Overview
- Supergirl, which is scheduled to open in theaters on June 26, 2026, features Jason Momoa as Lobo and has him publicly saying Lobo and David Corenswet’s Superman have already crossed paths.
- The Superman film’s opening crawl establishes that metahumans have existed on Earth for 300 years and that Superman went public three years earlier, creating an official window for earlier encounters between DCU characters.
- Trailers and reporting show Superman appears in Supergirl only in a flashback and later via a video call, and there are no clear on‑screen scenes of Lobo and Superman together in the footage released so far.
- Momoa described an intensive daily makeup and prosthetics routine and personally influenced two costume changes—adding a much larger chain and clawed gloves—to shape Lobo’s on‑screen look and performance.
- The film’s marketing and creators are positioning Lobo as a morally ambiguous anti‑hero rather than a straight villain, which preserves flexibility for future appearances and potential alliances or rivalries across the DCU.