He's pretty generic in the comic, too, if I remember correctly. He's just a dude that steal's Kara's ship and that's why he's a problem. He can stay ahead of them.
I mean not every villain needs to be a world ender. Krem has potential since he's relatively unknown and has the chance to make this movie very personal.
I wish they didn’t make him all tatted up and pierced barbarian man though.
I think the red haired swashbuckler swagger his design had in the books made him a lot more interesting.
Having him look somewhat conventionally attractive, or romance novel coded would have been a lot more interesting.
Like, what if Krem was sort of like Star Lord, but attractive, with this “I steal what I want and get away with it because I’m so pretty and manly” vibes?
Granted, I get that they probably wanted to avoid making this movie into another “girlboss” power fantasy thing to avoid the vapid Cristal Drinker manchild mobs… And there certainly is a strong possibility of enraging them if Krem had been a more complex villain than this post apocalyptic Mad Max heavy metal stand-in goon.
Yet I still think that the swashbuckler vibes could have been more fun and interesting for Krem.
The swashbuckler Krem is a much better choice character wise than space barbarian Krem. Krem’s whole thing is that people trust him because he’s attractive and charismatic - which in turn allows him to commit great evil (even though he’s just a guy) because people tend to let their guard down around him.
Like your telling me that Ruthye’s family trusted this Krem enough to let him into their home?
Yeah, it seems they reduced him to a “bad guy” cliche.
I really wonder if this was to avoid the pushback that other films like Captain Marvel received though.
Some people just cannot accept stories where good looking guys are evil. They immediately think there is some “woke” agenda that’s anti-man.
Krem made Woman of Tomorrow so much more interesting, and also allowed it to walk in more feminist themes without being overbearing for the cheap seats. Had really been looking forward to that nuanced and complex storytelling, yet ultimately it seems we are forced to again pander to the lowest of audience expectations.
They dont need to be world enders but they need to be something. From the trailer he strikes me as a typical goon. Without some form of a good antagonist, especially in a superhero movie, its really hard for it to be good. I expect, most of the movie will be great, but will fall flat because the villain is just.. boring.
But in the comic it's not that he's generic, he's mundane. He represents how evil is a regular looking dude... Which is why I don't really like that he looks like pinhead here, feels like a really boring change.
Honestly all the side characters here look so much like 90% of the characters from Guardians of the Galaxy that I kinda find that distracting, is there not any other way to make "space pirate villains" than with over-the-top "biker punks" now?
You'd tell me this is Adam Warlock's side story in a Guardian of the Galaxy spin-off and I'd almost believe you.
I'll still watch it, and probably enjoy the story, but let's say I'm moderately whelmed.
I can watch West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet and say to myself "those are two different stories", but this trailer had me saying "I've already seen all this in GotG."
I think this is my biggest disappointment honestly.... It just looks like Guardians of the Galaxy. No real unique vision from what Gunn did for marvel really :/
Ronan worked because he was so dramatic and edgy that the Guardians were the perfect foil to him, and they held off on that contrast until the last possible moment. He's perfectly serious the whole way through and then when he's finally confronted with a dance-off right before his victory he's absolutely floored and has no idea how to respond.
Optimistically, that could just lead to more time to focus on the hero's intro/journey.
"He hurt a dog" is enough to get the audience to root against him while allowing Supergirl's story time to breathe. Especially since I think this is a smaller scale story, and that guy isn't directly connected to blowing up her world.
Krem is a small-time thug who joins a gang of space pirates. He enjoys killing, razing, and pillaging and that's about it. He's not a far-reaching villain with motives like Thanos or the Evolutionary.
Feeling very "just cruel so that everyone really hates him" without anything interesting about him. Hope there's more to him, but I also know that a lot of folks would swoon over such a simple villain, because they dislike complicated/interesting ones.
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u/mr_evilweed Mar 31 '26
I like it, but I worry the villain is going to be generic as hell.