Talk:Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)
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[edit] Redirect
Is this page necessary? I'm inclined to thing that Kara Zor-El should just redirect to Supergirl--Isotope23 19:43, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cir-El?
Should Cir-El really be listed as Kara's Genetically engineered "half-cousin"? Cir-El wasn't related to Kara at all, neither was she related to Superman. She was a homeless girl given Superman's DNA and she doesn't even exist anymore. CureWhite
- Ha! you'd think she shouldn't be listed. You know... given her lack of interaction with Kara, and impact on the Superman mythos as a whole... oh and the fact THEY AREN'T REALLY RELATED, let alone that she no longer exists. apparently she must be listed on everyone remotely related to Superman.
ugh.
161.38.222.14 00:57, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
She does exist (read Cir-El's article), and second, Cir-EL's DNA is 50% of Kal-El's (Kara's cousin) DNA, so that makes her gentically related to Kara. And DNA is the primary factor in being related to anyone. Look at Superboy, he also has 50% of Superman's DNA, and everyone doesn't argue about his relation to Superman or Kara, so why should Cir-El be excluded when she has the same genetic relation to them.MetaStar 15:51, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pre-Crisis info in the Superhero Box
Yea or Nay? It's kind of a different character, but i loathe two Superhero Boxes for the same character (like a lot of the Legion ones). Opinions anyone? Exvicious 01:00, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
- Ah, but are they the same character? As somebody who's old enough to remember the first Kara Zor-El, it's hard for me to think of them as the same. And given that Donna Troy remembers the first Kara's death (as shown in week 4 of 52), who's to say they aren't different? I'm almost to the point of suggesting a split into Kara Zor-El (Pre-Crisis) and Kara Zor-El (Post-Crisis). I won't yet, though, because I think we may find out the answers soon. So I guess my suggestion is to leave the pre-Crisis in for now and reserve the possiblity of having two SHBs if future events warrant. CovenantD 01:31, 5 June 2006 (UTC) Oh, and thanks for asking :-) CovenantD 01:31, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
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- That's the issue with almost every single DC Comics character. There should be a main article with the Modern Age bio, if the silver or golden age versions are too long or even more, have interacted with the Modern age, those should get separated articles.
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- There are several characters named Supergirl just as there are even more characters named Superman, Batman or Huntress. But those articles don't start "there are several characters named...". Those deal with the issue by being mainly about the modern age but with sections dedicated to the silver and golden age versions. However, if those articles based on the Modern era versions often spawn sub-articles about powers and weapons, I don't see why can't also spawn subarticles about versions of the same character from the other eras. Pardon my English.--The Judge 14:18, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edits for clarity needed in the "Modern Age" section
Some of the information on the "Modern age" Kara needs to be edited for clarity of meaning. Certain sentences read as if written by someone who learned English as a second language, and it ranges from simple misuse of words to nearly incomprehensible. Some examples:
- "It was revealed that prior before the crisis, it was because of Superboy-Prime's reality-altering ripple effect,[14] which brought Kara Zor-El back to existence."
- "Her supposed dream world was shattered and in shambles when the very same Brainiac, concerned about the effects of a superpowered being like her slipping in madness, exposed her to green Kryptonite, sedated her and left in care of Kandorian scientist in the enlarged Rokin/New Krypton Kandor City for being "re-educated" on the uses of the last Kryptonians (with even language changed in a thousand years, Kara couldn't even be an effective member of Rokin society, thus making her an outcast again), and her "romance" with Cosmic Boy was dismissed as the side-effect of the residual zeta-beam radiaton affecting the young boy body chemistry." (I honestly have no clue what information this passage, particularly the latter half, is trying to convey, other than something bad happened to Kara.)
I've read very little of the current Kara's published appearances, and I fear that if I edited the text myself (particularly the second passage cited above), I would incorrectly interpret the meaning. Can someone more well-versed in this incarnation of the character tackle this problem? - Pennyforth 16:33, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] First appearance
There is a discussion on the Comics Project talk page about the appropriateness of "Historical" and "Modern" in the superherobox. CovenantD 00:43, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
