It wasn't meant for Adult Swim and was moved as CN is for literal babies now. It was supposed to be a Cartoon Network series along with Batman: Caped Crusader back in like 2020, but the head of CN said they stared adults and kids cannot relate to adult characters, so Superman got moved to Adult Swim and Batman to Amazon. Both are likely to be cancelled and were just projects too far in development for Zazlav to kill.
Why are the most stupidest people in the highest roles...
I've seen enough art online to confirm this is the case.
Race bending aside it's largely inoffensive bordering on good, at least from what little I've seen so far. Clark and Lois are clearly into each other and I appreciate Clark being a dork as he was in the classic films, while a more confident Superman is his true persona.
TBF it fits Superman. Superman has always been a more high concept sci-fi, so having all the villains be either alien or tech focused is in line with the series probably more so than magic or the mystical chemical baths/ lighting like Batman villains get. I know the comics do it, but that doesn't make characters like Silver Banshee not feel extremely weird when compared to the rest of his line up.
Agree to disagree. Turning all the villains to “some dude with metal helmet/boot/gloves/whatever” seems incredibly boring. Literally all Superman had to do is superspeed over and break it. At least when the powers are their own, there’s no immediate stopping of them.
By your logic, all the Batman villains should just be psychos, as opposed to the "mystical chemical baths/lighting" (?) you're mentioning.
This. It's one of the reasons it pisses me off when X-Men adaptions try and turn Juggernaut into a mutant since him being a normal dude empowered by godly blessing is part of what makes him unique in the line-up.
This show has really basic designs. Having the villains be science based/tech based could work, hell I am pretty sure Superman TAS was all tech villains, aliens, and whatever genetic experiment Lex was cooking up that day. More magic based Superman villains like Silver Banshee were saved till JL was a thing or other DC characters were getting involved. Turning someone like Banshee into a tech villain could work, the show just needed more interesting design work.
It's bad in general. Ben 10 after the OG series suffered from it's retcons of doing this exact thing.
Actually that makes sense. Magic is the only thing that can consistently harm superman.
Magic was always more Wonder Woman's thing out of the trio. In comparison Superman was sci-fi and Batman was kind of a weird hybrid that never went far in either direction, just being a very strong mix of Noir and B-movie horror.
Aquaman is also another DC property that's more emphasis on fantasy. The Flash also is fantasy, but also balances with sci-fi. Superman has always been sci-fi through and through while Batman is more of a down-to-earth character as inspired by the likes of either classics 20s horror or 30s action or drama noir.
This also explains the kryptonite and such.
