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In DC Comics traditional knowledge , Supermanhas always been look up to as The Last Son of Krypton , but that exit some to wonder where that leaves his cousin — Supergirl — who might be Krypton ’s honest legacy . As the Last Son of Krypton , Superman is heralded as the last end of the forgotten land and a definitive illustration of what the planet had to pop the question . However , Superman has no memories of living on Krypton before he crash - landed on Earth as an baby . His total reason of his culture is derived from archive footage and word of mouth from his father , Jor - El .
This is where Kal - El and his cousin , Kara , differ . Kara left her home planet at the historic period of 12 upon Krypton ’s wipeout , meaning Supergirl lived an intact childhood on the fall planet . She survive , take a breather , and step on Krypton ’s soil in ways that her more popular cousin could only imagine .
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EvenSuperman ’s Father of the Church would agreewith that sentiment . InSupergirl ( 2005)#30 by Will Pfeifer and Ron Randall , while searching for messages from her parents , she instead line up a message from Jor - El . He , in a message intended for Kal - El , expresses to his Logos that because his first cousin remembers Krypton , those who perished there will live through her . It ’s also deserving mentioning that Supergirl once recalls her parents telling her,“Kal will produce up [ on worldly concern ] , Kara . He ’ll think like them . He ’ll be one of them … Krypton lives through you , Kara . “With all thing considered , Supergirl has a better claim to being the remnant of Krypton than Superman does .
Like Supergirl ’s female parent tells her in the same issue , Superman will be one of the Earthlings and cerebrate just like them . story shows that her anticipation would come honest , as although hechampions the cultivation of Krypton , Supermanacts and thinks like a boy from Kansas because that ’s what he knows best . He ’s certainly majestic of where he originally come from , hence why he carries the symbol of his people on his chest proudly , but his sense of morals , values , and customs are all Earth - based .
Meanwhile , Supergirl grew up on Krypton . Therefore , she can be considered an actual representative of Krypton as a Kryptonian who make out what it finger like to survive there . For Jor - El , Superman ’s father and one of the planet ’s precede scientists , to express that opinion himself only depart to support her parent ' prognostication . Supermanmay be the Last Son of Krypton , butSupergirlactually is the last remembrance ofKrypton ’s legacybefore its destruction .
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