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Originally Posted by Coola Yagami
If they want to acknowledge that because 'that's how it was in the comics', then Superman better be just taking big leaps in the next movie cause originally he did that before they got the idea to actually make him fly.
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MoS actually made it a point to do exactly that. At first he could only leap, he had to "force" himself to fly, and it took a few tries. Remember when he crashed through the side of the mountain? That was awesome.
No, it wasn't drawn out, but it was a deliberate homage to the fact that in the original comics he couldn't fly.
So yeah, nice joke but they did it already, on-purpose.
He apparently learned to fly faster in the movies than in the comics, but they still acknowledged the roots. Which was nice. Those movies are full of stuff like that, that's part of why I love them so much. They're just dripping with canon stuff and deep-cut bits of lore and trivia.
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Side rant, but it would actually be cool if more people DID know more about the Superman of 1938-1940, people might "get" a lot more of who the version of the character in those more recent movies was. They spent so much time crying that he wasn't Chris Reeve redux that they failed to recognize that Cavill's version had a lot more in common with the way the character had originally appeared and been presented, up to and including being a reckless, cocky and headstrong sort of guy. So many cries of "That's not who Superman is!" from ignorant people who don't really know better, when yeah, actually, that IS who he's been, a lot of the time. MOST of the time, even. Just not in those Reeve movies. Which aren't canon to anything but themselves.
I kept waiting for Cavill to toss a bad guy up in the air and pretend he wasn't gonna catch him. That was, like, a Superman trademark for a long-ass time.
He's kind of a dick sometimes! And it's nothing those movies invented, he's always been that way. Some people don't like it, because that's not how Reeve chose to play it, but... tough.
