Teri Hatcher As The Big Bad! Kevin Sorbo too!

Last week, Deadline broke the news that Teri Hatcher had signed on for a recurring role in the Supergirl television show. Here is the link to that article:
http://ift.tt/2kR3BPP

The information is pretty brief but can be best encapsulated in one sentence:
Details of her character aren’t known, but it’s described by the CW as “a mysterious new role that will become the new Big Bad of Season 2.”

Now there is a lot to mull over with this brief news blurb. First off, kudos to Greg Berlanti for bringing in another actor associated with the Superman mythos. We have Helen Slater. We have Dean Cain. Now we have Teri Hatcher. This is all great.

And, of course, that could lead to scenes of Hatcher and Cain together. I can only hope that happens, a Lois and Clark reunion!

But the big question is who could she be?

At first I thought she might be alien in origin, somehow involved with the women chasing Mon-El. Perhaps she is his mother, the Daxamite queen? Maybe she is a major alien baddie like Lady Styx?

But I keep coming back to Dean Cain being at Cadmus and the need to Cain and Hatcher to appear together. So I am going to go out on a limb here.

I am going to say that Hatcher is the head of Cadmus, even above Lillian Luthor. I'm going to say that Jeremiah is being forced to work for her. And I think she needs to be a threat to Supergirl in all ways. And that can only mean one thing.

I'm going to say that Teri Hatcher is going to play Kitty Faulkner, Rampage.

Kitty was a scientist, so that covers the Cadmus angle.
She worked for Luthor in the past, so that connection is there.
And she becomes a Hulk-like being, which means she could stand toe to toe with Kara.

What better way to put all the pieces of what I believe together.

But wait, there's more.

I covered these issues on the site, but there is a history between Supergirl and Rampage.

In the mid-90's, Peter David and Gary Frank had Supergirl and Rampage fight each other in  Supergirl 6.

And, of course, Sterling Gates and Bengal had Supergirl fight Rampage in last year's Adventures of Supergirl #1.



Now this could be something of a wrinkle. After all, Adventures of Supergirl was in continuity with the show. So how could Hatcher be Rampage and Supergirl have fought Rampage?

My guess is the show doesn't think too hard about what happened in the book. That said, this is the biggest flaw in my guess.

But wait, there is even more!
 

That's right! Mon-El has a history with Rampage as well! In what seems like a lifetime ago (but actually happened nearly 8 years ago), Mon-El fought Rampage in  Superman 686.  James Robinson and Renato Guedes did a good job having Mon-El become the defender of Metropolis.

For me, Rampage makes the most sense. But that said, some sort of intergalactic villain acting as a threat such that Supergirl needs to fight a two-front war between Hatcher and Cadmus could be interesting. All the more reason for Mon-El, Guardian, and Martian Manhunter have to step up and be a heroic team.

Now one more thing. I have been concentrating on Teri Hatcher. But the day after Hatcher's hiring was announced, there was a similar article about Kevin Sorbo being added as another Big Bad. Here is that link: http://ift.tt/2kae9Ml

Both being added changes things a little as I have to suspect that the two are somehow linked.

So what if my theory that Daxam didn't get destroyed pans out? Or that many Daxamite refugees are living on other worlds. And what if my theory that the woman chasing Mon-El is the jilted bride in an arranged marriage is also correct? Maybe Sorbo and Hatcher are Mon-El's parents trying to bring him back against his will. Given the somewhat sordid details about courtly life on Daxam, they could be bad guys. So maybe that is what's going to happen.

Anyways, those are my guesses. What do you guys think?

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