Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. One of the more questionable decisions the DCEU made was to kinda-not-really kill Superman at the end of Batman V Superman. On the one hand it's the perfect way to justify Batman starting up a team of super powered people. Superman is so powerful that it makes sense that Bruce Wayne would want to replace him with a big group.
On the other hand, this Superman has only existed for two films at this point, so killing him didn't have any real emotional impact. I don't feel the void he left. Some of that could be because the last shot of the movie tells you "not really" so you're not even really given any time to contemplate a world without Superman because you know he's coming right back.
The Soap Opera style of killing off characters and resurrecting them later is so closely tied into comic book storytelling that it's hard to fault the movies for doing that, but I wish they'd make it more emotionally impactful.
Superman is definitely in Justice League, but they skirted around how he'd be resurrected when they brought all us in on the set visit. The only production art we saw of him had Supes in his regular red and blue suit, but it seems that they're dipping back into the comics again for his resurrection since Henry Cavill shared this image via social media:
I was a young teen when the Death of Superman storyline happened and I read along more closely than I ever did with any other DC title at the time. I loved the idea of Doomsday and loved seeing Superman evenly matched. His death felt earned, even though I knew it wouldn't last.
Things kinda went to shit after that, when DC introduced a mystery on who the next Superman was going to be. Of course they ended up introducing a bunch of possibilities and going "nope, it's just Kal-El again, but this time he has long hair and a black suit!"
However he comes back in the movie it's looking like we'll see him in the black suit for a bit. That's not much of a stretch for the movie universe either, since Zod's Kryptonian get up was pretty much the above image anyway (and Jor-El's duds weren't super bright either, for that matter).
Thoughts?
-Eric Vespe
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