Invasion! Crossover Won’t Have Huge Impact on Supergirl Going Forward

A trip to an alternate Earth isn’t just another day at the office — even for Supergirl — but when her series returns in January, executive producer Andrew Kreisberg told reporters today that the events of the four-way Invasion! crossover coming this week on The CW will have less impact on Kara’s world than that of the other DC heroes appearing in it.

“It doesn’t really have that big an impact” on Supergirl, Kreisberg said during a screening of the crossover in Los Angeles today. “She’s the one who brought the light. It was really Barry and Oliver who had to go on the journey and she brought the charm and the fun and the kick-ass-ness.”

That’s not entirely surprising — while the world of Arrow and The Flash will be directly impacted by the attack of the Dominators, while Supergirl exists on another Earth entirely. She also lives in a world that’s more familiar with alien attacks than Earth-1.

Arrow, The Flash, and Supergirl will cross over with DC’s Legends of Tomorrow this week in “Invasion!” a three-part crossover that starts in the final moments of an episode of Supergirl and then plays through the other series. Based on the 1988 comic book event miniseries Invasion! from Keith Giffen, Bill Mantlo, Todd McFarlane, Bart Sears, and the crossover — with its marketing title “Heroes vs. Aliens” — will closely track the plot of that storyline: aliens will be assembled by The Dominators and descend on Earth to bring an end to the “threat” of Earth’s burgeoning metahuman community.

In the comics, the Dominion were secretly hoping to build their own super-race, and as a result created a handful of new superheroes in the course of the story.

In the TV version, rather than assembling a loose alliance of dangerous alien races, the Dominators will apparently be mind-controlling the aliens that join them. That’s a revelation that suggests even the heroes might be forced to take one another (or at least the alien Supergirl) on at some point in the story.

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Supergirl airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT; The Flash on Tuesdays at the same time; Arrow on Wednesdays and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow on Thursdays. All four series air on The CW. The “Invasion!” crossover will air beginning November 28.