One of the biggest mysteries of Supergirl Season 3 involves the fate of Mon-El whose escape pod vanished into a wormhole as he left Earth to avoid an agonizing death by lead poisoning. There was little doubt that Mon-El would return this season, and with Chris Wood present in the press rooms at San Diego Comic-Con, it’s pretty clear he’ll be around, even though there aren’t any new details about it. But a recurring theme at this year’s SDCC when it came to the assorted superhero shows was actors who simply couldn’t say much (see also: Danielle Panabaker talking Killer Frost on The Flash and pretty much everyone on Arrow). “I felt very lucky and very happy with the arc that I had in that some of the criticisms early on about the closed-mindedness of Mon-El and where he came from on Daxam, it was easy to jump on as a reader of the scripts early on the ‘this guy sucks’ bandwagon,” Wood said. “But the whole point is finding a way to take a character from a very selfish place to the ultimate sacrifice at the end…That’s the biggest journey you could give any character, which is to have them always do the thing that will protect them and end by doing the thing that sacrifices themselves. For me, that’s the best part of it.” “Sometimes people are not going to like the character, and sometimes they’re not going to like the decisions that the character makes,” he continued. “But Mon-El is a hero. At the end of the day, in the comics, he’s a hero.” It’s true that Mon-El took awhile to take truly heroic action on the show, but this next part of Wood’s statement in particular stands out. “The whole point of this character is to watch the evolution of this character who is flawed, going from this mess into donning a cape and looking like an image of purity and heroism. For me, that’s the coolest part of the character.” “Obviously if and when he comes back, where he’s been, what happened to him, what he carries with him because of whatever experience he had will throw some really cool new dimensions into the show in a way that fans will be pretty excited about,” Wood said. At the end of Supergirl‘s second season, I theorized that the wormhole Mon-El’s pod fell into is likely a portal to the Phantom Zone. In the comics, that’s where he had to go in order to escape a fatal case of lead poisoning. He was finally freed 1,000 years in the future by the Legion of Super-Heroes (for more on his twisty turny, timey-wimey comic book history, click here). Read and download the full Den of Geek SDCC Special Edition magazine here!
