| “ | Wherever I go, I'm gonna be better because of you. You'll be in my heart. I promise I'm going to be the man that you thought I could be. I promise. | „ |
| ~ Mon-El's promise to Supergirl. |
| “ | It’s not news to me that I used to be a jerk. And I’m…I am sorry. I’m sorry. For all of it. | „ |
| ~ Mon-El apologizing for all his past behavior. |
Mon-El is a major character in the Arrowverse, serving as the deuteragonist of Season 2, a major protagonist in Season 3, a flashback character in Season 5, and a supporting character in Season 6 of Supergirl and a minor character in Season 3 of The Flash. He was the prince of the planet Daxam, sister world to Krypton, who escaped Daxam’s destruction and crash-landed on Earth, meeting Team Supergirl and gradually becoming a hero, eventually being forced to leave Earth in a plan to stop his mother and the surviving Daxamites from destroying Earth. He would get sucked into the 31st century and form the Legion of Superheroes to bring peace to the time before returning to the 21st century after 7 years to help Supergirl stop the Worldkillers and save the future. He is the archenemy of his mother, Queen Rhea.
What Makes Him Pure Good?[]
- He reconciled with Supergirl after she apologized to him for her prejudice and distrusting him after he was incriminated for trying to assassinate the President, shaking hands with her with them formally introducing each other.
- He sympathized with Supergirl about how it probably wasn’t easy to trust him due to the reputation of his people and hele no grudges over his standoffish behavior, but when she revealed the true reason being that she was feeling guilt over her parent’s mistakes and how they couldn’t save Krypton and therefore Daxam as well, he comforted Supergirl and reminded her that it wasn’t her parents fault.
- He gave Supergirl a tip about how he saw match with the gladiator Draaga years before and how he had a weak spot in his right leg, allowing Supergirl to take down the criminal fighter.
- When Supergirl and the Martian Manhunter were seriously injured and incapaitated by the supervillain Parasite, he stepped up and officially became a superhero to protect National City from Parasite’s rampage, getting Parasite’s attention to stop him from killing a man and catching a car to save a young girl from being crushed to death when Parasite threw it. He and the new vigilante Guardian were able to buy enough time for Supergirl to return and destroy Parasite once and for all.
- He tried to help a random homeless man on the street as part of his efforts to improve himself and when that man turned out to be a Cadmus agent in disguise and electrocuted and abducted him, Mon-El was able to orchestrate an escape, but stopped when Lillian Luthor was a captive (seemingly) J’onn J’onzz/Martian Manhunter and agreed to go back to being imprisoned when Lillian threatened J’onzz’s life and when Kara was captured, he was willing to let Lillian kill him and begged Kara not to exhaust her powers for Cadmus to save him.
- He defeated Roulette and the Maaldorian slave traders with the human captives to save Supergirl from being tortured to death and act as a shield to protect Supergirl and the captives from being killed from Maaldorian soldiers and buy them enough time to escape.
- He convinced Supergirl to train him as an official superhero, having been inspired by her selflessness.
- He rescued Leslie Willis and defeated the copycat Livewires with Guardian and Supergirl.
- He apologized to Kara for being aggressively protective of her and jealous towards the chaotic trickster Mr. Mxyzptlk who also carried feelings for her.
- He was the only person (rightly) skeptical of Jeremiah’s miraculous appearance and rescue from Cadmus and caught him breaking into the DEO mainframe. Despite this, he still apologized to Jeremiah if he seemed rude and when Jeremeiah’s true allegiance to Cadmus was exposed, he comforted Kara and hugged her.
- He gave himself up to his parents to prevent them from attacking and killing Kara, and revealed to Kara the truth that he was the prince of Daxam and apologized to her for lying to her.
- He refuse to go back to being the spoiled prince he once was, feeling ashamed of his past and calling out his parents for not really caring about their people.
- He saved Supergirl from being killed by Music Meister’s shenanigans, professing his love for her and apologizing once more for lying to her, vowing from then on to make her day full of joy since she was good enough to take him back, improving his behavior from before.
- He gave up himself to his mother to stop her from killing Supergirl and tried to reason with his father to make Daxam a democracy if they were going back to rebuild their nation.
- He punctured his family’s ship to defeat their forces and finally make his father realize he was wrong and let him go with his friends back to Earth in peace. He comforted Kara when she was feeling sad about his mother’s failure to be reasoned with that she was still right that people could change, reminding her that at least his father dad.
- He confronted his mother with Supergirl when she was revealed to still be on Earth and manipulated Lena into building and activating transmatter portal to allow the Daxamite fleet to come to Earth and invade. However, despite everything she did, he ultimately couldn’t bring himself to kill her.
- He agreed to marry Lena when Rhea threatened to destroy Lena’s children hospital and every hospital in the city if he refused.
- When Superman and Supergirl informed him and the DEO that Lena and Lillian Luthor created a device that would release lead (which was lethal to Daxamites) into the atmosphere to force them to leave as a last resort, he told them despite Kara’s assurances that it wouldn’t have to come to that, that if it did, they should use it, being willing to sacrifice himself to save Earth.
- He tried to reason with his mother one last time when she betrayed the sacred Daxxam Ur duel with Supergirl and her promise she would leave Earth alone if she lost and ordered her forces to destroy National City out of spite, telling her that she was dishonoring herself in front of the gods. Only for her to tell him that “her” gods were only concerned with her victory.
- He saved numerous citizens in National City from the invading Daxamite forces.
- He convinced Kara to activate the Luthor lead device, saving the world from being destroyed by his mother and the Daxamites and told Kara it was okay when he was dying as it was worth it.
- When Kara took him to his old space pod to leave Earth to survive, he promised her that no matter where he would be, he was going to become a better man with her in his heart and that he was going to be the person she thought he could be and professed his love for her one final time.
- Although he started out with many corrupting qualities, he gradually subverts them all and becomes a better person over the course of Season 2 and by the time he returns in Season 3, he has matured into a wise leader and practically was entirely different person, being fully reformed.
- When a wormhole took him to the future in the 31st century, he rallied super-powered beings with Kara as his inspiration to found the Legion of Superheroes to bring peace to Earth and to the stars. He agreed to marry Imra Adreen from Titan, which led an alliance against Earth, to defuse tensions and prevent a war.
- Although he attempted to steal a power source from the DEO and knocked out two agents who confronted him, he only attempted to do so because he needed to immediately get a power source for his ship to preserve the cryo-pods of his teammates and save them from dying. When he was caught and berated by Supergirl, who noticed how he was different, he felt apologized to her and felt immense remorse.
- He convinced Winn to help him get out of the DEO cell and get the power source and apologized for the whole situation, being able to save all his his teammates by restoring power to their pods except for Imra’s and convincing Supergirl to break Imra’s pod to save her from drowning and got her to the DEO med-bay. He explained how he traveled to the future and went out to talk with Kara, apologizing for everything and telling her he still cared for her and how he kept her necklace as a reminder of everything she taught him and recognizing that it was wrong of him to keep secrets from her and how he should have known better and introduced Kara to Imra, his wife, when Imra woke up.
- When Reign violently defeated Supergirl and placed her in a coma, he woke up Brainiac-5 from his pod to get into her subconscious via 31st tech to communicate with her and help wake her up.
- Although understandably reluctant at first to go out and risk his and the Legion’s lives since if they died, the cure for the Blight would be destroyed and the future would be lost, he ultimately changed his mind and led the Legion into battle against Reign to stop her from slaughtering everyone at Albatross Prison while Supergirl was still incapacitated.
- He repeatedly apologized to Kara and understood the whole situation of him being married was difficult for her and offered to talk about it.
- He defeated Lillian Luthor.
- He trained Kara on 31st century combat tactics including how to use a cape to fight and didn’t hold any grudges or get angry when she (under the influence of J’onn’s father’s psychic leakage) violently lashed out at him for all his past faults. Instead, when Kara apologized for saying all those things, he told her that it was the truth and apologized one final time for his jerk past and everything he did wrong before making an agreement with her of no more apologies, fully reconciling with Kara.
- Despite the immense threat posed by Pestilence’s future version, the Blight, he was the only member of the Legion who refused to entertain the notion of killing her and insisted on another solution unlike Brainiac-5 and Imra.
- He went to Argo City with Supergirl to locate the Harun-El necessary to stop Reign.
- He gave a built-in vaccine device to a Kryptonian kid with Thalonian Lung, curing him and inspiring him to pay it forward and give to others.
- He injected Reign with a concentrated dose of Harun-El, freeing her alter-ago Samantha, and defeating Reign.
- He used the Harum-El a second time to transport Supergirl, Reign, and Samantha into the Dark Valley, allowing them to defeat Reign once and for all.
- He ultimately chose to return to the future to save all AI’s from being wiped out by Brainiac-5’s “distant evil relative” (who doesn’t die from the Blight due to the Legion averting the Blight’s existence) and put his feelings towards Supergirl to rest for the greater good, giving Kara a Legion ring in case she ever needed his help.
- He returned one last time to save Kara from Overgirl and Lex Luthor, telling after the defeat of Lex and Nxy that her inspiring speech to the world changed the course of the future forever and inspired everyone to be their own heroes and how she always inspired everyone including him before departing for the future for the last time.
Trivia[]
- Mon-El, alongside Kara Danvers and Barry Allen are the only Arrowverse Pure Goods.
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