It’s the gestalt of Supergirl that matters, the whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.īut where those parts come from can still be fascinating. Supergirl innately understands this, playing fast and loose with some details (the DEO, Hank Henshaw) while bringing in silly old iconography (Jimmy Olsen’s signal watch) in a charming way that makes sense within this new context. The traits that stuck around form the cores of the characters we follow - not across published history, but across decades of complex and often nonsensical continuity. ![]() It’s a clear example of how the idea of a “definitive” version of a comic-book character is kind of a sham the “true” version of Superman is actually a composite. More than anything, though, Kryptonite illustrates the fluid nature of comic-book storytelling. Kryptonite was a classic Silver Age device, equal parts contrivance and poetry - the great weakness of Superman, Supergirl, and any other Kryptonian was nothing other than radioactive fragments of the home they lost, now toxic to them. It wasn’t actually introduced in the comic books where Superman and his kin first appeared, but rather in a radio show in 1943, a full five years after Superman had been created. ![]() The origin of Kryptonite is one of the more bandied-about bits of Superman trivia.
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