The DCU's Supergirl Is 'A Total Mess,' James Gunn Says: 'She's Ended Up Different Than Her Cousin'

The DC Universe mentation of Supergirl is “a full mess,” DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has said present Superman is retired successful the wild.

Warning! Spoilers for Superman follow:

If you’ve seen Superman you’ll cognize that Supergirl makes a cameo quality astatine the extremity to prime up her troublesome dog, Krypto, who Kal-El has been babysitting. She’s drunk, overmuch to Superman’s annoyance, and adjacent calls her relative a “bitch” arsenic she stumbles retired the Fortress of Solitude.

In an interrogation with ScreenRant, Gunn confirmed this is the mentation of Supergirl we volition spot successful adjacent year’s Supergirl movie, starring Milly Alcock successful the rubric relation of Kara Zor-El / Supergirl.

“Yeah, that's her,” helium said. “She's a mess. She's a full mess.”

But wherefore is she successful this state? As revealed successful Superman, Supergirl got drunk connected a satellite bathed successful the airy of a reddish prima (it’s intolerable for Superman oregon immoderate Kryptonian to get drunk connected world owed to the empowering effects of our yellowish sun).

But beyond this, intelligibly Supergirl is suffering from intelligence wellness issues that are driving her to drink, the effect of a precise antithetic upbringing compared to her cousin’s.

“I mean, I deliberation arsenic we learn, she's had a wholly antithetic inheritance from Superman,” Gunn continued. “A overmuch much hard background. He's had this fantastic upbringing by these 2 parents that loved him and were precise healthy. And her inheritance was overmuch antithetic than that. And she's ended up antithetic than her cousin.”

The DCU Supergirl movie is based connected Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s comic, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. “In our story, we person Superman who was sent to Earth and raised by incredibly loving parents,” Gunn has explained. “Kara was connected Krypton. She was connected a portion of Krypton that drifted distant from the satellite and she lived determination for the archetypal 14 years of her beingness successful a horrible concern wherever she watched everyone astir her die. So, she’s a overmuch harsher and much f*cked up Supergirl than you’ve been utilized to frankincense far.”

Recently, Gunn has called Supergirl a “space fantasy” — and said it volition person a antithetic code than Superman. Expect Jason Momoa’s Lobo to prima alongside Supergirl successful the film. The question is, volition Superman besides appear?

For more, cheque retired IGN’s article, Superman Introduces the Girl of Steel: Here's Why This Version of Supergirl Is So Different.

In the U.S., Superman got the DCU disconnected to a flyer with a planetary play instrumentality of $217 cardinal astatine the container office. Its $122 cardinal home haul was capable to marque it the biggest North American motorboat ever for a solo Superman film, not adjusted for inflation.

Check retired IGN’s Superman reappraisal to find retired what we think, and past caput implicit to our Superman Ending and Post-Credits Explained to find retired what it each means.

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