| 1 | [[quoteright:146:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hellsistertrilogy.jpg]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:146:Image by Transformer Man]] |
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| 4 | ->"Now--here I am," she said, taking a seat at the table. "I see you've got the Fatal Five out again. But you could probably handle them without me. And I've been brain-scanned twice in the last few minutes. It sounds like something's coming up for me, specifically. Why did you summon me?"\ |
| 5 | "Because of this," said Brainiac, and thumbed the controller again. The image of a masked woman came up on one of the holoscreens.\ |
| 6 | Supergirl dropped her jaw.\ |
| 7 | "Her!" she said, after she found her voice. "Great Rao, after all these years... her!"\ |
| 8 | "Now you know why we need you," said Brainy, quietly.\ |
| 9 | [...]\ |
| 10 | "Satan Girl," breathed Kara. "Great Rao forgive us." |
| 11 | |
| 12 | ''Hellsister Trilogy'' is a ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' fanfic series by Creator/{{DarkMark}}. |
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| 14 | In an alternate timeline where Supergirl fought the [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Anti-Monitor]] and survived, she is making a life for herself in Earth society. However, several returning enemies as well as Darkseid going ahead with his plans to enslave all sentient beings threaten to finish what the Anti-Monitor began. |
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| 16 | This story is told through several story arcs: |
| 17 | |
| 18 | * ''Hellsister'': Supergirl returns to the future to team up with the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' in an adventure which pits her against her evil doppelganger in a battle to the death, while Rokyn and Daxam face destruction and the Legion's mightiest foe threatens to command all the evil of the universe. |
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| 20 | * ''The Apokolips Agenda'': Supergirl returns to the 20th Century to face one of the deadliest villains in the multiverse, and to aid the New Gods in their battle against him. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | * ''Hellspawn'': In a time not her own, Supergirl must deal with the deadly menace of Darkseid, and the son of Satan Girl. |
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| 24 | It can be read in [[http://members.tripod.com/Dark_Mark/darkmark1.htm Dark Mark's site]] and FF.net: [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/258219/1/Supergirl-and-the-Legion-Hellsister here]], [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/713804/1/The-Apokolips-Agenda here]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12523112/1/Supergirl-Hellspawn here]]. After a long time without an update, new chapters of "Hellspawn" have been posted in FF.net. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20050404215250/http://home.swipnet.se:80/KPU/ Kara's Pocket Universe]] and [[https://www.oocities.org/area51/shuttle/8110/Fiction.html Legion of Super-Heroes FanFic archive]] also host part of the story. |
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| 26 | !!This fanfic provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 27 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 28 | [[folder:A-B]] |
| 29 | * AbusiveParents: Darkseid takes his usual abhorrent behavior up a level when he kidnaps his son Orion and orders Desaad to torture the Anti-Life Equation out of him by any means necessary. |
| 30 | -->"So you must understand, my son. I do this, not for evil, but for the greater good. A greater good than any of these fools can understand. And it is for this reason that I must do... what I must do. I think this may be love. And if so, Orion... you must understand that I love you."\ |
| 31 | After another long moment, Darkseid got up. He pushed past Kalibak, and opened the door. A shrouded figure came in, tentatively, yet with eagerness on his face.\ |
| 32 | Tigra cried out in fear.\ |
| 33 | "I want the Equation," said Darkseid to Desaad. "Do with him what you will." |
| 34 | * AcceptableBreaksFromCanon: Dark Mark disregards both Supergirl's death at Anti-Monitor's hands and her relationship with Brainiac 5 in favor of hooking her up with Dev-Em. |
| 35 | * AccidentalAdultery: Wildfire apparently dies fighting the Anti-Monitor in the 21st century. His partner Dawnstar doesn't get over his death but she eventually starts a relationship with another person. Then she finds out Wildfire didn't die but he was trapped in a star for a long while during which he wanted nothing but escape and see her again. Cue Dawnstar feeling awfully guilty, even though Wildfire doesn't blame her. |
| 36 | * TheAce: Kara is the Legion of Super-Heroes strongest, fastest and most powerful member, as well as one of the smarter Legionnaires. |
| 37 | * AchillesHeel: Galactic Golem's only weak point is the radiation-leaking white starbust on his head. He can be defeated by hitting that spot, but the puncher may not survive the resulting chain reaction and subsequent explosion. |
| 38 | -->Brother Baldhead had found a way of putting galactic matter together into a living being, a huge, eight-foot semi-Frankenstein with blue-black skin dotted over with starbursts, programming its mind to do what he wanted, and sending it against Superman. The Golem lived on what Luthor termed "galactic energy", which power boosted his considerably beyond Superman’s. In their first encounter, Kal had learned that bashing the white starburst on the Golem’s forehead would have exploded it, but would also have destroyed a good part of the city and possibly the state if he had done so. |
| 39 | * AchillesInHisTent: After the Apokolyptian War, Kara wants nothing more than to retire. So, when the Legion asks her help again, her first impulse is turning them down. |
| 40 | * ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Tender moments where Kara and her boyfriend talk about what their respective lives were like and their goals for the future, or simply try to have a good time without anybody interfering, alternate with cosmic-level battles for the fate of the universe. |
| 41 | * ActionGirl: Essentially, the entirety of female heroes of Franchise/TheDCU make at least one appearance. |
| 42 | * ActOfTrueLove: Dev-Em openly tells if his girlfriend Kara can't be healed then he wants to die alongside her. |
| 43 | -->'''Dev-Em:''' Not so fast, Great One. All I'm asking for is a fair exchange. If you heal Kara, you can have the rock with my compliments. If you don't... If you don't, I could say that we'd tear the place up and fight you, and we're pretty strong in our own right. But that wouldn't get us what we want, and we'd probably lose in the long run. So, if you don't want to deal, all I ask is that you let me die alongside her. 'Cause I really don't want to go on without Kara. |
| 44 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the original comics, Supergirl was in love with Brainiac 5 and she barely had any interaction with Dev-Em. In this story, Kara and Dev are dating. |
| 45 | * AffectionateGestureToTheHead: In the start of the third arc, Dev-Em sits down beside Kara and strokes her head in a reassuring way as she's having a break-down. |
| 46 | -->Dev crouched beside her and stroked her hair, gently. |
| 47 | * AffectionateNickname: Kara calls her boyfriend Dev-Em "Devian". |
| 48 | * AintTooProudToBeg: Black Adam reacts violently when Mordru orders him to submit to him... and then promptly falls on his knees and begs to be spared when Mordru proves he can destroy him at any given time. |
| 49 | -->Calmly, the bearded giant on the throne before him answered, "I am Mordru. You have been brought here to serve me."\ |
| 50 | Angrily, the black-and-gold-clad villain launched himself at Mordru. His power and velocity should have carried him straight through the wizard's body.\ |
| 51 | But Mordru raised a hand, and a lightning bolt sprang from his fingers. Black Adam was knocked out of the air. A flash of energy almost blinded Mordru's messenger.\ |
| 52 | Now, a slim Egyptian man with no powers whatever cowered on the floor of Mordru's chamber. And the over-villain's hand still glowed with eldrich power.\ |
| 53 | "Spare me!" begged Teth-Adam, who would never have spared a foe himself.\ |
| 54 | "Agree to serve me, then," said Mordru, not giving an iota.\ |
| 55 | Teth-Adam knelt before his new master, touching his forehead to the floor three times. |
| 56 | * AirborneMook: Darkseid deploys legions of bat-winged parademons in order to deter the heroes. Superman and Supergirl destroy hundreds of parademons in battle, but the aerial demons succeed in slowing the heroes down. |
| 57 | * AirJousting: Supergirl and Satan Girl constantly smash against each other during their aerial battles. |
| 58 | -->They tumbled away from the gravitational pull of the planet they had landed on, and kept fighting in the void. They smashed at each other, kicked, chopped, and catfought, and each of their blows would have torn the side out of a mountain. |
| 59 | * TheAirNotThere: Subverted. Air molecules usually don't bother Supergirl when she's flying or moving super-fast due to her invulnerability... but in the anti-matter universe, where her invulnerability is useless, she gets hurt even by hydrogen atoms. |
| 60 | * AlienInvasion: Darkseid and his Apokoliptian troops strike both Earth and New Genesis during the second story arc. |
| 61 | * AlienSky: Planet Qward, where Supergirl and Satan Girl battle for the final time, orbits around two suns. |
| 62 | -->The star-system of Qward had twin suns for the last thousand years. The new one was rather small, as stars go, but a star is a star, for all that. |
| 63 | * AliensSpeakingEnglish: All alien races in the thirtieth century speak English. Generally, Translation Convention must be assumed. |
| 64 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Kara falls for Dev-Em, a reformed bully and delinquent who is still kind of jerkass. |
| 65 | * AllianceOfAlternates: "The Apokolips Agenda" has Kara Zor-El from Earth-One and Kara Zor-L from Earth-Two work together to wreck Darkseid's latest universal domination scheme. |
| 66 | * AlliterativeTitle: The second story arc is titled "The Apokolips Agenda". |
| 67 | * AllLovingHero: Kara. Satan Girl blatantly states she could never stand Supergirl's empathetic, caring ways. This is after Supergirl has expressed sorry at the loss of someone who is attempting to kill her brutally for the... fourth? fifth? time. |
| 68 | * AllThereInTheManual: Dark Mark provided [[http://dark_mark.tripod.com/hellsmet.htm character]] [[http://dark_mark.tripod.com/apokolips_meta.html lists]] so nobody gets confused by the Pre-Crisis characters' backstories. |
| 69 | * AllUpToYou: At the end of "The Apokolips Agenda", nearly all heroes have been defeated by Darkseid, including Superman. There's only Supergirl left to save them. Unfortunately, she's also beaten by the Dark Lord, but her last stand not only saves her cousin but also gives Orion -the only one who can kill Darkseid- enough time to recover and defeat Darkseid. |
| 70 | * AlternateUniverse: A reality similar to Earth-One which was born when the Anti-Monitor was defeated early on. |
| 71 | * AlternateUniverseFic: This universe was created when another Supergirl interfered with the battle between the Supergirl from Earth-One and the Anti-Monitor in [[http://dark_mark.tripod.com/dreamsmith.htm Kara and the Dreamsmith]]. |
| 72 | * AlwaysAccurateAttack: Darkseid's Omega Beams work just like they do in the comics. |
| 73 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: All Parademons are completely evil, to the point that neither of the heroes have compunction in killing them all. Justified because they were created by ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, who was never a fan of free will. |
| 74 | * AncientEvil: |
| 75 | ** Darkseid, the God of Tyranny who has been plaguing the galaxy for millennia. |
| 76 | ** The Source of Evil is as old as sentient life itself. |
| 77 | * AndIMustScream: Wildfire spends one thousand years turned into a anti-matter star floating in space -after his containment suit is destroyed in ''Kara Of Rokyn''-, unable to make contact with someone or escape. Mon-El -who spent one thousand years trapped in the PhantomZone- empathizes with him right away. |
| 78 | -->'''Wildfire:''' Well, Dawny, it's kind of--ah, how long have I been away?\ |
| 79 | '''Cosmic Boy:''' About a thousand years, give or take a few.\ |
| 80 | '''Wildfire:''' Oh, hell. I've been playing mumblety-peg with myself for a thousand years. I can't believe I spent all that time in that star and still stayed sane.\ |
| 81 | '''Mon-El:''' I know the feeling. |
| 82 | * AndThenWhat: During their FinalBattle, Supergirl asks her doppelganger what she'll do after killing her. Satan Girl replies she'll figure out something: |
| 83 | -->'''Supergirl:''' What's the use of this, Satan Girl? There's nothing left for you. If you kill me... what's left for you to make a life from?\ |
| 84 | '''Satan Girl:''' I'll work that out afterward. Stop resisting me and I'll get to it sooner. |
| 85 | * {{Animorphism}}: Emerald Empress' weapon the Eye of Ekron transforms enemies into lizards during a raid. |
| 86 | -->Some of the men threw themselves in the villains' path as they advanced into the building. A lucky few were shoved out of the way. The Empress's eye turned another into a lizard. |
| 87 | * AnotherDimension: In the Dark Mark's Fanverse, Earth-1.5, Earth-1.75, Earth-Two and Earth-Prime are parallel dimensions whose heroes interact with each other every so often. |
| 88 | * AntagonisticOffspring: Berserker is Supergirl's clone's son. Captured and raised by Darkseid to be his weapon, Berserker eagerly looks forward to kill his genetic mother. |
| 89 | * AntagonistTitle: Satan Girl-- the eponymous "Hellsister" and one of the main enemies. |
| 90 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: |
| 91 | ** The Spectre -the manifestation of God's Wrath- helps the main characters twice. |
| 92 | ** [[ComicBook/TheSandman Destruction of the Endless]], the embodiment of change and renewal, joins the heroes in the third story arc. |
| 93 | --->'''Dev-Em:''' "We know the Stranger. But who, mate, are you?"\ |
| 94 | '''ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger:''' "He has many names. As one of the Endless, there is no end to what he might be called. But, in your culture, he would be known as... Destruction."\ |
| 95 | '''ComicBook/CosmicBoy:''' "Not exactly reassuring, if you know what I mean."\ |
| 96 | '''Destruction:''' (smiling warmly) "I represent a necessity, a phase of change, the crumbling of one that another may arise. But in this case, I may stand with you." |
| 97 | * {{Antimatter}}: Antimatter is such a dangerous substance that not even invulnerable Kryptonians can survive exposure. Aware of it, Supergirl dunks her virtually indestructible evil duplicate into an antimatter star in order to destroy her. |
| 98 | -->She had been using her flight power to plummet them both down towards the antisun's surface. They were enough into the "atmosphere" of the sun that both were taking hits from random anti-matter particles. Not large enough to damage them, but it felt like beestings. Both of them could survive contact with, or even immersion in, a positive-matter sun. Kal had done it before, though she had not yet tried it.\ |
| 99 | But physical contact with a body of antimatter that large would annihilate them both. Or just one of them, if Kara was lucky enough to escape. |
| 100 | * ApocalypticLog: In the first episode, Satan Girl assaults a starship. The crew manages to send a message right before being destroyed. |
| 101 | -->Within seconds, she was in outer space. Her course was set to intercept that of a massive United Planets patrol ship.\ |
| 102 | A message was shortly received at the headquarters of the United Planets. It was the last one they would get from that particular starship.\ |
| 103 | The message stated that their craft was being destroyed by an unarmed woman. It was cut off before the end. |
| 104 | * ArcVillain: |
| 105 | ** "Hellsister": Mordru |
| 106 | ** "The Apokolips Agenda": Darkseid |
| 107 | ** "Hellspawn": Nemesis |
| 108 | * ArchnemesisDad: Darkseid and Trigon to Orion and Raven, respectively. Orion does not intend to let his father enslave the universe, and Raven wants to protect her friends from his superpowerful devil of a father. |
| 109 | * ArmorIsUseless: Subverted in "The Apokolips Agenda". After running into Kryptonite-Man, Supergirl wears a Kryptonite-proof armor which doesn't provide a better protection than her own invulnerable skin, but will save her life if she runs into Kryptonite-based enemies on Darkseid's payroll. |
| 110 | * ArmoredVillainsUnarmoredHeroes: Superman is always armorless whereas Lex Luthor wears his green powered armor at all times. |
| 111 | * AscendedExtra: Dev-Em goes from ridiculously minor character who made half dozen of appearances in the 1960's -which largely consisted in pestering Superboy and becoming an occasional ally to the Legion- to co-lead and the main character's LoveInterest. |
| 112 | * AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Mordru travels to Hell to merge himself with the source of black magic and evolve from ''merely'' supremely powerful evil sorcerer into evil god. |
| 113 | * ASharedSuffering: Kara and Dev have a few conversations about how they are two Kryptonian survivors who don't quite fit in between present-day Earth people. |
| 114 | * AshFace: In the eleventh chapter of "The Agenda Apokolips", Desaad's face gets soot-smudged when one of his torture devices blows up in his face. |
| 115 | -->In blackness was where Pariah would have preferred to spend his time. He had one small satisfaction: that Desaad had tried to torture him with a complicated contraption that was supposed to work on him physically, on his nerve cells, and the thing had blown up in his face. Desaad, with blackened face, had said, "Yes. Well, now we'll have to try again, won't we?" |
| 116 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: |
| 117 | ** Mordru leads the Legion of Super-Villains and has the allegiance of Satan Girl and powerhouses like [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Black Adam]] because he can destroy any of them easily. |
| 118 | ** In the second story, Darkseid declares himself leader of the alliance of villains after one-shooting Brainiac. No one, not even Lex Luthor, is brave or stupid enough to object. |
| 119 | * AsTheGoodBookSays: In "Hellsister" chapter 21, John Constantine quotes Psalm 23:4. John being John, he does this in irreverent fashion. |
| 120 | -->'''Constantine:''' 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of death, I shall fear no evil, 'cause I'm the meanest sonofayouknowwhat in the valley.' |
| 121 | * AttackItsWeakPoint: Galactic Golem's only weak point is the energy white starburst on his forehead, but hitting it will result in a humongous explosion. Supergirl, Power Girl and Superboy get around this by wrapping the Golem up in their indestructible capes before Supergirl punches his forehead. Her blow sets off a chain reaction but their capes contain the blast. |
| 122 | -->"Who in Sheol was that, K? Blue Frankenstein, or something?" asked Power Girl, rubbing her arms.\ |
| 123 | "The Galactic Golem," Kara replied. "He’s an old enemy of Superman’s, an energy being. That white star on his head was his Achilles heel. I just had to gamble that our capes could contain the blast. Thanks, both of you, and I mean that." |
| 124 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: "The Apokolips Agenda" has a battle between two mountain-sized giants: red horned devil Trigon and the humanoid embodiment of God's Wrath known as The Spectre. |
| 125 | * AuthorAppeal: Dark Mark's really fond of continuity-rich fictional universes with a long-storied history and powerful, heroic action girls like Supergirl, Power Girl, ComicBook/JeanGrey and ComicBook/CarolDanvers. |
| 126 | * AvengingTheVillain: Satan Girl attempts to kill Supergirl to avenge her lover Mordru. Supergirl kills her evil duplicate in self-defense, and later on, Satan Girl's son Nemesis intends to avenge her mother's death by killing Supergirl. |
| 127 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: At the beginning, Kara and Dev bicker constantly due to their different outlooks (idealistic versus pragmatic), but after Dev risks his life to save people, Kara admits she loves him openly. |
| 128 | * AxCrazy: Satan Girl finds world-scale mass murder and genocide funny. |
| 129 | * BabiesEverAfter: At the start of the third arc, Clark and Lois are expecting twins. |
| 130 | * BackFromTheDead: Wildfire, who had died battling the Anti-Monitor at the beginning of ''Kara Of Rokyn'', returns at the end of the first story arc, where he reveals he spent centuries transformed into a cloud of anti-matter floating in space until he was able to find a way to return home. |
| 131 | * BadassBoast: Mordru delivers a lot of these. No villain, no matter how powerful, tries to challenge them. |
| 132 | -->'''Mordru:''' Show me what you can do.\ |
| 133 | '''Satan Girl:''' And if I do, what then?\ |
| 134 | '''Mordru:''' I could destroy you with greater ease than you could imagine. But you may be of use to me. |
| 135 | * BadassCape: Supergirl, Mon-El, Superman, Big Barda, Mister Miracle... all of them wear impressive capes, but Satan Girl wears a flowing dark-red cloak which enhances her sinister aura. |
| 136 | * BadassCrew: The Legion is a super-team of nearly thirty super-heroes, some of them with planet-crushing powers, who fight evil sorcerers and eldritch abominations. |
| 137 | * BadassFamily: Supergirl, her counterpart Power Girl, her Kryptonian lover, her cousin Superman, her cousin's descendant... and their whole extended family which included the world's present and future greatest heroes. |
| 138 | * BadassInDistress: Orion is kidnapped by Darkseid during the War. |
| 139 | * BadBoss: Darkseid obliterates one his most valuable minions because Desaad made a '''bad pun'''. Given that Darkseid can bring his slaves back whenever he wishes, he is even more uncaring regarding their lives. |
| 140 | -->Desaad clutched at the shaft transfixing his midsection in agony. His master shot forth beams from his eyes which reduced him to his primal atoms. Later, he would reassemble them, and trust that Desaad would learn by that not to make jokes using his name. |
| 141 | * BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: |
| 142 | ** Supergirl's ability to exist out of the boundaries of a planet comes up when she arrives in the 31st century. |
| 143 | --->When she had slowed enough, Supergirl simply winked out of warp-time and found herself back in orbital space. Her lungs automatically tried to breathe, found vacuum, and ceased action. Kara willed them subconsciously to retain what oxygen they contained. |
| 144 | ** The Legionnaires can breathe in space thanks to their Flight Rings -and some of them like Supergirl because of their natural powers- but they still need additional devices to communicate with each other. |
| 145 | * BatmanGambit: |
| 146 | ** Kara tricks Satan Girl into throwing her into a sun by playing possum. Right before her counterpart hurls her away, Kara turns her momentum against her. |
| 147 | ** Previously she had challenged her to a battle in the anti-matter universe. Satan Girl pointed out she could stay outside until Kara returned or died. Kara essentially replied “I thought you wanted to kil me with your own hands. But I guess you're only a coward and pathetic copy of me. Oh, and have I mentioned we killed your lover?” It worked. |
| 148 | * BatmanGrabsAGun: Supergirl is forced to break her "Thou Shalt Not Kill" rule twice: first to save the universe from Mordru, who was about to merge with the ultimate source of black magic; and shortly after to save billions from lives -including her own- from Satan Girl. Her evil duplicate was trying to kill her once again, wanted to wipe out whole planets after being done with her, and couldn't be talked down, locked up or stopped. It was literally a matter of kill or be killed. |
| 149 | * BattleCouple: Kara Zor-El and Dev-Em get together during the story as fighting the minions of Mordru and Darkseid. |
| 150 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: During his wedding, Clark Kent surreptitiously makes Lois' bouquet land on Kara's hands; a subtle way to wish her good luck in finding a steady boyfriend. Next time he saw her, Kara had hooked up with Dev-Em, who he loathes. |
| 151 | * BecauseYouCanCope: During "The Apokolips Agenda", The Spectre is summoned to destroy Trigon... which he does, but he leaves straight after, even though the War against Darkseid isn't over yet. His friends ask him to stay, but he replies he's already breaking too many rules as it is, but he knows they'll rise victorious. |
| 152 | * BehemothBattle: In "The Apokolips Agenda" arc, The Spectre fights and crushes Trigon. The former is the embodiment of God's Wrath, the latter is a literal king demon, and both of them are mountain-sized. |
| 153 | * BeingGoodSucks: Supergirl can't have a normal life or healthy relationships or even down time because, as Superman puts it, every time an eldritch abomination decides to snack on their universe, super-hero teams ask for Kryptonian help. And the two of them ''can't'' ignore their pleas. |
| 154 | -->'''Supergirl:''' But we don't have to go out there with our dukes up, spoiling for a fight. Do we, Kal?\ |
| 155 | '''Superman:''' No. Most of the time, it comes to us.\ |
| 156 | '''Supergirl:''' Well, it's gonna have to start coming somewhere else before long. I'm tired of this. I wasn't born to be a, a super-heroine. I just wanted to be a normal girl from Argo, and, and get a good job and a good man and settle down...\ |
| 157 | '''Superman:''' (gently) Except, there aren't very many people from Argo left anymore. Are there, Kara? |
| 158 | * BeingWatched: |
| 159 | ** In episode 20 of the first arc, John Constantine prays for Supergirl's safety. Feeling pretty embarassed, he wonders if he's been seen... which he has. Supergirl was eavesdropping on him. |
| 160 | ** In the fourth chapter of “The Apokolips Agenda”, Kara and Dev feel they are being watched. |
| 161 | --->It was worth everything to hold her like that, to feel her warmth and weight and breath, even in this godforsaken century. Even if it was only for the night, and the next day.\ |
| 162 | Even if he was beginning to feel, as Kara had, that somehow, they were being watched. |
| 163 | * BelligerentSexualTension: Kara Zor-El and Dev-Em argue constantly because of their different personalities and outlooks (she's a kind-hearted idealist, he's a pragmatic jerkass) in spite of being attracted each other. It isn't until Dev risks his life to save people Kara confesses her feelings. |
| 164 | * BerserkButton: Do NOT make puns out of Darkseid's name. The Dread Lord has NO sense of humor and doesn't mind obliterating the perpetrator because he can bringing him back to life as many times as he wants. |
| 165 | -->"Fitting, indeed," said the assistant. "To have taken the Supergirl-clone from her imprisonment, Boom Tubed her to a point one year in her future, kept her comatose until her child's delivery, then sent her back to confront the Supergirl... a stroke of genius."\ |
| 166 | The assistant grinned. "Why, you might even say, Dread Lord, that the Satan Girl was Supergirl's dark--"\ |
| 167 | The master whirled and swiftly pierced the other's gut with the spear he was holding. The Spear of Destiny.\ |
| 168 | Desaad clutched at the shaft transfixing his midsection in agony. His master shot forth beams from his eyes which reduced him to his primal atoms. Later, he would reassemble them, and trust that Desaad would learn by that not to make jokes using his name. |
| 169 | * TheBerserker: |
| 170 | ** Satan Girl loves fighting and slaughtering. Violence and murder actually turn her on, particularly when she confronts her hated template: |
| 171 | --><[=TearyoureyesoutandEATTHEM=],> sent Satan Girl, not even conscious of her speech. <[=RipyouapartandseveryourINTESTINES=].> |
| 172 | ** Her son -properly named Berserker- isn't any calmer. |
| 173 | --->“I would like to meet him, in Armagetto or any other place,” said Berserker, the son of Satan Girl and Mordru. "I would take his Astro-Force and force it into his guts, before I ripped his body asunder." |
| 174 | * BettyAndVeronica: Supergirl is caught between quiet, introvert, shy, kind-hearted and moral Brainiac 5 and rude, boisterous, cocky and shady Dev-Em. |
| 175 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Kara is her family's kindest and most empathetic member, as well as a FlyingBrick with a fierce temper, which is because she explodes when Darkseid almost kills Superman, Power Girl and Dev-Em. She doesn't win because Darkseid vs anybody battles can only end in one way, but she still gets several good licks before going down. |
| 176 | -->'''Supergirl:''' I've been through hell and a half in this last week. I've fought Blackstarr, Eclipso, the Zoners, Kralik, the Golem, and I'm probably leaving some out. I almost got zombified because of you. Now you've hurt the man I love, and my cousin, and my friends. I didn't want to do this. I didn't want to do any of it. I hate fighting. But I promise you, Darkseid, if you don't restore them and surrender, you're never getting up from this floor in one piece. I swear it! |
| 177 | * BewareTheSuperman: Satan Girl shows how dangerous and terrifying it'd be to deal with a Pre-Crisis Kryptonian with nonexistent morals. She’ll head-butt a planetoid out of orbit only for amusement. |
| 178 | -->Kryptonians could survive in space without a suit. Was that not a pleasure? It certainly was. She could live her life between the stars, and never once need to breathe.\ |
| 179 | She could devastate planets, wipe them clean of life. Rebuild them at her whim.\ |
| 180 | She could tyrannize worlds, whole systems of planets, make them bow to her mighty hand, instantly execute anyone who dared protest--or just anybody she wanted to kill.\ |
| 181 | She could explore pleasures of the body that Kara never would have dared to, satisfy lusts that the blonde beast never even knew she had. She could force herself upon any suitor, male or female or whatever, and destroy them after their job was done. Or perhaps just maim them, so that they could never again do such a job for anyone else. Satan Girl smiled. Now that was being imaginative...\ |
| 182 | She could have children from those couplings, or kill them in the womb.\ |
| 183 | She could become a goddess to an unsophisticated planet's people. Drinking in their worship, demanding sacrifice.\ |
| 184 | All of this she could do, she would do, and more.\ |
| 185 | For Kryptonians and Daxamites were gods, off their homeworlds. They really were. What a pity their morality forced them not to realize that fact.\ |
| 186 | She clasped her bent knees to her chest and thought. The problem was, in this time, she was hardly unique. Billions of Kryptonians existed on Rokyn. Billions more Daxamites, with the same power, existed on Daxam. Luckily, there was only one prisoner still left in the Phantom Zone, that old poop Gazor, so there wasn't much competition there.\ |
| 187 | But, somehow, she'd have to do something about both planets. Daxam would be easy. A shower of leaden hail across its surface, and the dead would litter the ground in heaps beyond Hitler's and Stalin's dreams.\ |
| 188 | That world would stink of corpses for eons to come.\ |
| 189 | She laughed soundlessly. |
| 190 | * BigBad: In the first arc, Mordru. In the second one, Darkseid. In the third story, Darkseid again. |
| 191 | * BigBadEnsemble: The trilogy features two cosmic-level big menaces, [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Mordru]] who is determined to destroy the Legion and conquer the universe once for all, and ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, who attempts to enslave the universe in the present, and when his scheme fails, lies in wait for one thousand years to and try to conquer the universe again by exploiting Mordru's own schemes. |
| 192 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Clark Kent is incredibly protective of his younger cousin, to the point of getting into a fight with not-good-enough-for-her Dev-Em. |
| 193 | * BigDamnHeroes: At the climax of ''The Apokolips Agenda'', Darkseid is about to obliterate Supergirl when his son Orion bursts into the place and blasts Darkseid to atoms. [[spoiler:Or so Orion believes]]. |
| 194 | * TheBigDamnKiss: Kara and Dev kiss each other passionately when they are about to leave for a suicide mission. |
| 195 | -->Kara grabbed him around the neck with both arms, pulled him down, and kissed him. They held each other very tightly for several seconds. |
| 196 | * BigNo: It happens when Linda Danvers introduces her new beau Dev-Em to her landlady Ida Berkowitz, who grows concerned with Linda dodging every question regarding her new boyfriend's mysterious personal life. So, when Ida asks if Linda could take her to his workplace... |
| 197 | -->'''Ida:''' Seems to be hiding something. 'Security consultant'? So all right. Maybe he is. Maybe he's got to be Mr. Secret to do his job. You sure this is really what he does?\ |
| 198 | '''Linda:''' Sure as I can be.\ |
| 199 | '''Ida: Like how? You been to his place of business? Could you take me?\ |
| 200 | '''Linda:''' NO! I mean, yes, I've been there, and no, I couldn't take you. He made an exception for me. |
| 201 | * BigShutUp: From Supergirl to her clone during their first battle: |
| 202 | -->Grimly, Kara hurled herself forward. Her enemy was already within plain sight. <[=TearyoureyesoutandEATTHEM=],> sent Satan Girl, not even conscious of her speech. <[=RipyouapartandseveryourINTESTINES=].>\ |
| 203 | <Shut up shut up SHUT UP,> snarled Kara, and smashed into her. It was like the collision of two starships, at the very least. |
| 204 | * BizarreAlienSenses: |
| 205 | ** Kryptonians and Daxamites like Superman, Supergirl, Dev-Em, Mon-El... are able to see and hear anything under a yellow sun. Using their super-vision in a certain way even lets them mesmerize people. |
| 206 | --->Kara was using her super-hearing for various things. First, to check the pulse rate of the processors and guards. A bit tense, but nothing which indicated they might have discerned their identities. She increased her listening level a bit more and caught a cacophony of sound all over the planet. Her brain became a super-processing unit to filter out all but what she was really seeking for.\ |
| 207 | She thought about just using her vision powers, but didn't want to be seen looking in too many directions. The guards were bound to be suspicious enough as it was, and it was easier to keep her visuals here in the processing room to keep up her ruse while her aurals sought out the information. |
| 208 | ** Dawnstar is also able to detect and follow trails of energy. |
| 209 | --->She could usually sense detector beams directed into space from inhabited planets. |
| 210 | * BlackCloak: Satan Girl wears a flowing black cloak with a likewise black hood. |
| 211 | * BlackMagic: Mordru uses black magic for all kind of nasty effects, from splitting souls to run-of-the-mill disintegration. One of his goals is to merge with the source of all black magic in the universe to ascend to godhood. |
| 212 | * BlessedWithSuck: Kara has great powers which she feels isolate them from normal humanity. |
| 213 | -->Mentally, she kicked herself. All this incredible power, she thought. The ability to fly faster than light, to exist in the vacuum of space, to pierce the time barrier and reappear whenever she wanted to, and most of the time she took that for granted. No wonder that so often, life was stupid, dull, and boring to her.\ |
| 214 | No wonder that she'd never really managed to fully give her heart, or her body, to anyone yet. How many potential mates could understand the power and needs of a Kryptonian? |
| 215 | * BlindedByRage: Supergirl tells Satan Girl that the Legion killed Mordru so her nemesis is too angry to fight efficiently. |
| 216 | * BloodFromTheMouth: |
| 217 | ** Blood leaks from the mouth from the unconscious and usually invulnerable Satan Girl after getting hit by a magic spell. |
| 218 | --->Below her was the unmoving, unconscious form of Satan Girl, a trail of blood leaking from one corner of her mouth, and Drang, whose magic bolt had gone through the space which she occupied a nanosecond before. |
| 219 | ** Darkseid also does this during his battle with Supergirl. |
| 220 | --->Darkseid was bleeding from his nose and mouth. She couldn’t be certain, but she believed he had cracked ribs in the bargain. She was getting through to him, and, Rao help her, she was enjoying it. |
| 221 | * BloodKnight: Supergirl likes fighting more than she is willing to admit to herself. |
| 222 | -->Darkseid was bleeding from his nose and mouth. She couldn’t be certain, but she believed he had cracked ribs in the bargain. She was getting through to him, and, Rao help her, she was enjoying it. |
| 223 | * BloodSplatteredWarrior: Satan Girl often ends blood-stained after every battle. |
| 224 | -->The woman in black returned to the palace and brought with her the corpse of the starship's captain. She had stained her costume with blood, and burned it clean with heat from her eyes after tossing the body at her host's feet. |
| 225 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Brought up when the descendant of the original [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] wants to beg his gods to save Supergirl's life, and his ancestor warns that it may be tricky because gods don't regard death the way humans do. |
| 226 | -->'''Captain Marvel XII:''' My liege, we must beg a boon from the gods. Just one of them will do.\ |
| 227 | '''William Batson:''' Begging a favor of them for a mortal, young one, no matter how powerful she is, will be a difficult thing indeed. They do not think of a mortal's death the same way that we do. |
| 228 | * BodySurf: At some point, Drang -an old Supergirl's enemy- possesses Satan Girl. |
| 229 | * BoldlyComing: Clark and Lois get married at the beginning of the story. Their relationship is very... ''Spirited''. |
| 230 | * BondOneLiner: Supergirl before killing her dark counterpart: |
| 231 | --><Hellsister,> said Supergirl, <go to Hell.> |
| 232 | * BornAsAnAdult: Mordru uses his magic to recreate Satan Girl as a fully grown adult woman. |
| 233 | * BouquetToss: When Clark and Lois get married, Lois tosses her bouquet, and Clark makes sure with a tiny gust of super-breath that it's caught by his cousin Linda Danvers. |
| 234 | -->Linda Danvers caught the bouquet.\ |
| 235 | She gasped in surprise and pleasure, standing there in her light blue dress outside Metropolis's First Presbyterian Church. She stood beside her foster parents, Fred and Edna Danvers. All three had been throwing rice till the flowers were thrown. Linda looked at the bundle of yellow roses for an instant. Then she glanced at Lois Lane, in her white bridal gown, grinning and giving Linda a big wave. Linda smiled back.\ |
| 236 | Clark Kent, in a black tux, held onto Lois with one arm, waved with the other, and winked at Linda. She smiled shyly at him. Linda didn't have to guess whose super-breath had guided those flowers just where he'd wanted them. |
| 237 | * BoyfriendBlockingDad: Discussed. Kara wants Dev-Em to meet her adoptive parents, and her boyfriend argues her birth or adoptive parents will murder him. Despite his fears, Fred and Edna Danvers resign themselves to the fact their daughter is dating someone they don't approve of (Superman got into a fact with Dev, nonetheless). |
| 238 | -->'''Kara:''' So I want to show them the nice young man who picked me up in the 30th Century. Just be as charming as you are to me, and you'll do just fine. I mean it, Dev. I want you to come home with me. Just for the week.\ |
| 239 | '''Dev:''' Kara, darling. Listen. Do you think your parents are going to be really enthused about us sharing what I'm about to get out of? Marriage, yes. Parents are overjoyed to hear that their daughters are getting married. But living together? That means you're despoiling their little darling. They come after you with Kryptonite and chains from Daxam. |
| 240 | * BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: When Kara and her adoptive parents atten Clark and Lois' wedding, and Fred Danvers makes a joke about him figuring out the Leaguers' civilian identities, his daughter explains the Justice Leaguers protect their secret identities by having Green Lantern to mind-wipe busybodies. |
| 241 | -->'''Fred:''' You know what team. It'd be really fun if you took me up to shake hands with some of them. Now, it's not like I want to know which ones they are. But you know, I have met the Gotham guy. And I'll bet I could guess which one he is, if I tried. Is it kind of like the Mafia? Do you say, 'This is a friend of mine'?\ |
| 242 | '''Linda:''' Dad, I've gotta tell you. Whenever we think somebody's getting too curious, we have to take him to the guy from Coast City. And the Coast City guy has to use that thing on his finger to go over your mind like a Disk Doctor over a hard drive, and purge out those curiosity bumps. After it was done, you wouldn't even remember everyone that was here.\ |
| 243 | '''Fred:''' (snorting) Hmph. You guys used to have to go through such stupid stunts to keep your secrets secret.\ |
| 244 | '''Linda:''' That was before we met the guy from Coast City. |
| 245 | * BreakingAndBloodsucking: A variation. In the first chapter, Mordru visits Supergirl in her sleep and sucks the fragment of her soul which spawned [[EvilCounterpart Satan Girl]] from her. |
| 246 | * BreakTheBadass: Every hero's reaction to learning Darkseid is finally going ahead with his master plan is a massive "Oh, Crap". Previously, Darkseid barged in a super-villain gathering, killed Brainiac with one single blast, and Lex Luthor, who had been previously bickering over leadership, suddenly decided he was happy with following orders. |
| 247 | * BreathWeapon: During the war with Apokolips, Kal and Kara often use their ice-cold super-breath to freeze enemies and put out fires. |
| 248 | * BrickJoke: In the end of the first arc, Desaad makes a bad pun and Darkseid kills him, expecting his minion to not make more jokes using his name when he brings him back. Thirty-six chapters later, Darkseid has reassembled Desaad's atoms, and his minion is choosing his words very carefully so he doesn't get killed again. |
| 249 | * BringIt: In the seventh chapter of the "Hellsister" arc, Supergirl comes face to face with her evil murderous doppleganger, and challenges Satan Girl to kill her. |
| 250 | -->"Hear you've been looking for me," said Kara, facing the woman who stared bolts of hatred into her eyes. "Take your best shot." |
| 251 | * BrokenAce: Kara is brave, selfless, intelligent, compassionate and one of the greatest and most-beloved heroes in the world. But she lost her parents and her entire civilization when she was fifteen, and then she spent the next fourteen years fighting criminals, super-villains and eldritch monsters. As a result of it, she is a perpetual fish out of water who has no real friends, is unable to have long-lasting relationships, is sick of endless battles and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. |
| 252 | * BrokenBird: Kara, who lost her parents and her whole civilization when she was fifteen, and spent the next decade and one half fighting super-villains and cosmic beings. She is rather bitter about her unability to live a normal life or form any lasting relationships due to the ceaseless conflict, but she still helps to fight evil whenever she is needed. |
| 253 | * BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Dev-Em is a brooding, surly boy; and his girlfriend Kara is a kind-hearted, sunny girl. |
| 254 | * BroughtDownToBadass: Supergirl loses her powers when she travels to Rokyn, but she is still able to deter Mordrus's plans via her brains and fighting skills. |
| 255 | * BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Everybody knows what "S" stands for Superman and Supergirl's chest emblems. When the Source wants to warn the New Gods that they'll need to recruit both cousins in order to triumph over Darkseid, it merely draws two twin "S" letters on the air. Izaya gets the message right away. |
| 256 | -->"Who should we seek for an ally on Earth?"\ |
| 257 | The word vanished from the wall's surface. The fiery hand travelled over it again.\ |
| 258 | It drew a symbol.\ |
| 259 | Highfather nodded, in comprehension. "Ah," he said.\ |
| 260 | The symbol was a mostly-triangular shield, with an S inside its boundaries.\ |
| 261 | The New Gods well knew who bore that shield, for they had all encountered him on several occasions.\ |
| 262 | But the hand did not stop with that. It sketched another symbol.\ |
| 263 | The same shield, with the same S, once more, beside the first.\ |
| 264 | Two shields. |
| 265 | * BullyingADragon: As seen in ''Kara Of Rokyn'', Superman decides enough is enough after the Crisis, and he makes an unofficial visit to Lex Luthor's cell to tell his arch-nemesis his antics would no longer be tolerated. Luthor laughs at him, and Superman proceeds to beat the crap out of his old nemesis. |
| 266 | * TheBusCameBack: The Legion and Satan Girl's child are put on a bus after the first arc wraps up, are conspicuously absent during the second arc, and return at the beginning of the final storyline, thirty-five chapters later. |
| 267 | * CainAndAbel: Supergirl and Satan Girl. Neither of them like each other. Still it's Satan Girl who wants to kill Supergirl. Kara is willing to accept her copy's existence as long as she doesn't commit crimes. |
| 268 | -->'''Supergirl:''' You won't believe this, but I'm sorry. On my honor, I am. And if you will swear to stop this battle, I will help you search for your child. That is my promise.\ |
| 269 | '''Satan Girl:''' (sneering) Ohhhhh, don't you wish, Lightsister. I can find my child. After our war, I will find him. Or her. There is nothing left to us now, except the fight. -You would not tolerate my existence, nor I yours. I am not capable of your empathy, of your petty virtue. You are not capable of my ruthlessness and power. Come, sister. Let us destroy each other. |
| 270 | * TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: When Kara states she's sick of heroing and wants to retire and lead a normal life, Kal reminds her that trouble ''always'' comes looking for them. Needless to say, he was proven right when the Legion turned up to pick Kara again and the situation was too dangerous for her refusing. |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | [[folder:C-E]] |
| 273 | * CanonWelding: Several separate and unrelated stories are combined to create Satan Girl’s backstory: Red Kryptonite making Supergirl grow a second head in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #283, the birth of Satan Girl in ''Adventure Comics'' #313 and the appearance of ''[[ComicBook/DemonSpawn Nightflame]]'' in ''Adventure Comics'' #421. |
| 274 | -->She had been manifest two other times, in different guises. Once, Supergirl had been given a contentious second head by Red Kryptonite. That was her first known instance of consciousness. She had been bitchy then, but not evil. Not yet refined enough for that.\ |
| 275 | The second time had been her first outing as Satan Girl, and it had almost worked. Except for that stupid group of animals, it would have. Kara and the Legion bitches would have been dead, and she would have been extant from that time to this. She was evil then, but she hadn't really killed anyone.\ |
| 276 | The third time, she was manifest as Nightflame, a giant sword-wielding woman who wreaked havoc in San Francisco, born of her old identity and some other elements added from Kara's psyche, amplified by a mage who existed in a sub-atomic universe on a world somehow within Kara. Even she was confused by that one, and didn't comprehend it all. She supposed that the sword and magic came from those Moorcock novels that Kara had run through once. That time, she had very nearly taken over Kara's body. Only the girl's undeniably strong will, and some psychic help from her friend Geoff, had withstood her. So she had gone back into nonexistence. |
| 277 | * CardCarryingVillain: |
| 278 | ** Justified. Satan Girl is Kara Zor-El's duplicate, her dark side's embodiment. Evil, unfettered desires and impulses is literally everything she is made of, so it's perfectly reasonable for her delighting in doing evil things, killing and destroying just because she can. |
| 279 | ** Lampshaded by a descendant of the Captain Marvel when Captain Action mentions his enemy Dr. Evil. Marvel states he has found villains with corny names, but that takes the top spot. |
| 280 | --->'''Captain Action:''' Very soon, we'll have to go back to our time with Krellik. But perhaps, sometime, we can meet again. Right now, our job is still to find and neutralize Dr. Evil.\ |
| 281 | '''Captain Marvel XII:''' (raising a eyebrow) Dr. Evil? Even on my world, I thought I'd run into some villains with corny names. But that takes it. Who is this guy, another worm villain like my ancestor fought?\ |
| 282 | '''Action Boy:''' He's my grandfather.\ |
| 283 | '''Captain Marvel:''' Oh. |
| 284 | * CasualInterplanetaryTravel: The Legion's cruisers take hours at most to travel from Earth to Daxam, Rokyn and other planets. |
| 285 | * CasualInterstellarTravel: In the 31st century, interstellar travel is ''very'' common, to the point that Satan Girl's second act of random destruction is to blow a ''pleasure cruiser'' up. |
| 286 | * CasualTimeTravel: During the course of the story, Supergirl travels to the future and back to the past as much as she pleases. When the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes asks for her help, she immediately and easily hops into the timestream and flies to the 31st century, as pondering that time-travelling "wasn't that hard to do [...] if you knew how and had enough power and speed to do it." |
| 287 | * CatFight: In Supergirl/Satan Girl final battle, everything is allowed. Including cat-fighting. |
| 288 | -->They tumbled away from the gravitational pull of the planet they had landed on, and kept fighting in the void. They smashed at each other, kicked, chopped, and catfought, and each of their blows would have torn the side out of a mountain. Both of them worked at speeds which would have made them a blur to an observer, had there been any. |
| 289 | * CatharsisFactor: Reading this story is cathartic to DCU fans who miss the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths multiverse and the characters killed in the course of that event. |
| 290 | * CeilingCling: In episode 20 of "Hellsister", Kara sticks to the ceiling so John Constantine doesn't realize he was being overheard. |
| 291 | -->Kara floated up to the ceiling and spread-eagled herself against it as John opened the door. He looked both ways, then walked in the direction of the guest quarters. |
| 292 | * CharmPerson: Both Supergirl and Superman have a seldom-used ability, related to their super-vision and reinforced by their highly-developed brains, to mesmerize people into doing their bidding. Said power is used by the Maid of Might to force D'reema to speak the Life Equation and thus nullifying Darkseid's mind-control. |
| 293 | * ChestInsignia: Brought up when Izaya asks The Source who should be their allies against Darkseid and the fiery hand draws two S-emblems. |
| 294 | -->"Who should we seek for an ally on Earth?"\ |
| 295 | The word vanished from the wall's surface. The fiery hand travelled over it again.\ |
| 296 | It drew a symbol.\ |
| 297 | Highfather nodded, in comprehension. "Ah," he said.\ |
| 298 | The symbol was a mostly-triangular shield, with an S inside its boundaries.\ |
| 299 | The New Gods well knew who bore that shield, for they had all encountered him on several occasions.\ |
| 300 | But the hand did not stop with that. It sketched another symbol.\ |
| 301 | The same shield, with the same S, once more, beside the first.\ |
| 302 | Two shields. |
| 303 | * ChildOfTwoWorlds: Kara had been born and raised in a Kryptonian city, but she moved to Earth when she was fifteen. Now she's almost thirty, but she hasn't yet managed to adapt to her new home. |
| 304 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: Kara jeopardizes a mission to rescue a little girl. When she's berated by Dev-Em, she replies she can't turn her back on anybody. |
| 305 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} is not even mentioned or accounted for even though she's Kara's bestie. Characters such as Dev-Em or Laurel Kent avert this, though. |
| 306 | * ClothesMakeTheLegend: Highfather asks the Source who they should ally themselves with to battle Darkseid. In answer, the Source draws a "S" inside a diamond. No name is given or needed because Highfather knows that's Superman's crest. |
| 307 | -->"Who should we seek for an ally on Earth?"\ |
| 308 | The word vanished from the wall's surface. The fiery hand travelled over it again.\ |
| 309 | It drew a symbol.\ |
| 310 | Highfather nodded, in comprehension. "Ah," he said.\ |
| 311 | The symbol was a mostly-triangular shield, with an S inside its boundaries.\ |
| 312 | The New Gods well knew who bore that shield, for they had all encountered him on several occasions. |
| 313 | * CoDragons: Darkseid has Desaad, who is his chief science officer -as well as his torture technician-, and Granny Goodness, who is in charge of training his troops. |
| 314 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Desaad is an expert torturer. He gets his hands on Pariah, and if he can't force the information out of him physically, he has mind-breaking machines aplenty. |
| 315 | -->That had led Desaad down the right track. For tortures of the mind can be even worse than tortures of the body, and Apokolips has mind-probers aplenty.\ |
| 316 | Pariah could not rise from his chair, held as he was by a stasis beam that paralyzed his lower body. Whatever he faced, he could not get up and walk away from it. Perhaps it would not have helped.\ |
| 317 | Desaad had clamped a helmet over his head. It transmitted images from his brain to a receiver, which the master torturer of Apokolips manipulated like an orchestra conductor. He picked and chose among the scenes of Pariah's life, helped along by a gauge which glowed more redly when it registered a pattern of fear in a certain remembrance.\ |
| 318 | The images were recorded and stored in the device's memory bank. Then Desaad began to fiddle with them, for he was an artist, and artists always reshape reality to their best intent. Some of the images were made more subtly frightening. Others were enlarged so as to knock down the viewer's mind with fear coming at him like a diesel train. |
| 319 | * CombatPragmatist: As much as Satan Girl is concerned, biting ankles in order to hamstring your opponent or clawing their eyes out are perfectly acceptable combat techniques. |
| 320 | -->Kara drew on her every erg of reserve power to keep fighting. But, increasingly, she found herself on the defensive. She fought to keep Satan Girl's fingers from her eyes, her jaws from her carotid artery, her knees from her crotch. |
| 321 | * CombatSadomasochist: Slaughter and destruction turn Satan Girl on. After smashing a ship to pieces she feels so aroused than she needs sex. |
| 322 | * ComboPlatterPowers: Several characters thanks to their Kryptonian, Daxamite or Amazon heritage. Supergirl's Kryptonian pack not only includes her best known powers -superhuman strength, speed and resilience as well as super-senses, heat vision and supe-breath- but also her more obscure abilities such as super-hypnotism. |
| 323 | * ComesGreatResponsibility: The reason because Superman thinks his cousin shouldn't go on retirement: |
| 324 | -->'''Superman:''' What I'm trying to remind her of is that our powers place us in a certain position. And it's one of obligation. No one on Earth can do what we can, and very often, to protect it and other planets, we are required to do everything we're capable of. |
| 325 | * ComicBookTime: Downplayed. Characters get older, but they age more slowly than in the real world. Supergirl is fifteen in 1959, yet still she is twenty-nine in 1986. |
| 326 | * TheCommissionerGordon: Lieutenant-Inspector Dan Turpin serves as a liaison between the heroes -both the Superman Family and the ComicBook/NewGods- and the Metropolis Special Crimes Unit. He isn't quite fond of super-beings, but he knows which side will do their best to make sure that innocent people don't get killed. |
| 327 | -->'''Dan Turpin:''' "You still got that wristwatch thing to call Superman with?"\ |
| 328 | '''ComicBook/JimmyOlsen:''' "Yeah, Sarge,"\ |
| 329 | '''Dan Turpin:''' Then call him and tell him to get his big blue bod to my precinct, on the double. Orion and his boys are back. And I don't want any more of my turf torn up like it was last time they were here. So get him here, so they can get out. Got it?\ |
| 330 | '''Jimmy Olsen:''' Uh. Orion? The guy from the New Gods?\ |
| 331 | '''Dan Turpin:''' No, I mean Paddy O'Ryan from County Cork. Of course, it's Orion from the New Gods! Now do it! Goodbye. |
| 332 | * CompellingVoice: Once Darkseid has learned and spoken the Anti-Life Equation, he can compel everyone in the universe to obey and serve him with no doubts, qualms or regrets. |
| 333 | -->A moment of madness and terror went through Kal-El’s mind, as little as he wanted to acknowledge it. This was a thing against which he had no power, no shield. He was facing Dev, seeing his expression, and knew his ally was going through the same thing.\ |
| 334 | A second after that, he wondered what the problem had been. He felt calm, amazingly so. His muscles went slack. It was all he could do to stand there, looking at Darkseid. Even the Flashes and Joanie were stock-still.\ |
| 335 | All they had to do was wait for the Dark Lord’s first command.\ |
| 336 | All they had to do was love Darkseid. And they did. |
| 337 | * CompetencePorn: Darkseid is an extremely thorough and skillful schemer, manipulator and war leader who always stresses to his minions the importance of ''never'' underestimating their enemies. During the Apokolips War he never loses sight of his real goals and proves that he is prepared for anything when [[spoiler:it is revealed that he had spare clone bodies primed just in case that he was defeated and his original body destroyed]]. |
| 338 | * ConservationOfNinjutsu: During a battle Superman, Supergirl and Dev-Em face 1,000 Parademons. Easy peasy. |
| 339 | * ContinuityPorn: This story is chock-full of continuity nods to the History of the Pre-Crisis DC universe. Fortunately the author is aware that most of people hasn't read the original comics, so he takes great care to ensure his fanfiction is fully user-friendly and nobody needs to read ComicBook/ActionComics #330-331 to understand who on Earth is "Drang". |
| 340 | * ConvenientlyClosePlanet: Supergirl lures Satan Girl into the antimatter universe, and the two of them come dangerously near from an antimatter star as flying and fighting across a solar system. |
| 341 | * ContrivedCoincidence: As fighting their way through the anti-matter universe of Qward, Supergirl and Satan Girl approach a star which happens to be the one where Kara's friend and teammate Wildfire has been trapped for a long while. |
| 342 | * CooldownHug: During the first arc, Laurel Kent is upset about being left out of a mission due to her lack of physical strength. Noticing her crestfallen state, Kara hugs Laurel in order to calm her down. |
| 343 | -->Laurel looked crestfallen, and Kara felt sorry for her. Rao better find something for her to do, Supergirl thought, because I can't think of anything, either.\ |
| 344 | Nonetheless, Kara hugged her, because she thought she needed hugging. Laurel said, "Thank you, Kara. I'm sorry I can't, like...I'm just sorry, okay?" |
| 345 | * CreepyBlueEyes: Satan Girl and her son Berserker are blood-thirsty, pshicopathic murderers whose blue eyes are described as completely bereft of conscience or compassion. |
| 346 | -->The focus of the image came back to the lone warrior, or berserker, or... hell, just call him a murderer. His visage was less distinct than those of the Apokolips pair, probably because the computer didn't have a model from which to work. Still... the eyes. She could make out enough of them to see something there, a fury, a lack of conscience, a lack of superego with which to restrain the id.\ |
| 347 | Eyes that, in another face, could have belonged to Satan Girl. |
| 348 | * CruelToBeKind: When Kara vents her frustration and says aloud she just wants to be a normal girl from Argo City, Superman sadly reminds her it's not an option anymore. |
| 349 | -->'''Supergirl:''' But we don't have to go out there with our dukes up, spoiling for a fight. Do we, Kal?\ |
| 350 | '''Superman:''' No. Most of the time, it comes to us.\ |
| 351 | '''Supergirl:''' Well, it's gonna have to start coming somewhere else before long. I'm tired of this. I wasn't born to be a, a super-heroine. I just wanted to be a normal girl from Argo, and, and get a good job and a good man and settle down...\ |
| 352 | '''Superman:''' (gently) Except, there aren't very many people from Argo left anymore. Are there, Kara?\ |
| 353 | '''Supergirl:''' Oh.\ |
| 354 | '''Dev-Em:''' El, You have got the most peculiar set of proprieties I've ever seen. Why don't you just shove a Daxamite knife through her heart? Or would that be too kind?\ |
| 355 | '''Superman:''' What I'm trying to remind her of is that our powers place us in a certain position. And it's one of obligation. No one on Earth can do what we can, and very often, to protect it and other planets, we are required to do everything we're capable of. |
| 356 | * CrushBlush: Kara blushes profusely after accidentally revealing her feelings to Dev. |
| 357 | -->Supergirl grimaced. "I feel like slapping you again. If I didn't love you more now than I ever have before, I'd do it. I--"\ |
| 358 | Her hand went to her mouth. Dev looked at her. His expression was caught coming up from anguish into hope.\ |
| 359 | "So you said it," he murmured.\ |
| 360 | Kara was flustered. |
| 361 | * CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Most of cultures in the galaxy have embraced this style in the 31st century, which is because the main characters find people wearing colorful skintight space-suits and dwelling in tall buildings made of glass and steel wherever they go. |
| 362 | * CurbStompBattle: At the beginning of "The Apokolips Agenda" thousands of Darkseid's Para-Demons invade New Genesis and are ''utterly'' crushed by Superman, Supergirl and Dev-Em. |
| 363 | -->She hurled herself into the strange skies of New Genesis, both her arms stretched out perpendicular to her body, and screamed in rage. The group of Para-Demons she was headed for didn't have time to run for it. They barely had time to see she was there.\ |
| 364 | Her powerful, blue-clad, Kryptonian arms acted like twin plows, knocking the winged beasts out of the air. They fell like shot birds, hailing down on the landscape. The New Genesis troops had a chance to gape at the blue streak that was mowing down the enemy.\ |
| 365 | Superman had smashed his great hands together in an impact that almost deafened the New Gods who hovered too near to him. The shockwave from the crash buffeted a flying legion of Para-Demons. That was all the time Superman needed to separate them physically from the New Genesis flight troops they were attacking, and to tap them into dreamland. |
| 366 | * CurbstompCushion: At the climax of ''The Apokolips Agenda'', Supergirl goes up against Darkseid. It's clear from the beginning she is severely outmatched, but she gets several good licks in before going down, such like smashing him across the room and hitting him several times with her fists and her heat vision. |
| 367 | * CursedWithAwesome: Kara has more powers than she can keep track of, to the point that she is able to time-travel by just flying fast enough. Yet still she feels those powers mean she can't lead a normal life, and they work as a magnet for every would-be cosmic conquerer/eldritch abomination looking for a pick or heroes needing to be saved from said cosmic conqueror/eldritch abomination. |
| 368 | -->Mentally, she kicked herself. All this incredible power, she thought. The ability to fly faster than light, to exist in the vacuum of space, to pierce the time barrier and reappear whenever she wanted to, and most of the time she took that for granted. No wonder that so often, life was stupid, dull, and boring to her.\ |
| 369 | No wonder that she'd never really managed to fully give her heart, or her body, to anyone yet. How many potential mates could understand the power and needs of a Kryptonian? |
| 370 | * CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: During their first battle, Satan Girl swears to tear Kara's eyes out and eat them. |
| 371 | * DamselInDistress: Darkseid locks Highfather's daughter D'reema away so she can't ruin his scheme by speaking the Life Equation. |
| 372 | * DarkActionGirl: Satan Girl is Kara's dark side embodied and unfettered by a conscience or human compassion and empathy. She's inhumanly powerful and lives to destroy. |
| 373 | * DarkestHour: At the climax of ''The Apokolips Agenda'' arc, Darkseid speaks the Anti-Life Equation, effectively wiping out Free Will across the universe. He would have enslaved literally everyone forever if Supergirl hadn't hypnotized D'reema into speaking the Life Equation before the mind-control took hold of everybody. |
| 374 | * DarkIsEvil: Satan Girl wears black clothes, in contrast with her blue-clothed and heroically-minded genetic template, and is a murderous, remorseless psychopath. Also, when the Legion goes to Hell to stop Mordru, the Essence of Evil is depicted as an endless mass of jet-black energy. |
| 375 | * DatingWhatDaddyHates: Supergirl dates Dev-Em, a reformed delinquent/bully who is still kind of an obnoxious, smug jerkass. Kara's birth parents don't like Dev, Kara's adoptive parents are wary of him and Kara's cousin/erstwhile surrogate father would love pummelling Dev one mile into the ground. |
| 376 | * DeadAlternateCounterpart: Inverted. After the war against Darkseid, Supergirl introduces Power Girl to her parents, Zor-El and Allura In-Ze. When PG hugs both of them, trying to hold back her tears, SG answers Zor-El's unspoken question by confirming that her universe's Zor and Allura are dead. |
| 377 | * DeaderThanDead: Satan Girl's body is obliterated to her very atoms when she gets hurled into an antimatter star. |
| 378 | * DeadlyDodging: When Satan Girl is about to hurl Supergirl into an antimatter sun, Kara uses her momentum against her to throw her into the star instead. |
| 379 | * DeadpanSnarker: Dan Turpin, as per canon: |
| 380 | -->'''Dan:''' Then call him and tell him to get his big blue bod to my precinct, on the double. Orion and his boys are back. And I don't want any more of my turf torn up like it was last time they were here. So get him here, so they can get out. Got it?\ |
| 381 | '''Jimmy Olsen:''' Uh. Orion? The guy from the New Gods?\ |
| 382 | '''Dan:''' No, I mean Paddy O'Ryan from County Cork. Of course, it's Orion from the New Gods! Now do it! Goodbye. |
| 383 | * DealWithTheDevil: Satan Girl is locked up in an inescapable cell when she hears a voice asking if she wishes freedom. She agrees before asking who the voice’s owner is and what it wants in exchange. Darkseid breaks her free, teleports her to his location, puts her to sleep and "harvests" her child. |
| 384 | * DeathByAdaptation: Brainiac gets killed off instead of Earth-Two Luthor in the gathering of villains. |
| 385 | * DeathFromAbove: Satan Girl's planned method to kill the whole Daxamite race entailed a shower of lead across the surface of Daxam to poison the whole population. |
| 386 | -->But, somehow, she'd have to do something about both planets. Daxam would be easy. A shower of leaden hail across its surface, and the dead would litter the ground in heaps beyond Hitler's and Stalin's dreams. |
| 387 | * DeathGlare: During the Apokoliptian War, Lucian throws a venomous glare at his teammate Mal Duncan when he makes still another stupid ''[[Franchise/StarWars "Use the Force"]]'' joke. |
| 388 | * DeathWorld: In the universe of anti-matter of Qward, ''every atom'' can hurt you or even kill you. Not even Kryptonians are safe. |
| 389 | * {{Dedication}}: "The Apokolips Agenda" arc, which is primarily focused on the ''ComicBook/NewGods'', is dedicated to their creator Creator/JackKirby: |
| 390 | -->''This is for JACK KIRBY. The true Source.'' |
| 391 | * DeerInTheHeadlights: At the climax of "The Apokolips Agenda", a group of heroes freeze up as Darkseid approaches them and fires the Omega Effect at them. |
| 392 | * DefeatingTheUndefeatable: At the height of the Apokoliptian War, Darkseid has crushed the army of heroes and stomped over every hero who dared to engage him. Then his son Orion turns up and blasts Darkseid's body to atoms. |
| 393 | * DefendsAgainstTheirOwnKind: Once the Legion figure out they're dealing with a Kryptonian clone, they call Supergirl and send her, Dev-Em and Laurel Kent out. |
| 394 | * DepletedPhlebotinumShells: Before putting his scheme in motion, Darkseid makes sure to have Kryptonite weaponry in hand so he can counteract his Kryptonian enemies. |
| 395 | * DepravedBisexual: Satan Girl beds whatever she wants to bed. Due to her nature -a being spawned from dark emotions- she doesn't care for pesky things like consent or willingness, either. |
| 396 | -->She could explore pleasures of the body that Kara never would have dared to, satisfy lusts that the blonde beast never even knew she had.\ |
| 397 | She could force herself upon any suitor, male or female or whatever, and destroy them after their job was done. Or perhaps just maim them, so that they could never again do such a job for anyone else. Satan Girl smiled. Now that was being imaginative... |
| 398 | * DesertedIsland: Kal and Kara find themselves exploring different desert islands with their respective suitors when the Apokolips War breaks out. |
| 399 | * DesignatedGirlFight: When Supergirl (female), Laurel Kent (female) and Dev-Em (male) engage Satan Girl (female), Ar-Ual (female) and Black Adam (male). Satan Girl automatically pounces on her template, Laurel rushes towards Ar, and Dev and Adam start to trade blows. |
| 400 | * DestructoNookie: Kara and Dev are a Kryptonian couple. Breaking beds is ''routine'' to them. |
| 401 | -->'''Dev-Em:''' We didn't break the bed this time, did we? I mean, we really didn't, did we? I don't want to cost you any more money. |
| 402 | * {{Determinator}}: Kara is thrown into one fight to the death after another, and no matter how badly beaten she gets, she ignores the pain and fights on. |
| 403 | * DevotedToYou: Wildfire never stops loving and wanting to see his girlfriend Dawnstar again during his long captivity in a star. |
| 404 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: In "The Apokolips Agenda", Supergirl fights her universe's God of Tyranny. Sure, Darkseid very nearly kills her, but she still fried his face and smashed him across the room before he blasted her down. And she kept him busy long enough for the cavalry to arrive. |
| 405 | * DimensionalTraveler: During "The Apokolips Agenda", Supergirl travels back and forth between dimensions, recruiting other heroes and fighting Darkseid's forces. During the prior arc she also travelled to the antimatter universe through a space warp. |
| 406 | * DirtyBusiness: Dev-Em reveals that in the past he had to turn a partner over to the enemy to carry a mission forward. He didn't like it, he still has nightmares about it... but his actions saved lifes. |
| 407 | -->'''Dev-Em:''' It was an inforunning operation out of a Dark Circle world. My contact was a man in deep cover. Their cointelpro caught up to us just after an information drop. We had made arrangements on what to do if such a thing happened. I exposed him as a traitor. My cover held. He was taken away, tortured, and killed. I got the package through. Later, I saw to it that his torturers got theirs. No, I didn't do it personally... but I made sure it was done. That's how it is in my world. Not pretty, but we get the job done.\ |
| 408 | '''Kara Zor-El:''' ...\ |
| 409 | '''Dev:''' No, don't think I enjoyed it. Rolg's face still comes to me in a particularly juicy nightmare every now and then. But he has to wait his time in line. And you know what he tells me? He tells me about the people of that world who were liberated, in time, with the information I got through. He tells me that I did the right thing. |
| 410 | * DisappearedDad: In the aftermath of the Apokoliptian War, Power Girl meets up with Earth-1.75 Zor-El and Allura In-Ze. Having lost her own parents when she was a baby, Kara can't help but hug their alternate counterparts. |
| 411 | * DistressCall: The story begins with the Legion receiving a distress signal from a starship under attack by a woman who looks disturbingly similar to Supergirl. |
| 412 | -->Her course was set to intercept that of a massive United Planets patrol ship.\ |
| 413 | A message was shortly received at the headquarters of the United Planets. It was the last one they would get from that particular starship.\ |
| 414 | The message stated that their craft was being destroyed by an unarmed woman. It was cut off before the end. |
| 415 | * DivingSave: At an early chapter, Supergirl dives to catch a child whom Satan Girl has thrown against a wall. |
| 416 | * DoppelgangerLink: Supergirl has a mental link with her EvilDoppelganger Satan Girl. |
| 417 | * DomesticAbuse: Darkseid and Tigra were forced to get married by Darkseid's mother, and they hate and resent each other. Darkseid being Darkseid, he abuses Tigra physically and psychologically whenever it pleases him. |
| 418 | -->Tigra sprawled on the stones of the cell into which Darkseid had shoved her. They were alone. Mongul and the Kryptonite Man were separated from them by a wall.\ |
| 419 | "Take a look," ordered Darkseid. "Do you remember him?"\ |
| 420 | She lifted her head to look upon the unconscious Celestial in the red and gray costume, trapped by a beam on the metal table. "Of course. Of course I remember him. How could I not remember my son?"\ |
| 421 | "Our son, Tigra. Ours. Never forget that point." He grasped her head in one great hand and exerted unpleasant pressure. "Never forget that."\ |
| 422 | Tigra, her hands and legs fastened by shackles and chains, reached up her hand to touch her offspring. Darkseid struck her hand down before it could make contact. She cried out in pain, and wept, holding her hand. "Why? Why are you doing this to me?"\ |
| 423 | Darkseid put his hand in her hair, almost gently, and answered her.\ |
| 424 | "Because he has something I want," he said. "And I think you might help me get it from him." |
| 425 | * {{Doorstopper}}: 398,197 words spread over 61 chapters as of October, 2018. |
| 426 | * DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Averted. Satan Girl's desire to rape both men and women is regarded as equally horrible. |
| 427 | -->She could force herself upon any suitor, male or female or whatever, and destroy them after their job was done. |
| 428 | * TheDragon: Satan Girl is Mordru's dragon. |
| 429 | * TheDreaded: |
| 430 | ** Both Legionnaires and villains are frightened of Mordru and unwilling to face him. |
| 431 | ** No one wants or looks forward to fight Darkseid either. |
| 432 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: The scene from ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' issue #9 where Brainiac assembles a legion of super-villains is recreated, but this time it's Brainiac the one who dies unceremoniously. |
| 433 | * DuelToTheDeath: Supergirl and Satan Girl's final battle. Satan Girl wishes nothing but Supergirl's destruction by her hand, and Supergirl can't let her hurt anybody else (and would like staying alive). |
| 434 | * DynamicAkimbo: Dev-Em adopts this stance to highlight how absolutely unamused he is when Superman and other heroes' sudden appearance disrupts his and Kara's quality time at the beginning of "The Apokolips Agenda". |
| 435 | -->"El, you need to quit butting into our business without an invitation," said Dev, standing up and putting his fists on his hips. "And we aren't issuing any invitations to you!" |
| 436 | * DynamicEntry: At the climax of ''The Apokolips Agenda'', Darkseid has just struck down the first wave of heroes when Supergirl suddenly flies into the battlefield and smashes into Darkseid. |
| 437 | -->Supergirl had sent her super-vision ahead of her, for caution’s sake. The images she saw arrived in her brain only a fraction of a second before her body arrived on the scene of Darkseid’s den. But it was time enough to be effective.\ |
| 438 | Dev, Kal, Captain Action, Action Boy, the two Flashes, and Joanie Swift were lying on the floor of the chamber as if they were dead, and Darkseid’s eyes were blazing red.\ |
| 439 | He’d gotten them. He’d nailed them with his Omega Effect. Even the super-speedsters among them, he’d hit.\ |
| 440 | Darkseid had enough time to hear a scream of terrible rage before a freight train in blue, yellow, and red hit him and smashed him into a wall, and halfway through it. |
| 441 | * EarthIsABattlefield: In ''The Apokolips Agenda'', the whole world has been engulfed in war because of Darkseid's invading forces. The situation gets so bad that, while the New Gods and the Justice League try to hold Darkseid's army at bay, Supergirl and other heroes travel to parallel dimensions to ask for help. And reinforcements. |
| 442 | * EatingOptional: Supergirl still eats physical food because she likes the taste -and the sense of normalcy- but she gets as much energy as she wants from yellow sunlight. |
| 443 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: At the beginning of "The Apokolips Agenda", Kara spends a long while ogling to her trunks-wearing boyfriend while they enjoy a day on the beach. |
| 444 | * EldritchAbomination: Darkseid, Franchise/TheDCU's GodOfEvil and Tyranny. |
| 445 | * TheEndOrIsIt: ''Hellsister'''s very final scene reveals Darkseid kidnapped Satan Girl and Mordru's child with the aim of grooming him to be his super-powerful and loyal weapon. ''The Apokolips Agenda'' ends with Darkseid surviving the War and plotting his revenge as his enemies believe him dead. |
| 446 | * EnemyMine: Lex Luthor and Captain Marvel's nemesis Dr. Sivana are so Darkseid they end up cooperating with the heroes during "The Apokolips Agenda". |
| 447 | * EnemyWithout: Satan Girl is Supergirl's dark side, given physical form by Mordru after being created by exposure to Red Kryptonite and reabsorbed into Supergirl during a previous adventure (in ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'' #313). It frightens Kara that blood-thirsty, murderous, lustful psychopath came from ''her''. |
| 448 | -->"All I knew at the time was that I had a fainting spell," said Supergirl. "While I was out, the real Red K effect came through. The thing... it..." She fumbled for words, then burst out: "I was cloned! It cloned me, and the clone was, well, my evil side. My dark side. And it was just as real as... as real as me." |
| 449 | * EntertaininglyWrong: Linda Danvers' landlady, Mrs. Berkowitz believes Linda's new boyfriend is a shady, random guy who twenty-nine-year-old Linda has just met and clung to because she's afraid of becoming a "Christmas Cake". A sensible conclusion, furthered by the couple's secretive attitude and their unwillingness to answer simple questions like "Where does he come from?" or "Where does he work?". She's still wrong because they can't just tell her "He's a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes who I met and fell in love with several weeks ago in the 31st century". |
| 450 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Satan Girl is literally an embodiment of dark impulses and desires. World-scale destruction, killing sprees and rape ''turn her on''. Still, she's devastated when she finds out her child has been stolen. |
| 451 | -->Kara said, <Tell me about your child. How is it you know he is gone?>\ |
| 452 | Satan Girl hesitated. For once, Kara saw something other than hatred in her eyes. Even one such as her Hellsister could feel sorrow. |
| 453 | * EverybodyLovesZeus: The Olympian gods seem to see little point in meddling with the fate of mortals, but even so Zeus shows to be reasonable when he agrees to save Supergirl's life after she has been badly wounded in action. |
| 454 | * EverytownAmerica: Kara's foster parents Fred and Edna Danvers live in Midvale, a average-looking town located in Illinois. Kara and Dev visit the town in the beginning of the second story arc. |
| 455 | * EvilCounterpart: Satan Girl from Supergirl. |
| 456 | -->"All I knew at the time was that I had a fainting spell," said Supergirl. "While I was out, the real Red K effect came through. The thing... it..." She fumbled for words, then burst out: "I was cloned! It cloned me, and the clone was, well, my evil side. My dark side. And it was just as real as... as real as me." |
| 457 | * EvilDoppelganger: Satan Girl is both Supergirl's and Power Girl's evil duplicate, fashioned from the darkness within Kara's soul, ergo lacking her compassion and kind-heartedness. |
| 458 | * EvilFeelsGood: Satan Girl engages in mass-murder and untold destruction because evil literally arouses her. |
| 459 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Darkseid, god of Tyranny, impales and atomizes his TortureTechnician Desaad when the latter makes a bad pun using the former's name (Dark side. Darkseid. Do you get it?). |
| 460 | * EvilGloating: Satan Girl has mastered this art, and she launches into a monologue as she is beating Supergirl up during their final battle. |
| 461 | -->'''Satan Girl:''' Do you know what I'm going to do after I kill you, Kara? Do you know? Well, listen. I'm going to find my child. I'm going to raise him to be what neither Mordru nor I could be alone. A sorcerer with the genes and power of the greatest necromancer in the universe, plus the body and powers of a Kryptonian. He will be a scourge such as Mordru never dreamed of. And I will rule through him, and he will rule because of me. We will conquer as none have ever conquered. But it may take a little while to find him. So I'm going to do something first, just to get the kinks out. I'm going to find me a planet, one with people on it, lots and lots of people. And I'm going to kill them all. Then I'm going to another planet, and kill just, maybe, half of them. And I'll make the ones who live worship me. By the time I find my child, he may be the object of a new religion. Wouldn't that be nice, Kara? |
| 462 | * EvilIsHammy: Darkseid is fond of polysyllabic verbiage and has no concept of indoor voice. Nemesis, the Kryptonian/Zeroxian hybrid whom Darkseid has raised, takes after his father and is prone to histrionics and speaking in all caps. |
| 463 | -->'''Nemesis:''' "Do you really believe she will come back?"\ |
| 464 | '''Darkseid:''' "She will, boy. They will summon her."\ |
| 465 | '''Nemesis:''' "That is good, father. Very, very good."\ |
| 466 | '''Darkseid:''' "Do you know what you shall do, boy? Do you know what you shall do, in that time and on that day?"\ |
| 467 | '''Nemesis:''' "I will avenge my mother's death. I will avenge your honor. I will make her pay for blocking the True Path. I WILL DESTROY THE SUPERGIRL."\ |
| 468 | '''Darkseid:''' "And so you shall, my boy. And so, one day, you shall." |
| 469 | * EvilKnockoff: Mordru procures a Supergirl's evil duplicate to destroy the original Kara and the Legion. |
| 470 | * EvilLaugh: Variant. Satan Girl does this telepathically. |
| 471 | -->Satan Girl looked at her for a second, then threw back her head, opened her mouth wide, and sent forth the blips through her telepathic plug that signified laughter. |
| 472 | * EvilMeScaresMe: Kara is ''terrified'' from Satan Girl. |
| 473 | * EvilPlan: Darkseid's plan in ''The Apokolips Agenda'' is to find and speak the Anti-Life Equation to eliminate Free Will and enslave the universe. |
| 474 | * TheEvilsOfFreeWill: In ''The Apokolips Agenda'', Darkseid declares Free Will is the root of all ills in the universe, and everything would work properly if everyone just did ''his'' bidding unquestioningly. |
| 475 | -->"The problem has always been that life is too random. If you give a man free will, what does he do with it? If you believe the Earth legends, he goes and bites a fruit he was told not to eat on pain of death. You can kill him, and you probably do. But does that stop other men from biting the fruit? No. So... the choices are... you can take away the fruit. You can kill him. Or you can do the intelligent thing, which is: take away his free will."\ |
| 476 | "Now, you must understand this: I have come to understand that it is the only way in which Life can continue, without destroying itself. The war was going on, hot and cold, when I was a child. I saw that. I don't fear it. I could not make it, if I feared it. But... it is tremendously inefficient. It wastes the lives of people you could control. It expends your resources. Leaves less for yourself. I saw all of this, my son. I saw, and knew, that Free Will... was a terrible, horrible, wretched mistake."\ |
| 477 | "That is, for everyone save me." |
| 478 | * EvilSorcerer: Mordru is an elderly sorcerer of immense power who gathers an army of super-villains in order to annihilate the Legion and destroy several worlds who did or might oppose him as he attempts to make himself one with his universe's essence of evil. |
| 479 | * EvilTakesANap: At the end of "The Apokolips Agenda", ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} has suffered grievous wounds, and his power base has been destroyed by the heroes, so he places himself in a state of suspended animation and spends one thousand years sleeping while his body heals. When he awakens in the 31st century, his body and his power are fully recovered and his enemies are all gone. |
| 480 | * EvilTastesGood: Satan Girl describes her eagerness for murder and destruction as a hunger which brings her all kind of tasty, delightful pleasures. |
| 481 | * EvilTwin: Satan Girl is her "sister"'s duplicate and dark side's embodiment, possessing more than enough power to crack a planet in half but completely lacking morals or compassion. |
| 482 | * EvilWearsBlack: Murderous and psychopatic Satan Girl wears a black cape and cowl in addition to her all-black bodysuit. |
| 483 | * ExperiencedProtagonist: Kara Zor-El has been Supergirl for nearly twenty years, during which she has gained experience enough to fight, during the course of the story, world-breaking villains, reality-warpers, nearly-omnipotent evil sorcerers, eldritch abominations... and win ( or, at least, survive). |
| 484 | * ExtremeMeleeRevenge: Satan Girl delivers an absolutely brutal beatdown to Supergirl in their final battle after hearing the Legion has killed Mordru. |
| 485 | -->And with that, she cracked a blow to Kara's face that broke her nose.\ |
| 486 | The static-shriek of pain in the telepathic plug was a sonata to Satan Girl. Smiling for the first time in minutes, she followed with another wallop, and another, and another. Four unanswered blows. Kara tried to resist, but her defense was fading.\ |
| 487 | Satan Girl pounded her. Over and over again.\ |
| 488 | [...]\ |
| 489 | Satan Girl hesitated. She had been laying into Supergirl like a butcher on a steer. But she had been so busy in her fantasy that she had taken no notice of what she had really done.\ |
| 490 | Supergirl was not moving.\ |
| 491 | Satan Girl smashed her a few more times, just to make sure. Then she listened for a heartbeat.\ |
| 492 | Nothing. |
| 493 | * EyeBeams: Supergirl's heat vision is her best weapon, but Darkseid's Omega Effect can easily hurt or even kill a Kryptonian. |
| 494 | -->She’d tried to keep out of the way of his Omega Effect beams, but, finally, it just wasn’t possible. The terrible beams from his eyes lanced out, caught her in the eyes, and dealt out blindness and pain. Supergirl screamed. |
| 495 | * EyePoke: Satan Girl often tries to poke ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} in the eyes to disable her when they fight. |
| 496 | -->She fought to keep Satan Girl's fingers from her eyes, her jaws from her carotid artery, her knees from her crotch. |
| 497 | * EyeScream: Satan Girl tries to gouge Kara's eyes out in their final fight. |
| 498 | -->Kara drew on her every erg of reserve power to keep fighting. But, increasingly, she found herself on the defensive. She fought to keep Satan Girl's fingers from her eyes, her jaws from her carotid artery, her knees from her crotch. |
| 499 | * ExactWords: When Brainiac declares Darkseid has been defeated, one of his partners-in-crime notes "defeated" isn't the same as "destroyed". |
| 500 | -->Brainiac said, “It is finished. Darkseid is defeated.”\ |
| 501 | Kral noted that Brainiac did not say “destroyed. |
| 502 | [[/folder]] |
| 503 | [[folder:F-I]] |
| 504 | * FacelessEye: The Emerald Empress and her tool, the giant, floating Emerald Eye of Ekron, reluctantly join Mordru's ploy to destroy the Legion. During the war, the Eye transports allies and turns enemies into lizards or blasts them into paralysis. |
| 505 | -->The Emerald Empress's mystic, floating eye phased them in just outside of the presidential palace. [...] She telepathed a command to the Emerald Eye of Ekron. It spewed forth a burst of green energy that pushed the guardsmen against a wall and held them there, immobile. |
| 506 | * FamilyOfChoice: The Legionnaires aren't only Supergirl's friends and teammates but also her extended family since she was fifteen, even though she is related to only two of them. |
| 507 | * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: During "The Apokolips Agenda" story arc, ComicBook/DoctorFate blows Satanis' head into chunks. This action happens right after ComicBook/TheSpectre rams his arm through Trigon's chest, making the giant demon explode. |
| 508 | * FanVerse: All [[http://members.tripod.com/Dark_Mark/darkmark1.htm Dark Mark]]'s [[Franchise/TheDCU DC Universe]] fanfics are set in the same Multiverse kicked off by his first fanfiction ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn''. ''Hellsister Trilogy'' and ''Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation'', "Batman and the Outsiders", "With this Ring"... are set in the same timeline. ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour'' is set in a parallel universe, but the main characters take part in the main timeline's events. ''Fanfic/SupermanAndMan'' happens after "Kara of Rokyn". Similarly, some of their Franchise/MarvelUniverse fanfics are set in the same universe. |
| 509 | * FakingTheDead: Darkseid fakes his death after his defeat at the end of the war between Apokolips and the rest of the universe. He spends the next 1,000 years sleeping and recovering and resurfaces in the Legion time. |
| 510 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Darkseid intends to enslave the entire universe by learning and speaking the Anti-Life Equation, and all heroes would rather die than become his willing, eager slaves until the end of time. |
| 511 | * FemaleGaze: When Kara and Dev are taking pictures from each other wearing swimwear, Kara insists that he shows his butt off, stating "Women have needs, too". |
| 512 | * FightMagnet: Supergirl wants to retire because she is fed up with fighting super-villains and eldritch abominations on a daily basis. Her cousin warns that fights have a tendency to find her and him, whether they like or not, and later he's of course proven right. |
| 513 | * FinalBattle: At the climax of "The Apokolips Agenda", most of heroes are battling an army of super-villains in order to stop Darkseid's scheme to enslave the universe. Although the main characters are easily beaten by Darkseid, [[spoiler:Orion succeeds in killing him off]]. Or [[spoiler:so they believe]]. |
| 514 | -->'''ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger:''' "There are champions I have aided, some years before, in a matter not unlike this. Now, I need even more aid than before. Should the forces of Darkseid prevail, even your kind may not be immune."\ |
| 515 | '''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Destruction]]:''' "Darkseid. Again?"\ |
| 516 | '''Phantom Stranger:''' "Again. But this must be the last time. For good, or for ill." |
| 517 | * {{Fingore}}: In "Hellspawn", Nemesis grabs Duplicate Man's left hand and crushes his fingers before sending a surge of energy through his hand. |
| 518 | -->Nemesis grabbed his left hand, grinned, and pressured it hard, sending a burst of mystic energy through it.\ |
| 519 | Ord Quelu screamed in pain, despite himself. |
| 520 | * FirstKiss: Kara and Dev-Em kiss for first time in the sixteenth chapter of the first arc. |
| 521 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: Dev-Em doesn't look forward to go back in time to visit Kara. As far as he is concerned, he'll never fit in with primitive 21st century Earth. |
| 522 | * FixFic: Kara Zor-El doesn't die during the Crisis and TheMultiverse is saved. |
| 523 | * {{Flight}}: Several characters such like all Kryptonians and the Marvel Family can fly under their own power. |
| 524 | -->Within five seconds, she performed her ablutions in the bathroom, did her hair and makeup, zipped on deodorant and a mild perfume, threw on her Supergirl uniform, and was out of the building at super-speed.\ |
| 525 | The air friction formed a corona of fire around her as she streaked invisibly through the skies. She ignored it.\ |
| 526 | Supergirl burst out of the ionosphere, vibrating at a certain frequency, still accelerating. An IFF device in her belt identified her to American and Russian radar trackers as the Girl of Steel, not an ICBM. They only registered her for a few seconds, anyway. |
| 527 | * FlippingTheBird: John Constantine delivers one to villain Drang after trapping him inside a magic circle. |
| 528 | -->The trenchcoated man stood, flipped the blue chalk back into his pocket, and crouched outside the circle to be on a level with Drang's eyes.\ |
| 529 | Then he flipped him the bird. |
| 530 | * FlyingBrick: There're plenty of them: Superman, Supergirl, Power Girl, Dev-Em (Kryptonians); Satan Girl (Kryptonian duplicate); Mon-El (Daxamite); Ultra Boy (who can only use one ability at a time); the Marvel family... |
| 531 | * FlyingFirepower: A lot of heroes -like Supergirl, Superman, Dev-Em, Mon-El, Orion- and villains -like Satan Girl- are flight-capable energy-blasters. |
| 532 | * FoeTossingCharge: When Satan Girl spots someone she is particularly eager to kill, she'll gleefully rush towards them; and woe betide anyone who is standing in her way, for she'll probably consider them a bonus kill. |
| 533 | * FollowInMyFootsteps: Superman had trained his cousin to be a hero who would protect Earth in his stead. However, the demands and pressures of hero life eventually wear Supergirl down, and she wants to be a normal woman again. Superman tries to accept her decision, but he also warns her quitting isn't easy because problems tend to follow them around. |
| 534 | * ForcedTransformation: During a raid, the Eye of Ekron disables a guard by transforming him into a lizard. |
| 535 | -->Some of the men threw themselves in the villains' path as they advanced into the building. A lucky few were shoved out of the way. The Empress's eye turned another into a lizard. |
| 536 | * ForceFieldDoor: Darkseid bars access to the cell holding Highfather's daughter with an invisible energy wall which is sturdy enough to withstand a Kryptonian's blows. |
| 537 | * ForcedToWatch: In "The Apokolips Agenda", Darkseid drags his wife Tigra to the torture chamber where Orion is being held, and he forces her to watch as Desaad tortures the Anti-Life Equation out of her son. |
| 538 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Black Adam is the first enemy fought by Dev-Em. Later, Dev would meet Shazam and Captain Marvel. |
| 539 | * ForWantOfANail: The original Supergirl moved out of the planet after the events of ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' #231-232, giving birth to "Kara Of Rokyn" split timeline. [[ComicBook/TheSandman Dream of the Endless]] then gets that Supergirl to interfere with the ''Crisis Of Infinite Earths'' and save TheMultiverse, creating this timeline as well as the "A Force of Four" one. |
| 540 | * FreudianSlip: As arguing with Dev-Em, Kara accidentally lets slip that she loves him: |
| 541 | -->Supergirl grimaced. "I feel like slapping you again. If I didn't love you more now than I ever have before, I'd do it. I--"\ |
| 542 | Her hand went to her mouth. Dev looked at her. His expression was caught coming up from anguish into hope.\ |
| 543 | "So you said it," he murmured.\ |
| 544 | Kara was flustered. |
| 545 | * FrictionBurn: Supergirl's super-speed when she flies out of the planet causes the air to burst into flames around her. Being invulnerable, she ignores the effect. |
| 546 | -->The air friction formed a corona of fire around her as she streaked invisibly through the skies. She ignored it. |
| 547 | * FrictionlessReentry: Amusingly, averted. Supergirl just ignores the air friction when she streaks into space, but she makes sure of reducing speed before flying back into Earth in order to avoid to damage the planet's atmosphere. |
| 548 | * FriendshipMoment: When Supergirl and Colossal Boy undertake a mission which will take them to -literally- Hell in order to prevent Mordru from becoming unimaginably powerful, Gim notices Kara's visible anxiety, so he makes sure to reassure her by reminding her she isn't alone. |
| 549 | * FutureMeScaresMe: During Clark and Lois' wedding Kara sees ComicBook/PowerGirl, who is still wearing black and mourning her own cousin, and is frightened at the possibility of finding herself in the shoes of the Supergirl of Earth-Two. |
| 550 | * GadgeteerGenius: Brainiac 5 is the galaxy's greatest genius, capable of building anything you can imagine, including tailor-made cells for {{Humanoid Abomination}}s. |
| 551 | * GeniusBruiser: Kara is a top student with at least three degrees. She's also capable of kicking a planet out of orbit, outracing light and shrug off nukes. |
| 552 | * GladToBeAliveSex: Kara and Dev engage in this after surviving the War against Mordru. |
| 553 | * TheGlovesComeOff: During "The Apokolips Agenda", Supergirl spends one week travelling between dimensions, battling villain after villain and surviving fights to the death, gets almost lobotomized when Darkseid speaks the Anti-Life Equation, and she finally comes face to face with Darkseid when he has just blasted into unconsciousness her lover, family and friends. Kara goes completely medieval on him without any restraint whatsoever, including her ThouShaltNotKill code (although she unfortunately doesn't win). |
| 554 | -->'''Supergirl:''' "I've been through hell and a half in this last week. I've fought Blackstarr, Eclipso, the Zoners, Kralik, the Golem, and I'm probably leaving some out. I almost got zombified because of you. Now you've hurt the man I love, and my cousin, and my friends. I didn't want to do this. I didn't want to do any of it. I hate fighting. But I promise you, Darkseid, if you don't restore them and surrender, you're never getting up from this floor in one piece. I swear it!" |
| 555 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: When Darkseid's eyes glow red, someone is about to suffer untold pain. And Kryptonian nigh-invulnerability will ''not'' protect them. |
| 556 | -->'''Dev-Em:''' If we'd have been any better, maybe we could have attacked him when it started letting up. But we didn't have that kind of time, or maybe that kind of strength. All I knew was what I saw. I saw that beggar's eyes glowing red. Then I felt like I was being taken apart." |
| 557 | * AGodAmI: |
| 558 | ** Satan Girl often expresses a desire to force entire civilizations to worship her. |
| 559 | --->She could become a goddess to an unsophisticated planet's people. Drinking in their worship, demanding sacrifice. |
| 560 | ** She also plans to force people to kneel before her child. |
| 561 | --->So I'm going to do something first, just to get the kinks out. I'm going to find me a planet, one with people on it, lots and lots of people. And I'm going to kill them all. Then I'm going to another planet, and kill just, maybe, half of them. And I'll make the ones who live worship me. By the time I find my child, he may be the object of a new religion. Wouldn't that be nice, Kara? |
| 562 | * AGodIAmNot: |
| 563 | ** Earth people refer to the folks of New Genesis as New Gods, an appellative Highfather doesn't care for. |
| 564 | --->Izaya rumbled, "That is the phrase some of our younger ones used for the capital city of our world. As for ‘Forever People', it is simply a term Orion once used in derision towards Moonrider's family group, which they adopted. Just as we are known among some of your kind as... 'New Gods'." Highfather looked discomfited by the phrase. |
| 565 | ** As he was trapped in a star, Wildfire tried to communicate with the inhabitants of the closest planet. Unfortunately, when he explained he was a guy in the Sun above, some people thought he was a god, despite his best efforts to explain the matter. |
| 566 | * GodInHumanForm: All Olympic Gods take on human guises when they meed up with the heroes at the end of the first arc. |
| 567 | * GodIsGood: In chapter 20 of "Hellsister", John Constantine prays for Kara's survival. The next chapter, Supergirl is about to die after battling Mordru, but is saved by ComicBook/TheSpectre, who explains he was allowed to save her if she managed to win. |
| 568 | --><I would have been at your side from the beginning, had I been allowed,> said the ghost. <But I am rarely permitted on your side of the veil anymore. A specific intercession was made on your behalf.I was granted power to save you, if you had triumphed. If you did not, you would still be among the honored dead.> |
| 569 | * GodzillaThreshold: In "The Apokolips Agenda", virtually every pre-Crisis hero is battling on Apokolips in a desperate struggle to prevent Darkseid from learning the Anti-Life Equation. Darkseid, who has been summoning more and more powerful villains to slow the heroes, finally reaches the threshold and resurrects Trigon, who turns all of the heroes to stone. In response, Kid Eternity, whose power allows him to resurrect a deceased person briefly by saying their name, speaks a name before he turns to stone: [[spoiler: Jim Corrigan. Cue the Spectre materializing and killing Trigon with a single blow.]] |
| 570 | * GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: When the heroes meet up with Zeus at the end of the first story arc, he is wearing white robes and sitting on a golden throne. |
| 571 | -->On a golden throne with thunderbolt-carved armrests atop a tier of marble stairs sat Zeus, red-bearded and white-robed, the force of his presence daunting even at a distance. |
| 572 | * GondorCallsForAid: |
| 573 | ** When Satan Girl surfaces, joining forces with Mordru, the Fatal Five and the Legion of Super-Villains, the Legion of Super-Heroes immediately contacts Kara, who hasn't been a regular member for years. |
| 574 | ** In ''The Apokolips Agenda'', Highfather calls in Superman, Supergirl and ultimately all available heroes in five parallel universes to fight Darkseid's rise. It -''barely''- works. |
| 575 | * GoodHurtsEvil: Mordru dies when he comes in contact with a huge mass of sacred light. It's speculated The Presence was within it. |
| 576 | -->He came in contact with The Light.\ |
| 577 | Whether he saw a Presence within, or not, will not be known, at least on this side of the veil. For, whenever a being of his evil comes physically in contact with a force of purity that strong, there can be no resisting its power.\ |
| 578 | In the end, the force-field might have been of some use in delaying the outcome for a fraction of a second. But only that.\ |
| 579 | He exploded. |
| 580 | * GoodIsNotNice: Dev-Em has risked his life time and again to protect thousands of people. It doesn't stop him from being a smug, obnoxious jerkass of an ex-delinquent, though. |
| 581 | * GoodIsNotSoft: |
| 582 | ** Supergirl is gentle and compassionate by nature... but when her evil duplicate threatened innocent lives as well as her friends', making clear the whole time she would never stop, Supergirl hurled her into an anti-matter star. |
| 583 | ** During "The Apokolips Agenda", The Spectre comes face to face with Trigon. The Spectre thrusts a hand through Trigon's chest and then makes Trigon explode. Literally. |
| 584 | --->The Spectre looked into Trigon’s eyes, let him glimpse the skulls that served him for pupils, and thrust a hand into and through his chest. It protruded from Trigon’s back, in ghastly fashion. Trigon’s left hand went limp, and Raven flew to freedom.\ |
| 585 | Then the Guardian Ghost sent a surge of white energy through his arm, at full power.\ |
| 586 | Trigon exploded.\ |
| 587 | It was hard for the nonmystics to see or perceive. For those who could see it, bits of red psychomatter radiated away from the Spectre’s outstretched arm, and Trigon’s face, for the second time in a lifetime, held an expression of terror before it disintegrated. There was little audible noise, but a psychic roar for those who were attuned to hear it. |
| 588 | * GoodMorningCrono: "The Apokolips Agenda" starts out with Dev-Em being awoken by his girlfriend. |
| 589 | * GoodParents: Fred and Edna Danvers, as well as Zor-El and Allura. The former try very hard to be caring and understanding to Linda. The latter are extremely supportive to Kara, and treat Power Girl as their kind of daughter when they meet her. |
| 590 | * GrievousHarmWithABody: As fighting legions of Para-Demons invading New Genesis, Dev-Em uses one of them as a whip to knock dozens of his comrades out of the sky. |
| 591 | -->Dev-Em had grabbed one of the Paras by the ankles and was using him as a more-or-less-human flail, knocking demons out of the skies by the dozens. He finally threw his "weapon" away and hurled himself bodily into a bunch of them, throwing them out like toothpicks catapulted from an uncovered blender. |
| 592 | * GroinAttack: Satan Girl attempts to knee Supergirl's groin. |
| 593 | -->Kara drew on her every erg of reserve power to keep fighting. But, increasingly, she found herself on the defensive. She fought to keep Satan Girl's fingers from her eyes, her jaws from her carotid artery, her knees from her crotch. |
| 594 | * GunsAreWorthless: After checking Kara's identity, a cop bitterly states that their weapons wouldn't have saved them if she had been her evil lookalike. |
| 595 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Satan Girl and Mordru's son. |
| 596 | * HappilyMarried: |
| 597 | ** Clark and Lois get married at the beginning of the story. Clark gushes over his blessed married life. |
| 598 | ** Diana is delighted to be married to Steve Trevor. |
| 599 | --->We have been blessed, Kara. If I had known I'd be this happy in Steve's arms... well, let us just say that, for the sake of the villains I had to fight all these years, it was a good thing for the world that I didn't find out sooner. I know Kal has been just as pleasured by his marriage to Lois. Even Hal and Oliver show more optimism than strain these days. We are finally doing things for ourselves now, and not just for the world. |
| 600 | * HappinessInSlavery: In "The Apokolips Agenda", Darkseid succeeds in speaking the Anti-Life Equation, turning literally everyone into his brainwashed slaves, eager to serve their beloved master, until the Equation's effects are thankfully cancelled. |
| 601 | -->'''Dev-Em:''' Okay, here's what I remember. We all smashed in there, into Darkseid's bedroom or whatever it was, El, Kara Two, Kid El, the two Action chaps, and the Flash Trio. You'd have thought that among the batch of us, there would have been somebody fast enough to have dropped him before he said the word. But we weren't."\ |
| 602 | It must've just been one word. Or he must've been talking very fast. Whatever he said, I don't remember it... I don't think I'm supposed to remember it. All I know is that every one of us froze in our tracks. In our souls. Scared the hell out of me, and I'm not ashamed to say it. For a second there, I felt like I'd been damned. Literally. Then I was looking at that grey-faced geezer, and I swear, it felt like..."\ |
| 603 | "...it felt like I was in love with him. That I'd do everything for him. That I didn't have to do any thinking anymore, that he'd do it...do it all for me. That nothing had to be done but what he said, what he wanted. That his will was like the Great Mainspring of the Universe." |
| 604 | * HatesBeingAlone: In the beginning, Kara is feeling very lonely. Her birth parents live in another galaxy, her adoptive parents are barely there, and she can't keep a steady relationship. Clark and Lois' wedding rubbed salt into the wound. |
| 605 | -->Mom and Dad. Half a galaxy away, in a world that was out of phase with her universe right now.\ |
| 606 | Foster Mom and Dad, in Midvale, almost as distant from her emotionally as her real parents were physically.\ |
| 607 | And those damned flowers from somebody else's wedding.\ |
| 608 | Then she took her bath, went to bed, and slept, crying only a few tears in the process. |
| 609 | * HeadbuttingHeroes: Superman and Dev-Em don't like each other at all. Dev-Em is a jerkass who enjoys taunting Kal-El, and Superman in turn has no issue with biting back. The only reason they try to be moderately civil to each other is because Dev-Em is dating Superman's cousin. |
| 610 | * HealingHands: [[PhysicalGod Apollo]] saves Supergirl's life after her battle with Satan Girl thanks to this ability. |
| 611 | * HeartbrokenBadass: |
| 612 | ** Dawnstar spends the most of the opening story arc distraught over the apparent death of her lover Wildfire. |
| 613 | ** After spending years pining over Supergirl, Brainiac 5 has to force himself to get over her when Kara falls for Dev. |
| 614 | * TheHeartless: Satan Girl is Supergirl's dark side's embodiment, born from her repressed dark desires and impulses. |
| 615 | -->'''Supergirl:''' It happened some years ago, both in my time and yours. I was coming to your era to attend a Legion meeting. Just routine business, but the bylaws stated that a member had to attend a minimum number of meetings to keep her status, and I chose this one. And just after I popped into your time, I ran right into a chunk of Red Kryptonite.\ |
| 616 | '''Shrinking Violet:''' That's the stuff that always has crazy effects on Kryptonians. Makes 'em fat, or crazy, or giants, or gives 'em ant's heads, and like that.\ |
| 617 | '''Blok:''' Please continue, Kara.\ |
| 618 | '''Supergirl:''' All I knew at the time was that I had a fainting spell. While I was out, the real Red K effect came through. The thing... it... I was cloned! It cloned me, and the clone was, well, my evil side. My dark side. And it was just as real as... as real as me. |
| 619 | * HeelFaceBrainwashing: Hinted by Kara when she explains to her adoptive father that Green Lantern mind-wipes villains out of being a problem. |
| 620 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: During "The Apokolips Agenda", Supergirl faces off with her old enemy, neo-Nazi reality-warper Blackstar, who is now working for Darkseid. Upon realizing Blackstar is beginning to feel regret over her life choices, Kara tries to persuade her to switch sides and start atoning for her past actions; unfortunately, Blackstar has been a villain for so long she doesn't know how to stop, forcing Supergirl to stop her for good. |
| 621 | * {{Hellgate}}: In the twentieth chapter of ''Hellsister'', Supergirl and Colossal Boy enter Hell through a passageway to stop Mordru from making himself one with the Power of Evil. |
| 622 | * HelpingWouldBeKillstealing: Supergirl is saved by The Spectre. She asks why he didn't intervene earlier and he explains that they had to win their own battles. |
| 623 | -->'''Supergirl:''' Why didn't you help us?\ |
| 624 | '''The Spectre:''' The battle had to be won by yourselves. Or lost. Sometimes I am held back in these matters. But I was allowed to rescue you, once the battle was done. |
| 625 | * HeroicBSOD: In the beginning, Kara is on the verge of a break-down, burned out after fourteen years of crime-fighting with no social life to speak about, followed with [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths an extremely close call]]. Then she's whisked away to fight cosmic-powered villains in the future and other dimensions, at one point dragging herself out of ''literal'' Hell. Thus, when the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes grabs her out of her own time to fight Darkseid ''yet again'', Kara explodes. |
| 626 | -->She surveyed the faces before her and fit names to them, even though their faces were a bit older.[...]\ |
| 627 | She sighed and crouched, her elbows on her knees and her hands hiding her face. "I. Am. Just. Getting. So. Damned. Tired." |
| 628 | * HeroicLineage: The first story arc has six different generations from Superman's descendants join the main cast to fight Mordru and his Legion of Super-Villains. |
| 629 | * HeroicRROD: Supergirl pushes herself so hard during her final battle with her evil counterpart that her bleeding, broken body starts falling apart afterwards. She was ''barely'' saved thanks to the Legion finding her and providing magic healing. |
| 630 | * HeroicSecondWind: |
| 631 | ** After getting beaten to a pulp by Satan Girl, Supergirl recovers and hurls her into a star. |
| 632 | --->Supergirl grabbed Satan Girl by the legs, added her own momentum to the force of Satan Girl's super-throw, whirled them around several times like two partners on a trapeze bar, and flung her enemy down towards the thrusting fingers of the solar prominence.\ |
| 633 | The worst part of it was seeing the grin of determination on Kara's bloodied face as she threw her. |
| 634 | ** Subverted when Supergirl fights Darkseid and can't win, no matter how hard she tries. |
| 635 | --->Kara struggled to bring herself up, to land a last blow that would take Darkseid’s life. She hated herself for doing it, but if she was to die, she would take the Dark Lord down with her. She willed her body to hold together just long enough, for her strength to sustain itself sufficiently, for the blow to be struck. She had to.\ |
| 636 | Darkseid loosed another surge of power and she knew she could not. |
| 637 | * HeroInsurance: Supergirl endeavors to move her battles away from inhabited places. When this isn't posible, she repairs the damage caused by her fights. Commented by her enemy Satan Girl: |
| 638 | -->The third time, she was manifest as Nightflame, a giant sword-wielding woman who wreaked havoc in San Francisco, born of her old identity and some other elements added from Kara's psyche, amplified by a mage who existed in a sub-atomic universe on a world somehow within Kara.[...]\ |
| 639 | No killing that time, but she had wreaked undeniable mayhem. It had taken Supergirl a whole afternoon to clean things up. |
| 640 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mordru is powerful enough to wipe out the Legion single-handedly. But he isn't satisfied with his already vasts levels of power so he travels to the actual Hell to make himself one with the essence of Evil. As attempting the merge, though, he puts himself in a vulnerable position which gives Supergirl and Colossal Boy the opportunity to destroy him. |
| 641 | * HoistHeroOverhead: Satan Girl lifts Kara when she's going to hurl her into a star. |
| 642 | -->Then she lifted her overhead and threw her with all her force. |
| 643 | * HoldingHands: At the end of the first arc, Kara and Dev, who have become a couple during the course of the story, link hands. |
| 644 | -->She replied, "Yes, Dev. I'll stay for the wedding. And we can be together at least till then."\ |
| 645 | "At least?"\ |
| 646 | "Well--" She smiled back at him. "Maybe a little longer."\ |
| 647 | "That's just what I wanted to hear," he said, and took her hand. |
| 648 | * HoldTheLine: In "The Apokolips Agenda", an army of villains hold back an army of heroes while Darkseid learns and speaks the Anti-Life Equation which will allow him to enslave the universe. |
| 649 | * HolyBurnsEvil: Mordru's literally obliterated when he comes in contact with a huge mass of sacred light. |
| 650 | -->He came in contact with The Light.\ |
| 651 | Whether he saw a Presence within, or not, will not be known, at least on this side of the veil. For, whenever a being of his evil comes physically in contact with a force of purity that strong, there can be no resisting its power.\ |
| 652 | In the end, the force-field might have been of some use in delaying the outcome for a fraction of a second. But only that.\ |
| 653 | He exploded. |
| 654 | * HopelessSuitor: Brainiac 5. Kara ''used'' to like him back, but by the beginning of the story she has already moved and fell for another person. |
| 655 | * HumanHammerThrow: During a battle in New Genesis, Dev-Em grabs a Parademon by the ankles, and after using him as a makeshift flail to beat other flying demons up, spins him around and throws him away. |
| 656 | * HumanoidAbomination: Satan Girl ''may'' look like a flesh-and-blood voluptuous human woman, but in reality is a human-shaped mass of negative emotions and dark impulses with power enough to crumble whole planets to dust. |
| 657 | * HumansNeedAliens: In the 31st century, humanity is protected by the Legion, a super-team of mostly alien super-heroes. Mordru would have obliterated Earth long ago without their interference. |
| 658 | * HurlItIntoTheSun: Satan Girl attempts to throw Supergirl into a anti-matter sun. Kara throws her instead. |
| 659 | -->Supergirl grabbed Satan Girl by the legs, added her own momentum to the force of Satan Girl's super-throw, whirled them around several times like two partners on a trapeze bar, and flung her enemy down towards the thrusting fingers of the solar prominence.\ |
| 660 | The worst part of it was seeing the grin of determination on Kara's bloodied face as she threw her.\ |
| 661 | Satan Girl heard one last sending before she hit the plasma.\ |
| 662 | <Hellsister,> said Supergirl, <go to Hell.>\ |
| 663 | Kara pulled up, flying away at an angle, keeping herself beyond the event horizon of what was to come with the last shred of power she had. But she knew that she had to avoid the blast area. She trained her super-vision on the hurtling woman in black, even as she flew away.\ |
| 664 | The villainess hit the anti-plasma.\ |
| 665 | There was a look of confusion on Satan Girl's face as she exploded.\ |
| 666 | Her positive-matter structure was instantly annihilated by an equivalent mass of anti-matter in the solar prominence. It flattened part of the plasma-storm a bit, made for a more spectacular sight, and disintegrated a small bit of antisolar matter.\ |
| 667 | But that was all right. There was enough antimatter in the star to spare.\ |
| 668 | It didn't take that much of it to kill a Satan Girl. |
| 669 | * IControlMyMinionsThrough: Mordru controls his minions through fear, since he's powerful enough to easily annihilate whoever incurs his displeasure. As for Darkseid, he controls them through a blend of fear and indoctrination, but in the second story arc he intends to learn the Anti-Life Equation in order to mind-control ''everyone'' in the whole ''universe''. |
| 670 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: Supergirl, Laurel and Dawnstar argue with Dev-Em after they blow up an undercover mission to save a little girl. Dev argues back he was forced in the past to sacrifice one person to save thousands. He didn't like it, but he had to do it. |
| 671 | -->'''Laurel Kent:''' Dev, just listen to me for a moment. Could you sacrifice the life of another, so easily, just to complete a mission... even one as big as this?\ |
| 672 | '''Dev-Em:''' I have.\ |
| 673 | (silence)\ |
| 674 | '''Dev:''' It was an inforunning operation out of a Dark Circle world. My contact was a man in deep cover. Their cointelpro caught up to us just after an information drop. We had made arrangements on what to do if such a thing happened. I exposed him as a traitor. My cover held. He was taken away, tortured, and killed. I got the package through. Later, I saw to it that his torturers got theirs. No, I didn't do it personally... but I made sure it was done. That's how it is in my world. Not pretty, but we get the job done.\ |
| 675 | '''Kara:''' ...\ |
| 676 | '''Dev:''' No, don't think I enjoyed it. Rolg's face still comes to me in a particularly juicy nightmare every now and then. But he has to wait his time in line. And you know what he tells me? He tells me about the people of that world who were liberated, in time, with the information I got through. He tells me that I did the right thing. |
| 677 | * IHaveManyNames: Teth-Adam has been called Mighty Adam, Black Adam, Slayer of Pharaohs... |
| 678 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: After so many battles Supergirl is getting tired of it all and expresses her desire to live like a normal woman: |
| 679 | -->'''Supergirl:''' But I'm... oh, Sheol, I'm so tired of all this stuff. Fight after fight after fight. We save the universe, we kill Mordru, we kill Satan Girl, we come back, and here somebody throws Darkseid in our face again. Can't there ever be an end to it? [...] Well, it's gonna have to start coming somewhere else before long. I'm tired of this. I wasn't born to be a, a super-heroine. I just wanted to be a normal girl from Argo, and, and get a good job and a good man and settle down... |
| 680 | * {{ILLKILLYOU}}: Satan Girl to Supergirl after her child has been taken away. |
| 681 | -->"Get up," said a familiar voice.\ |
| 682 | Kara roused herself, looked up, saw the speaker not twelve feet away.\ |
| 683 | "They took my baby," said Satan Girl, her face belying her rage. "And now, I'm going to take your life." |
| 684 | * TheImmodestOrgasm: Satan Girl and Mordru's first time fornicating makes Mordru's castle tremble. |
| 685 | -->He took her there on the carpet before his throne.\ |
| 686 | The castle shook with the throes of their pleasure.\ |
| 687 | And the cries of her consummation shattered windows all over the structure. |
| 688 | * ImmuneToBullets: Both Supergirl and her evil clone can't be damaged by bullets. |
| 689 | * ImpromptuTracheotomy: At least twice during their battles, Satan Girl attempts to rip Supergirl's throat out with her teeth. |
| 690 | -->Satan Girl gave Kara superficial burns with heat-vision, tore at her hair, raked her eyes with her claws, even bit her in the neck. Supergirl managed to tear her throat away from Satan Girl's jaws again, but was uncertain how much longer she could hold out. |
| 691 | * InnerMonologue: At the beginning of the story, Supergirl has several serious monologues where she reflects on her loneliness and inability to fit in with other people and have meaningful relationships. |
| 692 | * InnocentBystander: Satan Girl's first action was killing off the crew of a United Planets starship. Her second action was smashing into pieces a pleasure cruiser full of innocent civilians because it ''aroused'' her. |
| 693 | * InSpiteOfANail: The Anti-Monitor is defeated, but even so an army of villains come together to conquer several realities. |
| 694 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: Twenty-nine-year-old Kara and her cousin's teen descendant Laurel Kent get along pretty well. Kara was particularly delighted to meet Laurel because her existence meant Kal and Lois would end up together. |
| 695 | * InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Satan Girl gets genuinely aroused by fighting, hurting and killing. The actuality or the promise of violence turns her on. After blowing up a starship she had sex straight afterwards. |
| 696 | -->Satan Girl was in a state of excitement that was almost sexual arousal. Her mouth was open and she was sucking in breath, probably trying to curse and not being able to get words out, her hate being so strong. Her lips twitched with the effort. Her arm was raised and it was coming forward so quickly a corona of air friction formed about it.\ |
| 697 | Kara's arm blocked it, parried, as her other hand smashed hard into Satan Girl's mouth.\ |
| 698 | No more time for reflection. No time for analysis. The battle was on. |
| 699 | * InterspeciesAdoption: Kara is adopted by Fred and Edna Danvers, a human couple. |
| 700 | * InterspeciesFriendship: Supergirl and every alien member of the Legion, who have become her family de facto. |
| 701 | * InterspeciesRomance: A number of them: Clark Kent (Kryptonian) and Lois Lane (human), Brainiac 5 (Coluan) and Laurel Kent (Kyptonian/human hybrid), Lightning Lad (Winathian) and Saturn Girl (Titanian), Mordru (Zeroxian) and Satan Girl (Kryptonian)... |
| 702 | * IntertwinedFingers: Kara and Dev hold hands in this fashion when they fly back to the present time. |
| 703 | * InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: In "The Apokolips Agenda", a massive army of heroes come together to topple Darkseid, but they are deterred by the Dark Lord's own forces. Superman and other heavy-hitters manage to reach Darkseid, but he defeats them in a single blow. Supergirl makes it to the place and battles bravely, but she is also crushed. At the end, Orion is the only one left to face Darkseid. |
| 704 | * {{Irony}}: When Clark and Lois get married, the former makes sure that his cousin catches Lois' bouquet, meaning he hopes she gets married next. She does, but she falls in love with a jerkass whom Clark can hardly stand. |
| 705 | * IShallTauntYou: Satan Girl sees through Supergirl's attempts to lure her into the anti-matter universe, so Kara baits her further by calling her a pathetic weak copy and revealing the Legion Of Super-Heroes killed Mordru. |
| 706 | -->Kara stopped at the warp-gate and looked behind her. Satan Girl had stopped as well, less than a mile behind her. To her credit, she wasn't stupid. She knew that Supergirl was leading her on. And, having Kara's memories, she knew where she was headed.\ |
| 707 | <That is the anti-matter universe,> sent Satan Girl.\ |
| 708 | <Oh, very good,> mocked Kara, smiling like a teacher tutoring her most backward pupil. <Now, if you'll just join me here, I can finish you right off.>\ |
| 709 | The villainess didn't budge. <It'll blow us both to bits if we touch any substance there without force-shields or matter-conversion,> she sent. <I can just wait you out. You'll come back, or you'll be atomized. Either way, I win.>\ |
| 710 | <Oh, will you?>, asked Kara. <I thought for certain that you wanted to tear me apart with your own hands. Except it hasn't been that easy, has it? Maybe you're just not up to it, after all... since you're just a pretty pathetic copy of me.>\ |
| 711 | Satan Girl's expression of hatred, which was about the only one she owned, intensified. <YOU...> she began, and that was all she could get out.\ |
| 712 | <Just one more thing, darling,> sent Kara. <I didn't want to have to tell you this, but we killed Mordru. He's dead. Hope you didn't get attached to him too much.>\ |
| 713 | At that, Supergirl knew she had succeeded. |
| 714 | * ItAmusedMe: Satan Girl's main motivation. She kills people because it entertains her. |
| 715 | * ItsAllMyFault: Kara blames herself for everything her clone does. |
| 716 | -->'''Supergirl:''' Okay. I'm ready to intercept her. If she's killed 318 people already... that means I'm responsible for it, in a sense. |
| 717 | * ItsPersonal: Fighting Darkseid became a personal matter rather than a matter or principle for Supergirl after the ruler of Apokolips attempted to kill and/or enslave her cousin, her lover and her friends several times over. Likewise, Berserker looks forward to kill Supergirl after she killed his mother in self-defense. |
| 718 | -->I’ve been through hell and a half in this last week. I’ve fought Blackstarr, Eclipso, the Zoners, Kralik, the Golem, and I’m probably leaving some out. I almost got zombified because of you. Now you’ve hurt the man I love, and my cousin, and my friends. I didn’t want to do this. I didn’t want to do any of it. I hate fighting. But I promise you, ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, if you don’t restore them and surrender, you’re never getting up from this floor in one piece. I swear it! |
| 719 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Brainiac 5 is heartbroken when his long-time flame Kara falls for Dev-Em. Nevertheless, he notes Kara looks happy and Dev-Em looks good for her, so he has no option but resign himself to it. |
| 720 | -->'''Brainiac 5:''' The woman I've wanted for most of my life is upstairs now, making love with a man who has nothing of what I have to offer, and I have nothing of what he has to offer. The worst part of it is, I can't even hate him. He's probably good for Kara. The battle's done, to the victor belong the spoils. |
| 721 | [[/folder]] |
| 722 | [[folder:J-N]] |
| 723 | * JawDrop: Kara's reaction when she finds out Satan Girl has returned. |
| 724 | -->"Now--here I am," she said, taking a seat at the table. "I see you've got the Fatal Five out again. But you could probably handle them without me. And I've been brain-scanned twice in the last few minutes. It sounds like something's coming up for me, specifically. Why did you summon me?"\ |
| 725 | "Because of this," said Brainiac, and thumbed the controller again. The image of a masked woman came up on one of the holoscreens.\ |
| 726 | Supergirl dropped her jaw.\ |
| 727 | "Her!" she said, after she found her voice. "Great Rao, after all these years...her!" |
| 728 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dev-Em is an arrogant, rude jerkass but still risks his life time and again to help other people. When his behavior leads Dawnstar to think he's all but a villain, Supergirl states that Dev is an asshole but not a bad guy. |
| 729 | * JoinOrDie: When he's putting his army together, Mordru gives his prospect recruits the choice to follow him or die right away. |
| 730 | -->'''Mordru:''' I am gathering a strike force to confound or destroy my enemies. Though my power dwarfs that of any single being, I cannot function in many places at once... not with full coordination of purpose. I have brought you here to work as some of my agents. Accede, and great wealth and power shall be given you. That, and the lives of your old enemies, whom I will send you against. Refuse, and you die on the spot. Make your decision. |
| 731 | * JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Supergirl ends up killing Satan Girl in self-defence but without trial after every attempt to lock her up or contain her fails. |
| 732 | * TheJuggernaut: Darkseid. You need Kryptonian-level SuperStrength to tangle with him, and even so your best punch will barely get him dazed. He can't be hurt or defeated by anybody except for his own son Orion. |
| 733 | * JustBetweenYouAndMe: After capturing his son Orion, Darkseid launches a tirade against the evils of Free Will, and then he brags about fixing the universe by enslaving everyone after torturing the Anti-Life Equation out of Orion. |
| 734 | * JustInTime: At one point, Satan Girl throws a little girl against a wall, but Supergirl dives into and catches the kid, saving her from getting splattered in the nick of time. |
| 735 | * KarmaHoudini: After starting a multi-dimensional war and nearly enslaving the universe in the second arc, Darkseid fakes his death and escapes to build his strength up back again and put in motion his next scheme, unbothered by his enemies. |
| 736 | * KidHeroAllGrownUp: In "Hellspawn", Supergirl meets the grown-up versions of the Legion Of Super-Heroes, eighteen years older than the teenager Legionnaires she used to team up with. |
| 737 | * KilledMidSentence: Darkseid murders Brainiac while the latter is speaking. |
| 738 | -->Brainiac's metallic hand was already raised. "The decision for leader is mine," said the robotic being. "But you are correct. We do not need two--"\ |
| 739 | That was as far as Brainiac got.\ |
| 740 | A blinding bolt of light shot through his chair and body, melting a great hole in his midsection. |
| 741 | * KilledOffForReal: Supergirl throws her evil counterpart into an anti-matter star where she is disintegrated. |
| 742 | * KillItWithFire: Supergirl destroys Satan Girl by dousing her with anti-matter fire, one of the very few things her evil twin isn't invulnerable to. |
| 743 | * KlingonPromotion: Brainiac assembles an army of villains and appoints himself leader. Then Darkseid kills him off and declares himself leader. No one contests his claim. |
| 744 | -->Brainiac's metallic hand was already raised. "The decision for leader is mine," said the robotic being. "But you are correct. We do not need two--"\ |
| 745 | That was as far as Brainiac got.\ |
| 746 | A blinding bolt of light shot through his chair and body, melting a great hole in his midsection. The lights in his eye-pieces sputtered and died. His upper section toppled over, banging onto his feet and rolling to a stop. His lower torso and feet remained seated.\ |
| 747 | Both Luthors gaped. So did most of the people in the room.\ |
| 748 | A newcomer had arrived. Many of them recognized him.\ |
| 749 | "He was incorrect," said the new arrival. "We did not need him. Now you have me."\ |
| 750 | Luthor of Earth-One swallowed. He couldn't force a smile, but he did try to be casual as he said, "Pleasure to have you back."\ |
| 751 | The new leader began to address his troops. |
| 752 | * KnightInSourArmor: Kara has become jaded due to over one decade battling all kind of evildoers, which hasn't allowed time for developing many meaningful relationships, as well as several ''extremely'' close calls in a short space of time. She has expressed over and again her desire to retire and lead a normal life, but everybody keep needing her to save the universe, and she answers the call every time. |
| 753 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: At the end of "The Apokolips Agenda", Darkseid's scheme revolving around the Anti-Life Equation has failed and he is apparently obliterated by Orion. In reality, Darkseid transferred his conscience to a spared body, cloned beforehand in the event that he was defeated, and he decides he'll spend the next hundreds of years sleeping, recovering his strength and scheming while time and old age look after his fooled enemies. |
| 754 | * KryptoniteFactor: Satan Girl considers her options to exterminate the inhabitants of Daxam and Rokyn: lead for Daxamites and magic for Kryptonians since Kryptonite will not work in a red-sun world, except for a hard-to-make variety. |
| 755 | -->Rokyn would be more problematic. Regular Kryptonite would not harm a Kryptonian under de-powered conditions, under a red sun. Anti-Kryptonite, such as that produced beneath Argo City a thousand years ago, would do the trick. But that was hard to make, especially in the quantity needed to kill a world.\ |
| 756 | Well, there was magic. And Mordru had plenty of that. Rao knows, he could do the job, if he wanted to. If she could persuade him. And, running her hands over her body, she guessed that she had just the means to persuade him. It might be fun, too.\ |
| 757 | Satan Girl had no illusions about her power relative to Mordru's. He could blast her from existence. Kryptonians were powerless against magic, and Mordru was the mightiest sorceror of the age. |
| 758 | * KryptoniteProofSuit: Superman and Supergirl have a run-in with Kryptonite Man during the Darkseid War, which prompts Kara to wear a lead suit just in case she runs into him again. |
| 759 | * KungFuSonicBoom: Happens every time two Flying Bricks like Supergirl and Satan Girl battle. |
| 760 | -->Grimly, Kara hurled herself forward. Her enemy was already within plain sight. <[=TearyoureyesoutandEATTHEM=],> sent Satan Girl, not even conscious of her speech. <[=RipyouapartandseveryourINTESTINES=].>\ |
| 761 | <Shut up shut up SHUT UP,> snarled Kara, and smashed into her. It was like the collision of two starships, at the very least. |
| 762 | * LackOfEmpathy: Satan Girl and her son Berserker/Nemesis. The former is a mass of negative emotions given sentience and physical form, hence she lacks pity or compassion and regards people as playthings to be toyed with and then destroyed. Her son exhibits her same sociopathic ruthlessness, exacerbated by Darkseid's grooming. |
| 763 | * LargeHam: Conversations between Darkseid and Nemesis often turn to hamminess contests: |
| 764 | -->'''Darkseid:''' "I have had three prior sons, boy. Two of my body, one of my charge. But you, my fourth son...you have had advantages your forebears never knew. I left their upbringing to others. I was busy. You, I have tended to with all my attention. With all my knowledge. Do you know why, boy?"\ |
| 765 | '''Nemesis:''' "Because I am the greatest of the four. Because I am the one who will break our enemies like pottery shards. Because I will avenge you, my father. Avenge you, and...my mother." |
| 766 | * LaserCutter: When he wakes up, Dev-Em uses his heat vision to wipe grime out of his eyes. |
| 767 | * LastOfHisKind: |
| 768 | ** Played straight with Power Girl. She's her universe's last living Kryptonian. There're no Superman, Krypto or survivors from Kandor or Argo around. |
| 769 | ** Inverted with Satan Girl, who is aware of the existence of Rokynians and Daxamites with her same powers, and decides to exterminate them all so nobody can challenge her. |
| 770 | * LastSecondChance: Kara vows to help Satan Girl look for her child if she stops fighting her. Satan Girl replies she can find her offspring on her own. |
| 771 | -->'''Supergirl:''' You won't believe this, but I'm sorry. On my honor, I am. And if you will swear to stop this battle, I will help you search for your child. That is my promise.\ |
| 772 | '''Satan Girl:''' Ohhhhh, don't you wish, Lightsister. I can find my child. After our war, I will find him. Or her. There is nothing left to us now, except the fight. |
| 773 | * LastVillainStand: At the end of "The Apokolips Agenda", Darkseid's army has been routed, his scheme has been ruined, his fortress has been breached, and the heroes are closing in on him. So Darkseid decides to take all of them on. At once. And he almost ''succeeds''. |
| 774 | * LawOfAlienNames: In addition to canonical names like Kal, Kara, Dev, Tanya, Garth, Ayla... it has Highfather's daughter D’reema. |
| 775 | * TheLawOfDiminishingDefensiveEffort: Superman, Supergirl and Dev-Em crash into Darkseid's stronghold and bump straight into Kryptonite Man. After rescuing them from the trap they had been lured into, Lightray considers the trio is too cocky, but he'd probably also get cocky after shrugging off the attacks of thousands of parademons. |
| 776 | * LegacyOfTheChosen: In "Hellsister" makes his appearance ComicBook/CaptainMarvel XII, the latest bearer of the power of ComicBook/{{Shazam}}. |
| 777 | * LegionOfDoom: In the first arc, Mordru recruits the Legion of Super-Villains, the Fatal Five... and more villains from different time periods and parallel universes to destroy the Legion once and for all. In the second arc, Darkseid barges in a gathering of super-villains and announces that all of them are working for him as of now. Wisely, nobody objects. |
| 778 | * LightningBruiser: Supergirl is the Legion's mightiest and fastest heavy-hitter. |
| 779 | * LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Kara Zor-El and Dev-Em bicker and argue like they've been married for years rather merely dating for less than one week. |
| 780 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: Satan Girl is the embodiment of Supergirl's dark side, with no love or compassion to counterbalance it. |
| 781 | * LittleNo: In chapter 21 of "Hellsister", Mordu utters a soft "No" when he's about to die. |
| 782 | --><No!> sent Mordru. It was a small thing to say, a common thing to say, but it seemed to sum everything up. |
| 783 | * LivingMacGuffin: An important subplot in "The Apokolips Agenda" revolves around rescuing Orion before Darkseid tortures the Anti-Life Equation out of him and binds the universe to his will. |
| 784 | * LongGame: At the end of the second story arc, Darkseid's master plan to enslave the universe has failed, his army has been defeated, his world has been taken over by the heroes, and he finds himself hurt and weakened... so he implements his contingency plan: making his enemies believe he is dead and waiting for them to die of old age, and the universe to forget about his existence. Meanwhile, he will sleep, he will recover... and when he awakens, there will be nobody left who can stop him. |
| 785 | * LoveAtFirstSight: Kara feels smitten with Dev-Em as soon as he shows up. |
| 786 | -->The man was about Kara's age, brown-haired, handsome in a James Deanish way, dressed in a simple green costume, and quite confident in manner. Despite herself, Kara caught her breath. He was... interesting. |
| 787 | * LoveConfession: Kara confesses to Dev completely by accident during an argument. |
| 788 | -->'''Kara Zor-El:''' Oh, Dev, stop it! What you showed me a few minutes ago was the best thing I've ever seen from you. You saved several hundred individual lives. You brought a whole bunch of people back from the verge of death. You were like a one-man salvation crew out there, and I'm proud of you.\ |
| 789 | '''Dev-Em:''' You did it, too.\ |
| 790 | '''Kara:''' Let me talk! We're talking about you, Dev. You were right to be mad at me about blowing the mission. But now I know why. It's because you can't stand to see all those people killed, can you? The big picture.\ |
| 791 | '''Dev:''' Tell me, commander. You've got all the answers now.\ |
| 792 | '''Kara:'''(grimacing) I feel like slapping you again. If I didn't love you more now than I ever have before, I'd do it. I--\ |
| 793 | (covers her mouth)\ |
| 794 | '''Dev:''' (murmuring) So you said it. |
| 795 | * LoveHurts: Kara falls hard for Dev-Em, but ''Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation'' reveals that such a relationship will leave her heart-broken and burned-out. |
| 796 | * LoveTriangle: Brainiac 5 is in love with Supergirl, who used to love him back but has moved on and begun a relationship with fellow Legionnaire Dev-Em. |
| 797 | * MadnessMantra: Satan Girl keeps repeating "KILL YOU KILL YOU KILL YOU KILL YOU KILL YOU", as well as "[=TearyoureyesoutandEATTHEM=]! [=RipyouapartandseveryourINTESTINES=]!" when she comes face to face with her genetic template. |
| 798 | * TheMadnessPlace: Darkseid's torture technician Desaad gets so engrossed in trying his nightmarish contraptions on helpless prisoners he barely notices -and hardly cares- when his devices blow up on his face. |
| 799 | -->In blackness was where Pariah would have preferred to spend his time. He had one small satisfaction: that Desaad had tried to torture him with a complicated contraption that was supposed to work on him physically, on his nerve cells, and the thing had blown up in his face. Desaad, with blackened face, had said, "Yes. Well, now we'll have to try again, won't we?" |
| 800 | * MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: While Clark and Lois are in their honeymoon, Clark takes advantage of his powers to take his wife anywhere in the planet. |
| 801 | * MamaBear: Satan Girl's ''only'' redeeming trait is her willingness to hunt whoever took her baby down and ''kill them all''. |
| 802 | * ManBitesMan: During their final battle, Satan Girl bites Supergirl in the neck and attempts to rip her throat. |
| 803 | -->Satan Girl gave Kara superficial burns with heat-vision, tore at her hair, raked her eyes with her claws, even bit her in the neck. |
| 804 | * ManipulativeBastard: Satan Girl exploits Mordru's lewdness to make herself non-expendable. |
| 805 | -->'''Satan Girl:''' Well, there was magic. And [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Mordru]] had plenty of that. Rao knows, he could do the job, if he wanted to. If she could persuade him. And, running her hands over her body, she guessed that she had just the means to persuade him. It might be fun, too. |
| 806 | * ManOfKryptonite: Darkseid uses the Kryptonite Man to set a trap for his Kryptonian enemies. It nearly succeeds, but the trio is saved by Lightray. |
| 807 | -->'''Lightray:''' The green man. He is one of your old foes?\ |
| 808 | '''Supergirl:''' One of Kal's [...] The guy used to be known as the Kryptonite Kid. He went through a green Kryptonite cloud in space and absorbed its power. He can kill me, Kal, Dev, and anyone else from Krypton. |
| 809 | * ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: Implied when Kara states she never had sex before meeting fellow Kryptonian Dev-Em. Given that all of her previous boyfriends were baseline humans... |
| 810 | * TheMatchmaker: In the start of the story, Supergirl goes on about all the times she tried to get her cousin and Lois together: |
| 811 | -->'''Fred Danvers:''' Irregardless, I'm glad your cousin, uh, Clark finally came to his senses. Edna's wanted to sit him down and talk sense into him for a long time. Now there's just barely time for Lois to have a baby.\ |
| 812 | '''Linda:''' Yeah. But I think ol' Clark will do all right in that department. And if me trying to play matchmaker all those times with him didn't work, I don't think Mom's would, either. But I finally told Lois about how I'd tried to get her and him together once, without showing my hand, and she cracked up. She said, 'That's just like what he'd do! You're a real member of the family, all right.' |
| 813 | * MeaningfulName: "Satan Girl" chose her name to highlight her nature as a Supergirl's doppleganger born from Kara's dark side. |
| 814 | * MeanwhileInTheFuture: Pretty often. After a present-time scene where Mordru extracts Satan Girl from Kara, the narration shifts to the 31st century. |
| 815 | -->Ten centuries in the future, this will happen. Let us say that it did happen, to make our story easier to relate. |
| 816 | * MeetTheInLaws: Kara sets up a meeting between her adoptive parents and her new boyfriend, although Dev-Em isn't keen on meeting people who -he thinks- will want to murder him for daring to touch their little girl. The meeting is awkward, and Kara's adoptive parents don't like their daughter's suitor at all, but they'll put up with him for her sake. |
| 817 | -->'''Kara:''' I'd like you to meet Mom and Dad.\ |
| 818 | '''Dev-Em:''' Oh, capital. 'Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. Zor-El, I'm the man who's boffing your daughter.' 'Good of you, Mr. Em. It's about time somebody did.' |
| 819 | * MightyGlacier: Darkseid isn't fast or agile, nor he needs to be. He is strong enough and tough to take an enraged Kryptonian's blows and hit back, and his Omega Effect can hit anybody, no matter how swift they are. |
| 820 | * MindProbe: Desaad uses one mind-scanning contraption to torture Pariah. |
| 821 | -->That had led Desaad down the right track. For tortures of the mind can be even worse than tortures of the body, and Apokolips has mind-probers aplenty. |
| 822 | * MindRape: When Desaad realizes he can't physically torture information out of Pariah, he fetches his mind-breaking tools. |
| 823 | -->That had led Desaad down the right track. For tortures of the mind can be even worse than tortures of the body, and Apokolips has mind-probers aplenty. |
| 824 | * MirrorMatch: Supergirl several times faces off in battle with her black-clad evil duplicate Satan Girl. |
| 825 | * MirrorSelf: Mordru uses his dark magic to bring back to life to Satan Girl, a copy of Supergirl who is a merciless, murderous psychopath unlike her kind-hearted, compassionate template. Reinforcing her differences, Satan Girl wears black clothes and a cowl. |
| 826 | * MomentKiller: In "The Apokolips Agenda", Superman, [[ComicBook/NewGods Orion and other heroes]] interrupt Kara and Dev right when they are about to make out. |
| 827 | -->'''Dev-Em:''' Would somebody mind telling me really--I mean, really--why all of you had to set off a bomb to get our attention, and why you had to show up here and now, of all times and places? There's a reason we were here alone, you know. I mean, you are aware of that, right? |
| 828 | * MoodWhiplash: In the eleventh chapter of "The Agenda Apokolips", Desaad's torturing device blows up in his face, which gets soot-smudged. It's as funny as it sounds. Then Desaad assembles a mind-raping contraption. |
| 829 | * MookDepletion: Justified in "The Apokolips Agenda". Darkseid puts together a massive, veritable army of super-villains and sends ''all of them'' against the heroes, with the result that there's nobody standing between him and the main characters after they have fought their way through his forces. Nonetheless, his army's purpose wasn't to beat the heroes but ''delay'' them while he fullfilled his plans...which he did. |
| 830 | * {{Mooks}}: Apokolips' infantry and shock troops. Darkseid can raise hundreds of them at any time, and they're beaten senseless by the main heroes just as fast. Exemplified with the opening of the eight chapter of "The Apokolips Agenda", where three Kryptonians are enough to drive 1,000 Para-Demons back. |
| 831 | * MsFanservice: Satan Girl has a strong sex drive with absolutely no morals holding her back, thinks nothing of stripping herself in public and is more than willing to use her body to manipulate people. |
| 832 | * TheMultiverse: A central theme. The Supergirl of Earth-1.5 -''Kara of Rokyn''- alters the outcome of the Crisis, a deed which saves the infinite parallel universes and spawns new parallel dimensions, Earth-1.75 -''Hellsister Trilogy''- and Earth-2.5 -''A Force of Four''- among them, whose heroes every so often interact with each other. |
| 833 | * MundaneUtility: |
| 834 | ** Superman finds a new use for his super-breath: |
| 835 | --->Clark Kent, in a black tux, held onto Lois with one arm, waved with the other, and winked at Linda. She smiled shyly at him. Linda didn't have to guess whose super-breath had guided those flowers just where he'd wanted them. |
| 836 | ** Dev-Em uses his heat-vision to burn the sleep out of his eyes. |
| 837 | --->"Kara?", he mumbled, using heat-vision to get the sleep out of his eyes and hoping he didn't burn the furniture. |
| 838 | * MurderByInaction: In the chapter 31 of "The Apokolips Agenda", Superman and Supergirl coerce Lex Luthor and Dr. Sivana into cooperating with the heroes by threatening to go away and let Darkseid kill both villains. |
| 839 | -->"This place is being monitored," she said. "That's not surprising. But I'll bet we only have a short time here before Darkseid sees us and destroys it."\ |
| 840 | Luthor sighed. "Exactly. Can you save us?"\ |
| 841 | "We could do a quid pro quo," said Kal. "Your lives in return for information and help."\ |
| 842 | "Oh, balderdash," said Sivana. "Everyone knows you heroes don't let anybody die. You're just like [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} the Big Red Cheese]] in that respect. You'll save us in the final reel."\ |
| 843 | "Guess again," said Kara, in a quiet voice. "I've had to kill twice, already. And I did.\ |
| 844 | "Kara!" Superman looked as though someone had shoved 90-proof Green K in his face.\ |
| 845 | "I was forced to do it," continued Supergirl. "The first time, I had to choose between that and the universe. The second time, I had to save my own life. I wouldn't kill you, Lex. But with what we're facing, in as little time as we've got...I might just run off and leave you to your own devices." |
| 846 | * MustNotDieAVirgin: As she's being overpowered by Satan Girl, Supergirl wonders whether she'll die without ever having made love to her lover. |
| 847 | -->I'll die without ever once having made love to Dev, she told herself, looking at the masked woman who was about to close on her again. |
| 848 | * MySisterIsOffLimits: Superman's first reaction when he finds out about his cousin and Dev-Em's relationship is beating the latter up. Since pummeling Dev pisses Kara off, though, Kal has no option but to grind his teeth and accept their relationship. |
| 849 | * MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Kryptonian suits' indestructibility comes in handy when Supergirl, Power Girl and Superboy wrap Galactic Golem up in their capes in order to hold back the blast caused by its energy body imploding. |
| 850 | -->"HOLD ON!" she screamed, barely heard over the confined explosion. The material of their invulnerable capes blew outward, stretching the fabric, heating up to an incredible degree. It felt like trying to contain an atomic detonation by wrapping a bomb in gauze. Kara saw the strain and astonishment in both her friends’ faces and knew they could see it in her own, as well.\ |
| 851 | But the capes held, and so, miraculously, did they. |
| 852 | * MythologyGag: |
| 853 | ** Kara mentions she once made Lois believe she was married to Superman in ''ComicBook/SupermansGirlFriendLoisLane'' #55. |
| 854 | ** Satan Girl references several former Supergirl's adventures: Red Kryptonite making Supergirl grow a second head in ''ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl'', the birth of Satan Girl in ''ComicBook/TheCondemnedLegionnaires'', and the appearance of Nightflame in ''ComicBook/DemonSpawn''. |
| 855 | ** ComicBook/TheSpectre states it's the second time he rescues Kara after the events of ''ComicBook/WarWorld'' |
| 856 | ** The second story arc makes several references to ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga''. |
| 857 | ** In the third story, Kara mentions her meeting with Lightning Man in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #289. |
| 858 | * NameFromAnotherSpecies: Dev-Em (Kryptonian) is addressed as Dev Emerson when he walks among 20th century humans. |
| 859 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: |
| 860 | ** Satan Girl -Supergirl's evil counterpart with all of her power and nothing of her conscience- and her son Berserker who has been raised by ''Darkseid''. |
| 861 | ** In the third arc, [[ComicBook/TheSandman Destruction of the Endless]] joins the heroes. When the main characters point out that his name isn't reassuring, Destruction explains he is merely the embodiment of change and renewal. |
| 862 | * NearVillainVictory: It happens when Darkseid speaks the Anti-Life Equation, effectively enslaving all sentient beings. He would have won there and then ''forever'', were it not for the fact that Supergirl managed to hypnotize Highfather's daughter into neutralizing Darkseid's words with the Life Equation. |
| 863 | * NeckLift: Kralik and shortly later Galactic Golem grab Kara's neck as attempting to crush her windpipe during the final battle of the Apokoliptian War. |
| 864 | * TheNeedsOfTheMany: Kara and Dev argue because of her unwillingness to let one little girl die to protect their cover during a mission. Dev points out leaders often have to sacrifice a few lives to save a greater number of people. |
| 865 | -->'''Kara Zor-El:''' (shaking her head) Oh, Dev. I thought I knew you better than that. I thought you knew me better than that. If we don't step in to save people from the evil we're fighting, than what in Sheol are we fighting it for?\ |
| 866 | '''Dev-Em:''' Kara, you ever have a chance to read military theory and / or history? In case you don't know, commanders have to make decisions that will endanger some innocents, perhaps even kill them--\ |
| 867 | '''Kara:''' Not me. Not ever.\ |
| 868 | '''Dev:''' --Perhaps even kill them, to save the greater number and achieve the greater objective. You have to hold to the greater objective. You simply have to. There is no escaping that fact. |
| 869 | * NiceGuy: Kara is described as "the kindest, most compassionate member of the Superman Family". She'd never stop trying to help anyone out, no matter what. |
| 870 | * NighInvulnerability: Supergirl can withstand anything less potent than an exploding star. Unfortunately, she keeps running into enemies who are even more powerful than her and able to harm her. |
| 871 | * NobodyCallsMeChicken: Supergirl goads Satan Girl into fighting in the anti-matter universe. Satan Girl tries to not take the bait, but Kara knows which buttons to push. |
| 872 | -->Kara stopped at the warp-gate and looked behind her. Satan Girl had stopped as well, less than a mile behind her. To her credit, she wasn't stupid. She knew that Supergirl was leading her on. And, having Kara's memories, she knew where she was headed.\ |
| 873 | <That is the anti-matter universe,> sent Satan Girl.\ |
| 874 | <Oh, very good,> mocked Kara, smiling like a teacher tutoring her most backward pupil. <Now, if you'll just join me here, I can finish you right off.>\ |
| 875 | The villainess didn't budge. <It'll blow us both to bits if we touch any substance there without force-shields or matter-conversion,> she sent. <I can just wait you out. You'll come back, or you'll be atomized. Either way, I win.>\ |
| 876 | <Oh, will you?>, asked Kara. <I thought for certain that you wanted to tear me apart with your own hands. Except it hasn't been that easy, has it? Maybe you're just not up to it, after all... since you're just a pretty pathetic copy of me.>\ |
| 877 | Satan Girl's expression of hatred, which was about the only one she owned, intensified. <YOU...> she began, and that was all she could get out.\ |
| 878 | <Just one more thing, darling,> sent Kara. <I didn't want to have to tell you this, but we killed Mordru. He's dead. Hope you didn't get attached to him too much.>\ |
| 879 | At that, Supergirl knew she had succeeded. |
| 880 | * NoEndorHolocaust: |
| 881 | ** The narrator makes sure to remark that Supergirl and Satan Girl's final battle happens in an uninhabited solar system. |
| 882 | --->The dark and light half of Kara were smashing each other across the unfamiliar solar system they now occupied. |
| 883 | ** Brought up by Dan Turpin. In order to avoid another "New Gods tearing each other apart and Metropolis down" scenario, he gets in touch with Jimmy Olsen to tell him to get Superman quickly. |
| 884 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: In the final battle, Satan Girl lays a brutal beat-down onto Supergirl. |
| 885 | -->And with that, she cracked a blow to Kara's face that broke her nose.\ |
| 886 | The static-shriek of pain in the telepathic plug was a sonata to Satan Girl. Smiling for the first time in minutes, she followed with another wallop, and another, and another. Four unanswered blows. Kara tried to resist, but her defense was fading.\ |
| 887 | Satan Girl pounded her. Over and over again.\ |
| 888 | [...]\ |
| 889 | <Kara?>\ |
| 890 | Satan Girl hesitated. She had been laying into Supergirl like a butcher on a steer. But she had been so busy in her fantasy that she had taken no notice of what she had really done.\ |
| 891 | Supergirl was not moving.\ |
| 892 | Satan Girl smashed her a few more times, just to make sure. Then she listened for a heartbeat.\ |
| 893 | Nothing. |
| 894 | * NonIndicativeName: The eponymous Hellsister, who the ''trilogy'' is named after, dies at the end of the ''first'' story arc. |
| 895 | * NoodleIncident: In the third arc, Supergirl meets the descendant of the Superman from Earth-Two, which means Kal-L had a son nobody knew about. His scion hints their relationship was troubled, but he doesn't want to talk about it. |
| 896 | -->'''Kara:''' So you're ComicBook/PowerGirl's descendant?\ |
| 897 | '''Kal-L:''' What's this about?\ |
| 898 | '''Kara:''' Was your ancestress Power Girl? I mean, Kara Zor-L?\ |
| 899 | '''Kal-L:''' No, of course not.\ |
| 900 | '''Kara:''' Then, how? I mean, I knew your first Superman just a bit. I never knew he had a I mean--\ |
| 901 | '''Kal-L:''' He had a son.\ |
| 902 | '''Kara:''' I well, I never knew--\ |
| 903 | '''Kal-L:''' They didn't exactly get along. Can we leave it at that? |
| 904 | * NormalFishInATinyPond: Supergirl declares she's getting sick of getting nearly killed every week and expresses the desire to become a normal girl again, how she used to be back in her Kryptonian hometown. Superman argues that they can't retire so easy like that because, even though they were average kids on Krypton, "No one on Earth can do what we can". Hence, other heroes will keep asking them for help every time some cosmic horror drops by Earth. |
| 905 | * NoSavingThrow: |
| 906 | ** Antimatter can destroy anything made of positive matter, which is because nigh-indestructible Satan Girl gets finally killed when she gets dumped into an anti-matter star. |
| 907 | ** Nothing and nobody can dodge or resist Darkseid's Omega Beams. In "The Apokolips Agenda" he's facing several heroes who can survive an exploding nova and outrace light, and his eye beams take ''all of them'' out ''instantly''. |
| 908 | * NoSell: Desaaad's instruments of torture blow up in his face when he tries to use them on Pariah. Pariah smugly reveals he can't be physically damaged. |
| 909 | -->In blackness was where Pariah would have preferred to spend his time. He had one small satisfaction: that Desaad had tried to torture him with a complicated contraption that was supposed to work on him physically, on his nerve cells, and the thing had blown up in his face. Desaad, with blackened face, had said, "Yes. Well, now we'll have to try again, won't we?"\ |
| 910 | Pariah had actually smiled, and said, "I can come to no physical harm." |
| 911 | * NotAMorningPerson: Kara really ''hates'' to wake up early. |
| 912 | -->Linda woke, feeling rested but somewhat woozy, and chalked it up to her usual morning blahs. Supergirl or not, she hated rolling out of bed at 7 a.m. |
| 913 | * NoRomanticResolution: Kara and Dev-Em's relationship was never given a final resolution. ''Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation'' by the same author reveals they had two children but the relationship ended up in heartbreak, Kara never changed her maiden name, there're no records registering their marriage and after a point her diaries stop mentioning Dev-Em altogether. |
| 914 | * NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay: At the second arc's climax, an army of heroes invade Apokolips to stop Darkseid. In order to slow them down, Darkseid resurrects Trigon, who proceeds to turn all of them into stone. However, Kid Eternity, whose power allows him to resurrect a deceased person briefly by saying their name, speaks Jim Corrigan's name before becoming petrified. The Spectre materializes and obliterates Trigon single-handedly. |
| 915 | * NowLetMeCarryYou: In the first arc, Dev-Em saves Supergirl's life, and later she repays the favor by protecting him from Darkseid. |
| 916 | * NowOrNeverKiss: Kara kisses Dev before he leaves for a suicide mission. |
| 917 | -->Kara let Laurel go, and made her way over to Dev. They stood there, fumbling for words, for a few seconds. Then Kara said, "I hope you come back all right, Dev."\ |
| 918 | "Yeah, me too, Karaish. And I hope I've got you to come back to." He reached out a hand, traced her cheekbone gently. She grasped his hand, savoring its physical reality.\ |
| 919 | "If you don't, maybe you know what I feel about you," she said. "Will that be enough for right now?"\ |
| 920 | "It'll do," he said. "But if there's anything that'll get me through this thing... it's knowing there'll be a chance of seeing you again afterward." He paused. "Believe it. That's not a con, this time."\ |
| 921 | She wrinkled her nose. "Oh, Dev. I know when you're doing a con-job. Take this with you."\ |
| 922 | Kara grabbed him around the neck with both arms, pulled him down, and kissed him. They held each other very tightly for several seconds. |
| 923 | [[/folder]] |
| 924 | [[folder:O-S]] |
| 925 | * OddCouple: Crime-fighting pair Kara Zor-El and Dev-Em. One's a kind-hearted, good-natured hero who refuses to cross determined lines. The other is an obnoxious, brash, rude spy who is willing to do whatever is needed to carry his mission forward. |
| 926 | * OfficialKiss: Kara and Dev's first kiss happened when Dev was about to undergo a suicide mission, shortly after their getting together. |
| 927 | * OffingTheOffspring: During the battle between the Earth's heroes and Darkseid's forces, Trigon attempts to kill his daughter Raven after torturing her. |
| 928 | -->Trigon looked out upon an astonished sea of heroes, picked out his daughter Raven, and smiled.\ |
| 929 | He would save her for last. The rest would not take that long. |
| 930 | * OhCrap: Kara has this reaction when she finds out that the child begotten by Mordru and her evil counterpart is serving Darkseid. |
| 931 | -->"We have evidence," said Brainiac 5, slowly, "that Darkseid has the son Mordru fathered with Satan Girl."\ |
| 932 | Kara’s head came up.\ |
| 933 | [...]\ |
| 934 | "But you can see why we wanted you on board for this one."\ |
| 935 | "Frab," she said.\ |
| 936 | Laurel came to stand before her, sympathetically. "Yeah," she said. "My sentiments exactly." |
| 937 | * OldMaid: Brought up by Mrs. Berkowitz, who is worried her twenty-year-old tenant Linda Danvers is clinging to a guy she just met because she's afraid of becoming an old maid. |
| 938 | -->"I see a nice woman like you. 29 and you ain't never been with a man. Am I right?"\ |
| 939 | "That's right," nodded Linda. "Not... before Dev, that is."\ |
| 940 | "So you know this man? How?"\ |
| 941 | Linda drew a breath. "I know this man very well, Mrs. B. A lot more than you'd believe?"\ |
| 942 | "Oh? You do? How, Linda?" She held up her hands again to stop Linda's reply. "Listen to me. Yesterday you go to Mr. Clark Kent's wedding, the nice man whom you met in Metropolis when you was in the orphanage. You were excited, sure, but not like you are today. I even think you were a little sad. Now, today, you're up in the air, your feet don't touch the ground unless they're anchored. You say you met him after the wedding."\ |
| 943 | "That's correct," Linda said.\ |
| 944 | "In other words, this gentleman sweeps you off your feet just after you see two people get married, and you're maybe thinking that you're never going to go to your own wedding in your lifetime. Also correct?"\ |
| 945 | Linda opened her mouth. No words came out.\ |
| 946 | Ida Berkowitz looked at Linda with some pity. |
| 947 | * OmnicidalManiac: Satan Girl destroys worlds for fun. |
| 948 | * OneLetterName: Supergirl and her alternate universe counterpart Power Girl call each other "K", (short for "Kara"). |
| 949 | * OneManArmy: Many heroes and villains fit the description, but Berserker stands out: |
| 950 | -->From one, a moving image sprang forth. A rapidly-moving figure, tearing through the machinery and soldiers of a well-equipped army. Just one man against a horde, and within minutes, that man had won. |
| 951 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted with Kara Zor-El and Kara Zor-L. In order to avoid confusion both women use their codenames or refer to each other as "K". |
| 952 | * OneWordTitle: The first and third arcs are named "Hellsister" and "Hellspawn", respectively. |
| 953 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When the first wave of heroes punch their way in Darkseid's fortress, the Lord of Apokolips smiles. For the first time ever. Which probably means he thinks he has already won. It's so scary all of them rush to attack right away. |
| 954 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: Justified. Although Darkseid is powerful enough to take any hero out, he keeps sending wave after wave of minions to slow the heroes down as he learns the Anti-Life Equation, which would allow him to win without lifting a finger. |
| 955 | * OriginalGeneration: D'Reema, Highfather's non-canonical daughter is kidnapped by Darkseid in order to prevent her from speaking the Life Equation. |
| 956 | * OtherMeAnnoysMe: Lex Luthor of Earth-One can't stand his Earth-Two counterpart; as far as he's concerned, the other Luthor is an ingrate who hasn't gone through his same losses and is unable to appreciate how lucky he is. |
| 957 | -->"Listen now to Luthor of Earth-One," said Brainiac, whose face resembled nothing less than a metallic death's-head. "He shall be our field commander. We have the worlds within our grasp. It is our time, now."\ |
| 958 | "Wait one bloody second!", said one attendee, an older man with red hair. "Who appointed that second-rate lab-rat our spokesman?"\ |
| 959 | Lex Luthor of Earth-One turned, his warsuit primed for action. He recognized the voice. It was his Earth-Two counterpart, the older Luthor who had fought that Earth's Superman. His Man of Steel was dead now, killed in the Crisis. He had never lost his hair. He had never lost a wife or son. On top of that, he had even worked with the Earth-One Luthor, in a joint effort against the two Supermen.\ |
| 960 | The man was a damned ingrate, and Lex was fully in favor of wiping him out with an energy bolt. |
| 961 | * PairTheSpares: This story first breaks up the Supergirl/Brainiac 5 traditional canon romance and then it has Kara fall in love with Kryptonian fellow Dev-Em, and Querl Dox end up with Laurel Kent. |
| 962 | * {{Patricide}}: In "The Apokolips Agenda", Orion blasts his abusive, tyrannical father Darkseid to atoms. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Darkseid transfers her conscience to a cloned body he had previously grown in the event of his defeat.]] |
| 963 | * PeopleJars: Darkseid's minions shoved Satan Girl into one after extracting her baby. |
| 964 | -->'''Satan Girl:''' A woman knows when she no longer carries a child. I know not who took it from me. I was liberated from the prison you had placed me in. The one who took me from it placed me in a coma before I could see his face. I awoke in a large tube, with a red-sun lamp above me and my arms' veins pierced with nutriment tubes. My child was gone... That was all I was wanted for. I tore the needles from my arms and opened the tube's hatch. There was no one in the chamber. |
| 965 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: Satan Girl's son has razed whole worlds. |
| 966 | -->A 3-dimensional hologram sprang into being just over their heads. It picked out a portion of the Milky Way Galaxy, then drew in on several planets in distant but related solar systems. From each planet, in turn, images of carnage, wreckage, destruction emerged. Kara and Dev gazed at them. True, they weren’t strangers to sights such as these. But, still...\ |
| 967 | From one, a moving image sprang forth. A rapidly-moving figure, tearing through the machinery and soldiers of a well-equipped army. Just one man against a horde, and within minutes, that man had won. |
| 968 | * PhysicalGod: The main characters run into plenty of them: |
| 969 | ** In the first arc, the Legion turn to the Greek deities to save Supergirl's life. They meet Zeus, Mercury, Venus, Vulcan and Apollo, and it's mentioned that the other Olympians are "on a day trip to Asgard". |
| 970 | ** In the second arc, they join the New Gods to battle Darkseid. |
| 971 | ** In the third arc, [[ComicBook/TheSandman Destruction of the Endless]], the anthropomorphic personification of self-named cosmic principle allies himself with the heroes. |
| 972 | * PietaPlagiarism: It happens when Dev-Em carries an unconscious and gravely wounded Supergirl in his arms after her climatic battle with her evil duplicate. |
| 973 | -->He peered at the battered Supergirl, held in the grieving Dev-Em's arms. |
| 974 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: Supergirl wears red cape, boots and skirt, and Dev-Em wears a dark blue suit. |
| 975 | * PlanetDestroyer: The main character and her family, per canon. Likewise, Satan Girl has the full power of a Pre-Crisis Kryptonian, with no morals holding her back. At the beginning of the story she knocks a moon off course as a mere test of strength. |
| 976 | * PlayingPossum: Kara artificially stops her heartbeats while Satan Girl is pounding on her, so tricking her counterpart into lowering her guard. |
| 977 | * PopCulturedBadass: Supergirl turns out to be an avid reader of Creator/MichaelMoorcock's books. |
| 978 | * PoseOfSupplication: Black Adam gets into supplicant pose and begs to be spared when Mordru demands his allegiance and displays enough power and willingness to destroy him if Adam refuses. |
| 979 | -->"Spare me!" begged Teth-Adam, who would never have spared a foe himself.\ |
| 980 | "Agree to serve me, then," said Mordru, not giving an iota.\ |
| 981 | Teth-Adam knelt before his new master, touching his forehead to the floor three times. |
| 982 | * PostVictoryCollapse: It happens to Supergirl after every major battle when she passes out due to both the enemy's blows and her pushing her body past her limits. |
| 983 | -->Supergirl, bone-weary, fell out of whatever had been sucking her through its interior and tumbled into solid reality. Rocky ground, sand, a blue sky, ahhh, that was nice, that was very nice indeed. She lay on the ground and was very glad that there was ground to lay on. |
| 984 | * PowerGlows: Darkseid's whole body glows black when he uses his Omega power on Supergirl. |
| 985 | * ThePowerOfTheSun: Under a yellow sun, Supergirl is powerful enough to move planets and time travel under her own power. Likewise, she uses an anti-matter sun to destroy her evil duplicate. |
| 986 | * PoweredArmor: During "The Apokolips Agenda", Supergirl wears a Kryptonite-proof armor suit to counter all Kryptonite-based villains on Darkseid's payroll. |
| 987 | * PrayerIsALastResort: When John Constantine is worried that Kara won't survive the next battle, he resorts to pray -something he seldom does, even though he's quite aware of the existence of gods in the setting-. As it turns out, [[spoiler:his prayer is answered]]. |
| 988 | -->"Hello, I know You're listening," he said. "Sorry to bother You in the middle of the day and all. Look, we're in a bit of a bind. I know y'got summat y'could have against me. Let's not get into that now, all right? I'm not askin' any favors for me, in particular. Well, I'd prefer not to go like instant-start charcoal, but what the hell, excuse me, that just slipped out.\ |
| 989 | "I'm askin' for the kids. If they could be brought through this thing simon-pure, I'd really appreciate it. And the two Action guys, they shouldn't even be in this. Them gettin' their trousers burnt really wouldn't be Marquis of Queensbury. Now, would it?\ |
| 990 | "But the thing I'm really askin'... the thing I'm really askin'... is for Miss, excuse me, Ms. Kara there. And maybe for her guy, too. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not poaching her. But the kid's got something to her. Makes me feel kinda good, hangin' around her. You know what I'm talkin' about? Well, I expect so. She's one solid gal, she is. And from what I've gathered here, she and that Dev guy haven't had much time together. So it'd be really bleedin' improper for one or both of ‘em to catch the night train prematurely, now, wouldn't it? I mean, wouldn't it?\ |
| 991 | "So it's like... if'n You can bring ‘er through this... and maybe her man, too... You've got my marker. For whatever that's worth. I may have walked the fence, but I don't welsh. Ask me mates. I've gone hungry till next week's payday to pay off a bet."\ |
| 992 | Constantine was silent for a second. Kara made no sound at all.\ |
| 993 | "Want me to sweeten the pot? Well, what? All right, I'll go to church. Just once! What else? Ah, lemme see... oh, cripes, I would think of that. I don't really wanna do that. Oh, all right. If you get ‘em both through, I'll... I'll vote for Maggie Thatcher.\ |
| 994 | "But just once!"\ |
| 995 | There was a pause, and a sound of shoes scuffing. Then Constantine said, "Oh, one more thing. If that bloke Rao is anywhere in the block, he better come through for them. He blew it with Krypton. If he blows it with this one, I'll come up there and kick his ruddy pants for him. That's all." |
| 996 | * PrayerPose: At the climax of the war against Mordru, John Constantine is feeling hopeless enough to pray, so he falls to his knees and clasps his hands together. |
| 997 | * PreAssKickingOneLiner: At the climax of the Apokoliptian War, Darkseid wants to "reward" Supergirl for ruining his plans. Unafraid, Kara shows she isn't going down quietly. |
| 998 | -->'''Darkseid:''' Woman. I perceived what you did. You shielded D’reema from my power. You gave her time to speak the Life Equation. Because of you-- because of you-- the power of Anti-Life is lost to me forever. Perhaps. For that, there must be recompense. For that, there must be death.\ |
| 999 | '''Supergirl:''' I’ll settle for yours. |
| 1000 | * PrecisionFStrike: |
| 1001 | ** Kara describes her feelings eloquently when she's told that the Legion needs her still again because Mordru and Satan Girl's son is serving Darkseid. |
| 1002 | --->'''Star Boy:''' But you can see why we wanted you on board for this one.\ |
| 1003 | '''Supergirl:''' Frab.\ |
| 1004 | '''Laurel:''' Yeah. My sentiments exactly. |
| 1005 | ** Supergirl before killing her dark counterpart: |
| 1006 | ---><Hellsister,> said Supergirl, <go to Hell.> |
| 1007 | * PreClimaxClimax: In "Hellspawn" episode 2, Kara and Dev have pre-mission sex just in case. |
| 1008 | -->She stood up. “I’ll give you my answer in bed.”\ |
| 1009 | He got to his feet. “Probably be the best answer I’ll get all week.”\ |
| 1010 | “Maybe not, if you’re lucky.” She took his hand again and they headed for the downlift. “But it might be our last chance for a while.”\ |
| 1011 | And if we’re not lucky this time, she thought, it might be the last chance in our lives. |
| 1012 | * PregnantBadass: Satan Girl is impregnated by Mordru, but it doesn't stop her from fighting the heroes viciously or boasting that she can fight to the death as pregnant. |
| 1013 | -->'''Supergirl:''' (gasping) What do you mean, you lost your baby? Did you have a miscarriage? Remember, you were the one who wanted that fight.\ |
| 1014 | '''Satan Girl:''' (shrieking) Miscarriage! You pathetic lightling. I could bear children even if I were fighting to the death. They took my baby. |
| 1015 | * PreMortemOneLiner: Orion has this to say before blasting Darkseid to atoms: |
| 1016 | -->"This has taken long enough," Darkseid complained. "Will you not simply die?"[...]\ |
| 1017 | "No, father," said Orion. "You will." |
| 1018 | * PressurePoint: During their first engagement with Satan Girl, Dev-Em strikes a point in her neck in order to paralize her. Unfortunately, she shakes the effect off in a matter of seconds. |
| 1019 | -->Satan Girl cried out in pain. <You unmothered little BITCH of a matrix-being!> she yelled. Before she could get out too many more curses, five hard fingers went to a pressure point on her neck.\ |
| 1020 | They were on the end of Dev's hand.\ |
| 1021 | <Grab hold,> he snapped to Kara. Satan Girl's body was going limp, but Kara could tell she'd shake it off within seconds. |
| 1022 | * PrimaryColorChampion: A good number of heroic characters wear primary colors like Superman, Supergirl (blue costume and red cape), Mon-El (red costume and blue cape), Power Girl (white costume, red cape and blue boots), Flash (red and yellow), Orion (red and blue suit)... |
| 1023 | * ThePromise: Supergirl promises Satan Girl to help her find her baby if she stops fighting. Satan Girl tells her to shove it. |
| 1024 | -->But my child is still alive... I can sense that. I just do not know where he is.\ |
| 1025 | '''Supergirl:''' You won't believe this, but I'm sorry. On my honor, I am. And if you will swear to stop this battle, I will help you search for your child. That is my promise.\ |
| 1026 | '''Satan Girl:''' Ohhhhh, don't you wish, Lightsister. I can find my child. After our war, I will find him. Or her. There is nothing left to us now, except the fight. |
| 1027 | * TheProphecy: Orion apparently fullfills the prophecy that he would kill Darkseid... except that he was supposed to kill him under different circumstances. This leads Orion to suspect his father somehow survived before Supergirl reveals Darkseid is still alive in the future. |
| 1028 | * PsychicLink: By the end, both Kara and her clone have developed some kind of mind-link. |
| 1029 | -->Satan Girl looked at her for a second, then threw back her head, opened her mouth wide, and sent forth the blips through her telepathic plug that signified laughter. |
| 1030 | * PsychoSupporter: Satan Girl's son is a blood-thirsty mass-murderer raised by Darkseid who considers it's his duty to ensure that his god's will to conquer everything and enslave everyone be fullfilled. |
| 1031 | * PublicDomainArtifact: The Legion borrows the Spear of Destiny to try to destroy Mordru for good. |
| 1032 | * PubliclyDiscussingTheSecret: Linda Danvers and her adoptive parents attend Clark and Lois' wedding. During the reception, Fred tries to talk his daughter into introduce him to the Leaguers, although he's clever enough to use deliberate euphemisms such like "the team" or "the Gotham guy". |
| 1033 | * PunchedAcrossTheRoom: It happens sometimes: |
| 1034 | ** At the climax of ''The Apokolips Agenda'', when the heroes are racing to stop Darkseid, Supergirl slaps his top minion into a wall. |
| 1035 | --->"Supergirl," said Granny Goodness.\ |
| 1036 | "Shut up, you bitch!" Kara’s hand came out, slapping the side of her face, barely holding her power back, and caromed Granny off the stone wall. The agent of Darkseid slumped to a sitting position, unconscious. |
| 1037 | ** Later, she manages to do this to Darkseid. |
| 1038 | --->There was no way she could gauge his strength now. But there was no time to worry about it. She grabbed Darkseid by the tunic, blasted her heat-vision full-force into his radiant eyes, and was rewarded with a cry of pain even the Lord of Apokolips couldn’t suppress.\ |
| 1039 | Then she hauled off and smashed him across the room. |
| 1040 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: Kara's reaction when she's whisked away from her vacation spot -where she was resting after getting almost killed by Darkseid- by the Legion of Super-Heroes who intends to drag her in another life-or-death struggle. |
| 1041 | -->'''Kara:''' (sighing, crouching and hiding her face) I. Am. Just. Getting. So. Damned. Tired. |
| 1042 | * PunctuationShaker: D'reema, Highfather's daughter. |
| 1043 | * PutOnABus: The Legion Of Super-Heroes and Satan Girl's child are put on a bus after the first arc wraps up and Supergirl travels back to the present day. |
| 1044 | * PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: Satan Girl smiles and giggles maniacally while massacring everything in sight. |
| 1045 | * QuitYourWhining: Mild example. The Legion Of Super-Heroes has forcefully picked up Kara from her own time, and the Girl of Steel complains she's sick of endless life or death battles. Laurel plainly states she never expected to see Kara whining in such a way. |
| 1046 | -->'''Kara:''' That’s Almost Death #2, Then we go back to the 20th and everybody gets into a big gang war with everybody else, and I wind up on Apokolips and save everybody from that damned Anti-Life Equation, and I’m the only one on her feet to fight Darkseid, and he damned near disintegrates me. Almost Death #3. Am I seeing a pattern here? And now... now... you snatch me and Dev from what was supposed to be a peaceful weekend of relaxing and, and seeing the sights, and catching up with old Legion friends and, oh, you know what all else, and now whoomp! I’m in whatever time I’m in, and you say that magic word ‘Darkseid’, and I’m supposed to drop everything and sign up for the latest crusade, and I DON’T WANT TO!\ |
| 1047 | [beat]\ |
| 1048 | '''Kara:''' (sighing, crouching and hiding her face) I. Am. Just. Getting. So. Damned. Tired.\ |
| 1049 | '''Laurel:''' Kara. I never would have believed you would act like this. |
| 1050 | * RagingStiffie: Implied when Mordu's chamberlain sees Satan Girl. |
| 1051 | -->The chamberlain, a black-haired, black-bearded man in an orange tunic and pants, looked upon her with trepidation and male response. |
| 1052 | * RammingAlwaysWorks: Satan Girl rams into a moon in order to push it out of orbit. |
| 1053 | -->She pushed herself off of nothingness, and speeded towards one of those moons, quickly passing light velocity several times over. Satan Girl kept picking up speed, her arms crossed before her face. The white, crater-pocked surface loomed before her, filling her range of vision.\ |
| 1054 | She hit it.\ |
| 1055 | There would have been a tremendous boom, if the moon had had an atmosphere. But it did not, and there was only silence and an awesome impact of body with lunar matter.\ |
| 1056 | Satan Girl had struck the moon at an angle to spin it free of its orbit. She ricocheted away from it, unharmed. |
| 1057 | * ReasoningWithGod: When Supergirl is mortally wounded in battle, Captain Marvel suggests to beg a boon from the gods who grant his powers. The original Captain Marvel warns that begging a favor of them for a mortal is a difficult thing, since they don't regard death the same way that mortals do...but they must try anyway. After a brief argument, Dev-Em manages to talk Zeus into getting her healed. |
| 1058 | * RedemptionRejection: Supergirl promises her EvilTwin to help her find her child if she stops trying to kill her and everyone else. Her counterpart replies she can find her baby on her own and resumes her attack. |
| 1059 | -->'''Supergirl:''' You won't believe this, but I'm sorry. On my honor, I am. And if you will swear to stop this battle, I will help you search for your child. That is my promise.\ |
| 1060 | '''Satan Girl:''' (sneering) Ohhhhh, don't you wish, Lightsister. I can find my child. After our war, I will find him. Or her. There is nothing left to us now, except the fight. -You would not tolerate my existence, nor I yours. I am not capable of your empathy, of your petty virtue. You are not capable of my ruthlessness and power. Come, sister. Let us destroy each other. |
| 1061 | * RedIsHeroic: Legionnaire Dev-Em is a red-head. |
| 1062 | * RedOniBlueOni: Kara is a passionate, hotblooded hero (Red), and her partner Dev-Em is a pragmatic, analytical secret spy (Blue). |
| 1063 | * RelationshipUpgrade: Kara hooks up with Dev in the ninth chapter of the first arc when she slips she's in love with him. |
| 1064 | * RelativeButton: At the height of "The Apokolips Agenda", Darkseid taunts Supergirl with the vision of her cousin and her boyfriend downed by his hand. Supergirl attacks in a rage, but even though she fights bravely and does some harm, she is defeated. |
| 1065 | * RetiredBadass: Destruction of the Endless is a very old, very powerful god who gave up his domain several millennia ago. |
| 1066 | * {{Revenge}}: Nemesis is obsessed with revenge against his mother's killer, Supergirl. The fact that Kara killed in self-defense after Satan Girl tried to kill her half dozen of times is lost on him. |
| 1067 | * RevengeMyopia: Nemesis wants to kill Supergirl to avenge the death of his mother Satan Girl, whom Supergirl killed in self-defense because her evil duplicate was attempting to kill her ''again''. |
| 1068 | * RoguesGallery: Lampshaded by Dev-Em after his bout with the Kryptonite-Man: |
| 1069 | -->'''Dev-Em:''' Oh, Sheol. What a headache. El, tell me. Was that another one of your unending parade of people who want you dead?\ |
| 1070 | '''Superman:''' As a matter of fact, it was, Dev. I can lend you a few, if you'd like to take them home with you. |
| 1071 | * RomanticRunnerUp: Brainiac 5 is handsome, intelligent and well-meaning; however, Kara finds she can't love him back the way he wants to be loved, and falls for dashing but abrasive Dev-Em instead. |
| 1072 | -->'''Brainiac 5:''' The woman I've wanted for most of my life is upstairs now, making love with a man who has nothing of what I have to offer, and I have nothing of what he has to offer. The worst part of it is, I can't even hate him. He's probably good for Kara. The battle's done, to the victor belong the spoils. |
| 1073 | * RousingSpeech: Colossal Boy gives one to Supergirl when he notices her emotional distress caused by their mission to heading into Hell and stopping Mordru. |
| 1074 | -->'''Colossal Boy:''' There's a thing Rabbi Tuchman used to tell us in temple. 'If we stand, God is with us. If we fall, God is still with us. So don't be afraid to fall, but do everything you can to stand.' |
| 1075 | * TheRuinsICaused: Villainous example. After throwing a moon at a starship, Satan Girl watches enthralled while the space ship gets crushed and blows up. |
| 1076 | * RuleOfThree: This story is divided into three story arcs: "Hellsister", "The Apokolips Agenda" and "Hellspawn". The main villains are also a trio: Satan Girl, Mordru and Darkseid. |
| 1077 | * SanDimasTime: Discussed. Kara knows she can technically spend as long as she wants in the 31st century, but she feels she needs to get back to her normal life. |
| 1078 | -->He was only wearing white shorts and was half-covered by the sheet of the bed in her room at Legion Headquarters. "You're really going back today?"\ |
| 1079 | Kara Zor-El walked back into the bedchamber. Hairbrush still in one hand, she bent and hugged him. "I have to, Devian. I still live in the 20th Century. Got to get to work. I was on my way there when the Legion summoned me." She felt the firmness of his naked chest against her and was very glad she had become his lover. Her empty hand stroked the contours of his back. His arms were holding her as well, and she bit her lip to keep passion from overruling judgment.\ |
| 1080 | She could stay with him for a year here, easily. Two years. Longer. But she had a life, otherwhen, and she had to get back to it. |
| 1081 | * SaveTheVillain: Zigzagged when Lex Luthor and Dr. Shivana ask Superman and Supergirl to save them from Darkseid during "The Apokolips Agenda". Superman agrees to rescue them as long as they help them out. Sivana believes Superman is bluffing because heroes feel compelled to save everyone, including villains, but Supergirl retorts that, given the stakes, she's willing to leave them to their devices. At the end, Luthor and Sivana agree to cooperate, and are rescued. |
| 1082 | -->'''Supergirl:''' "This place is being monitored. That's not surprising. But I'll bet we only have a short time here before Darkseid sees us and destroys it."\ |
| 1083 | '''Lex Luthor:''' (sighing) "Exactly. Can you save us?"\ |
| 1084 | '''Superman:''' "We could do a quid pro quo. Your lives in return for information and help."\ |
| 1085 | '''Dr. Sivana:''' "Oh, balderdash. Everyone knows you heroes don't let anybody die. You're just like the Big Red Cheese in that respect. You'll save us in the final reel." |
| 1086 | * SavingTheWorld: Several dozens of heroes come together to prevent cosmic-level villains such like Mordru or Darkseid from enslaving the whole universe. |
| 1087 | * ScrewDestiny: Darkseid cheats his way out of the prophecy foretelling his death at his son Orion's hands by creating spared cloned bodies and making sure that the confrontation happens in his palace and not in the streets of Armagetto. |
| 1088 | * SealedGoodInACan: Legionnaire Wildfire spends one thousand years trapped in an anti-matter star until Supergirl stumbles upon it during one battle, giving Wildfire the opportunity to hitch a ride when she leaves. |
| 1089 | * SecondLove: Kara and Querl break their relationship off, and later they hook up with fellow Legionnaires Dev-Em and Laurel Kent, respectively. |
| 1090 | * SecretIdentityIdentity: Supergirl is torn between both of their identities until she decides to ditch her "Linda Danvers" persona and become Supergirl full time. |
| 1091 | * SecretKeeper: Fred and Edna Danvers know their daughter Linda is Supergirl, and they also know Clark Kent's real identity. Fred thinks he is able to guess Batman's identity, since he met him once, but Linda warns her father against getting too nosy. |
| 1092 | -->'''Fred Danvers''': "I never thought he'd finally do it, Linda. But tell me something, will you?"\ |
| 1093 | '''Linda Danvers:''' "What's that, Dad?"\ |
| 1094 | '''Fred Danvers:''' "I know who he is. And I know who you are. But are some of these guys and ladies around here, maybe, well--part of the team?"\ |
| 1095 | '''Linda Danvers:''' (innocently) "What team is that, Dad?"\ |
| 1096 | '''Fred Danvers:''' "You know what team. It'd be really fun if you took me up to shake hands with some of them. Now, it's not like I want to know which ones they are. But you know, I have met the Gotham guy. And I'll bet I could guess which one he is, if I tried. Is it kind of like the Mafia? Do you say, 'This is a friend of mine'?"\ |
| 1097 | '''Linda Danvers:''' "Dad, I've gotta tell you. Whenever we think somebody's getting too curious, we have to take him to the guy from Coast City. And the Coast City guy has to use that thing on his finger to go over your mind like a Disk Doctor over a hard drive, and purge out those curiosity bumps. After it was done, you wouldn't even remember everyone that was here."\ |
| 1098 | '''Fred Danvers:''' "Hmph. You guys used to have to go through such stupid stunts to keep your secrets secret."\ |
| 1099 | '''Linda Danvers:''' "That was before we met the guy from Coast City." |
| 1100 | * SeeYouInHell: As she's hurling her evil duplicate Satan Girl into an anti-matter sun, the Maid of Might says, "Hellsister, go to Hell." |
| 1101 | * SelfMadeOrphan: Subverted. Orion attempts very, very dark to make himself fatherless, and he believes he succeeds in obliterating him, but Kara reveals that Darkseid faked his death because he is fought by the Legion in the far future. |
| 1102 | * SequelHook: At the very end of ''Hellsister'' it's revealed that Darkseid was the one who kidnapped Satan Girl and Mordru's baby with the aim of raising him into his perfect and utterly loyal weapon. |
| 1103 | * ShadowArchetype: Satan Girl is Supergirl's evil duplicate, fashioned from her dark impulses with nothing of her humanity or compassion. It disturbs Kara that vicious, hateful, blood-thirsty mass-murderer with her face and her world-breaking powers was spawned from her. |
| 1104 | -->Supergirl had been rocketed backward in the starry void by the collision with Satan Girl. Unlike Black Adam, Satan Girl didn't bounce off her opponent or waste time with an introduction. She stayed with Kara, grappling, punching, kicking, and scratching. Kara was aghast. She'd been in tough fights before, even against Satan Girl herself, but the viciousness of her cloneling's attack was like that of a rabid leopard.\ |
| 1105 | The worst part of it was looking at Satan Girl's face. Her own face. Twisted in hatred and fury, brimming with viciousness and lust, void of mercy or love. Her Dark Side.\ |
| 1106 | With all of her world-staggering power.\ |
| 1107 | Kara would sooner have been grappling with a Kryptonian rattlesnake. |
| 1108 | * ShellShockedVeteran: After spending fourteen years fighting endlessly crooks, villains and eldritch abominations day after day, Kara is finally getting burned out. To the point that, when the adult Legion of Super-Heroes comes along to drag her into another life or death battle, Kara has a break-down. |
| 1109 | -->'''Dev-Em:''' Kara. Will you shut up and let them talk?\ |
| 1110 | '''Kara:''' I will not shut up and they can damned well talk after I’m finished! And I’m not finished! I serve in the Crisis and I almost die, I get my guts torn open, and luckily I get helped out by another Supergirl and healed by Raven. Almost Death #1. Then the Legion, my Legion, has me come to the 30th and I have to go to Hell and fight Mordru, and Satan Girl almost beats me to death. I still don’t know how Dev brought me back, but I’m thankful he did. Thank you, Dev.\ |
| 1111 | '''Dev-Em:''' You’re welcome.\ |
| 1112 | '''Kara:''' Shut up! That’s Almost Death #2, Then we go back to the 20th and everybody gets into a big gang war with everybody else, and I wind up on Apokolips and save everybody from that damned Anti-Life Equation, and I’m the only one on her feet to fight Darkseid, and he damned near disintegrates me. Almost Death #3. Am I seeing a pattern here? And now... now... you snatch me and Dev from what was supposed to be a peaceful weekend of relaxing and, and seeing the sights, and catching up with old Legion friends and, oh, you know what all else, and now whoomp! I’m in whatever time I’m in, and you say that magic word ‘Darkseid’, and I’m supposed to drop everything and sign up for the latest crusade, and I DON’T WANT TO!\ |
| 1113 | [beat]\ |
| 1114 | '''Kara:''' (sighing, crouching and hiding her face) I. Am. Just. Getting. So. Damned. Tired. |
| 1115 | * ShipperOnDeck: Kara ships Clark and Lois and is glad when they finally get married. Kara admitted to Lois she attempted get them together previously. |
| 1116 | -->'''Linda:''' But I finally told Lois about how I'd tried to get her and him together once, without showing my hand, and she cracked up. She said, 'That's just like what he'd do! You're a real member of the family, all right.' |
| 1117 | * ShippingTorpedo: Superman does NOT approve of his cousin Supergirl dating Dev-Em, a former bully/delinquent who used to make his life harder -just for the Hell of it- way back when Kal-El was ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and a Legionnaire. Dev has cleaned up his act since, but he's still a jerkass who is ''not'' good enough for Kara as far as Kal-El is concerned. Unfortunately Kara is quite smitten with Dev, so Kal has to accept their relationship, like or not. |
| 1118 | * ShiplessFasterThanLightTravel: A lot of characters -Supergirl and all Kryptonians, Mon-El...- have the power to travel faster-than-light, which they use to move quickly through time, space and even other dimensions: |
| 1119 | -->She pushed herself off of nothingness, and speeded towards one of those moons, quickly passing light velocity several times over. |
| 1120 | * ShipSinking: Dark Mark sinks traditional Legion couple Kara/Querl in order to make way for Kara/Dev. |
| 1121 | * ShipTease: The story starts out with Clark Kent and ComicBook/LoisLane's wedding. Later on, there's plenty ship-teasing and longing glances between Kara and Dev before they get together. |
| 1122 | * ShockwaveClap: In the beginning of "The Apokolips Agenda", Superman knocks a whole legion of Para-Demons out of the sky with a mere, ''powerful'', ''ear-shattering'' clap. |
| 1123 | -->Superman had smashed his great hands together in an impact that almost deafened the New Gods who hovered too near to him. The shockwave from the crash buffeted a flying legion of Para-Demons. |
| 1124 | * ShootingSuperman: When Satan Girl attacks a space ship, the crew fire their weapons at her, notice they are useless, and fire again. |
| 1125 | * ShowerOfLove: Kara guarantees a hot shower is everything she needs to talk Dev-Em into something. She's right. |
| 1126 | -->Afterward, lying beside him, she stroked his hair and said, "You're coming back with me."\ |
| 1127 | "Will not."\ |
| 1128 | "Bet you I can convince you."\ |
| 1129 | "I shudder to ask how, Kara. So... how, Kara?"\ |
| 1130 | She leaned closer and whispered in his ear, "The showers in these rooms are marvelous, Dev. Really, they are." She kissed his ear.\ |
| 1131 | By the time they used the heattowels to get the last of the water off, she looked at him and said, "Well?"\ |
| 1132 | He sighed. "All right, Kara. One week." |
| 1133 | * ShutUpHannibal: At the climax of the Apokoliptian War, Darkseid intends to "reward" Supergirl for ruining his scheme. Kara's reply to the God of Tyranny is a boot to the face. |
| 1134 | -->He advanced on her. "Woman," he said. "I perceived what you did. You shielded D'reema from my power. You gave her time to speak the Life Equation. Because of you-- because of you-- the power of Anti-Life is lost to me forever. Perhaps. For that, there must be recompense. For that, there must be death."\ |
| 1135 | "I'll settle for yours," said Kara, and, quicker than Darkseid could react, she gave him a red-booted foot in the face. He tumbled backwards. |
| 1136 | * SiblingMurder: Variant. Supergirl kills her evil twin duplicate in self-defense after Satan Girl attempts to kill her one half dozen of times and proves she cannot be locked up or talked down. |
| 1137 | * SingleLineOfDescent: In the 30th century, Laurel Kent is the only one surviving member of Superman's bloodline. |
| 1138 | * SlashedThroat: Satan Girl attempts to tear through Supergirl's throat with her sharp teeth during a battle. |
| 1139 | * TheSlowPath: After the war against the Anti-Monitor, the Legion believe Wildfire has been killed in action and go back to the 30th century. Nonetheless, Wildfire did not die. His energy body became stuck in an antimatter star, and he remained there for one thousand years until Supergirl gave Wildfire an opportunity to hitch a ride. |
| 1140 | * SmallStepsHero: Kara jeopardizes an undercover mission to save an innocent girl from her evil duplicate. |
| 1141 | -->'''Dev-Em:''' Frab the innocent! You endangered us all with your actions, Kara. Me. Laurel. Cham. Dawnstar. Yourself. If I'd been a hair later with my pickups, we'd have had Ar-Ual and Adam to deal with, too. Plus all of Zerox. Think you could take on a planet of magicians? By yourself?\ |
| 1142 | '''Kara:''' Listen, Dev, and listen damn good. I am not a spy. I'm a super-heroine, and a Legionnaire, and a human being. Do you think I could have let a little girl die, at the hands of my own clone? Do you think I could ever have lived with myself if that happened?\ |
| 1143 | '''Laurel:''' Kara's right, Dev. We can't abandon people in danger just because of your mission. Even one like this. |
| 1144 | * SnarkToSnarkCombat: Interactions between Superman and Dev-Em usually come down to this: |
| 1145 | -->'''Dev-Em:''' Oh, Sheol. What a headache. El, tell me. Was that another one of your unending parade of people who want you dead?\ |
| 1146 | '''Superman:''' As a matter of fact, it was, Dev. I can lend you a few, if you'd like to take them home with you. |
| 1147 | * TheSociopath: Satan Girl is a sadistic and unrepentant monster bereft of any sort of empathy who gets her kicks out of gleefully murdering people by the boatload, thinks her powers put her above pesky concepts like morality, and isn't above of exploiting her charms to manipulate others. |
| 1148 | * SomeKindOfForceField: Supergirl is heading towards Darkseid's headquarters' cells when she runs into something invisible forcing her back, and acknowledges it has to be some kind of force-field. |
| 1149 | -->Kara descended straight towards the cells of Darkseid’s headquarters, one of which was bound to contain D’reema...\ |
| 1150 | ...and slammed into a resistant force so hard she thought she’d broken her ankles. It did cause a crack in the lead shielding over her feet, and she quickly bent to repair it before the pervading K-radiation could weaken her.\ |
| 1151 | A force-field. It had to be. Possibly something Darkseid cooked up with his Omega Effect. Ruefully, she admitted he wouldn’t be dumb enough to leave his most valued prisoner undefended against Kryptonians. |
| 1152 | * SoProudOfYou:Right before the final battle against Darkseid, [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol Steve Dayton]] makes sure that his son [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Changeling]] knows both he and his wife are proud of him: |
| 1153 | -->Changeling was at Steve's side immediately. "Don't worry, Dad. We'll take care of you, no matter what happens. I'll make sure of that, and so will the Titans."\ |
| 1154 | Steve lay an arm across Gar’s shoulders. "I know you will, son. What I feel for what you and Raven did for me goes beyond gratitude. And even though she’s not here to confirm it, I think we both know Rita would be proud of you." |
| 1155 | * SoulPower: Mordru uses his magic to draw Supergirl's dark side out of her body and give it a physical body. |
| 1156 | * SpaceBase: Mordru has his palace/lair/villainous base on planet Zerox. |
| 1157 | * SpaceOpera: The story features ''several'' interplanetary wars in the far future, set off by the ambitions of planet-destroying evil sorcerers and evil gods. |
| 1158 | * SpannerInTheWorks: During the Apokoliptian War, Darkseid is always at least three steps ahead of his enemies, and he comes very close to win. His plan only fails because of one factor he couldn't have foreseen: Supergirl being next to D'reema right when he spoke the Anti-Life Equation. Before succumbing to the Anti-Life Equation, which destroys Free Will, Kara had just enough time to hypnotize D'Reema into speaking the opposite Equation, thus cancelling out its effects. |
| 1159 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: Lex Luthor of Earth-Two, killed off by Brainiac in the original canon, survives thanks to Darkseid. |
| 1160 | * SpeedBlitz: At the height of the Apokoliptian War, a group of heroes manage to break into Darkseid's headquarters. Granny Goodness barely has time to notice Supergirl's presence before the Maid of Might angrily slaps Granny into a wall. |
| 1161 | * SpellMyNameWithAThe: Subverted because Kara is not so cocky as to add "the" to her codename, but Nemesis always refers to her as "the" Supergirl. |
| 1162 | * StalkerWithACrush: Querl Dox is still in love with Kara Zor-El, but he has to accept she doesn't love him back. |
| 1163 | * TheStinger: The post-credit scene in the end of ''Hellsister'' reveals who stole Satan Girl's child: Darkseid. |
| 1164 | * StormingTheCastle: At the climax of the second arc, Supergirl and several more heroes storm Darkseid's stronghold to stop him from speaking the Anti-Life Equation and enslaving the entire universe forever. |
| 1165 | * StoryBreakerPower: Although virtually every Pre-Crisis hero and villain is featured in this story, The Spectre being the omnipotent embodiment of Divine Wrath means he has to be used ''very'' sparingly. So, he sits out of two major cosmic conflicts, and his two brief appearances amount to save one hero ''after'' Mordru has been dealed with and destroy Trigon single-handedly and then vanishing as the heroes confront Darkseid. |
| 1166 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: In the third arc, Supergirl recognizes an older Shadow Lass because of her black, barely-covers-anything-at-all, bikini-like suit. |
| 1167 | * StrongAndSkilled: Kara has the full Kryptonian powerset and is an experienced fighter. Dev-Em is also Kryptonian and he's a cop and spy who knows all kind of fighting styles. |
| 1168 | * StrongGirlSmartGuy: Brainiac 5, supreme scientist, inventor and tactician, gets romantically involved with Laurel Kent, a physically powerful Kryptonian hybrid. |
| 1169 | * StunnedSilence: Kara and her boyfriend Dev-Em are left speechless when Kara's father asks during one dinner when they are getting married. |
| 1170 | * SubspaceAnsible: Flight Rings provide instantaneous galaxy-wide communication for the Legion of Super-Heroes. |
| 1171 | * SummonBiggerFish: In "The Apokolips Agenda", Darkseid resurrects Trigon in order to slow down the heroes. In response, Kid Eternity brings Jim Corrigan back to life. Cue The Spectre materializing and killing Trigon with a single blow. |
| 1172 | * SuperBreath: Superman makes a quite humorous display of it: |
| 1173 | -->Clark Kent, in a black tux, held onto Lois with one arm, waved with the other, and winked at Linda. She smiled shyly at him. Linda didn't have to guess whose super-breath had guided those flowers just where he'd wanted them. |
| 1174 | * SuperheroSpeciation: Invoked. The Legion need a Kryptonian powerset in the team but they can't bring Superboy in so they summon Supergirl instead. |
| 1175 | * SuperheroesWearCapes: A large number of heroes -Superman, Supergirl, Power Girl, Superboy, Mon-El, Princess Projectra, Batman, Mister Miracle, the Spectre...- wear cape. Out of all members of the Super-Family, Dev-Em is the only to not wear one. |
| 1176 | * SuperIntelligence: Both Kryptonian cousins have this power. At one point, Supergirl states their super-hypnotism is really a skill which stems from their advanced brain patterns combined with their super-vision. |
| 1177 | * SupernormalBindings: The Legion has developed Kryptonite-shackles to restrain Kryptonians like Ar-Ual and similar beings like Satan Girl. |
| 1178 | * SuperpowerLottery: Superman and Supergirl are the most powerful heroes by far: they can move planets, fly faster than light, tank exploding stars, time travel... unfortunately their enormous power guarantees they can't lead normal lives since everyone turns to them every time something big comes up. |
| 1179 | * SuperPowerMeltdown: Supergirl defeats the Galactic Golem by wrapping him up with her cape, Power Girl's and Superboy's and then punching the radiation-leaking starburst on his forehead. Her blow sets off an explosion which could have destroyed the whole city, but fortunately the Golem's meltdown was constrained by their indestructible Kryptonian capes. |
| 1180 | -->The Golem lived on what Luthor termed "galactic energy", which power boosted his considerably beyond Superman's. In their first encounter, Kal had learned that bashing the white starburst on the Golem's forehead would have exploded it, but would also have destroyed a good part of the city and possibly the state if he had done so. |
| 1181 | * SuperReflexes: Supergirl's superhuman speed is coupled with likewise fast reaction times. |
| 1182 | -->Supergirl had sent her super-vision ahead of her, for caution’s sake. The images she saw arrived in her brain only a fraction of a second before her body arrived on the scene of Darkseid’s den. But it was time enough to be effective. |
| 1183 | * SuperSenses: Supergirl, Superman, Dev-Em, Satan Girl... have heightened senses as part of the Kryptonian powerset: telescopic vision, microscopic vision, infrared vision, XRayVision, super-hearing... |
| 1184 | -->Supergirl had sent her super-vision ahead of her, for caution’s sake. The images she saw arrived in her brain only a fraction of a second before her body arrived on the scene of Darkseid’s den. But it was time enough to be effective. |
| 1185 | * SuperSpeed: Supergirl displays this power in the first chapter when she travels to the future by flying faster than light. |
| 1186 | -->Within five seconds, she performed her ablutions in the bathroom, did her hair and makeup, zipped on deodorant and a mild perfume, threw on her Supergirl uniform, and was out of the building at super-speed.\ |
| 1187 | The air friction formed a corona of fire around her as she streaked invisibly through the skies. She ignored it.\ |
| 1188 | Supergirl burst out of the ionosphere, vibrating at a certain frequency, still accelerating. An IFF device in her belt identified her to American and Russian radar trackers as the Girl of Steel, not an ICBM. They only registered her for a few seconds, anyway.\ |
| 1189 | The reaches of near-space gave way to the unsettling kaleidoscope of time-flux. It wasn't that hard to do, Kara reflected, if you knew how and had enough power and speed to do it Superman had had to drill her for a week before she could pop out with pinpoint accuracy at a targeted time.\ |
| 1190 | A subseries of flight ring pulses signalled to her the date and time from which the alert was being sent. She rocketed on, well past the speed of light.\ |
| 1191 | [...]\ |
| 1192 | The red-caped woman sighed without breath, reduced velocity to Mach 12, and sped into the atmosphere. |
| 1193 | * SuperStrength: Several characters including the main character, her evil duplicate -who displays this power when she smashes one moon out of orbit- and other Kryptonians or Daxamites, but it is told that Darkseid is strong enough to crush any of them. |
| 1194 | -->She pushed herself off of nothingness, and speeded towards one of those moons, quickly passing light velocity several times over. Satan Girl kept picking up speed, her arms crossed before her face. The white, crater-pocked surface loomed before her, filling her range of vision.\ |
| 1195 | She hit it.\ |
| 1196 | There would have been a tremendous boom, if the moon had had an atmosphere. But it did not, and there was only silence and an awesome impact of body with lunar matter.\ |
| 1197 | Satan Girl had struck the moon at an angle to spin it free of its orbit. She ricocheted away from it, unharmed. |
| 1198 | * SuperSupremacist: Satan Girl firmly believes Kryptonians -including Kryptonian clones as herself- and Daxamites are virtually gods thanks to their powers, but they're held back by their pitiful morality. "Luckily", she doesn't have that "problem". |
| 1199 | -->For Kryptonians and Daxamites were gods, off their homeworlds. They really were. What a pity their morality forced them not to realize that fact. |
| 1200 | * SuperToughness: Supergirl can shrug an exploding star off. Yet still, when she punches Darkseid in the face with one of her super-strong blows, he just ''takes'' it. |
| 1201 | -->She sped towards him again, ducking under the twin eye-blasts that came from him, and rocked his world with an uppercut that would have taken off the top of a mountain. To his credit, Darkseid was tough enough to take it, but went off his pins again. |
| 1202 | * SurprisinglySuddenDeath: At the start of "The Apokolips Agenda", Brainiac is calmly addressing a gathering of super-villains when he gets abruptly blasted from behind by Darkseid, who has just teleported himself in the place to announce he's in charge of operations now. Every villain nervously agrees. |
| 1203 | [[/folder]] |
| 1204 | [[folder:T-Z]] |
| 1205 | * TailorMadePrison: Satan Girl is shackled and locked up in a prison cube. The walls are made of inertron and there's trace of Kryptonite in her shackles. |
| 1206 | -->Within her prison cube, Satan Girl seethed. Even at her full power, these metal walls would be proof against her. And, thanks to the trace of Kryptonite in her shackles, she was hardly at her full power. |
| 1207 | * TakenForGranite: In "The Apokolips Agenda", [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Trigon]] turns every hero and villain in the battlefield to stone. Fortunately, one of them resists the transformation for long enough to summon The Spectre, who deals with Trigon and undoes his spell. |
| 1208 | -->In the second of these encounters, Trigon had turned most of the heroes of Earth to stone. That was what he was doing now, and not all the magical power of the many mages in their company nor all the science-based might of the other heroes was able to stop him. Dr. Fate, Halo, Captain Atom, Green Arrow, Batman, all the rest, all the heroes, all the villains, all of them were petrified in their tracks. |
| 1209 | * TakeOverTheWorld: "The Apokolips Agenda" sees Darkseid put in motion his plan for universal domination. He comes real close to succeed because of the Anti-Life Equation, but he is stopped by an army of heroes. |
| 1210 | * TakingYouWithMe: Invoked at the second arc's climax, when Supergirl faces up to Darkseid, aware that he will most likely kill her, but determined to try and to take him with her. |
| 1211 | -->Kara struggled to bring herself up, to land a last blow that would take Darkseid’s life. She hated herself for doing it, but if she was to die, she would take the Dark Lord down with her. |
| 1212 | * TalkingInBed: At the beginning of "Apokolips Now", Scott Free wakes up at night. His wife Barda asks if he's having nightmares again. He replies is having another kind of bad dreams... such like Darkseid watching them. |
| 1213 | * TearsOfJoy: Once Kara's been cured and her life isn't in danger anymore after her battle with Satan Girl, her boyfriend Dev-Em cries with happiness. |
| 1214 | -->She was still asleep, but she was resting soundly. Dev went on one knee, cradling her in his arms. He was crying. |
| 1215 | * TechnicalPacifist: Kara and the Legion actually try to imprison Satan Girl... then she is released, makes clear she won't stop until seeing Kara dead, and Supergirl is forced to fight to the death. |
| 1216 | * TechnoBabble: Brainiac-5 is prone to rambling about complicated science terms which nobody but him understands. |
| 1217 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Superman and Dev-Em don't like each other. Like, ''at all''. Dev-Em bullied Kal-El when he was ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, attempted to frame up him for vandalism and got away with it. He's reformed since, but he's still a jerkass, and he's dating Superman's beloved cousin. Yet still they try to fight together during the War, albeit it's clear they can't stand each other. |
| 1218 | * TeleportInterdiction: Darkseid disrupts the warp gate transporting Supergirl back to the world of living, making her land right in front of Satan Girl. |
| 1219 | * TemptingFate: The second story arc has Kara saying she would like to move to the future so she doesn't have to keep fighting super-villains. Cue the Legion dragging her to the 31st century all of sudden in the third arc because they need her help to fight Darkseid and Nemesis. |
| 1220 | * TheirFirstTime: Kara loses her virginity to Dev-Em after the war against Mordru is over. |
| 1221 | * ThereCanBeOnlyOne: Supergirl and Satan Girl fight each other for the last time. Supergirl offers to help her evil counterpart find her missing child if Satan Girl stops fighting, but Satan Girl rebukes her: they're doomed to fight until there's only one left. |
| 1222 | --><Ohhhhh, don't you wish, Lightsister,> sneered the dark woman. <I can find my child. After our war, I will find him. Or her. There is nothing left to us now, except the fight. You would not tolerate my existence, nor I yours. I am not capable of your empathy, of your petty virtue. You are not capable of my ruthlessness and power. Come, sister. Let us destroy each other.> |
| 1223 | * ThereWasADoor: At the climax of "The Apokolips Agenda", Superman and other heroes forgo any semblance of subtlety and restraint and tear their way through the roof and walls surrouding Darkseid's chamber. Justified because they were almost out of time to save the ''universe''. |
| 1224 | -->The second thing that happened was the arrival of Superman, Dev-Em, Captain Action, and Action Boy, tearing apart what remained of the roof and the rooms above Darkseid's chamber. Kal and Dev had used their X-ray visions to pinpoint his location, and smashed their way to his darkened room. A few seconds beforehand, they wouldn't have been able to breach the force-field with all their combined strength. Now, four fists struck, and the door and wall around it crumbled. Power Girl got there an instant afterward. |
| 1225 | * TheseHandsHaveKilled: Supergirl kills her evil duplicate in self-defence, after Satan Girl attempted to kill her several times and proved she would break out every time she was locked up, but her demise weighs on her mind. |
| 1226 | * ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: At the climax of ''The Apokolips Agenda'', the heroes are in a hurry to stop Darkseid from enslaving the universe by speaking the Anti-Life Equation, and Supergirl is clearly not in the mood for word-mincing when she runs into his top minion. |
| 1227 | -->'''Granny Goodness:''' Supergirl.\ |
| 1228 | '''Supergirl:''' (slapping) Shut up, you bitch! |
| 1229 | * ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: The Spectre gets Supergirl out of Hell after she has managed to destroy Mordru for good. When Kara asks why he didn't intervene earlier, The Spectre answers he wasn't allowed to interfere unless she was defeated because it was deemed she had to achieve victory by her own means. |
| 1230 | * ThisIsUnforgivable: Supergirl gets through one week of endless life-threatening battles during "The Apokolips Agenda" because Darkseid's machinations. However, it's when the Dark Lord almost kills her cousin, her counterpart and her lover that Kara decides she has had enough of him. |
| 1231 | -->'''Supergirl:''' I've been through hell and a half in this last week. I've fought Blackstarr, Eclipso, the Zoners, Kralik, the Golem, and I'm probably leaving some out. I almost got zombified because of you. Now you've hurt the man I love, and my cousin, and my friends. I didn't want to do this. I didn't want to do any of it. I hate fighting. But I promise you, Darkseid, if you don't restore them and surrender, you're never getting up from this floor in one piece. I swear it! |
| 1232 | * ThouShaltNotKill: Subverted. Supergirl has to face up to the likes of her own evil counterpart, Mordru and Darkseid, so she's willing to break her rule. |
| 1233 | -->'''Dev-Em:''' Kara, you ever have a chance to read military theory and / or history? In case you don't know, commanders have to make decisions that will endanger some innocents, perhaps even kill them--\ |
| 1234 | '''Kara:''' Not me. Not ever. |
| 1235 | * ThwartedCoupDeGrace: At the climax of ''The Apokolips Agenda'', Darkseid has curbstomped Supergirl and is about to deliver the killing blow when his son Orion suddenly shows up from behind and blasts Darkseid into atoms. |
| 1236 | * TimeDilation: Supergirl travels back and forth between the present day and the 31st century several times by flying faster than light. |
| 1237 | * TimeStandsStill: Kryptonians are able to move and think so fast that the world around them seems to slow down to a crawl. |
| 1238 | -->Even though only three seconds had gone by between Kara's red boots touching the dirt of the ancient arena and the first blow being struck, it was enough time for her to size up her adversary, her surroundings, and her situation.\ |
| 1239 | Time slowed down, subjectively, for normal human beings in a crisis situation. It gave you time to react in a way that might save your life.\ |
| 1240 | Kryptonians were no different. Except that, under suns that weren't red, their senses were much superior to that of a normal human's, and their memory capacity so much greater. Their motive ability was beyond lightspeed. When activated, their reaction time rivalled that of The Flash.\ |
| 1241 | So Kara had the time to note the presence of about 8,500 people packed into the stands. |
| 1242 | * TimeTravel: Supergirl travels several times to the future. |
| 1243 | * TimeTravelRomance: Supergirl travels to the 30th century, meets Dev-Em and falls for him. |
| 1244 | * TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Simultaneously played straight and lampshaded by the narrator in the first chapter. |
| 1245 | -->Ten centuries in the future, this will happen. Let us say that it did happen, to make our story easier to relate. |
| 1246 | * TitleDrop: It happens at the end of the "Hellsister" story arc when Supergirl destroys her evil counterpart: |
| 1247 | --><Hellsister,> said Supergirl, <go to Hell.> |
| 1248 | * TogetherInDeath: Invoked when Dev-Em tells [[PhysicalGod Zeus]] that he has two options: get someone save Supergirl's life or let him die alongside her. |
| 1249 | -->'''Dev-Em:''' Not so fast, Great One. All I'm asking for is a fair exchange. If you heal Kara, you can have the rock with my compliments. If you don't... If you don't, I could say that we'd tear the place up and fight you, and we're pretty strong in our own right. But that wouldn't get us what we want, and we'd probably lose in the long run. So, if you don't want to deal, all I ask is that you let me die alongside her. ‘Cause I really don't want to go on without Kara. |
| 1250 | * TooDumbToLive: Desaad knows his merciless and powerful master has absolutely no sense of humor and still makes jokes using his name to Darkseid's face. Desaad was promptly speared through his midsection and obliterated. |
| 1251 | * TookALevelInKindness: Dev-Em goes from smug bully to who puts others down to selfless hero who cares for and protects the innocent. |
| 1252 | * TortureTechnician: Darkseid's Chief Torturer Desaad, who tortures information regarding the Anti-Life Equation out of Pariah. |
| 1253 | -->That had led Desaad down the right track. For tortures of the mind can be even worse than tortures of the body, and Apokolips has mind-probers aplenty. |
| 1254 | * ToTheFutureAndBeyond: In ''Hellspawn'', Kara and Dev are forcefully pulled to the 30th century, but eighteen years after the period they usually travel to and from. |
| 1255 | * TranquilFury: Darkseid informs Supergirl in a very calm, cool fashion that he is aware that her interference ruined his plans and he's going to kill her now. |
| 1256 | * TranslationConvention: In the 31st century, the galaxy's common language appears to be English, at least from the reader's perspective. |
| 1257 | * TrashTalk: Supergirl taunts her evil duplicate, telling she's nothing but a weak, pathetic copy who can't back up her own gloating. |
| 1258 | -->'''Satan Girl:''' It'll blow us both to bits if we touch any substance there without force-shields or matter-conversion. I can just wait you out. You'll come back, or you'll be atomized. Either way, I win.\ |
| 1259 | '''Supergirl:''' Oh, will you? I thought for certain that you wanted to tear me apart with your own hands. Except it hasn't been that easy, has it? Maybe you're just not up to it, after all... since you're just a pretty pathetic copy of me.\ |
| 1260 | '''Satan Girl:''' YOU... |
| 1261 | * TroubledButCute: Dev-Em is a former bully, reformed delinquent and still a jerkass whom Kara finds charming and handsome. |
| 1262 | * TroubledFetalPosition: Kara adopts this position when the Legion turns up to ask for help still again. |
| 1263 | -->She sighed and crouched, her elbows on her knees and her hands hiding her face. "I. Am. Just. Getting. So. Damned. Tired." |
| 1264 | * TrueCompanions: Supergirl and her fellow Legionnaires are incredibly close to each other after fighting together as growing up. |
| 1265 | * TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: Black Adam introduces himself to Dev-Em thusly: "[[AC:I am Teth-Adam, called Mighty Adam and then Black Adam by the ancient wizard who gave me my powers, and I hail from the Black Land of Egypt. I was the slayer of a Pharaoh, six millenia past. I was exiled to the farthest star for my crime, but made my way back to Earth, where I made war against the wizard's latecoming allies, those who were called Marvels. Mine is the endurance of Shu, the strength of Hershef, the power of Amon, the wisdom of Zehuti, the speed of Anpu, and the courage of Menthu.]]" |
| 1266 | * TwinTelepathy: Supergirl and Satan Girl develop a psychic link for unexplained reasons. Each one can "hear" and sense her twin's thoughts and emotions, and "talk" through the mindlink. |
| 1267 | * {{Tykebomb}}: Darkseid steals Satan Girl and Mordru's newborn baby and raises him into a merciless, hyper-destructive killing machine, loyal only to him. |
| 1268 | * UnbrokenVigil: Dev sat by Kara's bedside for the whole time she remained unconscious after fighting her evil duplicate. |
| 1269 | -->Dev-Em sat in Kara's room, on the couch, watching her sleep.\ |
| 1270 | He didn't feel like going down to the victory celebrations right now, even with ghosts in orange suits around. He wanted to be there when Kara woke up. |
| 1271 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: Discussed when Berserker thinks he can just gut Orion and Darkseid warns him that underestimating their enemies is downright foolish. |
| 1272 | -->'''Berserker:''' I would like to meet him, in Armagetto or any other place. I would take his Astro-Force and force it into his guts, before I ripped his body asunder.\ |
| 1273 | '''Darkseid:''' Underestimating my first son’s power would be like unto underestimating my own. All too many battles are lost thru one’s own arrogance, and thru underestimation of the enemy. This will not be done. Agreed? |
| 1274 | * UndyingLoyalty: Wildfire spends one thousand years trapped in a star. Never, not even once, he stops thinking about his friends or his girlfriend Dawnstar. |
| 1275 | * UnevenHybrid: Superman's son, grandson, great-grandson, great-great-grandson ''and'' great-great-great-grandson -respectively 1/2, 1/4, 1/16, 1/32 and 1/64 Kryptonian- join the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes to fight Mordru and his army of superpowered villains. |
| 1276 | * TheUnfettered: Satan Girl boasts of lacking morals or conscience restraining her impulses. |
| 1277 | -->She could devastate planets, wipe them clean of life. Rebuild them at her whim.\ |
| 1278 | She could tyrannize worlds, whole systems of planets, make them bow to her mighty hand, instantly execute anyone who dared protest--or just anybody she wanted to kill.\ |
| 1279 | She could explore pleasures of the body that Kara never would have dared to, satisfy lusts that the blonde beast never even knew she had. She could force herself upon any suitor, male or female or whatever, and destroy them after their job was done. Or perhaps just maim them, so that they could never again do such a job for anyone else. Satan Girl smiled. Now that was being imaginative...\ |
| 1280 | She could have children from those couplings, or kill them in the womb.\ |
| 1281 | She could become a goddess to an unsophisticated planet's people. Drinking in their worship, demanding sacrifice.\ |
| 1282 | All of this she could do, she would do, and more.\ |
| 1283 | For Kryptonians and Daxamites were gods, off their homeworlds. They really were. What a pity their morality forced them not to realize that fact. |
| 1284 | * UnresolvedSexualTension: There was a good amount of attraction between Kara Zor-El and fellow Kryptonian survivor and Legionnaire Dev-Em, whom Kara found attractive but kind of a jerkass. |
| 1285 | * UnstoppableRage: Satan Girl pounces on Kara furiously when she finds out about Mordru's death, pummeling Supergirl almost to death. |
| 1286 | -->At that, Supergirl knew she had succeeded. Probably a little more than she wanted.\ |
| 1287 | Satan Girl surged forward like an express train, her arms outstretched, and Kara flew through the warp.\ |
| 1288 | In two more seconds, they were at war again, and Satan Girl vowed that she would destroy Supergirl before the anti-matter got anywhere near them. |
| 1289 | * UpbringingMakesTheHero: Inverted. Darkseid steals Satan Girl and Mordru's son and raises him into a pitiless, blood-thirsty, invincible killing machine. |
| 1290 | * UptightLovesWild: Withdrawn, gloomy Brainiac-5 first falls for outgoing, hot-headed Supergirl and later for Laurel "Clothes are a silly concept" Kent. |
| 1291 | * UseYourHead: Kara used the move as fighting Satan Girl for first time. |
| 1292 | -->The purple-suited girl was going for Supergirl's eyes. Desperately, Kara grabbed her foe's wrists, kneed her in the stomach as hard as she could, and head-butted her in the forehead. It felt like banging her head into a steel wall, but she could see Satan Girl wince with the pain for a second. |
| 1293 | * TheVerse: This universe was spawned by the events of ''Kara of Rokyn''. ''Superman of 2499'' happens five hundred years later, and ''A Force of Four'' is set in a parallel Earth. |
| 1294 | * VillainousValour: At the end of "The Apokolips Agenda", Darkseid's plan has been ruined, his army has been routed and he has been surrounded by a squad of powerful heroes. What does he do? He decides to take all of them out. And he nearly succeeds. |
| 1295 | * VillainTeamUp: Mordru bullies Satan Girl and an army of villains into serving him. And at the beginning of "Apokolips Now", Brainiac and Lex Luthor are trying to put together an army of villains: |
| 1296 | -->"Our foe, the Anti-Monitor, has fled or has died. Not even I can detect his presence, either in our universe, or in his. My calculations must be true. The Crisis he created is over. But great unsettlement remains. We all crave power, for various reasons. Now is the time to strike. Not even the heroes of the five remaining Earths can withstand our combined power."\ |
| 1297 | Not all of those who listened to Brainiac nodded, but most knew the truth of that. Super-villains outnumbered super-heroes by a factor no one had yet calculated. If they all struck at once, in coordinated effort, little could be beyond their grasp. Better yet, within their grasp might be the lives of those heroes who had opposed them, defeated them, imprisoned them. |
| 1298 | * VillainTeleportation: Mordru uses his teleportational spells to move his pawns around. |
| 1299 | -->The bolt of power which had freed the Fatal Five had also transported them to Zerox, the Sorcerors' World. Now Tharok, Mano, Emerald Empress, the Persuader, and the mighty Validus stood before their benefactor. |
| 1300 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: At the height of "The Apokolips Agenda", Supergirl finally snaps and attacks Darkseid head-on, despite the considerable power difference, when he hurts her boyfriend (as well as her family). |
| 1301 | * WakingUpElsewhere: Supergirl passes out after fighting her evil counterpart to the death in the vicinity of a star, and later she wakes up in a bedroom. After some confused seconds she recognizes her old room in the Legion's headquarters where her teammates brought her after getting her healed. |
| 1302 | -->Supergirl awoke with a start. She took in her surroundings in a glance, realized she was in the room she used at Legion headquarters and that she was in bed with her uniform on, except, thankfully, for her boots, which had been taken off and placed thoughtfully by the nightstand. |
| 1303 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Knowing Daxamites are fatally hyper-allergic to lead, Satan Girl plans to exterminate their race by scattering lead fragments all across the surface of Daxam. |
| 1304 | * WeddingsForEveryone: It features Superman and Lois Lane's wedding, as well as Supergirl and Dev-Em's. |
| 1305 | * WeDoTheImpossible: During "The Apokolips Agenda", Superman points out to his cousin that they don't have the luxury of a normal life because no one can do what they can, and most of time saving the day comes to them, therefore people will keep turning to them for help. Right like he predicted, shortly afterwards the Legion turns to Supergirl because they need extra Kryptonian firepower to fight Darkseid. |
| 1306 | -->'''Superman:''' What I'm trying to remind her of is that our powers place us in a certain position. And it's one of obligation. No one on Earth can do what we can, and very often, to protect it and other planets, we are required to do everything we're capable of. |
| 1307 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: In "The Apokolips Agenda", Blackstarr works for Darkseid because she is convinced that there will no be more war and strife if he wins. |
| 1308 | * WhamLine: In the second chapter of "Hellspawn": |
| 1309 | -->We have evidence,” said Brainiac 5, slowly, “that Darkseid has the son Mordru fathered with Satan Girl.” |
| 1310 | * WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Neither Superman nor Kara's adoptive parents understand why a sweet, kind-hearted, mature woman like Kara fell in love with a rude ass like Dev-Em. |
| 1311 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour'', Power Girl and the JSA are wondering what happened to their super-villains. Here it's revealed they were forcefully recruited by Darkseid. |
| 1312 | * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Supergirl uses super-hypnotism -one of her most undervalued powers- to mesmerize D'reema into speaking the Life Equation and so cancelling out Darkseid's Anti-Life Equation. |
| 1313 | * WhatMeasureIsAMook: Supergirl and Superman are adamant against killing... but they have no qualms about destroying hundreds of Darkseid's parademons in battle. |
| 1314 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Supergirl and Superman are ''immensely'' reluctant to kill humans, but they aren't at all bothered by the fact that they destroyed hundreds of Darkseid's winged demons in battle. |
| 1315 | * WhenSheSmiles: Dev-Em cites Kara has a beautiful smile. |
| 1316 | -->She turned and smiled at him. Her smile, he thought, had power enough to illuminate the darkness between Earth and Aldebaran. |
| 1317 | * WhereIWasBornAndRazed: Satan Girl intends to destroy all surviving Kryptonians so no one can challenge her. |
| 1318 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: Kara and Dev spend a long while bickering, arguing and fighting until Kara admits out loud she likes him. |
| 1319 | * WingedHumanoid: Dawnstar has large, feathered white wings. |
| 1320 | * WithMyDyingBreathISummonYou: Inverted during "The Apokolips Agenda" when the demon Trigon turns all heroes into stone. Before becoming fully petrified Kid Eternity, summons Jim Corrigan, who transforms into The Spectre and destroys Trigon. |
| 1321 | * TheWorfBarrage: In the first chapters, a space warship deploys its full arsenal against Satan Girl. Barrages of missiles, giant laser cannons... and they fail to even scratch her. |
| 1322 | * WorldOfBadass: Every single Pre-Crisis hero and heroine is featured, including several Supermen and Supergirls, Batman, several Robins, Batgirl, Wonder Woman, the Green Lantern Corps, Flash, the entirety of the JLA, the JSA, the Teen Titans, the Legion of Super-Heroes, Infinity Inc., theMarvel Family... and more. |
| 1323 | * WouldHurtAChild: Satan Girl has no qualms about killing little girls just because she is angry and they are conveniently nearby. |
| 1324 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: Kara uses some wrestling moves, such like the Grab move she used to hurl her evil duplicate into a star. |
| 1325 | * XRayVision: One of the many powers of Supergirl. Other X-Ray Vision users include Kryptonian fellows Superman and Dev-Em. |
| 1326 | -->Before she got in, she walked barefoot into her bedroom, where a framed photo of the Danverses reposed on a bedside table.\ |
| 1327 | She used her X-ray vision to see the picture of Zor-El and Allura behind it. |
| 1328 | * YearInsideHourOutside: Discussed when Supergirl wonders how long she has spent in the future. |
| 1329 | -->Briefly, she wondered how much of her life she'd spent in the 30th Century. Linda guessed that, if she took that time into account, she could probably celebrate her birthday six months early. Well, at least she could return in time to only a few seconds after she departed. That way she wouldn't be late for work. |
| 1330 | * YouAreNotAlone: When Colossal Boy and Supergirl are about to walk into literal Hell in a desperate bid to stop Mordru, Colossal Boy notices his partner is upset and frightened so he hurries to cite a bit of Scripture to remind her she is not alone, now or never. |
| 1331 | -->Gim looked at Supergirl. She was as brave a warrior as he'd ever known, but nobody was totally fear-free. He was coping by putting most of what they had to do out of his conscious mind. He put a reassuring arm about her shoulder.\ |
| 1332 | "There's a thing Rabbi Tuchman used to tell us in temple," he said. "‘If we stand, God is with us. If we fall, God is still with us. So don't be afraid to fall, but do everything you can to stand.'"\ |
| 1333 | She smiled with the corner of her mouth. "Thank your rabbi for me. I'm not chickening out, Gim, don't worry. Let's join the others." |
| 1334 | * YouAreTooLate: At the climax of "The Apokolips Agenda", a group of heroes led by Superman bursts into Darkseid's stronghold, but it's too late: Darkseid's already learned the Anti-Life Equation and they can't stop him from speaking it. Darkseid's plan fails, though, because Supergirl manages to hypnotize Highfather's daughter into speaking the opposite Equation, thus cancelling Darkseid's universe-wide mind-control wave. |
| 1335 | * YouCanBarelyStand: Still physically and emotionally exhausted after fighting Mordru in Hell, Supergirl is teleported right in front of her omnicidal, psychotic evil counterpart Satan Girl. Supergirl doesn't know how she can walk out of that battle alive, let alone win, but she manages to survive her evil duplicate's relentless assault and hurl her into an antimatter star. |
| 1336 | -->She was tired, on the brink of exhaustion, emotionally wrung-out after the trip to the Netherworld and the fight with Mordru. Now, to be flung against a fresh, raging Satan Girl...it was simply too much.\ |
| 1337 | It was hard enough fighting her when she had been prepared and in good condition. How in the hell was she supposed to win against her now? |
| 1338 | * YouCantGoHomeAgain: When Kara states aloud she would like nothing more than to be a normal girl from Argo City, Kal reminds her that there is sadly no Argo City to return to, anymore. |
| 1339 | * YouCantThwartStageOne: The second story arc sees Darkseid successfully learning and speaking the Anti-Life Equation, in spite of the opposition of a veritable army of heroes, before he gets defeated by Orion. |
| 1340 | * YouExclamation: Satan Girl when Supergirl calls her a weak, pathetic copy. |
| 1341 | --><Oh, will you?>, asked Kara. <I thought for certain that you wanted to tear me apart with your own hands. Except it hasn't been that easy, has it? Maybe you're just not up to it, after all... since you're just a pretty pathetic copy of me.>\ |
| 1342 | Satan Girl's expression of hatred, which was about the only one she owned, intensified. <YOU...> she began, and that was all she could get out. |
| 1343 | * YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: Supergirl tells her old enemy Blackstarr she could have used her vast cosmic powers to help people instead of hurting them. Blackstarr replies she doesn't believe she is capable of making a difference. |
| 1344 | -->'''Supergirl:''' You’ve got powers that even I and Kal can’t command. You’re part of one of the greatest heritages on our planet, whether you admit it or not. You could use your abilities to help, rather than hurt. Instead of wasting them in this stupid battle... you could do something with them that could make your mother proud. And you could be a heroine.\ |
| 1345 | '''Blackstarr:''' No. That would be futile. All it would give us is the same inefficiency. The same world, divided among hundreds of worthless governments. The same disunity, and the same inability to bring man forward, into Overman. |
| 1346 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Hoping to avoid this scenario, Satan Girl seduces Mordru. |
| 1347 | -->She might have to watch out for him, as well. If she were viewed as a tool, he might intend to simply use her and destroy her once the job was finished. How could she guard against that? |
| 1348 | * YouKilledMyFather: Berserker blames Supergirl for his mother's death, regardless of the fact that Kara killed her evil duplicate in self-defense: |
| 1349 | -->'''Berserker:''' I will avenge my mother’s death. I will avenge your honor. I will make her pay for blocking the True Path. I WILL DESTROY THE SUPERGIRL. |
| 1350 | * YourHeadASplode: |
| 1351 | ** It happens when Doctor Fate fights Superman's enemy Lord Satanis. Let's say that Fate's Order magic doesn't mix well with Satanis' Chaos-powered headgear. |
| 1352 | --->Fate put his hands to his helmet, lifted it off, and, swooping low, jammed it over the red helmet of his enemy. The power of Order, imbued within the golden helm, had an immediate reaction with the powers within Satanis's headgear.\ |
| 1353 | There was an explosion everyone could hear, and what happened to Lord Satanis was not at all pretty to look upon.\ |
| 1354 | Kent Nelson, standing in his blue and gold uniform, hesitated a second. Then he reached out, separated his own helmet from Satanis's, and replaced it on his head. Thankfully, it contained no baleful energies. He then took Satanis’s helmet. It came away from his body, with what was left of his head inside. |
| 1355 | ** In "Hellspawn", Nemesis sends a surge of energy through the body of Duplicate Man which causes his head to explode. |
| 1356 | --->Nemesis grabbed his left hand, grinned, and pressured it hard, sending a burst of mystic energy through it.\ |
| 1357 | Ord Quelu screamed in pain, despite himself. He added the strength of a Kryptonian, tried to take on the power of an impossibly powerful mage.\ |
| 1358 | But it wasn't enough.\ |
| 1359 | Just as Duplicator reached the two of them, Duplicate Man's head exploded. It showered his son's body in a terrible moment of gore. |
| 1360 | * YourMagicsNoGoodHere: Supergirl lures her evil duplicate into the anti-matter universe, where their invulnerability doesn't work and Kara has a chance to destroy Satan Girl. |
| 1361 | * YourUniverseOrMine: Kara travels from late 20th Century to 30th Century to rejoin the Legion and falls in love with Dev-Em. Unfortunately, Dev hates the 20th Century, so they visit each other on weekends. Considering such an arrangement cannot last, though, Kara decides she can move to the future permanently as long as she can travel back to the present whenever she pleases. |
| 1362 | -->The last couple of weekends he had spent with her in the 20th. Now, she'd have to pay him back by visiting the 30th, this weekend and next. It was a weird form of romance, to be certain. But Dev-Em, who had started out as an enemy of Superboy's before going to the future, going straight, and becoming a spy, had satisfied her as no other man ever had. Both in bed, and in her heart.\ |
| 1363 | But what could she do with this romance?\ |
| 1364 | Linda flopped down on the side of the bed, her black-and-orange suit still in hand. True, she loved Dev more than any man in her life. But neither one had offered to give up his or her time-era for the other, yet. Dev hadn't agreed to marriage yet, and she was reluctant to bring it up.\ |
| 1365 | How could she leave the 20th, and her natural and adoptive parents?\ |
| 1366 | How could he leave the 30th, with his espionage work for the United Planets and the Legion? |
| 1367 | * YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Kara's as kind-hearted as temperamental. And she can bring a mountain down with a single punch. Threaten innocent people or hurt her family and even if you were Darkseid himself she'll do her best to beat you to a bloody pulp. |
| 1368 | * ZeroGSpot: Satan Girl is a Kryptonian clone and Mordru a powerful sorcerer, so a lack of atmosphere is no trouble whatsoever. Hence Satan Girl takes Mordru out of the planet in the fifth chapter and demands to be taken right there and then. |
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| 1370 | ---- |
| 1371 | ->'''Supergirl:''' Well, it's gonna have to start coming somewhere else before long. I'm tired of this. I wasn't born to be a, a super-heroine. I just wanted to be a normal girl from Argo, and, and get a good job and a good man and settle down... |
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