Spoilers Superman Spoiler Thread

[wicked cool]

The thing (alien) that moved Luther’s cart in the pocket dimension? Was that a reference to something?

 

[EthanSental]

Reminds me of the talk of Gambit in Deadpool and Wolverine. Everyone was like... but it his accent was atrocious! And actual cajuns were excited and going One.Of.Us!

Any Howard Stern fans here? If so, the voices and accent were based off Stern show personality Richard Christy’s parents from Kansas as he’s friends or acquaintances with Gunn and he wanted them to sound like they were farmers from Kansas. Richard and parents were in the credits as well.

Warning on some cuss words during the clip, nothing over the top but wanted to mention it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm not as much into Superman lore as I am X-Men, but I've definitely seen both LexCorp and LuthorCorp. Smallville, for example, used LuthorCorp, primarily because it was being run by Lex's father Lionel (with Lex being put in charge of a Smallville-based subsidiary to prove himself, IIRC). I don't know if that's intended to indicate a similar thing going on where Lex inherited the business rather than built it himself.

Ah, I didn't watch Smallville. I thought this was an entirely new name. (I do think "LexCorp" is punchier.)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The thing (alien) that moved Luther’s cart in the pocket dimension? Was that a reference to something?

It looked a lot like a degraded true form of the Martian Manhunter.

 

[Eric V]

It's James Gunn explicitly responding to Man of Steel, The Boys and Invincible: OK, yes, Superman could rule the planet if he wanted to, but being an evil dictator is not an inevitable outcome of having power. You can make the choice to be a moral person, as Clark does.

That message really doesn't need the screw-job on Jor-el to be communicated...weird.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I think they did a bit of practical stuff -- there's a Humane Society certification near the end of the credits saying they monitored how animals were handled in the movie and that they were all treated well.

I think it's pretty clear that Gunn is an animal lover. But I suspect the reason there are no non-cgi dogs in the movie is that cgi fur still does not look convincing when seen next to the real thing.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Not only that, but he's concerned about falling into a black hole because he would never be able to escape. Notably, he doesn't seem to think falling into a black hole would be fatal. Just something he'd never be able to escape.

That's not unreasonable. His invincibility would protect him from spaghettification, radiation, etc, but unless he can fly faster than light he couldn't escape the event horizon stopping his personal clock (until the Black Hole evaporates).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

That message really doesn't need the screw-job on Jor-el to be communicated...weird.

May well be a plot point in the Supergirl movie.

 

[Stalker0]

I'm not as much into Superman lore as I am X-Men, but I've definitely seen both LexCorp and LuthorCorp. Smallville, for example, used LuthorCorp, primarily because it was being run by Lex's father Lionel (with Lex being put in charge of a Smallville-based subsidiary to prove himself, IIRC). I don't know if that's intended to indicate a similar thing going on where Lex inherited the business rather than built it himself.

Gunn is on record in an interview that Smallville was one of his favorite superman renditions, and he took the LuthorCorp name from that show.

 

[Stalker0]

That's not unreasonable. His invincibility would protect him from spaghettification, radiation, etc, but unless he can fly faster than light he couldn't escape the event horizon stopping his personal clock (until the Black Hole evaporates).

yep so he doesn't die right away....he just starves to death. so much better