#superman doomsday

[mikyapixie]

Happy Birthday To The Amazing Adam Baldwin!!

[romancemedia]

LOIS LANE'S HEARTBREAK OVER SUPERMAN'S DEATH • Justice League 2x19: Hereafter Part 1 • Superman: Doomsday (2007) • The Death of Superman (2018)

[zara2148]

... So among the many fucked up threads between takes on Clex, there's one about Lex Luthor literally wanting to be Superman's father. And I do mean *literally*.

Like, travels back in time and attempts romancing his mother literally. Oh Silver Age and its fetish material.

Yet I must note there's no attraction to Lara here at all (which is just kind of worth noting as Silver Age isn't above some shaky comphet attractions)... No, it's all about becoming someone with a position of power over Superman.

Then we also get this beat in the beginning of the 2023 Superman run.

You can also read this into the creation of Conner and Lex as a gene donor, since Conner wasn't meant to be a son but a replacement Superman. What's worse than baby trapping? How about trying to recreate the man you loathe-love in a way that fulfills your nascent daddy kink?

Edit: Speaking of, Bizarro has also really been re-adapted as a creation of Luthor's when that wasn't in his original conception. Post Crisis comics have it, Superman the Animated series has it, and you can kind of count Superman 2025 as this even though he's not really called Bizarro he still kind of borrows that.

Which also brings us to the glorious "Who's Your Daddy?" scene from Superman Doomsday. Who is also in the mold of "Lex makes a Superman clone."

Also maybe something something about how with Lionel becoming a part of Lex's origin, there's a potential thread to grasp of Lex associating a paternal presence with power over someone.

[choaticgypsyvicking]

My version of the DC universe part 2

Superman villans

Lex luthor in my universe dies of his kryptonite based cancer but uploads his brain into amazo

Parasite starved form whom I designed to look like a creepy pasta monster

Metallo + cyborg superman = the kryptonite man

Livewire! She's her she's queer she's had one to many beer and she full of electric rage so run in fear!

General dru-zod is 7 feet tall, 120 years old (only about half as old as a regular Kryptonian can get and only less then a quarter of what a sun powered one can live) he also knows Kryptonian martial arts has fought in several interplanetary wars and wields a suit powered bye redsun batteries, this worlds Clark Kent would go on a training arc after barely surviving a fight with him

Brainiac, he chooses a new name in every language he learns

Mongul.

The silver banshee aka misses olsen

Atomic skull

DOOMSDAY.

[gainaxvel3o]

Lex Luthor in Superman: Doomsday (2009) is misogynistically gay.

[swan2swan]

The titular character fight in Superman: Doomsday is one of the best brawls I've seen in cinema.

The momentum swings so many times at unexpected moments. Superman has Doomsday on the ropes, executes a ten-punch combo, but somewhere between punch five and nine, Doomsday interrupts him. Doomsday beats Superman into the ground, turns to go kill someone else, and you think we're going to cut back to Superman pushing himself up, but no, Superman is ALREADY up and hitting Doomsday. They're both terrifying, and it's great.

[blackholesandlions]

in retrospect lex luthor is so funny in superman doomsday. his bitter enemy superman dies, so he does the only natural thing one could do. he makes a clone of superman and repeatedly takes the clone to the room in his house he made just for beating up superman, beats him up while screaming "why did you leave me" at him, and then sits on top of him while staring at him for a long time. and then as soon as he finishes he immediately goes "but i'm over it"

[ultraericthered]

Nostalgic Lookback: Superman Returns

2006 was the big year for Superman, the year he made his return, anchored mainly by a theatrical film even titled Superman Returns!

Except did he? Did he, really?

While Superman Returns ultimately fell short of expectations and is a textbook example of a film suffering from a massive, potential-squandering identity crisis that was not worked out in production before it got fully assembled and put on screen (I've seen critics hurl that accusation at this year's Superman movie? Do they really not remember this film?), it was not the only medium Superman returned in that year, and I'm not just referring to the adaptations. 2006 also got a big Superman movie-making history documentary to coincide with the release of Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, itself made and released to coincide with Superman Returns. The first out of only two seasons of the Legion Of Superheroes show, starring a young Superman, aired on Kids WB that year (it was the better season!). Finally, a compressed animated adaptation of The Death And Return Of Superman saga was made for a direct-to-video-and-DVD release, titled Superman Doomsday, though it didn't come out 'til 2007.

But there was one other Superman-based property running at that time, as it had been since the Fall of 2001. Yes, I mean Smallville!

And 2006 is where the show hit its peak quality-wise, with Season 5 ending in May and Season 6 beginning in the Fall. If the show wasn't going to end at the fifth season, which had already been a likelihood given the contracts of the regular actors, it really only needed one last season to bring all the remaining threads together, using plot beats and character developments from what ended up being the sixth and seventh seasons of the show. Which means, unfortunately, that the show went on for four seasons longer than it needed to.