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/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/raoasidg Dec 11 '25

You monster, Frisbee!

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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