MovieBob said:
Man of Tomorrow
MovieBob gives us a spoiler laden look into the latest Superman movie Man of Steel.
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I would like to see this set up a greater, long-range conflict. See, at first, Superman doesn't kill because "Superman doesn't kill." Then, when he
felt like there was no other option, he does it... and he wins!
From here, we could see Superman begin to question the "Superman doesn't kill" that he'd been given. It wasn't a conviction, it was an instruction, and he's seen that instruction "proven false," to his mind. This opens the opportunity for Superman to really screw up -- an extreme rarity, in the comic world -- and actually have to
earn the conviction behind the "Superman doesn't kill."
Or maybe we'll find that we've seen just that -- he has a hard time dealing with the fact that he "had" to kill Zod, even wrestling with the question of whether or not he
really had to, and he begins to give real shape to his convictions.
See, in the past, Superman was just good
because. It's like he was born superhumanly compassionate and morally upright. And modern audiences are just too cynical to really buy that anymore. So, it's not that we're getting a darker Superman overall. I think we're getting a "darker before the dawn" Superman, so that we can actually
believe in the brighter "boy scout" Superman.