00:00In Superman, there is a reason why Supergirl seems younger than Superman,
00:03even though she is actually older than him.
00:05When Krypton was about to explode, Kara's parents sent her to Earth on an important mission,
00:09to protect Kal-El, her cousin, who was still a baby.
00:12Kara was a teenager at the time, but something unexpected happened during the journey.
00:15Her pod was lost or became trapped in the Phantom Zone, depending on the version of the story.
00:20And then everything changed.
00:21While Kal-El arrived on Earth and grew up normally,
00:23Kara's pod was left drifting through space, frozen in time.
00:26Years later, when she finally arrived on Earth, everything had already changed.
00:29The baby she was supposed to protect was now Superman, a fully grown hero.
00:33Therefore, although she is older, she appears to be younger.
00:36The most curious part is that she still keeps her original mission,
00:38to protect the man who now seems older, but who in reality is still her younger cousin.
