There was no new trailer for Superman (2025) at Super Bowl LIX, but DC did drop some new looks at Supe’s dog Krypto. But, oddly the more prominent Superman footage came in the form of a strange viral video featuring Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner. In the video, we see Gardner clowning around, showing off his signature bowl cut while the words “the only bowl I need” are flashed on the screen. The joke here is a play on the word “bowl,” get it?
In dropping a tiny bit of new footage of Guy Gardner, also known as Green Lantern, the buzz campaign for the new Superman is relying on a historically unproven strategy: assuming that the average non-comic book person knows or understands who any of the different Green Lanterns are. And yet, over a decade ago, James Gunn was able to do this exact same kind of thing when he worked for Marvel by convincing the world they already loved a bunch of superheroes nobody knew or cared about — the Guardians of the Galaxy.
