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Someone just tried to tell me that the Batfam was complicated and confusing.

The batfam is essentially just Batman, his butler, his son, his son, his son, his son, his son, his daughter, his kids' friend, and several friends' kids.

That's like, so much more straight forward than Superman's family.

Superman's got like a not-brother-brother, a brother-son, a son-son, a son-who's-actually-Zod's-son, a cousin, a alternate-universe-cousin, a clone cousin, an alternate-universe daughter, a brainwashed woman, a shapeshifter with the memories of and alternate universe version of his ex, whatever the hell is going on with Linda, and probably a bunch more that I simply don't know about (and his wife duh).

sketched a supergirl everyday for a week

#dc #dc comics #supergirl #power girl #kara zor el #kara zor l #lesla lar #laurel kent #cir el #linda danvers #mae kent #my art #my maes #theres only 1 here but #she counts

Thank you Batman for confirming my girls did in fact exist

#Linda Danvers #Mae Kent #Cir el #Mia kent #Supergirl

Don't you hate when you're flying about with your niece (not really your niece but also kinda) and your dog just stops right in front of you (it ok though because he's a cute dog that can do no wrong)

#kon el #conner kent #cir el #krypto #krypto the superdog #box cart art

We all know about Superman’s cousin, Supergirl, but there seems to have been at least two, if not three other women to use that name. The one who hooked up with Lex Luthor for a while and later showed up in Midvale with fire wings, the one with the crop top ho showed up after that Supergirl disappeared, and then the one with the short dark hair who teamed up with Traci Thirteen and Natasha Irons for a while.

Can you shed any light on these women?

I can try to shed some but honestly this is one of those questions where the explanation probably hinges on personal information that we just don't know.

The Supergirls, to a woman, all keep pretty tight lipped about their personal activities the same way Superman does. The true and honest differences between them, their relationship to Superman and especially to each other is could only be fully illuminated if we actually knew their full life stories. Which, with any luck is information that won't become shared with the efforts of posterity for a long, LONG time because the careers of these young women stretching far into the future is more important than unanswered questions in the here and now.

(Left to right: An extradimensional Supergirl from some past era, Cir-El, Powergirl, Superman himself, the Midvale Supergirl, Kara Zor El the 'current' Supergirl)

(During a time travel/extradimensional adventure all of the ten extant versions of Supergirl teamed up with Superman to confront Darkseid.)

The furthest left is pretty inexplicable to me, she seems to come from a timeline that fully is not ours because while she RESEMBLES certain things about Supergirl she doesn't fully fit with any point in any of the Supergirls' timelines.

Powergirl is a different superheroine associated with the Superman family who has had a lot of theories about her associations with the "family tree" that have never been fully confirmed. Other than that I might as well just go left to right.

Cir-El:

It's pretty clear for us to see that she is LITERALLY related to Superman and the more modern Supergirl in some capacity. As most of you probably know "El" is the Kryptonian house that Superman and Supergirl hail from, akin to a surname (though I've heard it coincidentally sounds more like Hebrew than English).

She is, by all accounts. Superman's daughter from a possible future timeline. This may cause some of you to tilt your heads. As of this moment, Superman has 3 children: The younger Superman, Starchild and Red Son but none of them look like Cir-El (Starchild, the only girl of the trio has brown hair and eyes, very visibly) none of them are NAMED Cir-El and Starchild is not nearly old enough.

That's time travel for you. At some point the timeline Cir-El comes from either diverged from the timeline we ourselves are currently traveling upon or she was never from our direct future in the first place and waters are only further muddied by the fact that it all seemed to have something to do with repeated time stream bastard Brainiac. She hung around for a little while and by all accounts went back to her own time in good spirits after doing what she needed to do.

The Midvale Supergirl:

I've actually made a whole other post about this one, should be under the Supergirl tag. Anyway, long story slightly less long. This Supergirl was ALSO not from our observed reality but instead from a pocket universe. Originally a being known as Matrix formed of a living protoplasm mixed with Superman's DNA. She was a successful and beloved superheroine for a long while, she's probably best remembered for her acts of heroism and sanity during the "Reign of the Supermen" and the disaster in Coast City.

What happened to her is a whole story in itself I'm sure but the short version is that she merged with an angel. Like the biblical kind, becoming something call the "Earth Born Angel of Fire" which Gwen is just over in the corner assuring me is VERY important magically speaking as I write this. She left the mortal plane seemingly for good some time ago but, by all magical accounts has been fighting the good fight on our behalf from the other side of the veil ever since.

Kara Zor El, The "Current" Supergirl:

This is the one we all hopefully know. Superman's cousin, sent ahead of him but lost in a time vortex on her trip to Earth only to crash land at her destination years after her young charge had grown up to become the Man of Steel. The fact that Supergirl IS so beloved and prominent leaves me with rather little to say about her in a blurb. She's great, you should follow her on Twitter where she spends a LOT of her time ratioing Lex Luthor's every word and taking adorable selfies with her cat, Streaky.

You love her, I love her, we all love her. It's a fact. Though truly we should all love ALL of these Supergirls. Even if their private interconnections will leave us scratching our heads for a few more decades...though at least we'll all know what to expect if Superman shows up with a second daughter...