Supergirl
The happy - go - favorable mental attitude ofSupergirlmight be hide her darkest secret ever . As Kara struggled to remember her life before come to Earth , she chance upon a retentivity that uncover she was actually send to Earth on a mission to drink down her infant cousin , Kal - El .
For class , Superman was the only Kryptonian in the integral DC Universe and lived never get a connective to his home world . That changed when a Eruca sativa come to Earth and reveal another survivor of Krypton ’s demolition : a young girl who just so materialize to be his pulp and blood relative . Superman and his cousin Supergirlinstantly bonded over their familial connection and monolithic losses . Though it was hard for Kara to adjust to the fresh world around her , Clark helped her acclimatise and put her on a itinerary to become the hero her newfound powers allowed her to be .
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alas , it appeared that Kara was harbor a dismal secret , one even she forget . InSupergirl # 4by Jeph Loeb and Ian Churchill , Kara has been exposed to bootleg Kryptonite by Lex Luthor , who was hop to wreak out Supergirl ’s supposedly true nature . Instead , Luthor winds up creating an malign doppelganger of Kara who wearsan alternate Supergirl costume . Dark Supergirl attacks Luthor , and begin bring havoc on the moon . The tangible Supergirl confronts her knockoff but Dark Supergirl begins telling a story about how she ’s thetrueKara . According to her , the " courteous " Supergirl is actually the result of conditioning from a program her father Zor - El had created . He require Kara to not raise mistrust and earn the combine of those follow Kara ’s full cousin on Earth . When she in conclusion had , she would do what she was actually broadcast to earth for : killing sister Kal - El .
It should be noted that this highly controversial change tothe extraction of Supergirlwas the subject of debate for several issues . While the change Loeb made to Kara ’s past tense was explored by several other writer , it was eventually retconned for good inSupergirl # 35 . Apparently , Kara was suffering from kryptonite poisoning which was affect her retentiveness , causing her to make false 1 and forget others wholly . It ’s estimable to know Supergirl was n’t actually meant to kill her full cousin , but it ’s curious how such a retentivity ever manifested .
The first time Kara heard this change to her backstory was from a completely evil version of herself created by inglorious kryptonite . Obviously Supergirl loves Supermanand would n’t dream of hurting him , but hearing such a affair from herself was enough to plant the doubt in her head . And it did n’t help that Kara could n’t call up her past intelligibly , only adding fuel to the ardour her doppelganger started . Supergirl has been shown to struggle with wrath , an issue exacerbated by her clashing with Earth culture . With Kal - El fitting in so well on Earth , is it possible that her rage form a false computer memory that targeted Clark ?
That must be the grammatical case sinceSupergirlwould never spite Superman , no matter what changes are made to her source .
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