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Supergirl and her "self-destructive nature" will be explored in her upcoming DC Studios film
The DC Studios Supergirl film will feature scenes set on Krypton to illustrate the source of Kara's trauma
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Supergirl and Superman are cousins, so they've got a lot in common. (The same grandparents, for instance.) That said, the upcoming Supergirl movie is set to highlight a key difference between Kara and Kal-El.
In case you're not familiar with Super-family lore, Supergirl was already a teenager when her home planet of Krypton was destroyed, while cousin Kal was still a baby when shipped off in a pod headed towards Earth. Kara's ship was knocked off course, and she didn't arrive on Earth until years later, when he had already landed and had a chance to grow up. So, bluntly Superman has no memories of their homeworld, but Kara does. Including memories of their homeworld being destroyed.
For this reason, the Supergirl movie coming to theaters this June will feature sequences set on Krypton before Kara's departure, with David Krumholtz playing Kara's father, Zor-El. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, director Craig Gillespie explained the reasoning for including scenes on Krypton in the film: "We do really thoroughly investigate Argo [the city where Supergirl was born] and Krypton. It's so fundamental to who she is as a person and what she goes through in her formative years there. It makes you understand why she is where she is with her personality and the self-destructive nature that she has as we meet her at the beginning of the film."
We've already gotten a glimpse of this self-destructiveness in last summer's Superman film. In the film's final scene, Kara stumbles into the Fortress of Solitude, drunk and in a state of disarray, revealing that she is much more crass than her more clean-cut cousin.
Supergirl will fly into theaters on June 26, 2026.
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