Superman Returns!: Superman to Appear on 'Supergirl' season 2

News that I am very stoked about is that the 2 episodes of the Supergirl season 2 premiere will feature Superman in an actual not-just-boots-on-a-table roll!

Now this brings up several questions and theories as to what may end up happening in this next season of Supergirl. Let’s look into some of mine:

How This Could Work

A great story involving Superman and Supergirl
with a villian worthy to fight them both. another
good direction could be Geoff Johns "Superman: Brainiac"

H’el on Earth: the first 2 episodes?

At the end of the season finale’ of Supergirl, a rocket lands on earth. Supergirl and The Martian Manhunter investigate and observe that the rocket is indeed Kryptonian. Kara looks into the rocket with both shock and disbelief. If Superman is indeed a new character for these two episodes, the best storyline that I can think of that would not detract from Kara while giving Clark a proper introduction would be H’el on Earth.

The story involves an adopted member of the house of El who was a test pilot on krypton for the rocket that eventually sent off Clark and Kara. H’el lands on Earth and tries to enlist Clark and Kara into his cause to bring back krypton through some time travel vortex stuff. Kara joins into the cause while Clark gathers a justice league (legends of tomorrow? Arrow? Flash?) To save Kara and stop H’el’s world engine.

Legion of Superheroes

The Legion was revealed earlier in the season.

The legion of Superheroes has been a good chunk of the Superman mythos since its creation during the silver age of comics. In season one it was confirmed that Superman has worked with the legion in the past. Were Superman to become a regular character, we could put Kara into the future with the legion and keep Superman on earth stuff. Leading into my next thought/ theory:

Superman Spinoff Series:

Superman usually does well in both mediums, but he has had his
biggest successes not in movies, but in T.V. . His animated
adventures also do pretty well.

Warner Brother’s success with Superman in the cinematic universe has been a bit less critically successful than in the past. With this multi-billion dollar character flying around with no real direction, putting him in the CW-verse could really be a good move for him. We already have an established universe that people like and that gets great critical acclaim from nearly everyone. Superman could really thrive in a universe like this, restoring his spot as a large financial plus in warner brother’s war against the Star Wars and Marvel machine. (Selfish plug, I have some great ideas for a Superman series. Warner Brothers may contact me whenever and I can give some thoughts on how it could work).

Who will play Superman?

They have not yet cast an actor to play Superman, but I have my thoughts on it.

Don't they just look like they
were meant to be working together?

My number one choice would be Henry Cavill who currently plays Superman in the movies. The poor guy is not getting too much love for his phenomenal job as the Man of Steel in movies, so if we had him get another shot at the role in the show… maybe he could really show off the great stuff he can do for the character. Plus, he is already in Superman shape so prep work would be very simple.

My second choice would be a no name actor. In the tradition of Christopher Reeve, a no name actor would be able to enhance the role of Superman while not taking away from the image with his own identity. I would look towards Broadway for some great actors that could do the roll. Plus, if we get another singer in a superhero suit we can nail home my theory that Superheroes are required to be great singers.

My third choice would be Brandon Routh. He is currently playing the Atom on Legends of Tomorrow, but his short time in the suit was great. His acting brought life to an otherwise dead script, and I say he deserves another shot at the part. Besides, if Supergirl is on a different earth than Legends, it would not be strange.

Ways this could go wrong:

Casting Tom Welling.

 The guy is great, but the direction that Supergirl has been going has not been the same direction that Smallville was heading. Casting Tom Welling to reprise his role as Clark Kent on T.V. would take away from that direction and probably push back the story, causing a few episodes of ground recovering.

Weakening him to make Supergirl look good.

this is a popular way to introduce Superman
to a new character. weaken him and have him
fight a different character. this was especially
bad in the animated crossovers just because
some writers think that in order to make a
meeting interesting, Superman has to have his
butt handed to him, or in order to give the other
characters deserved screen time, Superman needs
to be knocked out first and knocked out quickly.

 A theme from Supergirl has been that she can do anything that Superman can. Honestly that is false, I would like to cite “The Death of Superman” as my reference of a time when Superman had to be better than Supergirl. Fact of life. If we weaken Superman to where the experienced and veteran superhero has to be saved by the novice that will only serve to weaken Superman’s fandom even more than he is now. That’s why I say H’el on earth could be a good direction for the show to go in because there is no way that Superman can look bad and Kara look insignificant in that storyline.

I am Super-stoked for the Super-return of Superman! I have been aching for him to appear all last season of Supergirl and now my wish has come true. J I’m a happy camper. Let’s see if I stay that way when Supergirl, and more importantly, Superman Returns.

Supergirl has moved over to the CW and will air Monday nights this upcoming fall.

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