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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 03:48 PM
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"Are these the missiles you were talking about, Lex?"
Edited on Thu Sep-07-06 03:49 PM by ComerPerro
"I mean, I flew around the Earth a few times, but these are the only giant missles I could find!"


How the first Superman movie should have ended...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBsD1xIpJUI&NR
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 03:53 PM
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1. That made my DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


"I would have thrown a batarang at him, and tied him up"

"what about the missles?"

"Oh, I got a anti missle gadget on my batbelt..."
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 04:02 PM
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2. I wish people would depict Superman acting to his true potential
more often
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 04:06 PM
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3. And therein lies the rub
If you play him to his potential(that I believe in) there isn't many things than can truly mess with him, with the exception of some extremem heavy hitters like Darkseid, Orion, Doomsday(I'd even throw Lobo in this mix). so, most writers, or adaptations of Superman, they protray him as "not as super" and this is clearly seen in the JLA cartoons...

I about had a heart attack when they had superman/wonderwoman fighting, and wonderwoman and him tied, I was like wtf? This is superman dammit!! Same with a lot of other things in the JLA cartoon, and comics. My main beef is consistancy.....

One comic you got superman walking through, say Darkseid, and in the next comic, you have him struggling against Mammoth, Metallo....I think its lazy writing myself, if you cannot make a villian to match, they weaken him to make other villians match...thats why I liked Doomsday, he in my mind is MORE powerful than superman and reading Dooms' history, I don't know how superman even came close to a tie, except for supes gut stamina....
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 05:00 PM
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4. Yeah, creators made him too powerful to be compelling
so they always slow him down and weaken his strength.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 09:39 PM
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5. not that they made him too powerful
but they make villians not tough enough....if you have a tough character like superman, you need to have tough villians...thats why I enjoyed the Death of Superman line, because Doomsday in all honesty put the hurt on the man of steel...but now, in other match ups, superman is defeating doomsday a bit easier, and easier...and the way in which doomsday was created, its impossible for superman to walk over Doomsday, yet I see it in comics, and in JLA comics....

If they are going to turn a villian into a cake walk, make some more villians that are equal, or about equal to superman, and start a new story line....dont have superman walk over doomsday, and then the next day barely be able to defeat Lex Luthor, or Metallo...it makes no sense. Its like Hulk walking over the Juggernaut, and then the next day, the Hulk loses to Spiderman....
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 10:28 PM
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6. That was the good thing about Lex Luthor
he was so much smarter than Superman
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 11:40 PM
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7. Yes
and some writers are even lazy with that, I do admit Lex's plan in Superman Returns was pretty...rehashed, but the means of his plans was better this time around...:)

But, all comic book characters face the consistancy problem...I see a comic with Woverine getting beat by an old samurai with a bamboo cane, and yet, wolverine beats lobo, or the hulk? There are countless things...but Consistacy is my main beef....in comics, I usually gravitate to the elseworld comics because the writers are given a longer leash in what they can write, or do with a character....
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 06:16 AM
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8. A shameless kick
hoping CMW checks it out...:) I haven't seen a good superman spoof for a while, and this one is hiliarous...
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 08:53 AM
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9. Thanks for that. That's terrific.
The movie could have been an hour shorter if they'd done it this way.
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