[0:00] DC Studios Supergirl movie features Seth
[0:02] Rogan eating some poop corn that might
[0:05] secretly be the most important subtle
[0:06] joke of the movie. So, join me as I
[0:08] overthink it and overanalyze everything
[0:10] that happened in this movie with a big
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[0:15] Eric Voss of the New Rockstars channel,
[0:16] and this is a scene by scene breakdown
[0:18] of DC Studios Supergirl. In this video,
[0:21] I'm going to break down all of the
[0:22] Easter eggs and comic references, what
[0:24] the filmmakers were really aiming to do
[0:25] with this film, what it contributes to
[0:27] the overall DC universe continuity, and
[0:29] just some other fun details I noticed
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[0:44] New Rockstars. The film opens with this
[0:46] record player with alien writing on the
[0:48] inside lid as Krypto licks a half-runken
[0:50] bottle of booze and knocks it over,
[0:52] causing the needle to hit the LP and
[0:54] start playing. The song is This Summer
[0:56] by Slaybells, a relatively recent track
[0:58] released in April 2025, showing that
[1:00] Cara has music taken very recently from
[1:02] Earth. We really learn in this movie
[1:04] that in the cosmos of the DCU, a lot of
[1:06] alien races and societies just kind of
[1:08] adopt popular music from Earth. We
[1:11] follow the alcohol as it drips down into
[1:13] the machinery of Carara's spaceship and
[1:15] causes something to spark. There is a
[1:16] daily planet newspaper on the floor. Set
[1:18] visits revealed this full newspaper
[1:20] front page. It's dated Thursday, October
[1:22] 4th. And Superman gets the huge headline
[1:25] spanning all six columns. Superman saves
[1:27] town from nuclear reactor explosion with
[1:30] an article talking about a near meltdown
[1:32] at a Silver Ridge nuclear facility.
[1:34] Meanwhile, his cousin Cara gets
[1:36] relegated to a smaller two column
[1:37] headline, Supergirl rescues cats. The
[1:40] article reads, "It can't be easy living
[1:42] in the shadow of your cousin, especially
[1:44] if your cousin is Superman." Supergirl,
[1:46] however, doesn't seem to mind coming to
[1:47] the rescue of a family of cats that had
[1:49] fallen into a sewer. She had no problem
[1:51] getting her hands and suit dirty to save
[1:54] her trembling furballs. Superman may
[1:56] have been saving an entire town from a
[1:58] potentially devastating nuclear
[2:00] explosion, but Supergirl continues to
[2:02] win over hearts with this save. And the
[2:04] photo shows Cara in her Supergirl suit
[2:06] with her hair tied in a tight ponytail
[2:08] holding two hopefully grateful cats. So
[2:11] fun joke hidden in there. She had to go
[2:13] into a sewer to get them. Yuck. Also, we
[2:15] know Cara is definitely a dog person,
[2:17] not a cat person. But this opening shot
[2:19] and newspaper blurbs established Cara
[2:21] with the save the cat screenwriting
[2:23] maxim for heroes that Blake Snder
[2:25] actually coined from the 1978 Richard
[2:27] Donner Superman film where Christopher
[2:29] Reeves Superman saves the ugliest cat
[2:31] ever from a tree. for a little girl with
[2:33] high knee socks who definitely got her
[2:34] ass beat when she went inside.
[2:36] >> Haven't I told you not telling lies?
[2:39] >> This photo shows what Cara would have
[2:41] looked like in the era when she was
[2:42] tagging along with Superman when he
[2:44] joined the Justice gang at the ranch in
[2:46] the retconed Peacemaker season 1 finale
[2:48] that we saw in the season 2 premiere.
[2:50] And it looks like her cousin Call really
[2:51] set her up with these easy wins of
[2:53] saving cats in order to help her public
[2:55] image so that she'd feel more at home on
[2:57] Earth the way he feels. And hey, at
[2:58] least she made it above the fold. Clerk
[3:00] probably pulled some strings at the
[3:01] Daily Planet to get her place there.
[3:03] Below the fold, we see a headline about
[3:04] Romeita Lake, named after comic writer
[3:06] John Ramita Jr. And at the very bottom,
[3:08] there's a mention of a political leader
[3:10] named Collins stepping down after a
[3:12] disastrous year, probably giving us the
[3:14] name of the Metropolis mayor stepping
[3:15] down after the events of Superman.
[3:17] Krypto pees directly on Superman's
[3:19] newspaper photo. And Cara, waking up
[3:21] hung over, still wearing her sunglasses,
[3:23] says,
[3:23] >> "You managed to get most of it on the
[3:25] paper this time.
[3:28] Good job, buddy." Supergirl Kerazorel is
[3:31] played by Millie Alco, the Australian
[3:33] actress who played the young Raineira
[3:34] Targaryen and House of the Dragon season
[3:36] 1. She appeared at the very end of the
[3:38] 2025 Superman film in the middle of a
[3:40] drunken vendor back to claim her dog,
[3:42] which we find out in that scene did not
[3:44] belong to Superman, but to his cousin.
[3:46] This Supergirl film is the second
[3:48] feature in the DC studio slate. Directed
[3:50] by Craig Gillespie, who directed ITA,
[3:52] Dumb Money, Kella, Larsson, the Real
[3:54] Girl, and written by Anna Nogera, a
[3:56] playwright who will also be writing Teen
[3:58] Titans and Wonder Woman for DC Studios.
[4:00] The film was originally announced with
[4:02] the title of Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow
[4:04] since DC Studios heads James Gun and
[4:06] Peter Saffron said it was going to be
[4:08] based on Tom King and Billy Eve's 2021
[4:11] Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow graphic
[4:12] novel series which was wellreceived for
[4:15] its true grit narrative structure, its
[4:16] vibrant pastel color scheme, and its
[4:18] quite mature themes. But then a few
[4:20] weeks before the film came out, the
[4:22] director and screenwriter in a series of
[4:24] interviews revealed that they didn't
[4:25] really use the source material as an
[4:27] inspiration. Gillespie implied he didn't
[4:29] even read it at first and just based his
[4:31] shot list on Noggera's script. And
[4:33] Noggera's script contains really none of
[4:34] the narration from Ruthie and makes
[4:36] significant changes to the character of
[4:38] Creme. As we'll talk about throughout
[4:39] this breakdown, the filmmakers in
[4:40] general just had other priorities in
[4:42] mind. Cara gets a video call from her
[4:44] cousin Superman. She labels him Clark,
[4:46] which is his Earth name, which is how he
[4:48] initially introduced himself to her. I
[4:50] like how Cara has a button to end the
[4:51] call and a button to mute because she
[4:53] probably just doesn't like talking to
[4:54] her cousin that much. You'll notice
[4:56] Krypto in this movie does not wear the
[4:58] collar with the Superman sigil that he
[5:00] wore in 2025's Superman. Similar to
[5:02] Cara, he spends much of the movie
[5:03] without the superhero costumeuming. Cara
[5:05] leaves this icy world that she was
[5:07] parked at, and we see her crowd surfing
[5:09] with Krypto, the shirt that Cara wears
[5:11] throughout this movie under her trench
[5:12] coat depicts Debbie Harry, lead singer
[5:14] of Blondie, the singer of Kami that was
[5:16] featured so heavily in this movie's
[5:18] marketing. And then, in the light of a
[5:19] yellow sun, Cara and Krypto play Fetch
[5:22] in space. Since the sunlight is yellow,
[5:24] Cara has advanced powers like she would
[5:25] have on Earth and can float in space
[5:27] without needing any kind of oxygen. Cara
[5:29] repairs the part of her ship where
[5:30] Krypto had spilled the booze, and we see
[5:32] her eating cereal with Krypto while
[5:33] they're both watching a movie on her
[5:35] ship screen. This movie, if you look
[5:36] closely, is Casablanca, so she's a
[5:38] romantic at heart. We now find ourselves
[5:40] on the planet of Hoer, given the solar
[5:43] category of red, meaning Cara doesn't
[5:45] have her powers here and is capable of
[5:46] getting drunk. The name Hoer is not one
[5:49] of the planets in the comic series. It's
[5:50] based on the DC comics editor Britney
[5:52] Holier who championed the 2021 Supergirl
[5:54] Woman of Tomorrow story and heavily
[5:56] influenced Tom King's initial idea. But
[5:58] in the comics, the home world of Ruthie
[6:00] is not ever given a name. I appreciate
[6:01] the detail that in space the rings of
[6:03] this planet Tolure are red as this space
[6:06] debris, ice, and rocks that form the
[6:07] rings would be eliminated by the red
[6:09] sunlight of the closest star. We meet
[6:11] Ruthie Marie Null played by Eve Ridley
[6:13] in her home with her father Elias Null
[6:15] and her mother Delila Null. They're all
[6:17] part of the Denastia clan and Elias has
[6:19] a reputation as a talented swordsmith.
[6:21] Their homestead and armory is raided by
[6:23] the Briggins led by Creme of the Yellow
[6:25] Hills played in this movie by Belgian
[6:27] actor Matias Gonertz. Creme of the
[6:29] Yellow Hills is a DC villain who only
[6:31] appears in the 2021 Woman of Tomorrow
[6:33] comic story line. Tom King and Billy
[6:35] Evely conceived him as a bearded
[6:37] shirtless romance novel coverl looking
[6:38] figure who's actually a genocidal maniac
[6:41] who has committed a variety of horrible
[6:43] crimes on a variety of planets that Cara
[6:46] and Ruthie follow the wake of
[6:47] destruction of the character in this
[6:49] script and played by Skoner is quite
[6:51] different. He's bald, aside for a long
[6:53] braid, a studco covered face like a
[6:55] ravager from James Gun's Guardians of
[6:57] the Galaxy movies or a Mad Max villain.
[6:59] And he's played with a series of odd
[7:00] head tilts and grunts and mannerisms
[7:03] with an odd accent that just makes them
[7:04] a bit hard to read the motivations of.
[7:06] Ruthy's brother, Emmen, doesn't know
[7:08] there are strangers in the house and
[7:09] hops out in the hallway to playfully
[7:11] surprise his sister and gets killed.
[7:13] Delilah loses it and gets killed too,
[7:15] followed by Elias. The home gets torched
[7:17] and only Ruthie is left alive. We see
[7:19] her bury her three family members
[7:20] lakeside and takes one of her father's
[7:22] prized swords as payment for a warrior
[7:24] who could help her avenge these deaths.
[7:26] This is another significant change from
[7:28] the comic story line. In the comics,
[7:30] Creme initially serves as an agent of
[7:31] the local king to kill Ruthy's father
[7:34] who's a never named rock farmer and
[7:36] Creme leaves his ornate sword in her
[7:38] father's gut that Ruthie retrieves in a
[7:40] kind of morbid Excalibur moment. Yeah.
[7:42] See how these horizontally oriented
[7:44] frames really do make a pretty cool
[7:46] cinematic visual that could have worked
[7:47] great as a storyboard with this
[7:49] interesting true grit narration in the
[7:51] corner. Again, this movie just goes in a
[7:52] different direction. Cara and Krypto get
[7:54] drinks at a bar since this planet has a
[7:56] red sun. Cara is capable of getting
[7:57] drunk here and she blows a flame off of
[7:59] a drink to sip it. We actually see Cara
[8:01] do this in a bar on Andurf's asteroid in
[8:03] issue two of the comics. Cara says 23 is
[8:06] going to be her best year yet and
[8:07] wonders that maybe they should just be
[8:08] red sun people so that she can stay
[8:10] drunk all the time. She puts some tunes
[8:12] on the jukebox and then drunkenly gets
[8:14] tugged back when she forgets her device
[8:15] is still plugged in. The track she plays
[8:17] is another April 2025 track called Catch
[8:19] These Fists by Wet Leg. A lumpy alien
[8:22] makes a move on Cara and she says, "Not
[8:24] going to happen." This movie is really
[8:25] filled with practical alien puppets and
[8:27] prosthetics and languages that do paint
[8:29] the DCU cosmic landscape with a fun
[8:31] amount of species diversity. Ruthie
[8:33] comes in and pitches the room to avenge
[8:35] her family in exchange for her father's
[8:36] precious sword. Cara wants nothing to do
[8:38] with it. Not my monkeys, not my circus,
[8:40] she says. But since an Elias null sword
[8:42] is valuable, a big brute alien just
[8:44] takes it. He's played by Will Cobin, who
[8:46] will also be playing Bones in DC Studios
[8:48] Clayface, Cara confronts this brute
[8:50] outside and ends up beating his ass. Her
[8:52] strength and agility is pretty
[8:53] impressive considering she does not have
[8:55] powers on this red suned planet. And
[8:57] considering she's drunk as a skunk, but
[8:59] she does giggle when she notices she's
[9:00] bleeding. Cara returns the sword to
[9:02] Ruthie. And I like how in the background
[9:03] of this moment, we can see Krypto
[9:05] excitedly hopping and barking at the
[9:06] brute steed. Cara wakes up hung over and
[9:09] wounded the next morning. And while
[9:10] brushing her teeth, Clark catches her
[9:12] with a call, saying that if she stays
[9:13] off world for so long and not enough
[9:15] time in Metropolis, she'll never catch
[9:17] her stride.
[9:17] >> I'm worried you're not going to find
[9:18] your people.
[9:19] >> Yeah, well that's the thing, Clark. I
[9:21] have no people.
[9:23] >> Ruthie arrives to ask for help again and
[9:25] follows Cara outside with Krypto. They
[9:27] shot all of these parts in the Scottish
[9:28] Highlands, specifically near the Arkal
[9:30] in Southerntherland. But I do feel like
[9:32] something here might have been removed
[9:33] in the edit because we just kind of see
[9:35] Creme and his number two drum Baxton
[9:37] just suddenly walking right up to Cara's
[9:39] ship and taking it along with Cara's
[9:40] uneaten cereal since Krypto was also
[9:42] eating that cereal during Casablanca. I
[9:44] think that's what leads the dog to bark
[9:46] and rush at Creme. Cara, who cannot move
[9:48] super fast here to intervene, is unable
[9:50] to stop Creme from firing a poisoned
[9:52] arrow at Crypto and the Briggins leave
[9:54] with Cara's ship. The poisoning of
[9:56] Crypto by Creme is the inciting incident
[9:58] of the comic story line, but it ends up
[10:00] playing out differently in the text.
[10:01] It's actually even better for Crypto,
[10:03] don't worry. But this film uses the
[10:05] 3-day ticking clock for Crypto and the
[10:07] search for his antidote as the narrative
[10:08] structure. Cara leaves Crypto with a
[10:10] local healer, and Cara sets a 3-day
[10:12] countdown on this Kryptonian pocket
[10:14] watch locket with a photo of Krypto
[10:15] inside. I think when we later see her in
[10:17] the flashback in Metropolis taking a
[10:19] Polaroid, I think that's actually the
[10:20] photo that she stuffs into this pocket
[10:22] watch. Cara briefly flashes back to the
[10:24] first moment she met the puppy in Argo
[10:26] City, running up to her filthy during a
[10:27] funeral procession. Cara sits at a bus
[10:29] stop as a run-down public transportation
[10:31] bus arrives. This is described as a
[10:33] wormhole bus, suggesting it travels
[10:35] through wormholes to get from planet to
[10:37] planet. The driver, Lloyd, is played by
[10:39] Paul Hunter, whom we just saw as Lord
[10:41] Ashford in HBO's A Night of the Seven
[10:43] Kingdoms. His little alien co-pilot is
[10:45] not listed in the credits, but it's an
[10:46] uncredited vocal cameo by Seth Rogan,
[10:48] who worked with Craig Gillespie in his
[10:50] previous movie, Dumb Money. It's no
[10:52] surprise this little dude gets the
[10:53] biggest laughs of the film. This bus is
[10:55] adapted from the space bus that Cara
[10:57] wakes up on at the beginning of the
[10:58] second issue of the comic series because
[11:00] in the comics, Cara also gets hit by
[11:01] some poisoned arrows. And it's Ruthie
[11:03] who drags her onto the public
[11:04] transportation where she finally comes
[11:06] to. They really did put a lot of effort
[11:08] here to the anatomical diversity of all
[11:10] these aliens. From this one smoking a
[11:11] hookah to this furry one drooling on
[11:13] Cara's shoulder. Kind of like the
[11:15] drainy-nosed furry alien who leans on
[11:17] Cara in issue number two. This guy is
[11:19] played by Leo Bill, who played the
[11:20] headmaster in Craig Gillespiey's movie
[11:22] Kella. Ruthie enrages a screeching
[11:24] alien. So, there's kind of a crazy story
[11:27] with this particular alien design. It
[11:29] seems to have been repurposed by ILM's
[11:31] creature shop from the character Lexo
[11:33] Suger from 2017 Star Wars Episode 8, The
[11:36] Last Jedi. An alien aristocrat from a
[11:38] deleted scene in the Kanto bite subplot.
[11:40] When Jason Mamoa posted an Instagram
[11:42] video with a life-sized practical prop
[11:44] of this alien, fans noticed that it was
[11:46] repurposed from the Star Wars deleted
[11:48] scene, even though the event he was at
[11:50] had a metal plate collectible drawn by
[11:52] Bill Key for this movie, showing these
[11:54] new alien designs in the style of her
[11:56] 2021 comic art. So, I don't think this
[11:59] was meant to be an intentional Star Wars
[12:01] DC universe crossover, but it says
[12:04] something that the creature designers
[12:06] Warner Brothers paid to populate the
[12:07] aliens for this movie were just kind of
[12:09] like, uh, we got this one that Ryan
[12:10] Johnson didn't want. Let's just throw it
[12:12] in Supergirl. I know not everyone is up
[12:14] to date on every Star Wars deleted scene
[12:16] and background alien, but you know,
[12:18] someone probably should have known or
[12:20] just cared a bit more or said something.
[12:22] Cara diffuses this conflict by
[12:23] screeching in the native language.
[12:25] >> I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
[12:28] Craig Gillespie said that in total five
[12:30] languages are spoken in this film. I
[12:32] guess those would be the common tongue,
[12:33] which we hear is English, S and Krypton,
[12:35] aka Kryptonian, Scalarian, the local
[12:38] bilky language, and the screeching. I
[12:40] like how they used VFX here to stretch
[12:42] out Milliey's chin. Or maybe she can
[12:43] really stretch it out that far like a
[12:44] snake. This bus is hijacked by Scarian
[12:47] Raiders. Scarian raiders are a group of
[12:49] space fairing female pirates. First
[12:51] appearing in Super Boy in the Legion of
[12:53] Superheroes number 223 in 1977,
[12:55] originating from the planetclar, they
[12:57] are known for attacking and pilfering
[12:59] science outposts and research labs
[13:01] seeking high-tech equipment to help
[13:03] their struggling world. Cara calls them
[13:05] tech pirates, which tells us that she's
[13:06] dealt with these teleporters before with
[13:08] their part stripping laser crabs on the
[13:10] hull of the ship. Their leader is played
[13:12] by Clara Rosajer. The slightly more
[13:14] indigo one is played by Heather Agopong.
[13:16] The other one is played by Alice Hukin,
[13:18] who in Game of Thrones season 6, episode
[13:20] 5 played one of the children of the
[13:22] forest who created the Night King. Cara
[13:24] swipes the blue one's teleporter device
[13:26] and uses it to smartly teleport right as
[13:28] the Robo Crab lands on the purple one.
[13:30] She teleports all around the bus
[13:31] fighting them. The teleporting in this
[13:33] scene looks pretty different than all
[13:34] other forms of teleporting we've seen in
[13:36] comic book movies before. It's more like
[13:37] a digital glitch and made this fight
[13:39] scene pretty fun to watch. Cara asks the
[13:41] Seth Rogan alien if they can get closer
[13:43] to a nearby yellow sun. And he says,
[13:45] "Sure, if I had an engine or some balls,
[13:47] but seeing as I have neither, no."
[13:48] Really the biggest laugh of the movie
[13:50] and all of the screenings I had of it.
[13:51] Cara gets blown out of the airlock
[13:53] before she can fully put on her space
[13:54] suit. But her frozen over body floats
[13:56] into the rays of the yellow sun, and she
[13:58] regains her powers, clearing each of the
[14:00] robo crabs and repelling the scarian
[14:02] raiders's blue laser in this field of
[14:04] fuse lodge with her regained heat
[14:05] vision. Next, they go to this
[14:07] interplanetary rest stop, a way station
[14:09] poking above the cloud line, similar to
[14:11] Cloud City on Bestpin in Empire Strikes
[14:13] Back. There are neon signs with alien
[14:15] writing all over this tower, devised by
[14:17] the Peterson Linguist team, who
[14:18] developed the spoken and written
[14:20] language of Sut and Krypton for 2025
[14:22] Superman and worked on this film. More
[14:24] of the goofy Guardians of the Galaxy
[14:25] Moisley Cantina creature mix includes
[14:28] this little thing who poops pellets that
[14:30] get scooped up as edible snacks like
[14:32] kettle corn, what I'm going to call poop
[14:34] corn. The Seth Rogan alien gobbles them
[14:36] down, but later Cara says these taste
[14:38] like [ __ ] and toss them aside. So, I am
[14:40] obsessed with this gag. I guess Cara
[14:42] expected these turds to not taste like
[14:44] [ __ ] suggesting this creature might be
[14:46] old or sick. Maybe this poopcorn is
[14:48] stale like a 7-Eleven hot dog. Maybe
[14:50] Cara is just open to trying weirdly
[14:51] sourced snacks around the galaxy. Though
[14:53] later she does seem disgusted to learn
[14:55] the milk she drank came from the
[14:56] creature on the floor. So, here's my
[14:58] theory on this. I think Cara likes to
[15:00] roll the dice on this local delicacy of
[15:02] poop corn because if you eat them while
[15:04] they're still warm, they taste good. But
[15:06] if you wait a second too long, the
[15:07] rancid flavor kicks in. Kind of like
[15:09] McDonald's fries. You have to eat them
[15:11] in the first 10 minutes. If you let them
[15:12] get slightly cold, they taste like [ __ ]
[15:14] So really, it's Ruthiey's fault for
[15:17] nagging Carara to keep her from eating
[15:19] her McDonald's fries while they were
[15:20] still hot. This has been my TED talk on
[15:22] the poopcorn and Supergirl. I also like
[15:24] the detail that whatever 7-Eleven you
[15:26] find yourself in throughout the DC
[15:28] galaxy, it's universal to find blue
[15:30] raspberry ices. Cara interrogates the
[15:32] Scarian raiders. She heat visions over
[15:34] the captain's shoulder and then says,
[15:35] "Don't worry, I'll do the other side to
[15:36] even it out." The lighting in the BFX
[15:38] here are such that it's hard to see that
[15:40] Cara is laser cutting the raiders's hair
[15:42] until she says what she's doing. The
[15:43] raider explains that the Brigins are on
[15:45] a planet called Bilki, a planet that
[15:47] Cara thought to be dead, but the raider
[15:48] captain explains is actually dying after
[15:50] half of its population died in an atomic
[15:52] war, and the other half struggles to
[15:54] survive due to a resource struggle
[15:56] attracting filth like the Briggins, who
[15:58] are involved in sex trafficking women
[15:59] whom they call brides, in order to
[16:01] continue their bloodline. The planet
[16:02] name of Bilki comes from Bilki Eve, the
[16:04] artist behind the amazing pastel artwork
[16:07] in the 2021 comic series. It's an
[16:09] interesting choice to name the ugliest,
[16:11] dimst, grimmst, most visually dull, most
[16:14] repurposed Guardians of the Galaxy
[16:15] Volume 3 soundstage set looking location
[16:17] in this movie after the artist who
[16:19] crafted over a dozen beautiful and
[16:21] haunting settings in the source material
[16:23] that this movie hardly used. Making Crim
[16:25] and the Briggins sex traffickers of
[16:26] these brides is why many critics
[16:28] compared this film to Mad Max Fury Road,
[16:30] which of course centered around Immorton
[16:31] Joe sex trafficking women whom he called
[16:33] his brides. But I think any comparison
[16:35] between this movie and Fury Road just
[16:37] gives a false impression considering
[16:39] Fury Road has the best edited action of
[16:42] any movie of this century thanks to
[16:44] George Miller's wife Margaret Sixel. But
[16:46] it seems like the script used this
[16:47] disgusting crime as the one awful thing
[16:49] the Briggins have a reputation for doing
[16:51] in order to simplify the source material
[16:53] where Cara and Ruthie go planet by
[16:55] planet to find the variety of awful
[16:57] things the Briggins have done. In issue
[16:59] number three, we learn that Creme was a
[17:01] loner who joined the Brigins while
[17:02] imprisoned on a planet called Kuran and
[17:04] joined the Brigins in a racial genocide
[17:06] between the purple-kinned and the blue-
[17:08] skinned members of the species. In issue
[17:10] number four, Cara and Ruthie go to
[17:12] Parnat, where the Briggins had torched
[17:14] the landscape and left only a crying
[17:16] infant alive. To Incomm, the moon that
[17:19] orbits Escom, where we meet a poor
[17:21] demmed green alien who witnessed the
[17:23] Brigins torturing and killing his best
[17:25] friend. Then to Tillowise, where we meet
[17:27] an elderly goblin alien who's digging
[17:29] the graves of his loved ones murdered by
[17:30] the Brigins, exhausted and still having
[17:33] 120 graves left to dig. And Cara uses
[17:35] her super speed to dig them in 5
[17:37] seconds. Then to Earl, where Cara allows
[17:39] a huge purple alien to pummel her
[17:41] because in this guy's culture, they're
[17:43] not allowed to express sorrow. And
[17:44] eventually, he just breaks down crying
[17:46] over his whole family being murdered by
[17:48] the Brigins, and Cara hugs him. Then to
[17:50] Tire coming where Cara and Ruthie find a
[17:52] citadel with tapes that recorded the
[17:54] Brian's destruction that Cara does not
[17:56] let Ruthie watch and Cara just comes out
[17:58] of the citadel completely shaken at a
[18:00] loss for words. This one was the most
[18:01] haunting for me. Then to Yala where they
[18:04] find a captured Brigand being stoned to
[18:05] death and his last words were how much
[18:07] he enjoyed torturing people. Then to
[18:09] Ecvvic, a beautiful peaceful world run
[18:11] by silent monks where Cara and Ruthie
[18:14] find the monk's cathedral in the clouds
[18:16] filled with their blood and dismembered
[18:18] body parts. Supergirl screams on the
[18:20] surface of a nearby sun. And then
[18:21] finally to Nelon, where Ruthie is the
[18:24] one who refuses to explain what they had
[18:26] just witnessed, saying, "Some tales are
[18:28] too sad to tell. No life exists on this
[18:30] planet." I know this was a PG-13 movie,
[18:32] and you can't include all of these
[18:33] horrors, but for the ones that are
[18:35] unseen, you certainly could. It's just
[18:37] kind of hard for me to imagine how
[18:38] anyone who actually read issues three
[18:40] and four of the source material would
[18:42] adapt the Briggins the way they were
[18:43] adapted in this movie. Like the point of
[18:45] making Crim such a mass murderer, a
[18:47] monster whom Cara and Ruthie only learn
[18:49] about via the aftermath of his actions
[18:51] is to make Ruthie and Cara's final
[18:53] argument over whether to kill Crim so
[18:55] gripping. I understand the adaptation
[18:57] choice to sum up the Brian's evil by
[18:59] just making them sex traffickers. But if
[19:01] this is a story of liberating those
[19:03] brides, it would just be nice to give
[19:04] those women, you know, some
[19:06] characterization or dialogue in this
[19:08] movie beyond Sarna's one line of please
[19:11] no, don't before she's stabbed to death.
[19:13] It just kind of seems like this movie
[19:14] was trying to balance a lot of
[19:15] priorities and just a lot of might have
[19:17] been cut out of an edit. Cara equips
[19:19] Ruthie with an inflatable protective
[19:20] suit that comes out of a collar that
[19:22] goes around the neck. I really like this
[19:23] hardware and how it's triggered by just
[19:25] a little button that can only be
[19:26] accessed by another. Kind of like a
[19:28] parental safety lock. It reminds me of
[19:30] the tap the nose function on the pit
[19:31] droids and Phantom Menace.
[19:33] >> Hit the nose.
[19:38] >> Later when we see Ruthie rolling around
[19:39] in this thing, she looks like Randy in A
[19:41] Christmas Story. Then onto the planet
[19:43] Bilki. They pass through the grim
[19:44] encampments. Cara tells Ruthie about
[19:46] Superman on Earth and how she's
[19:48] Supergirl despite being only 10 years
[19:50] younger than Clark. This is a change
[19:52] from the source material as we see
[19:54] explained in the flashback. More on that
[19:55] in a bit. In a nightclub, singers sing
[19:57] the girl from Epana, the Brazilian
[19:59] Bosanova and jazz song by Astred
[20:01] Gilberto and Stan gets another example
[20:03] of Earth music randomly being popular in
[20:05] the outer galaxy of the DCU. Akevie
[20:08] alien spots Ruthie and wants her for
[20:09] trafficking. Cara challenges this guy to
[20:11] an arm wrestling match to get info about
[20:13] the Briggins, but this guy gets shoved
[20:14] aside for an even bigger brute who
[20:16] clears the table. I like how Cara just
[20:18] pushes aside one last cup in a move
[20:19] that's kind of like a cat who doesn't
[20:21] give a [ __ ] Cara breaks this guy's arm
[20:23] and ends up in the crosshairs of every
[20:24] other criminal in the bar. Cara tells
[20:26] the band to keep playing
[20:27] >> playing.
[20:29] You know, it's like the Titanic
[20:31] >> referencing the string quartet from
[20:32] James Cameron's Titanic just playing
[20:34] through the chaos. This band ends up
[20:35] playing cheek to cheek by Irving Berlin
[20:37] for Fred a stair and Ginger Rogers in
[20:39] 1935's Top Hat. We end up not seeing
[20:41] this fight. Craig Gillespie chooses to
[20:42] keep us and Ruthy's point of view under
[20:44] the table for all of it. In the corner
[20:45] of this bar the whole time was Lobo,
[20:47] played by Jason Mamoa. Cara knows all
[20:49] about Lobo, calling him an immortal with
[20:51] a god complex who killed off his entire
[20:52] planet. In the comics, Lobo is an alien
[20:54] mercenary and bounty hunter from the
[20:56] utopian planet Zarnia. He's the last of
[20:58] a species and he was introduced in Omega
[21:00] Men number three from 1983. Tom King
[21:02] said that he originally conceived of the
[21:03] Superman woman of tomorrow graphic novel
[21:05] as a Lobo Supergirl story, but then his
[21:07] editors, including Britney Holshire,
[21:09] suggested to remove Lobo and make
[21:10] Supergirl the true grit Rooster Cogburn
[21:12] character. So, putting Lobo back into
[21:14] the movie is kind of a nod to that
[21:16] scrapped idea. Jason Mimoa always wanted
[21:18] to play Lobo and actually texted James
[21:19] Gun asking to play Lobo right after
[21:21] James Gun was announced as head of DC
[21:23] Studios in October 2022. Lobo wears an
[21:25] object on a chain around his neck. In
[21:27] the comics, this thing contains a red
[21:29] lantern ring. You know, of the Green
[21:31] Lantern Corps network. In the 2010
[21:33] Brightest Day story line, Atrocidus,
[21:35] leader of the Red Lantern Corps, hires
[21:36] Lobo to attack him while he was with Hal
[21:38] Jordan, Sinestro, and Carol Ferris in
[21:40] order to gain their trust so that they
[21:42] would help him hunt down the butcher,
[21:43] the Red Lantern entity. Atrocidus gave
[21:45] Lobo a Red Lantern ring as payment, but
[21:47] Lobo just wears it as a trophy, and it's
[21:49] not clear if he's ever used it. However,
[21:50] in a set visit, apparently Jason Mamoa
[21:52] said that the thing around his neck in
[21:54] this movie is one of the grenades that
[21:55] he totes around. I actually think it was
[21:57] meant to be a container for a red ring
[21:58] and they just didn't tell Jason Mamoa.
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[22:57] Lobo seeks Drum Baxton as his bounty.
[22:59] That's creme number two of the Briggins.
[23:01] Ruthie asks Lobo for help and he lifts
[23:03] her up, but Cara intervenes, posing as a
[23:05] ditzy party girl from Metropolis on
[23:06] Earth on a space tour. I like the idea
[23:08] that Lobo wouldn't know that most young
[23:10] women from Earth would have no access to
[23:11] casual space travel like this. Lobo gets
[23:13] annoyed and leaves, but he does leave
[23:14] Cara with a happy birthday. The two
[23:16] barkeeps, Merrick Van and Bumar Van,
[23:19] bring Cara and Ruthie to their home,
[23:20] promising info on the Brigins. Ruthie
[23:22] asks Cara more about Superman, whom Cara
[23:24] calls a nerd, saying he sees the good in
[23:26] people, and she sees the truth. Cara
[23:28] says this line with more of a shrug in
[23:29] the theatrical cut than in the
[23:31] meaningful gravitas in the take used in
[23:33] the trailers.
[23:33] >> He sees the good in everyone, and I see
[23:36] the truth. But I think they wanted to
[23:38] keep Cara in this moment less judgmental
[23:40] of her cousin and shrug off their
[23:41] differences as Kal just not having gone
[23:43] through the same emotional trauma that
[23:45] she did on Argo City. And that makes his
[23:46] heart light as she says. This
[23:48] distinction in the flashback it sets up
[23:50] I think is where the script is
[23:51] strongest. It's a difficult nuance to
[23:53] strike to show how Superman and
[23:54] Supergirl are both on the same moral
[23:56] alignment generally, but their
[23:57] worldviews are just colored by different
[23:59] experiences. An upbringing on a dying
[24:01] life raft city from a dead civilization
[24:03] versus an upbringing on a Kansas farm.
[24:04] Ruthie must have heard stories about
[24:06] Krypton before because she thought
[24:07] everyone on Krypton died the day the
[24:09] core erupted. By the way, this answers a
[24:10] question about the DCU cosmic mythology.
[24:13] The DCU version of Krypton was not
[24:15] destroyed by solar flares from RAW or
[24:17] anything else, but rather just a
[24:18] destabilizing core as is often the case
[24:20] in various DC continuities. Cara says,
[24:22] >> "Peron didn't die in a day. The gods are
[24:25] not that kind."
[24:25] >> I really love this line and how it sets
[24:27] up the fate of Argo City. But the fact
[24:29] that Cara says gods hints at the
[24:30] Kryptonian religious belief system. They
[24:32] tend to follow rowism centered around
[24:34] their red son of Ralph. Action comics
[24:36] 886 and 2010 detailed the row orthodox
[24:39] pantheon has 14 major deities, 211
[24:41] demigods, and 1,42 titans. In 2025,
[24:45] Superman, Jorel, and Larara Lurvan's
[24:47] message to Kal opened with the phrase,
[24:48] "We love you more than heaven. We love
[24:50] you more than land." So, there must have
[24:52] been some Kryptonian concept or idiom at
[24:54] least related to an afterlife. And we
[24:56] flash back to the final days of Krypton.
[24:58] Cara's mother, Allura Enzay, played by
[25:00] Emily Beichchum, looks out of a window
[25:01] at this red leafed tree. This is very
[25:04] significant to Cara in the comic series.
[25:05] Throughout the series, Cara recalls the
[25:07] color of the blue and red leaves on the
[25:09] tree outside of her window on Krypton,
[25:11] part of artist Bil Billy Eve's
[25:12] psychedelic fantasy to draw Cara into
[25:14] introspective spirals dwelling on plants
[25:17] radiated by the red sun of Ralph. The
[25:18] blue and red leaves are where Cara is
[25:20] inspired to wear the suit colors that
[25:22] she wears. This script kind of keeps the
[25:23] leaves red and doesn't really make the
[25:25] suit connection. Rather just kind of
[25:26] keeps the red leaves something that
[25:27] reminds Cara of her mother. Cara
[25:29] narrates that her father Zorel played by
[25:31] David Crumbholtz and his brother Jorel,
[25:33] remember Superman's father, played by
[25:35] Bradley Cooper in Superman, warned the
[25:36] council of the doom that was coming, but
[25:38] the council didn't listen. The building
[25:39] quakes. Allura tells Zorel that she
[25:41] thought they had more time, but Zorel
[25:43] says Krypton's core is unstable and they
[25:45] only have minutes. Zorel grabs a bedside
[25:47] journal and a framed photograph of the
[25:48] two of them just before that red leaf
[25:50] tree crashes through the window. They
[25:51] are speaking the fictional language
[25:52] that's called su and krypton. An
[25:54] original language developed by the
[25:56] Petersons. It has a written and a spoken
[25:58] form. The architecture of krypton is an
[26:00] example of neocclassicism. Towering
[26:02] structures with curved arches and golden
[26:04] domes and golden spires. It kind of
[26:06] looks like ancient Rome if Rome could
[26:07] have continued into a future tetopia.
[26:10] Allura and Zorel see an escape pod zip
[26:12] off into the sky. Allura asks, "Is that
[26:14] him?" Zorel says, "It's Kal." And Allura
[26:16] says, "Your brother declared him
[26:17] conqueror of worlds." So that stuff
[26:19] Jurorel said in his message.
[26:21] >> Lord over the planet as the last son of
[26:23] Krypton.
[26:24] >> Dispatch of anyone unable or unwilling
[26:26] to serve you. Ker, take as many wives as
[26:29] you can. So your genes and Krypton's
[26:32] might and legacy will live on in this
[26:34] new frontier.
[26:36] >> Do us proud, our beloved son. Rule
[26:38] without mercy.
[26:40] >> Confirmed. It was not a mistransation by
[26:42] Lex or any kind of hack of the message
[26:44] by Brainiac. is a true sentiment that
[26:46] Jorel had and something that he said to
[26:48] his brother and sister-in-law in the
[26:50] final days of Krypton. Making Superman's
[26:52] biological parents these fascist
[26:54] imperialistic colonizers remains one of
[26:55] the more controversial choices in James
[26:57] Gun's DCU. But at least this movie
[26:59] suggests that not all Kryptonians, or
[27:01] even not all members of the House of L
[27:03] felt the same way. The Kryptonians of
[27:04] Argo City flee into this structure.
[27:06] Zorel looks at his pocket watch device
[27:08] in fear. And a plasma beam fires upward,
[27:10] forming a dome around the city, but
[27:12] forming a chaotic barrier that cuts down
[27:14] the middle of a street, wrecking
[27:15] buildings and keeping some people in,
[27:17] but dooming other Kryptonians meters
[27:19] away from them out. This whole idea of
[27:21] doming Argo City was Zorel's idea and
[27:23] design as like a life raft failsafe plan
[27:25] in case he and his brother were right
[27:27] about the destabilizing core. But in the
[27:29] Woman of Tomorrow comics, Cara was born
[27:31] already and remembers this day. She was
[27:33] born on Krypton and is actually older
[27:35] than her cousin Call. She only appears
[27:37] younger due to time dilation based on
[27:39] how long she versus her cousin spent in
[27:41] their respective pods. Being technically
[27:43] born verse is really part of her
[27:44] frustration with being called Supergirl,
[27:46] while her younger cousin is Superman.
[27:48] But this movie makes it so that Cara was
[27:50] born 8 years after Destruction Day and
[27:52] about 10 years younger than her cousin.
[27:54] Of course, this particular origin story
[27:55] is adapted from issue number six from
[27:57] the comic story line where we learn that
[27:59] thousands of citizens of Argo City died
[28:01] in this quickly improvised bubbling of
[28:03] its atmosphere, saving 18,000
[28:05] Kryptonians on a floating asteroid. But
[28:07] what followed on Argo City was a
[28:08] harrowing period. The population of Argo
[28:10] City decreased by 13,000. The minerals
[28:14] in the soil get irradiated by yellow
[28:16] suns into cancerous kryptonite that they
[28:18] have to toil to build lead shielding to
[28:20] protect themselves against. That plus
[28:21] food and water shortages and deadly
[28:23] meteor showers. The sequence in this
[28:25] film shows Argo City blasting away from
[28:27] Krypton as its surface collapses. And we
[28:29] catch up with the floating city in space
[28:31] where Zorel and Allura get pregnant with
[28:33] Cara and raise her in the city, living a
[28:35] somewhat happy life together until a
[28:37] plague sets in from the radioactive
[28:39] mineral in their soil, kryptonite. Its
[28:41] radiation is slowly poisoning everyone
[28:43] in Argo City, starting with Allura.
[28:45] Yeah, there's none of the bleeaker stuff
[28:47] from the source material like the
[28:48] attempted lead shielding, the meteor
[28:49] strikes, the crop famine. This movie
[28:51] just kind of confines it to kryptonite
[28:52] cancer, which in fairness is bleak
[28:54] enough. The radiation affects Zorel,
[28:56] too, and he tells Cara that he found his
[28:58] brother's blueprints for the escape pod
[28:59] that he built for Cal. Zorel builds a
[29:01] new pod retrofitted to be able to fit
[29:03] Cara and send her to Earth. Zorel
[29:05] emotionally tells his daughter that her
[29:06] life will be the continuation of
[29:08] Allura's life and his life, saying, "You
[29:10] are our souls unfolding into the
[29:12] future." Allura makes her daughter
[29:14] promise to just be good. But that
[29:16] doesn't mean she can't be tough or has
[29:17] to be nice. In Allura's funeral
[29:19] procession, they cover her in the red
[29:20] leaves of her beloved tree. The pool
[29:22] that Zorel playfully fell into is now
[29:24] covered in algae to show the state of
[29:26] ruin in Argo City. They bring Allura's
[29:28] coffin to the central furnace that
[29:30] powers the dome for cremation. It's here
[29:32] where a dirty puppy Krypto, after
[29:34] remaging through garbage, runs up to
[29:35] Cara to comfort her. So, it's kind of
[29:37] like John Wick where Jon gets that dog
[29:38] right after his wife dies. And for him,
[29:41] avenging that dog is like fighting for
[29:42] the beloved woman that he wasn't able to
[29:44] save. Zorel puts his daughter in this
[29:45] space suit and loads her into the pod
[29:47] with Krypto. He gives her his Kryptonian
[29:49] pocket watch and says, "We are with
[29:51] you." We see her point of view on Zorel
[29:53] as she zips away from her father through
[29:54] the barrier of Argo City into the stars.
[29:56] And think about it, Zorel positioned her
[29:58] pod so that she'd be facing backward
[30:00] from the propulsion so they could look
[30:01] at each other for as long as possible.
[30:03] Back on planet Bilki, Cara figures out
[30:05] that Merik and Bomar are the parents to
[30:07] Sarna, one of the brides taken by the
[30:09] Brigins. We see the family photos on the
[30:11] wall and the daughter's handprints in
[30:12] the frame. They made a deal with the
[30:13] Briggins to trade two women for their
[30:15] one daughter. They poisoned her tea, but
[30:17] because Bilki is a planet with a yellow
[30:19] son, the poison doesn't knock her out
[30:21] right away. Cara demands milk to coat
[30:23] her stomach, and she realizes it's from
[30:24] the gross looking pet on the floor.
[30:26] Creme smashes in as Cara tries to puke.
[30:28] She headbutts him and gets some of his
[30:29] facial studs in her face, but Creme
[30:31] notice keeps sipping the milk that Cara
[30:33] was drinking. Creme seems to always
[30:35] finish the food that his target started
[30:37] on throughout this movie. Like remember
[30:39] Cara's cereal on her ship? He continued
[30:40] eating that cereal later. This milk he
[30:42] continues drinking. And then later that
[30:44] wormcovered plate of food in Ruthie cell
[30:46] he picks up and starts eating from with
[30:47] the brigen ship towing crates filled
[30:49] with the traffic brides. Lobo riding his
[30:51] spacehog motorcycle from the comics cuts
[30:53] the cables of the crates in order to try
[30:55] to flush out Drum Baxton. Creme who was
[30:57] described as having the strength of
[30:58] 1,000 men catches one of the crates.
[31:00] Several brides break out and Cara and
[31:02] Ruthie help them escape. Lobo tries to
[31:04] lasso Drum, but gets clothesline by a
[31:06] brigen cable. Cara helps him up.
[31:08] >> Aren't you the dicks from that dive bar?
[31:09] >> Funny.
[31:11] >> That's what I've been calling you.
[31:13] >> Touche.
[31:13] >> Considering Lobo wears glam makeup that
[31:15] was inspired by Jean Simmons from Kiss,
[31:17] I do appreciate that he has a sense of
[31:18] humor about this and considers himself a
[31:20] ditz. They team up to fight the Brigins
[31:21] and one of the more enjoyable action
[31:23] stunt pieces where I got to give credit.
[31:25] Jason Mimoa and Millie Alco are doing a
[31:27] lot of the stunt fighting themselves
[31:28] here. Creme stalks Sarna down. Ruthie
[31:30] tries to kill Crim, but Cara tackles her
[31:32] out of the way, allowing Crim to catch
[31:34] Sarna, kill both of her parents, and
[31:35] then for no apparent reason, kills her
[31:37] too before Cara can fly up to the Brian
[31:39] ship and teleports away. This
[31:41] teleporting technology is actually
[31:42] called the Morru Globe. It's a dangerous
[31:44] artifact that can banish someone to the
[31:46] other side of the universe, but only by
[31:47] committing the mass execution of
[31:49] thousands of people. I was going to say
[31:51] this might not be the Morru Globe
[31:52] technology here in the movie, but maybe
[31:54] that's why Crim went out of his way to
[31:56] kill three people in order to power that
[31:58] artifact. Again, something else that
[31:59] might have been removed in the edit from
[32:00] this movie. Cara flies up into space and
[32:02] screams where no sound will carry,
[32:04] leaving a single teardrop floating in
[32:06] space. This might have been inspired by
[32:07] that gnarly moment in number four of the
[32:09] comic series when Cara, after seeing the
[32:10] mutilation of all the monks on Epic,
[32:12] flies up to the nearby yellow sun and
[32:14] just screams on the surface of it. Cara
[32:16] comes back down and calls the local
[32:17] alien who sold them out Squidward, the
[32:19] same thing Tony Stark called Ebony Ma in
[32:21] Avengers Infinity War. And she gets him
[32:22] to take her to the planet where the
[32:24] Brigins are. With her head covered on
[32:25] the transport ship, Cara uses her X-ray
[32:27] vision to look at a photo of Crypto on
[32:29] her watch. They land on the planet
[32:30] Barington, one planet from the Woman of
[32:32] Tomorrow comic story line that they do
[32:34] kind of bring in. In issue number five,
[32:36] Cara and Ruthie get banished to
[32:37] Barington by the Morru globe, and it
[32:39] orbits only a green kryptonite plasma
[32:41] star. It also has dinosaurs on it. No
[32:43] dinos. The movie version of Barington
[32:46] orbits both a yellow sun and a green
[32:48] sun, revealed in this pretty cool shot
[32:49] of Cara stepping forward as the yellow
[32:51] sun sets on the horizon and the sky
[32:54] turns green behind her. Cara flashes
[32:56] back to the moment she arrived on Earth
[32:57] in the Arctic ice, greeted by her cousin
[32:59] Kal aka Clark.
[33:01] >> Hi there.
[33:04] >> Oh, I'm sorry. I don't Oh, I don't um I
[33:08] don't speak Kryptonian. Superman does
[33:10] not speak su in Krypton or as he calls
[33:12] it Kryptonian which was an important
[33:14] plot point for 2025 Superman. Superman
[33:16] says he's been tracking her pod for the
[33:18] past month and right away he introduces
[33:20] himself as Clark immediately trusting
[33:22] her with his most precious secret. He
[33:24] says shoot. David Cordswe is so affable
[33:27] as Superman. We really remember how well
[33:29] cast both of these two are in this
[33:31] universe. She clocks the Fortress of
[33:32] Solitude in the distance. I'm actually
[33:34] wondering if the pod landed here due to
[33:36] Zorel's navigation coordinates or if
[33:38] Superman might have caught the pod as it
[33:40] was approaching Earth and then gently
[33:41] placed it here by his fortress so that
[33:43] he could be the one to first greet Cara.
[33:45] He tells his cousin that not all of
[33:46] Earth looks like this and that she's
[33:48] going to love things like bowling. She
[33:50] wonders why he's in his underwear. Yeah,
[33:51] that suit he's wearing was the blanket
[33:53] or undergarment that Ma Kent found him
[33:55] in when he arrived as a toddler to this
[33:57] planet in his own pod. He also warns her
[33:59] as her powers are about to kick in now.
[34:01] And we cut to a later memory of Cara in
[34:03] her apartment in Metropolis, hair in a
[34:05] ponytail. Through her window, we can see
[34:06] the top of the Daily Planet building.
[34:08] She's overwhelmed by the sounds of
[34:10] traffic and conversation throughout the
[34:11] city. So, now we know why she listens to
[34:13] pop and punk music from Earth. She puts
[34:15] in these headphones from her iPod in
[34:16] order to block out the sound. She takes
[34:18] a Polaroid of Puppy Crypto. Yes, I think
[34:20] the same photo that she'll put into her
[34:22] pocket watch later as this puppy tears
[34:23] apart the bedding as Cara just kind of
[34:25] zon out. Back in the present, Ruthie
[34:26] tends to Cara in the cave, but Ruthie
[34:28] gets taken by the Briggins and wakes up
[34:30] in a cell beside Lobo, who takes a
[34:31] liking to Ruthie. Creme visits Ruthie
[34:33] cell to intimidate her, but does not
[34:35] kill her right away, giving her a window
[34:36] to manipulate and attack the guards so
[34:38] that she and Lobo can escape. The green
[34:40] sun finally sets and yellow sunlight
[34:41] fills the cave, brightening the
[34:43] Supergirl suit that Ruthie brought along
[34:44] with her. Cara flashes back to the exact
[34:46] moment Clark gave her this suit, saying
[34:48] the bright colors are there to remind
[34:49] people that they are good. And in this
[34:51] moment, Cara's memory intercuts with the
[34:53] last words from her parents, helping her
[34:55] realize that her mother saying to just
[34:57] be good means to embrace what her cousin
[34:59] told her good looks like in the eyes of
[35:01] the children they're saving. Also, by
[35:03] the way, confirmed that Superman or
[35:04] maybe Ma Kent or maybe one of the robots
[35:06] in the Fortress of Solitude were the
[35:08] ones to make Carara's suit for her in
[35:10] the DCU continuity. I kind of hope that
[35:12] Cara has gotten to meet Martha and
[35:14] Jonathan. Ruthie gets caught by Creme on
[35:16] the outer deck and he nearly kills her
[35:17] here, but Cara flies in fully suited up
[35:20] in a suit. Now, we have already seen
[35:22] Cara in this suit in the DCU twice
[35:24] technically. So, making the audience
[35:26] wait 85 minutes for this does amount to
[35:28] a surf Dracula. If you don't know what
[35:30] that is, you can pause the video and
[35:31] read the tweet here. Cara heat visions a
[35:33] sword out of Crim's hand. Ruthie kicks
[35:35] the hilt so it pops up to her hand, but
[35:37] she gets snagged by the chain suspending
[35:39] the tank and goes over the side. Cara
[35:40] gets her leg latched by this grapo hook,
[35:42] which she rips off and uses that same
[35:44] chain to sweep the deck. Cara gets
[35:46] plugged by some kryptonite delight
[35:48] arrows from Creme that we see poisoning
[35:50] each of her red blood cells. So, while
[35:52] Cara did not get plugged with arrows in
[35:54] the initial assault on Krypto like she
[35:55] did in the comics, different arrows do
[35:57] find her here. Creme calls in Drum to
[35:59] kill Cara, but in an instant, Lobo
[36:01] disappears from out of nowhere and
[36:03] beheads his bounty. Look, I can look
[36:04] past the goofy editing that others
[36:06] online are griping about with this
[36:08] scene, but really not here in this
[36:09] moment. Like, guys, we go from a
[36:11] close-up on Cara, then to just an
[36:12] offscreen sound and a quick shot of Drum
[36:15] falling to his knees as his hair is
[36:16] tugged upward from behind by Lobo, who
[36:18] again came out of nowhere, and then 1
[36:20] second of Cara reacting and then just a
[36:22] half second close-up of Lobo laughing
[36:24] and then another half second of just the
[36:26] top of Drum's head quickly being stuffed
[36:28] into a bag. This is all while Mimoa
[36:30] growls some line about finally getting
[36:32] his bounty and we can barely hear it in
[36:33] the mix due to the punk music here.
[36:35] Look, I know I know this is probably the
[36:37] MPA telling them that they had to remove
[36:38] a decapitation in order to stay in a
[36:40] PG-13 rating. And clearly they couldn't
[36:42] reshoot something like this, so they
[36:44] just had to trim this down frame by
[36:45] frame. And I'm sure Gillespie and the
[36:47] editors hated having to do it. But, you
[36:48] know, the whole scene hinges on Lobo's
[36:51] arrival in this moment. It's the Han
[36:53] saves Luke from Darth Vader in THE
[36:54] TRENCH RUN. YAHOO! YOU'RE ALL CLEAR,
[36:56] KID. NOW, let's blow this thing and go
[36:57] home moment. So, it's really just
[36:59] unfortunate that in a big movie like
[37:01] this, we see this. Lobo drops Creme over
[37:03] the side where he slides down the chain
[37:05] to where Ruthie is. And then Lobo yanks
[37:06] back his space hog and uses the grenades
[37:08] to blow up the engines. Lobo does not
[37:10] seem to care about the brides who are
[37:12] inside the ship. Cara falls into one of
[37:14] the suspended tanks and allows it to
[37:16] fall into the lake below. She heat
[37:17] visions out of the flooded tank and lets
[37:19] the yellow sun rays rid the kryptonite
[37:21] crystal from her blood cells and she
[37:22] sees the crashed Brian ship and Creme
[37:24] chasing Ruthie and the wreckage. She
[37:26] gets Ruthie to safety and then uses her
[37:27] X-ray vision to see the brides still in
[37:29] the burning wreck and then goes in and
[37:30] saves them as well. But then Cara flies
[37:32] back out to the plane to wallop Creme.
[37:34] The specific way she thrashes his body
[37:36] around looks a lot like the way her
[37:38] cousin Call thrashed the engineer and
[37:39] Superman. These cousins like to wallop
[37:41] the same way. The other Brigins surround
[37:43] Ruthie with her motorbikes and tank. And
[37:45] then we get this slow motion sequence of
[37:46] Cara saving Ruthie from all these
[37:48] explosions and debris and attacks as we
[37:50] hear the middle by Jimmy Eatworld
[37:54] covered by Kelty Ga and Kid Motel. So
[37:57] this needle drop look I get the
[37:59] intention. The lyrics give a message to
[38:01] a young girl a girl in the literal
[38:03] middle that everything everything will
[38:05] be all right. All right. But you can't
[38:07] blame people for rolling their eyes in
[38:09] this moment. Like imagine if over
[38:11] Superman's big speech to Lex Luthther in
[38:13] that critical moment in Superman, we
[38:15] started hearing a Regina Spectre cover
[38:17] of Dashboard Confessionals Vindicated.
[38:18] Don't get me wrong, I love Regina
[38:20] Spectre. I love Dashboards Vindicated.
[38:22] But there is a time and a place for a
[38:23] needle drop in a superhero movie. Needle
[38:25] drops can come in the falling action
[38:27] after the climax. They can certainly
[38:29] pump through the credits, but the moment
[38:31] of emotional catharsis in a movie should
[38:34] be carried by the composed original
[38:36] score, not by a music supervisor hitting
[38:38] a jukebox button. Like in James Gun's
[38:40] Guardians of the Galaxy, yes, Peter
[38:41] Quill does start singing a song from his
[38:43] mom's awesome mix playlist in order to
[38:45] distract Ronin. But what happens when
[38:47] the Guardians of the Freaking Galaxy
[38:48] join hands with the Power Stone? It's
[38:50] not a track that James Gunpick for the
[38:52] movie. It's the original score of the
[38:53] movie that underscores that moment. Owen
[38:55] Gleaserman's review at Variety was
[38:57] pretty harsh and not always fair, but he
[38:59] was right on the money when it comes to
[39:01] trying too hard to be punk rock with
[39:03] punk rock needle drops. That makes you
[39:05] by definition not punk rock. I mean,
[39:07] visually, this is a very fun display of
[39:09] Supergirl's full power set that makes
[39:12] her billowing cape and emotional urgency
[39:14] look glorious. So, it's just a shame
[39:16] that this overindulgent song choice
[39:17] takes us out of it. One of the freed
[39:19] brides saves Cara from the last brigand
[39:21] and Ruthie runs over to kill Creme, but
[39:22] Cara talks her down, saying it won't
[39:24] bring her any peace, and she'd have to
[39:26] carry Creme with her for the rest of her
[39:27] life. Ruthie decides to walk away. But
[39:29] when Crim tells Cara that he's just
[39:30] going to hunt Ruthie down, Cara takes
[39:32] the sword and stabs Creme once in the
[39:33] gut for Krypto and once in the neck for
[39:35] Ruthie. In the comic story line, the
[39:37] final debate with Crim goes down in a
[39:38] pastel toned tropical beach at the edge
[39:41] of the universe. Creme is tied to a tree
[39:42] and he reveals to Ruthie that he just
[39:44] killed her dad for not laughing at his
[39:46] joke. He and Ruthie end up dueling and
[39:48] she cuts his fingers off and there's
[39:49] this long exchange about what vengeance
[39:51] would really bring the soul. Ultimately,
[39:53] Cara and Ruthie decide to exile Creme
[39:56] for 300 years in the Phantom Zone. And
[39:59] at the very end of that sentence, an
[40:00] elderly Ruthie has a very old and
[40:03] decrepit Creme released. And the framing
[40:05] matches the same opening panels of
[40:07] Ruthie finding her dad's corpse on the
[40:09] hill. Ruthie decides not to kill Crim.
[40:11] She just hits him with her cane and
[40:12] turns away. It's kind of an ambiguous
[40:14] ending because while Ruthiey's narration
[40:16] says Cara moved her sword swiftly
[40:18] through the air and through Crim's chest
[40:19] and returned the bloodcovered sword to
[40:21] Ruthiey's hand, Billy Evely deliberately
[40:23] leaves Crim's arm moving in the final
[40:25] panel. And it's revealed that all of
[40:27] this narrated text is coming from
[40:28] Ruthiey's fictitious fiddle foul book
[40:30] where she actually lied about the fate
[40:32] of Creme so that the pirates he's
[40:34] running from wouldn't go looking for
[40:35] him. And I understand this movie can't
[40:37] really do a 300year time dilation and
[40:40] this kind of unreliable narrator ending.
[40:42] But I do think it's one of the more
[40:43] nuanced gray areas that make this comic
[40:45] series ending great in my opinion. But
[40:47] since this script just did away with all
[40:49] of Ruthie's narration, there really
[40:50] would be no point to ending the movie
[40:51] this way. Also in the text, we learn
[40:53] that Krypto's Kryptonian anatomy
[40:54] actually allowed him to resist the
[40:56] poison from Crim's initial arrow and
[40:58] heal on his own, and that Cara didn't
[41:00] actually need the antidote for her dog.
[41:02] The whole time, she just went on this
[41:03] journey on behalf of Ruthie and her
[41:05] ethical development. But here in the
[41:07] movie, Cara really does need the
[41:08] antidote, and she ends up giving it to
[41:10] Krypto back on Holure and the dog's
[41:11] healed. Ruthie says that she plans to
[41:13] take up swordsmithing like her father
[41:14] and live with her aunt. But first, Cara
[41:16] invites the girl to join her in
[41:17] celebrating her birthday. Before the
[41:18] credits, we end the film in a scene that
[41:20] might have originally been planned to be
[41:21] the post-redit scene. Cara goes back to
[41:23] Clark's apartment that we saw in the
[41:24] 2025 Superman film, where he and Lois
[41:27] talked right before he turned himself
[41:28] in. Clark says, "Birthdays have always
[41:30] been tricky for me, too." Implying that
[41:31] his biological birthday was the day his
[41:33] home planet died, and his pretend
[41:35] birthday with the Kent would have been a
[41:37] lie. Clark also says, "Could have used
[41:39] your help with the last guy." Referring
[41:40] to his battles with Lex and Ultra Man in
[41:42] the Superman film. Notice in the
[41:44] metropolis skyline outside the window,
[41:46] we see Luther Cororp tower completed
[41:48] again with the two towers linked by the
[41:50] central bridge that originally detached
[41:52] as a floating command center. The fact
[41:53] that it's all back together as one big
[41:55] piece suggests that Luther Corp didn't
[41:57] really suffer that many meaningful
[41:58] setbacks. Cara indicates that she's
[42:00] going to stick around setting up her
[42:02] team up with her cousin Call Superman
[42:04] and I guess also Lex Luthther in some
[42:06] armor that Superman's going to help him
[42:07] build as these three and John Stewart
[42:09] Green Lantern and more face off against
[42:11] Brainiac in Man of Tomorrow next summer.
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