Supergirl Astra and Non

[SuperDan007]

This is a question about Season 1. I've never read the comics. So I was wondering, was Astra and Non portrayed the same way in the comics as they were in the show? Using Myriad to "save the world" and sentenced to Fort Rozz?

 

[Mike Murdock]

Isn't Astra an original character?

 

[Osiris-Rex]

Astra was indeed a character created for the show, just like Alex Danvers. Non was created for Superman: The Movie but was later incorporated into the comic books.
The comic books pretty much follow the movie version with Non as a lobotomized brute.

 

[Lead Cenobite]

The comics sort of follow it, I guess it's not a direct contradiction, but the movie never said Non was lobotomized or a former scientist. The show definitely made all that Astra/Non/Myriad stuff up, though. I think they would have been better off using another Kryptonian villain in place of Non, like Zod or Jax-Ur.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

The comics sort of follow it, I guess it's not a direct contradiction, but the movie never said Non was lobotomized or a former scientist. The show definitely made all that Astra/Non/Myriad stuff up, though. I think they would have been better off using another Kryptonian villain in place of Non, like Zod or Jax-Ur.

They probably didn't want to use Zod because Zod is too associated with Superman by the general public. Zod was in Superman: The Movie and in Superman 2, a major character in Smallville, the main villain in Man of Steel, and his reanimated corpse in Batman v Superman. But they still wanted some name recognition that Jax-Ur wouldn't have given. I don't even know who Jax-Ur is and I read some of the comic books. So by using Non they elevated his character from being somewhat of a joke, comic relief in the movies to one of a real threat to Supergirl. So I don't think the producers would have been better off using the other two.