The DC super-pets that didn’t make it into the movie (but should have)
DC League of Super-Petsmight be DC’s most unexpected number one box office hit yet. Based on some of the publisher’s deepest-cut creations, the film introduces viewers to a team of superpowered pets, some of whom hold a storied place in DC Comics history. Together, the team of shelter pets led by Krypto the Superdog take on Lex Luthor’s evil guinea pig. It’s a wild premise, and it’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the wild history of the animals known as super-pets.
During a chat with Polygon, DC League of Super-Pets director Jared Stern explained his vision for the movie and why he chose the heroic critters that made it into the movie.
“For this one, I knew I wanted them to be pets,” Stern tells Polygon. “I was going to use Krypto, and I wanted the others to end up being adopted by the Justice League. So I wanted each pet to have one Justice League member who made sense and matched with them. And I also knew I wanted it to be about shelter pets; I had this story I wanted to tell about rescue animals.”
That led to the super fun superhero movie’s heroic team: Krypto (Dwayne Johnson); Ace the Bat-Hound (Kevin Hart); Merton McSnurtle, the Flash’s turtle (Natasha Lyonne); Chip (Diego Luna), inspired by the non-pet squirrel Green Lantern Ch’p from the comics; and PB (Vanessa Bayer), inspired by early appearances of a flying pig in Wonder Woman comics (as well as a very good episode of Justice League Unlimited where Wonder Woman is transformed into a pig, aka Wonder Pig).
The movie also introduces a brand-new pet to the super-farm in Anubis, Black Adam’s dog (voiced by Dwayne Johnson, who will be playing the antihero in the upcoming DC movie). The cheeky post-credits scene perfectly sums up the unafraid
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