SUPERGIRL: Come Get Your First Look At David Harewood As SPOILER

Ahead of their winter finale, Supergirl quite possibly dropped the biggest bombshell of the fall television season. Come get your first look at their mystery reveal.

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By RohanPatel - Dec 07, 2015 07:12 PM EST

Filed Under: Supergirl

Source: The Wrap, KSiteTV

Talk about misdirection.

For months now, fans have been under the assumption that David Harewood was playing Hank Henshaw a.k.a. Cyborg Superman, but tonight's episode of Supergirl revealed (and as you can see above) that his role was the polar opposite.

Harewood is actually playing J'onn J'onzz a.k.a. the Martian Manhunter!

Executive producer Andrew Kreisberg admitted that adding an original member of the Justice League to the series was not a decision the creative team took lightly, but at the end of the day, they felt it was the right call to make. “Within the body of the Supergirl series, there is a Martian Manhunter series rolling throughout, it fit in with how Supergirl has been evolving. She’s embraced her powers and stepped out into the light, and in a way, J’onn is closeted and afraid. He’s one of the most frightening-looking Justice Leaguers, but he has the purest heart.”

Harewood shared that we'll learn a lot more about his character's past in episode 11 and that it will be one of the series' most powerful episodes to date: "It was a very emotional episode, just thinking about the whole idea of genocide and people being burned alive. It’s going to be a very emotional and powerful episode, and fans will be really delighted to see it.” He also adds how J'onzz, after losing his own children, views Kara & Alex as surrogate daughters and cares for them a lot more than he's let on: "Having lost his own children, [Jonn’s] got a lot of pain and melancholy, which is fantastic to play. These two girls represent something that’s very close to him.”

Here's the video:

Check out what Harewood, who plays J'onzz, Chyler Leigh, who plays Alex Danvers, & Kreisberg had to say about the huge reveal in the video interviews below:

So, what do you guys think? Excited to see an original member of the Justice League?! Sound off with your thoughts below!

KARA GOES TOE-TO-TOE WITH HER AUNT ASTRA WHEN SHE CHALLENGES KARA'S BELIEFS ABOUT HER MOTHER, ON "SUPERGIRL," MONDAY, DEC. 14

"Hostile Takeover" - Kara goes toe-to-toe with Astra when her aunt challenges Kara's beliefs about her mother. Also, Cat is threatened with being removed as the CEO of CatCo after a hacker exposes her private and damaging emails, on SUPERGIRL, Monday, Dec. 14 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

The hour-long drama centers on Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, who was born on the planet Krypton and escaped amid its destruction years ago. Since arriving on Earth, she has been hiding the powers she shares with her famous cousin. But now at age 24, she decides to embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be.

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Mehcad Brooks as James 'Jimmy' Olsen
Calista Flockhart as Cat Grant
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Laura Benanti as Alura Zor-El/Astra
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Dean Cain as Jeremiah Danvers

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Pasto - 12/7/2015, 6:03 PM

People sleeping on Supergirl need to wake the hell up.

Invictor - 12/7/2015, 6:15 PM

They caught me off guard with this shit.

LEEE777 - 12/7/2015, 6:18 PM

I thought it was MM weeks ago, Eradicator was kinda stupid. Great stuff, shows actually getting good!

Invictor - 12/7/2015, 6:19 PM

Invictor - 12/7/2015, 6:21 PM

Invictor - 12/7/2015, 6:22 PM

Invictor - 12/7/2015, 6:25 PM

Invictor - 12/7/2015, 6:33 PM

Invictor - 12/7/2015, 6:35 PM

Robby - 12/7/2015, 6:38 PM

Looks like pure goodness

Invictor - 12/7/2015, 6:42 PM

Kyos - 12/7/2015, 6:47 PM

DAAAAAAAAAAMN!! :D

Invictor - 12/7/2015, 6:51 PM

MileHighRonin - 12/7/2015, 7:20 PM

I just got interested in this show with this neww.

TheDarkPassenger - 12/7/2015, 7:21 PM

Hmm.

RextheKing - 12/7/2015, 7:22 PM

Well, when the Winter finale airs, I'm going to binge watch the episodes, just to see this. Also been hearing good things about the show, the pilot just didn't do it for me.

MisterBatfleck - 12/7/2015, 7:23 PM

Definitely going to start watching this now.

alamborn19 - 12/7/2015, 7:23 PM

Ugg. Terrible CG. Well its better than "Power Rangers Red Tornado"...

pesmerga44 - 12/7/2015, 7:24 PM

Damn that completely came out of nowhere especially since everything and everyone was saying he was Hank Henshaw so I thought he would go Cyborg Superman on her at some point. Awesome that Martian Manhunter is finally coming to something because he most definitely deserves to be. He should be having his own movie over Cyborg but whats done is done. I will also say he looks a whole hell of a lot better then Red Tornado. You have to wonder how they made such a laughably horrendous Red Tornado yet then made this pretty good looking Martian Manhunter costume.

Robby - 12/7/2015, 7:24 PM

how many episodes are there this season?

TheDarkPassenger - 12/7/2015, 7:26 PM

I tried watching the 2nd episode, but I was so put off by the stereotypical CEO bitch boss character I had to turn it off.

I'll give it a third chance just because of this.

BestAtWhatIDo - 12/7/2015, 7:27 PM

Not a bad look! Weird that Hank Henshaw is Martian Manhunter, but David Harewood is PERFECT for the part, so I can't really complain.

superbigguy32 - 12/7/2015, 7:28 PM

JoeMomma29 - 12/7/2015, 7:30 PM

Just down right awesome!!!!!

JoeMomma29 - 12/7/2015, 7:31 PM

This costume is one of the best on television right now!!!!!

GhostDog - 12/7/2015, 7:31 PM

I been watching supergirl recently wit my girl and I'm starting to like it. She not a comic book fan, but now she wanna read some supergirl. I was WRONG! The show is pretty decent. Im starting to like the bubbly quality of it all haha. It has some good acting too. It has potential

MARTIAN MANHUNTER LOOKED DOPE AS HELL!

JoeMomma29 - 12/7/2015, 7:31 PM

@Nomis

Take a break from the game!

Obi2 - 12/7/2015, 7:31 PM

Now i really hope this crosses over with The Flash, it would be so cool to see Martian Manhunter part of that universe

Kr08 - 12/7/2015, 7:33 PM

dinkinflicka - 12/7/2015, 7:33 PM

It's going to be 20 episodes bring on crossovers.

lionovoltron - 12/7/2015, 7:33 PM

I knew it was him. And the reveal was awesome. Made the show better for me. can't wait to see her and MMH team up

Kr08 - 12/7/2015, 7:35 PM

This i them making up for Red Tornado. Hopefully they start to give it a more serious tone and better dialogue.

Lemons - 12/7/2015, 7:37 PM

HOLY SHIT!

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