Fans got their first look at Miley Alcock’s Supergirl in action with the release of the film’s first trailer. In two minutes, viewers were introduced to Kara Zor-El and a new corner of the DC Universe (DCU). While the movie was written by Ana Nogueira (based on a story by Tom King), and directed by Craig Gillespie, producer James Gunn’s fingerprints are all over the place.
The Supergirl Trailer is Pure James Gunn
The trailer opens with a literal needle drop as Kara’s dog, Krypto, knocks an empty liquor bottle onto a record player. Cue music. Kara’s apartment is a mess, and a copy of The Daily Planet with a picture of her cousin Superman on the front page, lying among the debris on the floor. Superman, it seems, saved a town from a nuclear reactor explosion.
The first trailer for ‘SUPERGIRL’ has been released.
In theaters on June 26, 2026 pic.twitter.com/8o7abMjrw2
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 11, 2025
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Krypto uses the paper as a puppy pad and a hungover Kara praises him, setting the tone for the rest of the trailer. Gillespie is sending a clear message with this trailer: Supergirl will be irreverent.
After a few shots of landing spaceships and shady-looking characters, we cut to Kara sitting in a bar doing shots. In a quick bit of exposition, she declares that “23 will be the best year yet,” before telling Krypto, “Let’s be honest, babe, it’s not a very high bar to clear.”
Supergirl fighting in the Supergirl Trailer – YouTube, DC
The eight-issue Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, which the movie is based on, presents Kara as embittered because, in the words of Gunn, she “watched everybody around her perish in some terrible way.” This lines up with what is shown in the trailer. A little girl asks Kara what it was like to lose everything in a day. Kara replies that Kypton didn’t die in a day, adding, “the gods are not that kind.”
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #8 (2022), DC Comics
There’s a quick transition to the next action beat of the trailer, with Kara and the girl surrounded by men with guns. Kara says, “Okay, this does not look like it’s going to end well.” After a beat, she adds, “For you guys.” Blondie’s Call Me kicks in as Kara thrashes them. The music is another element that feels more like Gunn’s signature style than something distinct to the DCU.
The trailer ends with the girl asking Kara if others on her planet have powers like she does. Supergirl answers that it’s “a pretty small group of two.” She’s then asked what Superman is like, and this is where the trailer drops its thematic statement. “He sees the good in everyone,” Kara answers. “I see the truth.”
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A poster revealed the day before the trailer, presented Supergirl with the tagline: “Truth. Justice. Whatever.” So far, everything about the film’s marketing is consistent. Kara is shown to be jaded after watching her planet die, with little regard for her more famous cousin’s values.
Jason Momoa as Lobo in the Supergirl Trailer – YouTube, DC
Rather than drawing comparisons to previous Superman movies, users online commented that the Supergirl trailer looks and feels like other Gunn projects.
That “Kryptonians of the Galaxy” trailer was underwhelming.#Supergirl
— Verbal Riot (@verbalriotshow) December 11, 2025
However, just over an hour after the trailer dropped on the official DC and Warner Bros. YouTube account, it had 141k upvotes and only 7.9k downvotes. That may be a good sign for Gunn’s troubled DCU in the long run. Or it may give audiences time to grow just as world-weary as Supergirl herself.
Supergirl arrives in theaters June 6, 2026
What did you think of the Supergirl trailer? Let us know in the comments!
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If the trailer is indicative of the whole movie, this film is going to crash and burn on launch. Goon once again proved he can’t direct to save his life and the writer for the script certainly lived down to my expectations. Kara has no clear personality, the scene with Krypto peeing on Superman’s picture in the newspaper is as subtle as a wrecking ball, and we already have a painfully clear idea of what they’ll do to Morbo to prop up the titular super-zero.
It’ll be poo. I don’t gamble but I’d be all in on that prop bet.
After seeing what Gunn did with Superman, I have no interest in this whatsoever.
You saw’r it? Why?
All the evidence was there why you should not have.
Ah yes, just what every guy wants in a movie about a female super hero, a sarcastic bitch that always puts men in their place while making quippy one liners. As if that wasn’t bad enough, they cast a girl with a mongoloid face, which begs the question, did they do that just to get all the weird zoomers that crank it to AI mongoloid porn to show up?
She looks like a deranged, rabid mongoloid. Exactly what you want to take home and meet Mom.
She looks….. touched. You know,…… special. And feral.
My normal instincts of protecting women take a pause when I see this………..….. gal
This makes me sad. Kara was notable not just for her powers, but her ability to have survived her terrible formative years and yet still push through to find joy and happiness despite a rocky past.
They’ve chosen to focus on one of the few stories that breaks the rest of the canon to show a broken, traumatized, Supergirl. She’s being done dirty.
The actress is much closer to her than I expected but is still a far cry from Supergirl’s classic look. It looks like they couldn’t get Bella Ramsey so they went with this actress. She doesn’t look exotic, she looks retarded.