Still healing from the death of his adoptive father Jonathan Kent from Superman: Last Sons of Krypton, Superman comes across yet another alien spacecraft, this time with a young woman who turns out to be his biological cousin named Kara Zor-El, with the same superpowers as him. It soon becomes clear that she came to Earth to help her cousin protect from the tyrannical and sadistic alien warlord Granny Goodness from the planet Apokolips who seeks to take control of all planets in the universe for her mysterious master.