Legion of Superheroes - Lead up to Season 3 - Who Is Katrina Gupta?

Written by our GM.

A late addition to Season 1, Dr. Katrina Gupta introduced herself as Vid Gupta’s daughter who had gained her powers due to an accident involving the rare element atmospherium (Science!), which also caused her amnesia. Vid Gupta was supposedly the Chief of Staff to President Mojai Desai, but actually turned out to be old Legion foe Universo, who had disposed of the real Vid Gupta and taken his place.

But wait, it turned out that Katrina wasn’t Gupta’s daughter but rather his wife! Her overbearing parents, the Ramachandras, had married her off to “businessman” (actually crime lord) Vid Gupta before Universo’s impersonation. Universo as Gupta had no desire to be saddled with a wife as he carried out his universe-dominating plans, so he took advantage of her amnesia to tell her she was his daughter and pawned her off on the Legion Academy with hopes that she could be of use to him there.

But wait, it turned out that Katrina’s parents aren’t actually her parents! To her surprise, she discovered from the Time Trapper that she was adopted. Her mother finally confessed that decades ago during a war between the snakelike Naga and their ancient foes the Eagles, the King Naga had deposited his infant snake with the Indian couple for safekeeping. He never returned, and the shapeshifting infant took human form and was reluctantly raised by the humans.

But wait, it turned out that a battle between Durlan and Thanagarian armies had occurred on the same day that Mrs. Ramachandra said the Naga/Eagle war had happened! It seems that Katrina isn’t a Naga but rather a Durlan. Does that mean she can shapeshift?

But wait, because of her marriage to the real Vid Gupta, Katrina inherited his “business,” actually a criminal gang, and was suddenly independently wealthy, to her adoptive parents’ great joy. But ZsaZsa Patil is contending for control of the gang, now called Nagini (see below), so whether this windfall remains Katrina’s is in question. The Ramachandras had turned over Katrina’s son, Phora (see below) and Kid Skid’s brother Catd to Patil, from whom our heroes had to rescue them.

But wait, during an encounter with the Time Trapper, “he” revealed that “he” was actually a future version of Katrina, her simmering villainous urges finally come to light! Have the Legionnaires actually been fighting a future version of one of their own this entire time?