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I can see why. It’s pretty funny…
It’s the return of the “The Batman” animated Batman! Huzzah?
Perhaps it’s because he’s the latest ‘re-imagined’ Batman incarnation. Of course, Hawk doesn’t want to make his favorite superhero stand out, even amongst petty beings. :P
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The terrible part is I am writer. Not very good with grammar apparently…Oi.
I hope Warner Bros. is joking about Superman, ’cause it would be like, the end of the world and stuff, man.
And that ain’t cool.
I hope Warner Bros. is joking about Superman, ’cause it would be like, the end of the world and stuff, man.
Not really. All Supa[serious]man has to do is to screw up the rotation system of the planet at high speed, angst a little about it and everything would return to normal! Because Superman cannot stand the harsh grasp of reality, he constantly flies around the planet in order to fix his personal problems like bringing Lois back from the dead or avoiding a high speed ticket. You’d think that the people would be pissed a la Hancock that this guy is constantly spinning the world in its opposite direction without federal permission but hey, it’s Supaman! He knows what he’s doing! YAY!
..You guessed it; I’m not a big fan of Superman. Figures Supa[serious]man… *starts laughing uncontrollably*
That is, unless he’s so depressed and tired of this world that he decides not to reverse the rotation of the planet. Or he could speed up the rotation and make everything end quicker.
Such power! Such angst! We’re all doomed!!! :(
They can team-up with the Mighty Moshin Emo Rangers!
GO GO EMO SUPA-RANGERS!
And the sad thing is that this stupid idea would actually make money. What is this world coming to? There’s something terribly wrong in all of this.
I’d like to think they tried to make Spiderman 3 dark by making him all EMO SPIDERMAN LOLOL EYE LINER AND SWOOSHY BANGS, but it really just did not work out. I see Emo Superman turning out similarly and just being completely laughed at.
Seriously, I highly agree with Batman in the comic. Iron Man seemed to pull it off without being dark, just get better writers and actors and voila.
This comment was also made before reading Ananth’s rant. I agree with what he said :P
Frank Miller did the “Darker Superman” in Dark Knight Strikes Again, a little bit. It worked cause he was completely defeated and went through a 60 year crisis and because it was the end of the world and the end of the story, but I really don’t think it can work as a “restart” of the character. It works if they want to kill the character - to END the story of Superman - but not the other way around.
Also, the more “darker and edgier” versions of things become popular the more convinced I am that Grant Morrison’s talk about the ongoing spiritual death of America is accurate; that the country is trying to deal with the collapse of everything that it used to define itself, much like England did in the final years of the Empire.
Frank Miller’s Superman isn’t really a character so much as a force … Miller has gone on the record saying that he hates Superman, and I don’t know if the Superman that he writes has enough depth to be the main character of a movie.
It’s too bad that some of the other members of the DC pantheon aren’t as well known to the general public. I would love to see a movie based on Kingdom Come. A few of teh old guard are darker than they used to be, and usually for a believable reason.
I’m still waiting for a Green Lantern movie. Emerald Twilight and Final Night would be bloody brilliant.
I hope they’re joking. Really.
Besides, Superman? Dark? Didn’t Smallville try that approch? Didn’t it entirely ruin the Superman story? Didn’t it suck a$$? Enough said.
Meh, Smallville tried to be dark, but it was anything BUT dark. Chaos and King Corny describes it pretty well.
The only way, in my opinion, to make Superman darker would be to introduce Doomsday.
And there’s no way you can make He-Man dark. I just don’t see it.
you can make him celtic. =D have him bash in a few heads, be goth about it, less emo-y… you know, the true dark that isnt emo.
Sure you can. Just think of it as Lordi-dark instead of weepy-emo-dark.
If they want to do anything with Superman they could start by having him actually hit stuff.
Bryan Singer copped out and had him ‘de-powered’ by some douche with a green rock so he ends up having pansy slap fight rather than just punching the guy through the Moon.
I’ve always hated Superman. And I’m not even sure which of his creators to blame. Let’s call the bum J so we don’t discriminate.
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J: “Dude, I just came up with an awesome new superhero.”
K: “That’s nice.”
J: “No, you don’t understand. He’s so cool! He can fly, and shoot lasers out of his eyes, and has super strength, and can move really fast, and can freeze things with his breath, and has x-ray vision, and can hear really well. And heck, bullets just bounce off of him!”
K: “Wait. He’s… like… invulnerable? Where’s the fun in that? It’s just ****ing gay.”
J: “…yeah, I guess it is. Tell you what - there’s this glowing green stone thing that makes him weaker than a baby!”
K: “You’ve got to be ****ing kidding me.”
J: “And you haven’t even heard the best part! He wears his underpants on the outside! Y’know, going against the flow!”
There is a long silence.
K smacks J over the head with a wad of DC Comics. Because aside from Batman, that’s all they’re good for.
Lucky for J, the world is stupid.
HAHA. well said elyaradine, i agree with you.
Superman was unimaginative and uncreative. Its just like saying lets make a game and name it “The Game” and have a player called the Player. Should have called him “Super Hero” , but super man is just as generic :D
Although, the stories and some of the content involving superlol is half bad, that makes the writers a hellish elite for making something interesting from something so lame :D
If Superman’s emo, then what’s Bizzaro? Superman’s too perfect of a man. I wouldn’t mind seeing him deal with some “human” issues, and having moral issues like Spiderman and Batman.
LOL! So do I! XD
all that i loves is now gone. WHY did they make He-man Emo??? WHHYYYYYYYY *cough* and superman was emo already, you would be to if your home planet got blown to bits by shifting cystals of shinyness
Ha! I think you’ve hit upon exactly what I don’t like about Superman.
At least, it seems like he’s gotten into this sort of rarified ‘always a nice guy’ sort of schtick, in the Justice League ‘verse anyway. (I’ve never read the comics so I might be up the wrong tree) No wonder Bruce and Clark don’t get along. They can’t relate to each other–everything Superman does is pretty heroic and everyone loves him. Batman has to rely on his own strength and skill (and cash), and he works mainly in the dark–literally.
I think the last time I saw Superman conflicted about something he was doing was in one of the Christopher Reeve movies.
I don’t think they could make Superman dark, but I believe they could make the storyline better, if they really tried. I’ve seen some very nice Superman moments, that, if expanded on, could have led the way into a wonderful storyline or even a better Superman.
As it is, if they try to make Superman dark, all they’re going to succeed at is making him like Cyclops in all his emo-yness and then even more of the population will hate him.
So, I believe it could be done, but with the writers DC has and the ones you know they’ll hire for this project, it’s going to come out as one of the worst superhero movies ever.
Oh and Iron Man did good because the director and Robert Downey Jr. are fans (Downey more so) so they managed to play to the hardcore fans out there instead of letting the writers do what they thought was best.
Stupid brain. Um basically the beginning sentence is messed up. Ignore it because I put it better in the third paragraph.
It’s the attack of the Emo-men!
Run for your lives!!!
There should be a great big “E” on his chest now. ( -_^)
why is everyone an a55 to superman?
i mean, who in theyre friggin right mind would go find kryptonite!???!?!?!? you have to have it imported from krypton for it to work… so technically, hes the best. and he just needs some really think iron armor and he wont get hurt by kryptonite. which is what he SHOULD do, but hes slow… and only uses it when he needs to destroy krypton… i love superman… batmans gay without his belt… wonderwoman is the best ever. EVER. find a flaw of her… =l
1. Batman’s gay without his belt? WRONG! He’s only powerless. And more badass.
2. My dear friend, have you seen the horror called Smallville, even for a little time? Apparently, according to Smallville, Kryptonite is very easy to acquire and manufacture since the damn stone could be found EVERYWHERE in that blasted series. If enough people are brainwashed by that series, expect loads of cheap Kryptonite tokens found all over the place in the upcoming movie. Why? Because the film makers what to make the wrong set of people happy!
3. Err… If Wonder Woman’s jet is friggin’ invisible, how on earth doesn’t anyone crash into it wherever it’s parked? Cars and trucks included.
I think it could work to be quite honest. Make one with Doomsday and have Lois die a horrible death right infront of him. He finally defeats Doomsday but has lost his since of honor and justice so he is less nice to the bad guys even beating one guy near death. I dislike Superman but…it could work if they had the right people behind the script.
*cough* Girlfriend-in-Refrigerator Syndrome *cough*.
Seriously, mate, I’m pretty sure a decent writer could come up with a better story.
I agree with DJ a bit here. Kill Lois in the most painful way possible and make sure Superman is powerless. Like, Have Doomsday just rip her to tiny pieces. Superman kills Doomsday and this sets up the plot for the second movie…..The real Lois is still alive and Doomsday comes back to mess up Super’s stuff big time.
You know, there aren’t any bad character concepts, only bad writers. The premise of Superman is that he’s the best there is: Invincible, unstoppable, infinitely good. At first glance you’d think that makes a boring character, but I argue it’s just that no one knows how to write him. I think Neil Gaiman said, the interesting thing isn’t that he can hit people with mountains, but how that makes him feel. And apparently no one can figure that out cause they’ve spent seventy years showing him lifting mountains.
On reflection, “emo” literally means emotional. Maybe they can manage to explore Superman’s emotions without turning him into a whiny black mascara-wearing sadsack. That’d be a good thing I think.
Worship of perfect superheroes is supposed to wear off when you turn thirteen. And then you’re supposed to realise that perfect superheroes have the undeniably most boring storylines.
Weird. The reply got added as a new comment. =/ Was in reply to Gil.
Superman is always saving the day and is always powerful enough to stop any problem. How about rather than have him slapped about by Kevin Spacey again they introduce a villain that is more than able to give Supes a good kicking and have them actually fight.
Doomsday, Zod, Braniac, Darkseid there are plenty to choose from.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Emo Superman,
What about Emo Spiderman?
We’ve gotcha covered. ;) http://www.applegeeks.com/lite/index.php?aglitecomic=2006-06-28
ZOD: “Kneel before Zod, Son of Jor-El.”
Emo Superman kneels and sobs, black mascara running.
ZOD: “Aw, for Rao’s sakes! Grow a pair, willya? Just geddoutta here! I’m going to Thanagar…”
Cheers, Check out the photos of my new emo haircut
at http://tinyurl.com/59ps64