While adjusting to living on his new home world, he begins to use the identity of Mike Matthews. After he started to work alongside Supergirl, he became inspired to try and use his new powers to help protect the Earth and become a superhero as well. For a time, he was called "The Other Superman". After Mon-El was exposed to Earth's atmosphere filled with lead, he was forced to leave both Kara and Earth to find a habitable environment for his physiology, while entering a wormhole in the process. He arrived on Earth during the 31st Century, where he was cured of his lead allergy and later worked with the world's governments to form the Legion, a team of superheroes that followed in Supergirl's image.
Publication Information
- Supergirl : Mon-El
- Version : Supergirl 2016
- Multiverse : Earth Thirty-Eight
- Alter Ego : Valor
- Spieces : Daxamites
- Known As : Mike Matthews
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- Affiliation : Legion of Super-Heros
- Gender : Male
- Origin : Daxam
- Season : Supergirl
- First Appeareance : Supergirl Season 1 Episod 20 : Better Angels (Unseen)
- Last Appeareance :
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- Potrayer : Chris Wood
- Main View : Full Episod
Prior to his arrival on Earth, Mon-El used to be a selfish, spoiled, party boy and womanizer, which was probably a trait shared with most Daxamites elites according to their reputation of hedonists. He was also largely ignorant to most what was going on Daxam. Despite these negative traits of his at the time, he at least cared about the welfare of his people as during the destruction of the planet, Mon-El was reluctant to leave his people behind, he only did it because his bodyguard was very insistent; despite this, he felt guilty and undeserving of having survived while his people died.
Daxam's demise
The day Krypton was destroyed, the debris from the planet showered on to its sister world, Daxam, causing immense destruction and an immeasurable number of casualties. Mon-El was in his room with a girl when his guard barged into the room to tell him that he had to evacuate. He took a moment to look out the window to see the devastation before the guard pulled him away, telling him to leave the girl he had been with and to come with him.
Landing on Earth
The pod traveled past the Well of Stars, a region in space where time is ceased, and got stuck there for decades. This kept him from aging and he remained there in suspended animation until the pod broke free and then eventually found its way to the planet Earth where it crash-landed on the outskirts of National City. Supergirl quickly discovered the pod, and she and J'onn J'onzz took the man to the D.E.O. to run some tests.
Escape from the D.E.O.
He eventually came to and in his shock choked Supergirl and threw her across the room. The D.E.O. went into high alert and he started to panic and look for an escape. When he was confronted by guards, he was surprised by his new strength and speed before he escaped into the city. He started to ask around for a place to make deep space transmissions and eventually found his way to a satellite station in hopes of sending a signal to his planet. The signal was detected by Winn and Supergirl, and upon finding out he was from Daxam and fearing that he was behind the attack on President Marsdin she rushed to confront him.
Adjustment to living on Earth
In the following days, Mon-El is placed under the D.E.O.'s custody while they begin processing him. Mon-El claimed that he was a guard to the Royal Family and had escaped when the prince gave him his place in the pod when Daxam was being destroyed. As he and Winn begin to gauge his powers, he is given a break where he stumbles upon Kara speaking with her mother in a hologram. He makes a suggestion of going out to check out the city but Kara insists that he needed to remain at the D.E.O. for safety though Mon-El wasn't sure why he wouldn't be safe.
Path to heroism
Soon after, Kara was seriously injured after a battle with Parasite. After seeing her unconscious and still thinking about what was said during their conversation, he became overcome by guilt and left. Mon-El was found by Alex drinking alone at the underground alien bar. Alex appeared to belittle Mon-El and saying that she believed he was a coward but reminded him that Kara, who constantly put herself in danger and was hurt by Parasite, sincerely believed otherwise.
Feelings for Kara
Kara started Mon-El's hero training at the D.E.O. and after a few trials, it seemed like he might be ready to head out to the field. At that time, Livewire had escaped from prison and Mon-El was excited to help Kara track her down. When the police were attacked by two people with Livewire's powers he and Kara went to stop them. Kara told Mon-El to stay and protect the officers while she fought the Livewires. Mon-El shielded them from the lightning but when he saw that Kara was starting to be in trouble.
Prince of Daxam
Mon-El was hanging out with Kara, watching some television when he suggested that they watch a musical, which Kara was excited to do. She said that she was dopey-grin butterfly in the stomach happy and he said that he was happy she was happy. However, before they could do anything else, a message was sent through the television that asked for Mon-El of Daxam to be relinquished to some unknown people to prevent him to be taken by force.
Daxamite invasion and his arranged marriage
When a psychic alien launched an attack on National City, Mon-El and Kara went to try and patrol the streets to see if they could find a lead on what happened. Later that night, Mon-El saw his mother leaving a restaurant. Before he could look further into it, he was bumped by someone which made him drop his gaze and when he looked back, he found that his mother was gone. Rattled, he went back to the D.E.O. and asked Winn if he could track his parents' ship and how would he know if it was still in Earth's orbit.
Leaving Earth
After Kara fought against Superman while he was under the influence of Silver Kryptonite and beat him, Kara collapsed. She began to dream that she was back in her apartment with Mon-El, waking up in their bed. She then told him of the time that she left Krypton when her mother gave her necklace telling her that she would never be alone as she would always be in her daughter's dreams. Mon-El then told her that she had to wake up as this wasn't real and she was at the Fortress.
Returning to the 21st century
Mon-El and his friends learned of a world that was dying and they retrieved the data to save it against the dark threat it was under and hid it in their DNA for safe keeping. They then took off in their ship to save that world but got hurled into a wormhole and they ended up thrown back in time and crashed on Earth over 12,000 years in the past. They could not find a way to return to the future and realized that their only choice was to enter hypersleep and wade out time until they returned to their proper century. They waited out in the bedrock and set the ship's system to wake them from their cryotubes when it was the right time.
Mon-El
- Mon-El
- Origin : Daxam
- Version : Supergirl 2016
- Type : Daxamite
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- Appearances : Supergirl
- Prior to his arrival on Earth, Mon-El used to be a selfish, spoiled, party boy and womanizer, which was probably a trait shared with most Daxamites elites according to their reputation of hedonists. He was also largely ignorant to most what was going on Daxam.
Daxamite physiology : Normally, like all Daxamites, Mon-El's capabilities are no greater than a normal human of his physical conditioning. However, once charged by the energy of a yellow sun and metabolized into his body, he becomes able to perform various inhuman feats. While generic for his race it is unknown if Mon-El will developed other powers as well.
- Solar energy absorption : While Mon-El's powers are dependent on the energy spectrum from a yellow sun, his body is able to constantly and passively absorb such energy while exposed to it, essentially keeping his reserves fully charged near-constantly. Direct exposure to sunlight will also accelerate his recovery from any injuries he does manage to sustain.
- Accelerated healing factor : Mon-El's solar charged metabolism accelerates his healing and allows him to burn calories at a fast rate, making him resilient to weight gain. Upon being shot by a bullet made of lead which penetrated the skin of his arm, when the piece was removed he healed instantly.
- Electrosynthesis : Mon-El's cells harness and absorbed the electrical energy surrounding him, manipulating it to regenerate himself at a cellular level and manifest his own energy source when he was comatose.
- Contaminant immunity : Mon-El has an immunity to all forms of disease and contaminants on Earth. He also has shown himself to have a particularly high tolerance to alcohol, even those of alien origins.
- Kryptonite immunity : Despite having a similar physiology to Kryptonians, Mon-El is immune to the radiation effects of Kryptonite; such as Green Kryptonite, Red Kryptonite and Silver Kryptonite.
- Longevity : Presumably like Kryptonians, Mon-El's life span is considerably longer than a normal human and likewise ages much slower
- Super leaping : Mon-El is able to perform incredibly high jumps in a single bound. He demonstrated this power during the attacks of the Daxamite invaders on National City, when he leaped from the ground level to the top of a nearby skyscraper, only barely bending his knees to build up momentum for the jump. This allowed him to hopscotch over the roofs of numerous buildings to get a bird's-eye view of the city's destruction.
- Invulnerability : Mon-El is essentially invulnerable to all Earthly weapons, with needles unable to penetrate his skin. He has sustained damage from meta-humans such as Livewire and recovered with little to no effect on his person. However, his durability has proven to be somewhat weaker than that of a Kryptonian's and its full extent is unknown.
- Super speed : Mon-El possesses the ability to move at incredible speeds, far greater than that of any normal human. He was able to run through the halls of the D.E.O. in a split second, seen as a blur to the naked eye. Despite this, he is not as fast as a regular speedster such as Barry Allen or Wally West.
- Super strength : Mon-El's strength is enhanced under a yellow sun, enough to easily kill a normal human if he were to attack them directly. He was able to hold his own against Kara and easily choke her when they first met. Despite this, Winn states, his strength is still not as high as hers. This is probably due to the fact that she has spent more time under the Earth's yellow sun than Mon-El has.
- Lead immunity : After taking a cure when he traveled to the 31st century, Mon-El is no longer vulnerable to lead and can easily withstand Earth's lead-contaminated atmosphere.
- High-level intellect / Expert tactician/Leader : Mon-El is quite intelligent due to him growing up in a advanced civilization as well as having knowledge about other alien species, their abilities and heritage. As a member of the royal family of Daxam, Mon-El is a capable leader and tactician; as he founded and leads his own team of heroes known as the Legion.
- Eidetic memory : Mon-El seems to have an eidetic memory as he remembers the exact details on the day when he was forced to leave Daxam.
- Expert hand-to-hand combatant : As a member of the royal family of Daxam, Mon-El is a capable unarmed fighter. Training with Kara further improved his fighting skills. He was able to defeat Guardian and almost was able to kill Kara, though he was being controlled. His fighting skills have greatly improved to the point where he was able to take on and defeat several highly trained Daxamite soldiers with armors and weapons with relatively ease.
- Expert stick fighter : As a member of the royal family of Daxam, Mon-El is a capable stick fighter. His fighting skills have greatly improved to the point where he was able to defeat highly trained Daxamite soldiers with little effort.
- Expert marksman / Firearms : Mon-El has proved to possess a certain level of knowledge on the use of firearms.
- Multilingual : After landing on Earth, Mon-El was quick to learn English, and during his time in the 31st century he learned Saturnian.
- Extreme energy : Extreme amounts of energy, such as Livewire's electricity, while she is at her peak, can be enough to kill Mon-El.
- Electricity : Despite his invulnerability, Mon-El seems to be vulnerable to large amounts of electricity. This was seen when fighting against Livewire.
- Red sun energy : Mon-El is powerless when exposed to the energy of a blue sun.
- Blue sun energy : Mon-El is powerless when exposed to the energy of a blue sun, it's radiation is also fatal to him as well as all men.
- Lead : Weapons made from lead will penetrate Mon-El's skin; if lead stayed in his system for too long, he will die from the poisoning. Due to him having spent a few months exposed to Earth's yellow sun-enriched atmosphere, Mon-El is able to endure it's poisoning effects for much longer than most Daxamites. Later, with science provided in the 31st century, Mon-El was cured of this weakness completely.
- New Legion Suit : After Winn Schott fixed his old Legion suit, Mon-El started wearing it to help Kara Danvers train. It carries a hollowed out House of El symbol in the middle of the chest, likely in regards to Supergirl, with a cape that's made of a special kryptonian material.
- Legion Ring : Each member of the Legion is granted a special ring that serves as a form of identification, along with granting each member several other capabilities.
- Legion flight ring : Mon-El's legion ring allows him to fly.
- Old Legion suit : Mon-El wore a black suit that protected him in battle. After Winn Schott repaired his old suit, Mon-El stopped wearing this suit.
