This Unhinged Supergirl Villain Needs A Comeback! 

Yep, Lesla's the only Kandorian that I know of who found a permanent way to resize without Brainiac's tech (in second place, her friend Zora could only find a way to resize herself for 24/48 hours, at least in her first story, I forget what happened in the second one). If either Super knew she existed before her death they'd have been begging for her help. Meanwhile the Kandorians arrested her for her genius. EDIT: El Gar Kur actually did something similar by switching places with Jimmy Olsen. Seems swapping places is a reliable resizing method.

@@BrandonVout that's what I figured, that it's related to taking someone's place somehow.

Or Reed Richards, who *Could* cure cancer BUT

Her and Thawte would be buddies

There is a difference between a single Kandorian being able to enlarge his or herself and being able to scale that up to a whole city.

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Now THAT’S a romance subplot as off the rails as Lesla herself. 1960’s READERS: Eeeeeeeewwwwwwww…!!! TODAYS READERS: Eeeeeeeewwwwwwwww…!!! But yet, we kinda saw it coming….

what about lisa lasalle?

@@ProjektTaku I don’t know about her. Is she a Silver Age character?

@@encyclogeekia1865 no. She's from Superman: Earth One as clark's main love interest. And she's pretty cool.

This is cannon and nothing can change my mind

If he can use a piece of Kryptonian metal as a reflective surface for his heat vision to shave his Kryptonian beard stubble he can remove or add a tattoo.

honestly, post crisis could've just been a way to reimagine silver/bronze age characters in a more serious way.

"She's more popular than me *and* she's got bigger boobs? Unforgivable!" - Lesla Lar, probably

True but that's not petty enough for her

Kandor had the ability to grow and shrink a small number of people just not enough power to grow all of them and their city to full-size. Forget if they figured out how to do that or if Superman came up with the growth/shrink ray.

If you think about Joker's arcade tower ending for Injustice 2, you can't just plant alient cities places on earth Willy nilly. You're talking about an entire city of Kryptonians.

Interesting

I would lean into Lesla-Lar's lower class background. IIRC, a letters column explained she was an orphan and took the house name of her friend Zora Vi-Lar (the Black Flame), explaining her lack of patronym. She had nothing and worked for everything she had in an oligarchical society. This would make her a foil for Kara, a scion of one of Krypton's most prominent families. Her biggest resentment being that Kara got everything handed to her, her own survival being because of who her family is and not what she did. As you said, she would be arrested for performing unauthorized experiments with forbidden materials. Forcing her to escape with an experimental device. Lesla would resent Kandor for restricting her dangerous experiments, her own freedom being proof in her mind of her own righteousness. If they had just let her do what she wanted and recognized her brilliance they'd be out of the bottle. I never thought of her being a pillar of the community. It's interesting and points out her greed right away. Though, I think it would be more interesting to have her be clearly underappreciated. Have her resentments start with legitimate grievances stretched out by entitlement. This way people might feel sorry for her at first and agree with her on some level but the longer they get to know her the more they realize she's just an unpleasant person to be around. I wouldn't have Lesla look like Kara at first, she'd be older and less athletic fitting her background. She would have access to technology to rewrite her own DNA, which she used to impersonate Kandorian Councilors to access the forbidden materials. She would turn her body into Kara's to access the Fortress of Solitude to steal some technology but the device would be destroyed in a later confrontation, trapping her in Kara's form. A later story arc could focus on Lesla impersonating Kara on another planet, getting her arrested by intergalactic law enforcement. Being in Kara's form for so long could be the catalyst for Lesla's madness. I would also include Zora in these storylines, since their friendship was only talked about in the original comics. She could start as Lesla's lacky before they're separated (playing a prominent role in Lesla's escape from Kandorian police and using her own scientific knowledge to help Lesla battle Supergirl), then she can become a criminal mastermind in her own right before reforming (based on Zora's revolving-door reformation in the original comics). By the time they reunite, she would act as Lesla's conscience, trying to convince her to use her knowledge to help others. But Lesla, for all her talk of bettering the world, only cares about her own glory and refuses to help those who imprisoned her (but she does give Zora a hint on how to solve their current problem because she does have a soft spot for her only friend). I'm split on whether this storyline would end with Zora realizing her friendship with Lesla is toxic (with Lesla bringing out the worst in her during Zora's attempts to redeem her) and leaving (providing a catalyst for Lesla to go further off the deep end) or if Lesla would make some legitimate progress in her personal development but never fully reform (perhaps becoming an antagonist Kara can occasionally team up with but is still actively antagonizing her the rest of the time, or they can part with an understanding of each other but keep their mutual hatred). In terms of abilities, given Lesla was arrested for ray experiments, I'd give her a specialty in radiation studies, so by the time she meets Kara she has full knowledge of the effects of different types of kryptonite and star colors on Kryptonian physiology. This gives us a chance to explore cool new effects or bring back old gimmicks from the Silver Age. Given that Zora creates a biological robot double of herself in her first story, I'd give her a biology specialty. She could be like a Power Rangers villain, creating and upgrading monster henchmen. Their two specialties would complement each other while they're still working together while being serious threats on their own and avoiding the pitfalls of becoming just another strong Kryptonian enemy. They'd be threats that use their brains because they're scientists and can't beat an experienced superhero in a fair fight. The conflicts would be solved by Kara outsmarting them.

Nah I like that she is respected but still petty and vain. Alternatively, all krpytonians aree similar and she's basically a normal worker.

@@BrandonVout Have Lesla become Kara's Catwoman? But a Catwoman who's basically her identical, but non-powered, twin? Who also gets to have the kind of social life that Kara doesn't because she doesn't have to worry about saving the world? There are some interesting character interactions possible.

I could totally see a better written version of this team up where Lesla acts as Zod's techie. Sure, Lesla is greedy and stuff, but she's not the "I want to rule the world" type. She'd actually be willing to be Zod's science advisor.

That really was a thing of psychotic joy

She must have never caught on with fans or writers.

You familiar with the Challengers of the Unknown rogues gallery?

@@davrosdaleks1 They had one?

Yeah she has a lot going for her so it's really disappointing that she never caught on. 🤷 I could really see her being a mainstay going in a lot of story directions. Fingers crossed we can see more of her soon.

You should check out The League of Regrettable Supervillans by John Morris. If you like obscure villains, that is your book.

A Supergirl Clone Saga.

@@BrandonVout With Powergirl and Bizarro Girl

@@Vegadra AND Divine! :D One thought that occurred to me a while back... what's Lesla's family tree? Lar is presumably her father's family, much like how Kara Zor-El's mother(Alura In-Ze) was actually from the Ze clan. Was Lesla's mother an El?

Not his throne, but his couch. 🤣🤣🤣

Chase is my favourite.

If we can have choke in a thought balloon we should also be able to have bark lol

Same... which leads me to think that it is well named indeed, for through todays eyes it is more appealing. For those that voted way back when, perhaps it was not as attractive as we see it.

bruv, lex is one piece of LL. No wonder he's superman's tsundere.

Jax-Ur is a scientist and was the first Kryptonian sent to the Phantom Zone (for accidentally blowing up the moon). He was mostly used in this era to show Phantom Zone villains watching events unfold but he had more backstory and present day plots than Zod, appearing the most of the three early on. In the Animated Series, he was basically Zod with a different name, they wanted to use Zod and Ursa (even had concept art drawn looking like their Superman II selves) but weren't allowed to. General Zod was actually a bit character in this era (this was about his 4th appearance and the first in the present day instead of a Superboy story), mostly only appearing when they needed to show some villains watching from the Phantom Zone, never really standing out and rarely being a focus of the story. It wasn't until Superman II that he became high profile, and even then it took years for the comics to actually take advantage of his name recognition and make him a major enemy of Superman. This was Kru-El's first appearance but he went on to be the most prominent of the three, Pre-Crisis, having numerous escapes and flashback stories about his rivalry with his cousin, Jor-El. Post-Crisis, Zod eventually took Kru-El's place as Jor-El's archenemy. Kru-El fell the farthest, rarely appearing in newer stories, and usually only as a lacky of Zod (Faora had a similar fate, going from a man-hating serial killer to being Zod's lacky and sometimes wife).

god, curt swan is amazing at illustrating superman.

@@ProjektTaku Even more amazing Supergirl!

@@browngreen933 I've always wondered what the 90s superboy would look like if curt swan drew him.

@@ProjektTaku I'll have to look up 90s Superboy.

@@browngreen933 okay!

Kryptonian , Not Kryptonion I guess 🤦🏾‍♂️ sorry 🖖🏾

I also thought of this: She is forgotten because she operated almost entirely in stealth mode. Yeah, her actions rate her near a Palpatine in planning, but Lex never knew she wasn't Kara, Kal never really encountered her when he didn't think she was Kara, and Kara herself had minimal direct contact before she basically died/not died. BUT - you know where a hidden agenda villain like her would shine like no one's business? Young Justice! Give her to Weisman, and she'll be up there with Demona! Hell, have Queen Bee mentor her until she turns on her. I don't know Kara's status in that universe, but they could say she's been away somewhere if that's a problem.

....and they have since enacted 'Dark Kara' to go with 'Dark Mary Marvel' slated for an S5 if it comes. So maybe Lesla?

My personal guess... is that Lesla's technique was actually very limited in scope. IE, she can't use it for something building sized. also, she probably has to replace the batteries every time she uses it.