Spoilers Supergirl - Season 2

[Rowan Sjet]

Kara sipping some refreshing orange juice was a highlight of this episode.

Everything involving Mon-El being a jealous, jerkish, murderous asshole who Kara still somehow fawns over was not and I can not wait until he goes the fuck away.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Royalty is unfamiliar with not getting what they want, immediately.

 

[TrekMD]

We still haven't seen the real story behind Mon-El. I suspect that will be the last straw for Kara.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Funny, Supergirl and Mon-El are such a natural match-up I'm amazed that it never happened in the comics (at least while I was reading them).

Probably because they've never really had a lot of overlap. Mon-El hasn't had many 20th-century adventures where he would interact with Supergirl, and when Kara's visited the 30th/31st-century Mon-El is, shall we say, "taken."

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Loved this, but seriously, how much more awesome would it have been to have the exact same episode, but with Gilbert Gottfried as Mxyzptlk!

 

[Tuskin38]

He also makes an entertaining Sinestro in Duck Dodgers.

I had no idea that was John DeLancie

 

[E-DUB]

there could have been plenty of time for a Mon-El/Supergirl relationship before Shadow Lass showed up. Don't forget, she was originally taken with Braniac 5, who was however interested in Supergirl, who was kind of like eeenh on Brainy.

 

[Nerys Myk]

and why does no one call him Lar Gand?

Because no one knows that's his name.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Because no one knows that's his name.

It was more of a rhetorical question; I'm aware that the name has never been given. Its absence just seems odd to me.

 

[sojourner]

Just be glad the haven't dragged out the "Valor" moniker. Ugh.

 

[kirk55555]

As a Legion fan, I have to say I like "Valor" (although I never read the two Legion reboots where he was actually called "Valor", I'm more a fan of the old school/post Final Crisis Legion). Cut, since Supergirl's Mon-El is definitely not the same character as the one from the comics, I hope both "Valor" and "Lar Gand" are not names ever used in connection to the Supergirl character.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It was more of a rhetorical question; I'm aware that the name has never been given. Its absence just seems odd to me.

Pretty sure it's deliberate.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Everything involving Mon-El being a jealous, jerkish, murderous asshole who Kara still somehow fawns over was not and I can not wait until he goes the fuck away.

Agreed. There's no explaining away his admitted murderous desire and practice on his homeworld. There's no tired "lovable scoundrel" plot that can clean that up--or his Archie Comics form of jealousy. But this series is determined to "CW" all characters, so the Mon-El BS may be here for some time to come. Pity.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Also, Sterling gates wrote 25 issues of a (from what I remember of the reviews I've seen) poorly received Supergirl run.

Your memory is faulty. By far, Gates is pretty much acknowledged as the only person who managed to "get" Supergirl as a character (and book) since she was revived by Jeph Loeb in Superman/Batman in that he gave her personality, a cast of background characters, and good stories to go along with it all. What was ultimately poorly received was the larger New Krypton storyline that was intertwined with ALL of the superbooks at that time turning everything into one continuous crossover.

 

[Tallguy]

I know Secret Identities can get a little tenuous at best. (EVERYONE should know Oliver is the Green Arrow.)

But doesn't the Space Bar make Kara's just about impossible? Especially when you add Mon El into the mix? "Hey, isn't that the blonde human that was drinking stuff only Kryptonians can drink?"

 

[dahj]

But doesn't the Space Bar make Kara's just about impossible? Especially when you add Mon El into the mix? "Hey, isn't that the blonde human that was drinking stuff only Kryptonians can drink?"

Plenty of humans and human looking aliens visit there regularly, so she doesn't really stick out, and I don't think many people can recognize exactly which drink you're having for several meters away. Booze is booze.

Even if someone did leap to that conclusion, it's not like Kara Danvers is some famous person, most would probably just wonder why does Supergirl need glasses...

 

[Commander Richard]

Plus, people can keep secrets better than you think. I've seen instances where I'm surprised that something hasn't gotten out.

 

[DigificWriter]

It should also be reiterated, I think, that, in general terms, Kara doesn't HAVE a secret identity: she has a TRIPLE identity as Kara Zor-El (who she grew up as), Kara Danvers (who she became upon arriving on Earth), and Supergirl (who she's become after deciding to use her superpowers to help people instead of hiding away), but none of those things are particularly "secret".

The general public may not be aware that Supergirl and Kara Danvers are the same person, but that doesn't make the latter a "secret identity", at least in terms of the way I think most people would define that term, largely because it's as much a part of who she is as her identity as Supergirl is.

 

[Forbin]

I dunno, I can tell a margarita from a manhattan from from a beer from across the room. Add in the possibility of the drink smoldering or glowing...

 

[Tallguy]

It should also be reiterated, I think, that, in general terms, Kara doesn't HAVE a secret identity: she has a TRIPLE identity as Kara Zor-El (who she grew up as), Kara Danvers (who she became upon arriving on Earth), and Supergirl (who she's become after deciding to use her superpowers to help people instead of hiding away), but none of those things are particularly "secret".

The general public may not be aware that Supergirl and Kara Danvers are the same person, but that doesn't make the latter a "secret identity", at least in terms of the way I think most people would define that term, largely because it's as much a part of who she is as her identity as Supergirl is.

If someone asks her (when she's wearing glasses) if she's Supergirl, she says "No."

Because it's a secret.