🎉 Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts and hide your kegs, because Jason Momoa is officially done playing the King of Atlantis and is ready to become the universe’s most crude, indestructible biker alien. That’s right, after years of looking like a soggy surfer in the DCU, Momoa is jumping ship to James Gunn’s new DC Universe to play the one and only Lobo, the intergalactic bounty hunter who looks like he eats Harley Davidson motorcycles for breakfast. 🏍️💥
It’s official: The Main Man is coming to the big screen, and Gunn just dropped the first teaser of Momoa in full Lobo makeup, and let’s be honest, it looks like he wrestled a chrome-painted bear and won. 🦸♂️ For those who have been living under a rock in the Andes for the last forty years, Lobo is essentially what happens when you take a Saturday morning cartoon character, pump him full of steroids, give him a chainsaw, and let him loose in a biker bar. He’s an alien mercenary who loves his space-cycle and his cigars more than he loves not being covered in green slime. And Momoa? He’s literally just playing himself at this point, but with more spikes and significantly more swearing.
We’ve watched Momoa brood as Aquaman for years, delivering lines about ocean tides and responsibility. Now, we get to watch him deliver lines about crushing skulls and probably making lewd jokes about Wonder Woman’s tiara. 🍻 It’s the career pivot we didn’t know we needed but absolutely deserve. Lobo, created in the early 80s by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen, was basically designed to be an annoyance to every other superhero. He’s the guy at the party who won’t leave, won’t stop talking about his bike, and will absolutely punch you if you look at him wrong.
Think of Lobo as the “Deadpool before Deadpool,” but without the annoying fourth-wall breaking and with significantly more violence. 🧨 In the 90s, Lobo was so popular that DC and Marvel actually let him fight Wolverine in that *DC vs. Marvel* crossover. The fans voted, and Wolverine won, which was obviously rigged because there’s no way a short Canadian with claws beats a seven-foot alien who regenerates just by drinking beer. It was a travesty, a miscarriage of justice, and proof that fan polls are dumb. 🙄
For a decade, Hollywood has been trying to get a Lobo movie off the ground. They wanted Guy Ritchie, they wanted Michael Bay… but it took James Gunn to look at Momoa and say, “You know what you are? You’re a space biker who hates kids and loves violence.” And honestly? It’s the perfect casting. It’s so perfect it’s borderline suspicious.
So, gear up for *Supergirl*, hitting theaters this summer (because we definitely needed another superhero origin story, right? 🥱), where Momoa will make his debut as Lobo. Milly Alcock is playing Supergirl, directed by Craig Gillespie, but let’s be real: everyone is going to be fast-forwarding through the serious Kara Zor-El drama just to see Momoa riding a space motorcycle into a sun.
This is the new DCU, folks. Less brooding, more explosions, and definitely more Lobo asking where the nearest buffet is. 🍗🥂
Finn McFrame, celebrated satirical mastermind and self-proclaimed “Emperor of Irony,” started his illustrious career as a cinematographer, where his expertise in capturing every single frame of a squirrel stealing a baguette earned him accolades at obscure film festivals.
Born in the glamorous town of Boring, Oregon, Finn grew up with dreams of being a Hollywood director until he realized that satire, not cinema, was his true calling—or at least the one that let him sleep until noon.
Finn McFrame: changing the world, one satirical lens flare at a time.
