Always longing for his own brand of justice, James asks his best friend Winn Schott to help him in his quest and adopts the guise of Guardian, a vigilante operating in National City. James is intelligent, kind, caring, selfless, brave and moral, with an urge to help people in any way possible. This was partly inspired by his many years of assisting Superman. He severely dislikes Sam Lane, partly because he has interfered in his relationship with Lucy Lane, which James and Lucy both correctly felt was not his place, but mainly because of his arrogant, disrespectful, ungrateful and immoral traits.
Publication Information
- Supergirl : James Olsen
- Version : Supergirl 2015
- Known As : Jimmy
- Alter Ego : Guardian
- Type :
- Acting CEO of CatCo Worldwide Media
- Member of Supergirl's Team
- Leader of Guardian
- Vigilante
- Formerly Employee of the Daily Planet
- Formerly Photographer
- Formerly Art director
- Family :
- Unnamed : Father
- Unnamed : Mother
- Affiliation :
- Gender : Male
- Origin : Earth Thirty-Eight
- Season : Supergirl
- Appeareance : Supergirl Season 1 Episod 1 : Pilot
- Last Appeareance :
- Number of Appeareance :
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- Main View : Full Episod
Moving to National City
Seeking to broaden his own horizons, James was asked by Superman to move to National City to keep an eye on his cousin, Kara, also accepting a job as CatCo Worldwide Media's art director. First meeting Kara when she came to get some layouts on request from Cat Grant, he told her that Grant could wait, as it'd be her loss if she fired him right after hiring him. Introducing himself as the new guy, James was recognized by Kara after she saw a framed print of the first photo ever taken of Superman. James offered the copy to her, on the condition that she first tell him what her name was. After introducing herself and attempting to leave, he reminded her of the layouts she had originally come to get.
Rekindling with Lucy
James and Winn helped Kara to track down Reactron and rescue Maxwell Lord, however, James calls Superman to help her because he fear for the girl's life, which enrages Kara since she wants to be defined not as Superman's cousin, but by her victories and losses. The pair patch things up shortly after and Kara decides to asks him out, but before she can do it Lucy Lane, James' ex-girlfriend, arrived in his office with the intention to get back with him. Despite at first James treated her coldly since she was the one who break-up their relationship, after Lucy explained her reasons the two rekindle their relationship and even spent Thanksgiving week together in Ojai.
His feelings for Kara
When Kara is reduced to a normal human since her powers have been drained after her battle with Red Tornado, James reassures her that her abilities should return in a few days. He helps her to realize she could be a hero even without her powers while dealing with the consequences of an earthquake in National City. To encourage her, James tells Kara the story of his father's camera, realizing for the first time he has feelings for her. However James tried to keep those feelings for himself due to his relationship with Lucy.
Myriad
When the Flash appeared in National City, Kara spent much time with him and, seeing this, James becomes visibly jealous, to the point that even Winn and Lucy noticed it, and the latter told him that he was looking at Kara and Barry with the same eyes she looked at him and Kara. Later that night Kara invited James to her home, where they confessed their feelings and share a kiss after whom James left in a blank stare, because, along with the rest of National City, he was put under the control of Myriad. Under the orders of Non, he, Winn and Kelly jump all from CatCo, with Supergirl rescuing him and Winn though failing to save Kelly.
Acting CEO of CatCo
James and Kara's first date as a couple is interrupted almost immediately since Supergirl went to save the suborbital spacecraft Venture alongside Superman, who later visits National City, after such a long time James could then see Clark again, which makes both of them very happy. Later he and Kara tried to appoint a new date but, after even this one did not happen because Kara was busy saving Lena Luthor, they decide it is better to be friends. After a couple of days, Cat Grant decided to take a leave of absence from CatCo to find bigger and better things to do, leaving James as the acting director of the company. and, despite some initial clash with Snapper Carr, he proves immediately to be very suited for the position.
Becoming Guardian
After his father's camera is destroyed during an attempt to stop some criminals armed with alien technology from robbing West National City Bank, James decides to become a vigilante and asks Winn to make him a suit, as Winn had made Kara's Supergirl suit. Although he originally declined, Winn later was forced to agree and help. He then made the suit to specifically protect James. James appeared in the suit, presenting himself as "Guardian", to fight the alien parasite infected Rudy Jones, along with Mon-El.
Identity revealed
In the following days, Guardian foiled a bank robbery and made the news again. James and Winn later had drinks with Kara and Alex at the alien bar where the girls voiced their skepticism over Guardian's activities, though James and Winn defended "his" actions. Later Guardian took down another criminal robbing a convenience store then Winn told him of a hostage situation, so he left to foil it. The next day James was horrified to learn from Snapper that the mugger he'd taken down was murdered by another masked man moments after he'd left and Guardian had been blamed for it. Winn then confronted James about the murder but he stressed that he didn't kill the mugger
Guardian
- Main Articles : Guardian's
- Origin : National City (United State)
- Version : Supergirl 2015
- Known As : James Olsen
- Type : Vigilantes
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- Appearances : Supergirl Series
- High-level intellect / Great business acumen / Expert tactician / Leader : James is sharp-witted, intuitive and a capable leader as Cat Grant chose him to be in charge of CatCo Worldwide Media in her absence and can run it well.
- Skilled detective : James is a very skilled detective; he can effectively search for information and follow clues.
- Expert hand-to-hand combatant / Martial artist : James has a black belt, although what level and in what style of martial arts was not revealed. He has demonstrated remarkable fighting skills, enough to match a former Navy SEAL in close combat and is also a skilled boxer.
- Acrobatics / Free-running : James is an accomplished acrobat, he was able to successfully escape and evade the shots of a number of banks robbers and the attacks of the the significantly larger Parasite, as well as to scale vertical surfaces using a grappling hook.
- Expert driver : James is an extremely skilled driver, especially of motorcycles.
- Signal watch : James wears a special watch which Superman gave to him so that he would be able to contact him in case he ever got in trouble. Occasionally James has also used the watch to communicate with Kara.
- Main Article : James Olsen's (Earth-X)
