During her battle with Kara, she was killed after she succumbs with lead inhabiting the atmosphere. Rhea was born on the planet Daxam, at he some point she met and fell in love with a man named Lar Gand, the king of the Daxamites, and they had a son named Mon-El, unknown to her husband and son, Rhea was mentally unstable. When Daxam was hit with the debris of the destroyed planet Krypton, Rhea fled the planet alongside her husband Lar Gand as well as an assortment of other Daxamites aboard their prime ship. They survived off-world for years and learned that their son Mon-El was alive. They searched from the Well of Stars and then later Maaldoria where they learned that Mon-El was on Earth. hey then journeyed to Earth when Rhea and Lar Gand began to notice that the yellow sun was having an effect on them.
Publication Information
- Supergirl : Rhea
- Multiverse : Planet Daxam
- Version : The Supergirl Series
- Known As : Queen of Daxam
- Spieces : Daxamites
- Type : Leader of the Daxamite army
- Relative :
- Affiliation : Daxamites
- Gender : Female
- Origin : Planet Daxam
- Season : Supergirl
- First Appeareance : Supergirl Season 2 Episod 8 : Medusa
- Last Appeareance :
- Number of Appeareance :
- Potrayer : Teri Hatcher
- Main View : Full Episod
Destruction of Daxam and searching for Mon-El
Before the ship could leave, Rhea confronted her husband on why he let Mon-El go with Kara and the others back to Earth. Lar Gand claimed that their way was to pursue happiness and he saw that their son wouldn't be happy returning with them but he would be happy to remain on Earth. Rhea told him that they always used to be in sync from the moment they were married but he no longer stood at her side. Lar Gand claimed that he would always stand by her side but Rhea then stabbed him claiming that he betrayed her and she vowed that she would have vengeance against Kara and Earth for taking Mon-El and turning him against her.
Alliance with Lena Luthor
Rhea went down to L-Corp where she found Lena Luthor in her office after her emotional ordeal with Jack Spheer. She told Lena that she was there to offer her a proposal. Rhea had given Lena the schematics for a transmatter portal which caught Lena's interest as it had a large amount of implications and benefits. Rhea told Lena that she had things she was keeping from Lena about the project which she would share if she was interested and Lena told her that she was. They went off to share dinner where Rhea made a comment that Lena's mother must be proud of her.
Invasion of National City and death
Rhea had moved Lena to a nice room and tried to gently explain herself when she finally came to but Lena told her that she wasn't going to listen to anything she said anymore. Rhea explained that her getting hurt was Supergirl's fault but Lena said that Supergirl was trying to stop her but it should've been her that stopped Rhea. Rhea however told Lena that she still had plans for her and wanted Lena to be able to live up to her full potential which she couldn't because of how Earth was. Later, she visited Mon-El, who was looking down at the invasion of National City with great distaste.
Legacy
Rhea was briefly successful in separating her son Mon-El from Kara due to Earth's atmosphere becoming toxic to Daxamites, forcing him to leave the world. Because of Mon-El's disappearance shortly after leaving Earth, Kara underwent a personality change, going from a bright and optimistic person to a dark and brooding one. This caused her to push everyone in her life away and focus solely on protecting National City. Even after Kara started to let people back into her life she still hasn't fully recovered from Rhea's actions.
Rhea's invasion of National City destroyed much of it, and left Daxamite technology in the city. Even several months after the invasion was fought off, the city was still recovering though Lena Luthor and Morgan Edge were assisting in the rebuilding. The former because she wanted to help and the latter out of profit. Daxamite technology left over from the invasion would later be used by Morgan and Robert DuBois in a plot to destroy National City's waterfront.
Abilities
Daxamite physiology : Normally, like all Daxamites, Rhea's capabilities were no greater than a normal human of her physical conditioning. However, once charged by the energy of a blue or yellow sun and metabolized into her body, she became able to perform various inhuman feats.
- Solar energy absorption : While Rhea's powers are dependent on the energy spectrum from a blue or yellow sun, her body is able to constantly and passively absorb such energy while exposed to it, essentially keeping her reserves fully charged near-constantly. Direct exposure to sunlight will also accelerate her recovery from any injuries she does manage to sustain.
- Accelerated healing factor : Rhea's solar charged metabolism accelerates her healing and allows her to burn calories at a fast rate, making her resilient to weight gain.
- Electrosynthesis : Rhea's cells harness and absorbed the electrical energy surrounding her, manipulating it to regenerate herself at a cellular level and manifest her own energy source.
- Contaminant immunity : Rhea had an immunity to all forms of disease and contaminants on Earth.
- Kryptonite immunity : Despite having a similar physiology to Kryptonians, Rhea was immune to the radiation effects of Kryptonite; such as Green Kryptonite, Red Kryptonite and Silver Kryptonite.
- Super leaping : Rhea is able to perform incredibly high jumps in a single bound.
- Invulnerability : Rhea was essentially invulnerable to all Earthly weapons. She was able to take far more damage than any normal human.
- Super speed : Rhea possessed the ability to move at incredible speeds, far greater than that of any normal human.
- Super strength : Rhea's strength was enhanced under a blue or yellow sun, enough to easily kill a normal human if she were to attack them directly.
- Expert hand-to-hand combatant : As a member of the royal family of Daxam, Rhea was highly skilled in unarmed combat.
- Expert knife-wielder : Rhea was a capable knife-fighter.
- Genius-level intellect / Master manipulator / Leader : Rhea was able to go to great lengths to achieve her goals. As the late queen of Daxam, she could bring stability to her people and command her army during the Daxamite invasion.
- Master of deception : Rhea could trick Lena Luthor into thinking she needed help getting home when she really wanted to start an invasion.
- Lead : Weapons made from lead will penetrate Rhea's skin; if lead stays in her system for too long, she will die from the poisoning.
- Extreme energy : Extreme amounts of energy can be enough to kill Rhea.
- Red Sun energy : Like Kryptonians, exposure to the Red Sun will make Rhea the equivalent of a human being on Earth.
- Magic : Rhea was not invulnerable to magic because her powers come from her natural physiology and not supernatural means.
- Green Kryptonite-laced sai : When fighting Kara Danvers, Rhea wielded twin sai laced with Green Kryptonite that were able to pierce Kara's skin and severely weaken her. She used them in her battle with Kara at the Fortress of Solitude and again during the D.E.O.'s rescue mission to retrieve Mon-El on board the Daxamite spaceship. Rhea lost the sai when a hole was blown in the ship's throne room window, sucking the weapons out into the vacuum of space.
