Supergirl (My Adventures with Superman)

Kara Zor-El, also known as Supergirl and The Kryptonian Warrior, is one of the main characters of the 2023 superhero cartoon series .
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 to serve the evil machine as his second in command in his campaign to conquer throughout the universe. 
After finally learning the terrible truth about Brainiac and having been inspired by her cousin and her new Earth friends she decided to do the right thing and make up for her past actions, becoming the heroine known to the world as Supergirl.
In Season 1, she was voiced by . For the remainder of the series, she is voiced by .
==Appearance==
As the Warrior, she is seen wearing a black and white combat suit with the House of El family crest on her chest, a red cape and a helmet with only one glowing red eye. Following her redemption, she has taken to donning a hero suit, mirroring that of her cousin.
Outside of the Warrior, Kara is shown to be a pretty, blonde, blue eyed young woman with a rather voluptuous yet lean build figure. On Earth, she wears a black vest over a white shirt, blue pants and brown flat shoes. She also wears a black bracelet with a red stone on her right wrist which is actually her combat suit.
==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, 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 periodic mind control and utilizing mental conditioning, as Kara’s true self becomes horrified and traumatized by the acts of genocide she committed and 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 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 atrocities to the worlds he conquered.
After meeting her long-lost cousin and befriended some earthlings, she began to see the error of her ways and realizing she can choose what kind of person she wants to be and wising to redeem herself for her past mistakes 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 embraced her kind and compassionate side, while still retaining her warrior spirit.
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 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 she does. Kara then arrives above the Earth, intending on locating Kal-El.
When arriving to Earth, she encounters Jimmy Olson, 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. Suddenly, Just as Lois broke up with Superman, 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 she questions why he limits himself around humans. After stumbling onto her secret collection of alien memorabilia including photos of her and Jimmy, he asks her to show her a planet the Kryptonian Empire conquered. She takes him to Thanagar, but they find it in ruins, briefly causing Kara to question Brainiac's intentions 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 doubt towards Brainiac 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 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 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 see things from his point of view. 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.
Brainiac-Kara was raised 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, she finally saw him for the monster he truly was Kara renounced him everything he taught her 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. 
*Superhuman Strength: She possessed immense physical strength, to the point where she can hold her own against Superman.
*Superhuman Durability: 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.
*Vacuum Adaptation: 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.
*Bio-Electric Aura: Supergirl possesses an ability to generate a bio-electric aura that envelops her body and anything she's touching, providing a protective shield against attacks and even containment of powerful energy sources. The power was unlocked when Kara was healed by the sun's rays during the finale battle with Brainiac.
==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.
===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 she 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, emotionless and speaks more oddly, as if Brainiac is speaking through her, and her eyes take on an eerie dulled silver look. However, Kara's memorabilia help her remember her doubt towards Brainiac and the destruction the Kryptonian Empire left behind and thanks to Superman's influence she eventually broke free of her programing.
==Equipment== 
*Kryptonian Warrior Suit:
**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.
==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.
*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.
*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. 
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