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title: 'SUPERGIRL BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!'
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date: 2026-06-30
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# SUPERGIRL BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!

> Source: [SUPERGIRL BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jBqbuqYjOL8)

## Summary

This video provides a detailed scene-by-scene breakdown of the DC Studios Supergirl movie, focusing on Easter eggs, comic references, and filmmaking choices. The host, Eric Voss, analyzes the plot, character changes from the source material, and hidden details that viewers might have missed.

### Key Points

- **Opening Scene and Newspaper** [0:00] — The opening shows Krypto knocking over a bottle, starting the song 'This Summer' by Slaybells (April 2025). A Daily Planet newspaper contrasts Superman saving a town with Supergirl rescuing cats.
- **Casting and Source Material Changes** [3:31] — Millie Alcock plays Supergirl, previously known for House of the Dragon. The film was originally titled 'Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow' but deviates significantly from the 2021 graphic novel.
- **Ruthie's Tragedy and Inciting Incident** [5:49] — Ruthie's family is killed by Creme and the Briggins. She seeks revenge and hires Cara with her father's sword. Krypto is poisoned, setting a 3-day countdown.
- **Space Bus and Power Awakening** [10:33] — Cara and Ruthie travel via wormhole bus, encounter Scarian Raiders, and Cara regains her powers under a yellow sun. The teleportation effect is unique.
- **Rest Stop and Briggins' Crimes** [14:04] — At a rest stop, Cara eats 'poop corn' and interrogates raiders. The Briggins are sex traffickers on planet Bilki, named after comic artist Bilquis Evely.
- **Krypton Flashback and Argo City** [19:13] — Flashback shows Krypton's destruction, Argo City's dome, and Cara's parents sending her to Earth. The movie changes Cara's origin to be born after Krypton's fall.
- **Bilki Confrontation and Lobo** [30:03] — Cara and Ruthie confront the Briggins on Bilki. Lobo appears, played by Jason Momoa, and teams up with Cara. The action includes a decapitation edited for PG-13.
- **Final Battle and Resolution** [36:00] — Cara kills Creme after he threatens Ruthie. She returns to Earth, reconciles with Superman, and sets up future team-ups. The film ends with a birthday celebration.

## Transcript

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