Why I Hate Evil Superman

Enough of evil Superman. I hope James Gunn make things right with Superman.

2013 me : oh cool a evil Superman game that’s interesting 2024 : I’m so tired of evil Superman

I remember hearing somewhere that a subversion of Superman feels pointless since Superman already is a subversion of "power always corrupts"

My biggest problem with evil Superman is how out of character it feels for him to go evil when tragedy strucks like really?

Fun fact: Thinking that Superman can and will always be evil is the mentality of Lex Luthor.

This is why I love Red Son, he’s not some generic “evil” Superman, he’s just the same Superman we all know and love, just raised in a different place and way of life.

"A farm boy's wholesome values vs big-city cynicism and corruption" is an integral theme of Superman, and here's the proof: Even if a writer is clever enough to tamper with this trope and write a great story, you're still left with the feeling that you haven't read an actual Superman story.

It's interesting how evil Superman trope started as a subversion, but ended up becoming so mainstream that now making a genuinely in-character Superman adaptation is considered a subversion.

A general problem with heroes becoming villains is that so often they develop a completely different personality to the point that they might as well be a different character. There's no emotional impact to these evil Supermen because there's nothing uncanny about them. They don't act like Superman or say things he would say. They're just generically evil. Interestingly, this never seems to be a problem when bad guys become good guys. They still get to be themselves. Vegeta is still proud and arrogant, Doom is still vain and condescending, etc.

One of the biggest problems with the Snyder movie in regards to Jonathan Kent is that he dies saving a dog. In the comics he dies from a heart attack or some natural death. A natural death to Jonathan shows that Superman has limits. He can save people from disasters but not from disease. The human mortality happens no matter what. Time will eventually kill a person and all the powers Superman has can’t prevent that. This is something Snyder didn’t understand and something Donner did understand.

People call Superman boring or boy scouty is because people don’t really value morality these days

My distaste for evil Superman (Superman is my favorite fictional character ever created) is why Superman vs The Elite is my favorite Superman movie (so far), because it's a pretty damn effective deconstruction of evil Superman/evil super"heroes" in general as well as a reconstruction of good Superman.

I wouldn't even hate it as much if it weren't so damned overplayed. It's like every six weeks, someone walks into the office at DC with the mind-eraser thing from Men in Black and goes "Hey guys, I've got an idea! What if Superman....was a BAD GUY?!"

We already have an evil Superman that works. He's called Ultraman, and he comes from Earth Three.

Wait, Batman's sunny disposition does work. Adam West proved that.

I think a big problem with Injustice’s potrayals of an evil Superman is that you don’t have a lot in game to sympathize with, at least in Clark’s actual actions and dialogue. This where the Injustice comics really shine, because they show that downfall, and how Superman slowly lost his morals more and more, and went from a hero to an antihero to a villain

Evil Superman looks interesting for a teen that thinks everyone is good by default and thinks of him as an samaritan alien. Superman is inspirational to an adult because we actually understand how hard it is to stay commited to his idealistic ideas power or not.

It's funny, I actually consider Superman to be who he really is rather than Clark Kent, but in a different way from how most people would see it: to me, "Superman" is the embodiment of everything the Kents taught him about being a good person and how to use his gifts. So, Superman is his real self but not because his Kryptonian side is more important, Superman is still his "human" side, in that it's the embodiment of the values he was taught by his very human parents. His "Kryptonian side" is Kal-El, who is neither Clark nor Superman.

1:02,Just an idea,i think it'd be better in this scene if instead of clark saying ''if i wanted it,you'd be dead already.'' he said,''Batman,stop. I don't like hurting people''

I’ve seen more evil Superman nowadays than the super chill, wholesome, down to earth Superman I’ve always enjoyed just a guy with the power to do literally anything apologizing for being late for work or helping a kid find their cat.