DC Accidentally Put a Star Wars Alien in Supergirl Art

A $119.95 metal print on DC's official online store is supposed to feature characters from the upcoming Supergirl movie. One of them is from Star Wars instead. And not even a well-known Star Wars character. We're talking about Lexo Sooger, a masseur who appeared in a deleted scene from The Last Jedi.

I cannot think of a more obscure character to accidentally smuggle into a competing studio's official merchandise.

The print, titled "Across the Galaxy," was part of a new DC shop collection announced on Tuesday featuring artist Bilquis Evely's artwork from Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. It shows Kara Zor-El, Ruthye Marye Knoll, and a group of alien passengers. One of those aliens, as first spotted by Polygon, is clearly Lexo Sooger rather than the Supergirl character it was meant to depict: Screecher, an alien who will appear in the film when it hits theaters on June 26.

Who Is Lexo Sooger?

According to Wookieepedia, Lexo Sooger is "a Dor Namethian male who was the star masseur at Zord's Spa and Bathhouse in Canto Bight." He used to be an assassin. His entire onscreen existence amounts to a brief appearance in an early cut of Rian Johnson's film, where Rose and Finn pass through the spa during their escape from Canto Bight on a Fathier. The scene was deleted. Sooger's lore lives on primarily through the Canto Bight anthology book, which apparently goes deep on his body-oiling expertise. I'm not making that up.

The most likely explanation for how a Lucasfilm character ended up in DC artwork is simple human error. Screecher and Lexo Sooger share similar body types, skin tones, and clothing styles. Someone at DC probably sent Evely the wrong reference image, and unless you're the kind of person who reads Star Wars deleted scene companion novels, you'd never catch it. Screecher's design may have even drawn some inspiration from that corner of the Star Wars alien catalogue, which would make the mix-up even easier to understand.

This is the kind of mistake that's funny precisely because of how specific it is. If someone had accidentally dropped a Wookiee into a DC print, it would be an obvious blunder. Accidentally including a spa-working ex-assassin from a deleted Last Jedi scene requires such a specific chain of reference image failures that you almost have to admire it.

DC hasn't commented on the situation, and as of publication the print is still listed on the store at its full $119.95 price. Evely hasn't addressed it either. It's a similar kind of slip to when Marvel nearly published a Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man variant cover featuring Spinnerette, a character from artist Krazy Krow's satirical webcomic, instead of Marvel's own Spinneret. That artist, Bengal, caught the mistake and removed the character before the cover went to print. DC hasn't been so quick on the draw here.

Whether anyone who actually buys the print will notice is another matter. Lexo Sooger is so deep in the Lucasfilm archive that most Star Wars fans wouldn't recognize him. But the internet did, and now a $120 piece of official Supergirl merchandise doubles as an unlicensed Star Wars crossover. DC is still selling it.