Supergirl TV Series

I am pretty sure one of the villains will be Luthor-like. As in, someone smart that you can't beat by simply pummeling him/her with your bare hands.

Sam Lane, maybe.

Just do what Arrow and Flash have been doing and pull obscure DC names out of a hat and do whatever they want with them.

And honestly, no one will mind Supergirl borrowing Superman villains.

Given the recent movie, Braniac.

Isn't Supergirl supposed to date a Brainiac in some continuities?

But I agree. If no Superman is planned, then just take the slightly-less-famous villains, or change them a bit to make them original to supergirl. As long as Lex Luthor, Darkseid and the original Brainiac stay out of here, there is room for improvisation.

Metallo could fit, for example. Or Mxyzptlk if you want to make an episode on drugs.

I'm not sure an all-knowing, life-ruining villain like Luthor would work with Supergirl. I'm not sure it even works with Superman. They aren't detectives like Batman, who can do more interesting stuff with that.

I really, really want to see Mxyzptlk in something modern, but he's such an embodiment of Silver Age silliness that' I've all but given up on it.

Supergirl only dates Brainiac 5 in Justice League, as far as I know.

edited 20th May '15 3:51:23 PM by KnownUnknown

pretty much, superman villians dosent get much time in movies or series aside from luthor: only Braniac from series,Zod from two movies and Darksides who is pretty much DC Thanos, so everything else will be fair game.

Also since Arrow dosent mind having Deathstroke and Ra´al´ghul I cant see why not some superman villians

well it kinda depends on how you adapt it, really, though i think making it less silly would also mean the scope of his powers wouldn't be the same.

though honestly, this doesn't look like that serious or heavy of a show anyway. apparently flash is doing all sorts of campy silver age stuff (from what i hear) so why not this show?

edited 20th May '15 4:29:58 PM by wehrmacht

Hire John de Lancie and all is right in the world.

He's already played an essentially identical character on My Little Pony AND Star Trek. That's an impressive track record.

Supergirl dated Brainiac 5, not Brainiac. And no, it wasn't just in Justice League. The two of them were in a relationship from the earliest days of the Pre-Crisis Legion Of Superheroes, right up until her death in Crisis on Infinite Earths. Post-Crisis it was implied that though they were not in a relationship yet, they would enter one in the future, and there was a boatload of Ship Tease in both the Supergirl book, and New Krypton.

Other possible Supergirl foes could include the Anton Schott Dollmaker (though if Toyman is her friend and her age, unlikely), Reign, Satan Girl, Simon Tycho, and the New 52 Cyborg-Superman (actually the resurrected corpse of her father, Zor-El). They could also bring in Lena Luthor, Lex's younger sister, and a sometime friend, sometime foe of Supergirl.

edited 20th May '15 5:56:31 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

The guy who thought the only reason she wouldn't go out with him was she was a lesbian... why does everyone think he's her friend? I don't get that feeling.

Well, they seemed otherwise friendly and he seems to be the source of the "wonderful toys" (pun intended).

Definitely a dickish thing to say though and considering who he is in the comics, I'd kind of expect a Face–Heel Turn eventually (although maybe he's based more on the heroic Japanese Toyman?)

edited 20th May '15 8:25:12 PM by Hodor2

Wait, is he the same person who designed her costumes? I thought that was a completely different guy.

I'll admit I am worried about that line, but I'm willing to wait and see.

If he was the heroic Japanese Toyman he would be under the age of 14... and also Japanese.

I wish he was heroic Japanese Toyman. Heroic Toyman is an amusing pervert and I would be curious how the writers would handle "Leery young teenager" without making him unlikable.

Yeah that line worries me to, it feels like they're trying to portray him as a bumbling fool who was trying to be understanding and got the wrong message, but it just comes across as kinda dickish and self obsessive.

Actually, Supergirl dated Brainiac-5 in the pre-Crisis DC universe. She was part of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

In fact, sometimes she was a part of the group with Superbly, who if I understand, had to be mind wiped afterwards since he obviously couldn't know he had a living cousin at that point in his timeline.

This becomes super sad when Supergirl and the Legion visit Superman in "Whatever Became of the Man of Tomorrow?" during a time after the Crisis when the current Supergirl was dead. Superman basically has to pretend that Supergirl is alive when he's looking at a past version of her (time travel, y'all).

"Supergirl...Supergirl is in the past."

I think they can use Galatea but she'd be a soldier or DEO agent given Kara's powers.

If they were going to do that, they'd just use Superwoman.

Isn't Superwoman the evil version of Wonder Woman from the anti-matter Earth?

Yes. On Earth Prime (at least Pre-Nu52) she's also a soldier given Kryptonian abiltiies as part of a plan to remove/destroy the Kryptonians on Earth. For added fun, she's also Lois Lane's sister.

It was a pretty major Supergirl plot, and given the distrustful military base they showed in the trailer I'm pretty sure we'll be seeing it in the show.

Backing up a bit. I think Myxzptlk could work if they played up some of the more terrifying implications of his powers and made him act like a Reality Warper version of the Joker. Unfortunately that would make it tough for Kara to defeat him without it coming off as contrived.