- "Perhaps the biggest hole is the one left by betrayal. Deceit, lies, mistrust. And this hole that we carry, that deep, deep pain, is the one that only we ourselves can heal from. Because once the person who cheated on us gets away with it, that pain never goes away."
- —Ally Allston[src]
Ally Allston (born c. 1971)[1] is the daughter of a late unnamed man and a late unnamed woman. She is also the founder and leader of the Inverse Society.
Ally wears her family pendant as a way of merging with her Inverse World counterpart, but after Lucy Lane got involved with the Inverse Society and one of her followers died, Lois exposed her group in an article of the Daily Planet, which stripped Ally of credibility and forced her to use the dark web as a meeting room, but all this changed when she secretly recorded a video of Lois saying that she hates her. Eventually, Ally was arrested by the Department of Defense after she tried to open a portal to the Inverse World and some of her followers were apparently disintegrated. Eventually, she was released by Erin Wu and went to the Inverse World, where she used the pendants to merge with her alternate self, becoming a parasitic god-like being, but she was separated and defeated by Superman, and arrested again by the DOD where she was held in the same cell with her counterpart.
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Biography
Early life
- "Ally is my friend.
She is a parasite. She leeches onto people when they are at their lowest and convinces them that she's the only one who can fix them." - —Lois Lane and Lucy Lane.[src]
Ally's family has believed for generations that there is a dark dimension where everyone has another half. In 1979, when Ally was 8 years old, her father died, apparently as a result of trying to access the dimension. His will gave Ally full control of all his properties if she continued her work with a glowing diamond-shaped pendant, which she agreed to despite her uncle's warnings.[1]
Ally has written a series of self-help books based on her family's philosophy. At some point, she founded the Inverse Society, a self help cult, and recruited several other individuals into it, such as Heather Ackerman, Meghan, and Kit Faulkner. Ally met Lucy Lane at a book signing, and made her join her cult and turn against her family.[2] Ally used the pendant as a way to allow people to travel to the Inverse World with the addition of drug overdose, a dangerous process that killed Heather Ackerman.[3]
Lucy Lane was one of her most faithful followers and took Ally's drugs in an attempt to see the Inverse World, but Lucy's sister Lois found her and saved her, believing she had tried to kill herself. Lois wrote an article of the Daily Planet exposing Ally and calling the group a cult, accusing Ally of being a con artist. Ally avoided criminal charges, but her reputation was ruined and the Inverse Society was forced into hiding in dark web chat rooms.[3]
Return
Years later, Lucy tried to debunk Lois' story on a podcast and Lois invited her to Smallville so they could talk. Lucy asked Ally to meet Lois instead, and Ally went with several men to intimidate her.[4]
Ally arranged a meeting between Lois and Lucy at a hotel in New Carthage so that she could record Lois implying that the story was a lie. Meanwhile, Ally was giving an Inverse Society lecture, and realized that journalist Chrissy Beppo was undercover. However, this was a trap as Ally expected her to show up and showed Chrissy footage of Lois admitting that she hated Ally and wanted to bring her down. Later, Chrissy called Ally and asked them to meet so she would know the truth.[3]
During the interview, Ally drugged Chrissy and she passed out. Ally used the pendant to send Chrissy to the Inverse World and when she woke up, Superman and Lois arrived and told Ally that Dr. Kit Faulkner was killed and she was in danger. Superman's Inverse World counterpart tried to attack Ally, but Superman stopped him. Ally was annoyed.[1] Later, Ally was approached by Mitch Anderson, who said that Superman spoke of her and gave her the duplicate of her pendant from the other world.[5]
Ally told Mitch that there was an Inverse World where everyone had a counterpart, and that with the pendants they could merge the two worlds. She told Lucy to stay behind as a "fail safe" in case her plan didn't work. Later, Ally, Anderson and a few of her followers went to the Shuster Mines and opened a portal to the Inverse World. However, most of her followers likely disintegrated when they tried to go through the portal. Superman arrived to save Ally's followers from harm; Anderson then stole Ally's pendant and passed through the portal unharmed. Ally was arrested by the Department of Defense and taken to their base, where she was interrogated by Sam Lane but said nothing.[6]
Merging with her alternate self
Eventually, she was released by Erin Wu and went to the Inverse World.[7] She arrived at the El Farm along with her counterpart, and the Inverse World version of Lana and Tal-Rho. Eventually, they got the pendants and managed to merge themselves, giving the pendant to Jonathan-El to do the same with his Earth-TUD25 counterpart.[8]
Later, the merged Ally went through the portal to Earth-TUD25 just as Superman and Tal-Rho were trying to destroy the fused pendants. She took the stone and drained some of Superman and Tal's energy, but John Henry Irons managed to get her to drop the Stone and hold on to it long enough for the Kryptonians to destroy it. Ally took the pieces back to the Inverse World, and after talking to Lana-Rho, she absorbed the Tal-Rho's life force, killing him.[9]
Merging the worlds
Later, Ally returned to Earth-TUD25 to where her cult and Lucy Lane were, and after weakening Sam Lane and Superman absorbing their energy, and dodging John Irons' attacks, Ally went to the portal to talk to Lana-Rho and began to merge the worlds.[10] While merging the worlds in the space between worlds, Ally was attacked by John, but she managed to defeat him.[2]
Defeat
- "With the authorization of the Department of Defense, today I can relay to you, not only is the merging of the planets real, it is happening, and Ally Allston, or whoever she is now that she and her Bizarro self are one, is responsible. If Ally succeeds in merging these two worlds, each of us will be forced against our will to merge with our other selves, turning us into... I don't know what. And I can also confirm that for the first time in 20 years we can't wait for Superman to save us."
- —Chrissy Beppo[src]
Tal-Rho tried to stop Ally from merging the worlds, and she began to absorb powers from him, but Jordan Kent appeared and stopped her. When John Henry Irons and Natalie Lane Irons tried to destroy the portals, Ally tried to kill them, but they were saved by Superman.
They fought, and Ally tried to absorb his powers again, but this overwhelmed her and caused her to split, causing her to lose her powers and fall from the stratosphere, but she was also saved by Superman, who managed to separate the worlds. John and Natalie kept them apart and they were arrested by the Department of Defense, where they were held in the same cell. They were later interrogated by Lois Lane, who asked if when they were merged they felt complete, and they replied that at first, they felt joy. But soon after, they were filled by a such dread. They admitted that despite actually feeling worse, they continued; with their path because they didn't want to be alone. Lois left them on that; noting saying that; they wouldn't be any more as their only company from now on would be each other.[11]
Personality
Ally is a very cunning, manipulative woman. Very charismatic, she excels in swaying people into doubting themselves and ultimately joining her cult. So driven in her goals, she is highly amoral, carrying little in what methods she must use to succeed or who must die from it, even if the victim is one of her followers. So confident in herself, she does not let setbacks worry her and is likewise not easily intimidated. Her nature stems from a deep-rooted loyalty to her family and their beliefs of "ascending". Shameless as her goals are, she truly believes she is doing justice for the world, saving it by making everyone "whole" by uniting with their Inverse World counterpart, giving her a messiah complex.
After finally merging with her counterpart, Ally became increasingly self-righteous and amoral, doing as she pleased with no concern about others. Essentially dropping her benevolent demeanor, she was willing to kill whoever she had to for her goals. Ultimately, this new, even more shameless nature came from a newfound feeling of dread and being different from others, now only wanted to make everyone merge with their respective counterparts just to not be alone, even though she knew they would be no happier in this new existence than she is.
Powers and abilities
Former powers
- "So Ally is some kind of energy parasite. She can absorb power from anything she physically comes in contact with."
- —John Henry Irons[src]
- Transformation: After using her pendent to merge with her inverse counterpart, she and her other self were able to transform into a "god-like" form.
- Dimensional physiology: After merging with her Inverse counterpart, Ally's physiology has been mutated into a "god-like" parasitic being, giving her superhuman abilities.
- Dimensional Manipulation: She gained the power to generate and manipulate dimensional energy, being able to fly, absorb kinetic energy and alter reality itself, merging two different dimensions in the process. However, she lost her powers after her last battle with Superman, which resulted in her being separated again.
- Dimensional ergokinesis: Ally gained the ability to manipulate energy after merging with her inverse self, this energy appeared as a few different colors such as blue, yellow, or even a colorless energy.
- Energy projection: When Ally merged with her Inverse World counterpart, she gained the ability to fire powerful blasts of energy from her hands. This energy was enough to even knock back Superman.[8]
- Life force absorption: Ally gained the ability to absorb life force, which she used on Tal-Rho and Superman, greatly weakening them.[9]
- Energy absorption: Ally gained the ability to absorb energy after merging, while absorbing Superman and Tal-Rho's life force, she was also able to drain their cells of their energy.
- Flight: Ally gained the ability to fly after merging with her counterpart.[9]
- Telekinesis: Ally has the ability to move things with her mind, as she stopped John Henry Irons' hammer and striking it back at him.[9]
- Teleportation: Ally can also travel via teleportation, which she used to catch Superman by surprise.[9]
- Interdimensional travel: Ally is able to travel from Earth-TUD25 to the Inverse World whenever she wants.[9]
- Invisibility: Ally is able to become invisible across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.[9]
- Dimensional ergokinesis: Ally gained the ability to manipulate energy after merging with her inverse self, this energy appeared as a few different colors such as blue, yellow, or even a colorless energy.
- Invulnerability: Ally has shown remarkable durability, seeing as she has tolerated substantial amounts of physical distress; for example, she has survived being hit by John Henry Irons' kinetic hammer without taking any damage.[9]
- Superhuman speed: Ally moves at superhuman speed.[9]
- Superhuman strength: Ally has superhuman strength.[9]
- Sensing: Ally was able to sense the pendant’s location and track it. She was able to sense that Superman was trying to recover his powers, and flew off to stop him.
- Space Survivability: Ally is able to breathe in space without any trouble as shown by how she spent a substantial amount of time in the space between worlds in order to merge the two together.
- Dimensional Manipulation: She gained the power to generate and manipulate dimensional energy, being able to fly, absorb kinetic energy and alter reality itself, merging two different dimensions in the process. However, she lost her powers after her last battle with Superman, which resulted in her being separated again.
- Dimensional physiology: After merging with her Inverse counterpart, Ally's physiology has been mutated into a "god-like" parasitic being, giving her superhuman abilities.
Abilities
- Bilingualism: Ally is capable of fluently speaking English, and is also capable of understanding the backwards language, as she was able to understand her inverse counterpart.
Former weaknesses
- Energy overload: Despite being able to absorb and generate huge amounts of energy, Ally would start to destabilize and split from her Inverse World counterpart after absorbing energy from an overcharged Superman, in a similar way that was used to destroy the pendant that merged them.
Equipment
Former equipment
- Pendant: Ally inherited a pendant from her family that is able to pass an individual from one dimension to another or merge them with their shadow self.[1] Mitch Anderson gave her her Inverse World counterpart's pendant,[5] but the pendants were later stolen by Anderson when he went to the Inverse World.[6] Eventually, Anderson fused the pendants. The Allys used it to fuse together, and gave it to Jonathan-El to go to Earth-TUD25 and fuse with his counterpart.[8] Jon failed and the stone was confiscated by the DOD.[12] It was later destroyed by Superman and Tal-Rho using their heat visions.[9]
Appearances
Superman & Lois
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
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Behind the scenes
- In the DC comics, Alexandra Allston was one of two Parasites created by Ruin along with her brother, Alexander.
- Lois calling Ally a parasite in "The Inverse Method" and "All Is Lost", is a nod to her comic book counterpart, Alexandra Allston/Parasite. Her being able to absorb the powers of others is also a reference to the parasite, who manages to do the same in the comics.
- The man with Ally at the reading of her father's will in "Girl... You'll Be a Woman, Soon" may be a reference to Alexander, as while not confirmed he is her brother, it is known that he is a relative of hers.
- Ally served as the main antagonist of Season 2 of Superman & Lois.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Girl... You'll Be a Woman, Soon"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Worlds War Bizarre"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "The Inverse Method"
- ↑ "The Thing in the Mines"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Anti-Hero"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Into Oblivion"
- ↑ "30 Days and 30 Nights"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Bizarros in a Bizarro World"
- ↑ 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10 "Lies That Bind"
- ↑ "All Is Lost"
- ↑ "Waiting for Superman"
- ↑ "Truth and Consequences"
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