SUPERGIRL Gets a New Poster as Potentially Divisive Details About the Movie’s Villains Are Revealed
DC Studios has rolled out a new promo poster for Supergirl, giving fans another look at the film while also sparking fresh conversation about what kind of story this movie is actually going to tell.
The poster arrives not long after the first trailer dropped last month. While that preview ended up competing for attention with the avalanche of hype surrounding Avengers: Doomsday, interest in DC’s rebooted universe hasn’t slowed down. Fans are still curious to see how Supergirl fits into the broader DCU.
What’s really turning heads is a new detail about the film’s villains that could end up being controversial. According to test screening leaker @ViewerAnon, the antagonists are being reworked in a pretty extreme way.
The insider wrote, "The bad guys in [the movie] are a bunch of losers who kidnap women for use as sex slaves."
That would be a sharp departure from the source material, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. In the comic, Krem of the Yellow Hills murders Ruthye’s father and shoots Krypto with an arrow, setting off a grim revenge quest that pairs Ruthye with Supergirl.
Krem eventually aligns himself with the Sklarian Raiders, but they’re portrayed as ruthless raiders who pillage worlds and slaughter innocents.
If this leak is accurate, the movie appears to push Krem and his crew into much darker territory. The implication that Ruthye, or possibly even Kara herself, could be targeted as a sex slave is a heavy shift in tone that may not land well with everyone.
It’s the kind of creative choice that’s likely to divide fans, especially those who connected deeply with the emotional weight of the comic.
DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has already signaled that the film isn’t meant to be a page-for-page adaptation. While comparing the project to Guardians of the Galaxy, Gunn explained:
"It’s based on the Tom King book, but it doesn’t follow it religiously, but it has a lot of the core of that there." That approach suggests familiar themes and character beats, even if the details shift in ways that surprise longtime readers.
Regardless of how the story plays out, Supergirl is sure to be one of the more talked-about DC movies on the horizon. Whether these creative risks pay off won’t be clear until audiences finally see Kara Zor-El take flight in theaters.
