[OOC] DC Universe: Future Shock

[TheUnknowable]

Twenty years ago Darkseid came to Earth and killed all who opposed him. He then gathered together over one million slaves, those he believed genetically superior, and sterilized the planet.
Two human fleets survived, swearing their allegiance to Darkseid and becoming trade fleets which served Apocalypse. One was lead by Bruce Wayne, one by Lex Luthor. The Wayne Enterprises fleet secretly built up its forces with alliances with other worlds, hoping to one day launch an invasion to defeat Darkseid. The Lexcorp fleet slowly built up a resistance force on Apocalypse, hoping to one day overthrow Darkseid, placing Luthor on the thrown as humanity's one true ruler.

They launched their plans simultaneously, but they failed. Darkseid defeated both groups, almost killing Luthor in the process, and sending bounty hunters after Wayne and his lieutenants.

After people loyal to Luthor broke him out of prison, they launched one last, desperate plan to defeat him. Together, Luthor and Wayne built a time portal. They would use it to send people into the past, to Earth, to stop Darkseid before the invasion.

---

We came back in time, arriving just three days before the invasion. We must prepare Earth and its defenders, to stand against the imminent threat.

I will play as John Jordan, son of Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris, whose mother was off world on a mission at the time of the invasion. He became a Lantern at the age of 16 when Darkseid invaded Oa and he picked up the ring of a dead Lantern in an attempt to help fight him off.

This will take place in the JLU universe, so that everyone has a common world to work with.

If you'd rather fight a Lantern, though, I've got another RP. for that.

Interest check.

Character Sheet

Name:

Alias:

Age:

Appearance:

Parents:

Mentor(s):

Skills:

Powers:

Weaknesses:

Equipment:

Personality:

Bio: Please include how you came to be sent back in time.

[Revans Exile]

Calling dibs on Batman Beyond.

If two characters are allowed calling dibs on a female The Atom based character.

[TheUnknowable]

Ok, I finished my CS. As soon as we have three people we can start.

[Revans Exile]

@TheUnknowable what is the # limit on characters we can play?

[TheUnknowable]

I'm not sure how many I want to allow. I might play two, so at least that, but I don't want the game dominated by/dependent on one player, so I might not allow any more than that. Basically, we'll have to wait until others join to know how many make sense.

[Revans Exile]

Anyone who wants to play the child of Bruce & Talia, according to the bio I am writing for my Batman Beyond character, that child is the sole child Bruce ever fathered.

Temperance Wayne

Name: Temperance McGinnis Wayne

Alias: Batwoman

Age: 29

Appearance: Human
Batwoman

Parents: Father: Bruce Wayne, Mother: deceased

Mentors: Bruce Wayne

Skills

Acrobatics
Aviation
Disguise
Driving
Eidetic Memory
Escapology
Gadgetry
Genius Level Intellect
Gymnastics
Indomitable Will
Interrogation
Intimidation
Investigation
Martial Arts: is a master of at least four disciplines, such as Jujutsu & Kung Fu.
Multilingualism: Known to be fluent in French, German, Kaznian, and Spanish.
Singing
Stealth
Swordsmanship
Fencing
Tactical Analysis
Throwing
Ventriloquism
Marskmanship

Powers: Technopathy: the ability to mentally control technological constructs, computers, robots, hardware and other devices that can be termed as "technology".

Weaknesses: Same as any human. Batsuit runs on a battery which needs to be recharged. Certain features of the Batsuit drain the battery faster than others.

Equipment: A.L.F.R.E.D. (A.I.)

Batsuit Beyond

A frequency scanner to pick up hot spots.
A lock decipher.
A remote kill function that can externally deactivate the suit from the Batcave.
A retractable PIN or password decipherer in the form of a key on the right index finger.
Bolas
Bugs
Built-in cloaking device that enables almost complete camouflage. It allows camouflage extending into the visible light and infrared frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum. A countermeasure used by Commissioner Barbara Gordon to this in one incident where she was hunting Batman down was through tracking him using an ultraviolet light to illuminate him.
Built-in rebreather for underwater combat/exploration.
Can uplink with the Batmobile for remote piloting.
Disk can be fired from the top of the wrist.
Dispensable Batarangs with a range of auxiliary functions, such as producing electric shocks, explosive, & restraining/reeling in. However, there is a limit to the amount of Batarangs the Batsuit can dispense.
Drug identifier, utilized by dipping fingers into the substance.
Electrical discharges throughout the suit that can be activated by pushing the button on the belt.
Electromagnetic pads in the soles of the boots enabling him to cling to walls and ceilings.
Enhanced ballistic protection.
Enhanced visual assistance that allows her to see in the dark (visual from the Batsuit can be fed back to the main computer in the Batcave; it can also receive visual from the main computer, allowing for superior tactical planning). The visor can also serve as digital binoculars and an infra-red filter as well as a scanner.
Explosives
Fire extinguisher bomb/capsules
Flashbang grenades.
Flexicuffs.
Forearm spikes that can extend out.
Geiger counter
Grappling guns built into the forearms.
Knockout gas pellets
Launchable tracers
Minimal increase in flexibility
Neuromuscular amplification, enhanced strength by a factor of ten, ultimately allowing her to lift up to 1700 lbs.
Personal communicator allows her to keep in constant contact with Bruce at the Batcave.
Portable bag
Recorder
Retractable claws which can be used to slice or facilitate climbing.
Retractable wings under the arms to glide on.
Retractable tweezers
Rocket boots enabling limited flight.
Sensitive touch microphone on index and middle fingers that permits eavesdropping through solid surfaces.
Sensors that work as a polygraph.
Significantly resistant to heat, electricity, water, and vibrations, but only slightly resistant to radiation.
Smoke pellets.
The belt buckle also serves as a buzz saw to get out of a room quickly or to cut through denser material.
Tranquilizer darts
Welding tool
Wrist-mounted laser capable of melting metal and stunning his opponents.

Personality: Temperance is a hot-head, a talker, and tends to be more social than perhaps someone with her night life should be. Being a bad-girl growing up helped to instill a rebellious streak in her that would follow through her starting career as Batwoman. It has also been noted that she is a bit hard-headed and sometimes requires learning things the hard way.

Caring for her paralyzed father have helped to calm her some, as well as allowed her to improve upon skills she once lacked. Her abilities of observation have improved, and she has even managed to tone down her willingness to attack first and talk later. Though Temperance is still a wild card that may go overboard in getting the job done, her intentions are most often in the right place even if her means are rough.

Temperance takes after Bruce in the fact she has a good heart, though she isn't as stern and serious as his father.

Brief Bio: Temperance is the product of one Bruce's many liaisons. Temperance is the only child Bruce ever fathered. Temperance was one of the survivors of Darkseids attack, her mother was unfortunately not so lucky. She never knew her father until after she found herself on one of the ships in Bruce's fleet. After Bruce discovered Temperance & his connection to her, he took her in. He trained her to take over the fleet eventually. Bruce taught Temperance everything he knew about management and about being a crime fighter. She was put in charge of security throughout the entire fleet. When bounty hunters were sent after Bruce and all his lieutenants, she gathered them all in one place to make a stand. This location was prepped in advance to eliminate as many of the bounty hunters as possible before the fight ever started. At the end of the fight all the bounty hunters were dead, Bruce was paralyzed from the waist down, and sixty percent of the lieutenants were dead.

[TheUnknowable]

I like it. Approved.

I was thinking of adding Arsenal as my second character. Roy would be the son of Ollie's first officer, who died due to a malfunction during the escape from Earth.

[Revans Exile]

You mean a Roy who wasn't Oliver's protege on Earth?

[TheUnknowable]

I completely forgot about that episode, though I remembered the "quantum arrow" thing from it, just didn't place it in JLU.

Ok, then, Speedy will be the first officer, and will lose his arm in the evacuation accident or the attack on Earth. I'll either use him or his son as a character that goes back in time.

[Revans Exile]

Decided to not to use The Atom as my inspiration for my second character.

Terr-El

Name: Terr-El

Alias: Nightwing

Age: 16

Appearance: Human & costume

Parents: Father: Kal-El Mother: Galatea

Mentors: Kal-El & Galatea

Skills: Genius Level Intellect (IQ 200+), Engineer

Powers:

Kryptonian/Argoan Physiology

Solar Energy Absorption: Under optimal conditions, this is the main source of Terr's super powers as they are contingent upon exposure to solar radiation from a yellow sun star system. Her biological make up includes a number of organs which lack analogues in humans and whose functions are unknown. It is believed that between one or more of these and her bio-cellular matrix, "yellow" solar energy is stored for later use. This allows for the use of these powers to fade when yellow solar radiation is not available instead of immediate failure.
Heat Vision: Terr can, as a conscious act, fire beams of intense heat at a target by looking at it. She can vary the heat and area affected.
Super-Hearing: Terr's hearing is sensitive enough to hear any sound at any volume or pitch. With skill and concentration, she can block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source or frequency.
Enhanced Vision Terr's vision processes the entire electromagnetic spectrum as well as allowing vast control over selective perception and focus.
Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision: Terr can see well into most of the electromagnetic spectrum. She can see and identify radio and television signals as well as all other broadcast or transmitted frequencies. Using this ability, she can avoid detection by radar or satellite monitoring methods. This also allows her to see the aura generated by living thing.
Telescopic Vision: This is the ability to see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics. Though limited, the exact extent of the ability is undetermined. In function, it is similar to the zoom lens on a camera.
X-Ray Vision: This is the ability to see through any volume of matter except lead. Terr can see things behind a solid, opaque object as if it were not there. She can focus this ability to "peel back" layers of an object, allowing hidden image or inner workings to be observed. The exact type of energy perceived - such as x-rays, cosmic rays, or some other energy invisible to normal humans - is unclear. This ability perceives an ambient energy source though; it does not involve the eye projecting a concentrated, possibly toxic, beam to be reflected back from objects.
Microscopic Vision: This is the ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the atomic level.
Infrared Vision: Terr can see with better acuity in darkness and to a degree in total darkness.
Flight: Terr is able to manipulate graviton particles to defy the forces of gravity and achieve flight. This ranges from hovering to moving in any posture, in any direction.
Invulnerability: Due to the interaction of her dense molecular structure and supercharged bio-electric aura, Terr is nigh-invulnerable to extreme energy forces. In addition, she can extend this protection against toxins and diseases.
Superhuman Stamina: Terr is able to maintain continuous strenuous physical action for an indefinite period of time. This based on his body converting yellow solar radiation directly to energy, but is limited by physiological and psychological needs to eat, drink, and sleep.
Superhuman Strength: Terr's strength is augmented by yellow solar radiation interacting with the greater than human density, resilience and biological efficiency of her musculature. Her strength is more an act of conscious will on energy fields than actual physical strength. It is this act of conscious will that enables her to perform physical feats that are beyond the mere application force, such as moving a mountain top without said rock crumbling under its own mass.
Superhuman Speed: Terr is able to move at incredible speed by sheer force of will. This extends to her perceptions and allows for feats such as catching bullets in mid flight as well as covering vast distances in little or no time. This also confers: Superhuman Agility & Superhuman Reflexes
Super-Breath: Terr is able to create hurricane force winds by exhaling air from his lungs. She can chill the air as it leaves her lungs to freeze targets. She can also reverse the process to pull large volumes of air or vapor into her lungs.
Mimicry: Through a combination of super hearing and precise muscle control, Terr can imitate another person's voice.

Weaknesses: Vulnerability to Magic & Kryptonite

Equipment: Nightwing Costume

Personality: Terr’s bright and often vivacious demeanour hides a steely determination beneath. The job that she does for the fleet is a serious one. Yet, as far as Terr is concerned, there’s a place for levity as well. She’s not intense, brooding or any way foreboding. Nightwing is, perhaps, the popular face of super-heroing. Batman may wage a one-man-war on crime, Superman may well be the light to lead humanity into its next epoch, Wonder Woman may be on a mission to bring peace to ‘man’s world, but Nightwing doesn’t have any such agenda. She’s just using the powers she’s been given to try to make the world a better place.

Terr’s civilian life is something she holds very dear: Nightwing is a super-hero, something of a celebrity a pin-up and the subject of countless internet fake images, but that’s not Terr. Terr runs engineering, drinks wine, and loves pizza. She watches rom-coms, enjoys junk TV and heavy metal music.

Back story: Three years after the destruction of Earth Superman & Galatea eventually started a relationship as the last of their kind. A year later Galatea gave birth to a daughter. Terr received the same training that Galatea received from Cadmus or as close approximation that Galatea could replicate. Kal was in charge of keeping her grounded and humble. Just like his parents did for him. During school Terr showed a natural affinity for all things mechanical. She would tear down and rebuild machines on almost a daily basis. She began an apprenticeship in engineering of the ship she was born on. To help combat the bounty hunters sent after Bruce Wayne and his lieutenants Temperance turned to Terr to build several machines and traps to reduce their numbers. Terr made them where Temperance could easily activate them with her technopathy. Terr wanted to help even though she was not one of the lieutenants but Temperance refused. Terr didn't listen and followed Temperance to the location and hid. From her hiding spot she was provided cover fire with her heat vision.

[CallaLily]

Can I take a Zantanna sort of character?

Edit: or a Ravem based one?

[TheUnknowable]

1) The appearance says human, not humanoid or Kryptonian, or . Extremely minor problem.
2) I was assuming they died, but I can change that if you want to use the characters. Why did the humans give up, though, if two Kryptonians were still alive to fight for them? Did Darkseid give them Kryptonite poisoning or almost kill them with magic? Did he wait until they were off-world to attack, then sterilize the world before they got back?
3) She's named "Jessica" throughout the power description.

Also, what's your take on the anti-life equation in the JLU show? At the end, Lex Luthor and Darkseid both touch it and disappear. Did it kill them?

I was thinking that in this universe it essentially wiped out life, and that they both learned to undo it, to make themselves immortal, as they could resurrect themselves if they die. Darkseid also learned to use it to wipe out all life in an area, IE, on Earth.

The problem with that, though, is that the wiki says that in the comics it's a mathematical proof of the futility of life, but that doesn't exactly fit well with the show.

edit: 4) Also, they are genetic cousins, so kind of incestuous. It's fine if you don't care, though.

[TheUnknowable]

Can I take a Zantanna sort of character?

Edit: or a Ravem based one?

@CallaLily

Sure. Either's fine.

[TheUnknowable]

Oliver Harper

Name: Oliver Harper

Alias: Crimson Terror

Age: 22

Appearance:

Parents: Father: Roy Harper (Red Arrow/Arsenal), Mother Unknown/Deceased

Mentor(s): Arsenal, Green Arrow, Black Canary

Skills: Archery, Shooting, Sword fighting, Acrobatics, Mauy Tai, Computer programming/hacking, Piloting

Powers: Omni-venom injections: As a non-addictive variation of Bane's Venom mixed with medical nanites and concentrated proteins that was developed by Lexcorp, it improves muscle mass, durability, and neural conductivity, as well as giving the user a minor healing factor. The improved muscle mass and durability gives him approximately 5x normal human strength. The durability is the result of the medical nanites producing a web of carbon nano-tube throughout his body, giving him highly increased resistance to damage. The increase in neural conductivity roughly doubles his raw intelligence, heightens his senses, and cuts his reaction time in half. The healing factor is roughly equal to ten times normal human healing rate, allowing him to heal broken bones in a matter of days. He must receive a new injection every 18 months or the effects will wear off. Luckily John Jordan has the production process on file in case they get stuck in the past.
Computer Neural Interface: Let's him wirelessly control devices that are configured for it via mental interface. Due to the difference in frequency, communications protocols, and encryption patterns, he can only interface with future tech and, while in the past, some alien tech.

Weaknesses: He has no special resistance to high energy weapons or magic, relying on his armor to defend against them. His enhancement also requires that he eat roughly twice the normal number of calories and three times the normal amount of protein.

Equipment: Promethium armor (auto-repairing highly resistant armor made popular by Deathstroke, it also has a built in forcefield, communications equipment, a computer with holo-interface, and tractor boots, which can attach to any surface with a force of 100kg. The boots allow him to run on any solid surface that can withstand his weight.), Reinforces Titanium Plasma Sword (a blade made of nano-tube reinforced titanium, it can be deactivated to work as a normal sword or activated to have a plasma field around the edge. This field is hot enough to cut through hull armor with relative ease, though the power cell limits it to only a few minutes of activation.), Titanium reinforced Bow (a simple reinforced titanium bow with a 200 kilo draw weight), Arrows (possible types include Titanium barbed, charged ion, quantum, hardening foam, titanium net, electro-stun, plasma (form picture, designed for maximum penetration) and penning trap (stores one centi-gram of anti-matter for up to two hours, which explode with a force of .43 kilotons)), Recharging station (for penning arrows, contains 2 grams of antimatter, and can last for several days without recharging), nano-assembler (nanites are used to make equipment from schematics and raw materials), Arrow Fighter (A sleek model of ship designed by his father and built for speed and maneuverability, it has a particle beam cannon, shields, and a hyper-drive. Used for space battles)

Personality: Joking, adaptive, curious

Bio: When Red Arrow came aboard the ship to serve as first officer he was missing an arm, but brought a two year old boy with him. When asked who the kid's mother was, all he would say is "she didn't make it." Oliver grew up on the ship, learning from his dad, the captain, and the captain's wife. He grew up with their kids and even dated their oldest daughter when she was old enough.

He spent a good bit of his time practicing with the security staff and flying against the ship's fighter pilots, even managing to out-fly several of them. He flew against pirates and was in the space battle to free the humans of Apokolipse. When the retreat was ordered, he met up with the others and followed them back to Earth. Eventually Luthor and Wayne finished the Time Portal and he volunteered to go back in time, to try and stop the invasion. Wayne agreed.

[Consentacles]

Going to put together an application related to Aquaman. He doesn't really seem popular enough that I'd need to call dibs, but there it is.

[TheUnknowable]

Going to put together an application related to Aquaman. He doesn't really seem popular enough that I'd need to call dibs, but there it is.

@Consentacles

I was wondering how we would handle Atlantis and Themescara, so I look forward to seeing it.

[Consentacles]

Mako Orin-son / Aquaman

Name: Mako Orin-son

Alias: Aquaman

Age: 19

Appearance: Image

Parents:
~Father: "Arthur Curry" / Orin Atlan-son (Aquaman, King of Atlantis)
~Mother: Mera (Atlantean Queen)

Mentor(s):
~Garth (Aqualad / Tempest)

Skills:
Trident Fighting
Unarmed Fighting
Charisma
Willpower
In-depth (pardon the pun) marine knowledge

Powers:

Royal Atlantean Physiology

Mako can breathe underwater, endure the vast pressures of the deep, see in total darkness, and his hearing is acute enough to perform bio-sonar much like a dolphin can. On the other hand he can only spend a limited time out of water. He also possesses superhuman levels of strength, speed, endurance and durability, all by-products of his body being adapted to survive unprotected in the tremendous pressures of the ocean depths. Although other Atlanteans possess similar adaptations, Aquaman's royal lineage makes him a super-Atlantean as well as super-human, and as such he has greater physical capabilities than does a typical Atlantean.

Marine Telepathy

Mako has the ability to telepathically commune with and empathically coerce all creatures of the sea, and to thusly enlist the aid of these denizens of the oceans. Unlike his father, Mako has not as of yet demonstrated any aptitude for general telepathy or mental control towards non-marine life.

Atlantean Sorcery

Schooled in Atlanean sorcery, Mako has tattoos etched on his forearms which allow him to subtly manipulate the water in a person's body to repair damaged tissues. He has to be in contact with the injured area to do this, and it's a slow process. Obviously, this only works on lifeforms composed largely of water.

Weaknesses:

Water Dependency

Mako must return to water after a period of time or he becomes dehydrated. This period can be extended by the humidity in the atmosphere but eventually prolonged dehydration will weaken him thus he must return to aquatic environment to recuperate.

Equipment:
~Trident of Neptune: The Trident is a magical weapon that grants its wielder great power and the divine right to rule the sea. The Trident of Neptune was forged by the cyclopes out of admantine and Neptune's own essence. It can manipulate and conjure water, as well as disperse energy in the form of bolts.

Personality: At the best of times Mako is heartfelt, earnest, compassionate, and outgoing. At less sterling moments he may come across as brash, overbearing, or even arrogant. He's been raised as royalty from an early age, with all of the gravity and responsibilities that entitles, but very few of the benefits that traditionally go along with them. He is quick to anger, though he's good at not showing it openly. He is something of a warrior poet, and loves art of all sorts.

Bio: The fall of Atlantis truly began with Mako's older brother Arthur Curry Jr. When Darkseid's invasion spread beneath the waves to threaten Poseidonis, the toddler prince was killed in the siege. Orin was consumed by the loss of his son, and in a rage lead his armies in an attack on Darkseid. Though he fought fiercely, he was slain by the new god.

With the loss of their king, Garth retrieved Aquaman's trident and rallied the remaining troops to lead them in a withdrawal. With an incredible majority of the population of Atlantis already dead, they had few options remaining. In a last ditch effort, Garth used his sorcery to augment Mera's innate connection to her home dimension: Dimension Aqua. Opening a rift, they evacuated the surviving Atlanteans into the other dimension, fleeing from Earth and leaving it to it's grim fate.

At the time of the invasion, Mera was already with Orin's child, though she knew it not at the time. Nine months later, she gave birth to her second son, Mako. The displaced Atlanteans lived as refugees for years, never truly integrating with the society of Dimension Aqua. Mako grew up knowing that he was the King of a wandering people, who'd lost their lands at the hands of a tyrant. From a young age, cold fury burned in his chest. He became aggressive, and his mother had Garth channel that aggression towards positive ends. He taught him to fight, to lead, and to know the sea like the back of his hand. In many ways, Garth was the father he never had. The two of them went on many adventures in the watery world of Dimension Aqua.

When he came of age, Mako made a decision to go back and see the desolation that Darkseid had wrought upon the Earth. His mother was terribly against it, but eventually he and Garth returned to Atlantis: it was a ruin and a tomb. Utterly lifeless, along with the rest of the world. Sorrow and anger and fear collided against one another inside of Mako like a tropical storm. Just before he felt he could no longer bear it, they detected a signal. A message left on an infinite loop, playing over and over again to deaf ears. Before departing the planet with the fleets, Batman had arranged a delayed information cache in the case that anyone or anything might have survived in hiding or otherwise. It was encoded using cryptography that had been standard within the Justice League, and they were able to make sense of it. It contained projected routes of the fleets, the identities of trusted contacts within his burgeoning rebellion, contact frequencies, and other vital information.

Spurred to action by the discovery, Mako returned to Dimension Aqua with Garth in tow. They got into contact with Batman, and learned about the unsuccessful efforts that had been thus far made. When he told them about the plan for the time portal, Mako offered to have the Atlantean scientists begin the initial construction of the installation while they awaited the arrival of Wayne and Luthor. When the chosen heroes arrived back on earth, Mako was there to greet them; and insisted on going along.

[Revans Exile]

1) The appearance says human, not humanoid or Kryptonian, or . Extremely minor problem.

@TheUnknowable

I use human to refer to any picture that is not their costumed appearance.

2) I was assuming they died, but I can change that if you want to use the characters. Why did the humans give up, though, if two Kryptonians were still alive to fight for them? Did Darkseid give them Kryptonite poisoning or almost kill them with magic? Did he wait until they were off-world to attack, then sterilize the world before they got back?

Just take whatever you assumed they died of and change died to weakened or rendered unconscious.

Or this: Darkseid uses the equation to turn heroes, civilians, and villains alike into mindless slaves.

3) She's named "Jessica" throughout the power description.

Forgot to change that.

At the end, Lex Luthor and Darkseid both touch it and disappear. Did it kill them?

I assumed they ascended to a form of life unbound by the physical, they died, or went to another universe.

The truth: Although it is not made clear in "Destroyer" what happens to Luthor and Darkseid, Dwayne McDuffie has stated that they were both absorbed into the Source Wall.

4) Also, they are genetic cousins, so kind of incestuous. It's fine if you don't care, though.

In the DCAU Kal-El & Kara In-Ze have the same familial relationship as you and I do. The "cousin" thing was pure fiction to help establish Kara's human identity.

[TheUnknowable]

<Snipped quote by TheUnknowable>I use human to refer to any picture that is not their costumed appearance.

<Snipped quote>Just take whatever you assumed they died of and change died to weakened or rendered unconscious.

Or this: Darkseid uses the equation to turn heroes, civilians, and villains alike into mindless slaves.

<Snipped quote>Forgot to change that.

<Snipped quote>I assumed they ascended to a form of life unbound by the physical, they died, or went to another universe.

The truth: Although it is not made clear in "Destroyer" what happens to Luthor and Darkseid, Dwayne McDuffie has stated that they were both absorbed into the Source Wall.

<Snipped quote>In the DCAU Kal-El & Kara In-Ze have the same familial relationship as you and I do. The "cousin" thing was pure fiction to help establish Kara's human identity.

@Revans Exile

Ok, Kryptonian healing trances all around.

As for Darkseid and Luthor I'll say they were made into non-physical beings, then reversed it to become physical again, but immortal.

I didn't know about the "adopted cousin" thing. Most of the time she's named Kara Zor-el. This Supergirl is different, though.

[Revans Exile]

Ok, Kryptonian healing trances all around.

@TheUnknowable

Hell Superman came back from the dead, got split into Red & Blue version, yet he still comes back like nothing ever happened. But numerous comic characters get better from the illness known as death.

I didn't know about the "adopted cousin" thing. Most of the time she's named Kara Zor-el. This Supergirl is different, though.

@TheUnknowable

DCAU was my first real exposure to Superman & Supergirl, them actually being cousins and not just a cover story seems weird to me.