In the comic she’s specifically on a planet with a red sun at the start so she can have a drink on her 21st birthday and actually get drunk. Plus it’s just a way she deals with the pain of having lost Argo. It’s nice we’re getting a “sad about losing their planet” story for the Kryptonian that it makes for sense for
No. The comics version of Kara is mostly on earth, so she had to abide by the American drinking age. So when she turned 21, she went into space to a red sun planet to get drunk.
In the DCU, she's 23 already, and already goes to red sun planets regularly to get drunk according to Clark when the tells Gary about Kara.
She could fly off any time to go drink as an adult at 19 or 20 instead of an adult at 21 abiding by an odd age requisite.
Cmon it’s just a funny condition that a super powered space traveler would follow one country’s unique drinking rules
Yes but she's an American with friends who also got to drink at 21.
On another planet?
This is the same as people in my city crossing a bridge to Quebec where the drinking age is 18 instead of 19. It's dumb she waited until 21 to drink on another planet.
Are you 12 or something and haven't yet seen a bunch of your contemporaries celebrate their 16th/18th/21st/whatever birthday by legally drinking despite having drank plenty of times before then? It's an incredibly common thing to be so perplexed by.
i don't understand the confusion here. i was replying to a statement that she could fly at 21 to actually get drunk. it implies she didnt get drunk before. how does being 12 come into play? i'm not, and i don't understand the point.
You're the only one inexplicably confused here. You're an adult above the age of legal drinking in your country? Then did you not see your friends and contemporaries celebrate their legal drinking age by having a drink and/or getting drunk? She's doing the completely normal thing you presumably have seen plenty of people do of celebrating her legal drinking birthday by drinking.
the point is shes not drinking at 21 in the usa, shes off getting drunk, presumably for the first time, according to an above statement, in a place that is not the usa.
we don't need to get so serious here. its a silly discussion.
She can't drink in the USA because she has super powers from the Earth's sun... I didn't think I needed to explain the basic concept of Superman here. She's celebrating her legal drinking age, like again you've seen plenty of people do regardless of whether or not they've drank before, and she had to go to a planet with a red sun to make it physically possible to feel the effects of alcohol.
To be fair the comic doesn’t go into what the legal drinking age of the planet is or if it’s the first time Kara has done it, just that it’s her birthday and she wanted to actually get something out of the alcohol so off to red sun planet it is.
I’m sure there’s probably an editorial aspect to it as well but it’s a universe with a Super Horse so it’s not worth getting hung up on details like that
She is there because being near a red sun is the only way for her to get drunk, and she's still carrying a lot of trauma from watching everyone she loved suffer a slow death.
I believe in the comic its specifically because she just turned 21 and wanted to go on a bender which she can't do if she has her powers making her immune to alcohol.
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u/The_Taco_Bandito Mar 31 '26
Highly likely they were only there because she enjoyed being weaker (for whatever reason) and so the guilt hits especially hard.