Hope has always defined Superman. Trauma defines Supergirl. In the new “Supergirl” trailer from Warner Bros. and DC Studios, we begin to see how Kara Zor-El (Milly Alcock) processes that trauma while trying to figure out where she belongs in a galaxy as vast as the one she travels across.
The trailer opens with a call from Clark (David Corenswet) to Kara’s spaceship. The condition of the ship says everything before she even speaks. It’s a complete mess. Open beer bottles float through zero gravity, vinyl records drift out of place, half-eaten plates of food sit abandoned, her suit buried underneath piles of clothes, and Kara casually plays fetch with Krypto in the middle of it all. Clark’s message is warm but concerned. He asks when she’s coming home, worried that she keeps going off-world and that if she doesn’t slow down, she’ll never find her stride or find her people.
The trailer cuts back to a jaded Kara, who responds with quiet finality: she has no people.
We then see brief flashes of Kara being sent away as Krypton is destroyed, her father watching as the world she knew disappears. Cut back to the present, she’s in a dive bar, telling Krypto that home is wherever you are, buddy.
Kara is practically a wanderer, drifting from planet to planet in search of the next place to feel something, even if that means getting drunk under red suns. But beneath that aimlessness is a clear emotional anchor. Krypto isn’t just her companion, he’s the last living connection to the home she lost.
For a while, Kara feels untouchable, someone who can coast through life without consequence. That illusion shatters when she crosses paths with Krem (Matthias Schoenaerts) of the Yellow Hills, the leader of the Brigands, a group of space pirates and human traffickers. In a single, brutal moment, he guns down Krypto with a toxin.
That encounter sets everything in motion. Ruthye Marye Knoll (Eve Ridley), a young girl seeking revenge for her father’s death, steps in and establishes the stakes. The Brigands carry the antidote, but Krypto only has three days left to live.
What follows is an uneasy partnership. Kara and Ruthye set off on an intergalactic journey driven by survival and revenge, with Kara bluntly warning her to do what she says and not die. The trailer circles back to Kara in a standoff at a bar, guns pointed at her face, as she coolly tells her attackers, this isn’t going to end well… for you.
We begin to see the contrast between them. Kara moves through violence with experience and control, while Ruthye is clearly unprepared for what revenge actually demands. In one moment, she hides from a firefight as Kara flips a table to shield her from incoming gunfire.
The trailer also introduces Lobo, played by Jason Momoa. With a single stomp that silences a bar fight, he downs a drink and casually tells Kara and Ruthye they’re hurting his head, bringing a chaotic, unpredictable energy into the story.
Set against the 1966 Motown track What Becomes of the Brokenhearted by Jimmy Ruffin, the trailer leans fully into its emotional core. Kara’s voice cuts through the action with a hard truth: revenge won’t take the pain away.
That idea is reinforced through a rapid montage. Kara swinging a chain across a ship deck. Lobo tearing through enemies on his space chopper. Ruthye and Kara both pushed to their emotional limits. All of it circling back to the one thing that grounds Kara: Krypto. There is no home without you, buddy.
The trailer closes with a final bit of attitude as Lobo mistakes Kara for the “ditz” from the dive bar, only for her to fire back that she’s been calling him the same thing.
What the Supergirl trailer does is that it frames Kara not as a symbol of hope, but as someone shaped by isolation, grief, and the lingering question of whether she will ever truly belong. It also normalizes that it’s okay to be a messy person, literally as they have a way to process grief or trauma. So, we’ll just have to see how the titular superhero comes out of it on the otherside okay.
“Supergirl” opens in theaters on June 26, 2026.
