Is Superman a killer? (Of course not, but perhaps there’s a story as to why not that includes Zod’s murder - that was comic canon for awhile as well, after all.) They fixate on specific surface details and play with thematic elements of the material they draw on, but in other respects, stray wildly from (and, occasionally, outright contradict) the comics they’re based on think of Man of Steel’s father-centric focus, which paralleled the influence on the character from then DC CCO Geoff Johns, but also the climactic murder of Zod, which felt so at odds with most interpretations of Superman that many fans are still upset about it eight years later.Įven those breaks from tradition prove to be important in the grander scheme of things even the upset fans matter, because the conversations further define the shape of the Superman myth outside of the strict history as presented in the comic book canon of the moment. The Snyder Cut’s Superman at least looks like he did in the comics, in costuming terms if nothing else - no Super-mullet for us, unfortunately - which, again, feels entirely in line with what audiences have come to expect from Snyder’s DC movies. When he does actually return from the dead, Superman is weaker than ever, and far from the Man of Steel fans had come to expect. This plays out differently from the comic book storyline, but feels very much as if it’s melding two different elements of the source - that the cinematic Superman is more of a threat than expected in the immediate wake of his rebirth perhaps owes something to the bait and switch at the heart of “Reign,” where the most likely candidate of the four pretenders to the Super-throne turns out to be the villain, all along. While Justice League is far from an adaptation of “Reign of the Supermen” in either of its incarnations - sadly, audiences will have to wait for an unspecified time for the opportunity to see the Eradicator or Cyborg Superman onscreen - the Snyder Cut has some interesting echoes of the comic book resurrection of the hero that speaks to the curious fidelity that Zack Snyder’s DC projects have to their source material.įor example, Justice League makes a point of ensuring that Superman comes back… wrong.
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