Kara Danvers

## Kara Zor-El

* Vaporized while flying around Earth to slow down time (second time; later undone)
* Kryptonite poisoning (third time)

## Appearances

### Seasons

1, 2, 3, 4,5,6

**Kara Zor-El** is the titular main protagonist of *Supergirl*. She is the biological cousin of Clark Kent/Superman and the heroine of National City who protects her city from extraterrestrial threats. She was sent to Earth to look after Kal-El but as her and her cousin's home planet exploded, Kara was sent into the Phantom Zone for twenty four years without being aged. When her pod is found on Earth, Kal-El, now known as Superman puts her in the care of Eliza and Jeremiah Danvers. Twelve years later, Kara Danvers lived in National City and became Cat Grant's secretary for a long time.

After saving a plane that was carrying Alex, she was soon recognized as National City's protector, dubbed **Supergirl** by Cat Grant, as well as being called the "**Girl of Steel**" and the "**Last Daughter of Krypton**." She has become one of the world's greatest heroes, revered for her kindness and will to help others. Later, she became a part-time member of the D. E. O. to fight evil aliens alongside her adoptive sister Alex. After Cat's leave of absence and eventual departure from CatCo Kara became a journalist and eventually formed her own team.

She is the leader of the Superfriends, a founding member of the Justice League, and an ally to the Legion, the Bat Team, the disbanded Team Arrow, Team Flash and the Legends Of Tomorrow. She is also a reporter turned the editor in chief of Catco Worldwide Media and the current matriarch of the House of El.

## Personality

It is revealed during the Anti-Monitor crisis that because of her optimism, integrity and ability to inspire others, Kara is the designated **Paragon of Hope**, showing no matter what, her optimism persists.

As a child, Kara only wanted to become a hero like her cousin, Kal-El despite everyone telling her "no." However, she was still at a young age and her adoptive parents wanted Kara to have a normal life. As she grew older, Kara accepted Earth as her home planet and chose to live the life of a normal person. However, even before she became a hero, Kara always had the fight in her, often pointing out that she has the same poewrs as Clark does.

She initially had a cold relationship with her sister, Alex, who initially blamed her for her dad's disappearance. However, the girls bonded after solving their mutual friend, Kenny Li's murder and Alex was downgraded. Despite the distance, Kara still remained in close contact with Clark, often emailing him and visiting each other once in a while.

## Powers and Abilities

**Kryptonian Physiology:** Kara Zor-El is one of the most powerful beings in the entire multiverse who originated from a race that lived on the planet, Krypton. She became a resourceful hero, using both her powers and her strong will. However, like all Kryptonains, Kara has no powers when living on Krypton or coming to Argo City because both locations absorbed the solar energy of a red star. The same principals are relied upon when Kara is exposed to the energy of a blue star, which will render her powerless like a red sun. Instead, Kara relied on the average abilities of comparable with that of a human. However, when she is living on Earth or in the proximity of a yellow sun or at least, the equivalent of yellow solar energy, Kara is granted superpowers. The only weapon capable of harming her is kryptonite, a radioactive rock found on Kara's homeworld.

* **Solar energy absorption**: When under the effects of a yellow sun, Kara gains immeasurable powers and incredible strength. However, Kara can lose her powers if she exhausts her power. After her fight with the Red Tornado, Kara lost most of her powers due to her exhaustion fighting the robot. According to Harry Wells, if Kara or any other Kryptonian takes in excessive amounts of solar energy, then it would act like a cancer and eventually kill her. This is precisely what happened with Kara's Earth-X counterpart, who exhausted herself with too much solar radiation intake. After her battle with Red Daughter, she is shown to be able to take the solar energy out of plants to recharge herself.
	+ **Accelerated healing factor:** Due to Kara's metabolism being tremendously enhanced, she is able to heal faster than a normal humans. However, like Barry Allen, Kara burns calories at a superhuman rate, making her immune to obesity. She healed after being struck by an alien war hammer.
		- **Contamination immunity:** Kara is immune to all poisons, diseases, and illnesses. According to Cat, Kara never gets sick, which is why she was surprised that Kara sneezed and was sick for an entire day. When she was facing Pestilence, the world killer's virus wasn't effective on Kara until she was scratched on her arms and face by the Worldkiller multiple times
	+ **Flight:** Kara is able to manipulate the gravitational field around her and grant her the ability to fly quickly. She moved around Earth twice in a second and go from National City to Kaznia very quickly.
		- **Sleep flight:** Kara flies in her sleep
		- **Levitation**: Kara can levitate in the air
	+ **Invulnerability**
		- **Self-Sustenance**
		- **Extreme heat resistance**
		- **Atmospheric adaptation**
	+ **Reverse photosynthesis**
	+ **Enhanced senses**
		- **Enhanced hearing:** Kara can hear sounds from a mile away. During her first time at school, Kara inactively used this power when she could hear every student's conversations with their friends. It was very difficult for her at first, but Kara managed to master this power if she focused on one single sound. By the time she was an adult, Kara managed to master the power by focusing on a specific sound. When she is supergirl, Kara often listens in on other people's conversations to see which one poses as a threat. She also used this power in order to hear for Alex's voice, which is how she was able to rescue her sister from a corrupted sheriff and later, Kara's aunt Astra. However, if exposed to sound dampening technoloy, Kara feels pain and the screams of Silver Banshee emitted a sound sou loud that it caused Kara's ears to bleed.
		- **Enhanced Vision:** Kara's vision has been enhanced greater than that of a normal human and first manifested when Kara was starting school on Earth. She was overwhelmed with her new surroundings and started seeing the other students' skeletons and overhearing everyone with her enhanced hearing. To make things easier for her, Jeremiah gave Kara lead-lined glasses so that way she would not be overwhelmed by her X-ray vision.
			* **Heat Vision:** Kara can emit beams of heat from her eyes, which she normally uses to burn things in place.
			* Microscopic vision: Kara is able to see microscopic objects or people. She can also see people from miles away and uses this to catch criminals or save a life.
			* Night vision: As Supergirl, Kara has the ability to see in the dark.
				+ X-ray vision: Kara has the power to see through walls and other objects. She also uses it to scan people like an X-ray machine, checking others of their wound. However, she cannot see through anything if it is lined with lead.
					- Enhanced smelling: Kara is able to smell from long distances.
		- **Freeze breath:**
		- **Superhuman speed:**
		- **Accelerated perception:**
		- **Superhuman reflexes:**
		- **Time deceleration:**
		- **Superhuman strength:**
			* **Thunderclap:**
		- **Superhuman jumping/Leaping:**
		- **Superhuman stamina:**
		- **Extended longevity:**
		- **Telepathy immunity:** Kara is immune to most of telepathic powers and abilities. However,
		- **Power bestowal via electricity:**

**Abilities via Legion Ring:** Kara was given Mon-El's ring when she and Mon-El were visiting Argo City.

* **Flight:** Kara was able to fly without the use of a yellow sun.
* **Telepathic immunity:** Kara is more stronger resistance against telepathic powers than her original one.
* **Oxygen independence:** Kara is able to travel into space.
	+ **Time travel:** Kara was able to travel through space and time through a portal if she finds a temporal discrepancy.

## Abilities

* **Genius-level intellect:** Kara was from an advanced alien civilization. She doesn't consider her advanced math and science classes.
	+ **Expert tactician**
	+ **Leader:**
	+ **Eidetic memory:**
	+ **Expert investigator/Journalism:**
	+ **Skilled engineer:**
	+ **Multilingualism:** Kara is capable of fluently speaking English and Kryptonese. She also knows some Kaznian-dialect Russian, French, and Spanish.
* **Expert hand-to-hand combatant:**
* **Singing:** Kara has shown to be a very talented singer
* **Dancing:** Kara is a talented dancer.
* **Meditation:** Kara is familiar with Kryptonian meditation
* **Indomitable will/High tolerance for pain:**

## Weaknesses

* Lead
* **Kryptonite**: Kryptonite is a radioactive rock formed from the remains of Krypton after it was destroyed. Kryptonite has a different effect on Kara depending on the color.
	+ **Green:** If Kara is exposed to green Kryptonite for too long, it will be enough to weaken her and later kill her if she suffers from prolonged exposure.
	+ **Red:** If exposed to red kryptonite Kara loses all of her inhibitions, enhancing every negative small thought. This will lead her to be more abrasive and immature. if left uncured, she will essentially become evil. However Kara was injected with the Red Kryptonite cure developed by Max Lord, who never intended for Supergirl to fall victim to it. Afterwards, Kara began regretting her actions especially after everything she said to her friends, Alex and the citizens of National City.
	+ **Silver:** If Kara is ever exposed to silver kryptonite, she will fall into a deep hallucination where her deepest fears will come to life and nothing will be able to break them free until the silver kryptonite leaves her system.
	+ Black Kryptonite separates Kara from her good and evil selves. During her fight with Reign, black Kryptonite separated Kara'sc bad self, who became the Red Daughter.
* Antimatter
* High frequency
* **Sound-dampening technology**
* Power dampening tech
* Solar energy depletion
* Red solar energy
* Blue solar energy

## Possessions

* Supergirl Suit
* NanoTech Anti-Kryptonite suit
* Glasses (formerly)
* Legion ring
* Lead-based glasses (formerly)
* Interdimensional extrapolator
* Yellow sun grenade
* Disperal device
* Protective suit
* Earpieces

## Relationships

* Alura - mother
* Zor-El - father
* Kal-El - cousin
* Alex Danvers - adoptive sister
* Barry Allen - close friend
* Oliver Queen - good friend/ally
* Lena Luthor - best friend

## Etymology

* **Kara:** Kara was a popular name on both Earth and Krypton. On Krypton, Kara is the name of an ancient member of Kryptonian mythology, and was *the goddess of beauty*. The name Kara is a girl's name of Irish, Latin, Scandinavian origin meaning "wild stormy one In English, Scandinavian, American, Greek, Kara mean "pure"; in Italia, Kara means "dear" or "beloved" from the feminine form of hte word "cara" or latin "carus". She was a sign of the Zodiac on Krypton; under which Kara Zor-El was born and the reason why her parents named her after the Kryptonian goddess.
* **Zor-El:** Kara's birth name is "Kara Zor-El" derived from her biological father. Descended from the House of El, the "El" portion of Kara's name means "of the star" in Kryptonian.
* **Danvers:** Danvers is of Norman origin a habitational name with fused preposition d(e) for someone from Anvers the French name of the port of Antwerp in what is now Belgium. Kara adopted the name when she was on Earth.

## Trivia

* There didn't seem to be an Earth-1 counterpart for Kara, at least according to John Deegan. However, given Harry Welles' explanation that there is a Krypton in several Earths, it's possible she may have one.
* Kara had five love interests: Kenny Li (in the New multiverse), Winn Schott (before rejoicing they were better off as friends), Adam Foster, James Olsen, Mon-El, and William Dey. Sara Lance, Mick Rory, and Mxyzptlk have expressed interest in her and she has had four other ex-boyfriends.
* She is physically 25, the same age that Barry Allen was when his series began. However, she is chronologically 49 due to being trapped in the Phantom Zone for 24 years since age of 13 and her unique physiology to more slower than humans
* Despite being annoyed by people who compare her to her cousin, Superman, Kara and Clark both have several similarities with each other: both their birth named start with a "K" (Kara, Kal-El), have the same powers as him, they both lost their families during Krypton's destruction, ended up on Earth, were raised by a human family and wear glasses to conceal their identity. They are also reporters of two separate companies, the *Daily Planet* and CatCo and enemy with a Luthor sibling (Lena and Lex). However, the differences are Kara's biological parents are still alive and while Clark's and Lex's relationship remains strained, Kara and Lena eventually reconcile.
* Kara is seen in 6 crossovers: *World's Finest, Invasion!, Duet, Crisis on Earth-X Elseworlds, Crisis on Infinite Earths.*
* Kara had also appeared in the Earth- Prime comics, where she finally meets Barry's children and Oliver's daugher, Mia.
* Kara is extremely close with her cousin-in-law, Lois, with the former treating the latter as a sister because of her own strained relationship with Lucy
* Of all Kara's relationships, fans were dead set at the Kara/Lena pairing as it evolved.
* Barry was the first individual Kara met from another Earth.
* Kara enjoys the TV shows *Homeland*, *Orphan Black*, *Game of Thrones*, and *The Wire*. She also adores Star Wars and musicals (especially *The Wizard of Oz*.)
* Her favorite dessert is Eliza's homemade chocolate pecan pie

## See Also

* Kryptonite
* House of El
* Kryptonians

1. ↑ Kara is physically 25 years old at the start of the series. However, due to her being 13 when she left Krypton, spending 24 years in the Phantom Zone frozen in time, and the next 12 years on Earth hiding her powers, Kara is chronologically 49 years old at the start of the series.
2. ↑ https://nameberry.com/babyname/kara