Superman General

he's brainiac, he's brainiac, you're braniac, I'm brainiac, is there any other Braniac I should know about?

Lena: Meow.

It reminds me of Ultron Unlimited, all the Ultrons having numbers on their heads, starting with past Ultron incarnations and building to the reveal of an Ultron with a number in the hundreds.

We have Superman in costume for the new movie:

There are trunks.

That's a really good costume. And is that Solaris in the background? Talk about a deep cut if it is.

Who or what is Solaris?

A villain from Grant Morrison's DC One Million and All-Star Superman, a living artificial sun/evil supercomputer with solar-based powers, including being able to depower Supes by blasting him with red rays. Also known as the Tyrant Sun, his gimmick is basically conquering star systems by replacing the suns in their skies.

Edited by immortaleditor on May 6th 2024 at 10:42:29 AM

If only they had a Sun-Eater.

A Sun-Eater does get used against him in All-Star Superman. Solaris vaporizes it the second it tries to eat him.

Superman should be fighting those kinds of threats more in his movies.

Like, let him really cut loose, go all Dragon Ball Z on his opponents, and make sure there's little collateral damage.

I remember the time he teamed up with Brainiac to fight a giant robot planet.

Ngl as a huge Brainiac fan. Seeing that image is amazing. Nearly every incarnation of him. If Superman – Brainiac (Character) wasnt so good already. 'd use it as his character image

He definitely looks like Superman.

I finally found a Superman comic that scared me as a kid! It was Superman For Earth, a 1990s Earth Day comic printed entirely on recycled paper. It had Superman trying to clean up Earth by himself before realizing it's too big for even him when he has a nightmare where Metropolis springs up out of natural surroundings and chokes everything. That made a world where only roaches, rats, and mutated humans survive, with a very graphic panel of a man dying of smog and being covered by crawling roaches.

Edited by lalalei2001 on May 7th 2024 at 6:21:11 AM

Woah.

The rest of the story was relatively light (mainly cause I didn't get what it was trying to say other than protecting environment = good) so it really shocked me. XD

Reminds of the one and only good scene in Countdown, where we get to see how Kamandi's World became like that through an Apocalyptic Log describing the collapse of civilization and the rise of half-man-half-animal monsters as the new dominant species.

Countdown To Infinite Crisis? Countdown To Final Crisis? Not terribly familiar with either, but I thought Jason Todd and Donna Troy adopting a Monitor in their quest for Ray Palmer was a fan favorite. It was the inexplicably evil Mary Marvel and punishing of the entire Marvel family that ruined it for you, wasn't it?

Countdown to Final Crisis. It has a lot of problems.

Pretty sure people still hate that comic. Its usually held lolwly even now

The other good thing about it was Pied Piper destroying Brother Eye/Apokolips to 'The Show Must Go On.'

Speaking of Superman stories that scared us, Mongul's Black Mercy-fueled fantasy from "For the Man Who Has Everything" freaked me out as a kid. It begins on a split page, with his fantasy on one half and what's actually happening on the other, and it was years before I could read that page without covering the Mongul half with my hand.