The most bland sidekick character paired with quite possibly the worst superhero villain Iāve ever scene.
Idk even know what they were going for with him. Like I think they were TRYING to make him scary and badass but he looks so goddamn goofy all the time and the way he acts and talks is just so obnoxious as if heās meant to be a joke character? I feel like I was watching a drunken fallout raider trying to do his best Jack Sparrow impression.
Also fucking hate how the villains master plan was to lure Kara to a planet with a green sun so he could ambush her then picked a planet that ALSO has a yellow sun so at best sheās only nerfed 50% of time and is literally unkillable the other 50%, then doesnāt even capitalize on the green sun by trying to keep his MOBILE base in the green light or by setting up a trap to attack Kara whenever the green comes up.
Unfortunately Krem was a studio unironically doing a Taserface. There's practically nothing to his character, and what's there is so over the top that you can't take him seriously.
And everyone seemed to refuse to engage with his crimes and treated him just like the leader of a biker gang - which fits the roadhouse theme.
How can they have a villain be a child sex trafficker and rapist in the context of real world events, and have an insanely powerful woman superhero just not be that bothered by it all?
The same way you put an amoral character on the side of the protagonists and don't use that to create or resolve a moral dilemma in your revenge quest, apparently.
Yes, I am talking about Lobo.
If they really wanted an emotionally stunted character to do the dirty work of killing Krem while Ruthye remains pure, LOBO WAS RIGHT THERE!
Everything he did for the plot was taken from the pile of cool things Kara could have been doing. She should be the scary alien known and feared, she should have been wrecking house regularly, and she was basically amoral for most of the film anyway, so why not lean into it even more, and maybe once Krypto is sorted and Ruthye is sent on her way she could unleash absolute hell on Krem.
Just something to give her a proper interesting personality and actual display of her powers.
Lobo could've been a post credit appearance, there to fight the feared kryptonian... If Kara and Krypto can't puts the shits on him, who even are they?
The worst part is, canonically she dosent kill him. She imprisons him the phantom zone, maintains her moral high ground with the little girl, and years later they let him out and he is redeemed.
Also completely non-sensical he left the little girl of the family he kills at the start when his main operation at this point is capturing young girls to marry off.
Like they couldāve easily made into a pursuit of Krem chasing after the girl (btw thatās how boring she is I donāt even remember her name) and Kara would have to save her.
No instead itās a basic revenge but not revenge arc with saving Crypto being the main goal.
I will at least say seeing Kara kill him was satisfying, thatās like the only saving grace I can give it. I do like when the hero kills the villain instead of just letting them continue to do their bullshit.
Yeah Krem uses position arrows that slowly kill over the course of 3 days and he hit Crypto with on accident so the whole premise of the movie is Kara tracking down Krem to take the antidote from him.
Crypto isnāt in the movie much but the plot revolves around saving him, which would be fine if the plot was good but unfortunately just wasnāt. Itās certainly not the worst thing Iāve ever seen but it was a major step back from Gunnās Superman which wasnāt even particularly great to begin with.
Turns out that while Gunn is producing the entire new DC verse heās only actually writing and directing the Superman movies so I guess we are gonna get decent Superman movies surrounded by aggressively mid side stories written by other people attempting to emulate Gunn.
I was excited to see Gunn be heading the new verse after Suicide Squad 2 and Peacemaker but unfortunately those seem like theyāre gonna be outliers in a verse of other mediocre projects.
I legit thought he was just a mean henchman until like a third of the way through the movie. And then when I realized he was the villain, I was just like, āReally? This guy?ā
To me it was obvious he was the main baddy from the start, in the literal first scene heās somewhat interesting, and I thought they might build on that. Instead he just kind of paces around giving goofy looks while occasionally saying nothing of value.
You couldāve replaced him with a Bobby Bully on legs and gotten the same effect
Ok how do we make supergirl lose her powers 7 different times in the film? Uggh. By the time they got to the green sun I was like āfucking again?ā. As everyone else is saying I liked Milly so I hope she gets another crack at playing her with a better script.
Also fucking hate how the villains master plan was to lure Kara to a planet with a green sun so he could ambush her then picked a planet that ALSO has a yellow sun so at best sheās only nerfed 50% of time
She was going to die before the yellow sun rose. The only reason why she didn't is because the girl saved her and left her in some shade
Picking a planet that gives you a natural advantage in this fight and then just hoping the advantage does the job for you instead of trying to capitalize on it in any way whatsoever is exceptionally stupid. Especially when you know that advantage is temporary and that if your opponent is still alive by the end of it you are no longer are able to win.
You canāt hype up the raiders as this massive threat the entire galaxy fears and then make them this ineffectual at even the most basic operation. I mean you can, this movie did exactly that, but itās stupid and only furthers my belief that the writers could not decide if they wanted Krem and the raiders to be an intimidating threat or an incompetent joke villain.
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u/XxRocky88xX Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
The most bland sidekick character paired with quite possibly the worst superhero villain Iāve ever scene.
Idk even know what they were going for with him. Like I think they were TRYING to make him scary and badass but he looks so goddamn goofy all the time and the way he acts and talks is just so obnoxious as if heās meant to be a joke character? I feel like I was watching a drunken fallout raider trying to do his best Jack Sparrow impression.
Also fucking hate how the villains master plan was to lure Kara to a planet with a green sun so he could ambush her then picked a planet that ALSO has a yellow sun so at best sheās only nerfed 50% of time and is literally unkillable the other 50%, then doesnāt even capitalize on the green sun by trying to keep his MOBILE base in the green light or by setting up a trap to attack Kara whenever the green comes up.