"We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe."
~ Black Panther.
This argument doesn't make sense to me - why would anyone even know her Kryptonian name? To the world, she's just "Supergirl."But it's stupid--in the way that the SUPERGIRL TV show seems to embrace its stupidity--because Kara is her Kryptonian name. It makes it too obvious that Kar Zor-El and Kara Danvers are one and the same.
That just doesn't work for me. I know that it does happen, but this is the thing that doesn't make sense to me. Every other hero gets called by codenames, but some reason everyone who's perfectly content to use "Beetle" or "Batman" wants to call the Supers "Kal" and "Kara" in costume - why? Actually, the Kal one bothers me a lot more because (in most eras), it is a not a name that he remembers ever going by and does not, to me, provide any increase in intimacy (and it is not more formal than "Clark" - an argument I've also heard). It's just weird. In my ideal world, they'd be called "Superman" and "Supergirl" in costume (barring slip-of-the-lips), just like every other hero is called by their codename when in costume.
Well... Kara isn't all that weird as a Human name. It's slightly exotic by some standards, but only slightly. So no one thinks twice about meeting a teen named Kara.
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Bit of a related question, how exactly do you pronounce her first name, Care-uh, or Car-ah? I've heard it in live action, animated, and games, but they seem to differ on which it is, sometimes even in the same thing, when different characters say it. Then there is the question of how to pronounce PG's name. Presumably when the two are together with other heroes, and before DC started having them refer to PG as "Karen" instead of "Kara", there might be a little confusion if say Wonder Woman shouts "Kara", and they both turn around...
I always said care-uh, though I think I sometimes read it in my head as car-ah because of kara- as in karate and kara throws in Street Fighter, and also the Korean pop group and flower, Kara (RIP Hara).
On the other hand, she's Lah-na lang and not Lan-na.
Yeah, I remember back when he was just Superboy, and his classmates were tired of hearing him explain. I always thought it was put in to explain his powers to any newer readers, since they aren't as conventional as some.
BTW, am I the only person who always calls him Kon, and never Conner? Probably because I don't like the changes that led to him getting that name, and haven't read much of him when he had it because of that, and even if I had, Kon would be his "real" name because it's the one he got first.
I first met Kara through Supergirl movie, so that's how I pronounced it.
Oddly, I reflexively want to pronounce Kara as "kar-uh", probably because of the DCAU doing that. And that's despite growing up around people named Carrie and Keren.
Yeah, I'm one of those who started reading comics after watching cartoons.