Brians Superman Post

[POS Industries]

From what I can tell, DCUO takes place on one of those crisis-prone infinite Earths where I guess everybody's a shitty version of the characters we know from whatever the regular DC continuity typically is on any given day.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

From what I can tell, DCUO takes place on one of those crisis-prone infinite Earths where I guess everybody's a shitty version of the characters we know from whatever the regular DC continuity typically is on any given day.

So... standard, current, Earth-1 DC comics continuity?

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

So... standard, current, Earth-1 DC comics continuity?

Okay, fine, shittier.

[Bells]

Originally Posted by krogothwolf

There is no way Batman would have been ambushed by Deathstroke like that and not been able to get out. And Joker would never have Killed batman in such a lameass way as a rocket launcher. And if they know Luther has a freak shield, why wouldn't he artilery the damn unshielded building he's standing on instead causing it to crumble?

Man, that sorta pissed me off now and not just about Lazy Superman, thoughwhy does he always fall for Kryptonite tricks?

Also, i don't think Batman would backlash on Luthor like he did in the end there. Wonder Woman would be way more likely to go that way....

The better part of the trailer is from his perspective right? So he's telling everyone "Yeah I totally killed Superman with my badass kryptonite spear after I lured from his emo corner into a blind, retard rage. Then everyone dies, but not me. Also, I was able to avoid capture from Brainiac and travel back in time, cause I'm a super genius."

Doesn't explain why he looks like and Hybrid between Starcraft 2 and Warhammer

[The SSB Intern]

CRAZY FAN THEORY:

Luthor's lying his ass off. Hear me out.

The better part of the trailer is from his perspective right? So he's telling everyone "Yeah I totally killed Superman with my badass kryptonite spear after I lured from his emo corner into a blind, retard rage. Then everyone dies, but not me. Also, I was able to avoid capture from Brainiac and travel back in time, cause I'm a super genius."

[Odjn]

I dunno about the story but the game looks kinda interesting.

I mean I hate Superman because he's a terrible character and his morality, like every other major DC superhero except like, Wonder Woman, is stupid as hell so I could care less. But he is a plot device because he's explicitly as strong or nearly as strong as the best of everybody (as fast or almost as Flash, stronger than pretty much anybody, durable against everything but kryptonite and magic, incredible fighting skills, eye lasers, etc) and has to be dumb to lose a fight at all.

REGARDLESS it gives you a decent reason why your C-list hero actually matters so, woo hoo.

[Fifthfiend]

This Superman hasn't quoted Henry fucking Thoreau at anybody while telling them to go get themselves shot, he's pretty much an improvement.

Originally Posted by Odjn

I mean I hate Superman because he's a terrible character and his morality, like every other major DC superhero except like, Wonder Woman, is stupid as hell so I could care less.

If only Superman would just KILL Lex Luthor... he'd come back in a few years anyway, just like that guy who Wonder Woman decapitated a few years ago who just came back.

[Odjn]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

If only Superman would just KILL Lex Luthor... he'd come back in a few years anyway, just like that guy who Wonder Woman decapitated a few years ago who just came back.

Basically this. Superman is like "Killing is wrong ever" and he constantly keeps saying that despite, you know, being wrong. When Wonder Woman (ha 3 Ws in a roW) barely survived fighting him when Lord had him mentally controlled, and discovered there was no way to stop Lord if he was alive, she snapped his neck and BAM everyone was better off. Then he and Batman yelled at her for doing so when it was pretty much the only way.

I mean I'll excuse Batman that behavior towards the Joker because Batman is quite literally insane and manipulates even those around him, those he cares about, as pawns in his plots and lives to punish street level criminals because he never moved on from his parents' death turning him into like, the most emotionally stunted man alive, but Superman is supposed to be idealistic. And the type of idealism he is, is naive idealism- there's always a GOOD way of doing things and there's no questioning of it that's valid.

Additionally he's a really dumb fighter. He can move as fast as the Flash but rarely does, and really whenever there's a Doomsday-esque threat, unless it also has near light speed movement, should be defeated within seconds because Superman could punch 1000000000 times a second. Because he can move at lightspeed and punch that fast. He has laser eyes and can use them all the time- and should!- but rarely does. He has all that power and he can't even use it right.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by Odjn

Basically this. Superman is like "Killing is wrong ever" and he constantly keeps saying that despite, you know, being wrong.

He's got a pretty stellar track record. It's hard to argue with a guy who has saved reality multiple times and saved babies while doing it. I would say he isp pretty much contiually proven correct.

[Odjn]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

He's got a pretty stellar track record. It's hard to argue with a guy who has saved reality multiple times and saved babies while doing it. I would say he isp pretty much contiually proven correct.

Hey let's kill the Joker.

HEY LOOK THE JOKER ISN'T KILLING PEOPLE ANYMORE.

Hey look Maxwell Lord turned like, the most powerful superhuman into his telepathic slave? Let's kill him.

WOOP WORLD SAVED.

Also a great deal of the things his morality solves are contrived anyway so that he can solve it without killing or doing anything morally dubious.