Showrunner Todd Helbing reveals that Superman’s brother Morgan Edge/Tal-Rho almost transformed into another DC Comics villain.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the season 1 finale ofSuperman & Lois.
Superman & Loisjust staged an unexpected family reunion and it could have implications for the Arrowverse as a whole.
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but also for the entire Arrowverse.
Does this mean it’s once again possible to travel between parallel worlds?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How much of this finale did you have planned from the beginning of the season?
Bitise Tulloch and Tyler Hoechlin on ‘Superman & Lois’.Bettina Strauss/The CW
Is there we were always heading, more or less?
TODD HELBING:At the beginning of the season, you have the big tentpoles.
That stuff always changes, though.
Wolé Parks on ‘Superman & Lois’.Bettina Strauss/The CW
(There may be other people out there who can map it out and stick to it.)
So I think it’s vastly different than what we originally thought it would be.
Really, the layout of the last five episodes was completely different.
We didn’t break the last two episodes, I think, until April.
What did you originally think would be the final arc?
It’s so broad when you originally sit down to talk about a season.
In terms of Edge, did you always know he was going to be Superman’s brother?
But originally…We started doing the Subjekts, right?
There were different versions where Edge could become Subjekt-17 or other versions of it.
But the Eradicator just felt [right].
Once we started diving into that mythology, it just seemed to work so much better.
What drew you all to the material from that era?
It always comes from, how are we going to get the most emotion out of this family show?
Any way we can loop family into it, that’s our primary objective.
That’s where Edge being his half-brother came from.
In the finale, Jordan flies while possessed by Zeta-Rho.
Is that a skill he has now, or is that just a one-off?
But there are these similar issues.
[Laughs] And then that doesn’t necessarily happen that way.
I was surprised Edge survived the finale.
Will Adam Rayner return in season 2?
We love Adam Rayner.
So I think you’ll see him again in one way or another.
Does Natalie’s late arrival in the finale imply that it is once again possible to travel between worlds?
How early on did you know you wanted to end the season with Natalie arriving on this Earth?
So we knew that we wanted Nat around pretty soon after we figured out the John Henry story line.
How does her arrival complicate things for the Kent family, especially for Lois?
We get into that in the first episode [of season 2].
So Nat is certainly a part of that.
Superman & Loiswill return in 2022 on the CW.
