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We’ve got the second trailer for Krypton’s last daughter’s return to the screen! Here’s what Alasdair Stuart spotted.

0.01 – Clark

Everyone’s favourite big brother! Being a big brother! I love Clark and I love Coronswet’s version in particular. He’s so pure, and kind, and cheesy at the same time as being weirdly perceptive and pointed.

0.08 – Fetch

A girl and her dog playing fetch in space. What a beautiful shot.

0.12 – ‘I’m worried you’re not going to find your people.’

This is what I mean by Clark being pure. His big Kryptonian heart on his big Kryptonian sleeve.

0.22 – Capsule eye view of dad

That’s David Krumholtz! Beloved character actor best known recently for playing the single nice person in Oppenheimer. So good to see him show up!

0.30 – ‘Home is wherever you are, buddy.’

Oh GOD. The sinister portents of this.

0.39 – Kitchenette and record player

The Guardians of the Galaxy-esque interior of Kara’s ship is lovely. I especially like the record player in the corner.

0.56 – ‘Krypto!’

I’ve read the comic. I know the little guy’s fine. This is still hard to watch. You want to see an audience weep openly because of a good boy? Because you’re going to.  That’s Matthias Schoenaerts as Krem of the Yellow Hills by the way, unrecognisable from his excellent work as Booker in The Old Guard movies.

1.03 – Watch and ticking clock

This is an addition from the comics. Three days to save Krypto is a great ticking clock for the movie and it’s a really nice way to show how even the relics Kara has left hurt her. All she has of Krypton is her pet dog and a watch that tells her how little time she has to save him. This poor kid.

1.31 – This does not look like it’s gonna end well… for you guys.’

One of the key issues in the comic is Kara is Kryptonian which means she only has her powers under a yellow sun (note the yellow star in the opening scene). At one point in the comics she and Ruthye (played by Eve Ridley) literally have to take a bus to the next world. Kara’s reaction here suggests this is a yellow sun world, which means these guys are in TROUBLE.

1.40 – Jason Loboa!

Lobo, alien bounty hunter, unkillable berserker and the role that Jason Momoa was born to play. I’ll be honest I’ve been getting pretty bored of Momoa’s drunken berserker schtick (part of what makes his turn in Minecraft so fun) but he’s perfect here and seems to get the joke.

1.52 – YELLOW. SUN.

Kara taking a direct shot from a spaceship and heat visioning it back is a very significant note that she is powered UP now.

2.00 – ‘Revenge, it won’t take your pain away.’

This is placed to imply Kara may lose Krypto but that’s a misdirect I’m certain (read the comics, the little guy’s fine). Instead, it seems to speak to the plot concerning Ruthye looking for vengeance for her parents and Kara, who has been drinking her grief for years, realising at last she can’t do that. The use of ‘What Becomes of the Broken-hearted?’ by Jimmy Ruffin speaks to this too. Because the trailer answers it; we live.

2.18 – ‘Your eyes are beautiful when you cry,’

Note the black veins on Kara’s face. She’s hurt and I wonder if the movie will play with the fact her powers are very geographically specific like the comic does.

2.27 – ‘There is no home without you, buddy.’

I missed that this is a slightly different line the first time through. If this is the line that wakes Krypto up? Full on snotty bawling.

Supergirl is in theatres June 26th. You can, and should, read the fantastic comic it adapts, Woman of Tomorrow. It’s available in a great digest format for about £10.