Spoilers Superman Spoiler Thread

[Thomas Shey]

I think if any new character popped up and said "I mastered every martial art, and also I'm a billionaire tech genius and the world's greatest detective," people would roll their eyes. Everyone who follows Batman pretty much has to have a smaller portion of his power set.

Yeah, classically Mr. Terrific was just the ultimate jack-of-all-trades, but I think that overlapped with a couple too many other people so they leaned him into the tech more because DC actually doesn't have a lot of heroes who lean really heavily on that, at least if you exclude Ted Kord.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I thought this fell back further to the storyline in the 80s or 90s where Supes got really in touch with that periods version of Kryptonian heritage which was very cold and sterile? Lotsa circles on the clothes. I thought it was a variation of "last son of Krypton" but neither my memory nor google agrees

I'd gotten the same impression it was extension of the Byrne version of Krypton. Which was, at best, pretty arrogant-elitist and didn't give much a darn about non-Kryptonians.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yes, this is my memory too. Not being warm is quite a big step away from conquer the earth and take many wives.

They weren't just "not warm" though; they gave the impression that they'd normally have considered Terrans beneath their notice, to the point if they had the ability to save humans they wouldn't bother. That's not the same as conquest, of course, but note that its funny how people's morality sometimes goes downhill when they're facing an extinction event.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The John Byrne reboot of Superman after Crisis on Infinite Earths is where we got both Lex as a businessman and Kryptonians not being a warm and cuddly bunch. Them being actual conquerors wasn't part of that run, though.

They weren’t exactly warm in the 78 movie.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They weren’t exactly warm in the 78 movie.

Hey, you cast Brando, you get a Brando performance.

 

[Belen]

That actually makes sense with how much Lex used martian as a slur when referring to Superman

It was a white martian.