These days? "The Road Warrior" was in theaters in 1981. Milly Alcock as the Feral Kid was a joke.
Milly Alcock:
Actor Emil Minty portraying The Feral Kid in 'The Road Warrior':
Posted on 12/14/2025 8:24:36 AM PST by JoeVortex
there is more than 4 different versions Supergirl that were done in the comic books all of the super girls done previously on film and tv do not match the comic book version. what I am saying this character does not have a firm baseline to even say that its not according to the comic book. DC has changed the character serval times since its inception.
Supergirl as a character is over 60 years old. I discount the movies entirely, as Warner does not know how to handle its DC properties outside of Batman.
The character was kept consistent from the Silver Age, when she was created, all the way through the Bronze Age. If we take the Crisis and newer stuff, she has been killed among other things. Comic Book sales were much higher in the Silver/Bronze ages, and Supergirl was the headliner in Adventure (premium title) and Supergirl herself, before being combined into the 80 page Superman Family. The Pre-Crisis incarnation ran from the 1950s to 1980s. None of the other incarnations have held on for very long, and seem to belong to whoever they dumped her on. If there were one long-term incarnation instead of five short-term ones, I might cede your point. Alternatively, if you want to say NONE of the Supergirl incarnations are sticky, including the first, I would still protest one on the grounds that any Supergirl would have grown up in some version of Argo City, and not in the San Fernando Valley in the ‘90s. The character as presented makes no sense. No reason not to go back to her roots.
These days? "The Road Warrior" was in theaters in 1981. Milly Alcock as the Feral Kid was a joke.
Milly Alcock:
Actor Emil Minty portraying The Feral Kid in 'The Road Warrior':
I’m confused. Emil Monty, a boy is listed as playing the feral kid. Milly Alcock isn’t listed in the cast of The Road Warrior. Both were born in Sydney, Australia. Monty in 1972, Alcock in 2000. They are two entirely different people aren’t they?
The point is that the casting director for 'Supergirl' chose Milly Alcock who looks like a boy, and not just a boy, but a Feral Kid from a dystopian future filled with barbarians.
“Kara was sent shortly after baby Karl-El to serve as his protector.”
I guess that is one of the points I saw in the movie that confused me. It seemed like Kal-El was just getting away and the planet was imploding almost upon his lift off. So unless Kara was leaving at almost the same exact time, or before, her ship would have been destroyed.
wy69
Dr. Sivana: I always read that baby Kal-El was sent with baby blankets (not glass) of different colors that ended up nearly as indestructible as Clark, though somehow adoptive mortal mom Martha turned those into his super-suit. Look, off in her sewing room. It's a thread, it's a thimble...it's Super Sewing Machine!
“...was sent with baby blankets (not glass) of different colors that ended up nearly as indestructible as Clark...”
Pardon my devil’s advocate here, but how did she get an earth needle through it when it could stop bullets as it never tore when they shot him? Sorry, I’m a bit logical.
wy69
Simon and Schuster, Superman's creators, weren't as focused on science as they were survival from selling adventure stories during the Great Depression. While many contributing writers have fleshed out his background and abilities over the years the flying around bit still finds no rational explanation.
It's just too cool to have heroes flying around than not.
(Bruce got away with this but his luck ran
out when he messed around with Jim)
I suppose next you’ll be saying that Brainiac was a blatant rip-off of Mr. Mind.
Oh wait...
-PJ
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