#superman: doomsday

[gainaxvel3o]

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

[the-army-brat-and-the-nerd]

"We're in this together"- Lois Lane to Clark Kent (Justice League Dark: Apokolips War)

[thingsasbarcodes]

Superman: Doomsday (2007)

[justabuzzybee]

So as per my latest obsession, I am now on an epic journey to watch all the DC animated films (there’s 51 omg what have I done the <i>hubris</i>). 

So I get to no #3 (Batman: Gotham Knight), right? And would someone very kindly tell me what the fricking FRACK is up with the animation in the first part? Like, WHY??? WHY DO ALL THE CHARACTERS LOOK LIKE SOMEONE PEERED INTO THE VOID AND COULD NOT COMPREHEND THE HORRORS WITHIN?? WERE Y’ALL JUST DETERMINED TO YEET YOURSELVES INTO THE UNCANNY VALLEY??? Like, what the HECK was that?? I thought Superman: Doomsday was bad with the cheekbones from hell but good GLORY I may experience actual nightmares from this

Like, what possessed you to DO this to these poor kids???

WHY DO ALL THEIR ARMS GET WEIRDLY NARROW AT THE ELBOWS????

And batman?????

the FLIP???

I hate all of them equally, your honor

And then after this trippy little intro sequence the animation...just...it changes into something semi-normal???? Like, it’s all eerie and existential and broody, but I’d expect that from a Batman movie. But this opener??? No no no no no no. There’s just...there’s no coming back from this

[groundrunner100]

Doomsday, living, breathing death machine.

[shitedits]

[fyeahsupermanandloislane]

[annotated-dc]

In the Justice League storyline Hereafter, we got an homage to the Death of Superman storyline, complete with a funeral with cameos from Clark’s solo series (this marks the only time Lana Lang appeared after STAS, and Kara’s only on-screen appearance between that series and JLU).

Curiously, we also get an appearance by a maudlin Lex Luthor, who an angry Lois Lane rightly calls out for daring to show up considering how he’d been trying to kill Superman for years. Admittedly, at this point in the series Lex had been cleared of his prior crimes and was making a show of having “turned over a new leaf”, but his seemingly sad reaction to the death of his worthy opponent is... interesting.

This is especially true when contrasted with Lex’s reaction in the Superman: Doomsday movie, and within the Death of Superman comics themselves. In Doomsday, we don’t get a look at Lex’s reaction to the death, per se, but considering how he ended up cloning Supes dozens of times so he could strip to the waist and physically beat them whenever he wants, it’s safe to say he still had... issues.

Within the comics though... well, at the time Lex was pretending to be his long-lost Australian son (long story: cancer, got cloned, brain transplant), where he PUBLICALLY took the DCAU route... while in private his immediate response to hearing of Superman’s death was to strangle his karate instructor to death in the Lexcorp changing rooms to demonstrate how he can now do whatever he wants (don’t worry, she is revived by aliens later). Lex then gloats about it while visiting Superman’s tomb to “pay his respects“.

‘Cause Lex in this era was a misogynistic garbage person.