History Headscratchers / Supergirl2015

** As it turns out, Batman actually does not have Kryptonite in this universe.

** Seeing as Clark and Lex used to be friends, it's entirely possible that Clark did the ObfuscatingStupidity/TheKlutz act so well Lex could never believe that his Clark is a Kryptonian superhero. He doesn't have any preconceived notions of Kara Danvers, though, so it's easier for him to believe she's Supergirl.

** Apparently, it still went on working for a while, then Rama Khan destroyed it, and then J'onn and Alex reform it.

** Well, given all of his powers and experience, we can presume he's probably pretty good at it. Also, it's possible Kara helps support Alex--they share an apartment, after all, and it's doubtful Kara makes her sister pay rent. As for building and maintaining the super-attic, it's possible he "acquired" some DEO tech before he left.

* Why did Lord plant a camera on Alex in "Childish Things?" [[spoiler: Sure, he gets Supergirl's identity out of the deal]], but there's no way he could have predicted that. He only knows that Supergirl is an ally to the DEO, not that she has any personal relationship to one of their agents. And suppose that Alex went home and immediately put her bag in a closet instead of tossing them aside and sitting down to chat with the sister Lord didn't know existed prior to this moment? My point here is, there are a lot of things Lord didn't account for in this "plan" of his, which seems uncharacteristic of him.

* Why did Lord plant a camera on Alex's shoes in "Childish Things?" [[spoiler: Sure, he gets Supergirl's identity out of the deal]], but there's no way he could have predicted that. He only knows that Supergirl is an ally to the DEO, not that she has any personal relationship to one of their agents. And suppose that Alex went home and immediately put those shoes away in a shoebox and/or closet instead of tossing them aside and sitting down to chat with the sister Lord didn't know existed prior to this moment? My point here is, there are a lot of things Lord didn't account for in this "plan" of his, which seems uncharacteristic of him.

* How the hell was Kara contained in that cage in "The Darkest Place" if she still had her powers? Yeah, they say it was indestructible Nth metal, and presumably that applies to the locking mechanism, too, but couldn't Kara just fly through the floor, or fly up and rip the cage out of the floor? And if the cage had six sides and is built into the floor (which doesn't seem to be the case, given how we see it was removed without disrupting the floor at the end of the episode) why not just grab the bars and fly in one directio, and fly out the the building, to the DEO with the cage? Wounldn't be Mon-El's most comfortable flight, but he's nigh invulnerable. And even if she couldn't get out or move, she could still use her heat vision to threaten Rhea and the guards when they came in? And even if Kara won't kill or even torture to save herself and her friend, and Cadmus is certain of this, couldn't she at least stop Rhea from shooting Mon-el? Yeah, plot convienence, but they could just have had them under red-solar lamps or kryptonite, and aside from having to rewrite the introduction of Mon-el's weakness and Kara risking her life for him, little in the plot would change.

*** Pre-Crisis, from what we see and hear, Superman's Rogues gallery likely included but was not limited to Lex Luthor, Reactron, General Zod, Doomsday, Lobo, and Bruno Manhiem. Not very extensive, but each of them are pretty heavy hitters in terms of villainy, so they're probably just the most notable. We also know he met The Legion of Superheroes before Kara, and there's also Darksied and (regular) Braniac that the show hasn't used. Plus, since Superman and Batman appear to have been the only heroes on Supergirl's earth before Supergirl and her allies became active, there are plenty of [[RoguesGalleryTransplant other DC villains this version of Superman has had to tackle.]]

* Henshaw says he didn't let Alex come because it was too dangerous, as proven by Jemm killing the two other agents. This is to build tension before the ShockingSwerve that he's actually ComicBook/MartianManhunter. But how did the other agents' Neural Inhibitors get knocked off? If Henshaw knocked them off himself, he would still have killed them.

** The episode specifically mentioned Cadmus having altered it not to effect humans, just like Eliza later modified it to only effect the White Martian cells in J'onn.

** To be a bit more accurate, terrorists only make sense to themselves and to those who think like them. Unfortunately, the mindest of most terrorists is rather twisted, so it doesn't make sense to us.

** Given that no Kryptonian ever seems to have trouble with the language when they come to Earth, it may just be that [[TheSimpsons by an astonishing coincidence, both of their languages are exactly the same]].

** OP here. I wasn't really expecting her to be more powerful. I just remember in one episode (can't really remember which one) where one of the kryptonians (I think it was the one we now know as Non) was concerned about Superman, and when he brought up the idea that Superman would be more of a threat, Astra says (paraphrasing) "Don't be so sure." So I was just looking for some kind of edge that Supergirl might have over Franchise/{{Superman}} (other than the obvious "she's a girl" thing) and when I thought of how her heat vision is blue, I thought it might be because hers is hotter (as blue fire is to red) so maybe she's just got more juice, which got me thinking that maybe all her abilities are likewise suped up (it would also help to explain why Supergirl could beat Reactron, but Superman couldn't), which seemed like it could be reasonable due to my initial reasoning above (especially since we haven't really seen Superman do anything to compare with). I would have put this under WMG, but I wanted to make sure it made sense, so I thought I'd run it by the problem solvers at Headscratchers first, and I'm pleased to say all of you have been very helpful.

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