Title Character
Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman
Supporting Cast
Lois Lane | Jimmy Olsen | Ambush Bug | Steel
Villains
Central Rogues Gallery (Alexander "Lex" Luthor, Bizarro, Vril Dox/Brainiac, Cyborg-Superman, Darkseid, Doomsday, Lobo, Mister Mxyzptlk, Mongul, Phantom Zone Criminals [General Zod]) | A-L | M-Z (Superboy-Prime)
Spin-Offs
Supergirl (Kara Zor-El/Linda Danvers/Supergirl, Supporting Cast, Rogues Gallery) | Power Girl | Superboy (Conner Kent/Kon-El, Jonathan "Jon" Samuel Kent, Supporting Cast, Rogues Gallery) | Legion Of Superheroes (The Founders, Silver Age, Bronze Age, Five Years Later, Postboot, Threeboot, Retroboot, Rebirth, Other Heroes, The Fatal Five, The Legion of Supervillains, Other Villains, Supporting Cast)
Enemies
- '" We saved Bizarro World, Supergirl... so why do me now hurt inside?"
There were two different Bizarro versions of Supergirl in Pre-Crisis continuity. The first was pretty much just a Gender Flip version of the regular Bizarro in body and mind and died in her first appearance but the second was a little different. The second Bizarrogirl was created when the Bizarros used a Duplication Machine on the real Supergirl who at the time had been left with a monstrous appearance by a vindictive alien prince. The result was a Bizarro girl with the beautiful looks the real Supergirl (normally) possessed but the mind of a Bizarro, effectively making her a Brainless Beauty.
A Bizarro version of post-Crisis Linda Danvers was created by Buzz. Briefly mistaken by Fred for a Jokerised Linda, she ends up working for Lilith, but later sacrifices herself.
The Bizarro counterpart of Post-Crisis Kara, Bizarrogirl, was rocketed to Earth by Bizarro #1 when he believed that the Godship was going to destroy Bizarroworld. Here she hurt or killed several people, before being defeated by Supergirl; Kara returned Bizarrogirl to Bizarroworld, befriending her in the process.
Tropes:
Zora Vi-Lar was born the daughter of Kryptonian Vi-Lar in the surviving city of Kandor. As an adult, Zora turned towards a life of crime, and took on the masked identity of Black Flame. She became a foe of Supergirl when she vowed to avenge her friend Lesla Lar and defeat Supergirl.
Zora began thwarting international police and going on a crime spree, gaining Supergirl's attention, and then she tried to trick Supergirl into believing she was an evil queen of a pirate planet, the head of an intergalactic crime empire... and the descendant of Supergirl, Supergirl XXV.
Zora hoped that Supergirl would expose herself to Gold Kryptonite so her descendants don't inherit her powers. However Supergirl saw through her ruse, exposed Zora to Gold Kryptonite and imprisoned her inside the Phantom Zone.
Black Flame fought Supergirl several times more, but ultimately she returned to Kandor where she reformed. Upon meeting Supergirl again, she expressed her regret for trying to steal Supergirl's powers before returning to the bottle city to lead a crime-free life.
Mister Mxyzptlk once took on the form of Black Flame in an attempt to humiliate Superman and Batman in World Finest #169.
Tropes:
- The Atoner: After being defeated by Supergirl, she tried to reform.
- Batman Gambit: She used one to try and trick Supergirl into stripping herself from her powers.
- Complexity Addiction: Black Flame has a serious trouble with this. In Adventure Comics #400, Supergirl is at her mercy: trapped in a locked room, unconscious and sprinkled with Green Kryptonite. And Black Flame orders her hired guns to hurry up and bring Supergirl to a Death Trap before the Kryptonite kills her because she doesn't "want her go that easily". Supergirl survives Black Flame's elaborate death trap but she is immobilized and rendered unconscious. So Black Flame kills her? Nope. She sets another death trap up and waits for Supergirl coming around.
- Domino Mask: She wears a pointed, red mask.
- Inappropriate Role Model: She fawned over Lesla Lar. Body-swapping, murderous, lunatic Lesla Lar.
- Kid from the Future: Subverted. She tries to trick Kara into believing she is her descendant.
- Large Ham: She is hammy.Zora: See how she comes — not knowing that she is flying to her — DOOM!
- Mad Scientist: She is a brilliant scientist... and she is cunning and devious.
- Moral Myopia: Kara did not even know who Zora was until Zora tried to harm her. Still in Adventure Comics #400, Black Flame declares that she will get her revenge on Supergirl for meddling in her affairs. So "Don't fall for your stupid, completely unwarranted revenge scheme" is synonymous with "meddling in your affairs"?
- Robot Me: She uses a robot double to trick Supergirl into believing she has not left Kandor.
- Superpower Lottery: She had the Kryptonian full pack before being depowered.
There are several characters called Blackstarr (or Black Star) in The DCU, but only the Pre-Crisis incarnation is a member of Supergirl's Rogues Gallery.
Born to jewish parents in Poland, Rachel was taken from her mother when they arrived at a concentration camp (in her mind, her mother had let them take her and abandoned her).
She managed to amuse the camp commandant so much that she was allowed to live and was taken into his home. Being raised in a Nazi household, combined with her mother's failure to save her, convinced Rachel that the Nazis were right. The camp commandant had been prepared for the fall of Nazi Germany and had arranged false papers for her. These identified Rachel as American and she set off to the United States, where she studied and received her first PH.D. at 18.
Rachel unraveled a mystery that Einstein could only begin to dream of. The very forces of the universe took her, molding her into Blackstarr.
In the early 1980's, Rachel had made herself the center of a Nazi organization. This caused her to clash with Supergirl and reunited Rachel with her mother.
Tropes:
- Boomerang Bigot: She is a Nazi Jew.
- Enemy Mine: Supergirl and she are forced to team up during the Crisis.
- Evil Redhead: She is a redhead and... well, a Nazi super-villain.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: She was a poor, unlucky child... and she became a cosmic-powered villain.
- Hoist Hero over Head: Inverted. Supergirl does this to Blackstarr in Supergirl #15's cover.
- Older Than They Look: She looks like a twenty-year-old woman, but she is in her fifties.
- Parental Abandonment: She hates her parents because she is convinced that they abandoned her.
- Physical Goddess: She controls cosmic forces.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: She wears purple robes.
- Self-Made Orphan: She kidnapped and considered killing her mother, but she never made the attempt.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: In Supergirl #25, Kara does this to Blackstarr several times:Blackstarr: I may be undecided as to the old woman's fate, but yours is certain... death!
Supergirl: Listen — I've been romping through the cosmos since I was 15... and threats like THAT don't even make me work up a sweat! - Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She was a cheerful, sweet little girl... and then the Third Reich happened. She was forcefully taken from her parents whom she blamed for not saving her, dumped in a concentration camp and raised by Nazis. Forty years later she's super-villain Blackstarr and is twisted and full of hatred.
- "Admit it luv - Y'missed me, didn't'cha?"
Gaius Marcus, alias Buzz, was a Patrician in Ancient Rome. After the Emperor made off with his wife, Marcus made a deal with Beelzebub, Lord of Flies: allow for Caligula's assassination to go forward and for his wife Valeria to be returned to him alive and he would become the demon's slave upon his death. Unfortunately for Marcus, the shocked and devastated Valeria blamed him for her horrible treatment and stabbed him in the chest. Marcus became a demon whom Beelzebub renamed Buzz.
As a demon, Buzz was responsible for much chaos in history before being sent to Leesburg to stir up some trouble. He created a cult that became involved in numerous illegal and illicit activities, and lured a young and insecure Linda Danvers into his cult.
Several years later, Buzz attempted to murder Linda in an attempt to draw a demon named Chakat into the world. His ritual was stopped by Matrix, who bonded with Linda to save her life. From that point on, Buzz became Linda's enemy for much of her career.
Tropes:
- Archenemy: To Matrix and Linda Danvers.
- Been There, Shaped History: Was retroactively included in Raven's backstory by making him a part of the cult that set up Angela Roth to be raped by Trigon.
- The Corrupter: He put young Linda through the wringer.
- Evil Brit: Slightly came across as a sleazy, evil John Constantine.
- Faux Affably Evil: He actually managed to charm Sylvia Danvers so well she set up a blind date for him and Linda at one point. But it was all a ruse to set up a scenario wherein the Danvers would die, pushing Supergirl past the Despair Event Horizon. Thankfully this gets undone.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: It isn't commented on as much as the general corruption he put Linda did, but he actively persued her and spent several years grooming Linda for a sexual relationship while she was still a teenager. It's implied she even lost her virginity to him.
The first vampire and former member of Heaven. He sought to bringing Hell on Earth by taking control of all three Earth-born Angels, one of whom was Linda Danvers (Supergirl).
- Fallen Angel: The Carnivore was formerly a member of Heaven who took the concious decision to leave.
- Our Vampires Are Different: The Carnivore was formerly a member of Heaven who took the concious decision to leave. The son of Lilith and Baalzebub, he is a supremely evil being and is said to be the first vampire.
- Taking Over Heaven: His ambition was to wrest control of Heaven from The Presence by subverting it from the inside, by holding hostage the Schechina (the feminine aspect of God, the side of the divine responsible for mercy and compassion). By turning the avatars of the Schechina, the Earth-born angels, to the side of darkness, Carnivore literally blackmailed The Presence into handing over control of Heaven – but not for long.
After H'el on Earth and destroying the Sanctuary, Supergirl has had enough of Earth and goes off-planet to find a new home. Luckily for her, she finds a much more generous planet named I'noxia that hails her as a hero when she saves them from danger. Their technology can even make robotic replicas of people from her memories; making the place a paradise... or so it seems. It is there she meets Cyborg Superman: a mysterious cybernetic being that looks very much like her cousin. He tells her that he's behind all this and can give her everything she desires on the planet. There's just one little fee: he wants her flesh to replace his cybernetic parts.
For more information regarding Zor-El as Cyborg-Superman, see his character page here.
The son of Post-Crisis Winslow Schott, (alias long-time Superman foe, The Toyman) Anton Schott is a psychotic preteen who feels that his father loved other children more than he loved him, and despises all children because of it.
His father neglected him and his mother took him away on the belief that Winslow was a pedophile only to abandon him. After a while Anton found his father's old workshop and decided to become the villain Dollmaker.
Driven by envy and abandonment issues, Anton started kidnapping other children, turning them into cybernetic doll-like slaves. He also sent dolls resembling them to Cat Grant, whom he ultimately tried to force to become his new mother.
Tropes:
- Child Prodigy: As both a toymaker and a supervillain.
- Enfant Terrible: In his early teens at the latest, and utterly psychotic.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He never thought that Supergirl could come to the rescue of Cat Grant. Why would Supergirl want to save someone she hated?
- Evil Genius: Clearly runs in the family.
- Happy Funball: Much like his father, Anton specialises in this.
- In the Blood
- Mommy Issues: Wants to force Cat Grant (who was the mother of a victim killed by Toyman) to be his new mother.
- Non-Action Guy: Anton himself is an out of shape child who can't fight to save his life.
- Parental Abandonment: His mother took him away from his father because she believed he was a pedophile. Than she bailed on Anton as well, leaving him with serious abandonment issues.
- The Resenter: Towards any child with two functional parental figures.
- Robotmaster: Sends giant, doll shaped robots out to do his dirty work.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Anton wears a green shirt, purple bow tie and belt and violet overalls.
- Wicked Toymaker: The same as his father, he is a skilled -and creepy- toymaker, although he specializes in deadly robot dolls.
An agent of Chaos, Fatalist is a cosmic being similiar to the Spectre. Unlike The Spectre, Fatalist believes nothing he does can alter the course of Fate, so he commits random acts of chaos and plays havoc with time and space for reasons that make sense only to him. Performing one of those acts, he allied himself with Xenon, the Slayer of Supergirls, for reasons of his own that were never revealed.
- Bald of Evil: Has no hair and is even more ruthless than the Spectre.
- The Fatalist: Belives that nothing can alter the course of fate.
- Reality Warper: Fatalist is a cosmic being who can reshape reality according to his whim.
- Teleportation: Can teleport at will.
- Time Master: Can manipulate the time stream.
A villainous quartet including Brains, Ms. Mesmer, Bulldozer, and Kong, they worked for the Council and attacked Supergirl on two occasions. Ms. Mesmer once hypnotized her into thinking her reflection was Linda Lee, while Brains managed to escape their battles and remained at large.
- Acrofatic: Short and squat, Bulldozer is much master than his bulk would suggest.
- The Bus Came Back: They were seen again in 2011 story arc Day of Dollmaker.
- Evil Genius: The Gang's leader Brains has a genius-level IQ.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: Two males and two females.
- The Group: They are known as The Gang.
- Karma Houdini: Brains escaped her battles with Supergirl and remained at large up until the Crisis.
- Mind Control: Ms. Mesmer has near supernatural mass hypnosis abilities.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The real names of the members of the Gang have never been revealed.
- Super-Strength: Kong is the muscle of the Gang, possessing enough strength to hoist a car above his head.
- Use Your Head: Bulldozer's usual tactic is to charge things and slam into them with his helmet.
- Weaponized Headgear: Bullbozer wears a special helmet which allows him to smash through objects with his head.
Lar-On was an citizen of Argo City that was banished to the Phantom Zone by Zor-El when exposure to Red Kryptonite turned him into a werewolf. Zor-El quarantined him as a last resort to protect him from himself and the Argonians from him until a cure could be found. Many years later, as testing a Phantom Drive engine, the Department of Extranormal Operations accidentally opened up to a rift to the Phantom Zone and released Lar-On. Exposed to Earth's full moon, Lar-On transformed into a werewolf and went on a rampage after being attacked by the D.E.O.
- Hulk Speak: Lar-On speaks like this when he is in Wolf Man form.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Lar-On was transformed into a werewolf by exposure to Red Kryptonite. On Earth, he is a werewolf with all of the powers of Superman.
- Wolf Man: Lar-On's transformed form.
A villainous Kandorian scientist and Kara Zor-El lookalike who specialised in identity theft in both mundane and psychic versions. While she hasn't been seen since before the Crisis, she is historically significant as Supergirl's first true archenemy.
After a lengthy scheme to remove and take Supergirl's powers failed, partially due to Mr. Mxyptlk's interference, Lesla-Lar tried again by recruiting Phantom Zone criminals to aid her. Instead, they turned on her, disintegrating her with her own weapon in Action Comics #297.
Lesla made her final appearance in Superman Family #206 -eighteen years later!- in which her floating consciousness try to take over Supergirl's body once more, but this attempt failed and she was dispersed on the astral plane.
Tropes:
- Archenemy: Of Pre-Crisis Kara.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Unusually for the Silver Age, she was disintegrated on-panel in her second appearance. Her final appearance had her mental energy dispersed on the astral plane, killing her for good.
- Evil Counterpart: To Pre-Crisis Kara.
- Grand Theft Me: Her main gimmick is identity theft.
- Green and Mean: She usually wore green.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She was insanely jealous of Supergirl's fame and praise, and thus she decided to become her.
- Inexplicably Identical Individuals: To both Kara and Lena Thorul (Lex's sister). On different occasions she managed to kidnap and impersonate both with anyone being any the wiser.
- Killed Off for Real: Lesla's body was disintegrated with her own weapon. Notable because it happened during the Silver Age, when villains dying was a rare thing. Many years later her floating consciousness tried to steal Supergirl's body, but she failed and was dispersed on the astral plane.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Subverted. After being disintegrated, her consciousness lived on. This messed with her mind to the point where she thought Supergirl was her sister. When she made this claim, Kara replied she had no siblings.
- Mad Scientist: Brilliant scientist... who attempted to swap her body with Supergirl's, kill Superman and Lex Luthor and rule Earth.
- Older Than They Look: Lesla-Lar looked nearly identical to Kara (definitely a teenager at the time) and Lena (implied to be the same age as Kara) but she was apparently a successful scientist in Kandor and thus presumably quite a bit older.
- Paper Tiger: In "The Unknown Supergirl", Lesla-Lar was billed as Supergirl's first real nemesis; unfortunately, albeit she proves to be a cunning and manipulative schemer, she turns out to be a complete failure at face-to-face confrontations. In "The Girl with the X-Ray Mind" she is unable to defend herself when her would-be allies decide to obliterate her physical body; and in "Strangers at the Heart's Core", Lesla decides finally face Supergirl in person, and she loses so badly that her very soul is destroyed.
- Sanity Slippage: After being disintegrated, Lesla-Lar's consciousness lived on. This messed with her mind to the point where she thought Supergirl was her sister.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Lesla-Lar wore a lime-green suit. In her second appearance she wore a violet costume and orange cloak, gloves and boots.
- Unknown Rival: She exploited this trope, and was introduced as "Supergirl's Secret Enemy." It took almost five issues for Supergirl to find out who was behind all of her troubles.
Lobo: Contract says nothing about maiming you.
A Czarnian Bounty Hunter, Lobo came to Earth because he got word of an impostor using his name. He decides to go to the Block to interrogate Dr. Veritas on the impostor's whereabouts. Unfortunately for him, Supergirl is there and will not let him harm her friend.
Tropes:
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: His weapons are two large glowing knives that can cut through a man like butter.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Pre-New 52, he was a grizzled, burly '90s Anti-Hero. He's much more suave looking in the New 52, though his crass personality hasn't changed a bit.
- A Day in the Limelight: He had his own Villains Month issue in September 2013, which set up his appearance in Supergirl.
- Batman Gambit: He tries to use Supergirl's rage against her by taunting her into not holding back. As such, Dr. Veritas teleports them out of the Block to prevent their fight from damaging it. Once outside, Lobo calls his ship and flies to Supergirl's old apartment in New York, hoping to calm her down. He then tries to be friendly to her offering to mentor her so she can learn to control her rage. Big mistake. Supergirl has had it with people trying to manipulate her and gives him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- Bounty Hunter: Still works as a bounty hunter, and will do anything for money.
- Covers Always Lie: The cover for Lobo's Villains Month issue shows him looking like he did Pre-New 52. In the book, he looks like the above image. Lampshaded in the narration saying that you don't know this Lobo.
- Establishing Character Moment: In his Villains Month issue, when he finds out the cargo is smuggling is a tribe innocent aliens, he acts nice to them. However, once they reveal they were abducted for their valuable bones, he forces them back into the cage so he can get the large sum of money they're worth, not caring about their cries for mercy.
- Exact Words: When one of his employers reminds him that his contract forbids him from killing them, Lobo retorts that "it says nothing about maiming you."
- Faking the Dead: Thanks to his Healing Factor, he was able to recover getting punched by an angry Supergirl, but played dead so he could get in the Block.
- Foil: To Supergirl. Says writer Tony Bedard: "Lobo is there as a sort of dark reflection of her. They're both super-powerful loners left over from dead planets. Lobo has channeled his power and rage into becoming the most dangerous bounty-hunter/assassin in the galaxy. Supergirl's still trying to figure out what to do with her power and her lot in life. Tangling with Lobo will show her one path she might go down. It's really a cautionary tale for her, and she'll come away knowing that she could easily end up like him if she doesn't get her act together."
- Hired Guns
- Identical Stranger: It appeared that Lobo's first New 52 debut was in Stormwatch, where he looked just like he was pre-New 52. Then came Lobo's Villains Month issue and it reveals that there's another Lobo (the one on this page) who claims the Lobo in Stormwatch is an impostor that he is bent on finding and killing.
- Jerkass: Still a brutal thug at heart, with the personality to match.
- Put on a Bus: He was last seen shrunken down and imprisoned in one of Brainiac 2.0’s bottles, with Hal Jordan suggesting they “keep him on the shelf”. He hasn’t been seen since.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes are blood red and lack pupils.
Maelstrom is an Apokoliptian soldier. After spending most of her childhood in Granny Goodness' Section Zero she started working as a guard keeping watch over Darkseid's minions. Obsessively and secretly in love with Darkseid, Maelstrom sought out ways to get her King fall for her. Eventually Maelstrom came up with the idea of bringing Superman's head to Darkseid. In order to achieve her goal, Maelstrom stole a Boom Tube and travelled to Earth, starting a rampage in Metropolis.
- Gladiator Games: In punishment for stealing a Boom Tube generator, Maelstrom was tortured and forced to fight for her life in the Terrorium arena for Darkseid's amusement. Maelstrom battled and defeated four Gladiortrons, the whole time proclaiming her love towards Darkseid.
- Ignored Enamored Underling: It is unlikely that Darkseid even knew who Malestrom was before she stole a Boom Tube. Afterwards, his reaction to her infatuation varies between irritation and amusement.
- Love Makes You Crazy: A slave on Apokolips who wants to prove her devotion and love to Darkseid by bringing him the head of Superman.
- "And the agony and pain I endure to take his form shall be nothing in relation to the glory I will bring to the name Draaga... who ransomed our lives with his own."
After Matrix and Linda Danvers merged, there were remnants of Matrix's protoplasmic form left over. The remnants took on a life of their own, becoming a new individual that tried to overwhelm Supergirl and went on a rampage in Leesburg.
Tropes:
- Blob Monster: Before managing to gain a semblance of its past appearance, Matrix was just a heap of pink glop that attached itself to a passerby reminiscent of The Blob (1958).
- Decomposite Character: This Matrix was made up of remnants left after Mae and Linda Danvers merged.
- Enemy Without: Was essentially a collection of the original Matrix's negative emotions and hatred, made even more bitter at its seeming abandonment after Mae and Linda became one.
- Evil Counterpart: To Mae Kent. She even had some of the powers Mae lost after combining with Linda, such as invisibility and telekinesis.
- Expy: Her inhuman appearance and the backwards "S" she wore implicitly made her the first Bizarro-like character to fight the Post-Crisis Supergirl.
- Mythology Gag: The concept of Mae's castoff remains coming to life and going on a rampage were previously explored in Kingdom Come through 'Trix, who was inspired by the works of H.R. Giger instead of looking like a Blob Monster.
- Small Role, Big Impact: While not as substantial as Supergirl's other enemies Post-Crisis, the destruction she caused in Leesburg caught Superman's attention which finally led to him learning about Mae and Linda's dual existence.
Matrix-Prime was a giant robot created scientists working for Nebulous Evil Organisation The Council, and sent to steal for the group. Later, control of Matrix-Prime was seized by Brains, the leader of the Gang, who used the robot to continue her vendetta against Supergirl.
Although the Gang has returned post-Crisis, Matrix-Prime has yet to do so.
- Do-Anything Robot: Matrix-Prime can construct mini-robots within itself to undertake wahetver task it requires.
- Drone Deployer: Matrix-Prime is a walking/flying robot factory. It can build robots within itself. Matrix-Prime’s robots emerge from a round hatch on its chest. When their mission is done they fly back in to be disassembled and reused for parts as needed.
- Flight: Flies via jets built into its legs.
- Hover Mecha: Matrix-Prime was originally made for flying only, having rocket tubes instead of legs.
- Mechanical Monster: A giant robot built by a criminal organization and tough enough to take on Supergirl.
- Super-Toughness: Matrix-Prime is constructed of "Tylenmium alloy, resistant up to 12 million pounds per square-inch pressure"; meaning it can withstand blows from Supergirl with no apparent damage.
Lex Luthor's evil niece.
She was introduced in Adventure Comics #397, enrolling at Stanhope University as a student. Working with her Uncle Lex, Nasty began a campaign of bullying students, hoping to force Supergirl into action and lure her out into the open where Lex would kill her with a kryptonite bullet.
Their plot failed and her uncle was captured, but Nasty remained on campus to thwart Supergirl and in issue #406 she graduated with Linda Danvers. During the ceremony, she thought that she suspected that Linda was Supergirl. To prove it, she followed Linda to San Francisco, where both worked as junior reporters for K-SFTV until Linda quit her job and moved away in issue #424.
Pre-Crisis Nasty wasn't seen again. However, a Post-Crisis version showed up in All-Star Superman.
Tropes:
- All There in the Manual: Her relationship to Lex Luthor was never explained in any story. However, Mike Sekowsky explained it in the letters page of Adventure Comics #401. Nasty is the daughter of Lex's older sister who eloped to Europe as a teenager, and their parents never spoke to her again out of disapproval.
- Alpha Bitch: During Linda's Stanhope years. She was a rich and arrogant bully.
- The Bully: She bullied students in order to lure Supergirl out.
- Bullying a Dragon: She knows Linda Danvers is Supergirl. She knows Linda is short-tempered. She knows Linda can kill her by looking at her and nobody will ever know or find her body because Supergirl can drop it in Alpha-Centauri. And still she puts her down constantly and tries to out her.
- The Bus Came Back: Sorts of. After several decades Nasty reappeared in All-Star Superman. However it's a different version of the character.
- Evil Uncle: Her uncle is Lex Luthor. You know, Superman's arch-enemy.
- Foil: To Kara during her college years and her first job. Both characters are intelligent and self-reliant women with famous and notable relatives. However, Linda is kind-hearted, selfless and compassionate, she wants to use her intelligence and powers to help people, and her cousin is a hero. Nasty is mean-spirited, self-serving and scheming, uses her talents to get whatever she wants even at the expense of hurting other people, and she's a super-villain's niece.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Nasty" Luthor.
- New Transfer Student: She is introduced this way in Adventure Comics #397.
- Put on a Bus:When the Supergirl's run in Adventure Comics ended with issue #424, Nasty faded into comic limbo.
- The Rival: To Kara when they worked as reporters for K-SFTV. She tried to out Kara or get her fired at the very least, and both liked the same person.
- Secret Chaser: She guessed that Linda Danvers was Supergirl and endeavoured to prove it.
- Smug Snake: 'Nasty' Luthor is an obnoxious, condescending bully who schemed to out Linda or get her fired from her job at the very least. However, although she is manipulative, conniving and a Luthor, she is not her uncle, her first scheme backfired badly, and she only succeeded at driving Supergirl mad.
- Take Over the World: She wanted to help her uncle kill Superman and Supergirl, hoping for a place in the new world order when Lex took over. It's unknown whether Lex would have granted her desire or not (say what you will about Luthor, but he cares for some of some of his relative).
- Ungrateful Bastard: Supergirl could save 'Nasty' over and over again, and 'Nasty' kept mocking her and attempting to expose her Secret Identity.
Nightflame is an one-time villain who showed up in Adventure Comics #421: Demon Spawn.
She pulled Kara's "essence" out from her body and dragged her to the Innerverse, a nightmarish place filled with monsters and demons in where Supergirl was powerless. The Innerverse was actually a microverse within Supergirl's brain, born from her darker, base thoughts. However, it was dying, so Nightflame travelled to the physical universe in order to capture Kara and get her life essence drained and poured into her.
Tropes:
- Battle in the Center of the Mind: Supergirl and Nightflame fight in an illusory universe which exists in Kara's mind.
- Enemy Without: Nightflame is a manifestation of Kara's inner darkness. Specifically, her subconscious death wish. She leaves Supergirl's mind to fight her in the physical world.
- Flaming Sword: She is armed with a flaming BFS.
- Green and Mean: Her tight suit is green.
- Killed Off for Real: Kara hurled her into one of her magical constructs, Nightflame dissolved and never again showed up.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: She wears a tight green outfit.
- Statuesque Stunner: Supergirl is roughly 6'0''... and she is two heads shorter than Nightflame.
A superpowered boy, he was a member of Teen Titans and Kara Zor-El's first boyfriend Post-Crisis. Eventually revealed himself as a clingy, abusive stalker from Apokolips. After trying to abuse Kara, she broke up with him and said she would never want to see him again.
Tropes:
- Asshole Victim: Trigon's sons might have killed him to send a message, but considering he sheer disgusting brutality he showed as a abuser and the fact that he's from Apokalips, said death is very easy to shrug off.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: One his first appearances, he seems like a kind, understanding boyfriend. This doesn't last for his true nature to reveal itself.
- C-List Fodder: Killed by Trigon's sons.
- Cleavage Window: A male version, intended to parody Power Girl's outfit.
- Dark Is Evil: Wears a primarily black outfit, and is a Domestic Abuser and Stalker with a Crush to Supergirl. And if his description of his origin is true, he may have been sent as a sleeper agent posing as a hero.
- Domestic Abuse: To Supergirl, which caused them to break up.
- Emotion Eater: He can channel others' emotions to fuel his abilities, but the excess emotions caused him to go psycho on Kara.
- Powerboy: (to a restrained Supergirl) I feel. Feel everyone else's hate, love, pain, fear... and it becomes this... (forms ball of black energy) Of course, you saw what happens when it goes the other way.
- Flying Brick: Had a roughly similar powerset to Kara herself.
- Gendered Outfit: He wears a tank top unitard rather than Power Girl's leotard. He keeps the Cleavage Window however.
- Monster of the Aesop: A giant aesop about abusive boyfriends.
- Never My Fault: He continually insists that Kara is "making him made angry". See Why Did You Make Me Hit You? for more details.
- Not Good with Rejection: He brutally beat Kara up, including dragging her face down the side of a skyscraper, and tied her to a bed when she reject him. She beat him up, dropped a house on him and told him never to bother her again.
- Spear Counterpart: As a native of Apokolips who enters into a romantic relationship with a younger member of Superman's family that later turns abusive, he is basically to Kara in the 2000s what Knockout was to Kon-El in the 90s.
- Stalker with a Crush: Powerboy became obsessed with Kara after catching a glimpse of her as a Female Fury. He created a shrine and became a superhero to impress and seduce her. However, he grew more and more possessive, and beat the crap out of her when she tried to visit Captain Boomerang (Owen Mercer) in the hospital.
- Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: After Kara is brutally beaten up by Powerboy, including having her face dragged down the side of a skyscraper, she wakes up in a bed next to a Stalker Shrine devoted to her, bound in powerful, alien-tech restraints. Powerboy says a big speech about how much he loves her, that he knows best, and that the beating was her fault for making him angry. Supergirl's retort? Delivering a brutal beating combined with a Shut Up, Hannibal! speech.
- Villainous Crush: He is a servant of Darkseid that had a crush on Kara.
At the age of twelve, Gayle developed psychic powers, primarily psychokinesis. After her parents died she was raised by the scientist David Pendergast who was preparing to fight a new menace called "the Decay". In college, she took the alias of Psi and fought Supergirl several times, thinking that Supergirl was the Decay. The truth was that David Pendergast was an extension of her own fears. Realizing that the Decay was David and herself, she put a stop to Pendergast and herself.
- Anti-Villain: Psi believed she was actually stopping an horrific menace called 'the Decay'.
- Chainmail Bikini: Psi's original costume was a metallic swimsuit.
- The Empath: Gayle's empathic abilities are so powerful and sensitive that she can't block other people's emotions and feelings properly. Often she feels someone else's pain, hatred... like if was her own.
- Flight: Can fly via telekinesis.
- The Magic Touch: Psi has displayed the ability to telekinetically rearrange matter a few times, such as when she turned Pendergast into “Decay” ; she also once melted a window so she could step through, then reformed it intact behind her.
- Mind over Matter: Is an extremely powerful telekinetic.
- Some Kind of Force Field: Psi can emit a pink aura of force to block Supergirl’s blows or reflect her heat vision back at her.
- Supernatural Fear Inducer: Has the psychic ability to trigger fear in others.
- Super-Toughness: Psi apparently could telekinetically reinforce her own body, or was otherwise superhumanly durable - Supergirl’s blows didn’t seem to hurt much, and at one point she was punched through an outer wall and didn’t seem to be wounded.
- Telepathy: An extremely powerful telepath, Psi is able to almost effortlessly read the minds of even resisting superhumans. She once even threatened to make Negative Woman 's brain explode.
- Teleportation: When experiencing great distress, she reflexively teleports away.
- AKA: Benjamin Krullen (Pre-Crisis), Benjamin Martin Krull (Post-Crisis)
Once a sociopathic ex-soldier gifted with the ability to produce radiation, Post-Crisis Reactron was rebuilt as a cyborg with a Gold Kryptonite heart by Lex Luthor and went onto play a major role during the New Krypton story arc, ultimately destroying New Krypton. Having faced Supergirl on numerous occasions pre-and-post-Crisis, and being the man responsible for the death of her father, Zor-El, her mother Alura, and most of her friends, in the post-Crisis continuity, Reactron is one of the rare villains who can legitimately claim to be a member of Supergirl's Rogues Gallery.
Tropes:
- Archenemy: Could make a legitimate claim on being Kara's archenemy, Post-Crisis and Pre-New 52. He had multiple clashes with Kara, solo and during the events of New Krypton, had a deeply personal rivalry with her, possessed powers and weaponry that let him fight her on an even basis, and ultimately killed her father, mother, and entire race. No other villain has ever come close to inflicting that sort of emotional damage on Kara; the fact that he was specifically created to be a Supergirl adversary Pre-Crisis doesn't hurt his claim on this status either.
- Arc Villain: From the beginning of "New Krypton" until his death in "War of the Supermen" Reactron dominated the Post-Crisis Supergirl book as no one had before.
- Atomic Superpower: Reactron can generate radiation from his body which he can use for concussive blasts. He is also equipped with a heart made of a gold Kryptonite variant, which allows him to render a Kryptonian powerless for 15 seconds.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Detective Henderson managed to take Reactron out of action with a frankly spectacular shot through the eye slots of his mask, and into the eye beneath.
- Ax-Crazy: A violent psychopath who gets off on hurting and killing others.
- Blatant Lies: His claim, Post-Crisis, that his costume was made of a captured region of space and granted him his powers. He admitted as much himself in New Krypton.
- Bling of War: His golden armour and helmet.
- The Brute: Like Metallo, Reactron has the persona down pat, and often plays this role in team ups.
- Chest Blaster: Reactron can fire a concentrated ray of Gold K radiation from his chest, depowering and severely injuring everything it hits.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Enjoys inflicting it and was on the receiving end of it courtesy of Alura and Gor.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: He wears gold to signify his Gold K heart, while Metallo wears green to represent his Green K one.
- Cyborg: After being rebuilt by Lex Luthor on General Lane's orders. How much of him is man and how much is machine is open to interpretation.
- Dirty Coward: Subverted. He begs for his life when Supergirl and Alura capture him, and again when Gor is torturing him, but it is all revealed to be a ploy by he and Lane to hide the fact that they want him to be captured.
- Dissonant Serenity: Smiles peacefully as he announces to Kara and Alura that he is a living nuclear bomb.
- Divergent Character Evolution: Inverted and then played straight. He began as an original Supergirl villain who was turned into a Metallo expy by Lane and Luthor at the start of New Krypton. Afterwards, however, he went back in his own direction, becoming a mass-murdering psychopath on a scale that Metallo would have never dreamed of.
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: When he explodes so does New Krypton.
- Expy: Reactron is an original villain, but during New Krypton he becomes an expy of Metallo, who Lane teams him up with.
- Final Solution: Becomes Lane and Luthor's solution to the Kryptonian problem, cheerfully annihilating almost the entire race in a single blast.
- Final Speech: Manages to rattle of a little speech as he dies, explaining what is about to happen to Supergirl and Alura.
- Flight: Capable of propelling himself into the air and floating there.
- Hand Blast: Emits his nuclear radiation through his hands, fingertips, and palms alike.
- The Heavy: During the four part Hunt for Reactron arc, and most of the issues leading up to it.
- He-Man Woman Hater: Expresses some very misogynistic sentiments.
- Hero Killer: After Luthor rebuilt him during New Krypton. With his new cybernetic parts and Gold Kryptonite heart, Reactron can mow down Kryptonians in droves. He fights Flamebird, Nightwing, and Supergirl evenly, losing only when Flamebird—a Kryptonian god—unleashes her full power, and in the end, murders almost the entirety of the Kryptonian race.
- I Surrender, Suckers: How he got into New Krypton to kill Zor-El. He does it again in order to blow up the planet.
- It's Personal: After numerous clashes, and particularly after the events on New Krypton, it was very personal for he and Kara.
- Jerkass: When not being a monster, he tends to just act like a dick.
- Jerkass Has a Point: When he calls out Superwoman on the fact that Just Following Orders is no excuse for what she's done and that in the end, she's as bad as he is.
- Kick Them While They Are Down: His whole motif after he gains the Gold K heart. He powers down Kryptonians, then irradiates them.
- Killed Off for Real: In the Post-Crisis, Pre-Flashpoint world he never recovered from his death in New Krypton.
- Lack of Empathy: Reactron cares only about himself and how famous his killing is going to make him.
- Made Of Titanium: Bullets bounce off of Reactron. So too, do most other attacks, including Kryptonian punches. It may not be the Nigh-Invulnerability of Superman himself, but there's no way around the fact that Benjamin Krull is a durable bastard.
- Majorly Awesome: Formerly Major Benjamin Martin Krull, US Army, and still referred to as such by Lane and Luthor.
- Man of Kryptonite: His Gold K heart deactivates a Kryptonian's powers for fifteen seconds, more than long enough for Reactron to finish the job with his radiation powers or his bare hands.
- Narcissist: Benjamin Krullen cares for no one but himself, and people are only toys he amuses himself with. So what if did he murder his ex-girlfriend? She dared to break up with him!
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: In his first Post-Crisis attack on her, Supergirl notes that for a guy with near limitless power, Reactron isn't thinking very big, or using his powers very intelligently. Cue the events of New Krypton.
- Nuclear Mutant: Emits nuclear radiation, and with help from Luthor, can transform into a bomb.
- Nuke 'em: Turns into a massive nuclear bomb.
- Psycho for Hire: When not operating as a member of the US Army, Krull falls into this territory.
- Retcon: Reactron was a Pre-Crisis Supergirl villain. Post-Crisis his early battles with the original Kara Zor-El were retconned into having been against Power Girl. There's also his appearance during the New Krypton arc, where he states his claims about being a captured region of space was just a lie on a whim.
- Sadist: Reactron really, really enjoys hurting people, to a level that's normally reserved for the likes of The Joker.
- Skull for a Head: A skull mask to be more precise.
- The Sociopath: Reactron hits every requirement for the trope and most of those for the actual personality disorder, with his sadism, short temper, rapid mood swings, and total lack of conviction in anything beyond himself.
- Sociopathic Soldier: Enjoys murder, torture, and the occasional threat of rape. Pre-Crisis, he was one of these even before becoming Reactron, having massacred an entire village as a sergeant in Vietnam.
- Star-Spangled Spandex: Reactron wears a suit like this. He claimed it was "made from a region of space", but later admitted this was untrue. The Pre-Crisis version wore a purple outfit with big five-pointed stars all over it.
- Suicide Attack: On New Krypton. Reactron let himself be captured and tortured, with the intention of letting Luthor convert him into a nuke so that he could blow the entire planet apart.
- Super-Speed: It's rarely mentioned, but much like Metallo, Reactron is able to keep up with Kryptonians, meaning that he has to possess at least a degree of super speed.
- Super-Strength: Between being supercharged by radiation and rebuilt with cybernetics, Reactron is strong enough to injure the likes of Supergirl, Flamebird, and Nightwing with his blows.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: They glow bright golden yellow when he uses his powers.
- Underestimating Badassery: Everybody does this to him during New Krypton, with very bad results.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Kara saves him from being tortured by Alura. He pays her back by detonating himself, killing her mother and her entire race in an attempt at getting to her. "Glad I got the whole family set."
- You Killed My Father: During the events of New Krypton Reactron kills Supergirl's father, Zor-El, in front of her. He later gets her mother, and the rest of her race.
The leader of the Worldkillers, a Quirky Miniboss Squad of Kryptonian-created Super Soldiers, and one of the first major enemies Supergirl faced in the New 52. It is heavily hinted that Kara's father Zor-el is her creator, as he is established as having worked on the Worldkillers and in Issue Zero what is either Reign or a being very much like her can be seen in stasis in a pod in his lab.
Tropes:
- BFS: Wields one initially- until Kara breaks it with her bare hands. Reign is not amused.
- Blood Knight: Reign loves to fight, and she's very good at it.
- Dark Action Girl
- Distaff Counterpart: She's basically a female, rather more articulate Doomsday with a bit of Zod mixed in.
- Evil Counterpart: Clearly positions herself as one in much of her dialogue to Kara. Especially since, if the hints as to her backstory are true, she's something of a daughter of Zor-el herself.
- Flying Brick: Her powers are explicitly identified as flight, strength, and invulnerability.
- Galactic Conqueror: What she was created to be. It's unclear if she and her companions have ''actually' conquered anything yet, but they make a good try for Earth.
- Humanoid Aliens: She's roughly human/Kryptonian in appearance, except for her unnaturally pale skin, solid black eyes, and Pointed Ears. Her face is also shaped subtly different from a human's, with a slightly reptillian cast reminiscent of Lord Voldemort.
- Implacable Man: Thanks to her Flying Brick powers, she can take massive hits and just keep coming.
- Just Between You and Me: She explains her backstory to Kara while they're fighting in New York City. Slightly deconstructed in that Kara is too busy defending herself to pay much attention.
- Master Swordsman: Reign's highly advanced combat training extends to swordsmanship, and she's lethal with her BFS.
- Mysterious Past: Reign has serious memory gaps that she's trying to fill in as she tries to conquer the galaxy.
- Obviously Evil: She's pretty sinister looking. For example, she has:
- Black Eyes of Evil: Jet-black eyes
- Evil Redhead: Fiery red hair.
- Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains / Stripperiffic: A rather skimpy outfit that's mostly composed of black leather.
- Pet the Dog: Evil and brutal she may be, but she values the lives of her fellow Worldkillers, and retreats rather than allow Kara to kill even one of them.
- Super-Soldier: She and her fellow Worldkillers were intended as the ultimate weapon by the Kryptonian scientists who created them.
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Retreats from Earth at the end of the arc that introduced her, but with the promise that she'll be back- and that there's one more Worldkiller out there that Supergirl doesn't know about...
- We Can Rule Together: Makes Supergirl this offer at their first meeting. When Kara refuses, Reign decides she wasn't worthy anyway.
An alien of unknown origin (speculated to be Tamaranean), Rendll was once in a warrior training academy known as the Crucible but was rejected. She later joined with her fellow rejects and formed a villainous team, only to be defeated by the psychic swords of Maxima.
- Fiery Redhead: A rebellious teen thrown out of a military academy who wields fire powers.
- Flight: Rendll can fly, presumably in the same manner as Starfire: by absorbing ultraviolet radiation that is then converted to pure energy.
- Hand Blast: Can project energy from her hands.
- Playing with Fire: Can psionically control flame.
One of the most perplexing and intriguing enemies in Supergirl's Rogues Gallery, in that name has been shared by three vastly different individuals across the Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis DCU.
The original Satan Girl of the Pre-Crisis DC Universe was an evil doppelganger of Supergirl created by Red Kryptonite, and she attempted to kill Kara and the female members of the Legion of Super-Heroes to attain dominance.
Post-Crisis, Satan Girl was Dolores Pratchett, an 18th Century Satanist who fought against Matrix and Linda Danvers, and the name would be given to S'tanicule Gyrstress, an alien demon who fought the Post-Crisis Kara.
There were plans for a fourth iteration to appear in the sequel to Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade.
Tropes:
- Anti-Villain: The duplicate Kara and Dolores straddle the lines between Type II and Type III.
- Arch-Enemy: The Dolores Satan Girl was one to Ember, the Earth Angel of Fire who preceded Matrix and Linda.
- At Least I Admit It: Dolores' whole shtick with Ember is that she's disgusted at the idea of Ember becoming an Earth Angel even though she was no better than Dolores, and that Ember tries to act Holier Than Thou. Although Dolores is also a child murderer, a racist, and considers Ember a creature because she was her slave. There's also her bitterness at the fact that Ember was saved because Dolores' daughter Rachel sacrificed herself to save her and the two became one. Dolores is angry because Rachel became a part of their feud, and when Ember was damned, so was Rachel.
- Back from the Dead: Dolores' first actual appearance was when she got revived by the Chaos Stream.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Justified. Being Kara Zor-El's evil duplicate, she's basically dark desires and impulses made flesh with no conscience to hold them back, so she delights in evil for the sake of evil.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Dolores. She became Satan Girl because her daughter Rachel died trying to save Ember, and the two were reborn as the new Earth Angel of Fire. Dolores' plans were all meant to try and separate her daughter from Ember so she could have her back, but it just led to Rachel's damnation when Ember killed Dolores. Thankfully, the intervention of Supergirl not only stopped Dolores' rampage, but allowed Ember and Rachel to enter Heaven.
- Evil Counterpart: Pre-Crisis Satan Girl to Supergirl.
- Evil Redhead: Dolores and S'tanicule.
- Hate Plague: The crimson plague S'tanicule unleashes to make the world love her also turns people into bloodthirsty monsters.
- Horned Humanoid: With Hot as Hell, S'tanicule is the most satanic looking of all the Satan Girls.
- Mad God: S'tanicule Gyrstress is the Brocian goddess of love and death.
- The Power of Love: An evil variant.
- Make Wrong What Once Went Right: A very weird subversion. Dolores' magic ends up switching Supergirl and Ember, and she tries to convince Ember that she can live if she lets Supergirl die in her place. This is all to try and circumvent her daughter Rachel's eventual death, rebirth, and damnation, so this becomes a slight case of Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
- Mama Bear: Dolores is a very evil version.
- Morality Pet: Dolores' daughter Rachel.
- Mythology Gag: When Dolores Pratchett originally became Satan Girl before her first death, she wore the Pre-Crisis Satan Girl's costume.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: She calls herself Satan Girl.
- Pyrrhic Victory: In a way, Dolores got what she wanted. Even though she dies again and doesn't necessarily get Rachel back, her actions helped pave the way for Rachel's ascension into Heaven, so she's no longer suffering.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: All the Pre-Crisis Satan Girl wanted to do was live, albeit at the expense of the lives of Supergirl and the female Legionnaires.
- Woman Scorned: Dolores Pratchett taught her slave Ember all there was to know about the Dark Arts, but when Ember slept with her husband, Dolores denounced her publically as a witch.
- Would Harm a Child: Dolores Pratchett attained ungodly power after sacrificing children.
- Ye Olde Butchered English: Dolores originally spoke like this, but when her enemy Ember switched places with Supergirl, she opted to drop the formal "thees" and such.
- "The sacred gift of chaos is like a fractal, appearing infinite to the simple, but shaped in a complex mandala beyond their comprehension, and so useless to them... but not to me."
Eve Aries was a founding member of the Legion of Super-Villains in the 31st Century. A native of Saturn's moon Titan, Eve was born with telepathic abilities which she used for crime. Thanks to the fractured nature of time and space in the DC Universe, there have been multiple versions of Saturn Queen from different universes and timelines. One version traveled to the past alongside Cosmic King and Lightning Lord, where they raised Superman and Batman from childhood and used them to take over the 21st Century, in an effort to make sure the future they came from would happen. Once Superman and Batman were able to undo the damage the LSV created, it seemed Saturn Queen was erased from existence...
Until, during Infinite Crisis, this Saturn Queen's universe was briefly restored along with the original Multiverse. When her Earth was destroyed again, Saturn Queen somehow survived and was lost inside the Phantom Zone. There she found a displaced version of Ultraman, the evil Antimatter Universe version of Superman. After brainwashing him into believing she was his mother, the two escaped from the Phantom Zone into the bottle city of Kandor and took over. When Supergirl and Power Girl appeared in Kandor as Flamebird and Nightwing, Saturn Queen tried to brainwash Supergirl into becoming Ultraman's bride.
- The Corrupter: She, alongside Cosmic King and Lightning Lord, successfully turned Superman and Batman into murderous tyrants who enslaved the Earth. In Kandor, she also tried to brainwash Supergirl, but the effect of the Kryptonite poisoning Kara was still suffering from made Eve unable to keep a grasp on Kara's mind.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: When Batman was accidentally killed in Absolute Power, Eve is shown crying over his body, implying in some twisted way she actually did love him and Superman as her sons. Later, she begs Supergirl to spare Ultraman's life by giving her the information she wants about Argo City.
- Evil Counterpart: To Saturn Girl.
- Evil Matriarch: She took on the role of raising Kal-El and Bruce Wayne from childhood with Cosmic King and Lightning Lord as their surrogate fathers. It seemed the years she spent as their mother made her develop a taste for being a parent, as she'll try to brainwash people into thinking she is their mother in order to use their power. She's even referred to as "The Holy Mother" while in control of Kandor.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Especially when she takes control of Kandor.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Of the Kandor arc.
- Mind Rape: Has lobotomized and brainwashed many heroes, including the Martian Manhunter and the Legion of Super-Heroes.
- Sole Survivor: Of her universe. How and why she survived is never explained.
- Portrayed by Faye Dunaway"I am no mere sorceress, Cat Grant, but the heir to Ataxia. To chaos itself."
Initially appearing in the Supergirl movie and its comic adaptation, Selena is a witch who tried to take over the town of Midvale with her powers and the Omegahedron, a device from Argo City. Her assistant is Bianca, and her mentor is a warlock named Nigel. Selena also has a one-sided crush on Supergirl's love interest, Ethan, and plans to make him hers by any means necessary.
In Supergirl (Rebirth) Selena appears as a sorceress and member of the Fatal Five, having been held in jail in Limbo Town for crimes against Nigel Grimm.
- Artifact of Doom: Subverted. Selena thinks the Omegahedron is a conduit for the power of shadow, but it's amplifying her existing powers and is also used to power Argo City. Played straight with the Burundi Wand, an artifact of pure evil that amplifies the Omegahedron's powers.
- Canon Immigrant: Supergirl (Rebirth) introduced its own version of her.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Selena plans world domination, openly studies black magic, and hates light.
- Cold Iron: Supergirl stops Selena at the amusement park by surrounding her with metal posts.
- Evil Is Petty: Selena torments a girl Nigel is interested in just to hurt him, and to gain followers. She's furious when Linda accidentally makes Ethan fall in love with her and vows to make her as miserable as Supergirl.
- Evil Sorcerer: Selena is a female example; her ambition is to become a Sorcerous Overlord.
- Invisible Monsters: Selena sends an invisible demon to fight Supergirl and reduce the movie's special effects budget, though it's briefly visible at the end of the fight.
Sylvia Shadow was an alleged university researcher. Kara -who was working back then as a Student Advisor in New Athens Experimental School in Florida- began to investigate her after several students participants in Sylvia’s research programme start complaining of narcolepsy. She discovered that Sylvia's real name was Shyla Kor-Onn, a Phantom Zone escapee whose experiments involved draining the life energy from participants, and who tried to drain Supergirl's powers. Kara beat her and tricked her back into the Phantom Zone.
However Shyla managed to persuade Kandorians officials to release her, claiming that Kara Zor-El was in cahoots with Lex Luthor. Shyla tried to frame Kara by using Lex Luthor's mental recordings in which Lesla-Lar impersonated Supergirl many years before.
Tropes:
- Green and Mean: Supergirl's villains apparently love wearing green.
- Heel–Face Turn: Shayla is a selfish villain in all of her appearances save her final one, where she has abruptly started using her talents for good and apologizes for her past crimes.
- Karma Houdini: Supergirl denounces Shyla's crimes and manages to prove she framed her. Shyla got away scot-free, though.
- Laborious Laziness: Shayla got sent to the Phantom Zone before the destruction of her planet because she wanted to be an astronaut but decided to use her energy draining device to pass the physical rather than devote her energy to fairly passing the test. Someone died when she accidentally took too much energy, and Shayla got sentenced to the Phantom Zone.
- Manipulative Bastard: She was very cunning and an expert at manipulating people.
A twenty-eight year old trillionaire who lives on a space station and rarely ever sets foot on Earth. When Supergirl landed on earth in the New 52 he captured her and held her on board his space station hoping to contract some of her Kryptonian blood. An explosion during Supergirl's escape left most of his body destroyed yet his assistant Miss Thorn was able to graft him onto the body of "The Brain", an organism of basic nerves and a brain, to keep him alive.
Tropes:
- And I Must Scream: Supergirl defeats him in their second encounter by having Sanctuary encase him in crystal. He is possibly dead after Supergirl and Power Girl destroy Sanctuary after it turned evil.
- Archenemy: In the New 52 for Supergirl.
- Bad Boss: When one of his henchmen defects tries and help Kara escape his clutches, he does not hesitate to order him gunned down along with her, even knowing Supergirl is bulletproof.
- Bald of Evil: After his transformation.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Tries to be the Big Bad for Supergirl in her New 52 series, but ultimately turns out to be a Starter Villain with only a second appearance where he most likely died.
- Body Horror: After getting caught in the explosion of his space base he's left a charred torso missing an eye. His transformation detailed below also seems to have entirely replaced his internal anatomy, leaving only his remaining human skin and eye.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's the CEO of a company that has a contract with the world's superpowers for first salvage rights of any alien objects. He's very disdainful of any complaints from the world's leaders, confident in his own entitlement, and very condescending over putting the resources to his own use instead of them being "squandered" by good people like Kara.
- Emergency Transformation: He had to be merged with an alien blob after Supergirl's escape left him in pieces. He actually really appreciates the transformation because it made him stronger than ever.
- Loincloth: What he wears after his transformation. It shows off his new body quite well.
- Rubber Man: His transformation gave him stretching powers, shapeshifting, and invulnerability.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: He used to be one.
- Smug Snake: His defeats can be attributed to overestimating himself and underestimating Kara.
- Unknown Rival: He is obsessed with Supergirl. Kara doesn't give a damn about him, and after Sanctuary's destruction she all but forgot about Tycho.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He's left frozen in crystal in the Sanctuary. When Santuary is destroyed, there is no mention of him, leaving readers to assume that he died along with Santuary. Lampshaded in issue #23, where Supergirl fights robot clones of people from her memories and the Tycho robot says that they had to go deep into her subconscious to find memories of him; implying that he must pretty forgettable and bringing up him being left for dead.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Before his transformation.
Starfire was a wicked woman and leader of an organized crime family comprised solely of women which bedeviled Supergirl in a storyline published in Adventure Comics #402-407.
After using her male minion to clean naive, rich women out and amass a fortune, she is ready to take the next step in her "lets' rule the world" plan. However she needs to destroy all the superheroes first, so her colleague Dr. Kangle has developed a pill which removes metahuman powers. And Starfire plans to use her boy toy and henchman Derek Ames to test the pill on Supergirl.
Starfire was a real thorn in Supergirl's side, but she completely disappeared after being captured in Adventure Comics #407.
She has nothing to do with Teen Titans member Starfire or similarly named sword-wielding hero Starfire
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Tropes:
- Bad Boss: As far as she is concerned, all of her minions are disposable.
- Eyepatch of Power: Starfire wears a rhinestoned eye patch.
- Put on a Bus: In Adventure Comics #407 -published in 1971-, Supergirl captures Starfire, who swears that they'll "be seeing each other again". That was her last appearance.
- Take Over the World: This is her ultimate goal.
- You Have Failed Me: Inverted when her henchman Derek carries his mission out and she has him shot anyways.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In Adventure Comics #404, Starfire's henchman Derek Ames succeeds at nullifying Supergirl's powers, but his boss has him shot anyway when she fears he will expose her operation.
Deceilia is an alien born with a strange mutation that earned her emmity on an unknown world. Temperamental and savage, traits only exasperated ever since her parents died in a car accident, Deceilia grew to harbor a deep hatred for authority figures; men and women of power and/or influence. She wreaked havoc on her planet's ruling class until she was banished by their bigotry and intolerance. Deceilia arrived on Earth at some point in her later life, having been captured and restrained by the D.E.O. Mokkari came up with a memory-control system to put her under the Department's control, and Director Bones decided to send her out under orders of causing enough mayhem to lure Supergirl out. Deceilia broke free from Mokkari's mind-control quickly and started to attack innocent civilians, which quickly earned Supergirl's attention.
- Immune to Mind Control: Her mental reprogramming wore off as quickly as it was applied to her, showcasing an amazing resilience to psychic or mental manipulation. Given her irrational emotion problems one could reasonably argue this is due to Insanity Immunity.
- Mutants: She was born with different colored skin and enhanced abilities compared to the rest of her people. It's shown by the brief glimpse into her past that she did not like her status as a "freak", possibly from persecution.
- Never My Fault: Her parents died in a hover car accident and she killed the drivers of the other car in a vengeful rage, but acts like being rightfully charged and exiled for murder was just the elites looking for an excuse to persecute her. Her attitude in general seems to be doing whatever she wants to others on an emotional basis and justifying herself as defying oppression.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: She proclaims she's fighting against anyone that would abuse their power over others to oppress but she's a superpowered being killing anyone she believes fits that criteria, including children of the elite, and callously kills a servant for merely working for the rich. She dismisses anyone that would disagree and pass judgement on her as another authority trying to oppress her.
- Rebellious Spirit: Has a deep hatred for all authority figures; men and women of power and/or influence. She doesn't really have a rational reason for this and is seems to just be using bucking authority as an excuse to dismiss any responsibility or compassion for others to kill anyone that crosses her.
- Super-Reflexes: She's reactive enough to catch a flying Supergirl.
- Super-Speed: Fast enough to catch Supergirl out of the air in mid-flight.
- Super Strong: As a child, Deceilia was strong enough to kill full grown adults barehanded. Having matured to adulthood, she's strong enough to fight a Kryptonian on equal footing.
- Super-Toughness: Resilient enough to resist and trade blows with a Kryptonian without physical injury.
A dark-haired, Kryptonite duplicate of Supergirl who called herself Belinda Zee, as she is "Linda Version B." Belinda is everything Linda Lee isn't. That is, she's popular and beloved by her classmates and teachers, and she's also a smug, petty, and manipulative bully, the complete opposite of Linda. So naturally, if Linda wants people to like her, Belinda wants Linda to be hated. Not necessarily a villain, she falls under Chaotic Neutral, and her emotional state of mind is considered very unstable. We later find out she has horribly low self esteem and actually wants to be nice, but feels totally backwards.
Tropes:
- Affably Evil / Faux Affably Evil: Depending on how she's feeling.
- Alpha Bitch: Although the only people she seems to bully are Linda and Lena Thorul.
- And I Must Scream: In the final issue Belinda is turned into a crystal statue. She cannot talk or move but she is fully sentient and -worst of all- she can feel pain.
- Animals Hate Him: She gets mauled by Streaky.
- Ax-Crazy: What she degenerates into.
- Being Evil Sucks: The fifth issue revealed she's actually very unhappy with being an asshole. Deep down, she truly wants to be nice like Linda but she's not sure how she can do that. That would explain her Pet the Dog moment mentioned below.
- Body Horror: Promotional art for the non-produced Cosmic Adventures in the 9th Grade showed Belinda's face had started to crack after she was turned into a crystal statue.
- Chaotic Neutral: Invoked as Word of God described her as such.
- Composite Character: She has a few obvious Bizarro elements, but is thematically closer to "Dark Supergirl".
- Dark is Chaotic Neutral: She starts out with a Supergirl costume containing an inverted color scheme and a backwards S, but when she becomes Superior Girl she's wearing a a Supergirl costume with purple and black, as well as a dark mask.
- Deadpan Snarker: Every word out of her mouth practically radiates with cynical snark. Not even being crystallized can turn it off.
- Didn't Think This Through: She uses her "Superior Vision" on Streaky, and accidentally turns him into a sabertooth tiger.Superior Girl: That was not my best plan.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: She considers Alura Zor-El to be her mother, and is genuinely heartbroken when what she thinks is Alura doesn't consider her to be her daughter.
- Evil Counterpart: As far as an evil counterpart goes, Belinda didn't start out as a supervillain so much as she was an asshole who felt the need to wreck Linda's life. She even helps Linda in the fourth issue with nothing to gain. She doesn't become a straightforward villain until the fifth issue of Cosmic Adventures and only then because she's being manipulated.
- Expy:
- Of Bizarro. Though she's not as overt as most Bizarro counterparts go, simply in that she's an artificial creation that is the opposite of Supergirl in terms of morality without the chalk like skin, limited intellect, and messed up language skills. Had the creators been able to release the sequel series, Belinda's physical appearance would've become more Bizarro-like thanks to her transformation into crystal.
- The writers also considered her as one to Veronica Lodge to match Linda's Betty Cooper.
- Her black hair and last name starting with "Z," plus her egotism, make her reminiscent of General Zod.
- Being a Kryptonite-based duplicate of Supergirl she retains a resemblance to the original Satan Girl (who was created from Red Kryptonite).
- False Friend: She once pretended she was Linda's best friend to drive a wedge between her and Lena.
- For the Evulz: Why she makes Linda squirm so much. Other than that, this is exemplified in the third issue when she goes around empowering kids with the meteor fragments, knowing full well she's creating havoc.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Secretly has a huge inferiority complex and hates Linda because she believes Linda thinks she's better than her.
- It's All About Me: She interrupts a discussion being held between Linda and Lena and says they're talking about her. When Linda says they were discussing Superman, Belinda she says she automatically assumed they were talking about her because she's just the awesome.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: She spent most of the miniseries pushing Linda's buttons just to screw with her, but after admitting how unhappy she really is, Belinda's manipulated into giving in to her baser emotions and decides to become Superior Girl.
- Manipulative Bitch: When she's not flat out antagonizing Linda, she's acting overly kind and supportive as a front for a more underhanded scheme.
- Pet the Dog: In one moment of genuine kindness she makes Lena Thorul forget who Supergirl really is. Belinda had nothing to gain from this and actually helped Linda with no provocation.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She delivers one to Linda when they first meet. Linda's at first excited at the idea of having another Kryptonian for a friend, but Belinda just says she's a frumpy klutz who's desire to be a superhero is totally not cool. Linda then realizes she's a supervillain.
- Sanity Slippage: Steadily becomes quite unhinged after she becomes Superior Girl.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Belinda sports a violet outfit after becoming Superior Girl.
- Small Name, Big Ego: She brags about being totally awesome in every regard, when she's really a miserable bully who can't even do nice things without feeling "backwards" while doing so.
- Smug Snake: She's brainwashed into acting like a duck in the second issue, and in the fourth issue she gets attacked by Streaky. She's then turned into a statue by Mr. Mxyzptlk in issue six.
- Stepford Smiler: Despite thinking she's completely awesome, she's really miserable and doesn't know why. She even admits at one point that she really does want to be nice like Linda, but feels her emotions are totally backwards.
- Super-Empowering: She flies around with a piece of Red Kryptonite, giving powers to most of the Stanhope Elementary at the same rate as Lena Luther uses her machine to remove them.
- Taken for Granite: And sentient.
- Teacher's Pet: Although the teachers are all imps of the 5th Dimension who've been secretly using Belinda.
- Tragic Villain: She goes from a smug asshole to a rampaging psycho to a poor, pathetic, and broken girl throughout the story.
- Trapped in Villainy: As she puts it, Belinda doesn't want to be nasty and mean all the time. She tries to be nice like Linda, but for some reason it makes her feel horrible compared to when she's being deliberately petty and spiteful and feeling good about it.Belinda: It's like I'm totally backwards!
- Unwitting Pawn: Of Mr. Mxyzptlk.
- Villainous Breakdown: When Linda's mom (who is also technically her mom) doesn't recognize her, Belinda breaks down into tears and starts screaming she's "Number One."
- Vitriolic Best Buds: There was shades of this in the fourth issue.
- Woman Scorned: An odd variant. When she meets Supragirl, Linda's counterpart from an Alternate Timeline, Belinda flips and thinks she's being replaced, screaming she was the first, and therefor original, Supergirl doppelganger.Supergirl: If you're number one, and I was here first, what does that make me?Superior Girl: ZERO!
A mysterious woman wearing an S-shield whom Post-Crisis Supergirl encounters in New Krypton. She at first seems to be one of the heroes, but is eventually revealed as a villain when she not only attacks Supergirl, but saves Reactron from her, killing the supervillain's ex-girlfriend in order to cover up his survival. She is actually Lucy Lane, implanted in New Krypton as General Lane's spy.
Tropes:
- Alliterative Name: Lucy Lane.
- Attack Its Weak Point: The spheres on her uniform stabilize her energies. Tear them off and she'll blow up.
- Badass Cape
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Wears the S-shield. Supergirl rips it off of her.
- Cain and Abel: With Lois
- Clothes Make the Superman: Her costume, a magic garment created by Mirabai the witch, is what grants her powers to her, at least prior to her first resurrection.
- Daddy's Little Villain: Driven into evil by her father's emotional abuse.
- Dark Action Girl: Lucy was already a soldier before her father had her subjected to the experiments that gave her her powers.
- Death Is Cheap: Seemingly killed and resurrected several times now, thanks to her existence as an energy being.
- The Dragon: To General Lane alongside Luthor and Codename: Assassin.
- Driven by Envy: Of Lois.
- Energy Beings: After her first death Lucy became a being of raw magical energy which can only be forced back into humanoid form by her suit.
- Evil Knockoff: Meant to stir up anti-Kryptonian sentiment, and turn people against the House of El.
- Face–Heel Turn: Lucy was originally a good guy.
- Freudian Excuse: Years of emotional abuse from Sam Lane made Lucy into the monster she became.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Lucy Lane, the young sister of Lois Lane, is revealed to be Superwoman, who at first appears to be one of the heroes, but is eventually revealed as a villain when she not only attacks Supergirl, but saves Reactron from her, killing the supervillain's ex-girlfriend in order to cover up his survival. She is working for her father General Lane, implanted in New Krypton as a spy. Her Backstory reveals that since the moment she was born, she has felt overshadowed by her big sister Lois. Lucy always felt that Lois outperformed her, overshadowed her and was more loved by their father. Lucy never blames Lois, but she blames her parents Sam and Ella. Feeling that by maybe being closer to Lois her father would pay more attention to her, Lucy moved to the same city, but this came at the same time that Lois and her father grew apart over Superman. After her father's death, Lucy joined the U.S. Army. Lucy rose quickly in the ranks. During the Amazon attack on the United States, Lucy was nearly killed by two Amazons but was saved by Codename: Assassin. Awakening in Project 7734, her father is able to convince Lucy to put on the Superwoman suit, which possesses mystical qualities. Her sole motivation is to make her father proud of her and excuse her crimes by saying she was just following her orders. When she is captured and imprisoned for her crimes, her sister visits her. Lois tells Lucy she disgusts her, that she was once luminescent, a wonderful girl who always smiled even when things were at their worst. But since their father died she changed. Lois thought Lucy joined the military to honor their father, but Lois wonders when she stopped being her sister and started being this monster. When Lucy tries to justify her crimes by saying she was following their father's orders, Lois calls that a pitiful excuse, and calls Lucy out on allowing herself to be become a killing machine to impress a man that did not even care for them when they were kids. She tells Lucy she cannot forgive their father for his crimes or Lucy for being so stupid.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Her first death causes the Kryptonian DNA in her costume to fuse with her own, effectively making her a human/Kryptonian hybrid in the vein of Superboy.
- In the Hood: Wears a hood and mask to conceal her identity
- Just Following Orders: Tries to use this as an excuse for her crimes. Neither Supergirl nor Lois is buying it. For that matter, even Reactron laughs at her hypocrisy.
- Kick the Dog: Murdering a scientist who was trying to inform General Lane of her unstable physical condition.
- Majorly Awesome: Holds the rank of major.
- Military Brat
- Morality Pet: For all her father's abuse of her, she's one of the few people he's shown to care about.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Receives a harsh one from Lois after her resurrection.
- Sanity Slippage: The experiments her father performed on her and the trauma of dying and coming back drove Lucy totally over the edge.
- Slasher Smile: Regularly, and particularly after her resurrection.
- Sociopathic Soldier: Already a cold-blooded killer, Lucy's resurrection made her into a psycho in the same vein as Reactron.
- Superpower Lottery: Can fake all the classic Krytponian powers.
- That Woman Is Dead: By proxy. As far as Lois is concerned, Lucy is dead and Superwoman is the thing that killed her.
- Transhuman Treachery: While loyal to her father, Lucy shows exactly zero empathy for anyone else following her resurrection, murdering people at random if they so much as irritate her.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Will do anything to make her father show her affection.
Molly and her twin, Jane, were born on Apokolips and were meant to become members of the Female Furies. The two girls fled from Apokolips and arrived in England on Earth sometime in the middle ages. As a New God, Molly had the power of immortality and she also had the ability to resurrect the recently dead. She used her abilities to help people during the middle ages around the time of the Black Death. Her sister, Jane, was powerless and died from the plague. Molly had overused her abilities and couldn't use them to save Jane. She cursed God for her loss and hoped to use her powers to get back at him. She wandered the planet alone for centuries planning. Centuries later, Molly, as Twilight, became the enemy of God's agents on Earth, including Supergirl.
- The Ageless: As a New god, Twilight does not age.
- Casting a Shadow: Has the ability to manipulate darkness.
- Defector from Decadence: Molly and her twin sister fled Apokolips and hid themselves on medieval Earth.
- Flight: Possesses the ability to fly.
- Healing Hands: Has the ability to resurrect the recently dead.
- Rage Against the Heavens: After exhausting herself and her power, Molly was unable to save Jane from the plague. Enraged, Molly cursed the Presence for her sister's loss and wandered the Earth while swearing revenge on the deity.
- Super-Speed: Like all New Gods, Twilight possesses superhuman speed.
- Super-Strength: Like all New Gods, Twilight possesses superhuman strength.
The most mysterious enemy Post-Crisis Linda Danvers ever fought, a powerful, demonic being who made vague hints about a previous battle with "a" Supergirl that left him trapped in a dying dimension. While still trapped in this dimension, he hunted down and murdered various Supergirls of different realities trying to find the one who originally fought him, and had a hand in the Pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El meeting Linda Danvers.
Tropes:
- Evil Is Petty: He is so obsessed with killing Supergirls that he doesn't care if killing one of them will end the multiverse.
- Expy: Of Gog from The Kingdom, who killed Supermen of different realities.
- Hero Killer: Xenon hunts down and murders Supergirls. He trapped, chained and almost murdered Earth-One Kara Zor-El, the Supergirl who could move planets and almost killed the Anti-Monitor.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: Xenon will only refer to the Supergirl who defeated him as "She," with every other woman to wear the shield he refers to as "It."
- Mysterious Past: We have no idea who Xenon was or where he came from before Many Happy Returns.
- Serial Killer: Of Supergirls throughout the Multiverse and Hypertime. It's implied he's already killed a good number of them, and we're shown him murdering a slightly South American-esque Supergirl in Many Happy Returns.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With his sometimes ally the Fatalist, a man who claims to be the Spectre's opposite.
- Unknown Rival: It's implied the Supergirl he hates so much was Linda Danvers, but a Linda far older and more powerful. That Xenon is deliberately unclear as to which Supergirl he's talking about frustrates Linda and Kara.
