SUPERMAN VS SUPERGIRL TRAILER

It's Mr. Crazy. DC and James Gunn just dropped a brand new clip of Superman meeting Supergirl for the first time. There's a whole bunch of comedy they lean into here, like does he wear his underwear outside? Why is he walking around in his underwear? Does everybody on this planet walk around in their underwear? Just seems like there are a lot of underwear related questions on her mind right now. Like please tell me you're not gonna make me walk around in my underwear everywhere now too. And they make a big joke of him not understanding Kryptonian, not being fluent in his own people's language, so he has absolutely no idea what she's saying. Sensory overload and a feisty crypto. Also love the scene of her powers kicking in. You can see all the sensory information rushing. Man of Steel connection. They did this during Zack Snyder's Man of Steel movie, where the Kryptonians started to freak out because of all the extra sensory information, and it took them a second to just figure things out before they could function again. Krypto's powers. They don't really show it in this clip and it seemed like they mashed it up, so like, this is a much longer clip in the actual movie itself, but Krypto's powers are probably kicking in too. So you just imagine like a tiny puppy floating up in the air all of a sudden, randomly. The bite. You also notice that he tries to bite Superman's hand off even before his powers come in. Like tiny puppy trying to bite Superman's hand off. It's full out. It's a feisty little guy. Timeline and the suit tuning. You also notice he's still wearing his suit from the first Superman movie, because that was the suit he was wearing in the first Superman movie, and this is taking place like a year or two before the first Superman movie. So contextually, it actually makes sense he'd be wearing the old version of the suit. James Gunn did reveal that in Man of Tomorrow, which they're filming right now, we got a whole bunch of footage of him fighting Lex Luthor in the giant mech suit, the war suit. He's actually wearing a brand new suit, like they tuned the suit itself. It looks a little more form-fitting, a little more aura-farming going here, but it's just the way the lights are hitting him where they're filming this scene at night. But the symbol looks a little bit bigger on his chest, and the neckline looks a little bit different too. They probably tried designs without the neck, but David Korenzweit is so tall, his neck is so long, he probably just looked weirder without the collar on the actual suit. Breaking down this timeline here. 2021. He would have had to create the Fortress of Solitude just before debuting, maybe like 4 years max. 2022. He debuted to the world as Superman 3 years prior to his first movie. Supergirl's pod crashes. Supergirl's pod crashes to Earth. He's already been Superman for a while, but it's long before the events of the first Superman movie, like I said, maybe like 1 year before the movie. So he's been Superman for at least a couple years. And the first Superman movie takes place in 2025. Language learning and full immersion. And it seems like the way they're explaining him not being fluent in Kryptonian is that he has just made the Fortress of Solitude just a little while ago, so he's just started watching his parents' message for a little while, and that's probably how he's been learning Kryptonian, using the words from the message itself to slowly pick up a little bit of it. My assumption, Joril also would have programmed this information into his pod, so the Superman robots that were constructed from material inside the pod as well are probably helping teach him Kryptonian language just over time. But most of his time he's spending saving people around the world being actual Superman, so he's probably not got a whole bunch of time to actually study on Kryptonese. But if you remember, in that first Superman movie, he wasn't fluent in Kryptonian or Kryptonese in that movie either. He probably just understands enough of it so that he can understand the portion of his parents' message that he was able to listen to before the engineer fully decoded it. James Gunn said Man of Tomorrow takes place 2 years after the first movie, like the DCU is moving in relative real time. It's been 2 years when that movie will come out from the first movie, so I'm assuming not a ton has changed with him learning Kryptonian. Supergirl will probably help him learn a little bit more of it faster, because it's easier to learn foreign languages when you're trying to converse in them, like being fully immersed all the time. Most of the previous Superman TV shows, movies and incarnations over the years just handwave over this detail for Superman when he's younger, and he always just magically becomes fluent at some point later in his life.