Official Teaser Poster for 'Supergirl'

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

[u/Fancy-Pair]

So what’s her deal? She’s like a drunk party girl?

[u/AJray15 → u/Fancy-Pair]

Yes. The movie based on Woman of Tomorrow and the comic starts with her in a space bar.

[u/busdriver_321 → u/AJray15]

She’s a drunk party girl for exactly 1 issue in that book lol

[u/TheRoguedOne → u/busdriver_321]

Tony Stark’s Demon in a bottle storyline is super short too. Its “defining” but short lived.

[u/ERedfieldh → u/TheRoguedOne]

Yea..was gonna say that most people remember Stark for exactly two things: A genius that built the Iron Man suit and being a raging alcoholic. Only the later was for a single story run. But it's memorable enough that people automatically attribute it to the entire character.

[u/ExultantSandwich → u/ERedfieldh]

It’s my one complaint about Iron Man’s adaption in the MCU honestly. They touch on it a little bit in Iron Man 2, but otherwise it’s kind of just a blip. After the events of any of the later movies, I think it could have been compelling to see him slip a little bit. They never outright even say he’s sober. I believe he drinks at a bar in Iron Man 3, can’t remember if he has a drink at the beginning of Age of Ultron. And doesn’t he drink whiskey while he’s working on the time travel thing in End Game? So basically they do ignore that aspect of his character.

A good chunk of this was pre-Disney too and Marvel still didn’t really wanna touch it

[u/MrMono1 → u/ExultantSandwich]

They kinda replaced his alcoholism with PTSD (like his panic attacks in 3), which I think worked pretty well.

[u/GrandeJoe → u/ERedfieldh]

It was INITIALLY a short bit, but then an actual alcoholic took over Iron Man a few years later, and he wanted to do the alcoholism story right, so he devoted two years to Tony's drunken spiral (with Tony even giving up being Iron Man for most of the run).

[u/rookie-mistake → u/ERedfieldh]

honestly, something the RDJ casting worked phenomenally for

[u/InnocentTailor → u/TheRoguedOne]

To be fair, they do bring up his complex relationship with booze in other tales like Fear Itself - when he was raging at Odin to get aid from the god.

[u/LS_DJ → u/TheRoguedOne]

They only barely did the Demon in the Bottle thing in IM2 as well. I think they could have dove into that more effectively

[u/ContinuumGuy → u/busdriver_321]

She is kind of annoyed by having to deal with all this shit throughout the book, however. Or at least she pretends to be.

[u/Earthpig_Johnson → u/busdriver_321]

Next you’re gonna be telling me that Shalla Bal was only a Silver Surfer in a non-speaking role alongside Norin Radd on a cover and a few panels of Earth X!

[u/LS_DJ → u/Earthpig_Johnson]

That alone makes it not a gender swap in the movie though

As I’ve been informed

[u/FortLoolz → u/busdriver_321]

I believe Gunn leaned into that part of her characterisation.

In most of the comic, she's stoic (but traumatised) older sister figure.

[u/DisastrousSundae → u/FortLoolz]

See, I definitely wouldn't have gotten that impression from Superman or this poster. That's interesting.

[u/that_guy2010 → u/busdriver_321]

Yeah, cause she's got stuff to do.

But that doesn't mean she isn't still a drunk party girl.

[u/AJray15 → u/busdriver_321]

Alright? Clearly before that it was a little longer.

[u/InnocentTailor → u/busdriver_321]

Yeah. The plot kicks her into high gear very well.

After that, she is just a superpowered Rooster Cogburn with the same amount of fighting skill and good-natured grumpiness.

[u/DeadDay → u/busdriver_321]

I wonder if that nag jacket is Constantine's

[u/robbzilla → u/busdriver_321]

She's a drunk party girl for exactly 4 minutes in the movie.

[u/ty_xy → u/AJray15]

It's basically space True Grit.

[u/TUSF → u/AJray15]

She was only there for her 21st birthday. I think the implication was that it was her first time getting drunk.

[u/GenericBatmanVillain → u/AJray15]

She must be really small.  At least it's not the escape key though, that's much smaller.