Supergirl
Despite his best attempts at trying to save the remnants of Krypton ’s civilisation , Kara Zor - El ’s ( akaSupergirl ) father Zor - El inadvertently doomed his people . The tragical origin of Supergirl was revealed to be even worse than she thought when she eventually recovered her memory of her last day in Argo City .
The devastation of Krypton is strongly affiliate with Superman , as it ’s the ground his parents sent him to Earth . But baby Kal - El was far from the only person affected by the incubus of their home man ’s final years . Kara Zor - El was a teenager when the fear datum - harvest baddie known asBrainiac work his evilto Krypton and his attack left Kara escape from for years after . Unlike Superman , who was rocket to Earth , Kara and a handful of survivors lived on after Krypton explode in a protected community know as Argo City . For a abbreviated prison term , the Kryptonian race had the prospect at normality in maliciousness of the great tragedy they ’d suffer .
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Unfortunately , the very thing that was aimed at protecting them was at long last their undoing . InSupergirl # 35by Sterling Gates and Jamal Igle , Kara is continue her reunification with her parents now that Superman has free theBottle City of Kandor . Things take a go when Zor - El realise his girl has been hurt from kryptonite poisoning . Zor - El and his wife Alura put their daughter through a cognitive operation to cure Kara , and inform her that she may convalesce retentiveness she had block . As the process commences , Supergirl does remember wonder at the protective shield her father helped create to protect Argo . She also recalls discovering that the shield was power from a defunct Brainiac probe and that , sadly , the probe was used by Brainiac to snipe Argo City and collect the at large Kryptonians .
To Zor - El ’s citation , he could n’t prefigure thefuture Superman and Supergirl villain Brainiacwould really get along back to compile Kryptonians that had survived his initial flack . And he was absolutely sure the probe was all in , because he ’d never put his refinement or family at risk . However , his underrating of Brainiac ’s cold pitilessness was Zor - El ’s greatest mistake . But it is n’t just Zor - El and the captured Kryptonians who suffered . This recovered memory added a newfangled , tragical layer to the harm Supergirl had already endured . Supergirl ’s origin narrative is arguably much worse than Superman ’s . Kal - El was just a sister when he was rocketed from Krypton and remembers nothing of his abode world . However , thedestruction of Krypton weighs heavily on Supergirlsince she was highly cognizant of her major planet ’s final days . For geezerhood , Brainiac was like a boogeyman figure to Kara . A dread monster that upend her sure-enough way of life . Argo City falling because Kara ’s Padre thought he could use Brainiac ’s technology to his advantage just reinforces how much of an effect the villain had on Kara ’s origin .
Supergirl’sfather may have tried to do flop by his people , but his efforts only ended up condemning them to a terrible fate .
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