Rhea

Rhea
Biological Information
Status	Alive
General Information
Occupation	Queen of Daxam
Family	Lar Gand (husband) Mon-El (son)
Actor	Teri Hatcher

Rhea is the Queen of Daxam. She is also the wife of Lar Gand and the mother of Mon-El. She rules what is left of the Daxamites after the planet was ravaged by the debris of the destroyed planet Krypton.

Biography

When Daxam was hit with the debris of the destroyed planet Krypton, Rhea fled the planet alongside her husband Lar Gand as well as an assortment of other Daxamites aboard their prime ship. They survived off-world for years and learned that their son Mon-El was alive. They searched from the Well of Stars and then later Maaldoria where they learned that Mon-El was on Earth. They then journeyed to Earth when Rhea and Lar Gand began to notice that the yellow sun was having an effect on them.

When they settled in the atmosphere of the planet, they sent a message to Earth for Mon-El to be given back to them, under the belief that he was being held against his will. When Supergirl flew for their ship, they believed that she had come to attack them and had the ship's weapons lock in on her.

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Rhea and her husband are reuniting with their son Mon-El.

However, Mon-El sent a message to stand down as he would give himself to them. They transported him and Kara to the ship where the three of them were finally reunited. At dinner, Rhea told Mon-El of their trials in trying to find him and praised the fact that Mon-El managed to survive. During dinner, there was also some moral debating exchanged with them and Kara when the topic of their slaves came up after mentions of Mon-El and Kara's heroics on Maaldoria. They then revealed to their son that Daxam's atmosphere was hospitable again and were going to return and rebuild their society again. However, Kara and Mon-El excused themselves back to Earth.

Later, Rhea went to the D.E.O. to speak with Kara about convincing Mon-El to return to Daxam to reclaim his birthright as the prince of Daxam. She told Kara that if he stayed then Mon-El would only be cruelly reminded that he was not good enough for her. She also pointed out that now that she knew Mon-El was royalty, she despised him for it and she needed to do what was best for Mon-El which was convince him to go with his parents. When Mon-El returned to the ship, Rhea and her husband believed that he was joining them to return but he instead told them that he was staying on Earth and that they should leave. Rhea accused Kara for his behavior but he angrily told her that being close to Kara made him want to be a better person and that she and Lar Gand didn't truly care about their fellow Daxamites at all. He then left the ship leaving Rhea and Lar Gand to angrily go over what just happened.

Powers and abilities

Powers

• Daxamite physiology: Normally, like all Daxamites, Rhea's capabilities are no greater than a normal human of her physical conditioning. However, once charged by the energy of a blue or yellow sun and metabolized into her body, she becomes able to perform various inhuman feats. While generic for her race (as well as for Kryptonians), upon arriving on earth for a short amount of time it is unknown whether he will develop other powers.
  • Solar energy absorption: While Rhea's powers are dependent on the energy spectrum from a blue or yellow sun, her body is able to constantly and passively absorb such energy while exposed to it, essentially keeping her reserves fully charged near-constantly. Direct exposure to sunlight will also accelerate her recovery from any injuries she does manage to sustain.
    • Accelerated healing factor: Rhea's solar charged metabolism accelerates her healing and allows her to burn calories at a fast rate, making her resilient to weight gain.
      • Electrosynthesis: Rhea's cells harness and absorbed the electrical energy surrounding her, manipulating it to regenerate herself at a cellular level and manifest her own energy source.
      • Contaminant immunity: Rhea has an immunity to all forms of disease and contaminants on Earth.
    • Super strength: Rhea's strength is enhanced under a blue or yellow sun, enough to easily kill a normal human if she were to attack them directly.
    • Invulnerability: Rhea is essentially invulnerable to all Earthly weapons. She is able to take far more damage than any normal human.
    • Super speed: Rhea possesses the ability to move at incredible speeds, far greater than that of any normal human.
    • Super leaping: Rhea is able to perform incredibly high jumps in a single bound.

Weaknesses

• Lead: Rhea has a weakness to lead; if lead stayed in her system for too long, she will die from the poisoning.
• Extreme energy: Extreme amounts of energy, can be enough to kill Rhea.
• Red Sun energy: Like Kryptonians, exposure to the Red Sun will make Rhea the equivalent of a human being on Earth.
• Magic: Rhea is not invulnerable to magic because his powers come from her natural physiology and not supernatural means.

Appearances

Supergirl

Season 2

• "Medusa"
• "Supergirl Lives"
• "Exodus"
• "Star-Crossed"

Behind the scenes

• There are two characters in the DC comics named Rhea: the first one is the Titan revered as the Goddess of Earth, a supporting character of Donna Troy from the Teen Titans; the other is Rhea Jones, the electromagnetic heroine Lodestone, a member of Doom Patrol. Both of them seem to be unrelated to the show's Rhea.
• In Greek mythology, Rhea is the wife of Cronus, the leader of the Titans, and mother of many of the gods including Hades, Poseidon, Hera and Zeus. She is responsible for Zeus's survival and overthrowing of her husband, since she hides him away to protect him from his father, who, in response to a prophecy, eats all of his children at birth.