Original Air Date: January 15, 2018
Directed by: Jesse Warn

Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode!

Synopsis: After being rendered in a comatose state by Reign, Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) lives in her subconscious until she is coaxed to find her way back to the real world.

Kitty Cameo: While in the coma state, Supergirl finds a photo of herself holding a black cat. She explains to Brainiac (Jesse Rath) how she found the cat which she named Streaky long after she came to Earth. “He was a stray, too.”

When she mentions she and Streaky were friends she is startled to see Streaky sitting on a chair nearby.

As she gets up to pet Streaky, she continues her story. “I used to go out every night and feed him. I didn’t want to touch him ’cause I was so strong, I could have hurt him. So I practiced being gentle. And then one day I pet him and he purred and everything was okay.”

She picks up Streaky and puts him on her lap to pet him. “He helped me feel like a human,” she finishes.

Supergirl only puts Streaky down when she realizes Brainiac is engaged in a fight in the real world.

Streaky was undoubtedly inspired by the original Supergirl comics in which she had a ginger cat named Streaky who was an Earth cat that was accidentally exposed to a rare Kryptonic isotope and gained his own super powers.

Final Mewsings: Cats can be superhero sidekicks, too!

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