Patricia Arias

Patricia Arias is a mean old lady featured on the CW Network television series Supergirl. She was played by actress Betty Buckley and first appeared in the seventh episode of season three titled, "Wake Up".

Biography
Twenty some-odd years ago, Patricia Arias discovered an alien space ship on her farmland. This sort of thing happens more often than you would think. Inside of it was a female child. Patricia took care of the child as if it were her own and named her Samantha. She arranged to have the spacecraft hidden away inside of a barn with a cover over top of it. In all her years growing up, Samantha never quite found enough curiosity to inquire about the covered-up spaceship-shaped thing inside of the barn.

When Samantha was not quite eighteen, she became pregnant, which caused a great row between her adoptive mother and she. Patricia kicked Samantha out of the house, and the two remained estranged for years. Samantha gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Ruby.

As an adult, Samantha moved to National City, where she became a high ranking officer in the LexCorp corporation under the leadership of Lena Luthor. During this time, she began to notice certain changes in her physiology, such as the sudden development of superhuman strength and invulnerability. Samantha drove back to her mother's house to ask her about her background. Reluctantly, Patricia revealed the truth. She took her out to the barn and showed her the rocket ship that brought her to Earth, which was Kryptonian in origin. Samantha took a Sunstone crystal from the ship and drove off in search of her destiny.

Abilities

 * Patricia Arias has the uncommon ability to disguise a spaceship and hide it inside of a barn so that on one would ever discover it. Such a feat requires great ingenuity as well as suitable physical stamina just to move a space ship. Either that, or she built the barn around it. Either way, it is an impressive demonstration of determination and commitment.


 * Patricia Arias has the ability to forget the name of her grandchild.

Notes & Trivia



 * Patricia Arias seems to have suffered some form of injury to her left hand. Perhaps she got carpal tunnel syndrome?

Appearances

 * Supergirl: Wake Up