Linda Danvers II was the product of a genetic experiment, spawned by an adversary of the Earth-One Supergirl in order to make six miniaturized clones of the heroine. After battling them, Supergirl used Gold Kryptonite to drain them of their superhuman abilities, and kept them in stasis. However, the mental bond that existed between them allowed them to merge into one unified individual.
Karen Starr II was spawned from the energies emitted by her Justice Society teammates Green Lantern, Doctor Fate and Starman. This occurred when that four along with the Huntress found themselves exiled in a temporally altered Earth-Prime, contaminated by the insidious influence of time tyrant Per Degaton. Tracking the villain back to 1942, these five JSAers entered their home reality of Earth-Two and teamed up with the All-Star Squadron a five members of Earth-One’s Justice League of America. Together, the three teams tackled Degaton, his army and the Crime Syndicate of Earth-Three.
For a brief period of time, “Linda Danvers” used her mental abilities to cloud the memories of Supergirl, causing the Girl of Steel to forget her alter ego as Linda Lee Danvers. This was with the intent that the clone could live out Linda’s life in peace, while Supergurl carried on her costumed career full time. However, Kara Zor-El regained her senses and pieced together fragments of memories until she deduced who was the culprit behind her temporary amnesia.
Due to the protective radiation generated by her three comrades when traveling back to Earth-Two from Earth-Prime, they along with Power Girl became temporal clones of earlier versions themselves. Younger versions of Green Lantern, Doctor Fate and Starman* were operating as costumed crusaders in 1942. Meanwhile, Power Girl’s earlier version of herself was rocketing through space while residing within the life-sustaining vessel known as the Symbioship.
Once she confronted her with the truth, Supergirl proposed to “Linda” that both women could live out their lives independent of one another. A universe away, the Power Girl visiting from 1942 no doubt briefly considered her younger self, living a life in a dreamworld version of Krypton-Two as Kara Zor-L. While the Linda Danvers clone would live presumably for decades more as a normal woman, Kara Zor-L lives decades more within her starship preserved youthful until arriving on Earth-Two when Power Girl’s earlier version was born!
Of course, there were other versions of Kara Zor-El and Kara Zor-L. Their counterpart of Earth-Three, who as an infant inexplicably was transplanted into the Kandor of Krypton-One, became Supergirl's arch-enemy Lesla Lar living in that bottled city kept within Earth-One's Fortress of Solitude. The Kara Zor-L of post-Crisis Earth-0 merged her mind with a warrior princess in the notional reality version of Asgard, located high above Earth-Two.
Then, there were the Kara’s’ dream doppelgängers: Satan Girl aka Nightflame of the Innerverse dream reality within Supergirl’s mind, and a married maternal Kara Zor-L of the Symbioship dream reality within Power Girl’s mind.
* The Earth-One versions of Earth-Two's Green Lantern, Starman and Doctor Fate were T.O. Morrow's Green Lantern and Red Tornado clones as well as Doctor Chaos.
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