Hear me out, folks…I know the title is going to piss off some people, and no, this wasn’t clickbait. Supergirl was a better hero introduction than Gunn’s Superman. Let me explain….
- She had a proper high-arc.
The Story showed a young woman who was forced to watch her people die. She was forced to see her mother and father both die of horrible poison from Kryptonite for a long time before she launched to Earth in this story plot. Unlike Kal-el, who saw or remembered nothing about Krypton. She was forced to deal with the reality of loss and suffering on a global scale, which is why she cut herself off from others and sought things like drinking and getting drunk to keep those memories at bay, just like millions do today.
She was then almost forced by fate to find an even younger girl who had lost everything similar to her, whom she was forced to protect because she didn’t want her to go through what she was going through. This forced her to be better for her and, in turn, helped her see the importance of connection to her cousin and realize that being with him was the last home and people she had instead of running from the reality of everything she lost.
- The Movie didn’t create a villain that was dominant over the Hero.
The villain or villains of the movie were strong but nothing like Kara when she had access to the sun. This was very important in building the story around the character. This was something Superman failed at. From the moment the movie opened up … Superman was being beaten up left and right, left crying and screaming. Even Krypto nipped and jumped on Superman, hurting him.
Any time the villain got the best of Kara, it was always from being weakened by the Sun or Kryptonite. This makes perfect sense. Not just because the villain had instructions from humans to counter Superman, who moves faster than human eyes and reaction speeds, which means there was no way they could call out commands in time to beat him, but this was just accepted in the movie.
- The most important and most developed person in the Movie was the Hero the Movie was named after.
The most important fact of the movie was that Kara was the point of the movie. She was the hero. She was the one saving people. They didn’t make the Dog the hero and point in every scene they could. They didn’t spend half the movie boosting up the villains. They didn’t have 20 different people like Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, The Engineer, Ultraman, Green Lantern, Hawk Girl, and/or Mr Fantastic…doing all the saving while the hero merely saved a dog, squirrel, and one person on the bridge. Nope, instead they used Supergirl to save over and over again like a true hero whose movie is named after them is supposed to, unlike Superman. They were more focused on making sure Superman didn’t save Lois to avoid the whole “damsel in distress” than they were on telling a story that they completely destroyed the point of Superman’s purpose.
- Conclusion and Rating:
At the end of the day…the lies about her hating Fathers and Christians that people ran with because they never did the research on what happened (she called out PEOPLE WHO ATTCKERD HER “WITH BURNER ACCOUNTS LIKE “DADOF4” OR “CHRISTIAN”…these were the names of people who attacked her for her looks or her body)and just kept repeating this did the most damage because people are sheep. They follow without knowing why. They only repeat because someone said it or did it. The storyline was not bad; it was not disjointed. The only point of contention I had with the movie was the whole “Villain equals Men who enslave women” agenda. If you want something to get made about …this is the spot. They didn’t need to point that out as a focal point at all. That was thrown in on purpose to push an agenda of Women=good, Men=bad that we see in newer movies over and over again. At the end of the day, I gave it a 7.5 out of 10. Not Great but not bad, and definitely not the “Worse movie” take some have tried to paint on this movie because, at the end of the day, it was a better Superhero Arc than Superman was.
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