Supergirl: Your First Look at Hellgrammite - Comicbook.com

During tonight's Supergirl trailer, fans got their first look at Justice Leak as Hellgrammite, a Superman villain created in the '60s and then reinvented in the '80s before finally ending up squaring off with the Man of Steel's cousin starting later this year on TV.

Like another just-revealed villain from the series, Reactron, Hellgrammite has terrestrial origins, rather than alien ones. That's interesting, if only because Supergirl's sister and her employers at the DEO are ostensibly on the lookout for alien menaces. Instead, will Supergirl be squaring off primarily with mutants and monsters they've created -- intentionally or inadvertently -- themselves? Given what we know of Red Tornado and Lucy Lane's "Superwoman" storyline from the comics, it makes a strange kind of sense.

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