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Steven Weintraub

Chris McPherson

Published Jun 11, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT

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We’ve gotten used to seeing some comic book characters softened up to appeal to a wider and broader audience, and it can work for a number of them. Lobo, however, is not one of them. The intergalactic DC bounty hunter is the complete opposite of suitable for all ages, so naturally, Jason Momoa was one of those casting choices that was less a dream and more of an inevitability. But if you think we’ll be getting a four-quadrant Lobo solo movie coming up soon, you’d be sorely mistaken.

Momoa will make his long-awaited DCU debut as Lobo in Supergirl, but during a recent interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, he made it very clear that he’ll only give the character a solo movie on one condition. Asked whether **James Gunn** and Peter Safran had talked to him about the possibility of an R-rated Lobo film, Momoa was delightfully frank and gave an answer fans would love to hear. He told Collider:

“It’s all I want, and I promise — I’m just going to put this out there right now — I do not have any interest in making a Lobo PG-13 movie. So, will he be a part of some other movies?** If they want me, I’ll be there.** But if I make a solo movie, I’m not doing it unless it’s rated R.”

That’s the only answer fans are interested in hearing, because the character is one of DC’s most unhinged and chaotic antiheroes; his whole appeal is that he’s just too much, he’s over the top, he’s uncontrollable. This is a man who is too violent, crude, unfiltered, and despicable to make into a respectable, suitable-for-family-audiences kind of guy. You can have him on the sidelines or as a supporting character in a PG-13 movie, but Lobo on a leash would be a very tough sell for fans, and for Momoa. So, when Weintraub joked that he was trying to will the R-rated project into existence, Momoa made clear they were on the same frequency. “As I will with you,” Momoa said, “[but] it has to be rated R.”

Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.

Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.

Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.

Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.

Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.

Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.

It’s easy to see why Momoa coveted this role so much. Lobo is an actor’s dream, especially for a heavy metal kind of guy like Momoa. He’s one of DC’s most chaotic antiheroes, like if a biker, a bounty hunter, and pure carnage (no, not the Marvel character) were fused together. Created by **Roger Slifer **and Keith Giffen in 1983, Lobo comes from the planet Czarnia and is infamous for wiping out his entire species just because he thought it’d be funny.

As for his abilities, well, he has superhero-level strength, he’s almost unkillable, can heal almost every injury, and rides through space on a giant motorcycle while hunting targets for money. Despite being a villain in theory, he’s more like a violent agent of chaos for hire who occasionally helps heroes if it benefits him. The character became hugely popular in the 1990s because he mocked the overly edgy comic book characters by, well, being worse — and that’s why fans adore him.

Alongside Momoa*, Supergirl* stars Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon) as Kara Zor-El, Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone) as Krem of the Yellow Hills, Eve Ridley (3 Body Problem) as Ruthye Marye Knoll, David Krumholtz (Oppenheimer) as Zor-El, Emily Beecham (1899) as Alura In-Ze, and David Corenswet (Superman) as Clark Kent/Superman.

Directed by Craig Gillespie from a script by Ana Nogueira, Supergirl opens in theaters on June 26, 2026. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates on* Supergirl. *

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Craig Gillespie

Kara Zor-El / Supergirl

Matthias Schoenaerts

Krem of the Yellow Hills

Jason Momoa