History Recap / SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E27E28LittleGirlLost

* NoEndorHolocaust: Averted, Krypton's destruction had horrific consequences for its nearby sister planet Argo. The energy from the explosion destroyed most of Argo's cities and killed most of its inhabitant. That same explosion also tore Argo out of its orbit and sent it slowly drifting away from the sun, resulting in the remaining survivors being frozen to death.

* LastOfHisKind: Averted as Superman discovers and rescues Kara In-Ze, another surviving Kryptonian like him from Krypton's sister planet Argo.

Using his restored rocket, Superman arrives in the solar system that once contained Krypton. There he finds the remains of his world shattered into a million pieces, but during his investigation, he receives a distress signal from somewhere near the edge of the system. Changing course and heading towards the system edge, he finds that the signal is leading him towards a frozen planet. Upon landing on the surface, he discovers the ruins of a city and within the ruins, he finds an abandoned laboratory that is the source of the distress signal. A message is relayed to him from the scientist whom the lab belonged to explaining the history of this world. This was Krypton's sister planet. Argo, a habitable world colonized by Kryptonians long ago. When Krypton exploded, the energy from the blast destroyed Argo's cities and killed most of the Kryptonian inhabitants. To make matters worse, that same explosion also tore Argo out of its orbit, sending it slowly drifting away from the sun. No longer within reach of the sun's heat, Argo began to freeze, killing all of the remaining survivors. Within that same lab, Superman finds a group of stasis pods containing the scientist and her family, all of which have been destroyed. When all hope seems lost, Supes finds that one pod is still active, and its inhabitant is still alive. Contained within is the daughter of the scientist, a teenage girl named Kara In-Ze. Superman decides to bring her back to Earth and adopt her as his cousin.

On Earth, Kara enjoys living with the Kents and flexing her new powers, but she's frustrated by Clark not wanting her to take part in superheroics for a while while she properly adjusts to the new environment. In Metropolis, Intergang starts acting up again, and once again, they have Apokoliptian backup. This time, it's Granny Goodness, one of Darkseid's lieutenants. Naturally, these two plot threads come together, when Kara and Jimmy Olsen (who wants to be treated as a full reporter) decide to go investigate on their own, and Granny catches them. While Kara is more than a match for Granny, she's not so much a match for the Female Furies who Boom Tube in, and needs Superman's help.

This, unfortunately, results in Superman being captured. Supergirl is able to bail him out, but not before Darkseid reveals that his plan is to re-direct a comet into hitting Earth. The two destroy the comet manually, much to Darkseid's annoyance. Kara then makes her official debut as Supergirl.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Granny trained the Female Furies to obey Darkseid foremost. Thus, when Darkseid orders them to torture Granny after the comet is destroyed, they do so without hesitation.

* PlanetaryRelocation: When Superman goes to the remnants of Krypton, he detects a distress signal from a nearby planet called Argo. When he gets there, discovers he finds a message from a scientist named Kala In-Ze pleading for help and explains that the explosion that destroyed Krypton devastated Argo's surface and pushed the planet out of orbit, away from their sun. Far from their sun, Argo's people slowly froze to death in the ensuing ice age, until only she and her family remained. Superman finds that the stasis chambers malfunctioned, with the exception of one, which contained Kara, aka: Supergirl.

Using his restored rocket, Superman arrives in the solar system that once contained Krypton. There he finds the remains of his world shattered into a million pieces, but during his investigation, he receives a distress signal from somewhere near the edge of the system. Changing course and heading towards the system edge, he finds that the signal is leading him towards a frozen planet. Upon landing on the surface, he discovers an abandoned laboratory that is the source of the distress signal. A message is relayed to him from the scientist whom the lab belonged to explaining the history of this world. This was Krypton's sister planet. Argo, a habitable world colonized by Kryptonians long ago. When Krypton exploded, the energy from the blast sent Argo hurling out of its orbit towards the system edge. No longer within reach of the star's heat, Argo rapidly began to freeze, killing all the Kryptonains who lived there. Within that same lab, he finds a group of stasis pods containing the scientist and her family, all of which have been destroyed. When all hope seems lost, Supes finds that one pod is still active, and its inhabitant is still alive. Contained within is the daughter of the scientist, a teenage girl named Kara In-Ze. Superman decides to bring her back to Earth and adopt her as his cousin.

* MythologyGag: The comet that Darkseid will use to destroy the Earth is [[Creator/FleischerStudios Fleischer's]] [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons Comet]].

* NoEndorHolocaust: Averted, Krypton's destruction had horrific consequences for the nearest planet.

* AdaptationNameChange: Supergirl's name is changed from Kara Zor-El to Kara In-Ze.

** A meta example. At the time DC and Warner Bros had a general executive policy for all DC media stating that "Superman was the last survivor of Krypton period and no other survivors were allowed." However, despite the policy, the writers still wanted to bring in the original Supergirl into the series. As such, they were forced to alter her background by making her an inhabitant of Argo and making her Superman's adopted cousin rather than his biological cousin. Thus, the loophole explanation of, "She is technically not from Krypton", gave the writers the ability to use a slightly altered version of the original Kryptonian Supergirl rather than one of the non-Kryptonian Supergirls that were in the comics at the time.

* LastOfHisKind: Kara is the sole surviving Argoan.

When Krypton was destroyed, it wasn't the only planet affected. It had a sister planet, Argo, which was knocked out of orbit by the force of the blast. The sudden freezing of the planet killed all its inhabitants, save one: Kara In-ze, a teenage girl whose scientist mother placed her in cryostasis along with the rest of her family (the others' pods broke). Superman finds her while investigating the remains of Krypton, and brings her back to Earth, adopting her as his cousin.

** Because they weren't allowed to have a surviving Krptonian other than Superman and the Phantom Zone's inmates, this version of Supergirl isn't Kryptonian. Sure, Argo happens to be a sister planet of Krypton and its inhabitants are from the same ''species'' as Kal-El, and she has a similar backstory of the planet being destroyed, but technically, she's not Kryptonian.

* LastOfHisKind: Kara is the sole surviving Argoan.

* OhCrap: Jimmy has this reaction when Granny Goodness opens up a boom tube, revealing that she's from Apokolips.

** With Earth now under the protection of New Genesis, Darkseid can't openly attack or destroy it without violating the treaty with Highfather. But if the Earth were to be destroyed by, say, 'a stray comet'...well, ''Darkseid'' could not be held accountable for a 'natural disaster', could he?

* KarmaHoudini. Downplayed. While it's not explicitly pointed out, it's still evident Darkseid and Apokolips suffered no diplomatic repercussions for killing Dan Turpin last episode (and despite Orion's ultimatum that any further aggression would breach the peace treaty and be considered an act of war against New Genesis itself). This can be justified, as Darkseid ''was'' retreating and signaling de-escalation; killing Turpin was a means of saving face while still leaving Earth. Highfather realistically isn't ready or going to abrogate the Pact and plunge New Genesis into another eternal war for the sake of a single human death.