Superman was way too mortal.
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HellboundHero — 12 years ago(July 19, 2013 10:51 AM)
Superman's invulnerability is a common criticism.
I'm glad that the writers took it down a notch.
His powers had already been taken down a notch in John Byrne's run in the comics, then STAS came along and took it down much further, further than necessary IMO. -
DarthBill — 11 years ago(May 02, 2014 04:43 AM)
You know this turned into an on again/off again argument between me and a friend for years. At this point she's genuinely convinced that Bruce Timm "ruined Superman for a generation" with both this & Justice League because of the inconsistent power levels issue. The thing is Superman's power levels have always been inconsistent across multiple incarnations, and when I pointed out that the old Max Fleischer cartoons (which are awesome) and the old Super-Friends cartoons (which are horribly lame) had the exact same problems she was all like "Nu-uh, I'm not gonna criticize those because they were made in a different time" which I personally think is an extremely flimsy reason not to criticize those earlier versions, but in the case of Super-Friends she probably has nostalgia issues (personally I hate Super-Friends and everything it represents but that's another story); I mean c'mon, it's one thing to like Super-Friends despite how bad it is but saying its flaws don't count isn't fair. Hell, by her logic pretty much every incarnation of Superman "ruined the character for a generation" since no one's ever done a particularly good job of keeping his power levels consistent.
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Duragizer — 11 years ago(June 10, 2014 04:10 AM)
Perhaps his power levels were scaled back a little too much, but it's preferable to pre-Crisis "move planets and fly to other galaxies in seconds" power levels.
I'm Heather Langenkamp's husband in another universe. -