Samantha is also a single mother who struggles to raise her daughter Ruby, having distanced herself from her adoptive mother when she became pregnant with her daughter as a teenager. At one point, Sam demonstrated superhuman strength that let her lift a fallen tower off of her daughter Ruby during a terrorist attack; but she believes her strength in the moment was merely derived from epinephrine and the heightened emotion of distress, and she loses the extra strength immediately after. She works for and is friends with Lena Luthor, and is promoted to be the acting CEO of L-Corp after Lena Luthor buys CatCo, and later becomes its CFO. She and her daughter also later befriend Alex and Kara Danvers. Sam finds out from her adoptive mother that she arrived on Earth in a space pod and thus she is an extraterrestrial in origin.
Publication Information
- Supergirl : Samantha Arias
- Version : Supergirl 2017
- Alter Ego : Reign
- Multiverse : Earth Thirty-Eight
- Known As : Sam
- Spieces : Kryptonian
- Type :
- Relative :
- Affiliation : Worldkiller
- Gender : Female
- Origin : Krypton
- Season : Supergirl
- First Appeareance : Supergirl Season 2 Episod 22 : Nevertheless, She Persisted (Flashback)
- Last Appeareance :
- Number of Appeareance :
- Potrayer : Odette Annable
- Main View : Full Episod
The unveiling and working at L-Corp
Samantha attended the Supergirl statue unveiling by Lena Luthor with her daughter, Ruby. She encountered Alex Danvers there when Ruby ran into her and Samantha made Ruby apologize for it. During the attack at the unveiling, a metal bar fell on Ruby. Samantha, frantic and desperate to save her daughter, lifted the intensely heavy beam, much to her surprise. She later went to bed, but woke up disturbed and sweating after inadvertently having a nightmare of Alura Zor-El turning into a hideous monster.
Discovering her true identity
Samantha was at her kitchen preparing a meal for Ruby and herself, and immersed in the doubt of whether she had powers or not. In order to test her suspicion, she puts her hand in the boiling water without Ruby noticing and saw that nothing happened to her hand, not even feeling or wincing from the temperature difference. Surprised, she told Ruby that she had to go back to work and that Ruby would go to Tess' for dinner. Ruby tried to protest, but Sam snapped at her, saying it wasn't up for debate.
The Rise of Reign
Sam had awakened from a nightmare in her bed when Ruby entered. Ruby asked about her trip, but Sam had no memories of it. Sam and Ruby were invited to Kara's Christmas party, in which Sam was late with the cupcakes. She had a brief interaction with Alex before she got some wine and started to talk with Kara and Lena. She and Kara then started teasing Lena about how she liked James Olsen and he liked her back, although Lena denied the claims. Kara then told them about how she was happy to have them as her best friends, to which Lena and Sam return the sentiment.
Against a Legion
Sam and Ruby are next seen playing together in a nerf-gun battle inside their house, with the former, due to her lack of coordination, sending a few household accessories crashing from atop one of the furniture there. Right before the time came for Ruby to go, Sam’s eyes fell upon the printed news, with front cover illustration showing herself as Reign and how the rogue Kryptonian was on the loose, in lieu with Supergirl being M.I.A.; Reign herself instantly took over, causing Sam’s eyes to flash red.
To Fort Rozz
She and Ruby are later seen visiting Alex, still recovering from the leg injury that Reign inflicted on her in her loft with Kara leading the way. And because Sam has to go on a business trip on L-Corp’s behalf and Ruby’s babysitter is unavailable for the extent of the trip, she was more than happy and willing for Alex to briefly babysit Ruby, throughout the day, while Sam was away. Sam was next seen talking to Lena at the L-Corp CEO’s office, with the latter giving last minute instructions to her acting CEO. Promising satisfactory results upon her return for her employer, the two of them hugged before parting ways; but as soon as Lena left, Sam ominously heard some Kryptonian phrases that only she alone could hear, causing her eyes to flash crimson and Reign to emerge, punching and dealing noticeable damage on her desk.
Confessions
Sam was next seen in L-Corp, with Alex whose leg finally healed and thus could now move about without the crutches, as they head to one of the establishment’s medical research labs where an MRI scanner was situated; apparently, Sam agreed to use her company clearance in allowing Alex to medically diagnose her using L-Corp's resources. Garbed in a sanitary hospital gown, it was seen that Sam was nervous as she inquires the other woman of the latter’s credentials on the field of medicine — with Alex sharing with Arias truncated details of her professional life and how she went from licensed physician, originally from Seattle and practicing medical studies there, to fully-fledged federal agent because Alex felt she needed more excitement in her life beyond the confines of a research lab.
Sisterhoods
Samantha later returns to L-Corp, talking to someone on the phone as she entered her office room, when she finds Lena standing by and leaning over the desk, looking at some company statistics from the computer tablet atop there. Surprised to see her boss there so early, Sam hangs up the line she was talking through and awkwardly greets her employer who looks up from the tablet and greets back; Lena inquires the newly-arrived Sam if everything was fine and the latter explained that she was going to have human resources relegate some employees at one of L-Corp’s underperforming research branches, stating that she was about to handle it.
Discovering that she is Reign
Sam is later seen unconsciously bedridden and contained inside a customized, high-tech enclosure in what appeared to be a classified L-Corp laboratory as Lena approaches her, talking to James Olsen via her phone. Finishing Jimmy's call, Lena surveys Samantha’s medically-sedated state with concern.[9] Sam awakens, after Lena cuts off the sedating intravenous drip that was keeping Arias in a medically-induced coma, gets up of the bed and sees her boss standing at a safe distance outside of the enclosure away from her unusual employee.
Abilities
- High-level intellect / Great business acumen : Sam is very intelligent, as she has enough business experience and knowledge to the point where Lena Luthor chose her as the acting CEO of L-Corp.
- Intimidation : Sam as Reign is able to strike fear into the hearts of many humans like Morgan Edge and Thomas Coville, even the highly skilled and courageous top D.E.O. agent, Alex Danvers admitted she was terrified of her despite knowing practically little of the world killer.
- Multilingual : Sam is capable of fluently speaking English and after her awakening, Kryptonese as well.
- Expert combatant : Though not particularly acrobatic beyond her capacity of self-propelled flight, as Reign, Sam is a very capable unarmed combatant.
Reign
- Main Articles : Reign
- Due to her forced mental programming operating on her as Reign, Sam becomes an exaggerated polar opposite of everything she is, while her world killer persona remains inactive in her default state for the periods and durations wherein Reign remains in control : a brutal vigilante who indiscriminately kills anyone she sees as an evildoer.
