Is Superman responsible… (spoiler, kind of)
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jamasian_man — 15 years ago(February 23, 2011 01:05 AM)
Parasite may have sucked up too much of Superman's energy and exploded. Or he could have become a huge and massive threat that even Superman could not defeat.
As for Metallo lifting weights, I'm pretty sure it was satirical because inmates are depicted as buff because they work out to pass the time. -
Neoblackdragon — 12 years ago(April 14, 2013 07:34 PM)
No the damage was already done, his cells are all transitioning into energy. Even then your idea is for Superman to let Parasite drink his excess energy and then do what? Parasite then is pretty damn strong and the risk of him doing incredible damage goes up.
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timbrown257 — 15 years ago(February 28, 2011 08:10 PM)
It makes absolutely no sense that Superman would not tell anyone about Luthor's escape tunnel. It also doesn't make sense that Superman would let Luthor play out his plan. Luthor killed prison guards in his "super-powered" escape. Wouldn't it make sense for Superman to stop Luthor before he made a copy of the super serum, thus avoiding needless death and destrucion.
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wanderlust22 — 15 years ago(March 05, 2011 04:18 PM)
Superman was giving Lex one last chance to do the right thing. Besides, he also knew that Lex had help from someone and still needed to find out who/what was helping him.
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wackywoo — 15 years ago(March 06, 2011 12:49 PM)
You know that Parasite absorbs the powers of ANYONE he grabs hold on (even Superman). So the idea that he could fight Parasite in the open is ridiculous. It seems that in order to stop Parasite, he had to trap him in an inescapable situation. That being said, for Superman to freeze the inmates is a bit cold (no pun intended). But it also occurred in the comic.. I also think that Luthor showed his underground tunnel to Clark in the comic, but I don't remember.
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jmrice8016 — 13 years ago(June 29, 2012 02:16 PM)
The escape tunnel was never reported for one simple reason, Lex needed it to become A MAJOR SPOILER.
Leo Quintum!
http://neilshyminsky.blogspot.com/2008/09/leo-quintum-is-lex-luthor.html -
angry_hatter — 13 years ago(January 14, 2013 08:31 AM)
I had always thought the whole Lex Luthor being captured and escaping ad infinitum was immoral anyhow.
Essentially when Luthor is incarcerated, any time he has been incarcerated, if Superman, the government, some other superhero who is able, doesn't kill him then and there they are indirectly responsible for the deaths of however many hundreds or thousands of people that Luthor's next doomsday device is going to eliminate.
I felt the same way about Batman. All of those dangerous psychopaths keep escaping from Arkam and killing people and all Batsy every really does is slap them on the wrist and deliver them back "home" to escape again later.
Apparently Super Heroes are only responsible for the deaths that they cause themselves, and on purpose. Killing Luthor is out of the question as immoral, however letting him live on, escape, kill people and entice a giant sun eating computer to come to earth, and the subsequent lives lost when Supes hurls it to earth and into a building is perfectly fine as Clark didn't purposefully kill any innocents.