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Superfly (2018 film)

Superfly (2018) is Director X's remake of the 1972 blaxploitation film Super Fly, starring Trevor Jackson as Atlanta cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest, produced by Joel Silver and Future, released by Columbia Pictures June 15, 2018.

Sep 19, 2026

Superfly (musician)

Superfly (スーパーフライ) is the Japanese rock solo project of vocalist Shiho Ochi, who debuted in 2007 and has topped the Oricon album chart with multiple albums.

Superfood

Superfood: a marketing term for nutrient-rich foods like blueberries, salmon, and quinoa, with no legal or scientific definition; originated as United Fruit Company banana marketing, banned in the EU since 2007 without an approved health claim.

Superfrog

Superfrog is a 1993 scrolling 2D platformer by Team17 for Amiga, CD32, and PC, starring a caped frog powered by Lucozade; inspired by Sonic and Mario, remade as Superfrog HD in 2013.

Superfund

Superfund is the informal name for CERCLA, the 1980 US law under which EPA cleans up the nation's worst hazardous waste sites, enforces liability on responsible parties, and manages the National Priorities List.

Supergene enrichment

Supergene enrichment is the near-surface concentration of metals in an ore deposit by downward-moving oxidizing groundwater, converting low-grade rock into a chalcocite-rich blanket often vital to copper mines.

Supergiant Games

Supergiant Games: independent San Francisco studio founded 2009 by Amir Rao and Gavin Simon (ex-EA). Maker of Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, Hades (BAFTA Best Game 2021), and Hades II, its first sequel and highest-rated game.

Supergirl

Supergirl (Kara Zor-El), Superman's Kryptonian cousin in DC Comics, created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino, debuting in Action Comics #252 (1959); origin centered on Argo City, with the 1984 Helen Slater film, the 2015-2021 Melissa Benoist series, and the 2026 Milly Alcock film adapting Woman of Tomorrow.

Supergirl (1984 film)

Supergirl (1984 film), directed by Jeannot Szwarc, is the Salkinds' Tri-Star spin-off of the Superman franchise starring Helen Slater as Kara Zor-El recovering the Omegahedron from Faye Dunaway's witch Selena; a critical and box-office failure (19% on Rotten Tomatoes) that became a cult classic.

Supergirl (2026 film)

Supergirl (2026) is a DC Studios superhero film directed by Craig Gillespie, starring Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El, adapted from Tom King's Woman of Tomorrow; the second DCU film after Superman, released June 26, 2026, it underperformed at the box office and earned mixed reviews.

Supergirl (soundtrack)

Supergirl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is Claudia Sarne's hybrid orchestral-synth score for DC Studios' 2026 Supergirl film, released June 26, 2026 by WaterTower Music with 19 tracks, 49 minutes.

Supergirl (TV series)

Supergirl (2015-2021) is an American DC Comics-based action-adventure drama starring Melissa Benoist as Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin. Created by Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler, and Andrew Kreisberg; six seasons, 126 episodes; CBS then The CW; Arrowverse crossovers.

Supergood Subramani

Supergood Subramani (சூப்பர் குட் சுப்பிரமணி), also credited as Supergood Subramanian, is an Indian Tamil character actor named after Super Good Films, known for Jai Bhim, Soorarai Pottru, Sarpatta Parambarai, and Maharaja.

Supergranulation

Supergranulation is a cellular pattern of mostly horizontal flows on the Sun's surface, with cells about 30,000 km across that last one to two days.

Supergrass

Supergrass: English rock band formed 1993 in Oxford (Gaz Coombes, Mick Quinn, Danny Goffey, later Rob Coombes). Not to be confused with the informal legal term "supergrass" (police informer). Britpop band whose 1995 debut I Should Coco topped the UK chart; split 2010, reunited 2019.

Supergravity

Supergravity (SUGRA) is a field theory that combines general relativity with supersymmetry made local, containing the graviton and its spin-3/2 partner, the gravitino, first constructed in 1976.

Supergrid

A supergrid is a long-distance electricity transmission network, mainly high-voltage direct current lines at 500 kV or more, connecting remote renewable generation to demand centers and interconnecting national grids.

Supergroup (music)

Supergroup: a band formed by already-famous musicians from other bands or solo careers. Term coined in the late 1960s after the 1968 album Super Session; Cream is the standard first example; usually short-lived and often critiqued as less than the sum of its parts.

SuperH

SuperH is a family of 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores introduced by Hitachi in 1993, ranging from the SH-1 to the 64-bit SH-5 and powering the Sega Dreamcast.

Superhard carbon nitride

Superhard carbon nitrides are crystalline carbon and nitrogen compounds with hardness rivaling diamond, first synthesized unambiguously in 2023; unlike most high-pressure materials, they remain stable at ambient conditions.

Superhard material

A superhard material is a material whose Vickers hardness exceeds 40 GPa, placing it in the same performance range as diamond; only about 0.2% of cataloged materials are candidates.

Superheated steam

Superheated steam is water vapor at a temperature above its saturation temperature for its pressure; it raises turbine efficiency in the Rankine cycle but performs poorly for industrial heating.

Superheater

A superheater, or steam superheater, is a device that reheats boiler steam above saturation temperature into dry superheated steam, improving efficiency in locomotives, turbines, and industrial plant.

Superheavy element

A superheavy element, also called a transactinide element, is a chemical element with atomic number greater than 103, spanning rutherfordium (104) through oganesson (118), none of which occur in nature.

Superheavy Element Factory

The Superheavy Element Factory (SHE Factory) is an accelerator complex at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, launched in 2019 to synthesize new superheavy elements.

Superheavy element synthesis

Superheavy element synthesis is the production of elements with atomic numbers beyond those occurring naturally, by fusing lighter nuclei in accelerators, currently reaching element 118, oganesson.

Superheavy elements

Superheavy elements, also called transactinide elements, are the chemical elements with atomic numbers 104 and above, made in laboratories by smashing ion beams into targets.

Superhero

A superhero is a fictional character with extraordinary abilities who pursues justice, often through vigilante action. The genre began with Superman in Action Comics #1 in 1938.

Superhero fiction

Superhero fiction is a speculative-fiction genre of extraordinary-ability heroes defined by mission, powers, and identity, crystallized in comics with Superman's 1938 Action Comics debut, later deconstructed by Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, and now spanning film, TV, games, and prose.