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 Gunnand 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.”
Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
Jason
Michael
Freddy
Pennywise
Chucky
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
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.
Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
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.
But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
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.
You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
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.
The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
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.
You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
Who Is Lobo in DC Comics?
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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