How Supergirl Reinvents Big-Screen Flying
You will believe a man can fly. Or in this case, a girl. But not just fly. In [Supergirl](https://www.ign.com/articles/supergirl-movie-review-2026-milly-alcock), the latest movie from James Gunn’s DCU, the Girl of Steel has her own particular style of flying, using the ability as a sort of unique form of martial arts at times. But it’s been quite a journey to go from the early days of onscreen Kryptonian flying to today’s high-tech methods – and it’s rarely been an easy path along the way. So with the help of the Woman of Tomorrow herself, Milly Alcock, and Supergirl’s director Craig Gillespie, let’s trace the earliest attempts to depict super-flight in movies and TV, and the heights that have been achieved in the modern DC movies.