Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1 (2023)

On Krypton, Kara Zor-L is on a date with her soulmate. Her boyfriend suddenly turns psychotic, saying he will disfigure her so nobody else will want her and she will be his forever. She flees home, but finds her parents with packed bags, and they tell her that they are abandoning her. Kara begs them not to leave, promising that she will be good and grabs her mother's wrist, but Allura shatters into pieces. Unperturbed, Zor-L sweeps her up into his bag and lets Kara's boyfriend in. Outside the house, the world is just a blue screen showing a "404 Error", and her boyfriend is glitching around the edges. Kara suddenly realises she doesn't even know the guy's name, and that none of what is happening is real. She punches him in the face, but as soon as her fist connects he changes into her cousin Kal-L. They are suddenly on Earth and she is wearing her old Power Girl costume rather than a Kryptonian dress. She apologises to Kal for hitting him, but he says not to worry, and that he will just replace her. He presses a button on her chest, and she collapses to the ground, unable to move. Kal-L carries her to a junkyard, and tells the manager that she is faulty. He feeds her into a trash compactor and she is crushed, revealing that she is an android. Power Girl hears Omen's voice in her mind and snaps awake in her bedroom, where Lilith tells her she was having a nightmare. Omen tells her they are late and drags her to a theatre where a production of Hamlet is being performed. Lilith pushes Power Girl on stage and laughs uproariously at her stage fright. Power Girl tries to fly away but Lilith stops her with a telekinetic force field. The actor playing Hamlet recites his lines at her, expecting Power Girl to reply but she doesn't know the script. Yorick's skull glows red and flies around her, and the audience are revealed to be metal skeletons in Superman costumes who boo her. Power Girl has a panic attack and is unable to speak. She flies up, smashing through the roof of the theatre, and the skeletons cheer and applaud. In a high-tech chamber somewhere, Power Girl is unconscious in a pod, noticeably less muscular than usual and showing healed injuries. Back at their apartment, Power Girl is angry at Lilith, but they both begin laughing when Omen says seeing her on stage was funny. Streaky attacks Lilith, and when Power Girl pulls him off he scratches her. He climbs over her shoulder and shoots Omen with his heat vision, blasting a hole in her midriff. Power Girl is horrified, but Omen doesn't die, and red smoke rises up out of the wound. Her image glitches and her voice becomes computerised. She grows to a huge size as the apartment changes into a high-tech laboratory. The giant Omen produces chains of computer code from her fingertips which bind Power Girl.