DC Superhero Girls #KaraCare

The new DC Superhero Girls series has really hit the ground running. Mixing in 'full' episodes over on Cartoon Network and shorts over on YouTube, Lauren Faust and crew have been giving us all the material we need to learn about the new takes on the characters and their environment.

A recent YouTube short is now available titled #KaraCare. Here is a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBF2tO_aE7A&feature=youtu.be

Now I will admit, this is an interesting take on Supergirl. She is brash. She is rough around the edges. Here she is downright duplicitous as she takes advantage of a friend's kindness. This isn't the kind, dorky, awkward Shea Fontana Supergirl. But she is very likeable as a sort of 'bad girl' for this group, albeit one with a soft interior that occasionally gets shown.

I have been loving this series from the beginning and already know I need to cover the Cheetah main episode. So there will be more coverage soon!

On to this episode.

The episode starts from a far where we see a green explosion in the city.

A close up shows Wonder Woman cheering herself that her idea on how to vanquish Metallo worked.

Of course, we know saying Metallo and seeing green dust means one thing ... Kryptonite.

As the dust starts to settle, we see the unconscious form of Supergirl at the epicenter of the explosion. She looks dead.

In fact, she looks so dead that the DCSHG folks throw in a clear Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 reference. Amazing. 30+ years later and we are still seeing Supergirl carried this way.

Luckily she isn't dead. Just injured and weakened. Feeling guilty for sending Kara into the fray, Diana decides to personally nurse Supergirl back to health.

And Kara decides to take full advantage.

Diana's tray isn't good enough because the water doesn't have ice.

Supergirl says she is too weak to operate the TV remote and has Diana flip the channels at a very slow pace.

She makes Diana feed her ice cream, but only if each scoop has the perfect amount of sprinkles.

And every time Diana seems to tire of this treatment, Kara brings up how she is still having lingering symptoms from flying into Kryptonite ... you know ... that thing Wonder Woman told her to do.

Kara even uses this 'illness' to skip school. Not getting on the bus with Diana and racing back inside.

This is too much, even for the guilt-ridden Amazon.

She decides to trick Kara into revealing that she isn't actually hurting.

And it is clear she isn't suffering or weakened.

We see Supergirl rocking out on her bed, head banging to music.

That is until Bumblebee and Green Lantern show up to check on her. Then Supergirl flies under the covers and again begins her moaning and shuddering.


But then Wonder Woman contacts Bumblebee and Lantern. Doomsday is loose in the city. They need to mobilize.

When the girls run, Supergirl can't help herself! Doomsday loose! She can't wait to throw down!

I love these extreme angles of Supergirl flying into battle. We seem to get one every episode!

Of course, this is a ruse by Diana to lure Kara out of bed and back to 'normal'.

So what do you guys think? Bad representation of Supergirl? Teenage antics? Silliness?

I'd like to think that her rushing to fight Doomsday means she wouldn't let people or friends be hurt to keep her ruse up. And it *is* funny. That scene of her rocking out on her bed is wonderful.

For me, I like it. It is one interpretation of Supergirl with enough of the core Kara present to keep me happy.

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