An excellent case study in how near exact counterparts can diverge in key areas can be seen in the example of the younger uncles of the Supermen, Zor-El and Zor-L While each was a brilliant scientist, the areas of science they pursued resulted in radically different results when raising their respective daughters following the destruction of their home worlds.
Both men possessed mechanical aptitude to replicate the rocketship engineering of their older brothers Jor-El and Jor-L, resulting in their designing interstellar vessels that would safely sent their offspring to Earths One and Two following the devastation of their cities.
Zor-El specialized in the physical sciences, allowing him to develop a protective dome, which ended up perserving Argo City alive when it was jettisoned from Krypton-One as that world exploded. At that time, the city of Kandor had been shrunk and placed in a bottle, held captive on the space craft of the android Braniac. However, the Kandor of Zor-L's world remained on Krypton-Two, and as such he and his family moved from his world's Argo City to Kandor prior to the world's end.
Zor-L specialized in the sciences of the mind, allowing him to develop an elaborate artificial reality based upon the inhabitants of Kandor contained within the self-sentinent rocket known as the Symbioship. He also was a master at slowing the aging process, which he equipped the ship to do for Kara. On this vessel, Zor-L sent his daughter to Earth-Two... just as Zor-El would also send his daughter to Earth-One when the Argo City eventually succumbed to Kryptonite radiation poisoning.
Zor-El and Allura stayed alive by projecting themselves into the Survival Zones where they were phantoms watching over their daughter Kara aka Supergirl during her teen years on Earth-One. Zor-L and Allura continued the raised their daughter Kara aka Power Girl as artificial non-corporeal being in an interstellar dreamworld.
Eventually, both Karas were confronted with their parents... Supergirl found hers as phantoms that became real... Power Girl learned hers that seemed real were actual phantoms! And while Supergirl's parents moved to Kandor, and later to the planet Rokyn to be with fellow Kryptonians... the remnants of Power Girl's parents along with their Kandor seemed to cease to exist. However, it wasn't just Power Girl who was traumatized by the mental illusion of parents... Supergirl likewise was once tormented by her arch-enemy Lesla Lar into seeing her birth parents seemingly appear then disappear. Nevertheless, the Girls of Steel persevered and withstood any mental torment, living up to their potential as superheroines thanks to the training of their mothers Allura, and their fathers Zor-El and Zor-L!
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