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| “ | It does not matter what they think. You forced me to destroy worlds, but I will fight for this one! | „ |
| ~ Kara standing up to Brainiac in order to defend Earth from him. |
Kara Zor-El, also known as Supergirl and formerly known as The Kryptonian Warrior, is one of the main characters of the 2023 superhero cartoon series My Adventures with Superman.
Born into the House of El, Kara is the daughter of Zor-El, the brother of Jor-El, thereby Kal-El's paternal cousin. She was sent away by her father in the last moments before Krypton fell, the same day when Clark was sent away by his parents.
But it was all for naught as Kara was found by Brainiac, following the aftermath of her home planet's destruction, Kara was raised and brainwashed in to becoming the Warrior to serve the evil machine as his second in command in his campaign to conquer throughout the universe.
After overcoming her brainwashing with the help of her cousin and her new friends, Kara chose to protect her new home alongside her new family, becoming the heroine known to the world as Supergirl.
In Season 1, she was voiced by Kari Wahlgren. For the remainder of the series, she is voiced by Kiana Madeira.
Appearance[]
Kara is a blonde, blue-eyed young woman with a rather voluptuous yet lean built figure. After the final battle with Brainiac, she briefly gained a large cut over her right cheek due to Kryptonite poisoning, but it healed in a short amount of time.
Outfits[]
The Warrior Outfit[]
As the Warrior, she is seen wearing a black and white bulky combat suit with the House of El family crest on her chest, a red cape and a helmet with only one glowing red eye. During and after her fight with Superman it stopped being bulky and matched Kara's slender frame and was now black with red lining. She had tall, spiked shoulder pads and lost the cape and helmet. Kara's jawline was also covered in armor.
Causal Civilian Clothing[]
On Earth, she wears a black vest with her family's crest on the left side over a white shirt, blue pants and black flats. She also wears a black bracelet with a red stone on her right wrist which is actually her combat suit.
During her time recuperating at the Kent Farm, Kara wore a pink sweater and blue short jeans.
In a sneak peek of Season 3, Kara is wearing a white T-Shirt with blue sleeves and green crocodile cargo pants.
Supergirl Costume[]
After being healed by the sun's rays her Kryptonian Armor suddenly altered its appearance to match Superman's with a few differences; her red cape comes with a red scarf, the yellow lining is around her ankles instead of the knees, her belt buckle is slightly smaller than Superman's and her crest doesn't have yellow lining.
Personality[]
As the Warrior, she seems to be very confident. When she is told that Earth is in rebellion, she simply dismisses it, saying that they will conquer it in the end. Having no qualms in seeing a world burn with the citizens screaming, seeing it as natural for conquering. Due to being under Brainiac's care and being brainwashed, Kara believes all Kryptonians should be warriors, as such she looks down on Clark's lifestyle, then deeming him to be both a joke and a disappointment. She also seems to be border-on aggressive as she attacked Clark without hesitation when ordered to. However, she was hesitant to keep fighting in front of innocent citizens, seeing how visibly scared they were, only to continue when being controlled by the evil machine. It is later revealed that her Warrior persona was the result of Brainiac placing her under mind control and utilizing mental conditioning, as Kara’s true self becomes horrified and traumatized by the acts of genocide and violence she committed to her cousin and others. In truth she was lied to by Brainiac who stated the planets that she actually destroyed had become part of the New Kryptonian Empire.
Her entire world shattered when she overcame her brainwashing and learns the terrible truth that Brainiac is a warmongering tyrant willing to kill those who refuse his rule and that he brainwashed her to commit horrible and violent atrocities to the worlds he conquered, to her cousin and so many others.
After meeting her long-lost cousin and befriended some Earthlings, she slowly began to break free from the brainwashing and realizing she can choose what kind of person she wants to be. Wising to redeem herself for her past actions under her brainwashing she decided to follow the right path and became a hero of planet Earth and honor Krypton's wish for peace. Since she began living on Earth Kara has become much happier as well as fully becoming her true self, while still retaining her warrior spirit.
Kara's true self is curious, compassionate, and conflicted beneath the brainwashed exterior. She loves the taste of Earth's food, so much so that she makes Jimmy spend nearly a thousand dollars of his money on her for food.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Kara Zor-El was born on the planet Krypton to young Zor-El and his wife, Alura In-Ze. She was placed into a pod by her father to avoid Krypton's inevitable destruction, during the last moments before the planet fell, the same day when her cousin was sent away by her aunt and uncle. Kara was sent just before the explosion.
But she was later found by Brainiac, the robotic entity who found and raised/brainwashed her in order to serve the maniacal A.I as his second in command in his campaign to conquer the rest of the universe.
Season 1[]
After Superman destroyed his ship and the portal. Brainiac went off to tell Kara that the planet has resisted their efforts of conquest. The mind controlled daughter of the House of El says that their resistance is irrelevant, for in the end, Earth will kneel.
Season 2[]
Finding the Only Person Who Understands Her[]
Sometime later, Kara receives a message from her cousin, Kal-El, telling her to come find him, which gave her the strangth disobey brainiac's orders to go to Earth together. Kara then arrives above the Earth, intending on locating Kal-El.
When arriving to Earth, she encounters Jimmy Olsen, whom she mistaken him as the leader of the Planet and ask for his help to search for her cousin. After Jimmy offers to help her, they bond over touring Metropolis before eventually heading to the contest, where Jimmy learns Kara was searching for Superman, who is named the winner. When Lois ran off in tears, Superman was in a rush to see if she was okay which lead to her brushing off kara how was trying to introduce herself strangthening her brainwashing. Suddenly, Just as Lois broke up with Superman, the brainwashed Kara enters the scene and confronts him about the Earth making him soft. She then assumes an armored form and attacks Superman, believing he is unfit to join the Kryptonian Empire. Despite Superman unlocking the power of ice breath in their ensuing fight, Kara defeats and captures him on Brainiac's orders.
Kara explains to Clark there are other living Kryptonians. Using a thought-projector device, she explains that before Krypton fell, it was the most advanced society in the galaxy and invited less fortunate planets to share in their utopia. He attempts to explain why she cannot conquer Earth, but do to the brainwashing she questions why he limits himself around humans. After stumbling onto her secret collection of alien memorabilia including photos of her and Jimmy, he kindly asks her to show her a planet the Kryptonian Empire conquered. Thanks to her cousins kindness it loosens her brainwashing wich lead to taking him to Thanagar, but they find it in ruins, briefly causing Kara to slowly overcoming her brainwashing before his robots bring her and Superman to his base Kandor. When Brainiac Send Kara away, she begins to question herself about things she is beginning to see in her mind. However, Kara's memorabilia help her remember her experiences to her cousin and the destruction the Kryptonian Empire left behind. After seeing the memories of the destruction and chaos that she caused (thus brainwashed by brainiac), she over came it and falls into complete despair, saying that she couldn't and didn't remember before flying away to space in shame. While trying to determine what to do next, she encounters a spaceship piloted by Jimmy, Lois, Mallah, and the Brain.
Path to Freedom and Redemption[]
When she sees the spaceship, she notices Jimmy's Voice, begins to blush and asks what he is doing here with him explaining everything before letting her in the ship. when entering in, Kara and Jimmy reunited before he is introducing her to Lois with them remembering each other before they and Lois devise a plan to save Superman. While Mallah and the Brain stay behind to repair the spaceship, Jimmy and Lois infiltrate Kandor while Kara attempts to reason with Brainiac. Frustrated with her perceived rebelliousness, Brainiac confirms that he brainwashed her to serve his interests. Kara destroys his current body, but Brainiac successfully possesses Superman's body and proceeds to fight her. Jimmy tries to use the Kryptonite on Brainiac, but he ejects him, Lois, and Kara into space before teleporting Kandor away. After Mallah and the Brain rescue the trio, She and Jimmy notice that Lois stole the Black Mercy and uses it on herself which shock them at a turning point.
Jimmy and Kara return to Earth with Lois's body to regroup, but are apprehended by Waller and Lex Luthor, who believe them to have summoned Superman to invade. Thanks to a Flamebird post, they are rescued by the Daily Planet. Kara was still lost after everything she believed in shattered, but Jimmy encouraged her to forge her own path. After Brainiac and his forces arrive, Kara finally accepting that Brainiac is just a warmongering tyrant renounces him as a father decides to fight him head on. After Losis successfully frees Superman's mind, Brainiac is forced to retreat back into his original body and attaches anti-kryptonite armor to himself and his forces, which allows him to dispatch and take control of Luthor's army of Metallos. Both Kal-El and Kara try to fight back but Brainiac, but he uses the Metallos to shoot them both with kryptonite knocking the two Kryptonians out.
Superman and Kara recover and receive aid from Willis, Heat Wave, and Intergang in reaching Kandor to confront Brainiac, who attempts to brainwash Kara once more. Superman managed to hold her down and thanks to the words of her cousin as well as Lois and Jimmy, she was reminded that she was not alone anymore, that Brainiac was wrong about her being nothing without him and that she was her own person, feeling their love and encouragement she finally broke free of Brainiac’s control once and for all. She and Superman push Kandor towards the sun to destroy it. During the fight Brainiac begin to synthesize more kryptonite after analyzing it and fired a massive kryptonite laser beam. Kara and Superman survived thanks to the sun's rays and discovered that the sun was their source of power. The cousins then began charging right at Kandor with Kara's suit suddenly altering its appearance to match Superman's. With his ship now destroyed Brainiac tried taking his enemies down with him by attacking with a kryptonite blade, but Kara dealt the finishing blow and ripped out Brainiac’s CPU. Kara woke up days later at the Kent family farmhouse. Then Clark walked in, who was thrilled to see Kara awake and introduced Jonathan and Martha who were simply ecstatic to meet the newest member of the family. Kara, now happily living on Earth, became known as “Supergirl” and helped rebuild Metropolis and started protecting it alongside her cousin.
Relationships[]
Superman - At first, she thought her cousin's time on Earth had made him weak but after getting to know Kal-El she slowly began to break free from her brainwashing. After Superman was freed from Brainiac's control, she realized Clark was the kind of person she wanted be like. Their bond grew significantly in a short period, with Kara even calling her cousin by his Earth name Clark from time to time out of respect, and she now protects Metropolis alongside him.
Brainiac - Kara was raised/brainwashed by Brainiac and for the longest time very loyal to him as she believed that he was the hero that could bring order to the universe. After witnessing the devastation Brainiac caused firsthand and breaking free from her brainwashing, she finally saw him for the monster he truly was. Kara renounced her relationship to him and even stopped calling him "Father".
Jimmy Olsen - When Kara first met Jimmy Olsen, he showed her around Earth, and she quickly developed romantic feelings for him. Jimmy was one of the two people (The other being Superman) that showed Kara and there is more to life than being a warrior and there is also a whole universe outside of the so called Kryptonian empire.
Lois Lane - Their relationship had a rough start, but after Kara showed Lois genuine remorse for her past actions the two ladies slowly begin to trust and respect each other and eventually became very good friends.
Powers[]
Kryptonian Physiology: As any other Kryptonian, once charged by yellow sunlight, Kara possesses various superhuman attributes and abilities.
- Solar Energy Absorption: Kara's cellular structure allows her to absorb, store and metabolize the wavelength of yellow sun radiation to fuel all of her abilities.
- Superhuman Strength: She possessed immense physical strength, to the point where she can hold her own against Superman.
- Invulnerability: She possesses immense durability, being able to take insane amounts of punishment with ease.
- Superhuman Speed: She possesses very fast speed, being capable of keeping up with Superman.
- Superhuman Stamina: She possesses great stamina, being able to push herself to the physical limit without tiring out.
- Superhuman Hearing: She has incredible hearing. Her hearing seems to be sensitive as she hates loud areas.
- Oxygen Independence: She has showcased that Kryptonians can seemingly breathe into space for an indefinite amount of time.
- Flight: Kara can fly at incredible speed in velocity, being able to travel insanely vast distances within seconds.
- Heat Vision: Kara is skilled in heat vision and utilizes it to devastating effect, as seen during her conquests of other planets while brainwashed by Brainiac.
- Sonic Scream: Kara possesses the power to let loose a massive blast of sound, that was unlocked after she finally broke free of her brainwashing.
- Accelerated Healing: Like her cousin after being weakened by Kryptonite, she can recover quickly.
- Bio-Electric Aura: Kara can generate a bio-electric aura like Superman, except she manifests glowing red eyes. This ability was first used in "My Adventures with Supergirl".
Abilities[]
- Master Combatant: Kara proves to be much more formidable than her cousin in battle. Having aided Brainiac in conquering other worlds, she has been fully trained in combat and holds a greater advantage in terms of fighting experience than Superman. This allowed her to defeat Superman with greater ease as her inexperienced cousin couldn't fight back properly.
- Infiltration: Kara can disguise herself as an Earthling in order to search for her cousin Kal-El, and not to arouse suspicion from the humans.
- Piloting Skills: Kara can pilot her very own spaceship.
- Knowledge of Various Planets: To be added
Weaknesses[]
- Kryptonite: A glowing green mineral. Exposure to even a small amount is able to cripple Kryptonian, resulting into their body growing crystal.
- Brainwashing (Formerly): Kara was weak to mind control as showcased by Brainiac easily brainwashing her and blocking her memories and replacing them with false ones. This brainwashing can resurface anytime when she Feels any negative emotions like wen superman brushed her off, strays too far from his ideal as shown when she visited Thanagar, and during the hologram of old Krypton. When in this state, Kara becomes cold, ruthless, violent, and some times emotionless with a oddly voice, as if Brainiac is speaking through her, while her eyes take on an eerie dulled silver look, surprising her true character. However, Kara's memorabilia helped her gain some agency wich lead her to overcame it wen she learned the truth and thanks to Superman's compassion she eventually broke free of her programing perminitly.
- Auditory Sensitivity: Her super hearing also seems to be sensitive as she hates loud areas.
- Red Solar Energy: To be added
Equipment[]
- Kryptonian Warrior Suit (Formerly):
- Heat Vision Augmentation: Parts of the suit can break off and focus around Kara's face like a magnifying lens, enhancing her heat vision to the point where it overwhelms Superman's own heat vision and can cause greater amounts of destruction than what her unaugmented heat vision is capable of.
- Suit Configuration: Kara broke off the left shoulder spike of her suit when it was bigger than the right one.
- Crystalline Container: Kara used this feature to encase Superman and deliver him aboard her ship.
- Holographic Projection: Kara pulled up a holographic screen on her suit's wrist com and browsed through Kandor's layout.
Trivia[]
- Previously, Kara also acted as an antagonist in Superman/Batman: Apocalypse and in a cameo in Young Justice: Phantoms, as she was abducted by Darkseid and brainwashed to serve as one of his Female Furies until she was saved.
- The Kara Zor-El depicted in the Villains Wiki is not her true self but rather her cold and ruthless Kryptonian warrior counterpart created wen Brainiac brainwashed her.
- Her character arc is very similar to She-Ra from Masters of the Universe how was also raised and controlled by the main antagonist, but realized the truth which led to there redemption into becoming a hero.
- Her civilian clothing was designed by the animators to resemble Android 18 from Dragon Ball Z.
- Her relationship to Jimmy is somewhat similar between Android 18 and Krillin (who is the best friend of the main character) from Dragon Ball Z.
- Her character arc also seems to follow some cues from Raditz from the same series, being a blood relative to the alien protagonist who is disappointed at their kindness and fondness towards Earth and its people. However, unlike Raditz, Kara realized she was wrong and also grew fond of Earth and its people, which makes her similar to Vegeta.
- Her relationship to Jimmy is somewhat similar between Android 18 and Krillin (who is the best friend of the main character) from Dragon Ball Z.
- Though likely coincidence, Kara's portrayal from a brainwashed enforcer of a villain before finally breaking free can be compared with that Bucky Barnes aka. Winter Soldier, particularly his his Marvel Cinematic Universe iteration.
- The Kara version of Supergirl first debuted in the pages of Action Comics #252 in 1959, which also featured the debut of Superman villain Metallo in a backup story. A Supergirl was created in the year prior in 1958, a short lived being born from a magical wish by Jimmy Olsen for Superman to have a fellow Kryptonian to talk to as a companion. This story was done for DC to gauge reader reactions to the idea of a female Superman counterpart, which allowed Kara to come into existence because of positive fan responses.
- Kara acts surprisingly much like Clark when she's around Jimmy or thinking about him; showing that being clumsy from love runs in the El family.
- By the time skip at the end of season 2, Kara likely had her misunderstanding about Jimmy's job cleared up by Lois and Clark.
