While the debut Superman trailer clearly reveals a number of supporting characters, it also includes a hidden DC superhero that fans almost certainly missed.
The Engineer, played by María Gabriela de Faría, can be seen walking across the top of the LuthorCorp building in a real blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment. It’s hard to make the character out, but zoom in a little and you’ll see the Engineer in fuzzy detail.
Writer-director James Gunn responded to one fan who spotted the Engineer in the trailer to confirm the find, writing on Threads: “Haha you are correct!!”
The Engineer / Angela Spica is an electronics prodigy and member of superhero team The Authority, who will eventually get their own DCU movie. It will supposedly weave in several characters from DC’s Wildstorm imprint, with Gunn himself working on an outline. The Engineer is arguably the most powerful member of the group as she can self-duplicate, is a technopath, has a genius-level intellect and radio-induced telepathy. Check out IGN’s article, Who Are the Authority: The WildStorm DCU Characters Explained, for more.
It will be interesting to see what The Engineer is capable of in Superman and how she interacts with the other characters. What’s she doing running about the top of the LuthorCorp building? And what relationship, if any, does she have with Lex Luthor himself?
Superman hits theatres on July 11, 2025, and is the first film in the DCU’s Chapter One: Gods and Monsters. IGN has an explainer on all the DC Heroes and Villains in the new trailer, comments from James Gunn on Krypto actually being a pretty terrible dog in the movie, thoughts on how Superman is about hope, and more.
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