Kara Danvers (Earth-38)

## Kara Marley Danvers

* Civilian
* Supergirl
* Marley Rose

Kara Marley Danvers (born 1966 as Kara Zor-El) (Also known as Marley Rose) is the daughter of Zor-El and Alura. Kara is also the cousin of Clark Kent, the adopted daughter of Jeremiah and Eliza Danvers, the adopted sister of Alex Danvers, and the ex-girlfriend/friend of James Olsen and Mon-El. She was the personal assistant of Cat Grant at CatCo Worldwide Media until being promoted to a reporter for CatCo Magazine.

## Biography

### *Early life*

Kara Zor-El was born in 1966 on the planet Krypton into the prestigious House of El. Her parents were scientist Zor-El and judicator (judge) Alura Zor-El. In Kara's house, she had a room that overlooked the city. As a child, Kara often went on vacation with her parents to different planets, such as Starhaven and Sedenach. She and her father also once visited the Well of Stars. When Kara was eight years old, she made her father a statue of a winged creature as a present, but was frustrated over not perfecting the wings' shape. Zor-El assured Kara that the statue was perfect and he loved it, as well as her, much to her joy.

Growing up, Kara idolized her mother, sharing Alura's passion for justice and wanting to follow her footsteps in civil service. She was also close to her aunt Astra, who would teach Kara the constellations at night while stargazing.

One night, Kara stayed up late to see her mother when she got home. Questioning her mother as to why she had come home so late, Kara was told by Alura that a Hellgrammite had been brought before the citadel. When Kara mentioned that she wanted to help people like Alura did one day, her mother assured her she would, as she had the heart of a hero. After Alura left and told her to get some rest, Kara researched Hellgrammites.

Kara was given a spy beacon by Astra, which could be used to call her. When Astra disappeared, Kara messaged her and Astra arrived, warning her that Krypton is dying. Unbeknownst to Kara, it was part of Alura's plan to lure Astra out of hiding and arrest her for her crimes.

#### *Phantom Zone*

When Kara was 13 years old, Krypton was on the verge of destruction, with its core about to detonate. On May 16, 1979, the House of El devised a plan to send its youngest members to the planet Earth to save their lives. Kara was charged with raising and protecting her baby cousin, Kal-El. Before she left, Alura revealed that due to Earth's yellow sun, Kara would gain extraordinary powers and go on to do amazing things. Promising that she wouldn't fail them or Kal-El, Kara tearfully bid her parents goodbye before boarding her pod. However, when Krypton exploded, Kara's pod was knocked off-course by a shockwave and sent into the Phantom Zone, a region where time does not pass. She was awake for at least part of this time, as Kara remembered feeling trapped and alone inside her pod.

Kara slept in the Phantom Zone for 24 years until her pod reactivated. Upon awakening, she noticed a computer console in her dashboard light up with a logo of three dots in a triangular shape. Her pod then left the Phantom Zone.

#### *Sent to Earth*

Kara's pod finally landed on Earth in December 15, 2003. Since she didn't age during her time in the Phantom Zone, Kara still appeared to be a 13-year-old girl. She was found by her cousin Kal-El, who had arrived two dozen years prior and grown up to become Superman. Kal-El, wanting Kara to have a safe human childhood like he had, took her to live with Jeremiah and Eliza Danvers, a pair of scientists who once helped him understand his own powers.

As she adapted to her new home, Kara had frequent panic attacks and was horribly claustrophobic from being stuck in her pod for so many years. Shortly after arriving on Earth, Kara found and befriended a stray cat living on her street, whom she named Streaky after an undisclosed, yet notable encounter. Scared that she would hurt Streaky if she touched him, Kara practiced controlling her strength and being gentle. When she finally petted Streaky, the cat purred, which was one of the first times Kara felt human.

Kara was enrolled at Midvale Junior High School along with Jeremiah and Eliza's daughter, Alex Danvers. Kara was overwhelmed by the new environment as well as her developing powers. After school, they went to Swan Beach and Kara embarrassed Alex by staring at the birds as they did not have them on Krypton. When a car crashed nearby, Kara ran at super-speed to the rescue, saving a mother and her child with her super-strength. However, Alex was injured by a car door when the vehicle exploded. After this incident, Jeremiah and Kara decided that it was best for the latter to hide her powers. Jeremiah gave Kara a pair of lead-lined glasses she could wear to suppress her vision.

Kara was taken swimming by Eliza on Tuesdays and Thursdays. At some point, she was introduced to the musical *The Wizard of Oz* by her adoptive mother. Kara quickly fell in love with the film, watching it frequently with Jeremiah and Eliza. Kara had also seen the movie *Center Stage* and spent an entire summer learning the red shoe dance, breaking three lamps in the process.

One night in May of 2005, on the roof of the Danvers house, Kara convinced Alex to sneak out and go flying with her, despite the latter's initial protests. During the ride, Alex confided in Kara the story about a family trip she took with her parents to Nagano when she was seven and taught Kara a rhyme which a local girl taught her: "*yubikiri genman, uso tsuitara*", which means "pinky swear". Kara and Alex were later caught sneaking back into the house by Eliza and Jeremiah. The couple scolded the girls and Jeremiah reminded Kara that her powers were being kept secret from the public in order to protect her. When someone knocked on the door, the girls were sent up to their room, with Eliza ordering Kara not to use her super-hearing to listen in on their conversation. A year later, Jeremiah 'died' protecting a martian from the D.E.O.'s ruthless director, Hank Henshaw, but Kara and Alex were told by Eliza that he died in a plane crash.

Kara was invited by Clark to see the Fortress of Solitude several times, though she always rejected the offers, fearing the fortress would remind her of Krypton and make her homesick.

In high school, Kara's relationship with Alex became strained after Jeremiah's apparent death. She was considered an outcast at school and her only friend was Kenny Li. One night when she was 15, Kara and Kenny went stargazing in the woods and almost shared a kiss before the former pulled away. The next morning, Kara's super hearing picked up a police scanner identifying a body with a description matching Kenny's. She rushed to the forest and saw Kenny dead, much to her devastation. Later in school, Kara interrogated the football team's quarterback Jake Howell, who was always bullying Kenny. He revealed Kenny caught him smoking pot on campus but had an alibi. Later that day, she visited Kenny's parents to express her condolences and promised to find his missing telescope, despite Sheriff Ronald Collins' advice to let the police handle it. That night in the woods, Kara encountered Alex, whom she almost hit with heat vision. The duo found Kenny's laptop and took it home, where Kara sent the encrypted files to Clark's friend Chloe. In Kenny's email, they found a picture of their history teacher, Mr. Bernard, kissing Alex's friend Josie, much to their shock.

The next night while walking home together, Kara and Alex were nearly hit by a speeding car, but Kara was able to use her powers to protect Alex and herself. At home, Eliza scolded Kara for getting Alex and herself into trouble and directed her to "Noel Nil", an F.B.I. agent who knew about Kara's powers and resembled her late mother. Kara expressed her frustrations with living on Earth, desiring to fight crime alongside her cousin. Noel kindly reminded Kara she's only 15 and using her powers could have consequences for Eliza and Alex as well. Kara agreed and, in Kryptonese, said, "I love you, Mom." After Noel left, Kara declined to help Alex when the latter realized Mr. Bernard didn't kill Kenny. Upon receiving the decrypted files from Chloe, Kara realized Collins was responsible, as Kenny caught him dealing drugs. She tried to call Alex, only to learn she had been taken hostage. Kara then flew to the school and followed Alex's voice to the boiler room, where she knocked out Collins and rescued her sister.

A few days later, Alex and Kara ate lunch at school together. Kara revealed that Kenny had a photo of her flying but kept it secret and was overjoyed that he liked "all of [her]". Alex invited Kara to hang out after school, which the latter agreed to. Kara promised to work on being human while Alex promised to try and be a better sister. Deciding that the world didn't need another hero, Kara tried to live a normal life and accept her future on Earth.

#### *Accident*

Kara still at 15 years old, she and Alex was in Eliza lab, when they accidentally switched something on and then there was a breach but back then they didn't know what it was. In a twist of fate, Kara was unexpectedly pulled into the portal and found herself transported to Earth 1—specifically to the state of Ohio.