Supergirl: Is This Our First Look at Bizarro?

During a recent episode of Kevin Smith's Fat Man on Batman, Supergirl executive producer Andrew Kreisberg revealed that the series would be incorporating Bizarro.

Tonight, we might have got our first look at the character.

In the interview, Bizarro was lumped with longtime Superman baddie Toyman, but since so much of Supergirl has been based on Sterling Gates and Jamal Igle's acclaimed run on Supergirl, it seems more likely that we'll see the female version of Bizarro pop up.

In Gates and Igles Bizarrogirl story in Supergirl, the character came from "Bizarro World," a planet called Htrae that was like a fractured mirror image of the DC Universe. It isn't immediately clear whether that version of Bizarro will make it to air, or if the somewhat easier-to-translate take from John Byrne's The Man of Steel -- that Bizarro was an imperfect clone of Superman -- will be used. In Bizarro's earliest appearances in Superboy, that was roughly his origin before the concept of Bizarro World was introduced two years later.

In Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, they appear to be riffing on that version, with Doomsday being the product of Luthor's genetic manipulation of General Zod's corpse.

And here? Well, it's hard to ignore the fact that Maxwell Lord in Supergirl has been very Lex Luthor-like.

There's also a few other little hints. The flaking skin on the girl's hand and arm, and the scarring, are both trademarks of the Bizarro clones. The all-black eyes are, as you can see above, something that we got in the Bizarrogirl version of the concept.

And there's Maxwell Lord, today telling James Olsen that holding up "a pretty blonde" as a hero and hiding the threat she can be is one of the things he most objects to.

...What better way to fight that perceived misinformation than with a powerful, dangerous, pretty blonde of his own?