UPDATE: Daniel DiMaggio Will Play A Young 'Superman' On SUPERGIRL

From the title I'm guessing it's a dream sequence just like the comic.

What bond!? She knew him as a baby!

I'll stick with my Superman, thanks.

@Batmanheisenberg

That needed to be said! Good form, my friend.

Ok how about this. It's not a dream, just flashbacks of Kal living on Earth as a kid. Kara won't be there, but maybe she'll be able to see them somehow (her mom, kryptonian tech) and that's where the bond comes from? Seeing that she grew up in a similar way?

@batmanheisenberg

Especially right now, when we're only hours away from another look at that glorious, yet twisted DCEU. Sorry, Daniel Dimaggio, but it's nap time for you kid.

What is there not to get? What makes you confused aboot this? Obviously from the "Title", they are basing the episode from the comic book version of a Superman comic...

If you read the comic, the Black Mercy shows Superman a version of his life if Krypton didn't explode. What it would have been like if he lived his life on the planet Krypton instead of Earth.

This time it will be Kara that will experience this...If she grows up on Krypton, so will her cousin....I'm sure people will still be confused, but whatever...

@VISIONaryNPa holy sh*t! I've never watched SG but dayum they copied that?

@RatmanAndBobin

Yup, agreed. I've been between listening to the Man of Steel soundtrack and watching the DCEU trailers today.

Yep! Classic Alan Moore! The Black Mercy!

Just give us a Superman tv show and try to make it awesome like Flash and Arrow.

I wonder if that story means that either Mongul or Mongal will show up in the end...

Oh alright. When I first head they were casting a teenaged Superman I thought it was a stupid idea and that they were going to screw up their own continuity, but basing it on For The Man Who Has Everything not only makes a hell of a lot of sense, but actually makes me thing this could be a really great episode. Having read that comic, while I thought it was very well written (Alan Moore if I'm not mistaken which I probably am), it never rang true for me that Superman's deepest desire would play out like that - I've never gotten the feeling that Superman missed Krypton that much and would prefer to be there than Earth, given the fact he was too young to remember any of it and had a pretty great life on Earth with so many friends and loved ones here (his parents, Lois, etc.)

I could have accepted it a lot more if the illusions worked differently (like the alien - or some other villain like Brainiac - knew Superman was from Krypton and was actively showing him a better version of his life on that planet as a way of messing with his head) but as it was written, those aliens showed the victim their deepest desire, and it just didn't seem right for that character. Transplanting that narrative to Supergirl, however, makes so much more sense seeing as she does remember her life on Krypton and all her loved ones that she lost, and the fact that she does, to some extent, actively miss that life and prefer it to her current one on Earth. I'm sure that, given the choice of living on a restored Krypton with her resurrected family or remaining on Earth knowing they were all gone, Supergirl would be far more likely to choose Krypton than Superman would be.