Kara Kent

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This is the character page for Clark Kent's Kryptonian cousin. For the Season 7 episode, see Kara.

"It sounds like we got ourselves a true-blue Supergirl." – Chloe Sullivan, to Clark Kent, Kara

Kara Kent is Clark Kent's Kryptonian cousin, the daughter of Zor-El and Jor-El's niece, and a member of the House of El.

Chloe Sullivan created a false backstory for the authorities to cover Kara's sudden appearance in Smallville, explaining that she is Clark's cousin on his adoptive father's side, raised in Minnesota for the past 19 years until she was able to track down her one remaining blood relative.

Kara became the target for the next scheme of Brainiac, who forced her to follow him, and they disappeared into space. Brainiac trapped her on Krypton in 1986 after traveling through time. Kara returned to Earth with Clark but shortly after, it was revealed to be Brainiac posing as her; in reality, Brainiac put Kara in the Phantom Zone. Her fate remains unknown.

Contents 1 Personality 2 Powers and Abilities 3 Early Life 4 Season Seven 5 In the Comics 6 Appearances 7 Trivia 8 See also

[edit] Personality

Kara was born and raised on the planet Krypton. She was very close to her Aunt Lara and fiercely loyal to her father, but admitted to sneaking away from Zor-El's watchful eye to have fun; on one particular occasion, this involved a journey to Earth.

Kara is open-minded, assertive, outspoken, stubborn, has a strong sense of responsibility and duty, and is interested in understanding and helping people. She is eager to learn, although often she would rather do things her own way than follow the directions of others, including her cousin Clark. Kara has quickly embraced American popular culture, but still sometimes finds human customs strange.

[edit] Powers and Abilities

"I guess the humans are right, Kal-El. Girls do mature faster than boys." - Kara Kent, to Clark Kent, Kara

As a Kryptonian, Kara has many powers and abilities, like her cousin Clark Kent:

• Flight: Kara has already mastered the power of flight, even though she has fewer years of experience than Clark. She can even fly into space in a matter of seconds. (Veritas)
• Super strength: Kara is strong enough to break an impenetrable ball. (Lara)
• Telescopic vision: Kara can focus on particular earthly objects from space. (Kara)
• Super hearing: Kara was able to recognize the sound of her distant ship. (Kara)
• Super speed: Kara's speed is comparable to that of Clark.
• Invulnerability: Kara absorbed the full blast of her exploding spaceship, but it did not affect her due to her invulnerability. (Kara)
• X-ray vision: Kara first used her x-ray vision to analyze the inside of a mysterious time capsule. (Fierce)
• Heat vision: Kara has yet to fully master her heat vision. Her ability was first triggered by sexual arousal, when she saw Jimmy Olsen for the first time. Later on, Kara tried to carve a smiley face on a watermelon using pulses of heat vision and accidentally destroyed it. (Fierce)
• Longevity: In an alternate reality Jor-El transported Clark to, Kara hadn't been kept in suspended animation for 18 years, and she still looked much younger than a woman in her mid-thirties. (Apocalypse)
• Super Breath - In a deleted scene, Kara and Chloe are in the maternity ward when Kara uses uses super breath to blow Chloe into the wall. (Kara)

Kara has yet to demonstrate usage of microscopic vision. She has also yet to demonstrate full mastery of her ability to telescope her vision into deep interstellar space.

[edit] Early Life

In 1986, Kara followed her aunt Lara to Earth, to visit the family Jor-El had chosen for their unborn son Kal-El if Krypton was destroyed by the war with General Zod. Kara watched as her father Zor-El told Lara how he desired her, and that if he couldn't have her in the real world, how he would posses her through science. Zor-El then altered Kara's memory to forget what she had seen.

Later, back on Krypton, Kara was on her way to school when Augo stopped her from going and told her that he has a bad feeling about going. She rejected his idea and turned to go into school as it blew up, trapping her under a crystal column. After Augo lifted up the column, Kara ran to find her father, only to walk in on him having a conversation with Aethyr and Nam-Ek; she was shocked at his association with Zod and his advanced knowledge of the attacks on Kandor. Zor-El then told Kara that he was doing it all for Rao's prophecy that had predicted the creation of Brainiac, Zod's war, and Krypton's end. Augo then appeared and told Kara he was Zor-El's disciple, and that she was never in danger. Kara ran away and hid, but was soon found by Zor-El and Augo, who took her away.

Augo stayed with Kara whilst she was locked away by her father, and he tried to make her realize that Rao's prophecy was meant to be and that Zor-El would rule Earth and she would become a god. Kara pretended to believe in the prophecy, then pushed Augo into a chamber, locking him inside and sending the chamber down towards Krypton's core. She then went to the holographic communicator and contacted Lara, telling her about Zor-El's plans. Zor-El came in and tried to stop Kara, who pushed him onto the crystals, stabbing his back. Zor-El then pretended to be sincere, but pulled out a Crystal of El and wiped Kara's memory once again.

Later, Kara awoke as Zor-El was escorting her to the ship that would take her to Earth. Before she left the dying Krypton, she was given the blue crystal, which Zor-El told her contained instructions as to what to do when she finds and rescues Kal-El. After bidding her father farewell, Kara entered the Red Ship and went into suspended animation.

Kara crash-landed in Smallville in 1989 during the first meteor shower. Her ship fell into the Smallville Reservoir adjacent to Reeves Dam, where she remained in suspended animation for 18 years.

[edit] Season Seven

"I might have not been here long, but I learned one thing: Everything you told me about humans is wrong. They're good people and they are worth defending." - Kara Kent, to Zor-El, Blue

When Reeves Dam was destroyed during Clark's battle with Bizarro, Kara's ship was released. Kara awoke from her 18-year slumber, and she saved Lex Luthor from drowning. Later, she changed into Earth clothing and flew away from the Smallville Water Tower into the sky.

When Kara discovered that Clark and Lois Lane had found her ship, she knocked Lois out and she beat Clark in a brief battle, warning them to stay away. Kara then flew into space, with a crystal showing a hologram of baby Kal-El, and started searching for young boys, hoping to find Kal-El. Eventually, Clark found her himself. After another brief fight, but this time, after Clark beat Kara, he saw the House of El symbol on her wristband, and asked her what she was doing on Earth, to which Kara replied she was looking for Kal-El. Kara was then taken to the Kent Farm, where she was brought up to speed. Together, Kara and Clark went in search of the Red Ship, and Clark had to teach Kara how to tune out other sounds around the city to hone in on the ship's signal. Once they found the ship, it exploded and disappeared; the blue crystal was also feared lost. Kara was allowed to stay with Clark on the Kent Farm.

Clark took Kara to the Harvest Festival. While there, Kara took an interest in Jimmy Olsen, and entered the Miss Corn Pageant to get Jimmy's attention. Knowing how much Kara wanted to blend in, Clark tried to first teach her how to control her powers. The clash between a reckless Kara and an overly cautious Clark led to Kara competing in the Pageant. At first shunned by the Weather Girls, Kara was recruited into their group after they noticed her abilities when she saved Jimmy from freezing to death. Later, Kara was coerced into joining the Weather Girls in their plot to find the Smallville Treasure (which happened to contain a Kryptonian object), and was arrested for breaking into the treasure. She saved Clark from the girls, proving she has learned to control her abilities. Kara was hired at the Talon and met her boss Lex, who discovered that she was the one responsible for saving his life. She seemed to have listened to Clark's lectures about fitting in after all, because she denied ever having been near Reeves Dam.

Kara was abruptly confronted by Martian Manhunter one morning at the farm, and the animosity between them was revealed. She claimed her family was forced into exile by Jor-El and Martian Manhunter. Obviously not fond of him, Kara sped away, then listened in on the conversation between him and Clark, where he instructed Clark to find her crystal before she did. She went in search of her crystal and asked Jimmy Olsen to help her, using her feminine charms. Later, Kara asked Clark who he was to believe: family or the Martian Manhunter. When he didn't answer, Kara flew out into the night.

Kara flew to Washington, D.C., where she used her feminine wiles to coerce a nerdy scientist to talk about the blue crystal. Once she got enough information, she went to retrieve it, only to discover that it was missing. Clark tracked her down, and they fought. Kara went back to Smallville and asked Jimmy to help her again; they found out that Lex may have some connection to the whereabouts of the crystal. She went to the Luthor Mansion to find the crystal, only to be subdued by Agent Carter with kryptonite handcuffs. Kara was later taken to a lab where she was experimented on and forced to relive a memory that her father Zor-El had erased, learning that Zor-El did try to assassinate Jor-El and wanted Lara for his own.

Kara returned to the Kent Farm after a surfing trip with Jimmy. After Clark told Kara he didn't really know much about his mother, Kara promised to tell him more in the morning and went to bed. The next morning, Kara saw Lara again for the first time in years; she was happy to see her, but was upset to learn that Clark had hidden her crystal. Later, Kara saw her father Zor-El again, and he told her to wait for him at the Fortress of Solitude. At the Fortress, Kara was present when Zor-El arrived with Lara. Later, when Lara found a Kryptonian dagger, Kara insisted on killing her father with it. When she failed and Zor-El started to choke her, Clark arrived and saved Kara from Zor-El. After Clark destroyed the crystal, Kara disappeared. She woke up in Detroit, with total amnesia and no powers.

Kara wandered into a local diner, and was given a job (as well as a place to sleep) by the kindly owner. Adopting the name "Linda," she worked as a waitress and became close to a busboy named Finley. However, when Lex tracked her down and offered her treatment to restore her memory, Finley became obsessive. Not wanting Kara to be taken away, he abducted her. Lex and Lois tracked him down to a junkyard, where he gunned down Lex and locked Lois away with Kara.

Lois told Kara about her name and some of her past, and they managed to break free of the cage they had been imprisoned in. As they were fleeing, they were tracked down by Finley. When he targeted Lois, Kara told him that he would have to kill her first. Fortunately, Clark intervened and rendered Finley unconscious, though neither Kara nor Lois were aware of his involvement. Kara returned to Smallville, but was disconcerted by Clark, believing that he was hiding something from her. Kara arranged a meeting with Lex at the Talon, and the pair grew closer. Lex promised her that the treatment would restore her memories completely, leading both of them to the truth.

Kara went to an OneRepublic concert with Jimmy, when she was later saved by Pete Ross with his super-stretching ability. Kara went to the Kent Farm to find out what Clark has been hiding from her. She demanded the truth from Lana Lang, but Lana refused to admit anything. Kara declared that she would uncover the truth, and realized that she could not trust Clark or Lana anymore. She turned to Lex and he allowed her to stay at the manor with him.

Kara looked through her "alleged biography" (the papers of her fake background) and could not find any clue to her past. Chloe Sullivan and Lana kidnapped her from the mansion and took her to the Fortress of Solitude, where Chloe pleaded with Jor-El to restore Kara's memory and powers. Though silent, Jor-El did as she asked. Kara was bathed in Kryptonian energy that returned her memory and her abilities; she then attacked Lionel Luthor's secret facility and rescued Clark. Returning to the farm, she expressed her confusion over the Luthors to Clark, who warned her not to trust them after returning her Kryptonian bracelet.

Kara had started teaching Clark how to fly so he could better fight Brainiac. She later returned to the farm, and saw a message from a controlled Lana that Kara should be delivered to Brainiac. At the Daily Planet, to save Lana, Kara went with Brainiac out into the darkness of space.

While Clark was trying to find a way to locate Brainiac and Kara, he looked through Dr. Virgil Swann's journal, only to find a new message had appeared from Kara on how to save Lana through the Fortress of Solitude. Clark went to the Fortress, only to hear transmissions of Kara from Krypton which suggested that she went back in time with Brainiac through the vortex, and that Brainiac was planning to kill baby Kal-El so he wouldn't grow up on Earth.

In an alternate universe Jor-El sent Clark to, Kara was known as Linda Danvers; she was raised by the Luthors who, in this reality, only they knew of her alien lineage, and worked for Lex as an agent for the Department of Domestic Security. Kara was sent to arrest Lois. Fearing that she would betray him, Lex armed himself with Kryptonite bullets to stop her.

Back in 1986, Kara was on Krypton fighting Brainiac to save infant Kal-El. But in actuality, Brainiac duplicated himself for one to pose as Kara to fool Clark. Once Brainiac/Kara and Clark had destroyed the Brainiac duplicate, Kara/Brainiac went back to Earth, in their own time, with Clark back to the Kent Farm.

Brainiac had, in fact, placed Kara in the Phantom Zone when they returned to Krypton in 1986 and been posing as her the whole time so he could get revenge on Clark. Still trapped in the square crystal, Kara exited from the time vortex when Brainiac is destroyed, traveling back from 1986 to her real time.

[edit] In the Comics

Kara has been a regular character in the source material as far back as 1959. There have been many versions of Supergirl throughout the years, many appeared due to a rule made in the 1980's that only Clark was to be the only surviving Kryptonian. As a result, Kara was killed in the 1980s, but in recent years was reintroduced.

In the most recent origin for Kara, she was already a teenager at the time of Krypton's twilight and Kal-El's birth. Kara was the daughter of the scientist Zor-El, Jor-El's brother. Zor-El agreed with his brother's prediction that Krypton was doomed and, anticipating this, asked Kara to be placed in suspended animation and sent to Earth ahead of her infant cousin so that he could have a guardian on their new world. Unfortunately, her rocket was just behind Kal-El's and was caught in the explosion of Krypton. The rocket was then encased in a kryptonite asteroid and, unable to activate its faster-than-light drive, arrived on Earth years late.

Upon her arrival, and still with the mind and body of a 16-year old due to her suspended animation, Kara proceeded to act violently. She was highly confused after being awakened long after she was scheduled to. Fortunately, almost instantly from the time she crash-landed, Kara was tracked by Batman. After anesthetizing her with green kryptonite and examining her in the Batcave, Kara awoke in a rage. Luckily, Batman brought along Superman as "an insurance policy," and he calmed her down. Kara then explained her origins to the Man of Steel, who was overcome with joy.

Superman turned to Batman with a smile and said, "This is Kara Zor-El... my cousin from Krypton."

After learning English and spending time with her cousin, as well as training under the tutelage of Wonder Woman and the Amazons, Kara was captured by Darkseid. After overcoming the temptations he had placed upon her, Kara showed new resolve that made her cousin proud. Not long afterward, she introduced herself to the heroes of the DCU as Supergirl.

Kara has had some interactions in the DC Universe as a member of teams, most notably with Nightwing's Outsiders and the Teen Titans. Currently, she is unaffiliated, but will soon be joining a splinter group of the Justice League led by Green Lantern.

Smallville's interpretation of Kara features aspects of all the Supergirl incarnations, from yesteryear to present. Her origin in the series, however, is influenced by the most recent revision to it outlined above.

[edit] Appearances

• In Season 7, Kara appeared in Bizarro, Kara, Fierce, Cure, Lara, Blue, Fracture, Hero, Traveler, Veritas, Apocalypse, and Arctic.
• In addition to appearing in 12 episodes, her voice is heard in Sleeper.
• Kara was also prominently featured in six animated episodes broadcast during Season 7 as part of Kara and the Chronicles of Krypton.
• Her appearance in Bizarro is a non-speaking role.
• Laura Vandervoort appears in Arctic as Brainiac disguised as Kara, and the real Kara is briefly shown trapped in the Phantom Zone.

[edit] Trivia

• As Zor-El's daughter, Kara was most likely known as Kara Zor-El on Krypton.
• In the comics, Kara's mother's name is Allura.
• At the Talonin the episodeFracture, Kara named "Say It Again" by Marie Digby her favorite song.
• Kara and Lana Lang where the only two series regulars who appeared in Bizaro and played non speaking roles.
• Kara suggested her cousin's name: "Kal-El." (Lara)
• Kara almost always referred to Jimmy as "James", his full name.
• Kara has only been seen wearing red, white or blue, and always wears a silver cuff bracelet.
• Kara's past is featured in "Smallville Legends: Kara and the Chronicles of Krypton."
• Even though she looks and acts like someone in her late teens, Kara is technically in her mid-thirties because she was in suspended animation for at least eighteen years.
• At the age of 19, Kara would have had to of been fluent in both Kryptoian and English to have been able to immediately communicate on Earth.
• Kara can just escape from the Phantom Zone easily by using the gateway that Clark used to escape in Zod as she is a member of the House of El, but Jor-El made it a secret and only he, Lara, Raya, and now Clark know about it.

[edit] See also

• For the character who posed as "Kara from Krypton," see Lindsey Harrison.
• Kara's ship
• Blue crystal
• Clark and Kara - Details on the cousins' sibling-like relationship.
• Jimmy and Kara - Her first romance with a human.
• Kara Kent's near-death experiences - A list of Kara's near-death experiences.