Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-17 (Thursday)

On Jul 18, 2025 at 1:30:41 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

SUPERGIRL IS HERE ALREADY?! + WHO SHOULD PLAY THE NEXT WONDER WOMAN? | Film
Threat News: this just in! Chris Gore and Alan Ng report…

If you were expecting the DCU's new Supergirl to be a female copy of Superman,
think again. As James Gunn has said, she's "a total mess", and there's a dark
reason why.

Superman is so back. David Corenswet has officially stepped into the Man of
Steel's red boots, with the new movie marking the official launch of Gunn and
Peter Safran's reimagined DC Universe.

It's off to a promising start, earning $217 million at the global box office
after its opening weekend, which bodes well for future DCU projects.

That includes Supergirl, which sees Milly Alcock taking on the role of Kara
Zor-El. Despite being Supe's cousin, the film is set to be the grittier
outsider. Alcock's Supergirl makes a brief cameo at the end of SUPERMAN,
turning up to the Fortress of Solitude to reclaim her doggo Krypto-- and she's
absolutely wasted.

[BTR1701: How is she wasted? I didn't think human drugs could affect a
Kryptonian.
     Does this mean you could defeat Superman with poison gas as well?]

Gunn told ScreenRant that this is the version of Supergirl we'll be meeting in
her movie, the reason being that, unlike her cousin, she has had a tough
upbringing.

     [BTR1701: Cool! Does this mean she's a super-slut also? And how do
     men survive having sex with her?]

"Yeah, that's her. She's a mess. She's a total mess. I mean, I think as we
learn, she's had a completely different background from Superman. A much more
difficult background. He's had this wonderful upbringing by these two parents
who loved him and were very healthy and her background was much different than
that. She's ended up different than her cousin."

In the comics, Kara Zor-El didn't grow up in Kansas with two kind-hearted
farmers-- she spent her formative years on the remnants of Krypton, witnessing
the planet's collapse and suffering immense trauma before finally arriving on
Earth.

While Clark Kent landed as a baby and was given decades to grow into his
powers surrounded by love and stability, Kara arrived as a teenager, already
shaped by loss and displacement. This fundamental difference defines their
personalities. Superman is hopeful because he knows humanity at its best.
Supergirl, especially in the Woman of Tomorrow comic by Tom King, sees the
universe at its worst. As such, she’s more jaded and we can expect to see this
in the DCU's upcoming movie.

This was confirmed by Gunn back in 2023, who told THR, "She is much more
hard-core and not the Supergirl we're used to. We will see the difference
between Superman, who was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from the
time he was an infant, versus Supergirl, raised on a rock, a chip off of
Krypton, and who watched everyone around her die and be killed in terrible
ways for the first 14 years of her life and then come to Earth."

Superman is currently in cinemas, while Supergirl is set to drop on June 26,
2026.

     [BTR1701: The LGBTQIA@*)^&$; crowd is already screaming that if
     they don't make Supergirl lesbian, they're going to be outraged.
     Apparently they really wanted Supergirl to be a troon dude in a dress,
     but that would have meant there would be no Supergirl, just two
     Supermen, one of them delusional. Plus the actress was already cast
     and in the SUPERMAN movie as a cameo before the nutjob activists
     found out about it, so lesbian is all they can hope for at this point.]