Rumour suggests the doggy hero will soon appear in James Gunn’s forthcoming movie. It could be a stroke of creative genius or an expensive canine catastrophe

The brand new DC Universe has somehow run out of ideas, even before it has really got going. They’ve scraped the bottom of the barrel, then dug through it, and found another, much deeper barrel underneath, where they have unexpectedly discovered a pooch in a cape. For rumour suggests that Krypto the Superdog, the man of steel’s very own four-legged, flight-capable, laser-eyed friend, will soon be making an appearance in James Gunn’s forthcoming Superman: Legacy. Yes, we’ve gone from the Nietzschean ubermensch of Zack Snyder’s navel-gazing, grimdark reboot to a doggy hero who spends most of his time saving the multiverse in between belly rubs and peeing on Lex Luthor’s battle suit, in just a few years.

Speaking on an episode of the Capes and Lunatics Podcast, Superman comic writer Mark Waid revealed that the superpowered mutt will be making his big screen debut in next year’s DCU party starter, which will star David Corenswet as Kal-El, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Luthor, and quite possibly at this rate Kristen Wiig as the voice of Sparkle the Wonderkitty. Waid said:

I like Gunn’s reverential approach by and large to this kind of stuff, and you know reverential without taking it too seriously. I mean, the movie has a dog in it, a superpowered dog with heat vision.