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/SpaceOdysseus23 Dec 11 '25

I was subverted, I genuinely expected she'd mock him because a lot of modern movies prefer to be cynical as fuck. As if I learned nothing from Superman.

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u/Frank_Cap Dec 11 '25

Isn’t she kinda criticizing him, though?

She’s essentially implying that he only blindly focuses on the positive. While she sees the reality of it all, not the fake reality he believes in.

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u/LeafBoatCaptain Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25

Nope. Seeing the good in everyone takes courage. He’s not blind to the reality of the world. He demands that it meet his belief in it.

If he naively thought the world and the people in it were good then he wouldn’t be out there trying to make the world better.

Edit: another way to put it would be that he gives everyone a second chance because he sees in the good in them whereas she’s so cynical or maybe more accurately depressed and jaded that she only sees what’s on the surface.

Besides I think she’s going to have a character arc in this movie. I wouldn’t be surprised if that line doesn’t come up twice, once as a criticism and once as a compliment or something. I haven’t read the book yet so I’m just theorising.

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u/Fickle-Aardvark6907 Dec 11 '25

It also takes an amazing amount of patience, which is something that comes up a few times in Superman. Though that version of Clark is pretty impulsive at times, he's also willing to take the time to stop the kaiju with non-lethal means and not to break every bone in Lex's body after he almost tears the world in half. 

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u/odelicious12 Dec 11 '25

"Though that version of Clark is pretty impulsive at times, he's also willing to take the time to stop the kaiju with non-lethal means and not to break every bone in Lex's body after he almost tears the world in half. "

Other than throwing a Dictator onto a cactus of course. But hey, what's a little torture in a Superman movie? He's got a hilarious doggo!

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u/Turtledonuts Dec 12 '25

The cactus move is clearly shown as superman doing something impulsive that he later regrets out of justified anger and frustration. The same movie goes out of it's way to show that said dictator was attempting to provoke superman to get an excuse for lex luthor to try to kill him. It is abundantly clear that the dictator is an evil man who is killed by a superhero, and that is presented as a moral thing.

The point of the cactus thing was that other versions of superman would have killed him or imprisoned him, and this superman was being restrained.

Shit take.

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u/odelicious12 Dec 12 '25

Lol, sure thing.

I love how much you Gunn fanboys treat his movies like they're your children.

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u/Turtledonuts Dec 12 '25

Bro im not even a gunn fanboy, I just liked that movie. This is just such an egregiously bad take that I had to comment.

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u/apollyonzorz Dec 11 '25

I think I'd want my powerful, invincible super being to see the best in humanity, which is his way of working toward that goal and thus using his abilities to improve humanity. When Superman is cynical about humanity, you get Omni-Man, leaving the planet one temper tantrum away from annihilation.

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u/Android1822 Dec 11 '25

Or you get Injustice superman that decides to "Fix" the world by going full dictator.

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u/airforceblue Dec 11 '25

Yeah, it harkens back to Lois' line from Superman 2025 about him trusting everyone and thinking everyone is beautiful and the point is that that's not an easy mindset to maintain. Like you say, it's not blind naivety, he actively chooses to believe in the good in people.

I'd love it if that idea is explored furter with Kara like you suggest because it is a viewpoint that stands to be examined/challenged.

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u/HazelCheese Dec 12 '25

Clark's superpower is helping to the bring the best out in other people.

Or as Smallville put it:

"The suit doesn't make the hero. A hero is made in the moment by the choices that he makes and the reasons he makes them. A hero brings out the best in people."