{"id":28488,"date":"2025-07-22T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/28488\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:13:09","slug":"james-gunn-has-a-clear-message-for-anyone-hoping-hell-retcon-that-big-superman-origin-story-twist-theyre-st-out-of-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/28488\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Has a Clear Message for Anyone Hoping He’ll Retcon That Big Superman Origin Story Twist: ‘They’re S**t Out of Luck!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Gunn has a clear message for anyone hoping he will retcon the big Superman origin story twist<\/a>, or maybe even reveal it as a fake-out, declaring: “they’re s**t out of luck!”<\/p>\n

Warning! Spoilers for Superman follow:<\/p>\n

DC Universe kickstarter Superman<\/a> switches up the established Superman origin story to present his parents, Jor-El and Lara, as villains of a sort. As Superman learns over the course of the events of the movie, his parents sent him to earth not to protect humanity, but to rule over it \u2014 a revelation that sends Kal-El spiralling for a time.<\/p>\n

Some Superman fans were so shocked by this twist on the characters’ motivations that they have speculated that Gunn plans to either retcon this plot point, or eventually show the message upon which it is based to be fake or misleading.<\/p>\n

However, in a new interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>, Gunn insisted there is no confusion here: Superman\u2019s parent\u2019s devastating message is real, understood, and there\u2019s no going back. \u201cThey\u2019re shit out of luck!\u201d he said in response to the suggestion some fans are hoping for a U-turn.<\/p>\n

Gunn then agreed with the idea that going back on Superman\u2019s parent’s message would undo the entire emotional arc of the movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the whole point of the movie, that Superman thinks he is doing something because it is his destiny and his Kryptonian parents have set him out to do this thing, and along the way he discovers through the love of the people who are actually his parents that he\u2019s doing these things not because of someone else, but because of himself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like taking accountability in the deepest way possible that his morality is not based on some figure outside of himself, but on his own choices. I think it\u2019s really beautiful in that way, and I\u2019m not gonna change that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gunn went on to say that he doesn\u2019t think of Jor-El and Lara as being \u201ctotally evil,\u201d despite their nefarious intentions. \u201cThey just have this mindset that humans are less than what they are,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe\u2019re sea turtles to them. They\u2019re just trying to keep the Kryptonian genes alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the same interview, Gunn responded to what some had called a plot hole in Superman that revolves around his parent\u2019s message: why didn\u2019t Supergirl tell Superman about his parent\u2019s wishes?<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re assuming that everybody on Krypton is the same!\u201d Gunn countered. \u201cAnd how would she know? She\u2019s younger than him, so she wouldn\u2019t know. She wouldn\u2019t know anything about his parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps we\u2019ll see this explored further in Supergirl, which is set for release June 26, 2026. Check out IGN\u2019s Superman review<\/a> to find out what we think, and then head over to our Superman Ending and Post-Credits Explained<\/a> to find out what it all means.<\/p>\n

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Gunn has a clear message for anyone hoping he will retcon the big Superman origin story twist,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-28488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}