Spoilers SUPERGIRL - 2026 DCU Movie Grade & Discussion

[Guy Gardener]

1. Shouldn't sunlight have "cured" Krypto from any poison?
2. Alien dogs can't handle chocolate? Really? Alien SUPER Dogs can't handle chocolate? Really? Really?
3. She doesn't need a red sun planet millions of light years away to power down, all Kara needs is to go under ground, underwater, to a moonbase on the dark side, or stay on the night side of earth for 5 days. Although Clark briefly had that "new" super power where he exploded with the fury of a thousand super punches, and then he was almost human for a day or two, but it did eventually kill him.

 

[JoeZhang]

1. Shouldn't sunlight have "cured" Krypto from any poison?
2. Alien dogs can't handle chocolate? Really? Alien SUPER Dogs can't handle chocolate? Really? Really?
3. She doesn't need a red sun planet millions of light years away to power down, all Kara needs is to go under ground, underwater, to a moonbase on the dark side, or stay on the night side of earth for 5 days. Although Clark briefly had that "new" super power where he exploded with the fury of a thousand super punches, and then he was almost human for a day or two, but it did eventually kill him.

1) there is a brief line that he would not survive the journey into space.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Moving Krypto was deemed inadvisable, because it could accelerate the poison, so he had to wait on a planet with a red sun.

 

[Mudd]

The intro scene for Lobo plays differently after you learn more about the couple running the bar.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Moving Krypto was deemed inadvisable, because it could accelerate the poison, so he had to wait on a planet with a red sun.

I guess I wasn't paying attention.

But that explodey power, which probably isn't a thing here, couldn't that have powered up the dog, as Kara powered down?

 

[Mudd]

I guess I wasn't paying attention.

But that explodey power, which probably isn't a thing here, couldn't that have powered up the dog, as Kara powered down?

Who says she has that?

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Concerning the misreading of a comic, it happens to the best of us. Grant Morrison told Kevin Smith on a podcast ages ago that at the end of The Killing Joke, Batman kills the Joker. Both DC editorial and Alan Moore himself have said that this is not what happened.

 

[Harpsichord]

To play devil's advocate here, since he doesn't appear to be moving in the final panel, isn't the assumption that he may have died at least a plausible reading if not an inescapable one?

Inescapable? I've never understood this reading. I don't even see it as plausible: Kara can hear his heartbeat, easily. She knows he isn't dead when she walks away or she wouldn't have walked away. I don't see how this reading of the ending follows from the previous couple of pages or even the previous 7 issues-- it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. "It's too big, we're too small," and then they just execute him? No way!

 

[Christopher]

Concerning the misreading of a comic, it happens to the best of us. Grant Morrison told Kevin Smith on a podcast ages ago that at the end of The Killing Joke, Batman kills the Joker. Both DC editorial and Alan Moore himself have said that this is not what happened.

See, this is the thing. Our entertainment culture so often defaults to "hero kills the villain" that it's what people expect to see, and they project it onto any ambiguous ending, even if it's completely out of character for the hero or missing the point of the story.

 

[Set Harth]

She knows he isn't dead when she walks away or she wouldn't have walked away.

So if he died she would have just stayed there?

 

[Harpsichord]

So if he died she would have just stayed there?

You mean Kara? Well, if Kara thought he was dead she wouldn't have left him on the ground next to Ruthye's house for *her* to deal with. What in the world would be the point of sparing his life and sending him to Phantom Zone prison for 300 years be if they kill him immediately upon release? I truly don't understand this reading of the ending. Like, sorry, I've liked this comic since it was released and this is an embarrassing version of it.

And, speaking of embarrassing, how about that final needle-drop lol

 

[The Realist]

I'm not saying you're wrong about any of this, just that I can understand why people would misinterpret the ending, because I wasn't quite clear on it myself. I had to think about it to figure out that Krem was probably alive at the end of the comic, and a lot of people don't really think that much about what they read or watch, but just go by impressions.

I will submit that Ana Nogueira, at least, should have thought about what she read a lot before undertaking to adapt it for the screen.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Who says she has that?

I didn't, but the explosion would be a normal explosion, almost killing Krypto, ripping his snout off, before his super powers kicked in, and started healing him, sorta like the last episode of Stargate SG1.

 

[Mudd]

W.T.F.

 

[Guy Gardener]

So if he died she would have just stayed there?

I read a comic where some one stole Clark's tooth brush.

You can use Kryptonian DNA to make WMDs.

Although Superman isn't that famous yet, and Krypton didn't blow up that long ago, and there's still a bunch of Daxamites running around.

 

[JD]

We saw it this morning and I really enjoyed it.
The big highlights were definitely Milly Alcock's Supergirl and Jason Momoa's Lobo, but the rest of the cast was good too. I've seen a few people complain that Krem wasn't that deep, but I don't really see where he needed to be, he served his purpose and I don't really see where we needed more from him.
It had some great action, the fight on the space bus with the teleporter was probably my favorite.
I've seen a few people complain about Kara killing Krem, but I thought it was fitting for this version of the character. The whole point of her stopping Ruthye from killing wasn't that she objected to killing or anything like that, it was that she didn't want Ruthye to end up like her. And since she was already the kind of damaged, angry person she was trying to stop Ruthye from becoming, it was totally in character and appropriate from her to kill him.
And for me the heroes killing depends on the situation and the context, and there have been a few times where they had the hero kill the villain and it didn't work for me because it didn't feel appropriate to the situation, in this case it did.

 

[Mudd]

We saw it this morning and I really enjoyed it.
The big highlights were definitely Milly Alcock's Supergirl and Jason Momoa's Lobo, but the rest of the cast was good too. I've seen a few people complain that Krem wasn't that deep, but I don't really see where he needed to be, he served his purpose and I don't really see where we needed more from him.
It had some great action, the fight on the space bus with the teleporter was probably my favorite.
I've seen a few people complain about Kara killing Krem, but I thought it was fitting for this version of the character. The whole point of her stopping Ruthye from killing wasn't that she objected to killing or anything like that, it was that she didn't want Ruthye to end up like her. And since she was already the kind of damaged, angry person she was trying to stop Ruthye from becoming, it was totally in character and appropriate from her to kill him.
And for me the heroes killing depends on the situation and the context, and there have been a few times where they had the hero kill the villain and it didn't work for me because it didn't feel appropriate to the situation, in this case it did.

Yeah, "If you object to Superman killing Zod, you can never validly accept any protagonist killing any villain ever," is beyond stupid.

 

[Tuskin38]

What an embarrassment and I no longer think Gunn i9s the right man for the job.

After a single, probably not even bad, movie? Get a grip.

 

[JD]

It's also worth remembering that James Gunn was just a producer on this, not the writer or director.

 

[Rich Watson]

It's also worth remembering that James Gunn was just a producer on this, not the writer or director.

That's like saying it isn't Feige's fault when a Marvel movie fails.

He's being paid vast sums of money to be in charge of all these movies.