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Look, up in the sky: It's a bird? It's a plane?
It's Supergirl?!
When Smallville returns for its seventh season this
fall it will be
revealed that Clark Kent (Tom Welling) is not the only
member of his
family to survive the destruction of the planet
Krypton.

His cousin Kara "was sent to Earth in a ship that
arrived at the same
time as baby Kal-El's," reveals executive producer Al
Gough, referring
to Clark by his Kryptonian name. "But there was a
problem and she's been
in suspended animation for the last 16 years. We'll
find out in the
season premiere that the big dam break in last
season's finale is the
reason she's finally awoken."

Gough says this latest visitor from the DC Comics
universe "will help
Clark get in touch with his Kryptonian roots. With his
[adopted] father
dead and his [adopted] mother moved to Washington [to
become a U.S.
Senator], and Lana blown up, suddenly there's some
family in his life."

Like her cousin, Kara will have enhanced physical
abilities generated by
Earth's yellow sun. "She has all of Clark's powers and
a couple he
doesn't have yet," Gough teases. "She can fly. And her
response when
Clark asks why is 'obviously girls mature faster than
boys.'"

Kara, a teenager when Krypton exploded, was sent to
Earth by her father,
Zor-El (Kal-El's uncle), to look after her younger
cousin. But while in
suspended animation she didn't age and now it's Clark
who must be the
mentor.

"She becomes enamored with our culture: clothes and
iPods and stuff,"
Gough says. "We'll have a lot of fun as she gets
acclimated."

Kara makes her debut in the season premiere of the CW
drama and will
appear in about half of this season's episodes. A
casting notice is set
to go out shortly, and producers hope to unveil their
new addition at
July's Comic-Con International in San Diego.



They'll probably do a spinoff when the show ends with Supergirl.

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