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* DreamEmergencyExit: In ''Supergirl #22'', Kara's dream starts to fade as soon as Lightning Lad explains that she is dreaming.
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* PinchMe: In ''Supergirl #22'', Kara's dream starts to fade as soon as Lightning Lad explains that she is dreaming.
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* JailBait: During the Joe Kelly's issues several older boys constantly hit on her, even though she is sixteen.
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* {{Claustrophobia}}: Kara experiences severe claustrophobia -combined with nyctophobia- when she is stuck inside a tight, dark space due to spending decades trapped inside a space pod.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: In "Day of the Dollmaker", Lois visits Lucy after she has been imprisoned for her crimes, and tells her sister she disgusts her. She thought Lucy joined the military to honor their father, but at some point Lucy stopped being her sister and became a monster. When Lucy tries to justify her crimes by saying she was only following their father's orders, Lois calls that a pitiful excuse, and calls Lucy out on allowing herself to become a killing machine to impress a man that did not even care for them when they were kids.
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* BeastWithAHumanFace: Issue 12 "Rock On!" has the Empathousaur, an underground giant reptile who turns its head into Supergirl's father's to upset her during one fight.
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* BusFullOfInnocents: "This Is Not My Life begins with Supergirl saving a tram full of innocents which is being attacked by Ivo Amazo's flying robots.
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* LiteralSplitPersonality: In "Girl Power", a piece of black Kryptonite creates an evil Supergirl, clads in a black version of Kara's costume.
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* OutdatedOutfit: Her suit is supposed to be a modernized version of her ''[[ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber252 1959's original costume]]'' which she wore in ''[[ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl her 60's stories]]''... unfortunately, belly shirts were severely out of fashion by the mid-00's.
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* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: In issue #12, Supergirl faces a psychic, sentient dinosaur called the Empathosaur. It probes her mind and makes his head look like her father. Supergirl is completely unimpressed, commenting that a man's head sticking out of a dinosaur's body isn't going to fool anybody.
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* SplitPersonalityMerge: In "Girl Power", Lex Luthor used a piece of black Kryptonite to create an evil Supergirl clone, and Wonder Woman used her Lasso of Truth to merge both Karas back into a single being.
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* ElementalHair: Thara Ak-Var has reddish-brown hair and fire powers when she transforms into Flamebird.
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* RoguesGalleyTransplant: The last arc of Joe Kelly's run reveals the mystery villain who'd been testing Kara from behind the scenes was Dark Angel, who normally spends every waking moment trying to torture [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]].
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* AlphaBitch: Played with when Kara attended high school as "Claire Connors" and she's initially led to believe a blonde, beautiful, popular girl must be this type of character by a science geek named Becky. By the end of the issue, it turned out said blonde girl's actually really nice and Kara's "friend" Becky is a manipulative, nasty piece of work. Kara apologizes to the blonde girl for not getting to know her.
* RoguesGalleyTransplant: The last arc of Joe Kelly's run reveals the mystery villain who'd been testing Kara from behind the scenes was Dark Angel, who normally spends every waking moment trying to torture [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]].
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* 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.
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** 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 ArgoCity.City.
** The Saturn Queen controlling Kandor was from a timeline that'd been wiped out thanks to ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. When her world was briefly restored during ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Saturn Queen somehow fell through the cracks when it was destroyed all over again.
** 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
** The Saturn Queen controlling Kandor was from a timeline that'd been wiped out thanks to ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. When her world was briefly restored during ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Saturn Queen somehow fell through the cracks when it was destroyed all over again.
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* DreamTellsYouToWakeUp: In issue #22, Kara is dreaming that she has been reunited with the Legion after being knocked out and buried under a railway car by a super-villain. Her happiness is cut short when Lightning Lad tells her she is dreaming, and she really should wake up before her friends get killed by the guy who dropped a train on her.
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* SwarmOfRats: In the "This Is Not My Life" arc, Kara and her college friends are investigating the secret tunnels under Stanhope College when they are swarmed by packs of robotical rats built by Professor Amazo.
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* BarehandedBladeBlock: While depowered by red sunlight in "Breaking the Chain", Kara catches Cassandra Cain's katana... only for Cass to kick her down.
* IKissYourHand: In issue #14, Power Boy kisses Supergirl's hand, who gets pretty puzzled about the custom.
* {{Prequel}}: ''Superman: Secret Files 2009'' told the story of the beginning of the friendship between Kara Zor-El and Thara Ak-Var, and it is set prior to the events of the ''New Krypton'' story arc which introduced Thara.
* SensoryOverload: In "Girl Power", Cyborg uses an ultrasonic device to slow Superboy down.
* ShipTease: The second Annual was full of BelligerentSexualTension between Supergirl and Brainiac 5, culminating with Kara kissing him and Querl vowing he would not let her die alone during her final battle.
* SkepticNoLonger: Kara did not believe in Rao and thought her friend Thara, who claimed to be the incarnation of Rao's child Flamebird, was a nutjob who believed in fairy tales. Though Kara quickly becomes a believer when Thara transforms into Flamebird right in front of her to save her life.
* SmallStepsHero: In "Way of the World", Kara tries to help an ill kid as dealing with super-villain Reactron.
* SmugSnake: Reactron's Kryptonite-powered suit and his army training make him dangerous and formidable enough to kill dozens of Kryptonians in ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'''s opening arc. However, he treats everyone -including his would-be allies- as dirt, he always underestimates his enemies, is prone to wasting time gloating and playing cat-and-mouse games, and proves to be a dirty coward when push comes to shove. So, in ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperwoman'' he gets humiliated by Superwoman when his Kryptonite blasts prove to be ineffectual against her, and loses against Supergirl because he's eager to fight her hand-to-hand instead of using his energy blasters from afar, even after she's shown to be a good melee fighter. And in ''The Hunt for Reactron'', when his suit gets crushed by Flamebird, he surrenders, begs for mercy and claims he was just following orders.
* SmallStepsHero: In "Way of the World", Kara tries to help an ill kid as dealing with super-villain Reactron.
* SmugSnake: Reactron's Kryptonite-powered suit and his army training make him dangerous and formidable enough to kill dozens of Kryptonians in ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'''s opening arc. However, he treats everyone -including his would-be allies- as dirt, he always underestimates his enemies, is prone to wasting time gloating and playing cat-and-mouse games, and proves to be a dirty coward when push comes to shove. So, in ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperwoman'' he gets humiliated by Superwoman when his Kryptonite blasts prove to be ineffectual against her, and loses against Supergirl because he's eager to fight her hand-to-hand instead of using his energy blasters from afar, even after she's shown to be a good melee fighter. And in ''The Hunt for Reactron'', when his suit gets crushed by Flamebird, he surrenders, begs for mercy and claims he was just following orders.
* SpeedBlitz: Supergirl is fast enough to take someone out before they can react. In "Girl Power", the Justice Society are having a tough time taking Solomon Grundy down when Kara dives into the battlefield and punches Grundy out in a single movement.
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* 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.
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* StalkerWithACrush: "Supergirl: Breaking the Chain", has Powerboy became become obsessed with Kara after catching a glimpse of her as a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Female Fury]].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.fashion and told him to stay away from that moment on.
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* TalkingToTheDead: "Guilding Day" is framed as one letter written by Kara to her recently-murdered father Zor-El where she tells him how (very badly) her mother is dealing with his loss, and explains why she's choosing the Science Guild instead of following his footsteps and choosing the Arts Guild as she had always intended.
* ATasteOfTheLash: During the "Candor" arc, Ultraman and Saturn Queen take over the alien ghetto of Kandor -not to be confused with the self-named Bottle City- and maintain the populace subdued by means of frequent floggins.
* ATasteOfTheLash: During the "Candor" arc, Ultraman and Saturn Queen take over the alien ghetto of Kandor -not to be confused with the self-named Bottle City- and maintain the populace subdued by means of frequent floggins.
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* TeaserOnlyCharacter: "Song of the Silver Banshee" begins with Silver Banshee murdering an innocent, unnamed woman.
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* VehicularSabotage: In "Girl Power", Supergirl fries the Outsiders' jet's dashboard to prevent them from coming to her aid when she confronts Lex Luthor.
* VillainExitStageLeft: At the end of "This Is Not My Life", [[MadScientist Professor Ivo]] tries to escape through the sewer system when his latest scheme goes up in smoke, but since he is being chased by Supergirl he doesn't go far.
* VillainExitStageLeft: At the end of "This Is Not My Life", [[MadScientist Professor Ivo]] tries to escape through the sewer system when his latest scheme goes up in smoke, but since he is being chased by Supergirl he doesn't go far.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the second Annual "Secret Identities", a Kryptonian woman reproaches Supergirl for blowing her and her son's cover, flies off and is never seen or mentioned again. Did she manage to blend in among humans again? Was she found and "purged" by Sam Lane's troops at the climax of ''War of the Supermen''? Nobody knows.
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* WorldOfNoGrandparents: Through the entire history of the character, Supergirl's maternal grandfather has barely been mentioned once in issue #35.
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* AnnoyingArrows: Justified in issue #20 -the ''Amazons Attack'' tie-in-. Supergirl falls down after getting struck by a magic arrow, but she's up and about right away after it gets -painfully- yanked out thanks to her healing factor.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Supergirl and Brainiac 5's relationship was rocky for a while in spite of their mutual attraction. In a nutshell, he couldn't stop himself from behaving as a snarky jerkass, and she was torn between punching him and kissing him. At the end, she settled for kissing him.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Post-Crisis Supergirl and Brainiac-5. He liked her, but he didn't know how to show his feelings due to being socially awkward. She liked him back, but his jerkass, never-my-fault attitude infuriated her. Cue arguments and Kara punching and kissing Querl in the same single issue.
* BeYourself: In ''Secret Identities'', Supergirl starts high school under an assumed identity, but after a few days she gets sick of teenagers pretending to be friendly as planning to backstab you. Deciding a secret identity was a mistake, she reveals her true self to her classmates and flies off after telling them they should stop pretending to be other people. A bullied girl takes her advice to heart and starts talking back to her tormentors.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Do yourselves and each other a favor... Be yourself. It makes life a Hell of a lot easier.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Do yourselves and each other a favor... Be yourself. It makes life a Hell of a lot easier.
* BringIt: In "Girl Power", the JLA interrupts a battle between Supergirl and her EvilCounterpart. When Dark Supergirl suggests the Leaguers to run, Black Canary asks her to try and attack them.
-->'''Black Canary:''' '''Please'''. Make a move on us.
-->'''Black Canary:''' '''Please'''. Make a move on us.
* BucketBoobyTrap: In "Secret Identities", a high-school bully talks another girl into rigging a bucket filled with toilet waste over a toilet's door and dumping the contents on the head of new student "Claire Connors". The accident convinces Kara that creating a secret identity was a mistake, so she drops her disguise on the spot and takes off.
* BulletproofHumanShield: In issue #0 -which is a reprint from ''Superman/Batman #19''-, Supergirl uses herself as a shield to cover Batgirl from gunfire.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Through ''New Krypton, Supergirl followed her mother's orders and tried to forgive Alura's constant emotional abuse. By the time of "War of the Supermen", though, Kara has had it with her mother when she finds out that Alura ordered her to capture Reactron in order to torture information out of him.
-->'''Supergirl:''' "Watch out for your mother." That's what father said to me as he died. "Watch out for your mother." I thought that meant I should... I don't know, make sure you didn't get hurt after he was gone or something. But that's not what father meant at all, was it?\\
'''Alura:''' Kara, I--\\
'''Supergirl:''' He wasn't warning me to look out for you... He was warning me about you.\\
'''Alura:''' Don't you dare judge me, Kara. Reactron is a prisoner of the state, and he has information necessary for the protection of our people--\\
'''Supergirl:''' "Our people"? Have you lost your freaking mind? You've been torturing someone down here, mom! Someone you sent me to Earth to bring back to New Krypton. That makes me responsible for him. Just as it makes me complicit in a war crime.\\
'''Alura:''' If I have to go to extreme measures to get information out of him-- information that will keep our planet safe-- it's worth it.\\
'''Supergirl:''' That's how you justify this? You think the safety of New Krypton is so important we have to beat information out of someone--\\
'''Alura:''' How naive can you be, Kara? Or have you forgotten that this... monster... murdered your father in our streets--\\
'''Supergirl:''' I know he did, mom. I was there. Dad died saving my life. In fact, where were you when he died?
-->'''Supergirl:''' "Watch out for your mother." That's what father said to me as he died. "Watch out for your mother." I thought that meant I should... I don't know, make sure you didn't get hurt after he was gone or something. But that's not what father meant at all, was it?\\
'''Alura:''' Kara, I--\\
'''Supergirl:''' He wasn't warning me to look out for you... He was warning me about you.\\
'''Alura:''' Don't you dare judge me, Kara. Reactron is a prisoner of the state, and he has information necessary for the protection of our people--\\
'''Supergirl:''' "Our people"? Have you lost your freaking mind? You've been torturing someone down here, mom! Someone you sent me to Earth to bring back to New Krypton. That makes me responsible for him. Just as it makes me complicit in a war crime.\\
'''Alura:''' If I have to go to extreme measures to get information out of him-- information that will keep our planet safe-- it's worth it.\\
'''Supergirl:''' That's how you justify this? You think the safety of New Krypton is so important we have to beat information out of someone--\\
'''Alura:''' How naive can you be, Kara? Or have you forgotten that this... monster... murdered your father in our streets--\\
'''Supergirl:''' I know he did, mom. I was there. Dad died saving my life. In fact, where were you when he died?
* CaptiveDate: Deconstructed in "Breaking the Chain". Powerboy knocks Supergirl out and takes her away. When Kara comes around, she finds she has been shackled and dragged to Powerboy's stalker shrine of a home, and now Powerboy intends to be her boyfriend whether she likes or not. Kara breaks her chains, calls Powerboy out on being a delusional domestic abuser as fighting him, and tells him to stay away from her from now on.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In the second Annual, Supergirl calls Brainiac 5 out on drawing into their dimension the EldritchAbomination that has conquered the whole world. Brainy's answer? He doesn't believe she's had conquered the whole world yet.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Okay, let's review. You, Brainiac 5, while experimenting on a supposedly "magical" statue, bombarded it with timestream energy, thereby summoning an alien death goddess.\\
'''Brainiac 5:''' Mm.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Then, when she shows up and starts possessing our friends, your first inclination is not to stay and fight, but run away into the timestream. Which pretty much ensures that she enslaves the entire Earth.\\
'''Brainiac 5:''' Oh, I doubt the entire Earth's been enslaved by this point, Supergirl. I mean, she's only had a few days.
* TheCommissionerGordon: Supergirl gets introduced to Inspector Mike Henderson, member of Metropolis Metacrimes Division. After working together in the case of Superwoman, Inspector Henderson would remain the Girl of Steel's ally and confidant throughout Gates/Igle's run.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Okay, let's review. You, Brainiac 5, while experimenting on a supposedly "magical" statue, bombarded it with timestream energy, thereby summoning an alien death goddess.\\
'''Brainiac 5:''' Mm.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Then, when she shows up and starts possessing our friends, your first inclination is not to stay and fight, but run away into the timestream. Which pretty much ensures that she enslaves the entire Earth.\\
'''Brainiac 5:''' Oh, I doubt the entire Earth's been enslaved by this point, Supergirl. I mean, she's only had a few days.
* TheCommissionerGordon: Supergirl gets introduced to Inspector Mike Henderson, member of Metropolis Metacrimes Division. After working together in the case of Superwoman, Inspector Henderson would remain the Girl of Steel's ally and confidant throughout Gates/Igle's run.
* ConflictingLoyalty: Supergirl becomes stuck between loyalty to her cousin and her adopted planet and loyalty to her mother Allura -who hated and blamed humanity for her husband's death- and her Kryptonian kin. She tries to protect everyone, but eventually both sides go to war.
* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: In "Day of the Dollmaker", Supergirl and Catherine Grant visit Toyman in his cell to ask him who might be sending Cat dolls looking like missing children.
* ContinuityPorn: Sterling Gates' run abounds with references to Supergirl's lore like the Lyra Kam-Par character (daughter of a Kryptonian who made his sole appearance in ''ComicBook/SupermanFamily #207) and the numerous nods to her stint on the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes squeezed into the 2010 Annual: finding Myth/KingArthur's Excalibur, fighting the Positive Man...
* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: In "Day of the Dollmaker", Supergirl and Catherine Grant visit Toyman in his cell to ask him who might be sending Cat dolls looking like missing children.
* ContinuityPorn: Sterling Gates' run abounds with references to Supergirl's lore like the Lyra Kam-Par character (daughter of a Kryptonian who made his sole appearance in ''ComicBook/SupermanFamily #207) and the numerous nods to her stint on the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes squeezed into the 2010 Annual: finding Myth/KingArthur's Excalibur, fighting the Positive Man...
* CoveredInGunge: In issue 22 -a "Countdown" tie-in-, Supergirl battles Equus, a mutant monster whose powers include shooting spurts of some kind of fire-resistant, gluey, green goo. During the fight, Supergirl's head and hair end up completely covered in disgusting, green globs.
-->'''Supergirl:''' What about this gunk your goon sprayed on me?\\
'''Government Agent:''' It'll degrade in thirty-six hours. Till then, it's a bad hair day.
-->'''Supergirl:''' What about this gunk your goon sprayed on me?\\
'''Government Agent:''' It'll degrade in thirty-six hours. Till then, it's a bad hair day.
* DamselScrappy: Played for laughs in issue #60, which showed there are quite a few guys like this in Metropolis; they will literally jump off of buildings so Supergirl has to catch and rescue them (and they often ask for her phone number afterward).
* DeadSerious: Reactron was easily overpowered by Supergirl in his first appearance. Several months later he got himself a DeadlyUpgrade, murdered Kara's father, spent most of the ''New Krypton'' storyline hounding her, and was ultimate responsible for the demise of the Kryptonian race.
* DomesticAbuse: In "Breaking the Chain", Supergirl starts a relationship with a mysterious guy called Power Boy. Their brief "romance" ended when Power Boy revealed his abusive nature by beating Supergirl into unconsciousness when she had the gall to visit a male friend in the hospital, and then locking her up "for her protection". In reaction, Supergirl gave him a beating and told him to never come near from her again.
-->'''Supergirl:''' You hit me. You said you loved me... And you '''hit me'''.[...] No one who says he loves you should hit you, '''ever'''.
-->'''Supergirl:''' You hit me. You said you loved me... And you '''hit me'''.[...] No one who says he loves you should hit you, '''ever'''.
* EiffelTowerEffect: In "The Hunt for Reactron", Supergirl and two friends are staying in Paris. Then Kara and her friend Thara get into a fight during which the former gets accidentally slammed into the Eiffel Tower.
* EvasiveFightThreadEpisode: Although most of the time they are evenly matched, it was rumored for a while -by Batman himself- that Supergirl was more powerful than her cousin. In ''"Girl of Steel"'', Kara's evil clone gloats that she can defeat Superman, but Kal replies he'll win if she forces him to go all out. Dark Supergirl challenges him to test his theory, but their argument is interrupted by Batman, and the matter is left unresolved.
* FallingIntoHisArms: In "Good-Looking Corpse", Supergirl catches a young boy falling from a rooftop, and then she finds out he willingly jumped off the building as a ploy to introduce himself and ask her number.
* FlamingHair: Thara Ak-Var, alias Flamebird, sprouts a head of flame when her divine power manifests.
* ForgotToGagHim: In "The Hunt For Reactron" Supergirl, Flamebird and Nightwing are captured by the Science Police, but they convince the squad leader that they were framed up for the Metropolis' water reservoir's destruction... and Reactron was foisted off on his squad because Sam Lane wanted the Kryptonian trio murdered and all witnesses eliminated.
* FriendshipMoment: In " Big Girl, Small World" Cassandra is staying with Kara after a fight with her mother. Kara hugs Cassie while both girls mourn the then-late Conner Kent, and she gives Cassandra one of Superboy's t-shirts as a gift.
* GoddamnedBats: In "This Is not My Life", Professor Ivo sends swarms of mechanical rats after Linda Lang and her friends. Ivo's mini-robots rats can't damage Supergirl, but they ''can'' kill her friends, and they succeed in slowing her down.
* HateSink: Reactron is an unrepentant bully, lecher and mass-murderer with exactly zero redeeming qualities.
* HeadbuttingHeroes: Kara gets along with most of young heroes, especially members of the Bat-Family, but she barely tolerates the youngest ComicBook/{{Robin}} Damian Wayne. Whenever they team-up in her own book or the ''Superman/Batman'' and ''World's Finest'' titles, she has to constantly remind herself that throwing him into the Sun would be wrong due to Damian treating her like a glorified utility tool or putting down one of her actual friends.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: In "The Hunt for Reactron", Reactron murders a whole Metropolis Science Squad when they discover it was Sam Lane who blew the water reservoir up and Supergirl, Nightwing and Flamebird are being framed.
* HeadbuttingHeroes: Kara gets along with most of young heroes, especially members of the Bat-Family, but she barely tolerates the youngest ComicBook/{{Robin}} Damian Wayne. Whenever they team-up in her own book or the ''Superman/Batman'' and ''World's Finest'' titles, she has to constantly remind herself that throwing him into the Sun would be wrong due to Damian treating her like a glorified utility tool or putting down one of her actual friends.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: In "The Hunt for Reactron", Reactron murders a whole Metropolis Science Squad when they discover it was Sam Lane who blew the water reservoir up and Supergirl, Nightwing and Flamebird are being framed.
* HonoraryUncle: Lana Lang acts as an aunt to Supergirl, letting her move to her apartment and looking after her when nobody else did. Kara, for her part, not only refers to her as "Aunt Lana" several times but also uses the "Linda Lang" alias.
* IKnowKarate: Supergirl knows Klurkor and has been trained by Wonder Woman and Batman. In "Who Is Superwoman?" she warns Reactron she is a Klurkor first level before proceeding to kick his butt.
* IKnowYourTrueName: Superman makes Supergirl aware of Silver Banshee's weakness, and Kara uses it to her advantage every time they fight.
-->'''Superman:''' The Banshee is supernatural in nature, Kara-- And she's the worst kind of criminal. A spree killer. There's neither rhyme nor reason when she kills. You do have an advantage going up against her, though. She can scream at you all she likes, but the only way her wail can kill is if you hear her scream your true name.
* IKnowYourTrueName: Superman makes Supergirl aware of Silver Banshee's weakness, and Kara uses it to her advantage every time they fight.
-->'''Superman:''' The Banshee is supernatural in nature, Kara-- And she's the worst kind of criminal. A spree killer. There's neither rhyme nor reason when she kills. You do have an advantage going up against her, though. She can scream at you all she likes, but the only way her wail can kill is if you hear her scream your true name.
* ImplacableMan: Get Supergirl real mad and she will chase after you and will put you down. In "This Is Not My Life", she captures Ivo Amazo and makes known that "you can't outrun me".
* InvisibleToNormals: In "Breaking the Chain", a flashback shows Kara and her father were the only ones able to see a race of evil spirits which had escaped from the PhantomZone and were possessing random Kryptonians. Later it was retconned as hallucinations and false memories induced by Kryptonite poisoning, though.
* IWillShowYouX: During Kara and Cassie's fight in "Girl Power":
-->'''Supergirl:''' You think you know anger? I'll show you anger!
-->'''Supergirl:''' You think you know anger? I'll show you anger!
* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: Sterling Gates' run had Kara, who had been depicted as an immature brat by preceeding writers, evolve into a kind-hearted young woman.
* JustFollowingOrders: When Reactron is taken down in "The Hunt for Reactron", he claims he was just following orders when he mass-slaughtered Kryptonians, and he shifts all the blame to his superior General Lane. Aware that he carried out every order ''gleefully'', neither Flamebird nor Supergirl are impressed.
* JustFollowingOrders: When Reactron is taken down in "The Hunt for Reactron", he claims he was just following orders when he mass-slaughtered Kryptonians, and he shifts all the blame to his superior General Lane. Aware that he carried out every order ''gleefully'', neither Flamebird nor Supergirl are impressed.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Kal and Kara are cousins but have a sibling-like relationship which is even closer than usual due to being the last ones of their kind. Hurt her and Superman ''will'' pummel you and pin you to the physical limit of the universe, even if you are Darkseid. Hurt him and Supergirl will beat you to death, even if you are the Anti-Monitor.
* TheLawOfDiminishingDefensiveEffort: In the "Amazons Attack" tie-in, Kara leaps in the way of an arrow to protect civilians. Unfortunately Amazon arrows are magic-imbued, so it gets embedded in her midsection.
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* 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.
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** In "Girl Power", [[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders the Outsiders]] are training with a handicapped Supergirl. The team gang up on her until Kara gets fed up, breaks her chains shouting "No more games!" and starts fighting seriously.
** 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.
** In "Girl Power", [[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders the Outsiders]] are training with a handicapped Supergirl. The team gang up on her until Kara gets fed up, breaks her chains shouting "No more games!" and starts fighting seriously.
** 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.
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* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: During her second stint as a ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' member, Supergirl wore a black version of her blue-and-red costume.
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* OffscreenInertia: ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'' reveals Superwoman has been confined in a S.T.A.R. Labs containment cell while Dr. Light filters the alien DNA, which had become grafted into her cells during her battle with Supergirl in ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperWoman'', out of her body. Later storyline ''"The Day of Dollmaker"'' shows Lucy is ''still'' shackled to her cell, and Dr. Light is ''still'' stripping alien DNA out of Lucy. Superwoman lampshades it's taking a ''lot'' of time.
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* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Catherine Grant will ''never'' let Supergirl forget she vowed to save a child who was dying of cancer... and failed.
* OneHitKill: In "Girl Power", Kara knocks Solomon Grundy out cold with one single punch.
* OneHitKill: In "Girl Power", Kara knocks Solomon Grundy out cold with one single punch.
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* PossessiveWristGrab: In "Breaking the Chain", Power Boy grabs Supergirl's wrist when she wants to go out alone. Power Boy backs off when she glares at him, but this is one of the first clues of his possessive, abusive nature.
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* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: Reactron smiles gleefully while killing, especially Kryptonians.
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* ResurrectiveImmortality: Resurrection Man's power to coming back to life each time he's killed becomes a plot point in "Way of the World" when Supergirl thinks it might be used to save a boy who was dying from cancer.
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* RousingSpeech: In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'''s FinalBattle, Supergirl and the Bizarros are leading a charge against a planet-eating EldritchAbomination. In order to defeat it, they need Bizarrogirl's unique power, but she gets real frightened and runs away until Supergirl's words manage to encourage her back to the battleground.
--->'''Bizarrogirl:''' H-How did you get to be so brave when me so cowardly, Bizarro Bizarro Me?\\
'''Supergirl:''' I'm a Bizarro '''You''', remember? I feel the '''opposite''' of whatever you're feeling. Tell you what: I'll '''trade''' your feelings. If I let myself be '''scared'''... will you be '''brave''' for your world?
* RuthlessModernPirates: In issue #11, Supergirl and the Outsiders set out to take down a ring of meta-human pirates prowling along the Western African coast.
--->'''Bizarrogirl:''' H-How did you get to be so brave when me so cowardly, Bizarro Bizarro Me?\\
'''Supergirl:''' I'm a Bizarro '''You''', remember? I feel the '''opposite''' of whatever you're feeling. Tell you what: I'll '''trade''' your feelings. If I let myself be '''scared'''... will you be '''brave''' for your world?
* RuthlessModernPirates: In issue #11, Supergirl and the Outsiders set out to take down a ring of meta-human pirates prowling along the Western African coast.
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* AlienAmongUs: Subverted. At the beginning, Supergirl feels she doesn't understand Earth 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.
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* AlienAmongUs: Subverted. At the beginning, Supergirl feels she doesn't understand Earth or Terrans and she doesn't fully fit in. But then ''[[ComicBook/SupermanBrainiac [[ComicBook/SupermanBrainiac she and Superman rescue]]'' ''[[ComicBook/NewKrypton Kandor]]'' rescue]] [[ComicBook/NewKrypton Kandor]] and Kara finds she doesn't fit in with Kryptonians anymore either because she got used to think thinking and act acting like an Earth woman.
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* 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.
-->'''Lightning Lad:''' Hey, Kara, remember wyen you first showed up here, telling us all we were figments of your imagination?\\
-->'''Lightning Lad:''' Hey, Kara, remember wyen you first showed up here, telling us all we were figments of your imagination?\\
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* AllJustADream: In ''Supergirl #22'' after getting hit with a train engine, Supergirl sees herself surrounded by her friends of the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''.ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes. She's happy until Lightning Lad tells her that she is dreaming.
-->'''Lightning Lad:''' Hey, Kara, rememberwyen when you first showed up here, telling us all we were figments of your imagination?\\
-->'''Lightning Lad:''' Hey, Kara, remember
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'''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--\\
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'''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 just fine, and--\\
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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 plaguing 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.
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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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 poisoning, which alters her behavior dramatically and turns her into a very erratic, unstable unstable, and unpleasant person for one whole year, in addition to plaguing her with horrible nightmares and bad memories.
After recovering from her sickness, Kara sets to work clearingtheir her name, reconnecting with her cousin and her new family, rebuilding previously-burned previously burned bridges with other heroes heroes, and learning how to be a hero herself. However ''[[Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac However, [[Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac the coming of]]'' ''Comicbook/{{Brainiac}}'', of]] Comicbook/{{Brainiac}}, the rescue of Kandor, the return of her parents parents, and the rise and downfall of ''Comicbook/NewKrypton'' Comicbook/NewKrypton will make her life harder.
Sterling Gates and JamalIgle’s Igle's creative team took over story and art duties respectively in issue #34. Their run -''Supergirl #34-59''- -- ''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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After arriving on Earth and being saved from ''Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}'' Comicbook/{{Darkseid}} by Superman, Batman 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 plaguing her with horrible nightmares and bad memories.
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* 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.
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* PercussiveTherapy: In issue #33, Kara is severely [[SamaritanSyndrome distraught after failing to save a child.child]]. Then she runs into super-villain Clayface and decides he is exactly the punching bag she is looking for.
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** 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.
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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 plaguing her with horrible nightmares and bad memories.
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''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''.
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''Supergirl 2005'' or Supergirl Vol 5 is fifth’s the fifth Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} self-named comic book series, 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''.
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* TakeThatCritics: ''Supergirl #18'' was a blatant “Take That” against everyone who had trouble with how Supergirl was being written and drawn the time, including fans of pre-Crisis Supergirl. Supergirl fought and defeated a stupid Mary Sue who looked exactly like pre-Crisis Kara and berated her for not being "wholesome".
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* 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.
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* 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 at the time got 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.
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* FairytaleWeddingDress: In ''Candor'', Saturn Queen, who is mind-controlling Kara Zor-El into marrying Ultraman, gets her wear a sumptuous, multilayered, pink-and-golden wedding gown, complete with a three-pronged crown ornamented with red beads.
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* HypnotizeThePrincess: In ''Candor'', Saturn Queen captures Kara and then mind-zaps her so she marries [[EvilCounterpart Ultraman]]. Fortunately Kara manages to snap out of it.
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* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: It happens to Supergirl when she moves to New Krypton and finds she's been living in Earth for so long that Kryptonians are "alien" to her now.
-->'''Lana Lang:''' 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 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".
-->'''Lana Lang:''' 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 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".
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* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: In ''Death and the Family'', Lana apparently dies due to an unknown illness. She wakes up in the morgue, her mind taken over by Insect Queen, which was making her ill as trying to repossess her body.
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* InsectQueen: The eponymous villain is the BigBad of ''Death and the Family'', when she takes over Lana and attempts to invade Metropolis with an army of giant insects.
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* BankRobbery: In the first Annual issue, set during the ''New Krypton'' event, Supergirl has to foil a bank robbery without being unseen since Kryptonians have been banned from Earth.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The enmity between Supergirl and Reactron was born because the latter got hired to assassinate the former, and Supergirl had the gall to fight back and wreck his radiation-containment suit. During the next months Reactron doggedly and obsessively attempted to kill her, murdered her parents and volunteered to become a human bomb which blew her planet up and wiped out her race. He hated a teenager girl and did his best to ruin her life because she didn't let him kill her.
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* SecondSuperIdentity: Supergirl briefly took up the "Flamebird" moniker during the ''Candor'' story arc.
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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: In ''Way of the World'', Supergirl attempts to find a cure for cancer to save a little child's life. She refuses to listen when other heroes warn her that she is over her head and even their powers have their limits, and argue they should be more proactive, but ultimately she fails.
-->'''Wonder Woman:''' Amazon, alien, human-- the ray can heal almost any wound for any of us in seconds. It's an amazing, world-changing technology... and it can't cure cancer, Kara. You're in above your head.\\
'''Supergirl:''' I'll find a way. I know I can do it. [...] What if we've all been wrong? What if we've all been fighting crime and saving dozens-- when we could have been saving billions? Saving '''everyone'''?
-->'''Wonder Woman:''' Amazon, alien, human-- the ray can heal almost any wound for any of us in seconds. It's an amazing, world-changing technology... and it can't cure cancer, Kara. You're in above your head.\\
'''Supergirl:''' I'll find a way. I know I can do it. [...] What if we've all been wrong? What if we've all been fighting crime and saving dozens-- when we could have been saving billions? Saving '''everyone'''?
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* GlassesAndPonytailCoverup: Kara does the ponytail-and-glasses disguise when she creates her Linda Lang identity.
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* DrivenByEnvy: Catherine Grant hatred towards Supergirl stemmed to a great extent from jealousy. As ComicBook/LoisLane bluntly put in ''ComicBook/SupermanBrainiac'', "She doesn't like someone '''half''' her age flying through Metropolis and turning heads".
