Supergirl Marketing FAIL: DC pulls print featuring Star Wars alien
DC Comics Shop quietly removed a $119.95 metal print of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow artwork by Bilquis Evely after fans noticed one of the alien characters in it was actually from Star Wars.
DC Comics Shop just had to pull a $120 piece of official Supergirl merchandise after fans realized one of the aliens in it came from Star Wars.
The product, titled Supergirl (2026 Movie) Metal Print - Across the Galaxy, was illustrated by Bilquis Evely and sold for $119.95 on the official DC Comics Shop. It was part of a curated collection of art and apparel meant to coincide with the June 26 theatrical release of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.
The problem: one of the long-necked alien creatures in the print is Lexo Sooger, an alien from a deleted scene in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi.
The print has been removed from the DC Comics Shop. Neither DC Comics, Warner Bros., Lucasfilm, Disney, nor Evely have publicly commented on the mistake.
The character that was supposed to be there
The Supergirl print was meant to feature Screecher, a long-necked alien creature in the film that Jason Momoa recently showed off in an Instagram video. Screecher and Lexo Sooger share several visual design features. Long crane-like necks. Gray skin. A gold necklace. The most obvious difference is that Screecher’s mouth opens into a lower mandible while Lexo Sooger’s does not.
Lexo Sooger was originally designed to appear in the Canto Bight casino sequence of The Last Jedi as a bathhouse masseur. The scene was cut from the theatrical release and only appears on the home video deleted scenes.
The character is so obscure that fans had to do real research to identify it. The fact that they did anyway is part of why this took off.
How fans caught it
The first public flag came on June 3, 2026 from the X account Dan Star Wars Centralized (@SCentralized): “Okay I’m seriously quite confused what is Lexo Sooger, an alien from Canto Bight, doing on this official Supergirl poster???“
Other fans amplified the catch within hours. One wrote: “There’s a very similar creature design and it looks like Bilquis just got the wrong reference somehow.“ Another posted: “Maybe there is some explanation here. Maybe it was licensed. Maybe it is the strangest coincidence in recent comic art history.“
DC’s response was to quietly delist the print. The shop now redirects to a different Supergirl-by-Bilquis-Evely collection page without the offending artwork.
Why this is more embarrassing than usual
The standard version of this story would involve a graphic designer pulling the wrong stock image from a reference library. That version is not what happened here.
Bilquis Evely is the actual comic artist who co-created the Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow source material with writer Tom King. The 2021-2022 DC Comics miniseries that the movie is adapted from was illustrated by her. She designed many of the alien creatures that appear in the film. The director, Craig Gillespie, has publicly credited her work as the visual foundation of the movie’s art direction.
When the artist who designed the world also draws the merchandise art, the expectation is that she would not need to look up reference photos for her own creatures. The most likely explanation, per MovieWeb‘s Richard Fink, is that Evely was either sent the wrong reference image by someone at DC or accidentally pulled the wrong image when searching. Either way, the mistake made it through approvals at Warner Bros. and DC Comics Shop before going on sale.
For a movie with a tracking opening of $55 million against a $170 million budget, marketing precision matters. This is the second public marketing-pipeline failure for Supergirl in two months, after earlier controversy over the international tracking miss and the limited promotional push compared to last year’s Superman launch.
DC can’t afford more mistakes in Supergirl marketing
The metal print pull is happening at a particularly bad moment for the DCU.
Per Deadline and FanBolt tracking, Supergirl is currently pacing for a $55 million opening on June 26, less than half of last year’s $125 million Superman debut. Pre-sales are at 54 percent of Superman’s first-day pace. James Gunn‘s contract at DC Studios is set to expire in Spring 2027, and Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger developments have created persistent industry uncertainty about whether the current DCU leadership will survive into the post-merger structure.
A high-profile marketing mistake on official Supergirl merchandise gives the discourse another data point to amplify. Whether that meaningfully affects opening weekend revenue is unlikely. What it does affect is the cumulative perception of a DCU rollout that is currently being characterized as struggling.
For Star Wars fans, the moment is mostly funny. Lucasfilm’s biggest current theatrical, The Mandalorian and Grogu, fell to sixth place this weekend with $10 million. A Disney-owned alien creature accidentally appearing in WB’s competing DC release is the kind of cross-studio comedy fans will be screencapping for years.
For DC, the print is gone, the apology has not happened, and the actual movie still opens June 26 either way. The Star Wars alien just got an unexpected new home in the DCU for about 72 hours before someone at corporate caught it.
Article compiled and edited by Derek Gibbs (entertainment editor) and the Clownfish TV newsroom.
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Hat Tips:
MovieWeb / Richard Fink (June 4, 2026), primary reporting on the Supergirl metal print mix-up including the $119.95 price, the “Across the Galaxy” product title, the Lexo Sooger identification, and the delisting from the DC Comics Shop
Yahoo Entertainment / ComingSoon.net / SuperHeroHype (June 3-4, 2026), verified fan discovery via X user Dan Star Wars Centralized (@SCentralized) including the “what is Lexo Sooger, an alien from Canto Bight, doing on this official Supergirl poster” quote
FizX (June 5, 2026), verified continued unavailability of DC, Lucasfilm, and Bilquis Evely comment on the artwork
Tbreak (June 4, 2026), verified $119.95 metal print pricing and the Lexo Sooger Last Jedi deleted scene origin
OnePerspective Cooledtured (June 4, 2026), verified Canto Bight bathhouse masseur context for the Lexo Sooger character
Ground News (June 4, 2026), verified DC Comics Shop sale and removal context
Wikipedia / Lexo Sooger and Star Wars: The Last Jedi deleted scenes, verified character origin in Canto Bight sequence cut from the 2017 theatrical release
Wikipedia / Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (2021-2022 DC Comics), verified Bilquis Evely as co-creator with Tom King of the source material
Deadline / FanBolt / Cosmic Book News (June 4-6, 2026), verified Supergirl $55 million opening tracking and presale comparison to Superman context
IGN / AOL / Wesley Yin-Poole (March 2026), verified Screecher alien introduction in Supergirl trailer and Jason Momoa Lobo character details
DC Comics Shop, verified product page status and delisting