Spoilers Supergirl - Season 1
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Unless you've been reading superhero comics your entire life and just accept that this is one of the conventions of the genre. One might as well wonder where Dracula's mass goes when he turns into a bat.
Doesn't bother me.
It could be fun to give Kara an alien BFF. It would also add some interesting wrinkles to her relationships to have her meet a super powered female alien close to her age, who she could probably relate to more than characters like Alex or Winn.
To be precise, Non first appeared at the beginning of SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, when Marlon Brando banishes him to the Phantom Zone along with Zod and Ursa.
(A scene that was recreated--minus Brando--for SUPERMAN II.)
Oh, right. But was he ever added to the comics?
Yeah, that was pretty dumb. It made it look like Zod was sentenced to the Phantom Zone for petty vandalism, just breaking a single crystal -- and that the sentencing happened about 15 seconds after the crime and in the same room.
Geoff Johns put Non in the comics in around about 2005ish.
Then a couple crisis' happened in quick succession, so that got scrubbed.
Then a couple crisis' happened in quick succession, so that got scrubbed.
Their justice system works fast.
Wasn't Donner the co-writer on that storyline that introduced Non to the comics? I believe it also gave us Clark and Lois' adopted son, Christopher.
And so, too, Christopher Kent fades from DC continuity's fleeting embrace.
Which was really unfortunate -- I liked Christopher Kent, and I liked that run of Action Comics where he was Nightwing and another Kryptonian was Flamebird, and they did the super-hero thing while pretending not to be Kryptonians.
Then, War of the Superman wiped all of that out as though it had never happened.
They also noticeably toned down the charges against the trio, possibly to lighten the tone of the movie. The original version of the scene described Ursa as a psychopathic murderer of children rather than merely a loyal lieutenant to Zod, and the reshot version made Non sound less scary, too, playing up his imbecility more than his homicidal tendencies.
And, yes, as Guy noted, Non was briefly written into the comics a while back.
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Who turned out to be the secret love child of Zod and Ursa, as I recall!
Somewhere, there's Donner footage of Non snapping the neck of a helmeted security guard.
Well they undid it on the Flash, and also the outing of Arrow's identity, twice.
Agreed.
Wasn't that part of the first ABC airing of Superman the Movie?
I didn't realize until I looked up Laura Benanti that Alura and Astra were played by the same actress. 
Cat's figuring out Kara/Supergirl's dual identity was anticlimactic. I was hoping it would be written in the plot at a much later point. Surely, now their working relationship has changed: Cat has always treated Kara as a lowly servant but admires Supergirl for what she stands for. Does that mean she's going to be oh-so-nice to Kara all of a sudden, or will she now look down on her as a superpowered peon?
Cat's figuring out Kara/Supergirl's dual identity was anticlimactic. I was hoping it would be written in the plot at a much later point. Surely, now their working relationship has changed: Cat has always treated Kara as a lowly servant but admires Supergirl for what she stands for. Does that mean she's going to be oh-so-nice to Kara all of a sudden, or will she now look down on her as a superpowered peon?
It's certainly in my childhood memories.
I found the 1975 Superman the Musical on Youtube yesterday.
Alura, or Alu-Ra, which makes him Non-Ra... Maybe she wouldn't take his name because he was subordinate? Or maybe Krypton is still feudal and only the great families have surnames? So the serfs/proletariat have no surname and have to marry in or lump their tragically low status?
We saw that Non had reverence for the House of El.
Becuase of the cookie cutters used to make dramatic tension.
Non's dad was the chief of staff/Butler for Zor-El and Jor-El's dad.
Important, but still the help.
So as Children, Non was raised side by side with Jor-El and Zor-El until a point where it became clear that Jor-El and Zor-El had a bloodline and Non did not.
Like Theon Greyjoy or Loki.
They undid the outing of the Arrow to the general public. I'm talking about reveals to core cast members. Yes, The Flash undid Barry's reveal to Iris with time travel, but she found out again five episodes later.
Anyway, given that Kara just saved Cat from the exposure of her own secrets, I expect Cat to be willing to reciprocate.
J'onn J'onzz is a telepathic shapeshifter.
Short or wiping her noggin, Hank can easily take on the appearance of Kara or Supergirl, and stand next to Kara or Supergirl to... No, well I suppose if they were both Kara insisting that they together are not Supergirl it would just confuse things.
Although that might explain where the broken arm went to if two human twins were ####ing with Cat by sharing the same job... To outwit the IRS?
Maybe the other twin is called Linda?
Short or wiping her noggin, Hank can easily take on the appearance of Kara or Supergirl, and stand next to Kara or Supergirl to... No, well I suppose if they were both Kara insisting that they together are not Supergirl it would just confuse things.
Although that might explain where the broken arm went to if two human twins were ####ing with Cat by sharing the same job... To outwit the IRS?
Maybe the other twin is called Linda?