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Alia was a cloned Kryptonian soldier who served under Major Zod after she and the rest of the Kandorian army were created by the Orb using DNA from their original selves. Alia would later be involved in the kidnapping and death of a cloned Jor-El, leading to her execution by Zod.

Powers and Abilities[]

"We're of the same world, Kal-El."
— Alternate Alia to Clark. Savior

Due to her DNA being irradiated with blue Kryptonite, Alia exhibited no superpowers while under a yellow sun. Only the radiation of a red star or the introduction of purified Kryptonian blood into her system would counteract the affects and allow her body to manifest superpowers.

  • Super Speed: Super-speed with Clark when he dragged her away from the fight club. Also presumably used super speed to escape from the monorail crash without detection.
  • Heat Vision: Alternate Alia used her heat vision on two occasions in present time - first to burn a missing persons flyer of Lois, and later in preparation to incinerate both Lois and Oliver. In an alternate future, she used this ability to burn the House of Zod emblem into a prisoner's back.
  • Super Strength: As an adult Kryptonian and trained soldier, Alia wielded the full measure of Kryptonian strength. While chasing Lois, an alternate Alia burst through the cement wall of a fight club and was later shown (in an alternate future) to strangle and brutalize a prisoner single-handedly.
  • Invulnerability: When Clark threw Alia through the barn wall with great force, she was unhurt.

Under the red sun in the alternate future shown in Pandora, Alia displayed the following powers:

Alia using heat vision

Alia using her heat vision.

Early Life[]

Alia was created when the original Alia agreed to donate a sample of her blood for an experiment as a way for the Ruling Council to preserve the Kryptonian race should Rao's prophecy ever come true. After donating her blood, Alia died during the explosion of Kandor along with many other of her fellow soldiers.

Season Nine[]

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Alia with Basqat and Faora.

Alia was one of the many de-powered cloned Kryptonian soldiers created from the Orb in the Luthor Mansion, saluting to serve under Zod, who had also been resurrected as a clone by the Orb.

Sometime later, Clark and Chloe saw Alia on a video at the Ace of Clubs, and Clark asked Jor-El about her origins. Jor-El explained that Alia was a Kandorian and told Clark that maybe she didn't come alone.

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Alia's body.

Alia was with Basqat and Faora when Zod ordered them to capture Jor-El; they took Jor-El from Tess Mercer's cellar, where he was being held. About a year later, Alia confessed to dealing a fatal wound to Jor-El before releasing him, and offered a gun to Zod so that justice could be done; Zod then killed Alia. Later, at her funeral, Zod put her body on a pyre and branded a Kryptonian symbol on her forehead before lighting the pyre on fire.

Alternate Future[]

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Alia kills Chloe.

In the alternate future where the Kandorians had turned Earth's yellow sun red, gained their powers and seized control, Alia dealt with a human thief by branding his back with the Mark of Zod. Seeing Lois, Alia saw she was hungry and asked what she had to trade when Clark stepped in and gave Alia his father's watch. Later, Alia found Chloe running towards Lois after she had initiated a virus to take down the solar tower, and impaled Chloe with her saber, killing her. Alia followed Lois back through time by grabbing onto her when she put on the Legion ring.

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Alia appears from the future.

Alia followed Lois to the present, where she attacked Lois, seemingly with no powers. Later, she displayed her heat vision, super strength, and super speed as she followed Lois to Oliver Queen, in order to lure Clark to her.

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Alia dies.

Once Clark brought Alia to the Kent Farm, she told him that he would betray them (the Kandorians) and bring about the end of 'their' world (the alternate future Alia traveled back to). They battled, with Alia using blue kryptonite to render the two of them powerless, but Clark won the fight as Alia was impaled on her own sword. Before dying, Alia looked up to Clark and said that she was sorry.

Appearances[]

Notes[]

  • It is never explained how Alia acquired her powers under a yellow sun in Savior. Other Kandorians later acquired powers under a yellow sun, after being given a droplet of Clark's blood (or from another Kryptonian with active powers under a yellow sun).[1][2] However, this is not shown to happen to Alia in Pandora.[3] The one onscreen difference between the Alia from the future, and all the other Kandorians, is that she was sent back in time by a Legion ring.[4] It is unknown if either some side effects of time travel, or some built-in feature of the Legion ring, caused the effects of blue kryptonite to be nullified in her body (granting her Kryptonian powers under a yellow sun). In Pandora, Alia and Lois leave the future in a purple light/energy (the standard color of time traveling with a Legion ring[5][6][7]).[3] In Savior, Lois arrives in the present with the standard purple light/energy, while Alia arrives in a never elsewhere seen (in use of a Legion ring) blue light/energy.[4] It is possible that the unique blue light/energy came from traces of blue kryptonite being expelled from Alia's system. In the scene, the blue light briefly shifts into white light.[4] When the effects of blue Kryptonite is nullified in Zod's body (allowing him to have powers under a yellow sun) in the episode Conspiracy, his body also briefly emits white light.[1]
  • Alia's clone has died twice. The future one died during a battle against Clark and the clone in the present timeline was killed by Zod for murdering Jor-El.
  • Monique Ganderton (the actress who portrayed Alia) was a stunt double for Cassidy Freeman (Tess Mercer) during episodes of Season Eight.[8]

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