A couple of episode ago they mentioned that he doesn’t have the same power-set. He’s super-strong and super-durable, but I don’t think he can fly or blast things with heat vision.
Yeah, I was just curious if it was similar to Smallville, when Supergirl showed up she could fly but Clark was a late bloomer for some reason.
Mon-el does seem to have an ability that Kara doesn’t. When he first arrived on Earth and they took him to the DEO, he started absorbing energy from the building to heal himself. Kara seems to get her powers exclusively from our yellow sun.
And he has what is probably the worst vulnerability possible, considering just about every bad guy on Earth uses guns that shoot lead bullets.
MonEl is supposedly just short of the Kryptonians, but that’s after Brainiac 5 invents a serum to take care of his lead weakness. Later, in at least one DC universe, he forgets to take it and dies.
Copper or steel jacketed, tho, almost always.
But realistically (hah!), wouldn’t that copper or steel jacket immediately shatter on his bulletproof skin, thereby creating a small shotgun blast of lead shrapnel? Hell, seems like that’d be worse. Maybe not much penetration, but a surgeon would have a heck of a time getting all those pieces out of him.
No, there aren’t.
The DEO has existed for at least 10 years.
The idea that there are multiple spacefaring species out there, but the only ones who came here deliberately are two orphans from a dead species is absurd, and so is the idea that the DEO would exist if there weren’t already plenty of them active.
Aliens, mutants, Inhumans. Same stories. Same themes.
“Call me Cyborg Superman”
“Why?”
“Because I’m a Cyborg now!”
“Yeah yeah, get that part, but dude you look nothing like him”
“Racist, you’ve triggered me so much I think I’ll go nuke Coast City”
“Robot, please. You don’t even have the proper costume, even the cruddy version this universe’s Superman has”
“They were out of blue fabric.”
But none of them would be Jimmy freakin Olson in a sane universe.
Ideally yes, just with weakness to lead instead of kryptonite, but in this nutty universe, shrug
In the comics, his cyborg parts come from Kal El’s rocket ship, hence the “Superman” thing.
Were you maybe expecting Elastic Lad?
He could also become a giant Turtle-man. Or even a Werewolf, which would actually follow canon better because he would only be cured by a kiss from Supergirl.
Forgot to mention in last week’s episode, J’onn was doing martial arts (looked like Tai Chi) and told Kara he’d been taught it years ago by “a Shaolin monk”.
I told my husband, “He called me Grasshopper, which made sense because I’m green.”
Reviving this thread to remind everyone that Supergirl (and all the DC-CW shows) returns tonight. Kevin Smith directs the episode entitled “Supergirl Lives”. Here’s a no-spoiler behind-the-scenes video shot by Kevin Smith himself: HOW SUPERGIRL FLIES WITH MELISSA BENOIST! - YouTube
Goddamn, I hate the “Snapper Carr” they’ve got, and I dislike the actor playing him.
There’s unlikeable-but-fun (Kat Grant, Penguin on Gotham prior to this season) and there’s simply-an-annoying-douchebag. Smarmy himbo Mon-El, leans towards the “annoying” side, but manages to stay on the “fun” side. “Snapper” goes through the annoying-douchebag category and comes out the other side. And unless the actor’s directions are “Play him as an unmitigated douche with no redeeming qualities or hidden depths”, the actor kinda sucks too. (Also, either grow a fucking beard or shave, goddamn it. You look like Homer Simpson/Fred Flintstone)
I still say Alex is getting used to being gay way too easily. This may be a generational thing–I’m probably 20 years older than than Alex is supposed to be (about…what? 30?) and I’d expect more angst. I’m very glad there isn’t angst, and I loved Mommy Danver’s easy acceptance of it (an episode or two back), but…I dunno. I’d still expect more drama (and I don’t want it).
I hate that there are hundreds (or thousands) of DC planets available and they make one up. Simply call it Dhor (Kanjar Ro’s world) for example.
Also, still don’t like Guardian and/or 40+ year old Jimmy Olsen.
Was the expository-dialogue alien (Joe Something) an actor who was on Babylon 5? He sounded really familiar but I didn’t notice him in IMDB
A big kudos to Kevin Smith. He wrote a good but seamless episode of Supergirl. I like that he continued the storyline, but wrote a better-than-average episode. I liked this episode a lot, despite my complaints above.
Winn: “I am not a redshirt! I am not a redshirt!” 
Over on The Flash, the two episodes that Kevin Smith directed had his directorial stamp all over them. Here on Supergirl, this episode played pretty much like any other episode. Just a few geeky references (perfectly in-character for Winn) and the casting of his daughter as the missing girl seemed to be the only unique things the director brought in. It’s just too bad Cat Grant isn’t really part of the show any more; I think her snark would have been extra snappy with Kevin at the helm.
I didn’t expect the Dominators (well, a Dominator) to show up in this episode. And they’re not even the Big Bad. Speaking of which, they’re taking their own sweet time developing those hooded figures chasing after Mon-el, and that’s fine by me.
And what’s up with them letting Mon El go? Was it just because he was Daxum and they knew it or is Mon El evil?
So Kara and Jimmy are each pitching their story about how the jewel thieves got busted by Supergirl and Guardian, and I’m thinking that they are both burying the lede - jewel thieves are wandering around the city with missile launchers now?
At least with the last scene they’re giving him a little “I’m going to be mean so you work harder to prove me wrong” vibe. I like the actor OK but I definitely think they’ve made him way too grumpy and it’s leaning into the unbelievable side.