There is a lot of information to process the first official trailer for James Gunn's Supermanwhich will officially launch his new live-action DC Studios universe next July. Here's our introduction to this version of Superman, played by David Korensvet, as he lies in the snow and whistles to his super-dog, Krypto, to come help him get home. There's our introduction to Metropolis, the villainous Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult), the Daily Planet, reporter Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) and much, much more. Heck, we even get to it see some Justice League members. There's a lot packed into the trailer, so it's easy to miss some of the important parts—and one a lot an important hit deserves a special shout out.

We see Superman kneeling inside what looks like the Fortress of Solitude, with all its crystalline structures, and he's holding a robot that looks awfully familiar. Given where it is and how the robot looks, we're probably getting a Superman version of Kelex.

Beginning with Man of Steel #1 in 1986, Kelex was introduced as a former robotic servant of Jor-El, Superman's father, back on their home planet of Krypton, along with fellow robotic servant Kellor and a number of others. Kelex served Jor-El longer than any other robot and was Kal-El's (aka Superman) companion when he was an infant, although the robot was presumed destroyed along with all the others on Krypton. Later, when the Eradicator, an ancient Kryptonian technology, ends up on Earth and begins trying to remake Krypton, he only ends up with what becomes Superman's Fortress of Solitude, with Kelex inside.

Kelex is to the Fortress of Solitude what Alfred is to Batman and Wayne Manor's Batcave, taking care of everything while Superman is away and helping him when needed. Although Kelex has been around a lot in the comics, the robot's film appearances are much less frequent - he last appeared in "Man of Steel" in 2013the voice of Carla Gugino. Kelex being part of the story means we get the Fortress of Solitude and some of the weirder comic book elements surrounding Krypton, and that rules.

Although the robot doesn't quite look like Kelex from the comics, who honestly looks like a cross between Alpha 5 from Power Rangers and Issue 5 of "Short Circuit", if it really is Kelex, then that signals some potentially interesting stuff for Superman. Although it sets up DC Studios' new cinematic universe, it doesn't seem like it will be a full origin story, instead giving us a Clark Kent/Superman who has already come to terms with his Kryptonian past a bit. He'll have Fortress of Solitude, his right-hand robot, and he won't just be a lost and confused farm boy trying to figure out what to do with his superpowers.

There are a few characters that appear in the trailer that we haven't seen much of in theaters (if at all), but Kelex is the most foreshadowing of what kind of Superman story we're going to get.

Superman will hit theaters on July 11, 2025.