The second movie in James Gunn's recently rebooted DC Cinematic Universe, Supergirl follows Kara (Milly Alcock) as she's off on a galactic bender. Unlike her cousin (David Corenswet's Superman), she didn't come to Earth as an infant. Kara grew up in a remnant of Krypton and lost everyone she knew and loved before her escape pod reached her cousin's adopted homeworld. Earth's yellow sun gives her all of the same powers, but it doesn't feel like home for her. So, when the movie begins she's instead off on some alien world with a red sun in the sky that negates her powers and allows her to get wasted on space booze.
By scaling down Supergirl's abilities, the scene raises the stakes and gives her a good fight. The trick works—but only once. The issue is that Supergirl keeps de-powering Supergirl. The next action set piece comes when Kara and Ruthye are on a rickety space bus to another planet. Kara is still under the effects of a red sun when another group of pirates attack the bus, so she must once again fight them off like a mortal might before getting ejected into space and basking in the rays of a yellow sun.
It's during the climax when Supergirl's de-powering gets especially egregious. First she arrives on the planet where Krem is hiding out only to discover that it orbits two suns; one yellow and one green, and the rays of a green sun are like Kryptonite to her. Instead of fighting Krem, she's lying in a cave, dying, and is out of commission. This gives Ruthye a chance to be a hero, but the contrivance of Kara's struggle makes itself clear when she gets better because… the yellow sun rises, almost as if on cue because it's time for her to start the final fight. She's hampered again immediately afterward when Krem shoots her full of Kryptonite-tipped arrows. This seems like it's going to be really, really bad for Kara, but instead she just… pulls them out and is mostly fine, albeit a tad less strong than she might otherwise be and therefore a slightly more even match for Krem.
Milly Alcock —Courtesy of Warner Bros
The iconic tagline for Richard Donner's original 1978 Superman, "You'll believe a man can fly," helps explain how the Christopher Reeve-led film solved for Superman's powers. Simply seeing his powers in action on the big screen was a huge part of the appeal and although Lex Luthor does weaken him with Kryptonite at the end, most of the drama and the stakes comes from Clark Kent's relationship with Lois Lane. The sequel Superman II, did a logical thing by giving Superman an equally powerful Kryptonian menace to fight in General Zod. Zack Snyder's Man of Steel did the same to destructive ends. This is a viable but unsubtle way of addressing Superman's powers and it's not without its downsides. Watching Superman fight a foe who matches (or exceeds) his strength is exciting, but it also warps the frame of reference. Does Superman feel super if he's fighting an equal? Or are we just watching two gods punching one another thanks to the magic of CGI?
Supergirl feints at some of this sort of stakes-raising. Her motivation is getting an antidote for her poisoned dog, Krypto, and she finds herself trying to protect Ruthye on many occasions. These situations are never orchestrated with enough tension, nor do they seem like they should ever be that hard for Kara to deal with. The forgettable villains are not up to Kara's level, either. Rather than rise to the occasion and find an interesting way to challenge Supergirl, the movie instead brings her down over and over again. Almost every other Superman movie has evoked Kryptonite at some point, typically during the climax when the hero needs to be at his lowest and weakest. Supergirl leans on it for more or less the entire runtime.
Kryptonite, the iconic weakness of Superman and Supergirl (along with red suns and, in some continuities, magic), was first created for the '40s radio serial The Adventures of Superman. There's an apocryphal story about its creations; supposedly Kryptonite was invented so Superman's voice actor Bud Collyer could take vacations while the Man of Steel was incapacitated. The reality of this tale has been disputed, but it still speaks to some sort of truth that can be clearly seen in Supergirl: Kryptonite is lazy.
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