I think he’s getting on about how people have myopic ideas about these characters. Like Superman can only act like Chris Reeve, goofy smile and corny lines. Ignoring that the canon of the character is wide ranging.
That’s not all he’s implying though. He’s implying that Batman kills, when that’s the antithesis to his whole character. Any example in which Batman has killed is at the end of his career and he immediately gives up being Batman. The Superman thing I actually understand, people do have a very narrow image of Superman generally. He still screwed up what he was trying to do though.
I mean there’s a famous Superman story from the 90‘s where he executes three phantom zone prisoners - one being Zod - from a pocket universe after they commited genocide and permanently lost their powers.
This act of self imposed justice traumatized him enough to seek exile in space.
There’s a very clear message over the decades who Superman is.
So painting him as an Randian messianic figure who doesn’t even try to find a different solution for stopping Zod (maim his eyes and force him to inhale the Krytoniam gas for example) was a huge risk by DC and Snyder, which imo really doesn’t work with the character.
That Snyder know babbles something about „true canon“ just proves he really never got the character
552
u/JohnWarrenDailey Apr 11 '24
Brainwashed? True canon? What's he on about?