Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2018 11:50:19 GMT
Apr 11, 2018 12:12:35 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:
That's okay. For one, the 'Supergirl' comic books are very different than the TV show as I mentioned on my previous post above and Kara was a more edgy and aggressive character who was pissed off over her planet being destroyed and wanted to find out who was responsible for it and kill them. Kara was more alien than Clark and less trusting of humans too 'cause she spent most of her life on Krypton and didn't have the years on earth that Clark did. She was not a symbol of hope either like Superman either and the government saw her as a threat 'cause of her anger and her being more powerful than Superman. Those were some of the main things that separated her from Superman and she didn't hold back with her powers and enjoyed fighting villains. The Kara in the comic books would snap Sam's neck without any hesitation if it meant saving millions of lives. 
You’re welcome. I sadly don’t see them changing it in the TV show now either and the problem is Superman has long been portrayed as a light superhero who was a symbol of hope to people while Supergirl (Linda Danvers and most later versions of Kara Zor-El) were portrayed as aggressive and edgy superheroes who in some ways they were the opposite of Superman. The two work together ‘cause they were so different from each other personality wise and Clark and Kara clashed a lot in the comic books over how they should use their superpowers and how they should fight villains but they always made up and worked together in the end to defeat the villains when they teamed up. ‘Man of Steel’ took some of the darker tone from the ‘Supergirl’ comic books but they didn’t make Clark aggressive or edgy like Kara or go in a Horror direction.
It is important to note in the comic books there have been two main Supergirl’s. There was Kara Zor El who is the character they are using in the current ‘Supergirl’ show and then there is Linda Danvers who was actually the star of the biggest selling series of ‘Supergirl.’ Linda Danvers very different than Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) and Superman and instead of being Kryptonin she started out as a human who was a former drug addict and member of a demonic cult who sacrificed people to demons and when her boyfriend, Buzz (the cult leader) turned on Linda and tried to sacrifice her to a demon the Matrix intervened and saved her. Linda Danvers then merged with the Matrix to become the new Supergirl and she fought demons, vampires, monsters, aliens, werewolves, zombies, witches and even Lucifer to redeem her darkened soul.
Her powers while somewhat similar to Superman also included the ability to shapeshift, heal people, teleport, wings of flame, Telekinesis, make portals, absorb fire, shoot telekinetic blasts out of her hands, can blow things up by focusing on them with her mind and see the last few seconds of a dead person’s life just by looking into their eyes. After separating from the Matrix she went on to become the Earth Born Angel of Fire and was described as the most powerful being in the DC Universe. Unlike Kara and a lot of other DC characters Linda throughout the series too and was a teenager at the start and a 28 year old woman with a daughter at the end. Linda Danvers was my favourite character and if you never read the series it is worth checking out. I collected all the comic books when they first came out and they are currently being re-released in graphic novel form. There was a movie of the ‘Supergirl/Linda Danvers’ series in development back in the early 00s and Peter David was writing the script for it and Alicia Silverstone was the frontrunner for the role and a lot of people in DC thought it would be very successful and would attract ‘Buffy’ fans but one of the heads of Warner Bros stopped it from going through ‘cause he didn’t want to have an edgier Supergirl than Superman on screen which was a joke.
