now! Kara! I'm warning you! Stop it or I'll do it again! I'll hurt you again! [[StayInTheKitchen You can be happy if you just do what I tell you!]] I--" (''Supergirl rips his house from its foundation and rises into the sky'') "Kara, I love you. Don't you want someone take care of you!?"\\
'''Supergirl''': "No one who says he loves you should hit you, '''ever'''." (''drops his house on him'')\\
'''Powerboy''': (''FlashStep into outer space, pulls out his Father Box'') "Ouch. Heh... Heh... Got some fight to her... Gonna have to work on that... Next time... And there ''will'' be a next time. Try to drop a house on me now. Father Box... Honey..."\\
'''Supergirl''': (''FlashStep up to him, [[GroinAttack knees him in the groin]]'') "I out-flew Superman, "Honey". We're not done." (''grabs him by the scruff of his neck'') "I don't know if you can hear me, so read my lips... Don't call me. Don't talk to me. Don't look at me... Or I'll break every bone in your body."
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Supergirl had a huge crush on Dick Grayson alias Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} because he was nice and understanding. Kara once spontaneously made out with him, all because he made a speech about being a good teammate.
* SoleSurvivor: Kara was originally Argo City's only survivor. However a group of Argonians -including her parents- survived the city's destruction when Comicbook/{{Brainiac}} abducted them. All of them got killed when ''Comicbook/NewKrypton'' exploded, and Kara is again the Last Daughter of Argo City.
* SpitTake: In ''Supergirl #0'', Calculator is spying on Supergirl. He spits his coffee out when she looks straight at the camera and he knows intuitively that she has spotted him.
* SpotTheImposter: In the first arc, Dark Supergirl switched her costume with the original Kara’s at super-speed, in an attempt to fool Batman and Superman as to who was the evil clone. Superman tries to spot the imposter by punching both girls, assuming -wrongly- that the real one will not retaliate. Finally, the real Kara gets fed up with the situation, and tells Diana to use her Lasso.
* StalkerShrine: Powerboy built one devoted to Kara.
* StalkerWithACrush: Powerboy became obsessed with Kara after catching a glimpse of her as a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Female Fury]]. He created a shrine and became a superhero to impress and seduce her. However, he grew more and more possessive, and beat the crap out of her when she tried to visit Captain Boomerang (Owen Mercer) in the hospital. Supergirl defeated him in spectacular fashion.
* StalkingIsLove: During Kara's stay in Themyscira, Superman often hovered above the island to keep a check on her cousin and ensure that she was doing right. When spotted, Diana complained about it to Bruce. In ''Supergirl #0'':
-->'''Batman:''' I don't think it should come as a surprise to anyone that Clark is having a hard time letting go. Diana called last week to say that he was hovering again. An island of beautiful women and a man spying on them from above and Clark doesn't see any problem with that.
* StealthHiBye:
** In ''Supergirl #0'', Superman does this to ''Batman'' when he flies out of the Batcave to help Supergirl.
--->'''Batman:''' She's broken off the wing. Okay, Clark, if you manage to keep your distance, she might need some hel-- I hate it when he does that.
** Kara sneaks up on ''Batman'' when she realizes that he and her cousin are monitorizing her from the Batcave.
* SupernaturallyYoungParent:In ''Supergirl #33'', Kara meets Empress, a teenager hero whose deceased parents were magically brought back life as kids.
* SuperBreath: Kara can blow gale-force hurricane winds out of her mouth, exhale blasts of ultra-cold air and survive underwater or in space without breathing. In issue #34, she fights a flame-spewing griffon. When it belches out flames on her, Kara retaliates with her freezing breath.
* SuperToughness: In ''Supergirl 21'' Kara got a locomotive dropped on her. It knocked her out for several seconds. Then she woke up and threw it out of the planet.
* SurvivorGuilt:
** In "Way of the World" Kara reveals that she often wishes her parents had not saved their life. She feels guilty because she's alive.
** Supergirl feels like this after losing her parents and Krypton over again. In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman Annual #5'', a computerized Dr. Fate tells Kara that [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KqzN5VOGngE/TZ2hPpl8yNI/AAAAAAAALgI/EVyi2rE5LVg/s1600/sb+ann+5-07.jpg she is suffering from survivor guilt]] and [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9S-UPePiAcI/TZ2hQHN9paI/AAAAAAAALgM/4_yH-aefgio/s1600/sb+ann+5-08.jpg she shouldn't let guilt kill her]] and [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_FOuAvnvvVc/TZ2hQUFugXI/AAAAAAAALgQ/cT-LOyBN_tM/s1600/sb+ann+5-09.jpg she has to forgive herself]].
--->'''Comicbook/DoctorFate:''' In you, Supergirl, can you imagine the poison, the pain, the dark that resides in your psyche?\\
'''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:''' Wait, you're saying I'm manifesting this change in me?\\
'''Dr. Fate:''' Color of costume, color of eyes? Not much change outwardly, the rest... the bulk of it is your attitude. Recently, the loss of your planet all over again. And your father. And your mother. I'd say you have a pretty obvious case of "Survivor Guilt".\\
'''Supergirl:''' And it's killing me?
* SymbolSwearing:
** This is made with Kryptonian signs.
** Superboy does this with asterisks in issue 2 when his ex-team flies to see him: "Oh, @#$%!"
* TakenForGranite: Bizarro Supergirl has EyeBeams that cover the victims with a stone shell.
* TakingYouWithMe: Reactron tries to do this to [[spoiler:Supergirl. He fails, but he takes her mother and ''New Krypton'' with him]].
* TearsOfJoy:
** In ''Supergirl #34'' Kara sheds them while Lana gives her an encouraging speech.
** Supergirl cries in happiness after Thara reveals herself as Flamewing, since if Flamewing and the Kryptonian gods are real, it means their murdered father is in a better place.
* TearsOfRemorse: Kara cried when a bystander accused her from shooting the Air Force One down during ''Amazons Attack''.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Supergirl and Cat Grant in Sterling Gates' last story arc. Due to Supergirl carelessness in a fight with a group of metahumans, Cat was slightly wounded. Cat runs a slander campaign against the would-be super heroine causing a large portion of Metropolis' population to turn against Kara. But her relationship with Supergirl got better when Kara saved Cat from the Dollmaker.
* TemptingFate:
** In ''Comicbook/NewKrypton'', Zor-El tempted fate several times:
*** In "Superman: New Krypton Special", Zor says now they have powers "We'll never be in harm's way again". [[spoiler:he got murdered shortly after. And New Krypton got blown up]].
*** In ''Supergirl #34 Kara questioned the wisdom of having a Brainiac's robot keeping Argo's shields up, and asked what would happen if it woke up. Her father reiterated over and again it can't and won't turn itself back on. Despite everything, the robot woke up and nearly killed them.
** At the beginning of "Franchise/{{Superman}} Supergirl: Maelstrom" #1, Supergirl notes that it's been a very quiet week and she thought she'd have more action when her cousin asked her keep an eye on Metropolis while he was away. Cue a ''Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}'''s minion arriving on town and flinging cars away.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Oh no... The second I think good thoughts...
* TenMinuteRetirement: Kara did quit several times when her super-hero life got too hard or she deemed herself to be a failure.
* ThatWasNotADream: During ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'', Kara was struck by an altered zeta-beam, disappeared and re-appeared in the 31st century. Upon her arrival, she concluded that she was "dreaming" the Legion and that the 31st century wasn't real. She thought she was dreaming for several chapters.
* ThereWasADoor: In Supergirl #59, Supergirl flew through the wall of the lair of Dollmaker to rescue Cat Grant.
* ThreePointLanding: In the cover of ''Supergirl #12'', Kara lands supporting her weight on her right knee, left foot and left hand, causing damage to the ground upon contact.
* TooDumbToLive: Argo City's Science Council. Jor-El warned that Krypton would blow up, and the planet exploded. His brother Zor-El warned them that the dome was unsafe and they needed to find a new world to settle in. Did they listen? Noooooo!
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Kara was feeling confused, irascible and pretty miserable upon arriving on Earth. Several months later she'd adapted to Earth and learned to be a hero and she is reasonably happy with her life.
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: In ''Supergirl #22'', Kara runs into this trouble when she remembers that she travelled to the far future and fought/will fight alongside the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Well, um, thank you for unblocking my memory. You were... will be... very good friends to me.
* {{Trainstopping}}: Subverted in ''Supergirl #18''. Kara stops a train but it breaks in half and derails upon crashing onto her indestructible body. Kara has a breakdown but she calms down -a bit- when she discovers that it was an illusion.
* TrespassingToTalk: Issue #57 has a variant in where Lana Lang walks into her office and finds Cat Grant sitting on her couch in the dark and wanting to talk about Lana's connection with Supergirl.
* TroubledButCute: At the beginnig Kara Zor-El was an emotionally-unstable, quick-tempered jerkass due to Kryptonite-poisoning and being a teenager stranded in a strange land (she got over it and got better after a while, though). She is also an AmazonianBeauty and boys were obsessed with her, especially during her "troubled teenager" phase.
* TwoFirstNames: Supergirl's civilian Earth name is Linda Lang.
* TheUnapologetic: Cat Grant wages a smear campaign aimed at Supergirl, driven for petty reasons -Kara bruised her accidentally as she was saving her life, and Cat thought that she could gain notoriety by libeling the young hero-. And she doesn't feel guilty at all, not even after Supergirl saves her life over and again.
* UngratefulBastard:
** When Supergirl and Powerboy quell a hurricane in Mexico, a general threatens them, saying it is illegal for metahumans to interfere with Mexican affairs. Powerboy threatens to bring the hurricane back, and the general shuts up.
** Kara saved Jimmy Olsen and Cat Grant from being hit by falling debris. But because Cat accidentally got bruised when Jimmy landed on her, the woman devoted herself to smear Supergirl.
** In ''Supergirl #34'' Kara fights Silver Banshee in a baseball field. Several spectators throw their cups at her and shout that she ruined the game and trashed the field (disregarding that Silver Banshee also destroyed the place and Supergirl saved their lives). They scream that they don't need her and want her to go away until she flies away... and then they demand that she cleans the mess up. So... they tell they don't need her and want her gone until she goes away.... and then they want her stay to help?
* UnwantedAssistance: During the events of the "Amazons Attack" storyline, in where the Amazons went to war against the US, Supergirl and ''Comicbook/WonderGirl'' try to end the war by kidnapping the President and bringing him to Queen Hyppolita to engage in peace talks with her. Predictably, their plan went awry, and Supergirl apologized, saying that she screwed everything up even though she just wanted to help.
* UpUpAndAway: Constantly. Here's an example taken from [[http://www.comicbookbrain.com/_imagery/2016-06-27/supergirl-20-2007.jpg Supergirl 20]].
* VillainousCrush: Kara had to deal with Powerboy, a Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}'s minion who had a crush on her and was NotGoodWithRejection.
* VillainTeleportation: In ''Supergirl #60'', Kara has to fight a group of villains that use dimensional doors to move around and strike heroes unexpectedly.
* WellThisIsNotThatTrope: In Supergirl #22, the Legion explains Kara this time she ''really'' is dreaming.
-->'''Lightning Lad:''': Hey, Kara, remember when you first showed up here, telling us all we were figments of your imagination?\\
'''Supergirl:''' Yeah. Sorry about that.\\
'''Lightning Lad: Well, now you really are dreaming.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Subverted. In the final arc, Supergirl has to fight a swarm of rat bots. She isn't afraid of them, but since she's been fighting evil robots and robot-mooks for weeks she's sick of them.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Robots... Why... did it have to be... robots?
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: After Kara is brutally beaten up by Powerboy, including having her face '''dragged down the side of a skyscraper''', she wakes up in a bed next to a StalkerShrine devoted to her, bound in powerful, alien-tech restraints. Powerboy says a big speech about how much he loves her, that he knows best, and that the beating was her fault for making him angry. Supergirl's retort? Delivering a brutal beating combined with a ShutUpHannibal speech.
-->'''Supergirl:''' (destroys her restraints and burns his hand with heat vision]) We need to break up.\\
'''Powerboy:''' Aaaaaigh! What did you do?!\\
'''Supergirl:''' You hit me. You said you loved me... And you '''hit me'''. (punches him through a wall to the outside)\\
'''Powerboy:''' Y-You made me hit you! Because you don't listen, like now! Kara! I'm warning you! Stop it or I'll do it again! I'll hurt you again!
* WickedToymaker: Anton Schott alias "Dollmaker", the son of Toyman who is also a skilled -and creepy- toymaker, although he specializes in deadly robot dolls.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Supergirl is possibly the world's strongest woman. In ''Supergirl #34'' she says:
-->'''Supergirl:''' I'm Supergirl. Strongest girl on the planet.
* WouldHitAGirl: In ''Supergirl #3'', Luthor mutters that he hates hitting women or girls... while he is beating Supergirl up.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In ''Supergirl #24'', after reading Cat Grant's slander, Kara wonders if that woman may be right and [[http://s179.photobucket.com/user/airhikec001/media/blog/comics/pages/Supergirl34_worthy.jpg.html she is worthy of the S-shield]]. [[http://s179.photobucket.com/user/airhikec001/media/blog/comics/pages/Supergirl34_coffeegrin.jpg.html Superman's reply is automatic]]:
-->'''Supergirl:''' Is she right, Kal? Am I "a tarted-up teenager in a short skirt and cape with some to prove"? Am I "not worthy of the legacy of Superman"?\\
'''Superman:''' I think you're more than worthy.
* YouCanSeeMe: In ''Supergirl #0'', the Calculator is monitoring Kara under Luthor's orders. At one point, she glares straight in the direction of his camera, which is enough for him to freak out because he realizes that she can see him even though it was supposedly impossible.
* YoureNotMyFather: In ''Supergirl #22'', Kara thinks her cousin is about to lecture her after her latest mess-up, and she interrupts him to remind him he isn't her father or her brother, she's trying to learn to be better, and she doesn't need his validation (Superman answers that he actually agrees with her).
-->'''Supergirl:''' No, listen to me. I have to say: I know you love me, and that's why you feel a need to act like my big brother or my dad -- But you're neither one! I'm capable of recognizing my own mistakes, Kal! I don't need my nose rubbed in them! Maybe I'm not perfect like you --\\
'''Superman:''' Hey, I'm not --\\
'''Supergirl:''' Maybe I need to learn things the hard way. But I am learning! I want to be a family with you and Uncle Jon and Aunt Martha, but I don't need your... validation!
* YouKilledMyFather:
** Kara bears a grudge against Reactron, her father's murderer.
** When Supergirl fights Doomsday in ''Reign of Doomsday'', she hasn't forgotten that monster killed her cousin.
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->I'm Supergirl. This is my life... And y'know what? I'm pretty happy with it (for now, at least.)
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[-[[caption-width-right:350:"I... I thought I was helping. I mean, what's the use of having all this strength and everything if I can't use it to fix things?]]-]
->'''Supergirl:''' No, listen to me. I have to say: I know you love me, and that's why you feel a need to act like my big brother or my dad... But you're neither one! I'm capable of recognizing my own mistakes, Kal! I don't need my nose rubbed in them! Maybe I'm not perfect like you--\\
'''Superman:''' Hey, I'm not--\\
'''Supergirl:''' Maybe I need learn things the hard way. But I am learning! I want to be a family with you and Uncle Jon and Aunt Martha, but I don't need your... validation! I can get by on my own terms, and I'm doing just fine, and--\\
'''Superman:''' I know.
''Supergirl 2005'' or Supergirl Vol 5 is fifth’s Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} self-named book which began publication in October of 2005, spanning 67 issues and 2 annuals. This series features the modern Kryptonian Supergirl, Kara Zor-El, who first appeared in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman'' storyline ''The Supergirl From Krypton''.
After arriving on Earth and being saved from ''Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}'' by Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, Kara Zor-El tries to adapt to her new home. Unfortunately, she unknowingly suffers from Kryptonite poisoning which alters her behavior dramatically and turns her into a very erratic, unstable and unpleasant person for one whole year, in addition to plague her with horrible nightmares and bad memories.
After recovering from her sickness, Kara sets to clearing their name, reconnecting with her cousin and her new family, rebuilding previously-burned bridges with other heroes and learning how to be a hero herself. However ''[[Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac the coming of]]'' ''Comicbook/{{Brainiac}}'', the rescue of Kandor, the return of her parents and the rise and downfall of ''Comicbook/NewKrypton'' will make her life harder.
Sterling Gates and Jamal Igle’s creative team took over story and art duties respectively in issue #34. Their run -''Supergirl #34-59''- is regarded as one of the best runs of the character. It clocked in at #69 on The Hollywood Reporter's 100 Best Super-Heroes Comic-Books [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/superhero-comic-books-100-best-934371/item/supergirl-by-sterling-gates-jamal-934858 List]]. Creator/MarkWaid’s ''Supergirl and the Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes #16-36'' run is also considered excellent.
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!!''Supergirl (2005)'' provides examples of:
* ActuallyADoombot: Toyman's robots look like real human beings and they are capable of deceive even Kara's XRayVision. In "Day of the Dollmaker" Kara invokes the trope when she warns Toyman that he will answer her questions lest she believes he is a robot and tears him apart to verify it.
-->'''Supergirl:''' And how do we know you're even the real Winslow Schott? I've seen one of your robots before -- no, two of them. One here in Gotham, the other on New Krypton. And that one had a part in my world's destruction. A small part, sure, but an important one. Your work is very well made. Impossible to tell apart from real, live human beings, even with my X-Ray vision. So please. Answer Ms. Grant's questions, or else another outburst like that will lead me to believe you're one of Schott's automatons... and I'll start probing to make sure you're real.
* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength:
** Kara is more hot-headed and more short-tempered than her cousin, but she is also frightened of her own power and she holds back most of time because she doesn't want hurt anybody.
** In the first arc, Clark makes clear that she ''appears'' to be more powerful than him because he is ''always'' holding back.
* AlasPoorYorick: In the cover of issue #47, Alura does this with Reactron's helmet.
* AlienAmongUs: This is the case for Supergirl, who came to Earth as a teenager rather than being raised here as her cousin.
* AllJustADream: In ''Supergirl #22'' after getting hit with a train engine, Supergirl sees herself surrounded by her friends of the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. She's happy until Lightning Lad tells her that she is dreaming.
* AmnesiacDissonance: Subverted. Kara suffered from amnesia when her rocket landed on Earth, and for a while she wondered whether she was a good girl or an evil girl pretending to be good. Eventually she remembered everything [[spoiler:and it turned out that she was really a good girl]].
* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Subverted. Kara is a pretty innocent, naive, scared teenager that cannot remember anything of her past. Batman suspects that her innocence may be an act, especially after Comicbook/{{Darkseid}} kidnaps her and brainwashes her. After being rescued Kara also wonders what kind of person she was. When some of her memories appear to return, they are pretty terrible and she believes she was a bad person before losing her memory. However, [[spoiler:she eventually got her real memories back, which proved she was always a good, well-meaning girl]].
* AntiTrueSight:
** In the "Way of the World" arc, Supergirl broke into a federal detention center and made off with an inmate who could help her save Thomas. As they were standing in a secret lab, she lined the ceiling with lead sheets so Superman would not find them.
** In ''Supergirl #23'' someone has sent a sound-proofed, lead-lined gift box to Kara. Since her SuperSenses cannot scan it, she opens it. It was actually a Batman's test, who calls her and admonishes her for opening it.
* ARareSentence: When Kara and Steph are about to fight a sobbing Dracula (long story).
-->'''Batgirl:''' Nothing sadder than a crying Dracula.\\
'''Supergirl:''' If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that...\\
'''Batgirl:''' You'd have a nickel?\\
'''Supergirl:''' I'd have a nickel.
* ArchEnemy: Reactron and Superwoman during the Sterling Gates issues.
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: During the events of the reviled ''Comicbook/AmazonsAttack'' storyline, in where the Amazons went to war against the US, Supergirl and Wonder Girl suddenly come up with a "brilliant" plan to end the war: kidnapping the President and bringing him to Queen Hyppolita to engage in peace talks with her. Predictably, their plan went awry and their reputations suffered a severe blow because the Amazons shot the Air Force One down and almost killed the President. After fending off an Amazon squad, Kara flies to New York to help, although Cassie reminds her that acting without thinking got them into that mess.
-->'''Wonder Girl:''' But we were only trying to--\\
'''Supergirl:''' Doesn't matter. I have to make up for this somehow, before it's too late. I have to balance the scales.\\
'''Wonder Girl:''' How? By flying off half-cocked again, after what we just did...?\\
'''Supergirl:''' I can't do nothing, Cassie!
* BadassBoast: In ''Supergirl #60'' some kind of portal opens up in front of Kara, and Parasite, Silver Banshee, Metallo and the Kryptonite Man step through it. Kara's reaction?
-->'''Supergirl:''' I hope you don't think you're going to win.
* BareYourMidriff: [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/0/03/Supergirl_Vol_5_54_Virgin.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100513211832 Post-Crisis Supergirl]] wears a midriff-baring shirt. Cat Grant often mocked her by wearing outdated clothes.
* BashBrothers: In this instance, Bash Cousins: Superman and Supergirl.
* BatmanGambit: Superman punches both Supergirl and evil Supergirl, assuming that his real cousin will not retaliate. His plan doesn't work because ''both girls'' fight back.
* BattleBoomerang: Used by Boomer during the Joe Kelly's run.
* BattleCouple:
** Chris Kent -Nightwing- and Thara Ak-Var -Flamebird-.
** Supergirl and Brainiac-5.
* BeamOWar: Due to a temporal misunderstanding, Supergirl and Comicbook/{{Superboy}} engage in an EyeBeam duel during their first meeting. Kara wins by getting enough close to punch Conner.
* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: Kara does this to Lana in order to free her from Insect Queen's control.
* BeautifulAllAlong: In her Linda Lang SecretIdentity, Kara braids her hair and wears glasses in order to look like an inconspicuous, average, geeky girl.
* BeingWatched: In ''Supergirl #0'', Kara is flying back to Earth when she realizes she is being spied via satellite.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Defied. Supergirl frequently and openly mocks her friend Thara's belief in the Kryptonian gods and treats her as a loony who believes she is Flamebird's incarnation. When it is revealed that Thara IS Flamebird, Kara apologizes and feels happy, because if their gods are real, then her deceased father is in a better place.
* BewareTheNiceOnes In ''Supergirl #33'', Kara flew Clayface up to the edge of the atmosphere and dropped him after he got her pissed off.
* BigWhat: In the second Annual, Supergirl has this reaction when she finds out that Brainiac 5 accidentally created a super-bomb while analyzing a mystical statue.
-->'''Brainiac 5:''' It’s a ten-thousand-year-old Brocian hunting statue! Rumored by natives to have "magical" properties when struck by lightning, so I was analyzing its reception to other kinds of energy!\\
'''Supergirl:''' Okay! So what did you hit it with?\\
'''Brainiac-5:''' Uh, I opened the timestream and bombarded it with chronon energy.\\
'''Supergirl:''' WHAT?\\
'''Brainiac-5:''' Obviously that wasn't the best of my ideas!\\
'''Supergirl:''' So what's it doing now?\\
'''Brainiac-5:''' Based on my readings, I'm pretty sure I just created a magical time bomb. And if my calculations are correct, we've got less than four seconds to live.
* {{Blackmail}}: In the ''Day of the Dollmaker'' arc, Cat Grant blackmails Lana into getting Supergirl to help her interrogate Toyman and find several kidnapped children.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: In the ''Day of the Dollmaker'' arc, Cat Grant blackmails Lana to get Supergirl to help her. She claims it was not blackmail.
-->'''Cat:''' And I'm not blackmailing anyone. I merely asked Lana to ask her friend to help me.
* BodyHorror: When her suit gets torn, Superwoman's body becomes deformed and falls apart.
* {{Bookends}}: Sterling Gates' run: In the first issue, Cat Grant wrote an article titled: "Why the World Doesn't Need a Supergirl". In the final issue, Cat wrote a kind of recantation: "The world needs a Supergirl".
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Kara has training in both unarmed and armed combat by Franchise/WonderWoman and the Amazons, and she has been taught Klurkor -a Kryptonian martial art-.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #77'', Scarecrow's fear toxin makes Supergirl believe that Robin is her parents' killer Reactron and attack him.
* BreakingTheBonds:
** In ''Supergirl #2'', Cassie Sandsmark alias Comicbook/WonderGirl binds Supergirl with her magic, unbreakable lasso. Supergirl shrugs it off.
** And in the third issue she breaks a pair of Kryptonite cuffs binding her arms.
* BreakThemByTalking: Sakki, The Hate Furnace, delivered one to Supergirl. He mistakenly believed that she was Superman's daughter and picked at her shame at failing to live up to Superman's example. Sakki and his partner, Gakidou, were also [[EmotionEater emotion eaters]], so Supergirl's despair and other negative emotions served to make them stronger. Unfortunately for them, she [[UnstoppableRage became so angry that they nearly overloaded]], and they found out the hard way that their extra strength isn't ''nearly'' enough to deal with a Kryptonian.
* BreathWeapon: In ''Supergirl #34'', Supergirl fights a flame-spewing griffon. When it belches out flames on her, Kara retaliates with her freezing breath.
* BrokenTears: Kara sheds them after finding out that the Daily Planet is slandering her.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Supergirl wears the S-shield on her costume. It's kind of a BerserkButton to Luthor.
-->'''Luthor:''' Striking a woman -- worse, a girl -- reduces me to the level of some thug -- a hooligan -- on the street. Then, I see that "S" that you so brazenly decided to wear on your less than impressive chest. And I can almost forgive myself.
* BulletCatch: In ''Supergirl #11'', Kara shoots at a pirate mook and catches the bullet before it hits his face.
* BullyingADragon: Cat insults, mocks and taunts Supergirl the whole time. In ''Day of the Dollmaker'' she does do it ''to her face''. She doesn't seem bothered by the fact that she's goading someone who can rip her in half and hurl her remains out of the planet in less than a second.
* BurningWithAnger: Thara does this when Reactron drives her so mad that she becomes Flamebird.
* BuriedAlive: In ''Supergirl #32'' Kara has a nightmare in where she has been buried alive.
* CainAndAbel: During a brief DorkAge, that was thankfully swept away by ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Supergirl's father Zor-El hated his brother Jor, and sent Kara to Earth to kill Jor-El's infant son. Or he just didn't get on with his brother, and knew that Kal-El would "infect" Earth with evil spirits from the Phantom Zone. Or… look never mind, it was retconned away.
* CameBackWrong: Discussed in "The Way of the World". Supergirl tries to save a young cancer victim named Thomas. Unfortunately, Thomas dies, but she thinks a blood transfusion of another super-hero's nanite-laced blood may revive Thomas. Superman tries to dissuade her, stating that "the transfusion might bring Thomas back as something inhuman... a blazing skull, a monster, or worse."
* CameFromTheSky: "The Supergirl from Krypton", had her found by Batman and Superman.
* CarFu: Kara loves this. In issue #34, [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pScx8BN4h3s/SOTRh51_-hI/AAAAAAAABQA/pJGoN9Q9WR4/s320/sg+34+4.jpg Kara drops a garbage truck]] on Silver Banshee.
* CatapultNightmare: In ''Supergirl #32'' Kara does this after a bad dream in which she has been buried alive.
* CatchPhrase: Supergirl's during Gates' run: "Hope, help, and compassion for all."
* CatFight: Kara got into several Cat Fights with Comicbook/PowerGirl, Comicbook/WonderGirl and even [[EnemyWithout a dark version of herself]] in the first issues.
* CatUpATree: Played straight, parodied and invoked several times.
** After Cat slanders her, Kara left a note on her desk, saying: "Cat -- Don't call me if you ever get stuck in a tree. S-Girl"
* ChekhovsGun: In Supergirl #38, someone sends Cat Grant a Supergirl doll. In Supergirl #58 she realized it was the key to find a child kidnapper.
* ChestInsignia: Supergirl's S-shield is her family crest. Luthor kind of ''hates'' seeing it.
* ChildOfTwoWorlds: During the ''Comicbook/NewKrypton'' arc, Kara feels torn between New Krypton -where her people settled in- and Earth -her new home-.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: After her emo teen phase, Supergirl tries to be the kind of hero worthy of her Family crest. Unfortunately, her attempts to help everyone are wearing her out. In ''Supergirl #34'':
-->'''Supergirl:''' You think I should stop --?\\
'''Superman:''' No. But Kara, you spend so much time trying to save everyone else, to be the hero that everyone expects you to be, you don't get a chance to relax. You're Supergirl twenty-four hours a day, and I think it's starting to hurt more than help.
* ClarkesThirdLaw:
** Invoked constantly by a secondary character in the final arc:
--->'''Henry:''' Magic is just the science for which we don't know the rules quite yet!
** Later on, another character said:
--->It only looks like magic if you can't do the math.
* ClarkKenting: Kara followed her cousin's example by using glasses.
* ClarkKentOutfit: "Linda Lang" wears long shirts and trousers to cover her athletic, fit body.
* CleavageWindow: In ''Supergirl #34'' Cat Grant wears a red dress that has an enclosed opening on the top portion right above her cleavage.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Superwoman's costume gives Kryptonian powers… after a fashion.
* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: In ''Supergirl #34'' Kara saved Comicbook/JimmyOlsen and Cat Grant from being hit by falling debris. Unfortunately Cat accidentally got bruised when Jimmy landed on her. Cat was so irate she devoted herself to wage a smear campaign against Supergirl.
* CoolUncle:
** Jonathan and Martha Kent, her cousin's foster parents.
** Lana Lang becomes this to Kara after helping her create her SecretIDentity: her niece Linda Lang.
* CrashingDreams: In ''Supergirl #22'', Kara dreams that she's surrounded by her friends Legionnaires. Then they gradually turn into stone. Kara wakes up and notices she is buried in the rocky ground after a villain dropped a train on her.
* CrazyPrepared: After Krypton's destruction, Zor-El had an escape pod ready in case that he and his wife needed to launch Kara towards Earth. And he fitted it with solar panels in case that Kara needed to be invulnerable before landing!
* CryIntoChest: Supergirl did this to her cousin after [[spoiler:the destruction of New Krypton]].
* CurbStompBattle: During the ''Comicbook/NewKrypton'' arc, Supergirl fights an evil Superwoman. At the beginning Superwoman seems a serious menace, but as soon as Kara finds out about Superwoman's identity and allegiance, the Kryptonian girl trashes the villain every time.
* CynicismCatalyst: In ''Supergirl #33'', Kara meets Eddie Rose, a man who thought heroes and good things happened to good people... until he got crippled during ''[[Comicbook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday's rampage]]'' and decided that there were no heroes.
* DarkerAndEdgier: At the beginning, DC tried to turn post-Crisis Supergirl into a darker, edgier and supposedly more modern Kara Zor-El. It didn’t work.
* DeadpanSnarker: Kara often makes sarcastic remarks when she gets angry. In ''Supergirl #22'' she fights a SuperSoldier who claims to be "your tax dollars at work". After defeating him, she grumbles:
-->'''Supergirl:''' Tax dollars at work, my butt!
* DeathGlare: Kara is just as good-natured as her cousin, but being a teenager, she is fiercer and more short-tempered than Superman. If she is giving you one of these -often accompanied with glowing red eyes-, then you have pissed her off for real, and you last resort is ''praying''.
** In ''Supergirl #58'', a security guard is ogling to Cat Grant's butt. Then Supergirl leans over and ''glares''. He starts and falls backwards.
** Minutes later she's interrogating villain Toyman about several missing children, but he claims that he has done nothing wrong and tries to balk at answering her questions. [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ELZ9b065w8/TOL0JZipsOI/AAAAAAAABbc/aYbRRe9hoz4/s400/Supergirl-58-05.jpg Kara glares at him]] and a second later she [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ELZ9b065w8/TOL0JnqNpWI/AAAAAAAABbk/OyOnrRfJ0Ts/s400/Supergirl-58-06.jpg slams him into the wall and urges him to cooperate as her eyes glow red]].
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Kara and Cassie fight in ''Supergirl #2'' and Kara wins. They become very close friends afterwards.
* DefusingTheTykeBomb: Subverted. An early story stated that Kara's father trained her to be a weapon, and Superman -with aid of Batman and Wonder Woman- took her in and acted this way toward her. However her abusive father was eventually retconned as a Kryptonite-induced hallucination when the real Zor-El showed up and turned out to be a pretty nice guy.
* DestructiveSaviour: Supergirl is the most powerful teenager in the planet. Unfortunately she is still a ''teenager'' and an inexperienced hero, so she is very destructive. Cat Grant uses her inexperience as an excuse to wage a smear campaign against her.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** In ''Supergirl #3'' Supergirl decides to fight Lex Luthor alone. Quickly she realizes her plan is not a brilliant one.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Two seconds and I know. I'm in way over my head.
** In ''Supergirl #20'' -part of the reviled ''Comicbook/AmazonsAttack'' storyline- she explains that she and Wonder Girl hijacked Air Force One because they thought they could end the war by making the President sit down in the same room with the Amazon Queen. When things went south very, very quickly she realized that it was a big mistake.
** In Supergirl Annual #2, Brainiac-5 was analyzing how a mystical statue reacted to different kinds of energy, and he accidentally turned it into a kind of super-bomb. He admitted that it was not a very good plan.
--->'''Brainiac-5:''' It’s a ten-thousand-year-old Brocian hunting statue! Rumored by natives to have "magical" properties when struck by lightning, so I was analyzing its reception to other kinds of energy!\\
'''Supergirl:''' Okay! So what did you hit it with?\\
'''Brainiac-5:''' Uh, I opened the timestream and bombarded it with chronon energy.\\
'''Supergirl:''' WHAT?\\
'''Brainiac-5:''' Obviously that wasn't the best of my ideas!\\
'''Supergirl:''' So what's it doing now?\\
'''Brainiac-5:''' Based on my readings, I'm pretty sure I just created a magical time bomb. And if my calculations are correct, we've got less than four seconds to live.
* DieHardOnAnX: In Annual #1 several bank robbers are holding several hostages. Supergirl cannot tip her identity off (long story), so she breaks a restroom's window, crawls into the place and pretends to be one of the hostages until she has a chance to take the crooks down anonymously.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Kara finds Dick Grayson... distracting. Immensely distracting.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Early on in her career, this was a trouble for Supergirl.
** In ''Supergirl #0'' she tries to save a falling plane, and she accidentally tears a wing off.
** During one of his first fights against Reactron, she pulls a man out of a building at super-speed and accidentally breaks his arm in three different places.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Due to editorial carelessness and a poor understanding of the character, the first years of the book were plagued with this: they tried to turn Kara into an angst-filled and jerkass AntiHero, her personality changed every story, her past was constantly retconned, and subplots were dropped or had no resolution. This Dork Age lasted approximately until ''Supergirl #20'' when Tony Bedard -who is a big Pre-Crisis Supergirl fan and didn't know how she was being written in the time- took over the book.
* EmotionEater:
** The Japanese assassins Gakidou and Sakki, The Hate Furnace not only have {{Intangibility}}, but can feed on negative emotions like lust and anger to boost their strengths to astronomical levels. Supergirl defeated them by simultaneously beating them up and [[UnstoppableRage overloading them]].
** In the same story, Powerboy revealed he can channel others' emotions to fuel his abilities, but the excess emotions caused him to go psycho on Kara.
---> '''Powerboy:''' (to a restrained Supergirl) I ''feel''. Feel everyone else's hate, love, pain, fear... and it becomes ''this''... (forms ball of black energy) Of course, you saw what happens when it goes the other way.
* EnemyWithin: Kara had an evil doppelganger for a short while until she reabsorbed it. Her evil side -dubbed by SG fans Dark Supergirl or Dark Kara- embodies all of Supergirl's repressed anger over the loss of her people, and later it resurfaces and takes over. Remarkably, Dark Supergirl is ''less'' evil during her reapparance. She is pretty much an angry jerkass.
* EnemyWithout: In ''Supergirl #3'' Lex Luthor exposed Kara to black kryptonite. It's not clear whether he knew what exactly it would do to her, but he hoped it would be ''bad.'' Well, it turns out the stuff does ''this,'' and Kara had an evil doppelganger for a while. "Dark Supergirl" later resurfaced as an Enemy Within.
* EntitledBastard: Daily Planet sleazy journalist Cat Grant launched a smear campaign against Supergirl with the intention of driving her away Metropolis. Cat called Supergirl a reckless, out-of-control teenager. Cat accused her from spearheading a Kryptonian AlienInvasion. Cat complained about her out-of-fashion ''dress'' and the ''length of her skirt''. During one year she told over and again that the world doesn't need a Supergirl. And then she ran into trouble and blackmailed Kara into helping her because she couldn't find Franchise/{{Superman}}. And as they teamed up, Cat ''kept'' insulting her.
-->'''Supergirl:''' "The hero the world doesn't need," Cat wrote about me. Some days, though, it sure feels like it does. Though, if there weren't three kids missing, I'm not sure I'd help her. You can't say those kinds of things about a person then expect them to just fly up and give you a hand.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Supergirl hated Cat Grant because she published news articles slandering her. Still she rescued her when villain Dollmaker kidnapped her. Dollmaker couldn't understand why Supergirl would want to save someone she hated.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Kara did this twice. It was based on a Silver Age story in which Supergirl was exposed to a piece of ''red'' kryptonite that created [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Satan_Girl_(Pre-Zero_Hour) Satan Girl]], who likewise wore a black outfit (her version had a cowl and no S-symbol, because her identity was originally a mystery).
** The first time happens in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman'' #12, when she is [[BrainwashedAndCrazy captured by Darkseid and turned into one of his Furies]]. This was very brief, but during that time she wore, essentially, skintight red-and-black pants and a black bra.
** The second time happened when she was hit with black kryptonite in ''Supergirl'' #3, causing an evil duplicate to suddenly emerge from her body... already wearing a black version of her normal costume. Apparently, evil kryptonite clones have black clothing as part of their very nature. This trope was also lampshaded an issue later, when evil Supergirl switched her costume with the original Supergirl's at SuperSpeed, in an attempt to fool Batman and Superman as to who was the evil clone. The black costume returned in a later ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' storyline where a battle with the Omega Man accidentally reawakened the Dark Supergirl persona within her.
* EvilIsPetty: Reactron tried to kill Kara several times, murdered her parents, blew her planet up... because she had the gall to defend herself and beat him when he first attacked her.
* EvilMakeover: Sometimes it happens to Kara. Usually [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Supergirlcostumeswitch_1264.jpg she switches costumes]] and she wears less clothing or wears a black version of her costume.
* EvilMeScaresMe: Supergirl was split into her normal self and an evil alternate personality when exposed to black Kryptonite. Supergirl was frightened of her dark, violent and murderous self because "Dark Supergirl" claimed she was the real Kara, and Supergirl's nice and well-meaning persona was only an act.
* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: In Supergirl vol. 5 #59, Supergirl fights Dollmaker. He ducked when she shot her heat beams and mocked her aim. A second later he realized she wasn't aiming at him. She was freeing Cat Grant.
-->'''Dollmaker:''' Ha! You missed me!\\
'''Cat:''' She wasn't aiming for you, you little bastard.
* EyeScream:
** In ''Supergirl #1'', Wildcat threatens with poking Solomon Grundy's left eye out.
** In ''Supergirl #20'', Supergirl pierces the eye of a Cyclops with a magical arrow.
** In ''Supergirl #41'' a cop puts a bullet through Reactron's left eye.
* FacePalmOfDoom: In ''Supergirl #41'', Reactron clutches a cop's head as burns him.
* {{Faceship}}: Brainiac's ship. It resembles a huge humanoid skull armed with metal tentacles and pincers.
* FakingTheDead: When [[spoiler:Reactron]] is being judged, a mob breaks into the court intending to lynch him. Alura takes advantage of the ensuing chaos to fake his death in order to throw him in a cell and interrogate him.
* FetalPositionRebirth: Post-Crisis Supergirl slept curled-up inside her rocket until she landed on Earth, woke up and exited her pod.
* FingerPokeOfDoom: Kara does this several times:
** To Comicbook/HarleyQuinn in ''Supergirl #0''.
** To a pirate mook in ''Supergirl #11''.
** [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/3/36257/1352064-supergirl_v5_055017_018.jpg To Bizarrogirl]] in ''Supergirl #55''.
* FishOutOfWater: One of the defining traits of modern Supergirl. Unlike her more famous cousin, who left Krypton when he was too young to remember it, Kara spent her formative years growing up in Kryptonian society before she was sent to Earth as a teenager. Understandably, she has a harder time adjusting to life on Earth than Kal-El ever did, as she still considers herself a Kryptonian at heart.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: During ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'' she was accidentally sent to the XXXth Century and joined the Legion. She was so confused that in the beginning she thought she was dreaming.
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Kara's parents sent her to Earth to escape from the shrinking of Kandor and look after her baby cousin, and she eventually became one of the greatest heroes of Earth.
* ForcefulKiss:
** In '' Comicbook/SupermanBatman'' #19 -later reprinted as ''Supergirl Vol 5'' #0, Supergirl runs into Comicbook/PoisonIvy, and the super-villain plants a kiss on Supergirl's lips to poison her.
** In ''Supergirl Vol 5'' #3, Kara Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} impulsively before flying away to face Lex Luthor.
** In ''Supergirl Vol 5'' #51 Kara kisses Mon-El as he flies to Brainiac's ship.
* FriendOnTheForce: Inspector Mike Henderson, member of Metropolis police, Metacrimes Division. He helped Supergirl discover the identity of Superwoman during the ''Who Is Superwoman?'' story.
* FreudianExcuse: In the ''Day of the Dollmaker'' arc, Lana explains Supergirl that Cat Grant is a very unpleasant woman because her son's murder changed her.
* FreudianSlip: Lana Lang tells Cat that her "nephew" Linda lost her father a short while ago to get her off Linda's back. Cat asks her if it was her brother or her sister's husband who died.
* FutureMeScaresMe: Supergirl is scared of her older, alternate self Power Girl.
* GambitPileup: Alura orders her daughter to capture Reactron and bring him back to New Krypton. When Kara drags him along to the planet, a mob tries to lynch him and Alura takes advantage of the ensuing chaos to fake his death, throw him in a cell and make him talk... [[spoiler: which was a bad idea because Luthor and Lane's gambit involved transforming Reactron into a living bomb and setting him off inside of New Krypton]].
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: It happens three times on ''Supergirl: Identity'':
** When Supergirl returns to her apartment, her roommate Boomer aka Captain Boomerang Jr., asks how her day was.
--->'''Supergirl:''' I met a girl tonight.\\
'''Boomer:''' (DoubleTake, then grin) Explain. And ''do not'' leave out ''any'' details.\\
'''Supergirl:''' (hits him with a pillow) Idiot... Another hero in a costume.
** When Supergirl and Wondergirl hug, with Kara's arms around Cassie's neck, and Cassie's arms around Kara's waist.
--->'''Kid Devil:''' Can't talk. Committing image to memory.\\
'''Ravager:''' Someone get a video camera... We'll get two billion hits on Website/YouTube.
** When a guy asks his girlfriend and Supergirl to hug and let him take a picture.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: It happens a lot when Kara gets ''real'' angry. Some instances:
** In ''Supergirl #2'' she has had enough of Wonder Girl trying to bash her head in and refusing to hear her out, so her eyes glow red before knocking Cassie down.
** In ''Day of the Dollmaker'' [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ELZ9b065w8/TOL0JnqNpWI/AAAAAAAABbk/OyOnrRfJ0Ts/s400/Supergirl-58-06.jpg her eyes glow red]] as she faces Toyman and suggests that he answers her questions... or ''else''.
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Insect Queen]] did this to [[spoiler:Lana Lang]] in ''Supergirl #50'''.
* GroundShatteringLanding: In the cover of issue #12, Kara performs a ground-cracking landing (combined with a ThreePointLanding for greater effect).
* HeelRealization: In issue #20 Kara realizes she has been a jerkass after beating Dark Angel's trial.
* HeroesLoveDogs: In her introductory story Kara tried to befriend Krypto, and she was devastated when the dog seemed to dislike her. Later on, they became friends.
* HeroicBSOD: Kara had a breakdown after [[spoiler:New Krypton's destruction]]. Superman hugged her while she cried in space, and she considered quitting the hero gig for a while.
* HeroicBystander: In ''Supergirl #20'', Supergirl is fighting a Cyclops (long story) and being trounced by the giant monster. Then a bystander hands an arrow dropped by an Amazon (long story) over to Supergirl, and she uses it to blind the Cyclops.
* HeroInsurance:
** In ''Supergirl #12'' new hero Terra (now called Atlee) helps Supergirl take out a giant dinosaur; after the battle she uses her earth powers to repair the streets and even fix a fire hydrant. It is later revealed in the Terra miniseries that she apparently does this after every battle.
** Invoked in ''Supergirl #34''. Supergirl fights Silver Banshee in a baseball field, unintentionally trashing the place. Several spectators berate her about it until she flies away, and then they yell that she should clean the place up. So... they successfully drive her away and then they want her to stay and clean up.
* HeroWithBadPublicity:
** She suffers from Kryptonite poisoning when she arrives on Earth, which changes her personality to one of a crazy, self-absorbed, whiny, rude emo teen. After one year she gets her act together and begins acting as an S-wearing hero, but it took some time for her initial behavior being forgotten.
** In ''Supergirl #34'', Daily Planet journalist Cat Grant starts a negative PR campaign to smear Kara. She finally stops one year later when Supergirl saves her life.
* HesBack: Kara wanted to give up being Supergirl after [[spoiler:New Krypton’s destruction]], but she donned her Supergirl costume again to save Metropolis from Bizarrogirl.
* HeterosexualLifePartners:
** Kara and Stephanie Brown alias ''Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}''. They love spending time together and helping each other. And if you pick on Steph, you will never know what hit you.
** Kara and Cassie Sandsmark ''Comicbook/WonderGirl'' were very good friends, too.
* HoistHeroOverHead: In the cover of "Superman Supergirl: Maelstrom" #1, Darkseid's minion Maelstrom is doing this to Supergirl.
* HypocriticalHumor: In issue 2, Supergirl meets Starfire, who tells her she has some of the answers she is looking for.
-->'''Supergirl:''' (thinking) What would a girl who comes from another planet in a faraway galaxy know about -- Oh. Says me, the girl from another planet in a far... Huh.
* IgnoredExpert: Zor-El pleaded with Argo City's Council to find a new world to settle in, reasoning that the shields protecting the city wouldn't last forever. They didn't listen, even though he is the man who designed the dome and his brother was the man who correctly predicted Krypton's destruction.
* IHatePastMe: Karen and Kara don't get along well because Kara was being written as a jerk in the first issues of her book. Kara apologized to Karen after getting her head together, but Karen turned her down.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: In ''Supergirl #50'', Insect Queen took over Lana Lang's body. While Kara beat her up, she tried to reach out to Lana.
-->'''Kara:''' Lana, if you can hear me-- SAY something! Lana! I KNOW you're IN there! Let her body Go, you insect FREAK! Get OUT!
* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: In ''Supergirl #0'', the Calculator is monitoring Kara under Lex Luthor's orders. At one point, she glares straight in the direction of the Calculator’s camera, which is enough for him to freak out in a SpitTake.
* ILoveNuclearPower: Reactron has the ability to control and project nuclear radiation.
* ImmuneToBullets: Kara is bulletproof. Issue #53 provides the Trope Image.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: In the "New Krypton" arc, Lana Lang often coughed or vomited blood. Kara eventually found out that Lana had been keeping her illness from her.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Kara has blue eyes. And after undergoing CharacterDevelopment she is a nice, kind and compassionate young woman.
* InsigniaRipOffRitual: In ''Supergirl #41'', Kara rips the "S"-shield off Superwoman's clothes screaming she is a murderer and she doesn't deserve to wear her family's crest.
* InsistentTerminology: As seen in ''Supergirl #37'', Alura was NOT spying on the Earth’s army. She was merely "monitorizing" them.
* InstantCostumeChange: Kara often takes advantage of her SuperSpeed to change clothes instantly. In ''Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2009}}'' she comes to visit her friend Stephanie Brown and does this to avoid to be caught by Steph's mother.
* ItHasOnlyJustBegun: In ''Supergirl and the Legion of Super Heroes #24'':
-->'''Jeyra Entinn''': You won '''this''' round, Legionnaires... But this is only the beginning...!\\
'''Cosmic Boy''': Wow. Is there some super-villain book of quotes they all work off of?
* ItsAllAboutMe: Reactron attempted to kill Kara several times, slaughtered her parents, blew her new home up and tried to ruin her life... because she trounced him when he attacked her out of nowhere and with no provocation whatsoever.
* ItsPersonal:
** Kara wants to take Reactron down because he murdered her father, blasting him right in front of her.
** Once [[spoiler:New Krypton blows up]], Supergirl goes directly after Lex Luthor and Sam Lane -who orchestrated [[spoiler:her species' genocide]]- and Superwoman -who aided and abetted them-.
** In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman Annual #5'', Supergirl is glad to fight Doomsday, the abomination who slew her cousin.
* JailBait: During the Joe Kelly's issues several older boys constantly hit on her, even though she is sixteen.
* KindheartedCatLover: The same as her Earth-One and Earth-Two counterparts, Kara owns a pet cat called Streaky.
* KubrickStare: Cat Grant does this when she interrogates Toymaker in ''Supergirl #58''.
* LawOfDisproportionateResponse: In ''Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac'', Kara accidentally reveals that Daily Planet's journalist Cat Grant has fake boobs. Later Supergirl accidentally gets Cat slightly bruised while saving her. As a result of this, Cat spends one whole year slandering Supergirl in the hope that her tripe drives the young hero away from Metropolis.
* TheLeader: Supergirl was elected leader of the ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' for a short while.
* LeaveMeAlone:
** Deconstructed. Shortly after showing up on Earth she asked her cousin, Batman and Wonder Woman leave her alone for a while as she figured her new life out. Unfortunately she spent one whole year completely aimless and screwing around due to Kryptonite poisoning altering her personality until she understood she needed help.
** In ''Supergirl #58'', Cat Grant blackmails Supergirl into helping her find a children kidnapper. As they are working together, Cat belittles Kara the whole time until Kara gets tired of it, decides to work on the case on her own, and tells Cat leave her alone.
--->'''Cat:''' But -- But '''WAIT!''' I need --\\
'''Supergirl:''' You need to leave me alone, is what you '''NEED''' to do.
* LetsGetDangerous: In a Franchise/TeenTitans issue, Kara and Miss Martian come to blows. Kara thinks M'gann is not in her League until the Martian girl punches her hard. Supergirl then gets serious and fights Miss Martian hard.
* LightGirlDarkBoy: [[http://im.ziffdavisinternational.com/ign_es/screenshot/default/34450_2te1.jpg As seen here]], Supergirl has blond hair and a fairer skin that her black-haired cousin.
* LittlestCancerPatient: In the storyline "Way of the World'' Supergirl tries to save Thomas, a little boy who suffers from terminal cancer. She swears that she will not let him die [[spoiler:but she fails]].
* LoveHurts:
** Most of guys Kara dates turn out to be jerks, creeps, cheaters, or super-villains. When she dates a guy who is actually nice and well-meaning, she often has to break up with him.
** ''Supergirl #15'''s title is "Love Hurts". She gets involved with Power Boy until she finds out that he is an abusive, evil bastard.
* LovelyAngels:
** She and Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} -''[[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2009}} Stephanie Brown]]''- liked hanging together and teaming up.
** In the zero special issue, Kara teamed up with ''[[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2011}} Barbara Gordon]]''. In reality [[spoiler:"she" was Clayface.]]
* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: During the Sterling Gates' run, General Sam Lane and his minions Reactron and Superwoman used this tactic against the eponymous heroine over and over again: they harass Supergirl and try to murder her, and when Kara defends herself she gets in trouble for aggravated assault and battery, and attempted murder.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Kara fights Silver Banshee at least twice. Superman warns her that Banshee's loud scream never results in instant death as long as she doesn't know your real name... but she can still blow out your eardrums.
* ManOfKryptonite:
** During ''New Krypton'', Reactron was rebuilt as a Metallo expy, complete with a Kryptonite heart —- though in his case it was Gold Kryptonite, the one kind of Kryptonite that could permanently cancel all her superpowers.
** In ''Supergirl #60'', Parasite and Silver Banshee teamed with Metallo and the Kryptonite Man to take Supergirl down. Kara admits that fighting the latter two is a headache, but she is not intimidated and tells them bluntly that they will not win.
* MassOhCrap: In ''Supergirl #20'', Supergirl a bunch of bystanders have this reaction when they see a giant, rampaging Cyclops. And then a bunch of preschool children and her caretaker do this when the Cyclops is moving on them.
* MindControlEyes: In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #77'', Kara gets glowing red eyes when she is under the influence of Scarecrow's fear toxin.
* MisBlamed: The passengers of the Air Force One blamed Supergirl for shooting the plane down during the events of ''Amazons Attack''. It was not Kara's fault but she didn't correct them because she definitely blamed herself.
* MistakenForCheating: In ''Supergirl #2'' Cassie Sandsmark -alias ''Comicbook/WonderGirl''- walks in while Kara and Superboy are having an argument and assumes that the two are engaging in foreplay. She attacks Supergirl and loses, but the misunderstanding is cleared up.
* MistakenForPedophile: Hal Jordan once had to remind himself he "isn't Ollie" to get himself to stop thinking weird thoughts about the seventeen year old Supergirl.
* MistakenForProstitute: In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #8'', a naked Kara wanders confused into an alley, having just woken up from her rocket, and is spotted by three workers. One of them mistakes her for a prostitute and decides to play Lothario only to have his hand crushed and be slammed through a wall. The second tries to help his friend. The third wisely proclaims he's not with the other two and offers her his coat.
* ModestyShorts: Added to her costume from late 2009 until her costume change for the New 52 reboot. According to the artist Jamal Igle, “At the first meeting I had with [Matt Idleson, the editor] after I got the book, he said, ‘I never want to see Supergirl’s panties again'."
* MomentKiller: In ''Supergirl #19'', when Wonder Girl and Supergirl reunited there was the extremely close hug, actual "I love you", leaning in... and being shot with a rocket launcher by Ravager, who apparently enjoys having invulnerable teammates.
* MoodSwinger: Kara suffered wild mood swings in the first issues because of Kryptonite poisoning. She went from fury to happiness to fury to gloominess in a single scene.
* MsFanservice: Post Crisis Kara was a pretty infamous example, what with her cheerleader like costume, being introduced naked and later dressing in low cut jeans with her thong on display, and her constant panty shots when in costume. While most young teenage girls in comics get treated like this, she did it to such a degree that it made many people uncomfortable, and was the source of many of her early criticisms. Editors eventually issued a demand for this to be limited and/or stopped, and thankfully it did.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: When Kara returned in 2004, she looked like a slender, sixteen-year-old... who could bench-press airplanes, lift mountains and outrun ''light''. Writers were easily able to tease the fan base with the idea that teenager might be stronger than her full grown powerfully built cousin Superman. Turns out, he just holds himself back [[WorldofCardboardSpeech due to living his whole life in a world made of cardboard]]. However one of the teases was correct: she can fly faster owing to her smaller size.
* MustMakeAmends: In issue #20 Kara decides to turn over a new leaf and apologize to everyone for her jerkass behavior. That was the first step to become the hero Supergirl is meant to be.
* MyFistForgivesYou: Grace Choi of ''[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]'' tried this on Supergirl as revenge for freezing during a battle and failing to watch her back, but broke her hand despite her formidable strength.
* MythologyGag:
** In ''Supergirl #3'', Supergirl tells Luthor ''[[Comicbook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything "Burn"]]'' before blasting him.
** In issue #41, Kara calls Superwoman a "murderous babootch". In the Silver Age, a babootch was monkey-like animal from Krypton.
* NeckLift:
** Sometimes Supergirl does this when someone pisses her off:
*** In the end of ''Comicbook/NewKrypton'', Supergirl does this to [[spoiler:Sam Lane]] after he has [[spoiler:successfully engineered the death of New Krypton and the Kryptonian genocide]].
*** In the beginning of the ''Day of the Dollmaker'' storyline (''Supergirl vol. 5 #58''), [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ELZ9b065w8/TOL0JnqNpWI/AAAAAAAABbk/OyOnrRfJ0Ts/s400/Supergirl-58-06.jpg she does this to Toyman]] during an interrogation when she thinks he's lying. Her GlowingEyesOfDoom stress that she's serious and furious.
** In ''Supergirl #51'' Alura attacks Comicbook/{{Superboy}}. When Supergirl finds them, he is grabbing the neck of Alura and is about to punch her out.
** Luthor neck-lifts Kara in issue #3.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Kara has got this issue. On the one hand, she is one of the mightiest heroes of her universe; on the other, she is cousin of THE greatest hero of her universe. She struggles to walk out of his shadow, but it's hard to shake the "Superman's younger cousin" label off, especially when he -together with Batman and Wonder Woman- tried to train her and mentor her when she arrived on Earth. And at the beginning she messed up... a lot. After a monumental screw-up, she thought that her cousin was about to lecture her, and she stated that she was finally learning and she didn't need his validation. To her surprise, Clark agreed.
-->'''Supergirl:''' No, listen to me. I have to say: I know you love me, and that's why you feel a need to act like my big brother or my dad — But you're neither one! Maybe I need to learn things the hard way. But I am learning! I want to be a family with you and Uncle Jon and Aunt Martha, but I don't need your... validation! I can get by on my own terms, and I'm doing just fine, and —\\
'''Superman:''' I know.\\
'''Supergirl:''' ... ... What?\\
'''Superman:''' I know you're doing fine. That's what I want to talk about. You made one of your worst mistakes ever with Air Force One, but you bounced back from it and did some real good in Washington. And I don't want you feeling like you're in my shadow.
* NewMediaAreEvil: ''Supergirl #60'' has a guy launch an attack on the entire DCU metahuman community by creating a Foursquare-esque smartphone app for people to post metahuman sightings so villains can then track them down and attack them.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: During the Joe Kelly's run, Supergirl gained the ability to grow sharp glass shards from her body. Since it was too stupid and out of nowhere, it suffered the fate of everything what came from that run: it was explained away quickly (Kryptonite poisoning caused her blood to crystallize in the oxygen when she was cut) and never mentioned again.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown:
** Supergirl delivered a brutal beating to Superwoman in issue #41.
** In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman Annual #5'', Supergirl comes face to face with Doomsday. And she is actually glad because she wanted a chance to take him -the monster that killed her cousin- on one-on-one. And then [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rZPp6fU38Dc/TZ2hU0vafII/AAAAAAAALgU/j-hROlN5mCM/s1600/sb+ann+5-10.jpg she does]] and [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qGTS6Gxprnw/TZ2hVXVnGZI/AAAAAAAALgY/vR11S0y5Fow/s1600/sb+ann+5-11.jpg she cuts loose]].
* NotGoodWithRejection: Kara has an unfortunate record of falling for guys who later turn out to be jerks, super-villains ''or'' jerkass super-villains who hate when she sees through their ruse and breaks up with them. When it happens, they try to abuse her... and find out what bullying the obscenely super-powered, temperamental girl is a spectacularly bad idea. Powerboy is a case in point: he brutally beat her up, including dragging her face down the side of a skyscraper, and tied her to a bed. She beat him up, dropped a ''house'' on him and told him never to bother her again.
* NotWhatItLooksLike:
** In ''Supergirl #2'' ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} have an argument and brawl, only for [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Wonder Girl (Cassandra Sandsmark)]] to walk in and assume Superboy is cheating on her and that the two are engaging in foreplay. She attacks Supergirl and loses, but the misunderstanding is cleared up. Cassie didn't even stop to consider that Superboy is the son/clone of Franchise/{{Superman}}, Supergirl's cousin.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Whatever you thought was going on, Cassie -- '''wasn't'''.
** In ''Supergirl #51'' Alura ambushes Superboy. When Kara runs into them, he is neck-lifting her and about to punch her out.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Superboy!? What the Hell are you doing?!\\
'''Superboy:''' Uh... This '''definitely''' isn't what it looks like, Kara!
* NowOrNeverKiss:
** In the third issue, Kara kisses Dick before flying away to face Luthor, since maybe she might not be able to do it later.
** In ''Supergirl #51'' Kara kisses Mon-El as he flies to Brainiac's ship.
* ObliviousToLove: Kara had a ''huge'' crush on Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}. She even kissed him at a point. Dick Grayson's reaction? "Oh, I'm sure she cannot possibly have a crush on me."
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In ''War of the Supermen'', Supergirl [[spoiler:defeats Superwoman for good]]. And that final battle happens completely off panel.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Post-Crisis Kara is frightened of Power Girl because their powers go into overdrive when they touch... and because she turned on Karen temporarily. She apologized later on, but Karen turned her apology down.
* PaintItBlack: In ''Supergirl #3'', Supergirl was exposed to black kryptonite and she was split into her normal self and an evil (and oversexed) alternate personality that wore a black-and-silver version of her normal costume. The black costume returned in a later ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' storyline where a battle with the Omega Man accidentally reawakened the Dark Supergirl persona within her.
* PardonMyKlingon: In ''Supergirl #34'', Kara says "Cat Grant is a total snagriff" after Cat smears her publicly. Clark agrees.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Cat Grant is a total snagriff.\\
'''Superman:''' Yes, she is.
* ParentalAbandonment: Kara loses her parents when they send her to Earth to save her from Comicbook/{{Brainiac}}. After a while Kara finds out that they are still alive after all... and they get murdered soon after. So she lost them ''twice''.
* ParentalSubstitute: Kara has several parental figures: her cousin Superman, his foster parents Jonathan and Martha Kent and Lana Lang.
* PedestrianCrushesCar:
** This is even part of Kara’s introduction in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #8''. Some guy crashes onto Kara as she roams the streets of Gotham aimlessly just after her crash-landing.
** In the [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/2/22/Supergirl_v.5_10.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080818062513 cover]] of ''Supergirl #10'', another car crashes into Kara while she's standing in the middle of the road.
* PercussiveTherapy: In issue #33, Kara is severely distraught after failing to save a child. Then she runs into super-villain Clayface and decides he is exactly the punching bag she is looking for.
* PietaPlagiarism: In ''Supergirl #36'' storyline, Supergirl holds [[spoiler:her father's body while he dies]].
* PinchMe: In ''Supergirl #22'', Kara's dream starts to fade as soon as Lightning Lad explains that she is dreaming.
* PlayingWithFire: Thara Ak-Var is a pyrokinetic.
* PowerfulAndHelpless: In "Way of the World", Supergirl fails to save a boy that is dying from cancer, and she has to accept her incredible powers can't fix everything.
* PowerLossMakesYouStrong: During a fight Reactron nullifies Supergirl's powers with Golden Kryptonite. He thinks he has already won when Kara rises up and [[http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j84/registrationisstupid/supergirl/SupergirlV54014.jpg beats the crap out of him]], telling she trained with Batman, the Amazons and is a first level practitioner of Klurkor- a Kryptonian martial art.
-->I trained with Batman. With the Amazons. I know first level Klurkor. Just because I can't use heat vision doesn't meant I'm helpless.
* PortalDoor: In ''Supergirl #60'' a group of villains use portals to find and harass heroes.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner:
** In issue 2:
--->'''Supergirl:''' You think you know '''ANGER?''' I'LL SHOW YOU ANGER!
** In issue #41:
--->'''Superwoman:'''And don't bother trying to put up a fight, girl. I'm just as invulnerable as you are.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Good. That means I won't have to hold back, you murderous babootch.
* ThePromise: In "Way of the World", Supergirl promises a boy who is dying from cancer that he will not die. She will not allow it. She moves Heaven and Earth to find a cure in time [[spoiler:but at the end, she fails]].
* PromotionToParent: Superman serves this role for his younger cousin. Ironically, Kara expected to raise her baby cousin when she arrived on Earth, but her ship was delayed and she put in suspended animation, and when she crash-landed on Earth, Kal was nearly twice his age.
* ProperlyParanoid: In ''Supergirl #0'', Kara is being spied by Luthor's henchman Noah Kuttler alias Calculator. Suddenly she turns towards the camera, freaking Noah out. Luthor tells him he's just being paranoid and Supergirl can't be aware of him. She is, though.
* TheRealRemingtonSteele: Supergirl and Comicbook/PowerGirl assumed the identities of Flamebird and Nightwing while operating inside Kandor.
* RealityEnsues: In "The Way of World", Kara meets a little boy that is dying from cancer and vows to save his life. Kara fails and has to learn that her powers cannot do anything.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Lois gave Cat a very scathing -and very right- speech, accusing her from having become a war-mongering tool.
-->'''Lois Lane:''' Are you even a '''reporter''', Cat? Don't you have a '''shred''' of integrity? Or is '''pandering''' with lies and innuendo just that much '''easier''' for you? This '''isn't''' journalism! It's '''PROPAGANDA'''! And '''that''' makes you a '''tool'''. How you can '''stand''' to look at yourself in the mirror, Cat?
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Supergirl does this a lot, especially when she is pissed off.
* ReformedButRejected: After surviving Dark Angel’s trial, recovering from her K-poisoning a bit and getting her head together, Kara sought Power Girl out and apologized for everything. Karen replied she couldn't forgive her or trust her.
* RedHerring: In ''Who Is Superwoman?'' Kara suspects that her old friend Thara Ak-Var is the evil Superwoman who aided and abetted her father's murderer because Thara was Kandor's security head. It turned out that Superwoman is [[spoiler:Lucy Lane]].
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: Supergirl's SecretIdentity is Linda Lang, Comicbook/LanaLang's niece.
* RetGone: A later version of The Dark Angel tried to do this to Kara by trapping her in a horrifying illusion without her knowledge. If Supergirl had mentally, physically, or spiritually broken, Dark Angel would have had the authority to erase her. Supergirl survived the test, but Dark Angel decided to erase her anyway, only to be stopped by her boss, The Monitor.
* RightBehindMe: In ''Supergirl and the Legion of Super Heroes'' #20, the Legion are discussing Supergirl, [[NotNowKiddo ignoring]] Dream Boy, who is trying to warn them she's listening to them.
-->'''Cosmic Boy:''' She makes me nervous, Garth. I can't put my finger on it, but something’s not right about Supergirl. Oh, Boy. She's ''here''... isn't she?\\
'''Dream Boy:''' That's what I've been trying to tell you. She can [[SuperSenses hear every word]]...
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship:
** Kara and ''Comicbook/WonderGirl'' -Cassie Sandsmark-. They even kissed at one point.
** Kara and Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} ''[[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2009}} Stephanie Brown]]''-. They are ''extremely close''.
* SamaritanSyndrome: Kara spends all of her time in her cape until Superman warns her that she will get burned out if she keeps it up and she needs to live like a normal person.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In ''Supergirl #58'', Cat Grant blackmails Supergirl into working with her to find a child-kidnapper... and spends the whole time belittling her. Kara finally has had it with Cat and decides to leave the older woman and work on the case on her own.
-->'''Supergirl:''' That's it. I'm '''gone'''.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: Dollmaker wears a green shirt, purple bow tie and belt and violet overalls.
* SecretIdentity: "Linda Lang", Lana Lang's nephew.
* SecretIdentityIdentity: Kara was Supergirl 24/7 until her cousin warned her that she would eventually burn out and suggested that she came up with a secret identity. Kara created a civilian identity called Linda Lang, but it was merely a disguise. After [[spoiler:failing to save New Krypton]] she briefly considered giving up on being Supergirl and becoming Linda permanently.
* SecretKeeper:
** Supergirl knows Clark Kent is Superman, Bruce Wayne is Franchise/{{Batman}}, Diana Prince is Franchise/WonderWoman and her dear friends Stephanie Brown and Cassie Sandsmark are Batgirl and Wonder Girl.
** Superman, Comicbook/LoisLane, Pa and Ma Kent (she calls them Uncle Jonathan and Aunt Martha) and Lana Lang know that Linda Lang is Supergirl. Lana actually helped Kara set it up, pretending that she is her niece. Stephanie Brown also knows her secret identity.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In ''Supergirl #23'', Kara opens a sound-proofed, lead-lined gift that mysteriously appeared in her apartment, which was a test from Batman who calls her and admonishes her for opening it.
* SecurityCling: Supergirl clings to Superman and sobs after [[spoiler:the destruction of New Krypton]].
* SelfMadeOrphan: In Supergirl #58, Toyman's son Dollmaker tried to kill his father.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Subverted. In ''Supergirl #32'', Kara has the chance to travel back to the past. She thinks of fixing all of her mistakes and doing it right this time... but then she decides that the past is the past and she must accept this and move on.
* ShootingSuperman: Usually played very straight, but subverted with Reactron. A cop manages to hurt him when aiming for his left eye, one of the only areas unprotected by his armor.
* ShutUpHannibal: After Kara is brutally beaten up by Powerboy, including having her face '''dragged down the side of a skyscraper''', she wakes up in a bed next to a StalkerShrine devoted to her, bound in powerful, alien-tech restraints. Powerboy says a big speech about how much he loves her, that he knows best, and that the beating was her fault for making him angry. Supergirl blasts him with heat vision, calls him out that he's an asshole and that no one should ever hit someone that they love, then drops his house on him. He tries to escape, while still ranting, but Supergirl catches up to him and [[GroinAttack kicks him in the groin]].
-->'''Powerboy''': "Look, I'm just going to lay it all out because honesty is important in a strong relationship... I was born on Apokolips. Taken from the Armagetto Slums to serve [[{{ComicBook/Darkseid}} You-Know-Who]]... [[TrainingFromHell He made me strong]], trained me in the ways of the Earth so I could [[TheMole come here as a "hero" and]]... Well, it doesn't really matter anymore, because it changed the the day you came to Apokolips. [[LoveAtFirstSight The most beautiful thing I had ever seen]]. Ever ''felt''. From that moment, I knew I had found my "Missing Half". I knew we would be together. And then you left... I couldn't eat. Sleep. Think. I knew that my true destiny wasn't with Darkseid and his stupid plans... So I followed you across the universe. I watched you try so hard to fit in, to find your way. All I wanted to do was hold you. Tell you how beautiful you were. But I knew you weren't ready to hear it... Sometimes we have to fall all the way down before someone can lift us up. You could be something so special, Kara... But you're lost. You're lost and you're too weak to find your way alone. Whenever you try... the monster in you comes out. Is this what you what to be?" (''cups her face'') "You need someone to take care of you, Kara. Someone who ''loves'' you to build to up... To make you into something you can be proud of. I love you, Kara. We can be perfect together, if you'll just let me fix you."\\
'''Supergirl''': (''[[ShutUpHannibal destroys her restraints and burns his hand with heat vision]]'') "We need to break up."\\
'''Powerboy''': "Aaaaaigh! What did you do?!"\\
'''Supergirl''': "You hit me. You said you loved me... And you '''hit me'''." (''punches him through a wall to the outside'')\\
'''Powerboy''': "Y-You made me hit you! Because you don't listen, like now! Kara! I'm warning you! Stop it or I'll do it again! I'll hurt you again! [[StayInTheKitchen You can be happy if you just do what I tell you!]] I--" (''Supergirl rips his house from its foundation and rises into the sky'') "Kara, I love you. Don't you want someone take care of you!?"\\
'''Supergirl''': "No one who says he loves you should hit you, '''ever'''." (''drops his house on him'')\\
'''Powerboy''': (''FlashStep into outer space, pulls out his Father Box'') "Ouch. Heh... Heh... Got some fight to her... Gonna have to work on that... Next time... And there ''will'' be a next time. Try to drop a house on me now. Father Box... Honey..."\\
'''Supergirl''': (''FlashStep up to him, [[GroinAttack knees him in the groin]]'') "I out-flew Superman, "Honey". We're not done." (''grabs him by the scruff of his neck'') "I don't know if you can hear me, so read my lips... Don't call me. Don't talk to me. Don't look at me... Or I'll break every bone in your body."
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Supergirl had a huge crush on Dick Grayson alias Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} because he was nice and understanding. Kara once spontaneously made out with him, all because he made a speech about being a good teammate.
* SoleSurvivor: Kara was originally Argo City's only survivor. However a group of Argonians -including her parents- survived the city's destruction when Comicbook/{{Brainiac}} abducted them. All of them got killed when ''Comicbook/NewKrypton'' exploded, and Kara is again the Last Daughter of Argo City.
* SpitTake: In ''Supergirl #0'', Calculator is spying on Supergirl. He spits his coffee out when she looks straight at the camera and he knows intuitively that she has spotted him.
* SpotTheImposter: In the first arc, Dark Supergirl switched her costume with the original Kara’s at super-speed, in an attempt to fool Batman and Superman as to who was the evil clone. Superman tries to spot the imposter by punching both girls, assuming -wrongly- that the real one will not retaliate. Finally, the real Kara gets fed up with the situation, and tells Diana to use her Lasso.
* StalkerShrine: Powerboy built one devoted to Kara.
* StalkerWithACrush: Powerboy became obsessed with Kara after catching a glimpse of her as a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Female Fury]]. He created a shrine and became a superhero to impress and seduce her. However, he grew more and more possessive, and beat the crap out of her when she tried to visit Captain Boomerang (Owen Mercer) in the hospital. Supergirl defeated him in spectacular fashion.
* StalkingIsLove: During Kara's stay in Themyscira, Superman often hovered above the island to keep a check on her cousin and ensure that she was doing right. When spotted, Diana complained about it to Bruce. In ''Supergirl #0'':
-->'''Batman:''' I don't think it should come as a surprise to anyone that Clark is having a hard time letting go. Diana called last week to say that he was hovering again. An island of beautiful women and a man spying on them from above and Clark doesn't see any problem with that.
* StealthHiBye:
** In ''Supergirl #0'', Superman does this to ''Batman'' when he flies out of the Batcave to help Supergirl.
--->'''Batman:''' She's broken off the wing. Okay, Clark, if you manage to keep your distance, she might need some hel-- I hate it when he does that.
** Kara sneaks up on ''Batman'' when she realizes that he and her cousin are monitorizing her from the Batcave.
* SupernaturallyYoungParent:In ''Supergirl #33'', Kara meets Empress, a teenager hero whose deceased parents were magically brought back life as kids.
* SuperBreath: Kara can blow gale-force hurricane winds out of her mouth, exhale blasts of ultra-cold air and survive underwater or in space without breathing. In issue #34, she fights a flame-spewing griffon. When it belches out flames on her, Kara retaliates with her freezing breath.
* SuperToughness: In ''Supergirl 21'' Kara got a locomotive dropped on her. It knocked her out for several seconds. Then she woke up and threw it out of the planet.
* SurvivorGuilt:
** In "Way of the World" Kara reveals that she often wishes her parents had not saved their life. She feels guilty because she's alive.
** Supergirl feels like this after losing her parents and Krypton over again. In ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman Annual #5'', a computerized Dr. Fate tells Kara that [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KqzN5VOGngE/TZ2hPpl8yNI/AAAAAAAALgI/EVyi2rE5LVg/s1600/sb+ann+5-07.jpg she is suffering from survivor guilt]] and [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9S-UPePiAcI/TZ2hQHN9paI/AAAAAAAALgM/4_yH-aefgio/s1600/sb+ann+5-08.jpg she shouldn't let guilt kill her]] and [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_FOuAvnvvVc/TZ2hQUFugXI/AAAAAAAALgQ/cT-LOyBN_tM/s1600/sb+ann+5-09.jpg she has to forgive herself]].
--->'''Comicbook/DoctorFate:''' In you, Supergirl, can you imagine the poison, the pain, the dark that resides in your psyche?\\
'''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:''' Wait, you're saying I'm manifesting this change in me?\\
'''Dr. Fate:''' Color of costume, color of eyes? Not much change outwardly, the rest... the bulk of it is your attitude. Recently, the loss of your planet all over again. And your father. And your mother. I'd say you have a pretty obvious case of "Survivor Guilt".\\
'''Supergirl:''' And it's killing me?
* SymbolSwearing:
** This is made with Kryptonian signs.
** Superboy does this with asterisks in issue 2 when his ex-team flies to see him: "Oh, @#$%!"
* TakenForGranite: Bizarro Supergirl has EyeBeams that cover the victims with a stone shell.
* TakingYouWithMe: Reactron tries to do this to [[spoiler:Supergirl. He fails, but he takes her mother and ''New Krypton'' with him]].
* TearsOfJoy:
** In ''Supergirl #34'' Kara sheds them while Lana gives her an encouraging speech.
** Supergirl cries in happiness after Thara reveals herself as Flamewing, since if Flamewing and the Kryptonian gods are real, it means their murdered father is in a better place.
* TearsOfRemorse: Kara cried when a bystander accused her from shooting the Air Force One down during ''Amazons Attack''.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Supergirl and Cat Grant in Sterling Gates' last story arc. Due to Supergirl carelessness in a fight with a group of metahumans, Cat was slightly wounded. Cat runs a slander campaign against the would-be super heroine causing a large portion of Metropolis' population to turn against Kara. But her relationship with Supergirl got better when Kara saved Cat from the Dollmaker.
* TemptingFate:
** In ''Comicbook/NewKrypton'', Zor-El tempted fate several times:
*** In "Superman: New Krypton Special", Zor says now they have powers "We'll never be in harm's way again". [[spoiler:he got murdered shortly after. And New Krypton got blown up]].
*** In ''Supergirl #34 Kara questioned the wisdom of having a Brainiac's robot keeping Argo's shields up, and asked what would happen if it woke up. Her father reiterated over and again it can't and won't turn itself back on. Despite everything, the robot woke up and nearly killed them.
** At the beginning of "Franchise/{{Superman}} Supergirl: Maelstrom" #1, Supergirl notes that it's been a very quiet week and she thought she'd have more action when her cousin asked her keep an eye on Metropolis while he was away. Cue a ''Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}'''s minion arriving on town and flinging cars away.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Oh no... The second I think good thoughts...
* TenMinuteRetirement: Kara did quit several times when her super-hero life got too hard or she deemed herself to be a failure.
* ThatWasNotADream: During ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'', Kara was struck by an altered zeta-beam, disappeared and re-appeared in the 31st century. Upon her arrival, she concluded that she was "dreaming" the Legion and that the 31st century wasn't real. She thought she was dreaming for several chapters.
* ThereWasADoor: In Supergirl #59, Supergirl flew through the wall of the lair of Dollmaker to rescue Cat Grant.
* ThreePointLanding: In the cover of ''Supergirl #12'', Kara lands supporting her weight on her right knee, left foot and left hand, causing damage to the ground upon contact.
* TooDumbToLive: Argo City's Science Council. Jor-El warned that Krypton would blow up, and the planet exploded. His brother Zor-El warned them that the dome was unsafe and they needed to find a new world to settle in. Did they listen? Noooooo!
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Kara was feeling confused, irascible and pretty miserable upon arriving on Earth. Several months later she'd adapted to Earth and learned to be a hero and she is reasonably happy with her life.
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: In ''Supergirl #22'', Kara runs into this trouble when she remembers that she travelled to the far future and fought/will fight alongside the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Well, um, thank you for unblocking my memory. You were... will be... very good friends to me.
* {{Trainstopping}}: Subverted in ''Supergirl #18''. Kara stops a train but it breaks in half and derails upon crashing onto her indestructible body. Kara has a breakdown but she calms down -a bit- when she discovers that it was an illusion.
* TrespassingToTalk: Issue #57 has a variant in where Lana Lang walks into her office and finds Cat Grant sitting on her couch in the dark and wanting to talk about Lana's connection with Supergirl.
* TroubledButCute: At the beginnig Kara Zor-El was an emotionally-unstable, quick-tempered jerkass due to Kryptonite-poisoning and being a teenager stranded in a strange land (she got over it and got better after a while, though). She is also an AmazonianBeauty and boys were obsessed with her, especially during her "troubled teenager" phase.
* TwoFirstNames: Supergirl's civilian Earth name is Linda Lang.
* TheUnapologetic: Cat Grant wages a smear campaign aimed at Supergirl, driven for petty reasons -Kara bruised her accidentally as she was saving her life, and Cat thought that she could gain notoriety by libeling the young hero-. And she doesn't feel guilty at all, not even after Supergirl saves her life over and again.
* UngratefulBastard:
** When Supergirl and Powerboy quell a hurricane in Mexico, a general threatens them, saying it is illegal for metahumans to interfere with Mexican affairs. Powerboy threatens to bring the hurricane back, and the general shuts up.
** Kara saved Jimmy Olsen and Cat Grant from being hit by falling debris. But because Cat accidentally got bruised when Jimmy landed on her, the woman devoted herself to smear Supergirl.
** In ''Supergirl #34'' Kara fights Silver Banshee in a baseball field. Several spectators throw their cups at her and shout that she ruined the game and trashed the field (disregarding that Silver Banshee also destroyed the place and Supergirl saved their lives). They scream that they don't need her and want her to go away until she flies away... and then they demand that she cleans the mess up. So... they tell they don't need her and want her gone until she goes away.... and then they want her stay to help?
* UnwantedAssistance: During the events of the "Amazons Attack" storyline, in where the Amazons went to war against the US, Supergirl and ''Comicbook/WonderGirl'' try to end the war by kidnapping the President and bringing him to Queen Hyppolita to engage in peace talks with her. Predictably, their plan went awry, and Supergirl apologized, saying that she screwed everything up even though she just wanted to help.
* UpUpAndAway: Constantly. Here's an example taken from [[http://www.comicbookbrain.com/_imagery/2016-06-27/supergirl-20-2007.jpg Supergirl 20]].
* VillainousCrush: Kara had to deal with Powerboy, a Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}'s minion who had a crush on her and was NotGoodWithRejection.
* VillainTeleportation: In ''Supergirl #60'', Kara has to fight a group of villains that use dimensional doors to move around and strike heroes unexpectedly.
* WellThisIsNotThatTrope: In Supergirl #22, the Legion explains Kara this time she ''really'' is dreaming.
-->'''Lightning Lad:''': Hey, Kara, remember when you first showed up here, telling us all we were figments of your imagination?\\
'''Supergirl:''' Yeah. Sorry about that.\\
'''Lightning Lad: Well, now you really are dreaming.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Subverted. In the final arc, Supergirl has to fight a swarm of rat bots. She isn't afraid of them, but since she's been fighting evil robots and robot-mooks for weeks she's sick of them.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Robots... Why... did it have to be... robots?
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: After Kara is brutally beaten up by Powerboy, including having her face '''dragged down the side of a skyscraper''', she wakes up in a bed next to a StalkerShrine devoted to her, bound in powerful, alien-tech restraints. Powerboy says a big speech about how much he loves her, that he knows best, and that the beating was her fault for making him angry. Supergirl's retort? Delivering a brutal beating combined with a ShutUpHannibal speech.
-->'''Supergirl:''' (destroys her restraints and burns his hand with heat vision]) We need to break up.\\
'''Powerboy:''' Aaaaaigh! What did you do?!\\
'''Supergirl:''' You hit me. You said you loved me... And you '''hit me'''. (punches him through a wall to the outside)\\
'''Powerboy:''' Y-You made me hit you! Because you don't listen, like now! Kara! I'm warning you! Stop it or I'll do it again! I'll hurt you again!
* WickedToymaker: Anton Schott alias "Dollmaker", the son of Toyman who is also a skilled -and creepy- toymaker, although he specializes in deadly robot dolls.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Supergirl is possibly the world's strongest woman. In ''Supergirl #34'' she says:
-->'''Supergirl:''' I'm Supergirl. Strongest girl on the planet.
* WouldHitAGirl: In ''Supergirl #3'', Luthor mutters that he hates hitting women or girls... while he is beating Supergirl up.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In ''Supergirl #24'', after reading Cat Grant's slander, Kara wonders if that woman may be right and [[http://s179.photobucket.com/user/airhikec001/media/blog/comics/pages/Supergirl34_worthy.jpg.html she is worthy of the S-shield]]. [[http://s179.photobucket.com/user/airhikec001/media/blog/comics/pages/Supergirl34_coffeegrin.jpg.html Superman's reply is automatic]]:
-->'''Supergirl:''' Is she right, Kal? Am I "a tarted-up teenager in a short skirt and cape with some to prove"? Am I "not worthy of the legacy of Superman"?\\
'''Superman:''' I think you're more than worthy.
* YouCanSeeMe: In ''Supergirl #0'', the Calculator is monitoring Kara under Luthor's orders. At one point, she glares straight in the direction of his camera, which is enough for him to freak out because he realizes that she can see him even though it was supposedly impossible.
* YoureNotMyFather: In ''Supergirl #22'', Kara thinks her cousin is about to lecture her after her latest mess-up, and she interrupts him to remind him he isn't her father or her brother, she's trying to learn to be better, and she doesn't need his validation (Superman answers that he actually agrees with her).
-->'''Supergirl:''' No, listen to me. I have to say: I know you love me, and that's why you feel a need to act like my big brother or my dad -- But you're neither one! I'm capable of recognizing my own mistakes, Kal! I don't need my nose rubbed in them! Maybe I'm not perfect like you --\\
'''Superman:''' Hey, I'm not --\\
'''Supergirl:''' Maybe I need to learn things the hard way. But I am learning! I want to be a family with you and Uncle Jon and Aunt Martha, but I don't need your... validation!
* YouKilledMyFather:
** Kara bears a grudge against Reactron, her father's murderer.
** When Supergirl fights Doomsday in ''Reign of Doomsday'', she hasn't forgotten that monster killed her cousin.
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->I'm Supergirl. This is my life... And y'know what? I'm pretty happy with it (for now, at least.)
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