{"id":377586,"date":"2026-09-11T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=377586"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:24:04","slug":"supergirl-ending-reignites-dc-debate-over-heroes-who-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/supergirl-ending-reignites-dc-debate-over-heroes-who-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Supergirl ending reignites DC debate over heroes who kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that <em>Supergirl<\/em> has wrapped its theatrical run, the ending has turned into one of the movie\u2019s biggest arguments: Kara kills Krem after spending most of the story trying to keep Ruthye from giving in to revenge.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s where the split starts. In the final stretch, Kara tells Ruthye that killing Krem won\u2019t fix her grief or reverse what he\u2019s done, and then Kara does it herself. People defending the choice call it practical. Krem already got spared once, then went right back to causing more destruction, he poisoned Krypto, and by that point he doesn\u2019t look remotely redeemable. The people who hate the ending see it differently. To them, the movie undercuts its own moral center in a single scene.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone who\u2019s read Tom King and Bilquis Evely\u2019s <em>Supergirl: Wo<a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/james-gunns-superman-receives-its-first-reactions-and-they-are-not-what-you-expect\" rel=\"noopener\">Man of Tomorrow<\/a><\/em> can see why the reaction has been this intense. In the comic, <strong>Krem survives<\/strong>. He\u2019s sentenced to centuries in the Phantom Zone, and much later an elderly Ruthye chooses mercy.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things got louder after screenwriter Ana Nogueira said she believed the comic ended with Ruthye killing a <strong>reformed Krem<\/strong>. Tom King has pushed back on that in public and said plainly that Krem is alive at the end.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And for people who keep up with DC on film, this isn\u2019t a small continuity gripe. Critics argue that the movie trades Kara\u2019s compassion and self-control for something colder. It also drags the old <em>Man of Steel<\/em> Zod debate right into the early days of the new DCU, especially with <strong>Milly Alcock<\/strong> expected to return in <em>Man of Tomorrow<\/em> and James Gunn already hinting at bigger ideological differences between Kara and Superman.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The movie\u2019s theatrical run is already over. Reviews were mixed, audience response landed a little better, and it finished with about <strong>$126.4 million<\/strong> worldwide against a reported budget somewhere between $170 million and $186 million.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Supergirl has wrapped its theatrical run, the ending has turned into one of the movie\u2019s biggest arguments: Kara kills Krem after spending most of the story trying to keep Ruthye from giving in to revenge. That\u2019s where the split starts. In the final stretch, Kara tells Ruthye that killing Krem won\u2019t fix her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/supergirl-ending-reignites-dc-debate-over-heroes-who-kill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Supergirl ending reignites DC debate over heroes who kill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9352,"featured_media":377585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-377586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377587,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377586\/revisions\/377587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377586"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=377586"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=377586"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=377586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}