YMMV / Superman The Animated Series S1 E1-3 "The Last Son of Krypton"

• Demographically Inappropriate Humour:
  • An example so blatant even the cast brings it up:
    Lois: (While looking at a photo of Superman) Nice 's'.
    Clark: Excuse me?
    Lois: Right here. (Points at the "S" symbol on Superman's chest)
  • Young Clark informs Lana Lang about how he is seeing through things, she asks if he's looked towards the girls' locker room.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Young Clark informs Lana Lang about how he is seeing through things; she asks if he's looked towards the girls' locker room. This ended up becoming Hilarious in Hindsight just five years later, when in the Smallville episode "X-Ray", Clark discovers his x-ray vision by accident and ends up inadvertently seeing into the girls' locker room...directly at Lana.
  • One of the names Martha considers for baby Kal-El is "Christopher." Years later, Superman and Lois end up adopting Lor-Zod, whom the couple names "Christopher Kent." (Doubles as a Mythology Gag.)
  • The ending of Superman simply staring at Luthor who becomes enraged at his silence is very similar to the ending of Lex Luthor: Man of Steel released nearly a decade later.
• Memetic Mutation: "Nice 'S'".
• Moral Event Horizon: Brainiac condemns the population of Krypton to a horrible death by hiding the fact that the planet was closer to exploding than even Jor-El knew, because he considered his existence and the knowledge he contained more important even when Jor-El had a practical means to evacuate some to safety.

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