Instead, the show started by taking both its title characters out of their most familiar location (Metropolis), their careers (at The Daily Planet), and gave them not one, but two teenage sons.
The idea of making a Superman show that feels truly different from anything we’ve seen on the page or screen before seems like a recipe for some unpleasantly un-Superman like stories. When they weren’t doing that, they were trying to strip Superman of everything that made him recognizably Superman, shy about everything from the costume itself to the power of flight, adding needless layers of brooding to a character who can be plenty conflicted without self-indulgent angst.Īnd then along comes Superman & Lois to do the impossible. When they finally succeeded, with 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, it was almost an afterthought, an obligatory moment bafflingly crammed into the final moments of the film for a “shock” ending. That book sure shifted some units, which meant that the suits in charge of such things spent the next 20 years trying to adapt that exact story to the screen. The most successful Superman story of the ’90s involved the Man of Steel’s death at the hands of the monstrous Doomsday. Hollywood’s reaction to this has been extraordinarily wrongheaded at times. General audiences are either locked into the classic version of the character, the secret identity, the love triangle of two with Clark/Supes/Lois, the endless retellings of his origin, or they’re the more savvy comic book fans (like this writer) who think we can predict every twist and turn in adaptations thanks to our knowledge of roughly every Superman comic published in our lifetimes. Of the three most recognizable, marketable superheroes in the world (the other two, for the purposes of this argument being Batman and Spider-Man), only Superman has struggled (unjustly) with shaking the perception among general audiences that they know his story. And despite the absurdly dominant monocultural juggernaut that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has become, and the fact that comics featuring those characters are just as readily available as the Man of Steel’s, they don’t have the same problem that Superman does. Superman mythology is so ingrained in pop culture consciousness that any setting, any tease of a comics story, any new character, is instantly going to give audiences the idea that they know what’s coming.
When it really comes down to it…it was never gonna be Doomsday, was it? The whole mission statement of Superman & Lois has always been to do things a little bit sideways from what the fans expect. This article contains Superman & Lois spoilers. Superman & Lois Reveals The Thing in the Mines
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