Throughout Supergirl's history, she faced darker versions of herself created through various means such as Red Kryptonite.. while for years aboard her ship, Power Girl faced a lighter, unrealistic version of herself.
While Power Girl had this virtual copy of herself to contend with inside the Symbioship's artificial reality, Supergirl had an evil twin from within the shrunken city of Kandor of Krypton-One named Lesla-Lar. Each of these women, seeing their lives as pale shadows of their respective Kara, sought to surplant the superheroines from within, replacing them.
Lesla-Lar utilized a brain-wash helmet in order to distort Kara Zor-El's memories of her life as Linda Lee. Trading places with Kara, Lesla assumed the identity of Supergirl and fooled both her cousin Superman and his arch-foe, Lex Luthor. It was Luthor whom she conspired with, then turning her attention to a few Kryptonian criminals. After freeing them from the Phantom Zone, they betrayed her, by using one of their weapons to atomize her body. Lesla's psyche remained alive, however.
Years later, Lesla as an energy construct tried to defeat Supergirl by manipulating minions, including another Phantom Zone prisioner named Shyla Kor-Onn. When these schemes failed, Lesla then tried to attack Supergirl from within her own body, using dreams to project realistic illusions. Supergirl fought back, exercising her superior will power to rid herself of Lesla's mental influence for good.
Kara Zor-L fought a similiar mental influence for several decades aboard the Symbioship. This ship's devices crafted a future Kandor envisioned by her parents of a Krypton-Two that had not exploded. This mental conditioning made Power Girl prone towards its influence, when it attempted to replace her with another Kara.
Despite this, Power Girl's superior will power fought back, ridding herself of this faux-Kara and the Symbioship, and later provided her the mean to track and out-think the dream-manipulating criminal Brain Wave.
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