Cir-El
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Cir-El was the fictional alleged daughter of Superman, who first appeared in Superman: The 10 Cent Adventure created by Steven Seagle and Scott McDaniel. She was one of many characters known as Supergirl.
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[edit] History
[edit] Superman: The 10 Cent Adventure
When a crazed villain named Radion attacked Metropolis, a young girl in a costume leaped into battle and threw the villain into a nuclear reactor (in front of a TV news crew and Lois Lane). The girl identified herself as Supergirl, Superman's daughter. Upset, Lois confronted Superman, accused him of having an affair, and refused to believe his claim of innocence, since "Supergirl" looked just like him. However after a cup of the new "Yes" coffee, Lois suddenly calmed down and dismissed "Supergirl" as a villain's hoax, until she landed in front of Lois and called her "Mommy". Superman confronted the girl, who argued that she was his daughter with Lois, and that her name was "Cir-El." Cir-El said that she was from the future, brought to the past by the Futuresmiths. When Superman encountered the Futuresmiths, they showed him a horrific future, with robotic monsters attacking civilians, and he saw himself as a cybernetic Superman attacking civilians, too. They said that Cir-El's death would prevent this future, and as they turned to attack her, Superman flew her to safety. S.T.A.R. Labs confirmed that she was his daughter, but that Lois wasn't her mother. Regardless of her identity, Superman came to regard Cir-El as family.
Cir-El helped Superman fight off a diseased Bizarro; fought off, with the aid of Natasha Irons and Girl 13, a vengeance-crazed superhuman ninja who was killing Superman; and when Superman and Batman were "captured" by Lex Luthor in Superman/Batman "Public Enemies", Cir-El teamed up with Superboy, Krypto, Natasha Irons, and the Batman Family to rescue them. But Superman had a shock when, while talking to Cir-El, she changed into an angry young woman named Mia, who hated her Cir-El persona. Superman's Kryptonian robot Kelex subsequently confirmed that Cir-El was not the Man of Steel's biological daughter (despite the evidence from S.T.A.R. Labs). While the girl's D.N.A. had some Kryptonian attributes, she was primarily human.
[edit] Rewritten history
Disaster struck when a future Superman appeared and showed Superman a devastating future with Lois dying, Wonder Woman and Batman turned into cyborgs by a nano-tech virus concealed in "Yes" coffee, and Cir-El trapped in a giant Brainiac robot. Brainiac revealed that Cir-El was his "Trojan Horse", that he had concealed part of himself in the one thing he knew Superman would never harm: his 'child'. Cir-El was created by Brainiac by grafting some Kryptonian DNA onto the body of Mia. He then implanted false memories in Cir-El and had his servants, the Futuresmiths, send her out into the world (along with the nano-virus, which was placed in "Yes" coffee to proliferate the virus and infect the population) in order to unknowingly alter the future, and lead Superman to create a synthetic body to save Lois from her "Yes" infection in the future (for Brainiac to inhabit). Horrified, Cir-El threw herself into a time portal to prevent herself from being born, and thus, prevent the future from ever happening.
In the aftermath, Superman was lost in the timestream and saw two different timelines: the current Man of Steel timeline, and the newly minted timeline from Superman: Birthright. Superman chose the Birthright timeline, which is current canon. The time discrepancies created by Cir-El and Superman's multiple origins were addressed later in the miniseries Infinite Crisis
[edit] The return of Cir-El
Thanks to the time-traveling efforts of Bizarro in Superman/Batman #24, Cir-El was able to join Linda Danvers, Kara Zor-El (both Modern Age and Pre-Crisis versions) and Power Girl to rescue Superman from the Source Wall. The girls were successful, but Superman only recognized Kara, Power Girl, and Linda, due to pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El, and Cir-El coming from previously erased timelines.
[edit] Powers
A hybrid of human/Kryptonian origin, Cir-El absorbs yellow sunlight to gain superhuman strength and speed, super-hearing, and invulnerability. Cir-El can leap vast distances (but could not fly). But her "trademark" power is the ability to release her stored solar energy from her hands as "Red Sunbursts", blasts of red solar radiation (the very wavelength of sunlight that Superman loses his powers under) that strike an enemy with intense heat and force. Like Superman, she is vulnerable to Kryptonite.
The only other human/Kryptonian hybrid, Superboy, inherited more traditional powers because his D.N.A. is 50 percent Kryptonian, whereas Cir-El's D.N.A. is primarily human, with some grafted-on Kryptonian attributes.
