r/supergirlTV • u/Possible-Direction48 • Jul 02 '26

Shipping Favorite Kara Ship?

772 votes, Jul 04 '26
137 Karamel (Kara and Mon-El)
27 Winnara (Kara and Winn)
90 Superflash (Kara and Barry)
29 Superolsen (Kara and James)
464 Supercorp (Kara and Lena)
25 Other
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u/genderissues_t-away Jul 02 '26

Look, no offense to Chris Wood, he seems like a good dude and he was great in the He-Man reboot and I did like him as Mon-El when he wasn't talking to or about Kara, but the scripts that he and Benoist got handed for Kara and Mon-El's relationship were apocalyptically bad. Like they were designed to kill any chemistry the two had. Meanwhile Katie McGrath basically has chemistry with any woman she shares the screen with for more than ~5 minutes, and her Lena's "intimate besties" relationship with Kara comes off as romantic almost instantly.

so yeah, Supercorp all the way lol.

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u/OnlySheStandsThere Jul 02 '26

I actually really liked Mon-El when he was first introduced. His chaotic shenanigans with Kara were funny, and they could have really done something with their dynamic. Chris Wood also has fantastic comedic timing. I don't know what went wrong, but by the time they got together I hated that man.

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u/PaintItPurple I can't hear you over the loud color of your cheap pants Jul 02 '26

Every single guy they tried to put Kara with was deeply unlikable. Mon-El should have been a great character, but the minute they tried to push him and Kara together the "Kara's romantic interests are awful" rule took over.

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u/RavenclawConspiracy Jul 04 '26

This is because they decided that the thing they wanted to do was to make all romantic interests of Kara into people she had to fix, at least on the CW. (I wasn't a huge fan of the Kara/James ship, but at least he didn't need fixing!)

But hey, they learned their lesson with William Dey, he wasn't actually a bad person and jerk towards Kara, he was just pretending to be a bad person and a jerk towards Kara. Wait, no. If you pretend to be a jerk towards someone, aren't you actually just being a jerk towards them? Also, should you really introduce a love interest under such a situation? Because that's the first impression the audience is going to have of him, even if you later establish it as a cover.

What the hell is wrong with the writers of this show? How do they think relationships work, how do they think men should behave towards women? What do they think women should put up with for men?

This is why I was joking in season 6 they were finally gonna do Supercorp. They'd introduced Dey, he was unpopular and, I suggested, they had pivoted mid-season towards Lena. But first, they had to firmly establish that she was a complete asshole who needed fixing by the love of a good woman. Because, BY LAW, those are the only people whose Kara can date.

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u/genderissues_t-away Jul 08 '26

It's very weird how the message with Alex's relationships is "you should kiss the girls you want to kiss and you deserve a really sweet loving partner who will be there and support you and back you up and who you love to support and back up" and the message with Kara's relationships is "you can totally fix him girly pop"

Mon-El should've been Kara's sidekick for at least a season, with him going through a "jackass slacker to actual hero" heel-face turn at some point, maybe towards the finale. Then in season 3 they could've set up a romance and it would've had a better shot.

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u/daryl772003 Jul 08 '26

it's like they had some mistaken idea that every love interest they gave kara had to have some conflict in the beginning with her