When Kara crashed on Earth, Superman, already established as the world's greatest hero, was a 24 year old adult, and Kara was a 13 year old child.
Obviously he was her legal custodian/guardian, until she reached adulthood. Although Kal was such a manchild that he passed the buck to a couple human randoes, because he is technically a deadbeat dad, for not raising his cousin himself.
The Supergirl persona was invented 13 years later.
I wouldn't call Superman her Superior, because the Heroes on earth 37 are not "ranked", but Clark should be her mentor, and have had a bit to say about how to do the hero business right, when she was starting out. Kara is no longer starting out, but she is also far from infallible.
J'onn is nearly 300 years old, and writes her cheques, if the DEO pays her, but a government agency would not trust her at all if they did not give her money to be loyal because Government spy agencies do not trust anyone to be decent gratis. (I doubt that Supergirl cashes her cheques from the DEO, and if she does, the money may go to some arbitrary charity.) So he is her superior in a couple ways, as her employer, surrogate father, and as an old as dirt person. Realistically a Kryptonian shouldn't stand a chance against a Martian in a fair fight, although in an unfair fight, whoever gets the first shot should have murdered the other combatant quickly.
(Jimmy also writes her cheques, for her other job, which makes him her superior just like Cat Grant before him. Although Lena bought CatCo this season, so she's Jimmy's superior, and therefore Kara's ultimate superior, but not Supergirls.)
Clark probably gave the Danvers a lofty stipend to look after Kara during her childhood, and paid for her college. Typical male, thinking that money is a substitute for "being there".
Superior is just a bad word to use, because of gender politics, unless she joins the JLA and the chairman is Superman.
Alex is Supergirl's Superior in the DEO hierarchy? If they disagreed, then Alex would stay, and Supergirl would be left out in the cold, because one of these Danvers' sibs is an accredited and verified Superspy and the other is a foreign asset with undefined loyalties.
Supergirl and Superman are cousins, but he's old enough to be her uncle, and most people do what their uncles tell them to up to a certain point, when they are young.
If Kara had not been misplaced in the Phantom Zone for 24 years, she would have been clark's Teen Mom, and raised him, and been his superior FOREVER because she is his mother.
Obviously he was her legal custodian/guardian, until she reached adulthood. Although Kal was such a manchild that he passed the buck to a couple human randoes, because he is technically a deadbeat dad, for not raising his cousin himself.
The Supergirl persona was invented 13 years later.
I wouldn't call Superman her Superior, because the Heroes on earth 37 are not "ranked", but Clark should be her mentor, and have had a bit to say about how to do the hero business right, when she was starting out. Kara is no longer starting out, but she is also far from infallible.
J'onn is nearly 300 years old, and writes her cheques, if the DEO pays her, but a government agency would not trust her at all if they did not give her money to be loyal because Government spy agencies do not trust anyone to be decent gratis. (I doubt that Supergirl cashes her cheques from the DEO, and if she does, the money may go to some arbitrary charity.) So he is her superior in a couple ways, as her employer, surrogate father, and as an old as dirt person. Realistically a Kryptonian shouldn't stand a chance against a Martian in a fair fight, although in an unfair fight, whoever gets the first shot should have murdered the other combatant quickly.
(Jimmy also writes her cheques, for her other job, which makes him her superior just like Cat Grant before him. Although Lena bought CatCo this season, so she's Jimmy's superior, and therefore Kara's ultimate superior, but not Supergirls.)
Clark probably gave the Danvers a lofty stipend to look after Kara during her childhood, and paid for her college. Typical male, thinking that money is a substitute for "being there".
Superior is just a bad word to use, because of gender politics, unless she joins the JLA and the chairman is Superman.
Alex is Supergirl's Superior in the DEO hierarchy? If they disagreed, then Alex would stay, and Supergirl would be left out in the cold, because one of these Danvers' sibs is an accredited and verified Superspy and the other is a foreign asset with undefined loyalties.
Supergirl and Superman are cousins, but he's old enough to be her uncle, and most people do what their uncles tell them to up to a certain point, when they are young.
If Kara had not been misplaced in the Phantom Zone for 24 years, she would have been clark's Teen Mom, and raised him, and been his superior FOREVER because she is his mother.
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Good for you.
