Traumatic. Haunted. Unable to submit. These are just some of the ways the filmmakers describe Milly Alcock’s Kara Zor-El in next year’s highly anticipated Supergirl movie. These are terms that also seem about a million miles away from David Corenswet’s squirrel-saving good guy in Superman .

There’s a reason for that, which is only beginning to be teased out in today’s Supergirl trailer. While there is plenty of spunk to a sizzle reel keyed into Kara’s musical choices—Blondie!—and business casual attire, there are also glimpses of something Corenswet’s Big Boy Blue never gets to really see first-hand in the 2025 movie: Krypton.

Depicted with faded grandeur and soiled ruin in flashes of the trailer—with images of Greco-Roman and ancient Egyptian inspired architecture falling to rub

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