Kara Zor-El

> "*This symbol was suppose to mean something. It was to give hope, but instead all I did was forget what it stood for and acted as a coward until you helped me see that humanity can still be saved, even if they are corrupted.*"
> ― Kara to Claire.
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## General Information

### Real name

Kara Zor-El (Kryptonian birth name)
Linda Lee Danvers (human name)

### Alias(es)

Captain
Superwoman
Linda Lee Danvers
Power Girl
Flamebird

### Affiliation(s)

House of El
Kryptonian Thinker Guild (formerly)
Kryptonian Explorer Guild (formerly)
Wonder Men (formerly)
Justice League

### Family

Zor-El (father; deceased)
Alura In-Ze (mother; deceased)
 Jor-El (descendant; deceased)
Lara Lor-Van (descendant; deceased)
 Claire Kent (descendant; deceased)

### Alter ego

Superwoman (formerly)
Supergirl (formerly)
Power Girl

### Portrayed by

Melissa Benoist

Kara Zor-El was formerly a citizen of Krypton millions of years ago and one of the noble members of the House of El. She was born from the Genesis Chamber and assigned with the role as an scientist of the Kryptonian Thinker Guild. She later joined the Explorer Guild and was one of the many to take part in the Great Age of Expansion as a pilot and travel to many worlds.

Originally, Kara had a boyfriend named Kell-Ur, but was murdered by another Kryptonian named Dev-Em. Kara and her team were sent to visit other worlds and colonize on them by using the very Scout Ship 0344 that would serve as the same ship that helps her descendant, Kala-El.

Apparently there had been an incident with Kara and Dem-Em, murdered her entire team, leaving only her. The Scout ship arrived near Earth, where the yellow star began to grant the two their abilities and fought. Kara succeeded in killing Dev-Em, but her ship was going to crash so she escapes in an escape pod and her ships crash lands on Earth, drifting for many years until it washes up on shore of Themyscira, where she is found by Diana, Donna, and the Amazons. Kara remains on the island, training and learning of her newfound powers and grow to love Diana as a lover.

When Steve Trevor arrived about the events of Great War. Kara, Diana, Donna, and Steve left to save the world and defeat Ares and his children, where Kara became Superwoman I. After that, seeing how dark the world truly is, Kara and the other two Amazons went into hiding, never to be heroes until the rise of Superwoman, Claire Kent came. When Worldkiller-01 attacked, Kara and Diana joined the rest of the heroes and came out of hiding. Kara officially handed the mantle of Superwoman to her descendant and became known as Flamebird, named after Rao's daughter.

## Personality

Kara is a curious young woman of her age. On Krypton, she always desired to become an Explorer, despite being a scientist of the Thinker Guild. Many of her fellow Kryptonians have noted she is a girl full of determination, giving her a strong willpower to go after a goal and not stop no matter what is in her way. Kara is a hard worker.

Her determination is what gives her courage to face-off against the murderous criminal, Dev-Em all on her own and successfully kill him. It should be noted that since Kara was genetically created from the Genesis Chamber, she doesn't express free will as she simply loves science and exploring, that is all she knows and fighting Dev-Em was based on instincts of needing to defend herself, however, she knows how to love and mourn. When she arrives to Themyscira, she befriends Diana and Donna and is welcome with open-arms to the island filled with women.

Despite Kara having only killed one person, she wishes not to do it unless necessary when all options have ceased. She admits that she takes no pleasure in it and hopefully can learn from it. Another thing about Kara learns is the evil and selfish traits of humans and all other living beings as she's never been expose to such things back on Krypton, thus she immediately loses hope in humanity and stops being Superwoman, hiding from the world. When she saw her descendant trying to save the world she thought her nothing but being naive of why she is trying to save humanity and believe their is goodness in their hearts, but Kara thought Claire did not know the darkness that plagued in their hearts until she saw Claire continue to save people, even when they mistreat her or how horrible humans are, she even gave up on them. This causes Kara to feel ashamed of how she tarnished the name of the House of El by acting cowardly and so, Claire gives Kara her inspiration of saving the world once more and wears the mantle of her suit.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Kryptonian Physiology:** As a Kryptonian, Kara possesses godlike abilities. On a planet near a red star, Kara would have her physical attributes at the level of humans, however due to Krypton's harsh environment and gravity, her body's muscles and cells are stronger than the average human. While on a planet near a younger or brighter star than Krypton's, she is granted many range of abilities and powers that surpass the capabilities than a human and metahumans alike, making her the most powerful being on the planet. Her cells store the solar energy her body has been exposed from spending years on Earth, converting the solar energy into a powerful source of energy to enhance her physical condition. Unlike other Kryptonians, Kara is by far the strongest Kryptonian to exist. The reason for this is because Kara has been absorbing yellow solar radiation for over 5,000 years, thus she is stronger than Claire, who while has been absorbing solar radiation since as a baby, Kara has absorb far much longer.
	+ **Solar Radiation Absorption:** Kara's powers are dependent on the solar radiation (energy spectrum) of a yellow star to fuel her powers and abilities. Her body is metabolizing the yellow solar radiation to convert it into a vastly superior amount of energy to fuel her tremendous level of abilities, meaning her body is like a nuclear fusion that powers a star, like hydrogen converted into helium. The longer Kara lives and her body absorbs solar radiation, the stronger she will grow and this is proven as a fact as Kara is easily stronger than Claire or any other Kryptonian to exist since she's gotten to absorb solar radiation for over 5,000 years.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Superwoman possesses immense levels of superhuman strength that is virtually incalculable and limitless as she can carry, lift, and exerts very millions tons of force, possibly billions tons of force. Kara is able to easily overpower two of Ares's children, Phobos and Deimos, despite their teamwork. She's seen to easily outmatch Maxima in combat and Incubus. Kara can easily handle the Furies of Apokolips without issue, even the physically strongest, Stompa. Her fight with Worldkiller-01 showed she had difficulties as the Worldkiller was able to adapt to her strength and face her head on.
	+ **Immortality:** As long as Kara remains under a yellow star, she will never age as proven when she remained hidden on Earth for a millennia with Diana and Donna. She's chronologically older than Diana as she was in a cryostasis around the Prehistoric Era B.C. when her ship landed. Despite living for so long, she has not withered or age a bit the day she left Krypton.
		- **Invulnerability:** Superwoman's body is virtually indestructible, allowing her to withstand all forms of harsh conditions and punishment from conventional weaponry, explosives, or metahuman attacks. She was unaffected by any weapons the Amazons used while her experimentation of how powerful her invulnerability is. The only thing that can cut through it is magic weapons or powers based in magic as proven when she was injured by Ares's weapons, though not to a severe degree. Kryptonite can hurt her, but not much such as poisoning her since she's been absorbing solar radiation for so long.
			* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Under a yellow star, Kara will heal from any wound in a matter of seconds.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** Superwoman can fly or run at tremendous hypersonic speeds. She can travel continents to another in just a matter of minutes. Her super speed also allows her to anticipate and fend off against speedsters and she is able to match them due to being stronger.
	+ **Superhuman Vision:** Kara's vision possesses superhuman eyesight that consist a range variety of sensory capabilities such as telescopic, infrared, ultraviolet, X-Ray, and gamma-ray visual that allow her to see the entire electromagnetic spectrum
		- **Heat Vision:** Using the solar energy stored within her cells and solar reserves, Kara can emit beams of intense heat from her eyes, manifested as two laser-beams of fiery energy. These beams can be made less intense and work undetected. The intense heat from these beams can metal through durable objects such as steel, thick layers of ice, or even Kryptonian metal.
		- **X-Ray Vision:** By focusing her vision,Kara can see through objects or people, passing by layers of matter to see their insides. Only known material that prevent her from seeing through are lead and Kryptonian metal.
		- **Telescopic Vision:** Kara is capable of seeing objects or people at far distances, even up to Earth's orbit.
	+ **Flight:** Kara can move against her own gravitational field as Earth's weaker gravity allows her to propel at hypersonic speeds and even going beyond the planet' atmosphere. She can travel at Mach speeds to break the sound barrier.
	+ **Superhuman Breath:** Kara can survive prolong periods of time without oxygen, breath underwater, or fly at hypersonic speeds. She can generate hurricane forces of wind by blowing or breath in large amounts of air to dispel clouds of gases by exhaling it.
		- **Arctic Breath:** Kara possesses the ability to focus the intensity of her breath to the point of freezing her target by blowing at subzero temperature.

### Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect:** Being a member of the House of El and Thinker Guild, Kara is one of among the intelligent and prodigy scientist of Krypton's top mind. She is very proficient on form of utilizing highly advanced technology, piloting skills, and combat.
	+ **Free Will:** Similar to her descendant, Jor-El, Kara has displayed some form of free will of going against her genetic program, however, she does not have the same level of free will as her natural born descendant, Claire Kent.
	+ **Master Scientist:** Kara was genetically designed as a scientist of the Thinker Guild. She was extremely praised for her genius in class by her fellow Kryptonian colleagues and was the top of her studies. She is very profficient at using Kryptonian technology or other forms of technology as she was able to modify her Kryptonian Escape Pod as a small ship or use whatever mechanisms to re-design her skin suit.
* **Master Combatant:** Despite being only from the Kryptonian Thinker Guild, she was able to apprehend Dev-Em the first time after he murdered Kell-Ur and take him into custody. She defeated and killed him when the two crossed paths. Kara admits that she has form of training, it is not to a degree to match those from the Warrior Guild. On Themyscira, she practices the three martial arts from Krypton, Torquasm of Rao and Torquasm Vo and Klurkor with the Amazons. She has discipline her body and mind to face-off against various of foes and gains immunity to those of telepathy, placing herself with mental barriers. Klurkor is a form of karate and has helped her take down highly skilled fighters.
* **Master Pilot:** Kara trained back on Krypton to become part of the Kryptonian Explorer Guild and learn how to maneuver ships, including the Scout Ship, showing she's highly skilled. Despite having ejected from the Scout Ship, she ensure it did not impact very hard to wherever it landed as when Claire found the ship, it was intact and this proves Kara had it land safely when Claire stopped Zod in Metropolis, the ship crash and the Genesis Chamber was damaged, though not beyond repair upon retrieving it from military hands.
* **Multilingualism:** Kara can speak in Kryptonese and other forms of alien languages she's studied on krypton and archive. She was able to fluently learn how to speak English and other forms of human languages during her time on Earth.

### Weaknesses

* **Red Star:** If under a planet near a red star than a yellow star, her body will absorb the solar radiation, causing her to lose her immense physical attributes and other abilities, making her weak at a human level.
* **Magic:** Mystical objects, weapons, or individuals whose powers are based in magic can harm Kara as the mystical properties disrupt the the wavelength of the invisible force field surrounding her body that grants her invulnerability.
* **Lead:** Kara cannot see through objects based off of lead.

## Equipment

* **Scout Ship 0344 (formerly):** Originally, the Scout Ship that was found by Claire belong to Kara and her crew, however, after she used an escape pod to save herself before she could crash with the ship, Kara was unable to track down her ship as she had no means of tracking the signal, so it laid dormant until Claire found it. Kara decided Claire was to keep it and use it for whoever she pleases.
* **Kryptonian Skin Suit:** Kara wore a black skin suit garment during her training as an Explorer and when she and her crew were sent to colonize a world. After she crash land on Themyscira, she did not wear it until she left the island. Before leaving, she modified the suit to change into a blue and red color scheme, along with a red cape, much like the suit Claire wears as Superwoman.