Superman - Little Girl-Lost (Episode) • An Part 001

"**Little Girl Lost**" is a two-parter consisting of the 27th, 28th and final episodes of the second season of *Superman: The Animated Series*, and the 40th and 41st of the overall series. It is the first appearance in the series of Kara-In-Ze (Supergirl). Searching for signs of life on Krypton, Superman soon discovers a nearby planet that has also died. However, he finds that there is a single survivor of this planet as well. He takes this survivor back to Earth where she develops powers just like his. Unfortunately, ***Intergang*** is back in business and now Kal-El must fight to stop them reluctantly taking help from the new Supergirl.

## "Little Girl Lost"

### Writer

***Evan Dorkin*** & ***Sarah Dyer***, ***Paul Dini*** and ***Alan Burnett***

## Episode guide

### Next

The Last Son of Krypton
N/A

### Next

An Little Piece of Home
Starcrossed

### Entirely Next Produced

"Warrior Queen"
"World's Finest"

### Entire Aired Next

"Apokolips... Now!"
"Where There's Smoke"

## Plot

Deep in space, in Krypton's own solar system, Superman flies by in his space ship. Krypton is now nothing more than an asteroid belt of Kryptonite floating in space but Superman still checks for signs of life. There are none. However, the ship picks up a distress signal from another planet in the system. Feeling hopeful, Superman heads out to answer the call.
Superman follows the signal to a frigid world at the edge of the system. Finding that the planet is devoid of Kryptonite radiation, he investigates further. He finds a lab buried in the ice and snow. Inside, he discovers a recorded message from Kala In-Ze, the planet's former chief physician: the planet is called Argo and was once a thriving civilization. When Krypton exploded, however, Argo was ravaged by shock waves and torn from its orbit. Eventually, it moved so far from the sun that all inhabitants froze to death. To survive, Kala placed herself and her family in stasis chambers in hope of rescue.

After the message finishes, Superman finds the chambers have all been destroyed by weathering much to his sadness—except one, holding a teenaged girl.
Later back on Earth, the girl, Kara, flies over Kansas reveling in her newfound powers. Unfortunately for her, Clark grabs her and pulls her down, scolding her for being so reckless. He reminds her that she needs to keep a low profile. She agrees but complains about the fact that he won't let her fight crime along with him, and he tells her to be patient.
Over lunch with the Kents, ***Jonathan*** mentions that ***Intergang*** is causing trouble in ***Metropolis*** again. Kara is immediately interested, but Clark insists that she need not worry. As soon as he leaves, however, she presses Jonathan for more details.
In Metropolis, Lois and Jimmy are covering an electronics show, which is attacked by a couple of teenagers riding on flying disks and wielding beam weapons that shoot fire and ice. Superman arrives and confronts the duo but their weapons are strong enough to keep him at bay. He manages to capture one of the teenagers but the other grabs Lois and sticks a flying disk on her, sending Lois shooting into the sky and distracting Superman long enough for them to escape.
The teenagers return to their gang's hideout, in the Hob's Bay recreation center, where they are greeted by Granny Goodness.
Meanwhile, at the *Daily Planet*, Kara arrives disguised as Clark's cousin, wanting to help him. Clark insists that she stay out of the case and sends her back to his apartment. At the same time, Jimmy complains to Lois that he wants to join in on the Intergang investigation. He insists that he has a lead, a video arcade token that one of the teenagers dropped. Lois refuses to let him tag along, and Jimmy decides to check the arcades himself. Kara overhears, and, seeing her chance, decides to join him. The pair eventually finds the right arcade and discover the same two teenagers that fought Superman. They follow them to Intergang's hideout and sneak in but get caught. Even though Jimmy claims that they only want to join, Granny decides to have them beat up. Kara decides she's waited long enough and tells the thugs that Granny is just using them. Angered, Granny orders Kara killed but she easily beats the group and unveils her costumed identity: Supergirl. Granny starts attacking with her own weapon but Kara manages to destroy it. Still not ready to call it quits, Granny opens up a boom tube and summons three of her Female Furies.

## Continuity

* Superman refers to Darkseid's failed attempt to conquer Earth in "***Apokolips... Now!***".
* In *Justice League Unlimited*, "***Chaos at the Earth's Core***", Kara tells ***Stargirl*** that she stayed on the farm in Kansas for three years before coming to Metropolis.
* In *The New Batman Adventures*, "Girl's Night Out", Kara repeats to ***Batgirl*** that flight is her favorite superpower.

## Background information

### Home video releases

* Superman: The Animated Series, Volume Three (DVD)
* ***Superman: The Complete Animated Series (DVD)'***
* *Superman/Batman: Apocalypse* (Blu-ray only)
* ***DC Comics Super-Villains: Superman - Worlds at War! (DVD)***

#### Production inconsistencies

* Before Superman grabs the flying disk that Amy is on, the animation on Amy makes her appear to be lipping something despite no sound being made.
* For some reason Mad Harriet does not kill Jimmy when she disarms his beam weapon, despite being ordered to by Granny to do so.

### Trivia

* Since Kara was placed in stasis shortly after Krypton's destruction, this makes her, chronologically, much older than Clark.
* The Kansas weatherman is voiced by (and greatly resembles) real-life TV weatherman ***Al Roker***.
* Kara seems to lack any inhibitions to killing as she killed off several parademons.
* First appearance of Supergirl and the Female Furies in the ***DC Animated Universe***.

## Quotes

### Part I

**Kala In-Ze:** I am Kala In-Ze, chief physician of Argo City. Five years ago, Argo was a thriving, vibrant world. But then, without warning, our sister planet, Krypton, was destroyed in a giant chain of explosions. Krypton's destruction tore Argo from its orbit. The resulting devastation destroyed most of our world and sent it moving slowly, inexorably, away from our sun...leaving a few desperate survivors slowly freezing to death. There was nothing my people could do but pray our distress signals would be answered. But now, I can wait no longer. I have taken a desperate last chance to save my surviving family. To my knowledge, we are all that is left of Argo. Please help us.

**Weatherman:** It's gonna be a gorgeous spring day in the nation's heartland, with temperatures reaching the high seventies. So, all you folks in ***Smallville***, Kansas: get out there and enjoy that great, big, beautiful sun!
*(cut to Kara flying through the sky)*

Template:DC Animated Universe