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2025's Superman will feature the cinematic debut of The Engineer, an important character from DC Comics who may play a central role in the DCU reboot. Superman will be the first movie of DC Studios' new cinematic universe and will star David Corenswet in the eponymous role in a setting that will veer away from the typical origin story.
Instead, Kal-El's Dcu legacy will begin in a version of Metropolis where Superheroes are well-established, with the confirmed cast for Superman debuting more obscure DC heroes like Metamorpho, Mr. Terrific, and Guy Gardner. The Engineer is played by María Gabriela de Faría, a Venezuelan actress and singer born in September 1992.
Superman will deliver a fresh take on the Man of Steel and Metropolis by featuring a large cast of Dc Comics characters that have yet to appear in live-action. The Engineer will be one of these and will reportedly embody a villainous role. Nicolas Hoult's Lex Luthor is also starring in the movie, though whether he will immediately assume his place as Superman's arch-nemesis remains to be seen.
For now, it seems apparent that Superman, with everything known about his moral compass and values, will likely come to blows with the Engineer. This is because the Engineer is a founding member of The Authority, a team with markedly fewer scruples than the famously virtuous Superman. This team is already slated to appear in a self-titled movie within the confirmed Dcu release slate, suggesting that Angela Spica will, at least, survive her encounter with Superman.
In Dc Comics' Wildstorm Universe, Angela Spica is the second DC character to carry the mantle of Engineer, although she is more well-known than her predecessor. As a highly intelligent youth, "Angie" Spica was chosen by the original Engineer to continue his studies into nanotechnology, which she combined with her own research on human-machine fusion.
Spica would subsequently replace her blood with nine pints of advanced liquid machinery, imbuing her with near-limitless machine-based abilities. She was then recruited by Jenny Sparks to found the Authority, a team of metahumans that operate outside the bounds of government using extreme methods. The Authority originate in an alternate universe in DC Comics where they overtook the power of governments to enact justice as they see fit.
The intelligent machines that have replaced the Engineer's blood can manifest countless augmentations that help to make her one of DC's most powerful Superheroes. By willing it, Engineer can coat her skin in protective metal that can protect her from situations as intense as an atomic blast, manifest lungs that allow her to survive in the vacuum of space, and create nanobot machines that operate independently of her own body, including duplicates of herself.
This technology also allows the Engineer to shapeshift and stretch her body. The Engineer can also interface directly with machinery, a common trope among cyborg characters that allows them to extract and hack data within computers. The machinery in her blood can also store vast amounts of information like a supercomputer, giving her access to all the knowledge contained on Earth.