Cir-El (Futuresmiths)

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Real Name: Mia
Nicknames: The Daughter of Tomorrow
Former Aliases: No known former aliases
Other Current Aliases: Cir-El

Status

Occupation: Crime fighter
Legal Status: Cir-El is a citizen of Earth of an alternate future reality.
Identity: Secret
Marital Status: Single
Group Affiliation: Former member of Team Superman, Former member of The Supergirls
Base of Operations: Metropolis (of the Futuresmiths timeline)

Origin

Place of Birth: Metropolis (of the Futuresmiths timeline)
Place of Death: Metropolis (removed from the timestream)
Known Relatives: Brainiac (creator), Kal-El (partial clone of, "father"), Lois Lane ("mother"), Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) (half cousin), Superboy (Kon-El) (half brother, deceased)
First Appearance: Superman: The 10-Cent Adventure #1
Final Appearance: Superman/Batman #24

History

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. But Superman came to regard Cir-El as family.

Cir-El helped Superman fight off a diseased Bizarro, fought off a vengeance crazed superhuman ninja who was killing Superman with the aid of Natasha Irons and Girl 13, 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.

Disaster struck when a future Superman appeared and showed Superman of 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 Superman's DNA onto the body of Mia. He then implanted false memories in Cir-El and had his servants, the Futuresmiths send her into the past (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 Brainaic 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.

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Thanks to the time-traveling efforts of Bizarro, Cir-El was rescued from the timestream, and joined Linda Danvers, Kara Zor-El (both Modern Age and Pre-Crisis versions) and Power Girl in the formation of a second "Supergirls" team to rescue Superman from the Source Wall.^[1] Template:Endspoiler

Characteristics

Height: x'xx"
Weight: xxx lbs (xxx kg)
Eyes: Eye colour unknown
Hair: Black
Unusual Features: No unusual features

Powers

Known Powers: A hybrid of human/Kryptonian origin, Cir-El absorbed yellow sunlight to gain superhuman strength and speed, super-hearing, invunerability, and could leap vast distances (but could not fly). She could 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 struck an enemy with intense heat and force. Like Superman, she was vulnerable to Kryptonite.
Known Abilities: No known abilities.
Strength Level: Strength level unknown

Miscellaneous

Equipment: No known equipment.
Transportation: No known transportation.
Weapons: No known weapons.

Notes

Cir-El was created by Steven Seagle and Scott McDaniel.

Trivia

External Links

Cir-El article at Wikipedia

References

↑ Superman/Batman #24

[1] Superman/Batman #24

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