WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child, by Frank Miller, Rafael Grampá and Jordie Bellaire, on sale now.

Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child is about many things: Carrie Kelley embracing that she's Batwoman, Darkseid using the Joker to turn the public mad, and the insane powers of Jonathan Kent (Superman and Wonder Woman's son), to name some of the most obvious. But the comic's secret weapon is Lara Kent, Superman and Wonder Woman's daughter, who is a complete jerk -- and a lot of fun to read.

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While Jonathan Kent is the title character, his sister, the titular Golden Child -- with powers beyond what anyone has seen -- is the main driver of his part of the story. She takes on Darkseid, joins up with Carrie's crusade, and shows Jonathan the world. It's a good thing he takes after his father in some ways, because, with Lara's influence alone, he'd turn into the uncaring god that Superman deconstructions usually become.

Lara is a bit of that deconstruction herself. It's clear from just how she looks and carries herself, flying -- always using her flight to stay just off the ground -- her hair all over the place and uncontrolled, a dark Superman emblem on her chest, and the Wonder Woman emblem on her jacket. Having been raised on Paradise Island, she has the Amazonians' disdain for the World of Men extended to all of humanity, where everything is pointless fighting and consumption.

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First, it's eating. She hates how much humans are always eating, so focused on food all the time. It gets worse when they fly by a political rally. What sets her off more than eating is that this passes as civilization. "They're born upset. They never stop complaining -- not until they start killing each other," she tells Jonathan, seeing only the side of humanity that spends so much time fighting.

If this was all there was to her, she'd be somewhat fun but wear out her welcome quickly. You take this too far and you become an irredeemable monster -- nothing matters so you may as well burn it to the ground. But from the beginning, Lara listens to her brother, if only a little. Jonathan sees that humanity can do great things, spending so much of their effort helping each other. She rejects what he says out of hand in the moment, but it clearly gets through to her eventually.

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We see it when she's tempted by Darkseid. She agrees with him at first as they both speak the language of humanity's worthlessness, after all. But when she sees that Carrie, the one person she'd listen to, has been taken over and the other humans under Darkseid's thrall have had their minds wiped, she turns. She may not like humanity, but she sees more value in them than being turned into mindless automatons.

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Not that it changes her personality. Rather than at humanity, she turns her rage and anger against Darkseid. She first redirects his own Omega Beam back at him, then takes the hit that weakens him, letting Jonathan attack and eventually drain him. The whole time, she does this in defiance, even when Darkseid should have taken over her mind, she uses her brother's power to get in one more verbal jab at him before disappearing and leaving him to the people he manipulated to turn on each other.

While Lara's not the center of the comic, she's a fun, lively character whose rather abrasive and sarcastic personality livens things up around the edges of Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child. Sure, she's an asshole, but she works so well we wouldn't want her any other way.

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