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''The Superman Monster'' is a Creator/DCComics Creator/{{Elseworlds}} that mashes up ComicBook/{{Superman}} with the story of ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.
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''The Superman Monster'' is a Creator/DCComics Creator/{{Elseworlds}} series published under the ''Creator/{{Elseworlds}}'' imprint that mashes up ComicBook/{{Superman}} with the story of ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.
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''The Superman Monster'' is a Creator/DCComics {{Elseworld}} that mashes up Franchise/{{Superman}} with the story of ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.
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''The Superman Monster'' is a Creator/DCComics {{Elseworld}} Creator/{{Elseworlds}} that mashes up Franchise/{{Superman}} ComicBook/{{Superman}} with the story of ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.
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Compare with ''ComicBook/BatmanCastleOfTheBat'', another Elseworld consisting of a retelling of ''Frankenstein'' that uses a famous DC superhero as the monster.
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Compare with ''ComicBook/BatmanCastleOfTheBat'', another Elseworld story consisting of a retelling of ''Frankenstein'' that uses a famous DC superhero as the monster.
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* AdaptationalUgliness: Subverted. The Superman Monster comes to life as hideous as the monster was described in the original novel, but he eventually becomes as handsome as the standard version of Superman.
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* AdaptationalUgliness: Subverted. The Superman Monster comes to life as hideous as the monster was described in the original novel, but he eventually becomes as handsome as the standard version of Superman.
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** The "resurrection man" Vicktor employs reseembles Comicbook/ResurrectionMan.
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** The "resurrection man" Vicktor employs reseembles Comicbook/ResurrectionMan.resembles Comicbook/ResurrectionMan.
** This Superman wears the costume the canon Superman wore [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman right after he came back to life]].
** This Superman wears the costume the canon Superman wore [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman right after he came back to life]].
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* DeathOfAChild: Baby Kal-El did not survive the trip from Krypton and is a skeleton by the time his rocket makes it to Earth.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While it initially seems that Vicktor Luthor is only after Eloise’s finances to fund his experiments, it’s ultimately proven that he truly did love her when he was willing to use the same process that created the Superman Monster to bring her back, even after the way it backfired the first time.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While it initially seems that Vicktor Luthor is only after Eloise’s finances to fund his experiments, it’s ultimately proven that he truly did love her when he was willing to use the same process that created the Superman Monster to bring her back, even after the way it backfired the first time.
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* DeathOfAChild: Baby Kal-El did not survive the trip from Krypton and is a skeleton by the time his rocket makes it to Earth.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While it initially seems that Vicktor Luthor is only after Eloise’s finances to fund his experiments, it’s ultimately proven that he truly did love her when he was willing to use the same process that created the Superman Monster to bring her back, even after the way it backfired the first time.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While it initially seems that Vicktor Luthor is only after Eloise’s finances to fund his experiments, it’s ultimately proven that he truly did love her when he was willing to use the same process that created the Superman Monster to bring her back, even after the way it backfired the first time.
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* MythologyGag: One panel depicts the Superman monster lifting a carriage, copying the depiction of Superman lifting a car on the cover of his comic book debut ''Action Comics'' issue 1.
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** One panel depicts the Superman monster lifting a carriage, copying the depiction of Superman lifting a car on the cover of his comic book debut ''Action Comics'' issue1.1.
** Luthor's professors, all outraged by his experiments and theories, are this world's counterparts of Paul Westfield, Dabney Donovan and Emil Hamilton, all {{Mad Scientist}}s to some extent in regular continuty, with Westfield and Donovan in particular being among the founders of Project Cadmus, which creates life all the time.
** The "resurrection man" Vicktor employs reseembles Comicbook/ResurrectionMan.
** One panel depicts the Superman monster lifting a carriage, copying the depiction of Superman lifting a car on the cover of his comic book debut ''Action Comics'' issue
** Luthor's professors, all outraged by his experiments and theories, are this world's counterparts of Paul Westfield, Dabney Donovan and Emil Hamilton, all {{Mad Scientist}}s to some extent in regular continuty, with Westfield and Donovan in particular being among the founders of Project Cadmus, which creates life all the time.
** The "resurrection man" Vicktor employs reseembles Comicbook/ResurrectionMan.
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** In addition to being the equivalent to Lois Lane, Eloise Edge fulfills the roles of both Victor Frankenstein's fiancee Elizabeth Lavenza (being engaged with Vicktor Luthor) and the monster's bride (Vicktor resurrects her after she is killed, only for her to leave him for the Superman Monster).
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** In addition to being the equivalent to Lois Lane, Eloise Edge fulfills the roles of both Victor Frankenstein's fiancee Elizabeth Lavenza (being engaged with Vicktor Luthor) and the monster's bride (Vicktor resurrects her after she is killed, killed using the same methods with which he created the Superman Monster, only for her to leave him for the Superman Monster).monster).
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** The Superman Monster initially appears pale and deformed, bringing Superman's flawed duplicate Bizarro to mind.
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** The Superman Monster is a creation of Luthor and initially appears pale and deformed, bringing Superman's flawed duplicate Bizarro to mind.
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** The Kents become the Kants, with the Superman Monster's adopted human alias being Klaus Kant.
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** The Kents become the Kants, with the Superman Monster's adopted human alias being Klaus Kant.Kant rather than Clark Kent.
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''The Superman Monster'' is a Creator/DCComics {{Elseworld}} that mashes up Franchise/{{Superman}} with the story of ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.
Sometime after Commissioner James Gordon told [[ComicBook/BatmanTwoFaces his story]] to Peregrine White, White gives his own tale where a man named Vicktor Luthor sought to create life after learning the secrets of Kryptonian science from the programming onboard a rocket containing an infant skeleton. Luthor succeeds in creating a man, but is repulsed by what he's loosed upon the world.
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!!Tropes:
* AdaptationNameChange:
** Lex Luthor has his forename changed to Vicktor.
** Lois Lane is instead named Eloise Edge.
** The Kents become the Kants, with the Superman Monster's adopted human alias being Klaus Kant.
* AdaptationalUgliness: Subverted. The Superman Monster comes to life as hideous as the monster was described in the original novel, but he eventually becomes as handsome as the standard version of Superman.
* DeathOfAChild: Baby Kal-El did not survive the trip from Krypton and is a skeleton by the time his rocket makes it to Earth.
* CompositeCharacter:
** The Superman Monster initially appears pale and deformed, bringing Superman's flawed duplicate Bizarro to mind.
** In addition to being the equivalent to Lois Lane, Eloise Edge fulfills the roles of both Victor Frankenstein's fiancee Elizabeth Lavenza (being engaged with Vicktor Luthor) and the monster's bride (Vicktor resurrects her after she is killed, only for her to leave him for the Superman Monster).
* DecompositeCharacter: In this continuity, Kal-El perished before his rocket made it to Earth, with Superman being a separate being Luthor creates from the information he learns from the rocket's hologram of Jor-El.
* FrankensteinsMonster: The premise is Vicktor Luthor creating a monster from dismembered corpses under the guidance of Kryptonian science.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Vicktor Luthor shoots the man he buys corpses from to prevent him from spreading word of his experiments.
* MythologyGag: One panel depicts the Superman monster lifting a carriage, copying the depiction of Superman lifting a car on the cover of his comic book debut ''Action Comics'' issue 1.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Lois Lane's equivalent Eloise Edge is the daughter of Burgomaster Edge, the equivalent to Morgan Edge.
* ReplacementGoldfish: The Kants regard the Superman Monster as a substitute for their deceased son Klaus Kant.
* SharedUniverse: Takes place in the same continuity of ''ComicBook/BatmanTwoFaces'', as made evident by both stories having the FramingDevice of Commissioner James Gordon and Peregrine White telling each other stories.
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Sometime after Commissioner James Gordon told [[ComicBook/BatmanTwoFaces his story]] to Peregrine White, White gives his own tale where a man named Vicktor Luthor sought to create life after learning the secrets of Kryptonian science from the programming onboard a rocket containing an infant skeleton. Luthor succeeds in creating a man, but is repulsed by what he's loosed upon the world.
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!!Tropes:
* AdaptationNameChange:
** Lex Luthor has his forename changed to Vicktor.
** Lois Lane is instead named Eloise Edge.
** The Kents become the Kants, with the Superman Monster's adopted human alias being Klaus Kant.
* AdaptationalUgliness: Subverted. The Superman Monster comes to life as hideous as the monster was described in the original novel, but he eventually becomes as handsome as the standard version of Superman.
* DeathOfAChild: Baby Kal-El did not survive the trip from Krypton and is a skeleton by the time his rocket makes it to Earth.
* CompositeCharacter:
** The Superman Monster initially appears pale and deformed, bringing Superman's flawed duplicate Bizarro to mind.
** In addition to being the equivalent to Lois Lane, Eloise Edge fulfills the roles of both Victor Frankenstein's fiancee Elizabeth Lavenza (being engaged with Vicktor Luthor) and the monster's bride (Vicktor resurrects her after she is killed, only for her to leave him for the Superman Monster).
* DecompositeCharacter: In this continuity, Kal-El perished before his rocket made it to Earth, with Superman being a separate being Luthor creates from the information he learns from the rocket's hologram of Jor-El.
* FrankensteinsMonster: The premise is Vicktor Luthor creating a monster from dismembered corpses under the guidance of Kryptonian science.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Vicktor Luthor shoots the man he buys corpses from to prevent him from spreading word of his experiments.
* MythologyGag: One panel depicts the Superman monster lifting a carriage, copying the depiction of Superman lifting a car on the cover of his comic book debut ''Action Comics'' issue 1.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Lois Lane's equivalent Eloise Edge is the daughter of Burgomaster Edge, the equivalent to Morgan Edge.
* ReplacementGoldfish: The Kants regard the Superman Monster as a substitute for their deceased son Klaus Kant.
* SharedUniverse: Takes place in the same continuity of ''ComicBook/BatmanTwoFaces'', as made evident by both stories having the FramingDevice of Commissioner James Gordon and Peregrine White telling each other stories.
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