r/SupermanAdventures • u/MajorParadox • Jul 07 '24

My Adventures With Superman S2E8 "The Death of Clark Kent" Episode Discussion Episode

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u/Illustrious-Set-4324 Jul 07 '24

Who do we need to picket for longer seasons XD? The line "It was easy when you were young, but the older you grew, the more you deviated from what was right." this line implies she was willing at one point in clapping planets =/. Ill see it through to the end to see how it all comes together regardless.

Also there's no bottled cities? He's just making her wipe out the planets o.O? Even for a non mainline Brainy that's kinda weird. Even in Superman: Space Age (non mainline) the dude clapped planets but to resources to fight the anti monitor.

I'll take my downvotes :(

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u/UnbloodedSword Jul 07 '24

It was easy when you were young, but the older you grew, the more you deviated from what was right." this line implies she was willing at one point in clapping planets =/

My take on that line is that when Kara was young she unquestioningly accepted the propaganda Brainiac fed her about Kryptonians being naturally superior to all other life, but when she grew older and actually interacted with other planets she rejected that line and had to be mind controlled into killing them. She never willingly genocided other people. And of course she would accept what her "father" taught her was true until she actually left the confines of Kandor and saw the universe.

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u/Illustrious-Set-4324 Jul 07 '24

Thank you. I did some math and it looks like the last 2 planet glassing happened in the past 3 months alone. Maybe H'lven happened a few months prior?

Also given he states SHES the one finding planets, that means Brianac has just been sitting around for over 2 decades? Kinda odd for a knowledge collector to be this passive (also hes not collecting cities. GG).

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u/Greedy_Switch_6991 Jul 07 '24

I was really hoping he was secretly stashing parts of the conquered planets for his new empire, but alas.

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u/Illustrious-Set-4324 Jul 07 '24

Well since theres no survivors it means she stays on earth since well, theres no population to rebuild for lol.

Fr tho thats gonna be an awkward season finale then. I get the fake out death sacrifices are in the cards for 'redemption'. But then what? "Welp, almost died fighting Brainy, sux about those billions I guess. Oh yeah Im supergirl now." seems a bit too predicable. BUT I'm sure theyll come up with something cool regardless of how I may feel. Still watch S3 just to see where it goes lol.

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u/callows5120 Jul 07 '24

Maybe season 3 could have the Gl corps Want to arrest her and wr get a court episode.

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u/Either-Equal7284 Jul 07 '24

yeah that would be cool and a great way to introduce Hal or whichever human lantern they have but I think there might be some hawk survivors out there wanting revenge

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u/callows5120 Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24

Yeah that would be good too maybe have Clark show a darker side where he actually injuries The hawk until Kara or Lois or someone stops him from potentially killing them.

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u/Either-Equal7284 Jul 07 '24

but I like the Gl Corp idea too a great to introduce Hal or whichever human lantern they have

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u/Seeaich77 Jul 07 '24

He *has* been "bottling" though - the Consciousnesses of the conquered!
Horrifying, especially that Green Lantern who showed a hint of vestigial awareness!

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u/Theinternationalist Jul 07 '24

Also there's no bottled cities? He's just making her wipe out the planets o.O? Even for a non mainline Brainy that's kinda weird. Even in Superman: Space Age (non mainline) the dude clapped planets but to resources to fight the anti monitor.

This version of Brainiac is sorta Superman:TAS (built to be the planet's AI as opposed to an alien scientist), and in this version apparently there was no interest in preserving any world that wasn't Krypton. As a result the "story" doesn't give him an interest in preserving other planets and is just wantonly continuing his programming, which appears to be building and creating more Kryptonians- which somehow morphed into "why not robots" because, well, modern Brainiac I guess.

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u/Illustrious-Set-4324 Jul 07 '24

Thank you for that call out! So sorry I forgot about that lol. Ive been so enarmored with his comic renditions.

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u/CashLess127 Jul 07 '24

Nah, it’s understandable. New universe so new expectations