Kara Zor-El

* Kara Denvers/Kara Zor-El
* Supergirl
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Kara Zor-El, also known as Supergirl and Linda Lang, is a Kryptonian superhero based in Metropolis. She is the cousin of Superman, Lana Lang's foster niece and a member of the Justice League of America.

## Character Origins

### Kara Zor-El: 1965 - 1969

Kara Zor-El was born on the alien planet of Krypton. Kara grew up in an academic environment as the houses of both her father and mother were famous for producing many leading scientists and famed scholars. Kara's own parents, Zor-El and Alura In-Ze, were no exception.

### Kara Zor-El: 1969 - 1976

When Kara was still a child, her parents had begun work on coding an advanced form of artificial intelligence which they called Vril-Dox (the Kryptonian word roughly translating to "Know-It-All" or defined more accurately as "a maniacal pursuit of knowledge"). The prototype was widely successful and brought the House of El great fame and elevated not only Kara's family in status, but also the entirety of the House of El.

### Kara Zor-El: 1976 - 1978

Kara was eleven when her mother called a family meeting. Though Kara was told to take care of her newborn cousin Kal-El and let the adults talk, her curious nature didn't allow her to do so. Eavesdropping on the conversation, Kara overheard her father explain to her aunt and uncle that Alura had found a crucial flaw in the coding of Vril-Dox. Further, they had tried to warn the Kryptonian Council but were denied access to Vril-Dox which they had given over to the government for all of Krypton to benefit from. Kara's parents feared that this coding error would have serious repercussions if the Vril-Dox system was granted administrator access to the military's drones and starships.

Kara did her best to keep Kal-El quiet so she could overhear the rest of the conversation but only heard something about the need for her aunt Lara Lor-Van to coax the Council into reconsidering their position while her uncle Jor-El designed a "back-up plan."

### Kara Zor-El: 1978

As Kara's parents had predicted, the military algorithms corrupted Vril-Dox's code and the artificial intelligence not only gained sentience, but a megalomaniacal thirst for knowledge. Within seconds of being granted full access, Vril-Dox analyzed that Krypton's powerful military and extremist religion posed a threat to not only their own race but to other races as well. As this threatened the accumulation of knowledge, Vril-Dox established its prime directive: eradicate its creators.

In fulfillment of that directive, Vril-Dox took command of the war fleet and locked down Krypton's spaceports. Vril-Dox's fleet then began to rain destruction upon key points of Krypton's surface, attempting to destabilize Krypton's core.

In this chaos, Zor-El and Jor-El revealed their secret plan to Kara. Kara learned they had built two small starships, designed small to bypass detection from such a planetary blockade. Kal-El was to be launched in the first ship while Kara would be sent in the second. Scared by what she was hearing, thirteen-year-old Kara was told to watch over her cousin upon arrival in their new home. It was then that Kara's parents said goodbye to her and forced her onto the small spacecraft as Vril-Dox's military drones were hammering at the door. So distraught, Kara forgot to bother asking where her new home was before launching into space.

However, while leaving Krypton's atmosphere, Krypton broke apart and debris damaged the flight systems of Kara's ship, delaying her arrival on Earth by nearly three days, causing her to crash land in the middle of the Pacific. Thinking quickly, Kara activated her cryogenic stasis system, putting herself down for a cold sleep

### Supergirl: 2000 - 2006

While Kara took a frosty snooze on the bottom of the ocean, her baby cousin had landed in Smallville, Kansas and was raised to become a good and honorable farmer by the name of Clark Kent. It was not until Clark was a grown man that he learned of the existence of other vessels of Kryptonian origin on Earth, one in the Arctic and another in the Pacific. After Clark investigated the signal in the Arctic and finding and ancient Kryptonian colonial ship, Clark went to find the other. When he did, Clark found the submerged ship was of the same design as the one hidden in his mother’s root cellar. Using the key from his own ship to activate this one, Clark found a preteen Kryptonian girl wearing the markings of the House of El.

Once removed from cryogenic stasis, Kara Zor-El was shocked to learn that the man who had saved her was, in fact, her infant cousin she had come to this world to protect. Kara spent some time with Kal-El in the old Kryptonian Fortress, learning the basics of Earth culture and the English language while preparations were made outside the Fortress for Kara to assume a false identity as Karen Kent, a new foster child for Martha Kent to take in. I am not sure who Clark contacted to make this false identity, but let me tell you, it’s pretty flawless. I mean, I could have done better, but it holds water, is what I’m saying. On the Kent farm, Kara became Karen pretty easily. Martha was welcoming of the young girl, having recently suffered a great loss herself, and was emphatic to Kara’s shock at the loss of Krypton (which she had relived countless times in her cryogenic dreams).

When Kara/Karen was a bit older, and had begun to master the use o her powers safely on the Kent farm, Clark (as Superman) gradually introduced her to the world as his sidekick and eventually sponsored her admission into the Titans. Among the Titans, Karen became a member of the “Brat Pack” and also was selected to be the team’s fearless leader. All the while fully aware that the second Robin (Jason) had a crush on her, which she loved to tease him about. Later, when Karen was forced to witness Jason’s death, it hit her like a train of Kryptonite.

## Powers, Abilities and Weaknesses

Possessing vast **powers** given by her Kryptonian physiology, **Supergirl** is one of the most powerful heroes in the world, and has been a member of the Justice League Such As...

### Powers

* **Kryptonian Physiology**: Under the effects of a "yellow" sun, Kara possesses the same potential powers as an average Kryptonian. These include:
	+ **Solar Energy Absorption**: Under optimal conditions, this is the main source of Kara's super powers as they are contingent upon exposure to solar radiation from a yellow sun star system. Her biological make up includes a number of organs which lack analogues in humans and whose functions are unknown. It is believed that between one or more of these and her bio-cellular matrix, "yellow" solar energy is stored for later use. This allows for the use of these powers to fade when yellow solar radiation is not available instead of immediate failure.
	+ **Heat Vision**: Kara can, as a conscious act, fire beams of intense heat at a target by looking at it. She can vary the heat and area affected.
	+ **Super-Hearing**: Kara's hearing is sensitive enough to hear any sound at any volume or pitch. With skill and concentration, she can block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source or frequency.
	+ **Enhanced Vision**: Kara's vision processes the entire electromagnetic spectrum as well as allowing vast control over selective perception and focus. This umbrella ability includes the following:
		- **Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision**: Kara can see well into most of the electromagnetic spectrum. She can see and identify radio and television signals as well as all other broadcast or transmitted frequencies. Using this ability, she can avoid detection by radar or satellite monitoring methods. This also allows her to see the aura generated by living thing.
		- **Telescopic Vision**: This is the ability to see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics. Though limited, the exact extent of the ability is undetermined. In function, it is similar to the zoom lens on a camera.
		- **X-Ray Vision**: This is the ability to see through any volume of matter except lead. Karas can see things behind a solid, opaque object as if it were not there. She can focus this ability to "peel back" layers of an object, allowing hidden image or inner workings to be observed. The exact type of energy perceived—such as x-rays, cosmic rays, or some other energy invisible to normal humans—is unclear. This ability perceives an ambient energy source though, it does not involve the eye projecting a concentrated, possibly toxic, beam to be reflected back from objects.
		- **Microscopic Vision**: This is the ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the atomic level.
		- **Infrared Vision**: Kara can see with better acuity in darkness, and to a degree in total darkness.
	+ **Flight**: Kara is able to manipulate graviton particles to defy the forces of gravity and achieve flight. This ranges from hovering to moving in any posture, in any direction.
	+ **Invulnerability**: Due to the interaction of her dense molecular structure and supercharged bio-electric aura, Kara is nigh-invulnerable to extreme energy forces. In addition, her extends this protection against toxins and diseases.
		- **Enhanced Immunity**
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**: Kara is able to maintain continuous strenuous physical action for an indefinite period of time. This based on her body converting yellow solar radiation directly to energy, but is limited by physiological and psychological needs to eat, drink, and sleep.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Kara's strength is augmented by yellow solar radiation interacting with the greater than human density, resilience and biological efficiency of her musculature. Her strength is more an act of conscious will on energy fields than actual physical strength. It is this act of conscious will that enables her to perform physical feats that are beyond the mere application force, such as moving a mountain top without said rock crumbling under its own mass.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Kara is able to move at incredible speed by sheer force of will. This extends to her perceptions and allows for feats such as catching bullets in mid flight as well as covering vast distances in little or no time. This also confers:
		- **Superhuman Agility**
		- **Superhuman Reflexes**
	+ **Super-Breath**: Kara is able to create hurricane force winds by exhaling air from her lungs. She can chill the air as it leaves her lungs to freeze targets. She can also reverse the process to pull large volumes of air or vapor into her lungs.
	+ **Longevity**: Kara can live longer than regular humans, remaining at her prime as long as she was under the exposure of the "yellow" sun.

* + **Energy Projection**: Supergirl can project the solar energy she has absorbed. The energy projection is strong enough to free her from the Lasso of Truth.
	+ **Force Field**: Supergirl can use the absorbed solar energy to cover her body in a glowing light. The force field has a protective nature. For example, it can prevent her from getting wet and allows her to breathe underwater. However, the extent of its effects is unknown.
	+ **Sound Manipulation**: Supergirl is able to alter her voice in order to affect her surroundings as demonstrated when, in order to get out of a trap created by Cyborg Superman, Kara disrupted the frequency of the machine by screaming at a certain frequency.

### Abilities

* **Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced)**: Kara was taught how to fight on Krypton as part of her trials, and in Crucible Academy.
	+ **Martial Arts**: Kara is adept in several Kryptonian fighting styles like Klurkor and **Torquasm Rao**.
	+ **Swordsmanship**
* **Chi Manipulation**: Supergirl learned the **art of Bagua** under the instruction of I-Ching. She practiced how to manipulate her **Chi** or **Qi** in order to gain a better control her powers due to them becoming supercharged after her conflict with the Fatal Five. Superman recommended tutelage with I-Ching for Supergirl in the first place.
* **Multilingualism**: Kara can speak fluent English and Kryptonian. She has been studying all Earth's languages, but she thinks she is bad at most of them.
* **Genius Level Intellect**

### Weaknesses

* **Kryptonian Physiology**: Under the effects of a "yellow" sun, Kara possesses the same potential weaknesses as an average Kryptonian. These include:
	+ **Vulnerability to Kryptonite**
	+ **Vulnerability to Magic**

* **Vulnerability to Sensory Overload**: Supergirl's sensitive sense can be overpowered, such as when Lobo tossed a sonic grenade under her feet and knocked her unconscious.-
* **Solar Energy Dependency**
* **Bigotry** ***(Formerly)***: Raised on Krypton where cloning was illegal, Kara developed an unconscious bigotry against Kryptonian clones from her culture, believing they were evil. When she met Superboy (Kon-El) for the first time and learned he was a clone, she attacked him, until she learned to work through her prejudice and trust him.
* **Uncontrollable Rage** ***(Formerly)***

## Notes and Trivia

### Notes

* Earth-27's Kara is a composite of the classic Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) and Earth-2's Power Girl (Karen Starr), who is usually from an alternate reality.
* Bill Starr, Kara's ex-husband is based on a magic horse named Comet from the comics, that turns out be a Man/Centaur that falls in love with Kara. In Earth-27 he's just a rodeo rider turned country singer.
* Her red Supergirl costume is a nod to her time as a Red Lantern in the comics.
* In the comics Power Girl had a cat named Stinky. Supergirl also had a cat named Streaky.
* Her relationships with Alex Danvers, Luna Luthor and Winifred Schott are nods to her relationships with Alex Danvers, Lena Luthor and Winn Schott in the *Supergirl* TV series.
* Maiden of Might alias is a nod to the *Smallville* TV series
	+ Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino, first appearing in *Action Comics* #252. However, in the Prime Earth continuity, Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) first appeared as part of the *New 52* DC Universe in *Supergirl* (Volume 6) #1 by Michael Green, Mike Johnson, and Mahmud Asrar.

### Trivia

* As a member of the second generation of Titans, Karen was considered to be a member of the "Brat Pack," a clique among the Titans where the Titans with mentors would be scolded far less than those without.
* As one of the Wild Childs (the Gen-2 Titans), Karen was at the center of several scandals and antics just like every other member, such as using her x-Ray vision to compare her male classmates "attributes" and telling her gal pals about it. Her most prominent scandal, was her getting high off of Red Kryptonite and making out with Wonder Girl on live television.
	+ When asked about the scenario, Roy had responded "Oh, yeah. I can see the confusion. No, she didn't do it intentionally. She was exposed to some in the field and didn't realize it. After that mission, they went to a press event and the Red K took effect."
* Power Girl joined the Justice League in 2012 nominated by Superman.
* She is a huge hard "R" horror movie fan.
* In 2013 Karen joined the Society.
* She's friends with Alex Danvers, Barbara Gordon, Luna Luthor, Ted Kord and Winnie Schott.
* She is Helena Bertinelli's best friend. The two take frequent vacations together, often with Donna Troy as well.
* She set up StarrWare thanks to Luna Luthor who provided her with capital.
* Her screen name is "Sup3rgurl."
* In 2014 Grandmaster revealed he was Zor-El. This revelation caused Kara to break down and cry. After she learnt about all the murders Zor-El committed in an effort to find Brainiac, she stopped considering Zor-El her father. As far as she was concerned, her father died with Krypton. She can't stand all the death he caused in her name. This caused Grandmaster to leave Earth.
* She once faced the Fatal Five. She was quite shocked to discover that Emerald Empress' drone was able to emit blasts that left wounds on her. She was lucky she never got a direct hit, but she suspects Sarya was toying with her the whole time and she felt like she was using her drone's blast to undress her. Karen's costume hasn't seen that much "compromising" battle damage since the last time she faced Harley Quinn.
* She experienced some lucid dreams and visited the Sinister House.
	+ Supergirl was 16 years old when she arrived on Earth.
	+ Supergirl is known as the *Girl of Steel* and the *Girl of Tomorrow*.
	+ Supergirl is the first member of the Red Lantern Corps who has managed to destroy her own ring and survive without one and without having any help from a Blue Power Ring, only because she was able to absorb enough yellow sunlight due to being at Earth's yellow sun when it happened.