In the 30th Century, Querl Dox was born on Colu, a direct descendant of the original Brainiac and Vril Dox II. After centuries of disuse, the title "Brainiac" was taken by Querl's father, and eventually was given to Querl at the age of twelve. He was the fifth to ever hold the title. Making many breakthroughs in the science of time travel during university as a young boy thanks to his mentor Circadia Senius, Querl was invited to join the Time Institute in Metropolis on Earth. He became close friends with fellow time genius, Rond Vidar. He invented the Time Bubble, which became the primary mode of time travel for the Legion of Super-Heroes. While using a Time Viewer to see the dawn of time, the Green Lantern Corps attacked him, but he was saved by the newly formed Legion of Super-Heroes. Impressed by the team, and using his code-name of Brainiac 5, he tried out and joined the Legion alongside Supergirl. He went on to collaborate with the first Invisible Kid, Lyle Norg, to invent the Legion Flight Rings.
Brainiac 5 is usually portrayed as being anti-social, cold towards others, aloof and self-involved. The reasoning for this is his heightened intelligence which always surpasses those around him, making it difficult for him to relate communication his point to others. Through sensible, appropriate dialogue, Brainiac 5 found he had to "dumb down" his conversations so his peers could understand his ramblings. Still Brainiac 5 has shown a dedicated valor to his friends and the Legion, he has enjoyed being the resident brainchild on the team. Brainiac 5's career has had its ups and downs. He invented the robot,Computo, which rebelled and caused trouble for the Legion, including cause the death of one of Triplicate Girl's bodies.
Reboot: Earth-247
Brainiac 5 / 5.1 (Earth-247)
The Querl Dox of Earth-247 was awarded the title of Brainiac. Before Querl, his mother, a famous scientist for Colu, held the title. She abandoned Querl on his day of birth and he inherited her research. He was speaking by the time he was an infant and functionally working as a scientist by a toddler. Querl's research conflicted with Colu's and he was sent to do research for R.J. Brande. Querl destroyed several of Brande's labs, and when Brande could no longer afford to keep him on staff, Brande sent him to work at the Time Institute on Talus. While there, he met Rond Vidar. Querl received a draft notice from Colu to join the Legion of Super-Heroes. He was so wrapped up in his work, that he ignored it. Once he was noticed as missing, he was brought into the Legion.
Joining the Legion as Brainiac 5, he was instrumental in many cases. He saved the Earth from the White Triangle, healed Triad, cured Andromeda's lead poisoning, and created the anti-gravity metal that was used in the Legion Flight Rings. He developed a crush on Andromeda, but after she was seemingly killed, he threw himself into his work. He made some new discoveries, and used them to travel back in time to save the hero, Valor. He was arrested by the United Planets, however, because time travel was illegal. He was pardoned when R.J. Brande became President and legalized time travel. Brainy and a group of Legionnaires were exiled to the 20th Century by the Emerald Eye. With his technological sources limited, the Legionnaires were trapped for several months.
Threeboot: Earth-Prime
Brainiac 5 (Earth-Prime)
On Earth-Prime, Brainiac 5 is an influential figure with leadership designs that include usurping leadership of the United Planets. Early on Brainiac 5 comes into conflict with Legion leader Cosmic Boy about the way he has been leading the team. Brainiac 5 is visited by Lemnos and is the only Legionnaire to later recall his face. Brainiac 5 broadcasts a conversation between Cosmic Boy and Sun Boy, causing a fight between the Legionnaires on his side and Cosmic Boy's supporters. Cosmic Boy is called back to his home planet and Brainiac 5 assumes leadership of the Legion. They reconciled later and moved forward as allies. Dream Girl was killed during a Terra Firma attack and Brainiac 5 recovered her body and became obsessed with finding a way to resurrect her. He captured Lemnos to try and revive her, but the experiment destroyed her physical body. It did however leave her consciousness alive in Brainiac 5's dreams.
Later, Brainy's intellect turned the tide in the battle with the Dominators. Brainy constructed a "bomb" , which was really a Phantom Zone projector, which Mon-el flew into the core of the Dominion Homeworld. He also created an anti-lead serum for Mon-El. Brainiac 5 invented a Chronexus that could view the past, and even open temporary time travel portals. With the help of Evolvo Lad, he used the Chronexus to send Supergirl back to the 21st Century. After Cosmic Boy's disappearance, he manipulated events that resulted in the arrest ofMekt Ranzz, boosting Timber Wolf's powers, and the recruitment of possible Legionnaire E.R.G. 1. Still, his ultimate goal was to bring Dream Girl back to life. Brainiac 5 spent more and more time sleeping to be with her. After a time, he proposed in the dream realm. After inventing a machine that could upload the Legionnaires' minds into an information-based reality and being forced to recreate their bodies, he created a body for Dream Girl as well, downloading her consciousness from his mind into the new body. He then invited the Legion to attend their wedding.
Retroboot: New Earth
Brainiac 5 (New Earth)
The event known as Infinite Crisis brought together the Legions of all three continuities. Afterward, the current Legion of Super-Heroes has returned to being a close approximation of the original Pre-Crisis team prior to the Five Year Later. Due to the removal of the original Supergirl and the retcon addition of the latest Kara Zor-El, Brainiac 5's past was changed. He joined the Legion as before, but without Supergirl accompanying him. Brainiac 5 would later meet the current Kara Zor-El when she was stranded weeks later in the future. He was against the idea of letting her stay. She spent an extended period of time with the team, most notably when Satan Girl attacked Earth. The two teamed up to defeat her, sparking a young romance, before Kara returned home. During this period, Brainiac 5 intentionally rigged the founding Legionnaires' time bubble to visit Superboy rather than Superman. This resulted in Superboy's historic joining of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Rejoining the Legion after the Magic Wars, Brainy used his knowledge to help protect the galaxy once more by organizing several secret missions among the Legionnaires to help protect time. He sent a team back to the 21st Century with lightning rods to retrieve the essence of Bart Allen after his death as a secret weapon for the future. He also had arranged for Starman, Thom Kallor, to place Superboy's (Kon-El) body in the Kryptonian chrysalis in the 21st Century to be resurrected in the 31st.
Later, Earth Man caused a wave of xenophobia to spread on Earth. Brainy sent a Time Bubble to retrieve Superman for assistance. Deported due to his heritage, Brainy took over leadership of Colu to deter the United Planets from going to war with Earth. Superman finally arrived in the 31st Century months later, and helped defeat Earth Man's Justice League. When Superboy-Prime and the Legion of Super-Villains went on a rampage, Brainiac Five was used his previous contingencies of Superboy and Kid Flash to help turn the tide. He also recruited the Legion of Earth-247 and Earth-Prime to help. The Legionnaires eventually defeated the villains, though Earth-Man was forced by the government to join the Legion. Brainy made a special flight ring to keep Earth-Man under control but eventually awarded him a standard one. Presently, Brainiac 5 is investigating the mysterious Harmonia Li, a self proclaimed student of time travel and immortal.
Major Story Arcs
Original Continuity: New Earth
A insane Brainiac 5
The computer tyrants of Colu, in the humanoid form known as Pulsar Stargrave, claimed to be his real father, and caused Brainy to go mad for a time. Stargrave used Brainy to frame Ultra Boy for the murder of An Ryd, but this was cleared up when Chameleon Boy discovered that Stargrave was the true culprit. Still mad, Brainiac 5 accidentally created the vastly powerful Infinite Man. Then he used the Miracle Machine to create the unstoppable Omega, which destroyed Legion Headquarters.
Matter-Eater Lad saved the day, but it drove him crazy as well. Both Legionnaires were admitted into psychiatric care. Brainiac 5 was temporarily released to help the Legion of Substitute Heroes defeat theLeague of Super-Assassins. With the aid of Saturn Girl, she was able to purge Brainy's mind of the madness. He later went on to cure Matter-Eater Lad, as well as Danielle Foccart, the sister of the second Invisible Kid. After many years of Legion service, Brainy was forced to resign due to insubordination for his conspiracy within the Legion to kill the Time Trapper.
Five years later
Brainiac 5 (Five Years Later)
After the Magic Wars, Brainiac 5 was still a top scientist assisting the United Planets. When Glorith defeated the Time Trapper and took his place in history, one of the biggest side-effects was that Supergirl was erased from the Legion's history and replaced with Laurel Gand. Laurel stayed on with the Legion continuously, unlike Supergirl, and she and Brainy enjoyed a lengthy and healthy romance when they were young. However, he began to neglect her because he could not justify ignoring his responsibilities for romantic pursuits. In this new history, after the conspiracy to defeat Glorith and his subsequent expulsion from the Legion, he left Earth for Colu without consulting Laurel and their relationship ended.
Zero Hour
Brainiac 5 traveled to Winath to help try to find a cure for the Validus plague. He then rejoined the Legion when they reformed after facing Roxxas the Butcher. Although both he and Laurel had rejoined, he felt uncomfortable around her, because she had found love with Brainy's best friend, Rond Vidar. An incident with Glorith left Brainiac 5's body aged, causing him to have to wear a special suit to allow mobility. He later went into hiding with the team when they were framed for aiding the Khunds. Brainiac 5 was wiped out of existence by the time fluctuations of Zero Hour, along with an SW6 'time clone' who had surfaced months prior among theLegionnaires.
Reboot: Earth-247
Brainiac 5 becomes Brainiac 5.1
After returning to the 30th Century, Brainy and others helped Andromeda investigate an anomaly in space. Once out of the anomaly, Brainy found himself changed. His personality was more friendly and there were grafts on his face that controlled his force field. Gates jokingly renamed him Brainiac 5.1, a name that stuck for a short time. After an attack on Earth by the Blight, Brainy was one of ten Legionnaires who were lost in a rift in space. After a year in the "Second Galaxy", Brainy was able to use Shikari's pathfinding abilities to lead them home. Once home, they were soon threatened by Robotica, a collective of artificial intelligence. Brainiac 5 learned that this collective was engineered by Computo, whom he had created while in the 20th century. Computo had survived through the ages and considered itself to be Brainy's progeny. Later, Brainiac 5 and the other Legionnaires barely survived the destruction of Earth-247 during the Infinite Crisis. They were brought to New Earth by that Earth's Brainiac 5. After the Legions of Three Worlds defeated Superboy-Prime and the Legion of Super-Villains, Brainy and the other Legionnaires from Earth-247 chose to explore the multiverse as the "New Wanderers".
Powers and Abilities
Intellect
12th Level Intelligence
While the population of 20th century Earth has a 6th level intelligence, and average Coluans have a 10th level intelligence, Brainiac 5 has a 12th level intelligence. Hence, Brainiac 5 is known as the smartest person in the universe.
He is able to create very advanced technology such as time machines (such as the Time Cube, Time Spheres and Chronexus), Flight Rings, artificial intelligences, and Force Shields. Brainy is also knowledgeable with medical technology as well, having invented the anti-lead serum for Mon-El and curing Matter-Eater Lad of his madness. Each level of intelligence represents a separate thought track, allowing him to think about or solve twelve equations simultaneously. His brain processes formulas at the speed of a computer.
While physical combat is not something he excels at, he has been known to use his body physics in combat to defend himself or incapacitate opponents. His advanced intellect presents a challenge when people try to affect him with mental abilities - he just thinks faster than they do. He has been known to learn new languages in just hours of listening to conversation.While it is not often illustrated, he excels at using technology in all forms (he is one of the Legion's best pilots), or finding weak spots in other people technology. With his powerful mind he can regulate his body's automatic nervous features with ease.
Equipment
Brainiac 5 has several other equipment items at his disposal. Brainiac's personal force field belt is nearly impenetrable when it is active. One version of his force field belt is used by Booster Gold. In some iterations, like the Brainiac 5 of Earth-247, this force field is actually internalized. As a Legionnaire, he is equipped with a Legion flight ring which allows him to fly. It can also be used as a long-range communication and tracking device.
As a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Brainiac 5 possesses a Legion Flight Ring. The ring gives its wearer the ability to fly, the speed and range of which is determined by the wearer's willpower. It also acts as a long-range communicator (enabling constant vocal contact with other Legionnaires, even across vast distances of space), a signal device, and a navigational compass, all powered by a micro-computer built inside the ring. In the postboot reality, he had a utility belt which provided rations, a transuit, and telepathic ear plugs.
Other Versions
Five Years Later / Batch SW6
Brainiac 5 (Batch SW6)
During the Dominators' subjugation of Earth, the members of their highly classified "Batch SW6" escaped captivity. Originally, Batch SW6 appeared to be a group of teenage Legionnaire clones, created from samples apparently taken just prior toFerro Lad's death at the hands of the Sun-Eater. Later, they were revealed to be time-paradox duplicates, every bit as legitimate as their older counterparts. After Earth was destroyed in a disaster reminiscent of the destruction of Krypton over a millennium earlier, a few dozen surviving cities and their inhabitants reconstituted their world as New Earth. The SW6 Legionnaires including their version of Brainiac 5 remained on New Earth.
Other Media
Television
Superman: The Animated Series
Brainiac 5 is one of many Legionnaires depicted in the 30th century during the 90s Superman cartoon episode "New Kids in Town." His features and coloring have been altered to more closely resemble the animated counterpart of Brainiac.
Justice League Unlimited
Brainiac 5 (JLU)
The previous Brainiac 5 returned later in JLU in the episode "Far From Home." Brainy, alongside Bouncing Boy, were the only Legionnaires left to defeat the Fatal Five. Knowing they were outnumbered, Brainy recruited three heroes from the past who history showed as having an undocumented adventure in the future. Among their number was Supergirl, who Brainy quickly found himself physically attracted to. They bonded over technology, something Kara had missed on the backwards Earth of her time. Brainy and Kara were instrumental in defeating the Fatal Five and saving the day. Later, when the heroes of the past prepared to return home, Supergirl decided to stay with Brainiac 5 in the 30th century. He was voiced by Matt Czurchy.
Superman & the Legion of Super-Heroes
Brainiac 5 (S&LSH)
Brainiac 5 was a main character in both seasons of the Legion's own cartoon. This version and all of Colu were depicted as robotic lifeforms who could transform themselves into an armored state and create techno-organic energy weapons. This abilities replaced Brainy's force field belt in this universe. This Brainiac 5 was one of the Legionnaires to travel to the past to recruit a young Superman, the start of Brainy's lengthy admiration of the Boy of Steel. He was instrumental in the first season in defeating several threats and especially coordinating the Legion's efforts on missions.
During the second season two years in the future, Brainiac 5 has upgraded his look and travels to the 41st century to help save history. He brings Superman back onto the team and ultimately reveals to Kal-el his connection to the villainous Brainiac, causing a rift between the two friends. Determined to not become like his ancestor, Brainy accessed a part of his programming that was from the original Brainiac in order to increase his own knowledge. This backfired as it allowed Brainiac to slowly corrupt Brainiac 5, ultimately turning him into his host for his return. The entire Legion assembled and it was Superman who helped free Brainiac 5 from his ancestor's control. The resulting purge of Brainiac's programming converted Brainiac 5 into a human being for the first time. Ashamed of his actions and wishing to learn about his new found humanity, Brainy left the Legion in the serie's finale.
Smallville
In the episode entitled "Legion," the Legion founders travel to the past to defeat Brainiac. Once they have collected Brainiac's mind and plan to return to the future, Saturn Girl remarked that she hoped "Brainiac 5" would be better behaved. It is implied that Brainy would now be a robotic or artificial construct with the original Brainiac's schematic.
Although her publication history reaches back to the late golden age, her origin story has remained mostly unchanged in this time (except when a completely different character, Linda Danvers, took on the name). Supergirl was a resident of the doomed planet Krypton, who at the time of its explosion was a teenager who was often left in charge of her infant cousin Kal-El (who would become Superman on Earth). She was sent in a separate spacecraft to Earth to look over her cousin while he reached maturity. Due to an error in the trajectory of the spacecraft (and because she was traveling close to the speed of light) she arrived many years later unaged while Kal-El had already grown to adulthood, reversing the intended role of child and guardian.
Creation
Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) was created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino. She first appeared in Action Comics #252 in Early May of 1959. With a young male version of Superman already created (Superboy) it was decided that a female version of the Superman character would be created as well
Character Evolution
Supergirl & The Legion of Super-Heroes
Throughout her publication history Kara has generally been viewed as the less experienced but equally powerful version of Superman. In so doing she has been the member of numerous teams aimed at developing younger heroes such as the Titans, though she has been depicted at various times as a member of more adult focused teams (for instance the Legion of Super Heroes and the Justice League of Americaalthough in different publishing eras). Her earliest series focused on her adventures as a costumed hero during her time in college and her subsequent employment by Lex Luthor as a photographer.
Original Continuity:Earth-One
Supergirl (Earth-One)
The golden age and silver age often had a different format for its storytelling, in that most issues were self contained and possessed little character development. Thus apart from her origin Supergirl's exploits in the golden age produced relatively few notable stories. Her origin was slightly different at the time. As opposed to being a fellow escapee of Krypton as was her cousin, an entire piece of Krypton was blasted into space with her and a several hundred others surviving in this fashion. One of the survivors was Zor-El, the brother of Jor-El and another famous and accomplished scientist. The ability to live there was not possible in the long term though as the remaining fragment of the planet was slowly turning into Kryptonite. A temporary solution was found which made life livable there, although the plan still existed that everyone should someday evacuate the remainder of the planet.
Some time later Zor-El married and his wife bore a single child, Kara. When she was in her teens disaster struck as an unexpected meteor shower destroyed large swaths of the small city they occupied threatening life once again. Her parents decided that she should be rescued and while her father built a spacecraft for her, her mother chose the planet where she would be safest, in this case the planet Earth with its protector, Superman. As her cousin had done she escaped just in time from the exploding remnants of the planet. After arriving on Earth Kara soon found her cousin and the two determined that they shared a familial bond and he vowed to protect her. After discovering her powers she agreed to keep her identity secret for a time, taking up residence in the Midvale Orphanage while attending Stanhope College. During her evenings she would fight crime as her alter ego, Supergirl. During this period as well she would travel to the 30th century to meet the Legion of Super Heroes though it took some time for her to be admitted as a member.
Despite her continued popularity and role as key member of the Superman family, an editorial decision was made during Crisis on Infinite Earths that she was to be one of the two major characters who died in stopping the plans of the Anti-Monitor (Barry Allen was the other major hero to die). She sacrificed herself to save her older cousin and following the events of the story arc the entire DC universe was rebooted and she was written out of existence. Despite her removal from DC continuity she still did show up in various forms between being suggested to still being alive in the Legion of Super Heroes to appearing in alternate reality specials.
Modern Age: New Earth
Supergirl (New Earth)
Following Crisis on Infinite Earths most of the major characters had a retold version of their origins told. With Superman specifically it was decided that he would be the sole survivor of the exploding planet Krypton. Still when the character of Supergirl was reintroduced fans were shocked and surprised that the character was not in fact Kara but was instead different characters, either Matrix (a protoplasmic life form taking on the form of a young woman) orLinda Danvers (who Matrix would fuse with after she was sacrificed to a demon). Despite the reasonable amount of popularity of Matrix / Linda Danvers, they never maintained the same level of fan support that Kara had (for instance the Supergirl in the Justice League Unlimited television series was Superman's cousin), and so eventually in 2002 it was decided to reboot the ongoing Supergirl series with the return of the Kryptonian Supergirl.
The series ended soon after and Kara soon returned to take back her mantle in the pages of Superman/Batman in 2004. After about three years her origin was clarified once again as the inclusion of a separate Supergirl and the Crisis reboot led to some discrepancies. This defined a new version of her origin, which is the one which more or less remains canon to this day wherein she was sent to Earth by her parents (Zor-El and Alura) to look after the infant Kal-El but got misdirected on her route to Earth. Following this retelling of her origin and her re-introduction into the mainstream DC universe, Kara is soon invited by Starfire to become a member of the Outsiders, to which she accepts. During her tenure on the team she becomes attracted to Nightwing though nothing comes of this attraction. During a battle with Lex Luthor she is unintentionally separated into two versions of herself one good and one evil.
Post-Flashpoint: Earth-0
Supergirl (Earth-0)
In the New 52, Supergirl is just arriving on earth from Krypton. As soon as she arrives on the planet in her pod, she is already fully dressed unlike in her post-Crisis origin where she arrives completely naked. As soon as she arrives, she thinks that she is within a dream and that nothing is real. She is soon greeted by mechs who were aware of her arrival on earth from space and were dispatched to apprehend her. She is then seen struggling with all of the mechs, but soon the sun comes up and her powers are seen to develop further and she dispatches the mechs with greater ease than she previously had shown. She is then seen trying to interrogate one of the people that was within the one of the mechs, asking where she was as Supergirl had understood that she actually wasn't in a dream. This interrogation, while completely innocent was unsuccessful because Supergirl cannot speak the same language as the human. At this precise moment, Superman arrives and order Kara to stop.
Major Story Arcs
Modern Age: New Earth
Infinite Crisis
Donna Troy´s space team in Infinite Crisis
During the Infinite Crisis, Supergirl joins the heroes that Donna Troy has recruited to operate in deep space during the crisis. However, Kara's return from deep space is disrupted by the zeta-beam malfunction which hits Donna's space team. While some incur grievous physical injuries and deformities (Adam Strange loses his eyes; Hawkgirl grows to enormous size), Supergirl simply disappeared. It was revealed that prior to the crisis, it was because of Superman Prime's reality-altering ripple effect, which brought Kara Zor-El back to existence. Kara finds herself in the 31st century and she eventually thought that the 31st century was a dream she had created.
Supergirl as Flamebird
Supergirl and Power Girl as Flamebird and Nightwing
During the events of One Year After Supergirl returns to the contemporary DC setting and assumes the identity of Flamebird alongside Power Girl as Nightwing. They opposed a religious cult based around warped versions of Superman's earlier appearances in Kandor. Kara also believes the key to Argo City, her home town, lies somewhere in the city. Kara and Power Girl find themselves battling theSaturn Queen and Ultraman (posing as Superman), villains who have established themselves in Kandor. At the climax of the struggle, Supergirl unexpectedly leaves (with her comrade in tow). Since she did not consult with Power Girl about the timing of their exit, the two part on somewhat strained terms. Kara re-establishes herself on Earth, attaining financial independence after selling an item of Kryptonian technology that would completely "heal" anybody who uses it to Batman for his own personal use, at the price of one million dollars. With this money Kara has purchased her own apartment. After a short period trying to give up her superhero lifestyle she is offered to return to the Outsiders but eventually decides not to.
Power Boy
Supergirl, Power Boy and Captain Boomerang
She later began dating Power Boy who had saved her, and also begun having nightmares about her father doing some kind of experiment on her. Meanwhile an unknown person has hired the League of Assassins to eliminate Kara and leading the League during the time was former Batgirl, Cassandra Cain, who is convinced she can accomplish this goal. When Supergirl fought against Batgirl, Kara is led into a trap being exposed to red light radiation and Kryptonite dust that stings her eyes giving Batgirl the advantage and after being cut and stabbed by a run sun sword, something her father did healed all her wounds causes crystals to sprout from her body and ends up seriously wounding Batgirl. Kara later accompanied Green Lantern Hal Jordan on a mission to another planet. During the mission, Kara flirts with Hal multiple times, forcing him to remind himself that she is only 17 years old. Back on Earth, Kara begins spending more time with Power Boy. However, when Kara decided to blow off one of their dates to visit Owen Mercer at the hospital, it irritated Power Boy. After she begins to leave, Power Boy stops her and forces her into a fight. He knocks her out and when she awakens Power Boy reveals he has a huge obsession with Supergirl since first seeing her at Darkseid's side back on Apocalypse.
Phantom Demons
Supergirl VS Phantom Demons
The two fight and eventually Supergirl knocks him out of where she is being held. Power Boy pleads with Kara not to get angry as he does not want to hurt her but Kara crushes him using a huge rock. Power Boy teleports away from the battle using his father box. Kara catches up with him using her super speed and knees him in the groin. To prevent him from teleporting again, Kara crushes his Fatherbox which upon being broken begins to make a sound as if its about detonate. Kara attempts to throw the Fatherbox into the sun but was not fast enough and a huge explosion happens resulting in a bright light. Later, Kara begins having more visions of her father. Eventually, her father would reveal that the Phantom Zonehad possessing demons that escapes when it is used. Zor-El also discovered a way to destroy it by implanting a sun stone in it. He implanted one in Kara to make her immune to them. Zor-El then shows her that they were sentenced to exile in the Phantom Zone by the Kryptonian Council. Kara then sees a memory when her Kryptonian classmates were possessed and attacking them at their home. Shortly after, Krypton's destruction occurred.
Kara then wakes up and flies back to Earth to discover the Phantom demons possessing people. Kara was attacked by Wonder Girl who forced her to reveal her dark secrets and released her when she was disgusted with her. She soon goes to the Batcave in an attempt to get help from Batman, but found him possessed and he had sealed himself in the cave. She is soon confronted by Robin who forces her to stab him with a sun stone, but instead of killing him it released the Phantom from his body.
Supergirl Meets pre-Crisis Supergirl
Post Crisis Supergirl meets Pre Crisis Supergirl
Robin had been keeping track of Superman who has been using a batsuit that Batman gave him since the sun became red and he lost his powers. With Robin's help she was able to locate Superman and found that Phantoms were coming from his body. Kara admits everything to her cousin, however Clark was driven mad by the Phantoms and he wanted Kara to kill him and save Earth. However the pre-Crisis Supergirl showed up taunting her and calling her imperfect and inadequate. However it was revealed that everything that had happened including Batgirl's attack was all an illusion created by Dark Angel who was acting as the pre-Crisis Supergirl. Dark Angel had become obsessed with the idea that Supergirl was a threat to the Multiverse. However a Monitor appears informing Kara that she is this universe's Supergirl and he was sorry for all that Dark Angel had done. Supergirl is left in deep space where she meets Pariah who tells her about a "Great Disaster" that will be caused by her and she goes to Earth to patch up all the mistakes she made on Earth recently.
I Apologize...
Supergirl apologies to Wonder Girl
Kara first apologizes too Captain Boomerang for leading him on, to which he replies that she has nothing to apologize for and clearly forgives her. Kara then apologizes to Grace for letting her get seriously wounded in battle because Kara had failed to act. Grace agrees on the condition that she gets one free punch to which Kara allows only for Grace to end up hurting her hand again. Kara locatesPower Girl who is still angry with her for being selfish and abandoning the citizens of Kandor for her own personal needs. Realizing that Karen needs more time Supergirl finally apologizes to Superman to which they go off together to have a friendly race. Kara soon after takes part in the events of Amazons Attack.
Teen Titans
Supergirl joins The Teen Titans
After the Amazons retreat, Supergirl is given membership into the Teen Titans. During her time on the team, she attends Bart Allen's funeral and is also present during the private wake held at Titans Tower. Kara helps to reveal using her x-ray vision to Robin andWonder Girl that the arrival of Kid Flash in the tower is actually Miss Martian who is unfamiliar with human customs tries to cheer them up. On one of her first missions with the Titans she helps them battle Lobo. She also battles against a clone of Superman (who at that time, was a clone of Kon-El/Conner Kent/Superboy) from the Titans Tomorrow storyline. The Titans of tomorrow have once again returned to help the present day titans battle Starro as if the outcome of the battle with Starro will heavily effect the future. Kara is left to tag with Wonder Girl in fighting a mind controlled Brimstone while the the future Connor and Cassie supervise them much to their dismay.
During the battle Kara is blasted by Brimstone and is sent away from the battle field. She lands in the woods only to be confronted by an enemy also possessed by Starro who uses magic against her and leaves her tied up in vines. She overcomes this problem with the help of the future Connor who tells her to leave Cassie alone. Kara flies back just in time to help Cassie defeat Brimstone. Kara leaves the Titans shortly after she and Wonder Girl get into a fight. Wonder Girl claims she wanted Kara's friendship because she reminded her of her former boyfriend Kon-El with the intention of getting Kara to leave the team. The decision was made by Cassie without consulting the rest of the team but Supergirl flies away hurt at her supposed best friends actions.
Family Reunion
Zor-El dies in Kara Arms
Upon the ending of the Brainiac arc, the bottled city of Kandor is stationed near thefortress of Solitude in the North Pole. Kal-El tries to help Earth and Krypton get used to one another but, the Kryptonians don't like the idea, including Zor-el and Alura, Kara's parents.The president of the United States and a delegate from Krypton, agreed to meet at a televised event however it was interrupted by Doomsday. Zor El and Alura, formed a group to find all enemies of Superman, who would cause a threat to Krypton, and toss them into the Phantom Zone. This failed because it ended the lives of human police officers, when Zor-El and Alura refused to hand over Parasite. Brainiac unleashes his army onto Kandor, all the while Metallo andReactron enter the city containing Kryptonite, and kill Zor-el.
Superwoman
Supergirl & Superwoman
This enraged Alura who denounces all humanity, her scientists have found away to pick up Kandor and grow a new planet underneath it, they moved towards the other side of the sun, shut off from earth. She tells Superman he is not welcomed on "New Krypton" and she releases General Zod to lead her people. Eventually Kara goes with her. As her 18th birthday approaches her mother asks her to pick a guild. Kara chooses the Science Guild. Kara is trying to find out the mystery of this mysterious "Superwoman". When the two first met it was on rather good terms, however after the death of Zor-El Kara headed for earth and was halted by Superwoman. She claimed she was trying to help Kara but when Kara insisted on going she punched her.
Kara faked going with Superwoman and punched her back, afterwards a battle ensued, which saw Kara plummeting into a ocean. Kara returned to earth and was found by Reactron, his mission was to kill her, he stole her power with his Gold Kryptonite, but Kara remembered her training with Batman, she used her resources to beat him. After putting two and two together, Kara found Superwoman and attacked her, upon unmasking her she found out that she was Major Lane, Lois Lane's younger sister, the fight that follows between them shows Kara ripping Lane's uniform and her body apparently contorting and exploding, apparently killing her. Later on, she tells Lois Laneabout everything that happened with Superwoman and Lois doesn't like what she hears and tells Kara to leave. She later talks to Lana Lang about Lucy Lane and feels better about herself after all the bad things that had been happening and tells Lana she can call her Linda. She then leaves to New Krypton happily deciding she'll tell her mother everything about Superwoman and also to tell her she's a big girl and can take care of herself now.
The Silver Banshee
Supergirl VS Silver Banshee
After Alura judges Reactron, Supergirl returns to Earth because of a problem she has to take care of: Thara ( Flamebird) told her her friend, Lana Lang, is ill. Supergirl returns to Earth and confronts her friend. She is furious that Lana kept something so important away from her but calms down when she hears Lana's explanation: Kara was so busy Lana didn't feel like bothering her. Supergirl scans Lana's body and sees the disease and what it's doing to her cells, but, before she can look for a cure, Inspector Mike Henderson contacts her to help him on a case: The Silver Banshee.
Supergirl talks with the inspector when the Silver Banshee arrives and wants to subdue one of her family heirlooms, the coin that is stuck in Henderson's hand. As Kara tries to save her friend, the Banshee deafens her, and Supergirl reads on Henderson's lips that she must touch the other heirlooms. As Kara grabs the box in which the heirlooms are kept, her body is possessed by the McDougal Clan ancestors. Kara eventually regains possession of her body and the Silver Banshee leaves in peace. As she discusses with Henderson about this, she hears some very scary words: "Stay with us, Lana!" Kara makes a run for it and goes to the hospital, where she can hear everything except for her friend's heartbeat, and Lana Lang is dead after all.
The New Insect Queen
Supergirl VS Insect Queen
Kara describes this moment as the second time that day where she was deafened. She tells the doctor Lana was her only family, and is all alone now. She mourn quietly until she remembered that Lana had told her about "things" in her body that doctor's couldn't identify. She wants to see Lana's body one last time to check what happened to the "things" when she hears a scream from the nurse bringing the corpse to the morgue. As Kara bursts into the room, she sees Lana enveloped in a cocoon of insects, and the cocoon cracks open with some green light inside. Kara goes into a giant cocoon that had erected it's self in the city, she gets encased in a "Amber stone" of some sort where she rested, until Gang buster entered the cocoon and freed her. The two returned to S.T.A.R. labs, were Supergirl met up with Dr. Light(Jacob Finlay). The two came up with a plan to infiltrate the cocoon and rescue lost member of the science police. Gangbuster in Kara, venture into the huge cocoon, and they are attacked by the Insect Queen; she tells Kara that she had been infecting Lana for the past year. A fight ensues between Kara and The insect Queen, however Kara manged to strap her to the machine Dr. Light created. The explosion completely kills the virus that was infecting Lana, however it did not cure the lack of trust Kara felt Lana lacked for her. Kara told Lana that she was leaving her life, much to the dismay of Lana, who protested, in the end Kara flew away leaving Lana at the hospital.
The War of Superman
War of Superman
Supergirl and Batgirl also teamed up recently to stop Toyman and Kryptonite Man. The two have become fast friends. Brainiac has attacked New Krypton and sent his robots out to kill the Kryptonians. The citizens fight back and General Zod fires cannons at Brainiac's ship but they only manage to kill innocent citizens. Furious at Zod for allowing innocent people to die, Kal-El changes into Superman. Meanwhile, Supergirl has just saved her mother from the probes and realizes Brainiac is targeting the Leaders of New Krypton. Supergirl sends Alura to Zod as she defends the city. Superman manages pass through Brainiac's force-field and enter the ship. Supergirl is rallying the troops while Zod and Ursa contemplate the next best step. Supergirl falls to a Brainiac drone after is blasts her with red sun radiation. She is saved by Superboy, Mon-El and the Legion of Superheroes. The Legion tell Zod he can't destroy Brainiac's ship until they save the other bottled cities inside. Zod sends Supergirl off and arrests the Legionnaires. Superman is about to face off against Brainiac when he is floored by a Kryptonite blast fired by Lex Luthor.
Supergirl and Mon-El are fighting with Brainiac probes. Mon-El gets a telepathic overload from Tellus who informs him of the Legions arrest and Superman being captured by Brainiac. Mon-El tells Kara she needs to rally the Kryptonian's to work together. Kara kisses him just for luck and Mon flies off to save Superman. But the differences between the guilds makes it difficult for them to work together. Supergirl rushes to her mother's aid but is shocked to find her fighting with Superboy. Alura says that Zod has branded Superboy and the Legion as outlaws. Assuming the worst Alura attacked him. Kara punches Superboy away from her mother but is saved by Superboy after being attacked by a Brainiac probe. Supergirl challenges Alura to stand up to Zod. Alura pardons the Legion and Superboy. Setting up a confrontation between Zod and Alura. Mon-El has managed to rescue Superman and the city of Lanothians. As Brainiac calls out his army to fight the Supermen, Lex Luthor slips away. Back on New Krypton Supergirl, Superboy and the Legion are attempting to get the guilds to work together. But their differences make it impossible. As the Kryptonian's fight for their life Supergirl, Superboy and the Legion go to the satellite.
Alura has confronted Zod about the Legion and said they are not terrorists but when Zod questions Alura about her daughter she says Kara is smart and not prone to misjudgment. Meanwhile, the Legion attempts to get into Brainiac's ship but fail. Finally, Brainiac 5 comes and helps them enter the ship . Superman and Mon-El are on the ship and are trying to free the trapped cities and break out. Brainiac suddenly re-energizes and fights Superman. Superman however is able to get hold of the Lanothians and Brainiac teleports away with the others. The Legion attempts to get the Lanothians to help unite the Kryptonian's but they cannot. Superman is taken down by Brainiac's defense system and declared dead. New Krypton has been re-bottled. But Zod says that Brainiac has lost. Before Superman can fall to his death he is grabbed by a Brainiac drone being powered by Quislet. Back on Brainiac's ship Superboy is separated by the Legion and is attacked by Lex Luthor. He awakens inside the bottled city. Zod and his soldiers have managed to escape and are ready to fight.
Meanwhile, Supergirl and Brainiac 5 have met and after a condescending comment Supergirl immediately thinks he is a jerk. Supergirl thinks Brainy does not like her but in a brief moment alone Brainy reveals how hard it is to be near Supergirl, how much he loves her, and how hard it was when she died. It is revealed that Brainy is looking back at Supergirl's life historically. Reactron is seen tied up. Alura faked his death to torture him for information. But he still has not given Commander Gor the information. Luthor finds him after killing Gor but instead of rescuing him says he has come for something. Brainy and Kara are fighting through Brainiac's satellite but Kara can't shake the feeling that she has met Brainy before. He tries to figure out if Kara has met him before but realizes Saturn Girl's memory blocks are masking her memories of the future. He continues to deny ever meeting her, even saying no records of her exist in the future. But he slips up and calls her Linda Lang. She realizes he is lying to her but before anything can be done he tells her she needs to destroy the reactor while he attempts to hold off the Phages. She smashes the satellites power core but hasn't forgotten what Brainy said and wants answers. He tells Kara to trust her friends and she needs to trust him. He can't tell her anything but that she needs to live her own life and decide her own future. Supergirl finds it and his brooding way's cute and Brainy knows this even if she does not say this.
Kara and Brainiac 5 meet again for the first thime
With the force field of Brainiac's ship down, Superman is able to re-enter the ship. While on board, Luthor emerges from Kandor and grabs a bottle city for himself. As Zod fights Brainiac, Superman has gone off to rescue Kandor. Mon-El has been rescued by the Legion, who still need to complete their mission. Superman finds Kandor. He hands the city over to Supergirl. He tells her it is her home and he trusts she will keep is safe and enlarge it. The Legion advise Mon-El not to enter the fray saying his destiny is to save the future and the cities. He changes back to his old costume, feeling he is unworthy to wear the S shield. Brainiac 5 and Kara re-size Kandor and Superman fights Brainiac with Zod. Luthor who had stolen a city off Brainiac's ship previously, expands it inside of Brainiac's ship. Brainiac's ship is falling to the surface of New Krypton, the Legion and Mon having returned to the future after saving the bottled cities. Superman, Supergirl, Superboy, and all the Kryptonian's band together to slow down the ship. Although Kandor is still devastated with a huge crater in the middle of the city, most of the city is saved, . Supergirl attempts to hold back the expanding city. Brainiac 5 manages to stop it's growth and re-bottle it, but Superman has been skewered by the ship. Brainiac snaps Luthor's neck for his treachery but this is revealed to have been a robot. After a blood transfusion from Superboy, Superboy manages to stop Zod from killing Brainiac. Brainiac 5 teleports away with Brainiac, but before he leaves he tells Kara to watch out for her mother. Luthor is reveled to be working with General Lane. With all the guild leader's dead from the attack except Alura, Zod is declared the leader of Krypton. He announces war on earth.
General Zod is holding Superman captive but he breaks free from Non's grasps. Desperate to save New Krypton, Alura is torturing Reactron for information. Kara sees this and is shocked to see Reactron alive. She is shocked and furious at her mother's actions. She tells Alura that Zor warned her to watch out for her mother and what she is capable of. Reactron tells Supergirl that Project 7734 wanted her to capture and bring him back to New Krypton. As he starts to glow brightly, Alura throws Kara into a radiation deck and seals it. Sacrificing herself and saving Kara. New Krypton explodes. Nearly all the citizens of New Krypton have been killed. All the guilds have been destroyed, except the military guild because they were not on the planet when it exploded. Superman finds Kara, she holds up part of Alura's shield. Alura was killed in the explosion. Furious at her mother and her planets death at the hands of Project 7734 and Luthor, Kara grabs the Kryptonian flag and races to Earth to join the battle.
Superman manages to stop Supergirl. She breaks down and admits that she feels responsible for New Krypton's destruction. She had brought Reactron there. They hug and say they love each other. Luthor uses the false Rao-corpse and time pool technology to turn Earth's sun red. Flamebird takes off into space and dives into the sun. She pushes herself and destroys the Rao bomb. In the process she is killed. The Kryptonian's regain their powers but thousands are dead. The race is down to a mere 7,000. Superman furious and sad takes off for Earth and meets Zod to fight. Supergirl fights Ursa. Ursa manages to defeat Supergirl, but is saved last minute by the Superman Family. They head towards Project 7734 and drop Ursa in the Phantom Zone. Superman fights Zod and Superboy goes around putting the Kryptonian's in the Phantom Zone. Supergirl defeats Superwoman and takes down General Lane. Lane refuses to become a prisoner and commits suicide. Superman ends the war after defeating Zod. Who along with all the other Kryptonian's are sent back to the Zone. Chris seals the Zone off permanently but in the process is reverted into a child. He and Mon-El explore the zone. Supergirl mourns the loss of her people and sets up a memorial in deep space. After the events of the War on Superman in Krypton.
When there was a massive death count inSuicide Slums, Supergirl went seeking for a Master Detective. Mainly Dick Grayson or Tim Drake. However, instead she found Damian Wayne in a situation against Killer Croc. When Damian told Supergirl that Dick Grayson was with the Justice League Of America and Tim was following his own adventure, Supergirl was going to just leave Damian with taking Killer Croc to jail. But unknown to her, Damian surprised her with talking about the killings in Suicide Slum. After grudgingly listening to Damian boast in himself, Supergirl knew that she needed to capture the killer, and allowed Damian to work with her. Later in theMetropolis city Morgue. Damain and Supergirl were studying the bodies of the victims that were killed in Suicide Slum.
When Damian's notes turned up the name "Lexcorp", he and Supergirl decided to check out Lex Luthor's company. When both arrived at Lex's building, Spalding (associate with Lex Luthor) told them both that Lex Luthor and his company, didn't have anything to do with the murders in Suicide Slum. While Supergirl was baffled, Damian was hacking through Lex's files. He found out that there was going to be a costume party for college freshman. Damian took up the disguise as the son of Matches Malone, calling himself Lil Matches, and Supergirl was a pink bunny. Damian told Supergirl to use her super hearing to see who was afraid. Everyone was afraid except one person. That one person was the guy that they were looking for. Supergirl blew her and Damian's cover, and went after the mystery man. That mystery man was none other than, Scarecrow. Scarecrow sprayed fear toxin on Supergirl, and she saw a black lantern Reactron!
After Damian convinced Supergirl that all it was is an illusion. The two quickly took down Scarecrow. Once everything was back to normal, Scarecrow told his story about using the Sinestro Corps Ring, and how Lex Luthor (as an Orange Lantern) stole the ring off of his finger. For once in Scarecrow's retched life he felt fear again, thanks to Sinestro's ring. However, he told the story of how only Batman could scare him back into his place. Supergirl and Damian took Scarecrow back to Arkham Asylum, and eventually Supergirl gave Damian a ride back to Wayne Tower. Dick was at the penthouse and was talking to Damian about having a crush on Supergirl. Damian denied everything that Dick said, and he ended the conversation by saying "...she was a fair and adequate partner... For an alien." Supergirl heard what Damian said and said "little jerk."
Post-Flashpoint: Earth-0
Meeting Superman
Supergirl and Superman, reconciling.
In a flashback, it is seen that from Kara's perspective, three days ago she was babysitting her younger cousin Kal-El (who unbeknownst to her has now grown into the role of Superman) awaiting to engage in her 'Final Trials'. In the present however, Superman is seen in front of her and asks her, in Kryptonian, who she is. Supergirl is seen irritated by this because she doesn't know who he is and why he is wearing the symbol of herhouse. She demands to know where she is and where her family are as well. When Superman convinces her to tell him who she is, she does so and then he tries to explain to her that he is her cousin. Kara refuses to believe this and punches Superman across the face, calling him a 'liar'. She reasons this, of course, because three days ago Kal-El was a baby in her arms. Superman continues to try and reason with her and attempts to take her away from the scene and the two end up going from Russia to China. Eventually, while fighting in the great wall of China Kara realizes that she is damaging people's lives and housing and thus she starts listening to Superman who tells her he will not fight her any longer. This is when Superman tells her that Krypton is gone. It is also revealed that some mysterious members stole some sort of crystal from Kara's pod and that they now have her belongings.
Deceived
Simon Tycho, a rich owner of the Corporation that takes an interest in spacial matters.
Kara doesn't however believe in anything that Superman tells her and decides to go back to her pod to find out the 'truth'. She goes back to her pod and is amazed by the fact that Superman is going to protect people in danger instead of helping her to find out if there is even a chance of Krypton being intact. However, Superman gives her a final warning telling her that she "is not prepared for" this world. When she arrives there she is greeted by a hologram of Simon Tycho. She doesn't understand anything that he is saying but she decides to follow the hologram when she sees a model of her belongings, thinking rightly that he would have them. When she arrives at the space station where Mr. Tycho and his operatives are situated, she is 'greeted' by insect like robots that shoot heat beams and here Supergirl demonstrates that she is able to heat her body temperature up to a greater degree than the robots can shoot. As a second test, Mr. Tycho sends The Brain to fight Supergirl, who she eventually defeats by leaving it in open space. She then finds her belongings with her X-Ray vision, but finds out it is a trap when they get there because she is being exposed to Kryptonite.
Kara Zor-El, escaping Simon Tycho's imprisonment.
She is then held in a tube, while Mr. Tycho and his team test her clothing, among other things. However, a reluctant employee who was actually controlling a mech during the fight and was earlier interrogated by confused Supergirl, tries to rescue her. However, he is unsuccessful because he is stomped midway by his employer, Mr. Tycho and shot dead. Supergirl however is now in contact with the sun and can fight back, however she comes to a standstill when Tycho shows her the sunstone in his hand, which Kara realizes probably has a message from her father within it. To combat this, Kara uses her vision to explode the satellite. With this she gets the sunstone and flies out of the satellite. She measures the amount of damage inaccurately and the Satellite ends up exploding almost completely, leaving Mr. Tycho without limbs and heavily burnt. His assistant put him in The Brain to help him recover. At the end however, he remains happy because he has Supergirl's blood sample on one of his employees, which was his aim in the first place.
Shortly thereafter, she encounters Superboy, whom she soon recognizes as a clone. This realization sends her into a rage and, calling him "Kon-El," an "Abomination in the House of El" she engages him in combat. Ultimately, however, the two are able to reconcile.
Powers and Abilities
The modern age Kara Zor-El's power is extremely vast. For a time it was believed by many that Kara was stronger then Superman himself. However, Superman explained that he holds back his powers so he does not hurt people, while Kara has less experience she is shown to be a little less then Wonder Woman in strength.Zatanna once clarified this saying that while Wonder Woman is stronger, Kara will surpass in the future. While Kara was in suspended animation, her rocket ship had a yellow sun inside, which she was exposed to throughout her journey to Earth. Kara was also trained by the Amazons and is now a well trained fighter. Even rivaling the famed Barbara Gordon's skills. The limitations and true extent of post-flashpoint Supergirl's powers has yet been revealed, though it can be assumed that most of her powers remain the same.
Kryptonian Abilities
Flight
Like her Kryptonian cousin, Supergirl has the ability to fly at great speeds, it has been shown that is able to fly at the speed of light, on one such occasion she has been seen to fly through the moon.
Super Hearing
Supergirl has the ability to detect and interpret dissipating sound waves, this means that she is able to hear even the quietest of sounds from a large distance away, meaning that she can pinpoint a single person in the world just from their voice or heartbeat, this is done by filtering out every other sound in the world. Supergirl can also detect sound waves at a higher or lower frequency than a normal human ear can usually detect, this ranges from sub sonic wavelengths to radio waves.
Healing
Supergirl needs sufficient time to heal.
Heat Vision
Supergirl´s Heat Vision
Supergirl has the ability to generate intense heat from her eyes, this heat is then focused and projected in the form of beams of radiation, which can be used to melt steel structures or heat up cold coffee, meaning that she can control the temperature of these beams.
Invulnerability
In the New 52 it has been shown that Kyrptonians under the yellow sun aren't entirely invulnerable although bullets won't harm them sufficient amount of force and electric shock can. The costume that they wear is actually armor which itself is invincible.
Super Breath
In the New 52 her Super Breath has only been shown that she can hold her breath for a sufficient amount of time in space.
Super Strength
The exact magnitude of Supergirl's strength is unknown, she was easily able to knock down armored weaponized robots only with minimal strain. She can lift 100 tons with minimal effort.
Super–Intellect
Supergirl was born into a society hundreds of years ahead of Earth. She lived there for about 15 years and learned much of the technology. Krypton was ruled by the Science Council and it was a huge part of their daily lives. Though in the New 52 it not shown if she still poseses it.
X–Ray Vision
Can see through anything except lead.
Super Speed
As like Superman she can move unbelievably quickly albeit not as fast as other speedsters, or those that possess the speed force.
Other Version
Elseworld's Finest
Supergirl of 'Elseworld's Finest'
Supergirl is a fairly common subject for alternate versions and alternate realities. One of the more famous ones was Elseworld's Finest. This story is an alternate Earth which came into existence after the Infinite Crisis. "In this world, Bruce Wayne, never became Batman and Kal-el never lived long enough to grow up; This series see's Barbra Gordon as the main Hero for Gotham and Kara as the "Girl of steel". After the destruction of Krypton, Kara is the only survivor and decides to travel to Earth. Knowing of the great heroic exploits of the Justice Society of America (JSA), she intends on joining them to protect Earth from evil dictators, super villains, and those whom would corrupt one another. Kara became Superwoman of Earth! Wonder Woman introduces, both Lex Luthor and Kara to the city of Gotham at a conference in which he states he plans on building a factory, which would employ hundreds of people; however As Lex leaves the arena, he gets attacked and kidnapped by Professor Hamilton and the Joker. Bat girl decides that since the problem happened in Gotham that she'd retrieve Luthor herself; This didn't sit well with Kara who entered Gotham, despite being told by Wonder Woman, that metahuman's entering Gotham was forbidden by Bat girl herself.
Batgirl quickly perceived Kara as a threat, but Kara was able to talk her into a partner ship. Hamilton planned to show Gotham how he and Luthor found so Solar crystals which ruined his life and his reputation. In turn for his help; Luthor ask Joker for his help in turn for a Mineral steroid he had been using to try and gain Bat girl's affection. As Supergirl and Bat girl begin to track down Luthor, Kara finds a test tube containing the body of baby Kal-el which he is using to power his solar battery, this makes Kara furious. Kara attacked Luthor, and then he came clean, claiming that Kal-el would become too dangerous; which is why he killed him. Kara rushes Luthor, but he is aided by a Kryptonite Powered Joker, Kara can't match his strength, so Batgirl has to rescue her, as Kara set in for the kill on Luthor, Batgirl saves him saying he must be brought to justice.
DC Comics tested three different female versions of Supergirl prior to Kara Zor-El's debut as the official Supergirl.
Lois Lane (Action Comics#60)
A hospitalized Lois Lane dreams she has gained superpowers while Superman gives her a blood transfusion to save her life. She begins her own career as "Superwoman"
Claire Kent (Superboy#8)
Superboy (Clark Kent) saves the life of Shar-La, an alien woman who turns Superboy into a girl in retaliation for his thoughts about women drivers which she picked up telepathically.
Supergirl (Superman#123)
Jimmy Olsen wishes upon a magic totem for a "Super-Girl" to be Superman's sidekick.
Cir-El
Cir-El
Cir-El is the alleged daughter of Superman. It is unknown whom is the mother since, human and Kryptonian DNA can't mix. While Cir-El has human DNA in her blood, Lois Lane is possibly not the mother. Cir-El appeared in Metropolis during a heated battle; not knowing her to be friend or foe, Superman took her in for questioning after the battle and asked her about her origins and why she was calling herself "Supergirl". She told him that she was his daughter from the future and genetic scan showed she was in fact Superman's child ... hearing this, Lois went berserk on Superman, accusing his him of having an affair. Cir-El then told Lois that she was her mother.
After a second genetic scan it was determined that while Superman was the father, Lois was not the mother. When Superman was declared public enemy #1 by President Lex Luthor Cir-El aided Nightwing, Robin, Superboy, andKrypto in trying to rescue Superman andBatman. It was revealed that Cir-El was created by Brainiac to serve as a host for the 'YES' Virus. Superman was shown a future where he was attacking the human race for some reason, he was told that the death of Cir-El would prevent this future, Cir-El threw herself into a time portal, erasing the future and the 'YES' virus that created it, effectively making sure she was never born so she couldn't come back and alter history. Cir-El was brought to the present by Bizarro to aid Kara Zor-El alongside several other Supergirls (Linda Danvers, Silver age Kara, and Power Girl).
Power Girl
Power Girl
Power Girl is actually Kara Zor-El from Earth 2. After the events of Crisis on Infinite Earth, Kara Zor-El decided to move on with her life and go to Earth 1(the main Earth). Supergirl and Powergirl are both considered to be cousins of Superman. While Powergirl is actually from Earth 2, she acts and communicates like she has lived on Earth 1 all her life. Power Girl is a member of the Justice Society of America (JSA) and owns her own company. Since Power Girl is a full grown woman, she has reached the max of her strength and has powers superior to Supergirl's.
Ariella Kent
For a more lengthy description about this alternate Supergirl go to her page: Ariella Kent. Here is a small description about Ariella. During the events of issue 80 of Supergirl, Linda Danvers went back in time to Earth-One (pre-Crisis Earth). She met Superman and they eventually were married and had a daughter named, Ariella. When The Spectrecame to take her back to her original timeline, Linda made the ultimate sacrifice leaving her daughter and the man she loved so that Kara could come back to her time, even knowing that she would die during the Crisis On Infinite Earth's. Linda bargained with the Spectre agreeing only to go back to her original time if her daughter, Ariella, would be spared. Agreeing, the Spectre wiped all traces of Linda Danvers from history, altering Superman's memories of her so that he never remembered meeting her, let alone having a child with her.
Justice
Supergirl joins the final battle in Justice
In 2005 Alex Ross´s Justice , Supergirl is among the sidekicks kidnaped by the Injustice League, who mind-controlled them agains the heroes. After they are freed, Supergirl, Batgirl and The Titans, among others, joins the final battle.
Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade
In this version, Kara is no more then 13 years old and is not related to Kal-El. On her planet, she a simple cheerleader and the daughter of two rocket scientists. She's sent to Earth by accident when she hid away in her father's rocket to escape grounding. Stuck on Earth and having powers she has no control over. She's found by Clark and sent to a boarding school to learn how to fit in, adopting the name Linda Lee. However she has trouble adapting to school life on Earth, coming across as awkward and weird, which puts a serious damper on her self-confidence. Not helped when she gains a evil duplicate name Belina Zee and the first person she manages to befriend, Lena, turns out to be the little sister of Lex Luthor who hates superheroes. Eventually after a few misadventures, it's revealed she didn't come to Earth by coincidence as Mr. Mxyzptlk was the cause behind everything that has happened to her under the guise of the principal of her school so he can feed off her emotions and become all powerful. Kara manages to turn the tables on him and thwart his plans. When all is said and done, Clark manages to get a key that could take Kara back to Argo. She decides to wait a bit and help him protect the Earth for awhile longer.
Ame-Comi Supergirl
Ame-Comi Supergirl Mini-Serie
Supergirl is part of Ame-Comi Girl, a world of all female superheroes. Her origin is very similar to her modern history. She is the cousin of Power Girl (male version of Superman)
In 1984, a Supergirl movie was produced by Ilya Salkind, his father Alexander Salkind, and Pierre Spengler, the same people who had produced Superman: The Movie. Despite being produced by the same people, the movie did not do as well as the Salkinds or Spengler would have hoped. Part of this was blamed on Jeannot Szwarc, who had previously been a television director, having directed the film; Szwarc's approach was bitterly criticized.
Appearing as Supergirl was the actress Helen Slater. Little-known before her acting out the title role of the movie, she won numerous awards for the role and received praise from the science fiction community.
According to the story, Kara lives in Argo City, a city that has been sealed off from the rest of Krypton. She borrows an item from an artist named Zaltar (Peter O'Toole) called the Omegahedron (one of Argo City's power sources, which Zaltar was using without permission from the city's elders) and creates a dragonfly. The creature punctures the veil that had been serving as a protector for the city, and the Omegahedron gets sucked to Earth. Kara then follows the item in hopes of saving her city. (With her is a bundle of clothes, apparently somehow resembling Superman's uniform; how this happens to be near the "binary chute" that enables Kara to follow the Omegahedron is a detail that Szwarc never explained.) The Omegahedron lands in Metropolis and is found by a minor witch named Selena(Faye Dunaway, whose performance was harshly criticized), who realizes that she finally has the tool she needs to cast real spells. (Selena's mentor, Nigel(Peter Cook), is a teacher at a local school.) Superman has left Earth on a mission into deep outer space, so Kara has arrived seemingly in time. Having emerged into Earth's environment outfitted in Supergirl's uniform in a manner that, as previously pointed out, is never explained, Kara takes the name Linda Lee, claiming to be Clark Kent's cousin--and becomes a student at the school where Nigel teaches. Selena and Kara lock horns when a man named Ethan (Hart Bochner) comes into the equation, as Kara falls in love with Ethan, whereas Selena lusts after him. With the power of the Omegahedron, Selena, who is the first to refer to Kara as "Supergirl," makes herself princess of Earth and casts a spell on Ethan to make him her loyal servant, which Supergirl manages to break.
In the course of their conflict, Selena dispatches Supergirl to the Phantom Zone, where Zaltar has been exiled for his offenses. In this continuum, Kara retains none of her powers as Supergirl. However, Zaltar gives his life to save Kara, who returns to Earth, as Supergirl, to destroy Selena. (Nigel, seeing Supergirl being menaced by Selena's powers, tells her, "Confront her with it! It's the only way!" Selena had tried to leave Nigel behind in her quest for power.) Recovering the Omegahedron, Supergirl then returns to a dark Argo City.
To preserve the continuity with Superman: The Movie and Superman II, since Christopher Reeve did not appear in Supergirl, Marc McClure appeared as James Bartholomew "Jimmy" Olsen, and acting out the role of Lois Lane's sister, Lucy Lane, who was shown in the comics to have an on-again, off-again relationship with Jimmy, was Maureen Teefy, who was chosen for the role because she vaguely resembled a younger version of Margot Kidder. But Szwarc's efforts along that line did no good. The film was harshly critically received, and its performance at the box office was disappointing at best.
Superman III
Supergirl was set to appear in early scripts of the movie as an ally of Brainiac. She was going to be portrayed as Superman`s lover insted of his cousin.
Justice League: The New Frontier
Supergirl, The Teen Titans and Black Canary in Justice League: The New Frontier
Supergirl makes a cameo at the end of the movie bases on the novel Justice League: The New Frontier. She can be seen with other characters like the Teen Titans and Black Canary during John F. Kennedy famous speech.
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
Kara in Superman/Batman: Capocalypse
In Superman/Batman: Apocalypse Kara had literally crashed landed on earth and had no control over her powers. Superman and Batman take care of her and Batman is scared that she might be a threat but, Superman is just happy he has family because he finds out that Kara is his cousin from Krypton. Clark wants to teach Kara everything but, Batman gets Wonder Woman to help and she brings Kara to Themyscira. She trains Kara in Themyscira to be a warrior. Kara makes a friend there who can see the future. Before the island goes under attack Kara goes for a swim and after the attack of the Doomsdays Kara is stolen by Darkseid and her friend is killed. Darkseid trains her to be evil and to be his servant. Superman comes and saves her and turn her back into his side. Darkseid comes back to the Kent farm where Clark wanted her to live under the watch of his parents. Darkseid goes after Clark but, they bring into the ends of space with his remote control. In the end Kara says she wants t o make her own decision for what to do with her life. She felt that it was not Wonder Woman,Superman, or Batman's decision to make. She decides to take her cousin symbol of the S and becomes Supergirl. She is voice by Summer Glau.
Superman: Unbound
Kara in Superman: Unbound
Supergirl is set to appear in the animated movie Superman: Unbound, based in the comic book story Superman: Brainiac by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, voiced by Molly C. Quinn.
Movie 43
Supergirl will be portrayed by Kristen Bell in the comedy Movie 43
Television
Smallville
Laura Vanderoot as Kara Zor-El in Smallville
In the TV show Smallville, Kara landed in Season 7. She was portrayed Laura Vandervoort. Kara was sent from Krypton to protect and take care of her cousin, Kal-el. She does not realize that Clark is now older than her and has already grown up on Earth. Kara has all the same powers as Clark plus the ability to fly, they figure out upon meeting. Even though she has this advantage over Clark, he can control his powers and be near humans. In the episode "Blue", Kara losses her memory and ends up in Detroit as a waitress. Clark finds her and brings her back to Smallville. She still has no memories and Clark decides to tell her nothing about her powers and heritage. Kara feels that Clark is hiding something from her and forms a closer relationship to Lex Luthor. Before Kara does anything rash she gets her powers and memories restored by Jor-el in the Fortress of Solitude. Kara goes to destroy Brainiac and goes out of earth. She never comes back and Clark finds out that she is trapped in the Phantom Zone.
Kara in Supergirl uniform in Smallville
In season 8 she eventually comes out of the Phantom Zone but, does not stay in Smallville. Instead she goes in space to find Kandor because she has heard rumors there is life of Kryptonians there.
In Season 10, Kara returns in the episode "Supergirl" as a Superhero (donning the Supergirl Outfit minus the distinctive "S" symbol) in Metropolis. In this season, Kara's mission is to train Clark to use his powers more effectively and to teach Clark how to face and defeat Darkseid.
Later on in the season, Kara and Oliver Queen try to acquire the Bow of Orion. Jor-El Tells Kara that Clark needs to follow his destiny himself, so Kara uses Clark's Legion Ring to go to the future.
Smallville Legends: Kara and the Chronicles of Krypton
Smallville Legends: Kara and the Chronicles of Krypton
The Smallville Legends version of Kara's background is told in the webisodes of "Smallville Legends: Kara and the Chronicles of Krypton" which is featured on the "Smallville: Complete Season 7" DVD set as a bonus feature.
In these video shorts, Kara is shown during the Kriptonian civil war which led to the planet's destruction. In this video she lived in Kandor with her parents. In this video, Kara is the daughter of Zor-El, the bother of Jor-El.
Superman: The Animated Series
Supergirl in Superman: The Animated Series
Supergirl first appeared in the DC Animated Universe's Superman: The Animated Series in the season 2 two-part episode entitled "Little Lost Girl." This incarnation of Supergirl was not Superman's cousin, and not even Kryptonian. She was from Krypton's sister planet "Argo," which was destroyed after Krypton exploded. Kara In-Ze was a teenage girl who was put in suspended animation with her parents just before Argo was destroyed, in hopes that they would survive.
When Superman was searching around Krypton, looking to find anything from his home planet, he finds a heat signature at a nearby planet, which was Argo. Superman would find Kara, the only survivor in suspended animation. Due to Argo becoming a cold wasteland, Kara developed cheimatophobia, which is the fear of cold. Superman takes Kara back to Earth and arranges her to live with the Kents while she adjusts to Earth life.
Kara quickly develops her ability to fly, and eventually the rest of Superman's powers. Kara would visit Clark inMetropolis while wearing glasses and a brunette wig (a homage to the Silver Age Kara). Kara also made a costume similar to the one Linda Danvers wore, white top, blue skirt, and red cape. While in Metropolis, Kara would decide to help Jimmy Olsen investigate Intergang. The two would get into deep trouble when they discover Granny Goodness from Apokolips to be in cahoots with Intergang. Kara would change into Supergirl and battle against the Female Furies, Stompa, Mad Harriet, and Lashina. Superman would eventually arrive to help Supergirl, however the Female Furies were able to knock Superman unconscious and took him back to Apokalips. Supergirl would follow them to Apokalips and free Superman from Darkseid. They returned to Earth to stop two comets that Darkseid planned to hit Earth. Superman pushed one comet away and Supergirl injured herself destroying one that was too close to Metropolis. She eventually recovers.
Kara returns in the espisode "Unity" of the 3er Season, where she travels to Metropolis to spend some time in the city since she´s been bored of the farm. Upon her return, she discovered that the entire Smallville population has fallen under the control of an alien race. She teams up with Superman to stop the alieans, and returns to the farm with Ma and Pa Kent, thinking that the quiet life there isn´t that bad.
She made her final appearce in the two part episode serie finale "Legacy". She´s been traying to keep Metropolis safe and keeping Clark dissappearence unregistered using Superman Robots, only to be discovered by Lex Luthor, who use it as an excuse to create paranoia withing the militar forces, telling them that Superman and Supergirl are up to something bad. This get worse when Superman, under the influence of Darkseid, travels to Earth in order to conquer it. Kara tries to talk some reason into him, but the power of Darkseid is to big and the cousins end up fightinhg until the army fires a kryptonite misil at them, leaving them unconscious. They are taken to prision, where Superman regains the control of his mind. With the help of Lois Lane, the two of them rescue a weakend Kara (Who has been exposed under a red sun light), and when trying to escape she recieves a shot in the chest.
Superman takes Kara to Star Labs, where Emil Hamilton tries to helped her. He tells Superman that the may not be able to save her, and Superman - seeing that Hamilton fears him because of the invasion - decides to travel to Apocolips to end one and for all the menace of Darkseid.
After defeating Darkseid, Apocalips slaves try to secure Darkseid and Superman is about to go after them, only to be stoped by a wounded Supergirl, who tells him that if he contiues fighting inocent people will get hurt. The two of the go back to earth, Where Superman has to face the mistrust of people for his actions in the invasion.
Throughout the entire serie she is voice by Nicholle Tom.
Batman: The Animated Series
Supergirl in "Batman: The Animated Series"
In continuity with Superman: The Animated Serie, Supergirl appeared in one episode in the New Batman Adventures (also known as Batman the animated series season 4) in the episode "Girl's Night Out." Kara was at Clark's apartment in Metropolis while he was out of town. Batman calls Clark's apartment, Kara picks up the phone and he tells her to tell Clark that Livewire is in Gotham City. Kara decides to go after Livewire herself. When she arrives in Gotham City, she saves Oracle(Batman was out of town) aka Batgirl from Livewire when she short circuited the Batmobile. Kara and Barbara would become good friends as Supergirl shows Batgirl what it would be like if she could fly and both reveal that they envy each others lives. Batgirl also reveals her identity as Barbara Gordon to Supergirl quickly upon meeting her and her role assistant in data analysis at Gotham PD which allows her to gain information,soon after the two team up and later try to apprehend Livewire. However unknown to them, Livewire has teamed up with Harley Quinnand Poison Ivy who were previously staying out of trouble waiting to find an edge to use against Batman. The three of them were able to beat Supergirl and Batgirl, and escaped quickly afterwards as Supergirl chose save Batgirl from Ivy's toxins rather than pursue them. Later, Supergirl and Batgirl would fight Livewire, Ivy, and Quinn again at Ivy's place that they discovered by gaining the information from Penguin who is mad at Ivy and Livewire for trashing his Iceberg lounge. They eventually defeat the three of them by working together and sent them to jail. The episode ends with Supergirl and Batgirl eating ice cream while watching their arrest on tv.
Nicholle Tom reprises her role.
Justice League.
Supergirl made a cameo appearance at Superman funeral alongside
Kara in Justice League.
the Kents in the episode "Hereafter". She is under her civilian guise but without the burnette wig or glasses. In the same episode Hawkgirlpropossed her as member of the League in Superman place. She is also mentioned in the episode "Confort and Joy", Martha Kent says she is skiing with Barbara, referring Supergirl and Batgirl friendship from the Batman episode "Girl's Night Out.".
Justice League Unlimited
Supergirl joins the Justice League when the team expands their ranks after the events of Justice League finale "Starcrossed", where Thanagar invades the earth, exposing Hawkgirl betrayal and prompting her to leave the group. In the serie first episode "Initiation", joining Green Arrow, Green Lantern and Captain Atom to fight Brimstone, and prevent a nuclear menace.
A few episodes later, in "Fearful Symmetry", Kara begins to have nightmares where she kills men. Ensuring that this are not regular dreams, Kara enlist the help of Green Arrow and The Question. The clues leads them to General Hardcastle (who lead the army agains Superman in Superman: The animated serie
Supergirl joins the League in Justice League Unlimited.
finale "Legacy"), they tell them that the goverment has started to experiment with meta humans in order to create a weapon in case the heroes, like Superman, goes rogue. They discovered that Cadmus had created a clone of Supergirl while she was recovering atS.T.A.R. Labs after her battle against Darkseid in the Superman Animated Series. The clone was named Galatea and was designed after Power Girl (Short blonde hair, white tights, with a hole in the middle of her cleavage). Galatea was created to fight the Justice League if they went rogue. However, she also began killing people and since she was a clone of Supergirl, Supergirl could see all the killings happening. Supergirl would battle against her and beat her badly the first time. Professor Hamilton would take her back to the lab for her to recover, while also making upgrades.
Kara is part of the emergency response team assembled while facing the return to Earth of Amaz, who is seeking revenge against Lex Luthor. After she warns Lex and place him in safety, Supergirl joins Red Tornado, Rocket Red and Fire in the upper atmosphere as the second defensive line (The first being in space and the third in the ground). They are easly defeated as Amazo makes her way to Lex.
In "Flashpoint", after The Question is beaten when he discovers Lex Luthor and the government plot against the League, Supergirl - With Superman, Martian Manhunter, Flash and Green Arrow, argue on how to deal with this problem. In this moment Luthor takes remote control over the Watchtower, firing a laser on an abandoned Cadmus facility, making look like the League has attacked the goverment. This leads to the League founding members to turn themselves in to the Justice until their innocence is proven in the episode "Panic in the Sky". Superman ask Kara and the other members to keep things up in their absence. Amanda Waller would order Galatea to lead an army to fight the Justice League. Supergirl would battle Galatea again and defeated her when she pushed her into an electrical cable in the Justice League Watchtower .
Supergirl upgrades her costume in Justice League Unlimited
Supergirl returns in the 3rd season episode "Chaos at the Earth's Core" , where she upgrades her costume to a more classic look. In this episode Kara, with Stargirl, Stripe and Green Lantern, are brought to Skartaris, whereDeimos - With the help of Silver Banshee andMetallo - are in war against Warlord using a piece of kryptonite as a weapon. Given this place enviroment and red sun, Kara is powerless but this doesn´t stop her from getting involved in the fight, shownging her skills as a hand to hand combat and a sword woman.
In the episode entitled "Far From Home," Green Arrow also begins developing somewhat of a father/daughter relationship with Supergirl, talks to Superman about her well being many times. He also told Superman that he and Black Canary were going to take her out for her birthday. Green Arrow and Superman were talking about how she wanted her costume to look more like Superman's. Green Lantern ( John Stewart ), and Green Arrow were brought to the 31st century where they met the Legion Of Super-Heroes . They asked the three of them to help them defeat the Fatal Five, and just before the mission, Brainiac 5 reveals to Green Lantern and Green Arrow that Supergirl never returned from this mission. Supergirl would learn of her fate and decide to go through with it anyways. She was injured badly during the fight, but did not die. Kara began developing a relationship with Brainiac 5, she reveals that the reason she never returned from the mission is probably because she wants to stay there. Kara stays in the 31st century while Green Lantern and Green Arrow went home. Green Arrow told the news to Superman, who was sad but happy that she found a place to fit in. This marks Supergirl last appearance in the serie.
Throughout the serie Nicholle Tom reprises her role. In the serie she also made several cameo appeareces in this episodes:
Crisis on the Infinite Hearts homenage
The Greatest Story Never Told: In a screen receiving orders from Martian Manhunter when the League facesMordru.
Dark Heart: Fighting alongside other league members against an alien invasion.
The Once and Future Thing (part I and II): having launch in the watchtower.
Divided We Fall: attending to Superman speech after the events of the fight against Brainiac and Lex Luthor, alongside some civilians and League colleagues.
Super Best Friends Forever
Supergirl, Batgirl and Wonder Girlare the main characters in Super Best Friends Forever, a serie of shorts part of the DC Nation block on
Super Best Friends Forever
Cartoon Netword writted by Lauren Faust (known for her work in My Little Pony and The Powerpuff Girls ). She is voiced by Nicole Sullivan.
Video Games
DC Universe Online
Supergirl in DC Universe Online
Supergirl is one of the many characters featured in DC universe online game. She first appears as a character enslaved by Brainiac. She is voiced by Adrienne Mischler.
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Supergirl in Batman Lego
Supergirl appears as a playable character in the game voiced by Bridget Hoffman.
Toys
Action Figures
Justice Supergirl
Elsewords: Supergirl was part of the series 3 of this DC direct collection.
Justice: She was part of the line based the Alex Ross´ Justice with her 70´ costume.
Supergirl was part of the DC infinite Universe with these variations: Daying Supergirl (Battle Damaged, based on Crisis on the Infinite Earths), Crisis Supergirl and Modern Supergirl (With Superman and Wonder Girl or with Bizarro and Wonder Girl).
Supergirl was part of the Superman: The Animated Serie collection with a special armor.
A Superman: The animated serie 12" was released.
Supergirl was released in the serie 1 of the Armory collection with her Flamebird armor.
Supergirl was released in the serie 1 of the Crisis On The Infinite Crisis collection.
JLU Adult Supergirl
Supergirl is part of the Justice League Unlimited collections with 2 variations: a tiny one with the Linda Danvers costume (with a varian with metalic shirt), and a second one with her upgraded costume.
Supergirl and Streaky were part of the 1:6 Scale Deluxe Collector Figure.
Supergirl was part of Mini-mates collection with bizarro
Tonnner Supergirl
Heroclix: Earth on The Infinite Crisis Dying Supergirl in Superman arms, Crisis Supergirl tossing a burglar, Fast Forces Supergirl, Michael Turner Supergirl, Dark Supergirl, Bizarro Girl,
Dc Direct Silver Age Supergirl and Superboy with Streaky and Krypto.
Microman rare modern Supergirl.
DC Superheroes Michael Turner´s Supergirl. This figure was also released as a two pack with Lex Luthor.
