Superman Returns (possible love connection with Spectre?!?)

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:11 am

Ok, now I'm all fired up to see it.
I didn't know they'd be doing the origin recap as well.
This has the potential to be *quite* awesome.
Lots of pics and discussion in the link below:

tinyurl.com/n2bzm

Post by **sgt.null** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:57 am

the problem I find with Superman is his lack of good villains. Luthor is overdone. who else is there? they should revamp master jailer and Terra-Man.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:43 am

Terra-Man?! LOL That's a hilarious name.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:18 pm

I prefer Terra-Woman. She's terra-firma in all the right places, if you catch my continental drift.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:24 pm

sgtnull wrote:Luthor is overdone.

Oh, say it's not true!

Superman: "I have super-strength, what can you do?"

Superman: "I can leap tall buildings in a single bound!"

Lex: "My parents bought me a tall building."

Superman: "I'm indestructable, I have heat vision that I can focus into laser beams, I'm incorruptable, I can fly faster thean the speed of light, Break adamantium with my bare hands, and can write one hell of an op-ed piece for the Daily Planet!"

Lex: "I shave my head."

Post by **Creator** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:33 pm

What about Darkseid!!

Post by **dANdeLION** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:34 pm

I thought he was Mr. Miracle's nemesis.

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:26 pm

The only creature that ever truly gave Supes a run for his money was Doomsday.

Post by **Creator** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:04 pm

Yeah!! Doomsday kicked butt!!

Hmmmmm.... Doomsday vs. Onslaught?

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:40 pm

dANdeLION wrote:Superman: "...Break adamantium with my bare hands...

Inertron, for sure. No adamantium in DC. heh (Or did I miss some stories?)

dlbpharmd wrote:The only creature that ever truly gave Supes a run for his money was Doomsday.

I'll take Mongul vs Supes. Starlin's Pre-Crisis Supes (& Starman) vs. Mongul, and Alan Moore's Annual where Bats, Robin, and Wonder Woman go to the FoS for Supes' birthday.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:48 pm

dANdeLION wrote:
sgtnull wrote:Luthor is overdone.
Oh, say it's not true!

Superman: "I have super-strength, what can you do?"

Superman: "I can leap tall buildings in a single bound!"

Lex: "My parents bought me a tall building."

Superman: "I'm indestructable, I have heat vision that I can focus into laser beams, I'm incorruptable, I can fly faster thean the speed of light, Break adamantium with my bare hands, and can write one hell of an op-ed piece for the Daily Planet!"

Lex: "I shave my head."

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:21 pm

Superman: No Earth razor ever made can shave my head. Nyah Nyah! So there!

Post by **Loredoctor** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:52 am

Superman was flying along above Metropolis. He passes a building and looks down to see Wonderwoman naked on the roof. So he flies down and has some quick sex then flies off. The Invisible Man gets off Wonderwoman clutching his backside and says 'What the hell was that?!'.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:46 am

Two men, one black and one white, were at the top of the Empire State Building. The white man is saying, "I swear! The updrafts are so intense around the building that they bring you right back up to here!! Watch." And he jumps off the building! As he falls and falls, he begins to slow down. Finally, just before hitting the street, he comes to a stop, and begins rising! Miraculously, he rises all the way back to where he started, and grabs ahold of the railing. "See? It's amazing!!" Finally convinced, the black man jumps.

And splats on the street.

Two people are watching from across the street. One says to the other, "Man, Superman sure hates black people."

Post by **Loredoctor** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:33 am

Fist and Faith wrote:Two men, one black and one white, were at the top of the Empire State Building. The white man is saying, "I swear! The updrafts are so intense around the building that they bring you right back up to here!! Watch." And he jumps off the building! As he falls and falls, he begins to slow down. Finally, just before hitting the street, he comes to a stop, and begins rising! Miraculously, he rises all the way back to where he started, and grabs ahold of the railing. "See? It's amazing!!" Finally convinced, the black man jumps.

And splats on the street.

Two people are watching from across the street. One says to the other, "Man, Superman sure hates black people."

ROFLMAO

Post by **sgt.null** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:31 am

Darkseid has fought SUperman many times. Doomsday is/was owned by Darkseid at one point.

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 7:13 am

Again, I don't remember it that way, unless there was some story later on that I've never seen. There's a 3 issue series where Doomsday is on Apokalips and he kicks Darkseid's ass.

Post by **Creator** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:46 am

yeah, wasn't the only way they handled Doomsday was to send him to the Big Crunch?

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:23 pm

It's been so long since I've read those stories, I can't remember.

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 4:59 pm

There is something about omnipotent beings - they're boring. Every hero or villain needs some weakness to exploit.

Take pre-Crisis Superman for example. While not omnipotent, he was pretty damn close. It was difficult to come up with a bad guy who was strong enough to opppose him. That's why DC revamped Supes in the last '80s, with the John Byrne version. Like alot of other fans, I wasn't too crazy about the new improved Superman, especially with the re-working of his origin, but I did agree with how Byrne et al made him not quite so powerful as before.

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