Previous Post > > Just after COIE, many of the heroes still remembered the many worlds. After delayed ripple effects of the Crisis remodelled reality again everyone forgot. > > Like Seyg-El stated, her origin stayed the same with rocket and all. Though now, it was a timemachine. And of course now, she wasn't kryptonian at all, but rather a thru magic mutated atlantean, which was her new post-crisis origin. > > With IC coming closer, her body's inside began to change along with her origin, till the she was back to being a kryptonian again. > Just not exactly the same thing as a New Earth kryptonian. Actually, the Atlantean origin was NOT their first take, even after the loss of the pre-Crisis memories. It was still held that they first thought she was Kryptonian. I've still never quite seen why they kept saying 'We thought she was Superman's cousin', tho. Post-Crisis, she apparently had no memories of being an "El", just a vague awareness/belief of being Kryptonian. How that'd automatically lead to "Oh! You must be Superman's cousin!" has always been beyond me. Anyway, it was later that the whole Atlantean/Arion thing came up.

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> > Just after COIE, many of the heroes still remembered the many worlds. After delayed ripple effects of the Crisis remodelled reality again everyone forgot.
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> > Like Seyg-El stated, her origin stayed the same with rocket and all. Though now, it was a timemachine. And of course now, she wasn't kryptonian at all, but rather a thru magic mutated atlantean, which was her new post-crisis origin.
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> > With IC coming closer, her body's inside began to change along with her origin, till the she was back to being a kryptonian again.
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> Actually, the Atlantean origin was NOT their first take, even after the loss of the pre-Crisis memories.
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> It was still held that they first thought she was Kryptonian.
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Which was revealed as "wrong". Also things were pretty much in flux after COIE, with her remembering Kal-L for a while and the first Powergirl-mini which set off her post-crisis origin.

I guess the full story, how she started her post-crisis life wasn't told, till JSA Classified 1-4, where we saw in flashbacks, how she got famed as Superman's cousin, followed the reveal as fake, with the subsequent tongue-lashing of Ma Kent.

> I've still never quite seen why they kept saying 'We thought she was Superman's cousin', tho. Post-Crisis, she apparently had no memories of being an "El", just a vague awareness/belief of being Kryptonian.
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> How that'd automatically lead to "Oh! You must be Superman's cousin!" has always been beyond me.
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> Anyway, it was later that the whole Atlantean/Arion thing came up.

Her life was a virtual fantasy, spent in her ship, so if she was told to be a member of the L or EL family, it came from there.