Whereas it’s by no means actually been an enormous a part of superhero films, probably the greatest components of superhero comics (and, more and more, superhero TV reveals) is an extended and storied custom of super-pets. Fortunately, the primary trailer to the WB’s upcoming animated movie DC League of Tremendous-Pets appears prefer it’s going to make up for that.

What’s stunning about this trailer is simply how a lot it appears like a Secret Lifetime of Pets spinoff — if the Justice League didn’t truly seem in it, one would fairly assume it was a sequel.

That’s as a result of in some methods, League of Tremendous-Pets is an origin story: Whereas Krypto, the Tremendous-Canine (Dwayne Johnson) seems absolutely shaped as Superman’s (John Krasinski) devoted canine companion, the plot of the movie appears to revolve round a bunch of different normal-looking pets gaining superpowers that correspond to their eventual costumed homeowners (or…companions?).

This contains Ace, the Bat-Hound (Kevin Hart), in addition to lesser-known super-pets like Chip, a Inexperienced Lantern (Diego Luna) or Merton (Natasha Lyonne) a turtle with the ability of the Flash.

Most attention-grabbing, nevertheless, is PB (Vanessa Bayer), ostensibly Wonder Woman’s pig — but so far as I do know, there’s no comedian ebook Wonder Pig. Nevertheless there may be an episode of Justice League Limitless the place Wonder Woman is changed into a pig by way of magic and, within the best second of superhero tv ever made, Batman sings “Am I Blue” to carry the spell.

Tremendous-pets rule, but it surely’s gonna be laborious to prime that.