Highlights
- Dean Cain, 59, laughed at a meme comparing Supergirl star Milly Alcock to a 1970s TV creature
- Cain, now an honorary ICE agent, was slammed as a “washed up loser” by furious DC fans
- Alcock’s Supergirl hits theaters June 26; director James Gunn also weighed in on the drama
Dean Cain has done it again — and DC fans are not laughing with him.
The 59-year-old former Superman star, who has spent recent years reinventing himself as a conservative commentator and honorary ICE agent, is facing fresh backlash after publicly endorsing a meme that mocked the appearance of incoming Supergirl star Milly Alcock.
The mess started Sunday on X, when a user posted promotional artwork of the 26-year-old Australian actress, raising the nerdy question of how a bulletproof alien could have pierced ears. Most fans debated the comic-book logic. Then one commenter went low — posting a side-by-side image of Alcock next to Chaka, the furry, ape-like humanoid creature from the 1970s TV series Land of the Lost, captioning it: “And why does she look like this guy?”
Cain, who played Superman in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman from 1993 to 1997, couldn’t help himself. “Dang it… I laughed,” he posted. Three words. A world of consequences.
The reaction was swift and scalding. Many described Cain’s reaction as “vile” and criticized the actor for endorsing what they viewed as appearance-based mockery. One furious fan wrote, “Making fun of Milly Alcock despite being an actor is f**king insane. Another reason why I hate Dean Cain.”
Another piled on with a brutal assessment of Cain’s legacy: “Dean Cain is unbelievably dedicated to being the worst Superman actor of all time. Every time I think he can’t go lower, he digs my disappointment deeper.”
One Reddit user cut even deeper: “Milly is talented and employed meanwhile he’s a washed up loser who joined ICE and is currently showboating for MAGAts on Twitter.”
Several critics also noted the hypocrisy angle: “To make it worse, he’s literally talked about receiving backlash and being given racist nicknames for being a half-Asian Superman actor,” one user said, noting the actor’s Japanese ancestry. “I can’t fathom how he rationalizes that hypocrisy.”
One Reddit commenter defended Alcock plainly, writing: “She is like the most conventionally attractive woman ever.”
Director James Gunn also stepped into the fray, addressing the pierced-ears question on social media — though some fans felt he shouldn’t have engaged with the bad-faith discourse at all.
Alcock, for her part, has kept her focus on the work. Speaking ahead of the film’s June 26 release, she addressed the pressure with admirable candor: “Of course I’m scared. Of course I want people to like me and the movie. But ultimately, it’s out of my control.”
Same energy Cain might want to try sometime.
