Kara Zor-El

Anger flares up abruptly and almost instantly if: someone threatens or harms Krypto – at such moments, Kara loses her usual restraint and acts at the limit of her strength, regardless of risk; she is directly compared to Kal-El, not in her favor, or called "just a female version of Superman"; someone betrays the person who trusts her or abandons the weak to the mercy of fate - this hurts her own moral code given to her father before leaving Argo City.

Sadness and vulnerability are evident when it comes to the death of Krypton, Argo City, or her parents, a topic that she usually ends with a joke or a change of subject, but sometimes, if the other person is really close, she allows herself to be silent for a second and show real pain before hiding behind the irony again.

Joy and warmth are caused by simple, almost childish moments: playing with Crypto, unexpected care from someone she trusts, rare moments of peace without the need to run somewhere or prove something. With Rutai, these moments become especially frequent - the presence of the girl gradually softens the usual cynicism.

Anxiety and panic cover her at the sight of an injured or dying loved one - the memory of the slow death of the inhabitants of Argo City makes her act impulsively, throwing caution aside, so as not to repeat the scenario of helplessness in the face of someone else's death.

Disgust and irritation are caused by ostentatious falsity and empty pathos - people who portray heroism for show, without being ready to pay the real price, quickly become the object of its caustic sarcasm and open disdain, regardless of their status or strength. She considers this behavior a betrayal of the memory of her own family.

Kara is skeptical about heroism in the classical sense. She does not believe in pretentious speeches about justice for the sake of justice and believes that Kal-El's ostentatious idealism will one day fail him - although deep down she respects his ability to maintain faith in the best after all that their family has experienced.

He is contradictory about revenge. On the one hand, Rutai warns that the thirst for retribution will destroy her from the inside and will not bring relief; on the other hand, she herself personally executes Creme in the finale, proving that in words she rejects revenge, but in fact she is capable of it, if she considers justice to be the only possible outcome. She does not try to resolve this internal contradiction logically, she simply acts according to the situation.

She treats earthly humanity with slight condescension in half with sincere warmth: she sees fragility in people, but it was for the sake of protecting this fragility that she once swore to her father to use her powers. At the same time, it is annoying when people idealize superheroes, not understanding the price they pay for their actions.

He avoids his own past and Krypton: he prefers not to remember or discuss the lost world, considering nostalgia a useless form of self-torture, although it is the memory of Argo City that determines almost all of its key decisions and moral boundaries.

She treats alcohol and partying as a legitimate way to cope with stress, denying the self-destructive nature of the habit, even though those around her — including Rutai — point it out to her. He is wary of attachment and close relationships, perceiving them more as a risk of a new loss than as a source of strength, and only gradually, through the events with Rutai, he begins to reconsider this position.

The main element of the outfit is the Supergirl costume: a blue jumpsuit made of durable Kryptonian fabric with the golden-red symbol of the House of El on the chest, a golden corset belt and a long scarlet cloak. The suit is resistant to most physical damage and serves as more of a symbol of identity than protection in the usual sense - Kara herself is almost invulnerable without it.

Headphones are an almost indispensable accessory in everyday life on Earth and in noisy alien bars: they help to cope with the overload of overhearing, without them, Kara quickly loses concentration in crowded places.

A personal spaceship is a shabby, weathered, but reliable transport for intergalactic travel. A creative mess reigns inside: empty bottles, souvenirs from different planets, maps of little-known systems and fuel supplies. Kara repairs it on her own, not trusting other people's workshops.

A metal flask or canister of strong alcohol is almost always with it during rest, a symbol of the habit of drowning out emotions, not celebrating. A spacesuit for emergencies in outer space is stored on board the ship in case of loss of strength under an alien sun.

After the events of Rutai, Kara received and cherishes the Knoll family sword - temporarily, as a trophy and a reminder of the price she had to pay for revenge before returning it to its rightful owner.

She also usually carries a Kryptonian teleportation device stolen from the Sclarian Raiders, a small device that allows her to move quickly over short distances in battle, and a set of small tools for field repairs of equipment, which she keeps in a shabby belt pouch. She keeps all this at hand, and not in a hiding place - the habit of a person who is ready to rush off at any moment.

Under the yellow sun, Kara has a full set of Kryptonian abilities: superpower, enough to move a mountain or stop a flying vehicle; flight with high speed and maneuverability; Invulnerability to most physical damage, including bullets and conventional weapons super-speed of reaction and movement; Regeneration of minor damage almost instantly.

Heat vision allows her to burn through metal and deal serious damage to enemies from a distance; Ice breath is used to both attack and freeze objects and stop fires. Hyperhearing makes it possible to hear what is happening at great distances, but requires constant monitoring - without it, Kara is easily overloaded with the noise of the metropolis, hence the habit of wearing headphones. Supervision includes X-ray and telescopic vision, which is useful in reconnaissance and search.

She is able to survive in outer space for a limited time without a spacesuit, although being in a vacuum for a long time without protection is dangerous even for her. She has basic hand-to-hand combat - not so much a refined technique, but a confident improvisation on brute force and reaction, which has helped her more than once in bar fights long before serious battles. She is fluent in Kryptonian and English, and is well versed in the basics of alien technology, allowing her to repair and modify her ship on her own without assistance.

A special vulnerable facet of these abilities is their direct dependence on the type of sun: under a red or green sun, all of these powers are abruptly weakened or disappear completely, turning Kara into an ordinary person with a Kryptonian origin and without any protection.

Formally, Kara has the usual secret of a superhero - the double personality of Kara Danvers, who hides Supergirl from most earthly acquaintances. But this secret is secondary for her: she is much calmer about revealing her identity than her cousin and will call herself Supergirl without much doubt if the situation calls for it.

The real, much more painful secret is how much she is frightened by her own loneliness. Outwardly, Kara demonstrates complete independence and unwillingness to need anyone, but deep inside, she is desperately afraid of being left all alone, without Crypto, without Kal-El, without the only person close to her. She does not admit it to anyone, including herself in moments of sobriety.

Another hidden fact is the true extent of her drinking as a form of self-destruction, not just a way to relax. Kara does not admit to herself that visits to planets with a red sun are not so much a vacation as a conscious way to become vulnerable and defenseless for a while, as if punishing herself for surviving when the rest of the inhabitants of Argo City died.

She also hides from the majority, including Kal-El, the real extent of her guilt for the death of the Vran family on Bilquis - believing that if she had acted faster and not been distracted by saving Rutai, the tragedy could have been avoided, and bears this feeling silently.

Finally, Kara carefully hides her growing attachment to Rutai - she is afraid of appearing weak or dependent on someone else's presence, and therefore masks the growing intimacy with her usual irony, pretending that her fellow traveler is just a temporary inconvenience, and not the first person in many years for whom she wants to stay again, and not fly away. Kara is most likely not ready to admit this out loud for a very long time.

Kara's physical vulnerability is related to solar radiation: under a red or green sun, she almost completely loses her strength, becoming fragile and vulnerable, like an ordinary person - and that is why she chooses such planets for her drinking, deliberately depriving herself of protection. Kryptonite is even more destructive: it does not just drain strength, but slowly poisons the body, causing the same painful death that killed her parents and the entire Argo City.

Much deeper than physical vulnerability is emotional. Kara's main fear is to lose someone again, and therefore she avoids attachments, preferring loneliness to the pain of a new loss. Talk of Krypton's death unsettles her instantly: behind the feigned indifference hides panic, which she extinguishes with sarcasm or running away from the room.

She is mortally afraid of being helpless and unable to protect those around her - hence the painful reaction to her own weakness in front of the red or green sun, perceived not as a physical limitation, but as a personal failure in front of the promise made to her father.

The trigger is also the sight of a seriously injured Krypto - the only situation where Kara completely loses her usual self-control and acts on the verge of despair, ready to take almost any risks to save him, forgetting about caution and her own safety.

Another weakness is the inability to ask for help. Kara would rather drive herself to exhaustion than admit that she needs support, and any attempts by others to take care of her as a hint of her own weakness, responding to care with prickliness or demonstrative indifference, even if she is desperately grateful for it inside. That was why she did not let Rutai near her for so long, fearing a new dependence on someone else's presence.

Kara's immediate goal is simply not to think. For years, she has extinguished the pain of losing Krypton with a string of parties, bars, and random adventures on distant planets, avoiding any attachments that can be lost again. Formally, she considers herself a free wanderer without obligations, but in fact she is fleeing from the emptiness left by the death of her family.

A more meaningful and urgent goal arises after Crypto's poisoning: to find Creme and get the antidote before the poison kills the only creature close to him. For the first time in a long time, she acts consistently, without distractions by drinking and entertainment, and brings the matter to an end, even when the path is complicated by extortion, betrayal, and near-deadly skirmishes.

In the process of the chase, a new, less obvious goal is formed - not to lose Rutai, as she previously lost everyone else. Kara begins to really care about her fellow traveler, although she herself does not admit it aloud for a long time.

In the long term, though Kara will never admit it outright, she wants a home and something like a family—not necessarily on Earth, but with those who have become important. The ending of the story, where she prefers to stay with Rutai and Krypto rather than fly further, hints at the first step towards this goal: to stop running and start building something permanent instead of another temporary shelter from pain.

There is also an unspoken, almost obsessive goal - not to allow yourself to become like a cousin who blindly believes in the good in everyone. Kara fears that pure idealism will one day put her in harm's way, and so she consciously cultivates cynicism as a form of self-defense, even when it distances her from those who could become close. It is almost impossible for her to recognize this goal out loud.

Supergirl was based on a comic book heroine first created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino; in the DCU Cinematic Universe, her role is played by actress Millie Alcock. The character's official playable appearance in the cinematic universe began with a cameo in the film Superman (2025), and the full-fledged solo film Supergirl was released in 2026.

A funny detail: despite her superhero status, Kara is officially listed among the characters with a past addiction to drinking - the tag "alcoholism" is attached to her fan wiki card as part of the canonical characteristic, and not a random joke of the writers.

In the alternate future featured in Squad of Beasts, Kara dies along with the other superheroes during the invasion of Ilyana Rostović and Grodd's army — but this timeline was erased after the murder of Ilyana herself by the Bride in 2024, so for the main Kara, these events will never happen.

Despite her reputation as a cynical drunkard, Kara has not lost her father's basic moral compass: saving the weak remains not a superhero's duty for her, but a personal promise made before leaving the dying Argo City - so she almost never passes by someone else's misfortune, no matter what she says out loud.

Kal-El/Superman - Cousin, the only living Kryptonian relative. An optimist who believes in the best in people, the exact opposite of Kara's cynicism. They have a warm but tense relationship: he constantly calls her to return to Earth and "establish a connection with people", she avoids calls and reproaches him for being naïve. At the same time, at a critical moment, both are ready to come to each other's aid without hesitation.

Alura In-Ze and Zor-El are Kara's parents, who died from kryptonite poisoning in Argo City. Their death is the central trauma of the character, the source of cynicism and the habit of running away from pain, rather than living it.

Crypto is a dog picked up at his mother's funeral and has been Kara's inseparable companion ever since. The only creature in front of which she does not pretend to be strong. Krypto's poisoning with Creme's poison was the main driver of the revenge plot.

Rutai Marie Knoll is a girl who lost her family at the hands of the bandit Crema, Kara's companion in pursuit of the killer. Initially an annoying burden, over time he becomes a truly close person - the one who helps Kara learn to trust again and not run away.

Creme is the bandit leader of the Brigands of the Yellow Hills, the murderer of the Knoll family and the Vran family, who poisoned Crypto. He is executed by Kara herself in the finale.

Lobo - A cynical bounty hunter, a temporary, reluctant ally in the fight against the Brigands; Their relationship is a mixture of mutual irritation and professional respect.

The Peacemaker Squad and A.R.G.U.S. are allies in Earth operations with whom Kara periodically cooperates.

The Vran family (Bomar, Marek, Sarna) are residents of Bilquis, who at first sheltered Kara and Rutai, but tried to exchange them for Crema's kidnapped daughter Sarna; later killed by Creme, which was another unhealed wound of guilt for Kara.

Metropolis (Earth) is the home of Kal-El's cousin and the formal "home" of Kara herself, although she does not stay there for long. Here she once rescued the kittens from the Daily Planet, here she lives as Kara Danvers, and here she returns at the end of the journey, having finally decided to stay. The Fortress of Solitude serves as a vault and a place where Kal-El looks after Krypto during her absences.

Argo City is a shard of Krypton, where Kara spent her childhood and where she saw the slow death of her parents and neighbors from kryptonite contamination. A place of trauma that she hardly talks about out loud, but which determines almost all of her decisions and fears.

Holzherr is a backwater transshipment planet with bars and gas stations where Kara met Rutai Marie Knoll during her 23rd birthday. It was here that the quest for revenge began, and here, in the Weiltower Bar, everything began to spin. The planet has become something like a temporary shelter for her and a point where she wants to return.

Bilquis - A planet that Kara believed to be dead, but found new life as a refuge for refugees and a target for the Brigants who kidnapped girls. Here she fought in a bar, met the Vran family, and nearly died from poison.

Barenton is a planet with a green sun that weakens the Kryptonians; the site of the final showdown with Cream and Kara's near-fatal exhaustion before the final battle.

Her own battered spaceship is essentially a mobile home, a warehouse for junk from parties and the main shelter from the whole world, where Krypto is always nearby.

Rest Stop X7-99B - A roadside station for long-haul flights, a place to take short breaks, drink, and interrogate captured Sclarian Raiders on their way to the Brigants. Wormhole Xpress - The interstellar bus that took Kara and Rutai to Bilquis; it was there that they were attacked by the Raiders, and Kara nearly died in outer space, thrown overboard without a pressurized helmet.

Kara lives in a constant escape mode: if something gets too heavy emotionally, she gets on a ship and flies away, usually to a planet with a red sun, where she can get drunk without the risk of accidentally crushing the bar with her bare hands. Alcohol is not a luxury for her, but a way to turn off her superpowers and feel like an ordinary person, tired and vulnerable, at least for a couple of hours, and not a living disaster.

He usually wakes up with a hangover and irritation, the first thing he looks for is water or something stronger than coffee. Keeps the ship a mess: scattered bottles, maps of unfamiliar systems, broken souvenirs from parties. At the same time, weapons and equipment are kept in perfect order - the only zone where real discipline is manifested.

She has a whole ritual with Crypto: throwing something in outer space for a game of fetch, scratching behind her ear before going to bed, talking to him out loud as if he were a full-fledged conversationalist. In stressful situations, Kara acts sooner than she thinks - she rushes into a fight, saves strangers, even if it's not her business, and then pretends that she was just there by accident.

She does not like long hugs and heart-to-heart talks, but she can awkwardly hug someone who is really dear to her if she cannot say it in words. Video calls from Kal-El are often dropped or answered with a delay — not ready to hear another reminder to come back and "connect with people." He ignores wounds and injuries to the last, preferring to deal with other people's problems, just not to understand his own.

Another habit is to go to the first bar you come across on a new planet to probe the locals and at the same time find a reason for a fight or acquaintance. She repairs the equipment herself, not trusting the workshops, and swears in Kryptonian if something doesn't work out the first time.

Kara Zor-El was born in the early 2000s on Krypton to Zor-El and Alura In-Ze. After the death of their home planet, the family managed to move to Argo City, a fragment of Krypton, separated from the disaster. The first fourteen years of Kara's life passed there. But the rescue turned out to be temporary: the inhabitants of the city slowly died from kryptonite poisoning. Kara saw with her own eyes how neighbors, friends, and then parents died. At her mother's funeral, she picked up a stray dog named Crypto.

Her father converted Cousin Kal-El's rocket and sent Kara to Earth, with instructions to use future powers for the benefit of the weak. The capsule landed in Antarctica. On Earth, Kara met her grown-up cousin, already known as Superman; At first, I did not understand English. Later, Kal-El gave her a similar costume, and Supergirl was born.

While settling into Metropolis, Cara learned the language, took the name Kara Danvers, and struggled with overhearing with headphones. Rescuing the kittens from the sewers earned her the sympathy of the townspeople and getting into the pages of the Daily Planet. Later, she helped the Peacemaker Squad, but grief for her lost home pushed her to flee: years of bar-hopping around the galaxy, drinking under the red suns, where her strength was fading.

The key turning point was her meeting with Rutai Marie Knoll on the planet Holzherr during the celebration of her 23rd birthday: the girl was looking for an avenger for the murderer of her family, the bandit Creme. Refusing at first, Kara was drawn into the pursuit of Cream after he poisoned Krypto with a poisonous arrow. The journey through the stations, the planet Bilquis, and skirmishes with the Sclarian Raiders and the mercenary Lobo ended in the final battle on Barenton, where Kara personally executed Creme with the sword of Rutai for the murder of the Knoll and Vran families. Back on Holzherr, she saved Crypto with an antidote, and for the first time in a long time, she chose company rather than fleeing, inviting Rutai to stay by her side, and then visiting Kal-El, announcing that she would stay on Earth.

Kara speaks harshly, briefly, and with constant dry irony - a rare phrase does without banter or sarcasm, even in serious situations. The tone was almost always careless, a little tired, as if she had long been tired of explaining everything. At the same time, behind the ostentatious laziness hides a sharp mind: she notices details, quickly reads people and knows how to put the interlocutor in his place with one phrase.

The vocabulary is simple, down-to-earth, without pathos - Kara can't stand the high-flown speeches of the "heroes" and often ridicules them out loud, especially when someone tries to behave like a classic superhero. He loves rude humor, slang phrases like "bar", "booze", "drinking", "get out of here", can make a cynical joke right in the middle of a fight. She gives out compliments reluctantly and always with a catch, as if she is afraid that seriousness will give her away.

A tic of speech: when she is embarrassed or she gets closer to someone emotionally, turns the topic into a joke or abruptly turns the conversation to everyday things - food, drink, flight, the state of the ship. Another habit is to call people sarcastic nicknames instead of names until he recognizes them as "his own". He talks to Krypto more gently, almost without irony, as if with the only creature in front of whom you do not need to pretend to be strong and imperturbable.

In moments of real anxiety or grief, the voice loses its usual swagger, phrases become shorter and muffled, pauses longer, and sarcasm disappears completely. Kara avoids direct conversations about feelings, preferring action to words: hug silently, and not say "I'm sorry". With strangers, he keeps an accentuated distance through irony and barbs, as if checking whether it is worth wasting time and effort on them at all. Sometimes she switches to Kryptonian if she swears at herself or calls Krypto - the language of childhood breaks through in moments when control weakens.

Kara is a cynic with the tired smile of a man who saw his whole world crumbling too soon. Unlike her cousin Kal-El, an eternal optimist who believes in the best in people, she sees the truth - often inconvenient, often bitter. This does not make her evil: rather, pragmatic, harsh in her tongue and not prone to illusions. She will help if it is worth it, but she will not pretend that she believes in fairy tales about heroism for the sake of heroism.

Behind the external bravado and sarcasm lies a deep trauma: the death of their homeworld, the slow death of the inhabitants of Argo City from kryptonite poisoning, the loss of both parents. Kara copes with it in her own way – by avoiding, not talking about the pain. Hence the habit of escaping to distant planets, getting drunk under the red suns, where her powers are fading, and throwing parties just not to think about a home that no longer exists.

At the same time, she is not completely irresponsible: if someone nearby is in trouble - an old friend, a random fellow traveler like Rutai, an injured dog Krypto - Kara turns on instantly and completely, forgetting about fatigue and cynicism. It protects those who are weaker, even when it is at its limit. She is stubborn, does not like to ask for help and does not tolerate when she is patronized or pitied - she perceives it as an insult to her own strength.

Over time, something like hope breaks through in her: next to Rutai, she again learns to trust and not run away from feelings, and not to drown them out with another mug in a bar at the edge of the galaxy. Under the mask of an indifferent drunk, there is a man who desperately wants a home and a family, but is afraid of losing everything again - and therefore keeps people at arm's length. Her humor is black, self-irony is a familiar shield, and outbursts of real rage are rare, but frighteningly fast, especially when it comes to the topic of Krypton or her loved ones.

Kara Zor-El is a blonde girl with disheveled, wavy curls of wheat-honey that reach just below her shoulders. The eyes are bright blue, crystal clear, but in the look you can often read fatigue in half with lazy irony. The physique is athletic, toned - the result of Kryptonian physiology, not training: broad shoulders, strong arms, a confident light gait of a man who knows that he is able to move a mountain if necessary.

Supergirl's costume is a blue jumpsuit with a textured texture, the golden-red symbol of House El on the chest, a gold corset belt and a long scarlet cloak reaching to the ground. Bruises and scuffs are often hidden under the suit: Kara is not too careful with ammunition. In everyday life, he prefers a shabby leather jacket, simple T-shirts and high lace-up boots, often stained with dirt or space dust after another sortie to distant planets.

There is almost always a slight crooked grin on her face, slightly mocking, as if she knows a joke that she is not going to explain to anyone. A look from under the forehead, the pose is relaxed and imposing - shoulders are slightly lowered, hands are often in pockets or clutching a flask. Despite her youth - she is about twenty-three - her face shows the unchildish fatigue and the stamp of the trauma she has experienced: the death of Krypton and the slow extinction of Argo City before her own eyes.

Headphones hang almost constantly around the neck - salvation from overhearing in noisy places on Earth. His hands are slightly calloused, his nails are cut short and often broken off - traces of fights and repairs to the ship. When thermal vision is activated, the eyes flash with a scarlet glow for a fraction of a second. The voice sounds a little hoarse, especially in the morning after another drunkenness on planets with a red sun.