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 Variant cover art ofSupergirl #47 (January 2010) byJoshua Middleton | |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Action Comics #252 (May 1959) |
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| Full name | Alura In-Ze |
| Species | Kryptonian |
| Place of origin | Krypton |
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| Notable aliases | Alura In-Zee |
| Abilities | (Under a yellow sun):
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Alura In-Ze is a character appearing in media published byDC Comics, usually those involvingSuperman. Alura is theKryptonian daughter of In-Zee, wife ofZor-El, mother ofSupergirl/Power Girl, and paternal aunt (by marriage) of Superman. Created by writerOtto Binder and artistAl Plastino, the character first appeared inAction Comics #252 (May 1959).[1]
The character has appeared in media adaptations of theSuperman andSupergirl comics, including live-action films, television programs and video games. Alura was portrayed byMia Farrow in the 1984 filmSupergirl.Laura Benanti portrayed the character in the first two seasons of theArrowverse seriesSupergirl, withErica Durance taking over the role in season three.
The character Alura appeared unnamed inAction Comics #252 (May 1959) as part of the origin ofSupergirl (Kara Zor-El).[2] She was created byOtto Binder andAl Plastino. Her role was similar to that of whatLara was toSuperman. She and her husband,Zor-El, send her to a spaceship fromArgo City to Earth to survive.[3]
In pre-Crisis continuity, Alura supported her husband Zor-El, one of the only scientists to believe his older brotherJor-El's predictions about the impending destruction ofKrypton. When Krypton exploded,Argo City was blown safely into space with a life-giving bubble of air around it. A later version of the story had the city saved by a dome that Zor-El created.[4] The explosion turns the ground beneath Argo City intoKryptonite, which is covered with protective lead sheets. The Kryptonians manage to stay alive for many years, with Kara being born several years after the destruction of Krypton. When Kara is a teenager, a meteor storm damages the lead sheeting, exposing the survivors to kryptonite radiation and forcing Kara to be sent to Earth in a rocket. It is later revealed that Zor-El and Alura survived by teleporting into the Survival Zone, a dimension similar to thePhantom Zone. Kara rescues her parents, who relocate to New Krypton/Rokyn.[5]
In the alternate universe ofEarth-Two,Allura In-Z is married to Zor-L and lives inKandor rather than Argo City. The two do not survive Krypton's destruction.[6]
In "The Supergirl from Krypton" story-arc inSuperman/Batman #8-13 (May–October 2004), Alura and Zor-El rocketed their daughter away from Krypton before Kal-El left. It was expected that she would reach Earth first and could help raise Kal from his infancy. However, she stayed in stasis and her ship did not reach Earth until years later, so the infant she expected to help raise was a grown man when she arrived still in her teens.
It is later revealed that Alura saved Argo City from Krypton's destruction by engineering a protective dome with her husband Zor-El. However,Brainiac merges Argo with the Bottle City of Kandor and killed those he considered to be duplicate information. Superman finds the city in Brainiac's ship. Zor-El and Alura are able to make contact with Kal-El to enquire about their daughter. The Bottle City of Kandor reverts to its full size in theNorth Pole at the end of the "Brainiac" story arc, which leads directly into "New Krypton".
Alura has a major role in the "New Krypton" storyline. She is shown not to trust Earth people, and does not approve of her daughter or nephew's choices. After Zor-El is murdered byReactron, Alura takes command of Kandor, putting many Superman's enemies in the Phantom Zone and waging war on humanity. Alura uses Kryptonian Sunstones to turn Kandor into a new planet, "New Krypton", and put it into orbit around the Sun at the opposite side of Earth.As part of his participation inProject 7734 (a covert U.S. military operation dedicated to neutralizing the Kryptonians), Luthor sends a robot double of himself with Brainiac to attack New Krypton. While on Krypton, the Luthor robot tampers with the body chemistry of the previously captured Reactron.[7] Shortly afterward, Reactron kills himself, initiating a chain reaction which destroys New Krypton and kills all but seven thousand of its inhabitants, including Alura.[8]
Alura In-Ze has all the powers and weaknesses of a Kryptonian from exposure to Earth's yellow sunlight.
Alura appears inInjustice 2, voiced byGrey DeLisle.
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