There is a viral video on our TikTok with over 200k views where, after Milly Alcock first attacked the fans, I said I would be blamed for the Supergirl failure.
Cut to the Supergirl release weekend, and with the movie officially flopping, to the surprise of nobody, the fans are now being blamed.
I just went over this a couple of weeks ago in another viral article, “Hollywood Keeps Blaming Fans For Star Wars, Marvel, DC Failures.” The piece covered how, for the past ten years or so, Hollywood keeps blaming the fans for its flops instead of looking in the mirror.
Well, here we are with Supergirl, and it is more of the same.
Supergirl Flops, And The Fans Get Blamed
In Deadline’s report about the box office flop, the site spins it back on the fans: “But there’s a horrible reality and that’s that there is a toxicity among fanboys and critics with female-led superhero and action films.”
There it is as clear as day. And it doesn’t stop there.
Variety adds in its report, shifting the blame to comic book movies as a whole: “the popularity of comic book movies appears to be fading.”
Really?
Then how is it looking for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which already broke ticket sales records and trailer views and comes out a month after Supergirl?
The excuses are laughable. And we’re not done.
Women Didn’t Show Up For Supergirl: Men at Nearly 60%
With the failure of Supergirl, a female-led movie built around a questionable feminist plot, it turns out women just didn’t show up.
Deadline goes over the demographics, with men over 25 leading the audience at 41%. Women over 25 followed at 26%, men under 25 came in at 18%, and women under 25 sat at the bottom at 15%. That means a majority of the audience was made up of men at nearly 60%.
And the Gen Z audience that came out for Backrooms and Obsession? Nowhere to be found.
So a movie supposedly made for women and teen girls didn’t even get its target audience to show up.
Sound familiar? It is The Marvels all over again. The Marvels was also a female-led movie that didn’t cater to its core fanbase, men, and then became divisive while attacking that same fanbase. It also exactly follows Hollywood’s playbook from the past ten years, all of which we know failed.
And the hardcore audience that did show up only gave it a B- CinemaScore, lower than The Marvels and even The Flash.
Wonder Woman Shows What Supergirl Got Wrong
Deadline also brings up Wonder Woman, where women did show up. The site says women wanted that movie just as much as they wanted Barbie.
But when you actually look at it, Wonder Woman proves the point. It’s a much different movie than Supergirl, The Marvels, Madame Web, Birds of Prey, and even Wonder Woman 1984, all of which bombed.
What’s the difference? Wonder Woman didn’t trash its existing fanbase. It wasn’t divisive. It wasn’t built around scolding the audience. And it features a beautiful-looking lead in a movie that understands the appeal of the character.
I’m not saying the others didn’t have beautiful leads. Actually, it is just the opposite. But those movies went out of their way to make those leads look less appealing on screen. Why is that?
Wonder Woman and Barbie prove the point.
Gal Gadot was gorgeous. Margot Robbie was gorgeous. Women like beauty, style, confidence, and aspiration.
Supergirl and Milly Alcock even had a makeup collab, which played in a commercial before screenings. Yet in the actual movie, there are several shots where Alcock looks, let’s say, less than favorable. That was not an accident. Those shots were chosen by the director and, of course, approved by James Gunn.
Same with Brie Larson in The Marvels, the actresses in Madame Web (and yes, Sydney Sweeney was in that movie!), and Rachel Zegler in Snow White. All made to look ugly on purpose.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 22: (L-R) Craig Gillespie, Peter Safran, Milly Alcock and James Gunn attend the SUPERGIRL World Premiere on June 22, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures)
Gunn And Safran Should Have Known Better
A lot of women also don’t respond well to catty, drama-driven celebrity PR. Brie Larson. Rachel Zegler. Then you had Milly Alcock saying what she said in her interviews.
I blame Gunn and Safran. They should have known better because this has all happened before. Instead, just like the rest of them, they are drowning in their own arrogance. Deservedly so.
They mocked the fans, the same fans that make up the majority of the audience.
Well, how’s that working out?
Fans Are Not The Problem
So is it the fans’ fault that Supergirl failed?
No.
What made the first Wonder Woman work is that it had the fans in mind. All of them.
