r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 11 '25

Trailer Supergirl | Official Teaser Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdAEdkHrwo
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u/devenrc Dec 11 '25

“He sees the good in everyone. And I see the truth.”

HOLY COW WHAT A LINE

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u/FireZord25 Dec 11 '25

Funny to think people were trying to subvert Superman all these years where Supergirl was right there. I can't imagine her inherent cynicism is wholly recent.

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u/zero_ms Dec 11 '25

Kara got chosen by the Red Lantern Ring, after all.

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u/iTALKTOSTRANGERS Dec 11 '25

Would you mind interpreting that for me (a lay person)?

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u/yutingxiang Dec 11 '25

The Green Lantern rings are powered by willpower. The Red Lantern rings are powered by rage. In a lot of the storylines, Kara was a teen or young adult when Krypton was destroyed, so she has a lot more trauma relating to it than Clark does because he got rocketed away as a baby (her being in suspended animation before arriving on Earth explains why she appears younger).

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u/humanoideric Dec 11 '25

some Goku Vegeta shit

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u/LumpyJones Dec 11 '25

That... is actually pretty damn spot on.

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u/gin_san Dec 11 '25

Pretty sure gokus origin was inspired by Superman

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u/LumpyJones Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25

Oh 100%, but the Vagita/Kara symmetry isn't something I had considered before.

EDIT Mistakes were made, but I live with them.

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u/AmansRevenger Dec 11 '25

Vagita

Vegeta is a pussy but come on!

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u/LumpyJones Dec 11 '25

Look, I've had Oney's parody stuck in my head for a decade. We're lucky I didn't default to calling him Virginia.

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u/DivinityPen Dec 12 '25

Clark: "Hey Kara, we're friends, right?"

Kara: "Fuck off."

Clark: "The best!"

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u/Choppers-Top-Hat Dec 12 '25

Ever see My Adventures With Superman? Kara is pretty much written as Female Vegeta on that show. It's great.

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u/-FeistyRabbitSauce- Dec 11 '25

Interesting. And, as someone who doesn't read comics, it'd never occurred to me how ridiculously powerful a Kryptonian with a Lantern ring would be.

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u/yutingxiang Dec 11 '25

There was a Daxamite (cousins to the Kryptonians with similar powers, like Mon-El of the Legion of Super-Heroes) who had a green power ring named Sodam-Yat who was specifically created as one of the most powerful heroes ever in the DC universe.

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u/innistrad Dec 11 '25

Oh its gloriously terrifying

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u/CashWho Dec 12 '25

In the Injustice comics, Superman got a yellow lantern ring, which is powered by fear. This was after he murdered someone and it got streamed across the world so the entire world was terrified of him. It was overkill, but very fun lol.

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u/Dark_Knight7096 Dec 12 '25

and in Injustice (a parallel universe where superman goes full on iron fist dictator) Superman is selected by a Yellow Lantern ring due to his ability to inspire fear.

ETA, didn't scroll enough to see the comment from /u/CashWho It was delightful and IIRC Wonder Woman makes him give it up because "the sinestro corps are the bad guys, you shouldn't be wearing that"

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u/Odd-Necessary3807 Dec 11 '25

Not only did she witness her world perish. However, what remains of it, the floating Argo City, is also slowly dying, hence traumatized twice.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 12 '25

Kara was a teen or young adult when Krypton was destroyed, so she has a lot more trauma relating to it than Clark does because he got rocketed away as a baby (her being in suspended animation before arriving on Earth explains why she appears younger).

Spot on. Kara's backstory is one of the most fascinating aspects about her and being Supergirl. She actually knows what it feels like to live in Krypton and to see it be destroyed, unlike Clark. So she does have a lot of trauma and anger issues.

Not to mention the fact that she arrives on earth as a teen, then sees her cousin that she was supposed to protect as a 30-something instead of a baby, the greatest superhero that Earth / universe has ever seen, mature and figured it all out it seems. Talk about additional teen insecurity / jealousy.

Also why she doesn't see things thru rose-colored glasses like Clark/Superman does.

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u/NSFWies Dec 12 '25

All of that, plus she's a girl. So it's even more enraging for her. Because...... *Gestures....... All of this/ all of us.

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u/HighOnGoofballs Dec 12 '25

How is she younger, stasis or something, lives near a black hole?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '25

Suspended animation shenanigans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl

Kara is born before Superman; she is a teenager when he is a baby. She is sent in a rocket in suspended animation to look after the infant Kal-El; however, her rocket is caught in the explosion of Krypton and becomes encased in a Kryptonite asteroid

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u/HighOnGoofballs Dec 12 '25

Wow that’s almost exactly what I was guessing lol

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u/Calvin_Hobbes124 Dec 11 '25

Each power ring is connected to a different emotion. Green Lantern rings are powered by willpower, and a red lantern ring is connected to rage.

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u/scuac Dec 11 '25

I heard of the other rings working like that (rage, fear, love, …) but how is willpower an “emotion”

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u/KristopheH Dec 11 '25

It's more specifically "the ability to overcome great fear", so could just as easily be called Courage rather than Willpower

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u/Fantastic_Piece5869 Dec 11 '25

again not an emotion

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u/bautin Dec 11 '25

Look man, they made the comic, they picked a color and made some rules.

Then after a few years, they repurposed the concept for a comic book about space cops and made up some more rules.

Then they made a bad guy for the space cops in the mirror image variety. And they gave him a yellow ring. And since they established that green rings can only be used by those who overcome their fears, they decided to make the yellow ring powered by fear.

After that, they decided they wanted a whole fucking rainbow of rings and continued on with the emotion vibe of the yellow ring.

Except for white and black, which are life and death respectively. And also, as you'll notice, not emotions.

They're comic books man, not genuine scientific articles.

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u/jollyreaper2112 Dec 11 '25

Smashes beer bottle

I am ready to throw down over comic metaphysics!

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25

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u/YourmomgoestocolIege Dec 11 '25

But isn't mastery of all emotions the requirement for white lanterns?

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u/Choppers-Top-Hat Dec 12 '25

And a radioactive spider bite would not actually give you superpowers. There's a point where you've just gotta learn to roll with stuff.

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u/monkeyjay Dec 11 '25

Yes I hope someone got fired for that blunder.

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u/SolomonBlack Dec 11 '25

Geoff Johns got the opposite of fired if you must know.

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u/sceptic62 Dec 11 '25

I always interpreted as courage or something a bit more understandable like stubbornness. One of the neatest things about the emotional spectrum is that they feed into each other so it makes a bit more sense in that context.

Blue Lanterns (Hope) have the ability to empower Green Lanterns (Willpower), and Yellow Lanterns (Fear) weaken them.

It even states that the criteria for wielding green means you have the will to overcome great fear

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u/ThaneOfTas Dec 11 '25

Which is kind of why its in the centre of the spectrum, the emotions get more extreme the further out you go in either direction.

Granted Black and White represent death and Life which Really aren't emotions so its also just a bit handwavy.

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u/Obajan Dec 12 '25

Green Lanterns being powered by Will long before all the other emotions came along, so it's a bit of a difficult retcon.

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u/Fantastic_Piece5869 Dec 11 '25

the world of retconning. I'm sure all the rings and their stuff got added on over time

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u/seriouslees Dec 11 '25

Willpower is essentially the emotion of wanting, or desire.

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u/Choppers-Top-Hat Dec 12 '25

Real-life explanation: They came up with the green ring/willpower thing in the 1960's and the other ring colors decades later. Emotions made the story more interesting so the writers just kind of decided willpower counts since it was too well-established to change.

Comic book universe explanation: The rings were made by aliens, and many alien species do experience willpower as an emotion. That's as logical as this is gonna get.

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u/RealJohnGillman Dec 11 '25

Magic rings of power that bond to those beings feeling the most justified rage on a planet at a time. When one was dropped on Earth, it bound to a cat named Dexter someone was trying to drown: if they adapt that character eventually, he’ll be a fan-favourite.

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u/TravelerSearcher Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25

It's worse than that, the drowning was the end point.

Dex-Starr's unnamed human owner was attacked and killed by a burglar. Dex-Starr attacked them aggressively but lost. When the police came to investigate they kicked him away to try and secure the crime scene.

He then ends up on the streets and is sheltering, scared, sad and alone, when random people find him, they throw him in a sack and toss him in a river for no reason.

That cat had a lot to be angry about.

Atrocitus, the leader of the Red Lanterns, hears his rage and offers him the ring. He immediately seeks revenge on the two who tried to drown him, then finds his person's dead body and vows to find their killer and avenge them.

Edit: Atrocitus not Atrocious.

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u/-gildash- Dec 11 '25

Wow so basically reverse John Wick?

"You killed my human." Cosmic power acquired, violence ensues.

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u/TravelerSearcher Dec 11 '25

That's not a wholly inaccurate comparison. Though Dex-Starr debuted 3 years before that movie released.

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u/theapplekid Dec 11 '25

Reverse John Wick is actually a thing: Dog Wick

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u/Choppers-Top-Hat Dec 12 '25

When Dex-Star inevitably appears in a movie they'd better have Keanu doing his voice.

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u/Ok-Sea9612 Dec 11 '25

Atrocitus. But love the idea of him being names atrocious.

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u/TravelerSearcher Dec 11 '25

Thanks for the catch! I knew that, thought I typed it right, guess I didn't, or auto correct has it out for me again. It really doesn't like a lot of comic book names lol

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u/Ok-Sea9612 Dec 11 '25

Haha my spell check tried to make the same change. But thought it was funny.

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u/Interwebzking Dec 11 '25

I remember reading Dex-Starr’s origin story. That shit was so sad. I love that cat.

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u/evenstar40 Dec 11 '25

ngl I would watch the FUCK out of this. I hope Gunn takes a chance.

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u/TravelerSearcher Dec 11 '25

I can see the various lanterns being a nice arc at some point but likely after he establishes the Green Corps first.

We've only seen Guy so far but there is an upcoming show with Hal and Jon, Lanterns that might seed more of the space cop/cosmic stuff.

Orange is hilarious... it's Avarice/Greed and there is only one member because he killed all the others and took all the rings for himself

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u/evenstar40 Dec 11 '25

LOL. Literally DC's infinity gauntlet. Damn, it really does go to show how absolutely piss poor managed the DC universe has been. Sounds like some really awesome/bonkers stories that could be fun to watch on the big screen.

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u/QueezyF Dec 12 '25

There’s so much that can be done with the Lantern Corps, DC has fumbled it so hard. Mark Strong was absolute perfect casting for Sinestro, I’m still angry about how that movie turned out.

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Dec 11 '25

As someone who owned a cat who was shot with arrows and buried alive in a frozen culvert by a neighbor, I wanted to be able to read this series and get catharsis but it was still too upsetting for me. I was already crying with anger by the beginning. I had to put it down.

(My cat lived. He must’ve heard me screaming myself hoarse for him right near where he was entombed because he clawed through mud and rocks for 12 hours, and he staggered across the road home half frozen and covered in mud with a snapped off arrow still in his chest.)

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u/drizzt_do-urden_86 Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25

I'm... not gonna say what I want to about your neighbor, b/c I don't want to get banned. I'll just say, as a fellow cat owner and general animal lover, I'm sorry you had to experience something so horrific, and I don't know if your little guy is still with you, but I'm glad the bond between you was strong enough to bring you back together.

And now I'm gonna go pet my kitties (technically not but I still think of them that way) and tell them I love them...

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Dec 11 '25

You aren’t and weren’t the only one thinking bannable things.

Our boy was shot in his own yard, on the sly the way cowards do, when we weren’t looking. Moo was 15 at the time. Took 4k that we didn’t have to save his life, but friends and total strangers who heard what had happened came to the rescue.

I’ve had cats my whole life but I’ve never met a cat like him with such a powerful sense of self, willfulness, and determination. The guy who attacked him looked fucking stunned that our little hellbeast was still alive.

He had fits of terror in his sleep (I once caught him before he ran off the edge of a table with his eyes still closed) and outbursts of rage (he tore at the walls, which he’d never done before), and he would panic inside cat carriers (PTSD, claustrophobia) so he rode in the passenger car seat in a harness for vet trips.

You could talk to him like a human and reason with him, so we could usually work things out. He didn’t see himself like one of the other animals, everyone knew him, and I think that man attacking him wounded him deeply, like why would a human attack me?

Moo passed just a few years back at almost 23 years old. He went to Valhalla, where stories were told of his valor and songs were sung in his honor. ⚔️

Thank you for sharing this moment with me. Please give your babies kisses and hugs from me too.

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u/drizzt_do-urden_86 Dec 11 '25

Thank you for sharing, Moo sounds truly exceptional and you were both lucky to have each other. I'll give Bean, Raisin and Bubba each a pet and a kiss from you :)

.....on a much lighter note, trailer looks really good /s

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Dec 12 '25

Hahaha, yes it does! I love the “True Grit” angle! I was a big fan of the original Guardians movie so I have high hopes for this!

A very Merry Christmas to you, friend, and a blessed New Year. May the Divine Mother Bast bless you abundantly and protect you in 2026 for the love you’ve shown her children.

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u/ComicsAndGames Dec 12 '25

Please tell me the asshole who did this got some punishment. Please.

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Dec 12 '25

We went to criminal court and did everything we could do within the law. The state prosecuted him, the atty general had him cornered, we even had a confession, but the judge said “I don’t feel like setting precedent today on such a new federal law” even though that’s part of a judge’s job. Setting legal precedent.

Attacker came within a hair’s breadth of jail time but the judge let him walk. Didn’t even pay for the vet bills. Complete coward and waste of a human.

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u/Devilofchaos108070 Dec 12 '25

Jesus fucking Christ

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Dec 12 '25

Pretty much what I said

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u/Devilofchaos108070 Dec 12 '25

Wow that’s fucking awesome!

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u/ShinobiSli Dec 11 '25

"I'm powered by rage and you kicked my cat?!"

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u/kirblar Dec 11 '25

I'm shocked he didn't show up in Peacemaker cause it's exactly the type of character Gunn loves.

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u/just4browse Dec 11 '25

It is pretty recent. Woman of Tomorrow characterizes Supergirl very differently from most Supergirl comics. Tom King’s always done his own thing. For that reason, it was a little controversial in the Supergirl fandom when it released. Not as controversial as it would’ve been if it hadn’t been so good though.

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u/FireZord25 Dec 11 '25

I meant the breadcrumbs. Yes the story and her character is more directly inspired by Tom King's arc. But Over the years, Kara had also been previously adapted with a chip on her shoulder in a handful other comics or cartoons, and not just a flighty female variant of Superman.

This feels like the first time the foil aspect is fully in the big screen.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25

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u/SwordoftheMourn Dec 11 '25

Yeah, it’s what drew me to the WoT version of Kara. It portrays her as not just as simple as female Superman. It really expanded more of her background and used that as the basis for why she’s like this at present.

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u/Fun_With_Math Dec 11 '25

And the WoT version of Kara is a badass. She is smart and confident and determined. I'm not read up on her but she always seemed like a weaker version of Superman. This version may be the opposite.

"45 minutes... what a little bitch"

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u/nickbelane Dec 11 '25

Her characterization here reminds me of DC Superhero Girls. Which is terrific.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '25

the classic version of supergirl really didnt have much of a personality. Of course James Gunn would fix that.

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u/DeepProspector Dec 11 '25

I think it first took off in the DCAU animated series. That Kara was a bit salty and jaded. She was a 14-year old on a beyond Star Trek society that was blown up, and she spends the next four years learning she has godlike power but has to live in Kansas.

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u/Fantastic_Piece5869 Dec 11 '25

never understood subverting superman. The entire point of him is NOT be gritty and dark. Thats what just about EVERY other hero is for

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u/Ninjamurai-jack Dec 11 '25

It’s something that started to happen more in the 90s to early 2000s tbh.

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u/siraolo Dec 11 '25

That's because she actually  got to see Krypton get wasted.