What if Supergirl was a baby and not a teenager when she left Krypton? Who do you think will find her? What do you think things would be like?
08.06.2025 00:27
Making Kara cool for once. She’s had badass moments as Supertoken over the years, yet never once have I took this chump seriously or thought she was ever cool. Supergirl works better in concept than execution, its why she has history but no independent legacy. None.
Just a genuine attempt to try to salvage whatever intrigue this blackhole of a character is capable of without coattailing Supes per usual.
Experience as two different Lanterns
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Either that or if she exists in a verse with Supes —- she has to be the Daughter of Darkseid, not brainwashed but raised to be a genuine Princess of Apokolips, no backtracking, not her joining the good guys just to be a pet knockoff & fade into the background, and DC’s idea of depth is the same shit we got from Superman except it’s watered down and an angry teenage girl who remembers the good old days. Fuck that.
The common theme of all the ideas is giving Kara status & distance, a position to be someone or something of note beyond the boring shit that we’re usually fed. WITHOUT backtracking the potential to return to status quo & putting the character back in her designated box.
For the Tamaranean pitch— It’s mainly to give Starfire a place in the plot (because Star is awesome & underrated) and that gene augmentation the two original sisters went through, try that same procedure on a Kryptonian ??? Is interesting to me.
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Final epic battle being the two sisters in their final forms vs Blackfire who pretty much has ruled Tamaran and single-handedly conquered the Gordanians as revenge for The Gordanians destroying Tamaran in the past, now she is using both empires combined to conquer instead of sharing prosperity. Reason being that’s where she found Starfire, and taking the planet is one more thing to take from Starfire.
But there’s always completely divorcing her from any mainstream established characters.
Kara eventually becomes the Ion of that universe after she proves to be worthy vessel for the space whale entity, no cape, no S, no KNOCKOFFS, she has her Ion crest.
if i’d do something with her, spitball or draft wise
OP Kara except its not cringe because “cell density” or some vague bullshit just to say she’s stronger than Superman without her having to earn shit.🖕 This Kara would have suffered to get this powerful, trained to get that good, she’s a professional, career galactic cop that’d impress the shit out of Buzz Lightyear himself. So it feels earned when she masters all of it.
Not re-skin Superman stories but dumb them down and put a chic in it as the main character and call that “exploration”
Kara in time cross-trains to the Green Lantern Corps later after she masters the Blue (during which she learns heaps about her Kryptonian heritage & Argo, and maybe switch it up and have Kal-El be HER father which always should have been the case vs that cousin bullshit)
Not a pet cousin that the fandom & writers desperately want to believe is her own person when everything attempted from comics, graphic novels to movies (excluding the few non-canon one shots that are actually half-decent) puts her back in the same goddamn box over & over again which proves she is NOT her own person but an ongoing gimmick.
We see different sides of Starfire, a street smart Kara with an A.I Papa Kal acting as her guide to master her powers & comfort her during her steep depressions, and the experiments that gave Kori and Komand’r their others powers, Kara also suffered those experiments but more extensively because she was more resistant, so now she has Kryptonian +hence genetic augmentations mentioned earlier.
Genetic augmentation so her power is amplified & mutated
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And no SuperCapeshit, all of this belongs to her. She’s not copping Supermans situation, Period. At best whatever references happen would be easter eggs.
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Which is fine, have a nun from Oa raise her or something; Have her be shot into the Phantom Zone with her parents as a baby and only she made it out alive.
She really is unnecessary to the Superman lore, cut her out and nothing is missing. Nothing. But since they insist on shoehorning her in almost everything—- You want her there, fine. Now she’s here and then these creatives don’t know what to do with her when she’s finally here after the origin story is done. So business as usual per past 60+–70years
If Kara was a baby blasted off into space at the moment of world boom, I’d have the Tamaranean “r” family take her in and just go from there.
Plus the Kryptonian tech upgrades
So basically if Katara or Judge Anderson from Dredd was a cosmic Superhero
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Karand’r would be a serious problem. If she snapped, she’d be a JL level threat.
The entire point of this is not making her a Superman derivative yet her journey puts her on a similar powerlevel to his anyway, in many ways, a blatant rival of Superman without the “cell denity” bullshit.
Her arc isn’t realizing how special she is, her arc is humbling herself and growing the hell up.
TL;DR Still make her a Lantern, the reason why I specifically push the Lantern angle is it covers multiple story fronts. It gives her a place to belong, a melting pot to meet a diverse array of backgrounds that can teach her soooooo much.
BlackFire would brutalize Kara in some way during their enslavement trials after Tamaran falls
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So much can be done with this hack character (distanced from Superman) that’s just sat on, smothered potential, and for no reason.
She knows she’s stronger than everyone until her then augmented big sis humbles her hard (despite Kara’s own upgrades, Blackfire outclasses her & Kori put together/ Offsetting how Blackfire was considered disabled not being able to fly, now shes the apex predator of Tamaran), Komand’r puts the fear of God in Kara, then she learns (with Starfires help) how to build herself up, learns from the Lanterns how to take orders & instruction without having to run her mouth like she knows shit (she developed an ego from both being royalty, smart as shit, and one of the most powerful beings in the galaxy starting at just 5 yrs old), she matures, gets her ass kicked alot on Lantern duty, trains, trains, trains and becomes an inter-galactic reknowned leader, pioneer in the near future and one of the most powerful beings in the universe.
So think a slightly less intense Azula but with Kryptonian powers. Say she has a soft spot for Kalibak, her brother whom she has pity on, just to give her some layers. Not some brainwashed victim like that garbage ass My Adventures with Lois-Chan did because they don’t want to hold Kara accountable for what she does but still show her committing genocide, so they wanted to have the cake and eat it too. BOOOORING.
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All from some lonely baby in a wandering rocket ship.
Kara specifically finds a home & safety with the Blue Lanterns first & a means to get stronger (Blackfire would be characterized as a legit force of nature, terrifying for Kara to even think about), every fight they have she barely survives and a fellow Lantern dies, she has to get stronger. Kori does not want to be a Lantern, hangs around for some time and the two part ways so they are harder to find. Choosing to hide on earth (becoming a Teen Titan)
No secret Identity bullshit either. She lives on Oa, successful, educated, respected. Has a career lined up when she retires from Corps duty, she has her own goddamn life divorced from Earth and Superman, who doesnt exist in that universe.
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In her own league as The Ion
trained by the same masters that taught Starfire & Blackfire and other master lanterns & more.
And in the end Kara wouldn’t be Supergirl or a version of Superman, she has her own shit.
Parents dead, & on the run from Big sis who is on her own warpath to re-take Tamaran (which is worth a series by itself)
Which most writers refuse to do with this character- INNOVATION, taking risks.
This would be the visual culmination of her completion, now ready for Blackfire.
We get to see a sisterly dynamic with just Kori and Kara in various situations with them eventually finding refuge with the corps
After she & Starfire go through their various development in a 2 year span (for Kori its longer due to time lapses over space time)
Between the Training, the gene augmentation, the Ion power, the Lantern ring. (As Ion, she wouldn’t need it anymore)
She uses her Kryptonian ship to help them get away, and find safety in a functional fortress of solitude ship in space
So this Kara wears a permanent scar from Blackfire, their youngest brother would’ve died honorably protecting them, his life & death would be a forceful motivation for the both of them to survive
Thats a Kara I’d want to see in a goddamn Movie or animated epic, not the fanfic tier crap they (studios & co.) keep vomiting out ad infinite.
And being a Corpsman would put her in ironsights of so many threats outclassing her powerlevel as a Kryptonian, tests for her to get stronger.
So by the end of that 2 year span she’d only be 18 years old. All that, from slavery to decorated Lantern Duty. Began at 16 year old kid.
Educated by Darkseid, trained by him, granny the furies, etc, same result
Kara would take after Corpsman Laira. One of many mentors.
Her going to earth at all would happen during her years as a Green Lantern, not by her choice or even curiosity, but duty.
This Kara knows 100% what she’s doing. She is a proponent of the cause, not a casualty of it. When Darkseid retires, she is ready to step up indefinitely or inevitably take it if possible, and thats bigass “if”. Imagine her with the Omega effect, goddamn.
Divorcing her from Supermans drip as much as possible, and giving her a serious power level by taking advantage of the other aspects of DC as a universe & have her specifically use Kryptonian tech in her fightstyle and use it to rebuild ravaged worlds, creating New Kryptons in a way.
She is a recurring Superman villain, call er “Dysstopia” or something, top 5 most dangerous villains cause she got street smarts, tactical genius, emotional manipulation, her powers are the least of what makers her dangerous; with her own lore tying into the new gods, exotic dark matter abilities, some Red Lanterns & various inter-galactic criminal organizations answer to her & some ties to the source wall which she studies;
But instead a warrior/princess/Private to Commander that runs shit on her terms, whose earned respect from even the guardians (if she didnt have their respect she wouldnt have been allowed to be Ion) and Kilowog (if you know GL Lore & Kilowogs personality, that’s a big deal).
For this stale piece of toast of a character, her being a Lantern does 80% of the work for me as the writer, all I gotta do at that point is just decide what the epilogue looks like and just fill up the events. It writes itself.
This is actually Earth-7129 Carol Danvers edited into a Green Lantern Kara. i like how how the armor looks.
Ideally she’d be sole survivor in a universe without Kal (As Superman) so her very existence isnt therefore redundant like in the canon, I’d have er be raised by a species not of Earth, like the Tamaraneans, have her be Kori and Komand’rs adopted sister. Blackfire Hating Kara even more than Kori due to the parents showing the same favor to Kara as they did Kori
So not only is BlackFire 2nd to Kori despite being first born but ALSO last to the adopted kid. whomp #Seething
Karand’r in a few words would be a studious, sassy, hardheaded prick a with soft spot for kids, sad movies & animals.
I always pitch this and imma pitch it again- Make Kara a Lantern, NOT red lantern because edgy teenager mad durrrr, no none of that shit. (cause if its not gonna be permanent dont waste our time then)
And there’s nothing to copy of a Green Lantern because the entire point of a Lantern is you copy the creed, code, and uniform. The entire point is to adopt the dogma and fight for the cause.
Making Sodam Yat proud, one of many of her mentors.