#the death of superman

[kitschysandglass]

[longwuzhere]

My Adventures with Superman Season 2 Easter Eggs

Welcome to another week of My Adventures with Superman! Very emotional episode! And what an ending! 2 more eps left in this season too!

My Easter eggs lists for season 1 is here if you haven't seen it!

My season 2 episode 1 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 2 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 3 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My season 2 episode 4 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 5 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 6 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My season 2 episode 7 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 9 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 10 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

Spoilers if you haven't seen the episode

Starting the episode off we see Brainiac putting a device on Superman's head and later explains it as the Black Mercy.

The Black Mercy makes its first appearance in Superman Annual #11 (1985) [Cover art by Dave Gibbons, yes Watchmen's Dave Gibbons] where it was a plant that grips on to anyone giving them a vision of whatever it is they desire most in life. In the comic, Superman experiences these visions after Mongul attaches the plant to Superman who sees visions of a perfect life on Krypton with his family. Batman, Robin, and Wonder Woman who arrived at the Fortress of Solitude to celebrate Superman's birthday sees this and tries to get the Black Mercy off Superman and face off against Mongul. Lucky the trio were able to free Superman from the Black Mercy and was able to plant it on Mongul who becomes incapacitated and experiences visions of him slaughtering the Justice League. You might have seen this story get adapted in the Justice League Unlimited cartoon as well! Its a very well known Superman story with the Watchmen creative team behind it. The Black Mercy plant was not intentionally used for nefarious purposes, Mother Mercy, the creator of the plants and also a Green Lantern, intended the Black Mercy to be used for those who were dying as a way to ease their death.

The name of the episode is a reference to "The Death of Superman" story arc where Doomsday killed Superman. In the episode we kinda see the death of Clark Kent with Brainiac taking over his body through the Black Mercy

In the episode the Black Mercy works a bit different from its comic counterpart where in MAwS it uses the person's memories and Brainiac is able to alter it. We see flashbacks to various episodes from season 1 and 2. First half of the episode gives us episode 2 from season 1, which I talked about here, episode 4 from season 2, which I explained here, episode 9 from season 1 which I talked about here, and episode 10 season 1 which I explained here

Later in the episode Kara name drops Kandor, the space station that Brainiac, and Kara lived at. I explained Kandor's deal here.

As Brainiac continues his gaslighting, Clark pushes back and shows him what his real memories were like showing Brainiac a moment from episode 7 which I talked about here and here.

But Brainiac still tries to manipulate Clark by altering the things Lois said in the past.

We see flashbacks to moments when Clark felt betrayed like in episode 5 of season 2 and episode 2 season 4 which I talked about here and here. We also see altered moments from episodes 5 and 10 from season 1, which I explained here and here. We also see more altered moments from season 2 episodes 1 and 5 which I explored more of here and here. All this was to break down Clark so Brainiac can take over his body.

When Brainiac takes control of Clark's body, he explains the things the Kryptonians have done, much of these things we're stuff they have done are a references to Krypton's history in post-Crisis on Infinite Earths. In the comics, the Kryptonians were able to stop aging, diseases, and perfected cloning in case of injuries.

Brainiac makes a reference to the title of Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King" which I explained further here.

As Kara fights Brainiac to free his control over Clark, Brainiac bests her, knocking her down to the ground and we get a reference to the infamous Yamcha pose from episode 23 of Dragon Ball Z after he died from Saibamen exploding on him.

And with that we got 2 more episodes til the season is done! Damn I wish there was more, but considering MAwS has given us all killer no filler seasons I'm ok with the 10 episode format! See you all next week for episode 9!

My Easter eggs lists for season 1 is here if you haven't seen it!

My season 2 episode 1 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 2 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 3 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My season 2 episode 4 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 5 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 6 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My season 2 episode 7 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 9 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 10 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

[the-army-brat-and-the-nerd]

Every time earth-girl Lois Lane manhandled/ambushed the invincible Kryptonian, Clark Kent. Also extra points for their absolute sense of professionalism in the daily planet premises.

[kal8elle]

[vertigoartgore]

2005's All-Star Superman Vol.1 #1 pages 2-3 by artist Frank Quitely and inker/colorist Jamie Grant. Written by writer Grant Morrison.

[psychokatrixxxy]

Went to a con today (or I guess yesterday since it's midnight.) It was great! I got the first comic appearance of Jason Todd.

The death of Superman.

And more!

The vender was so nice! I got 6 free comics! I had walked away after buying my comics and was standing waiting for my younger brother when he came up to me and gave me the comics because they were in the same vein as the ones I bought. 10/10 experience.

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

Batman and robin and their armbands made of black cloth because superman is DEAD

meanwhile in the Superman comics

Lex is cloning superman

Some other guy made a cyborg

another random superman showed up

and superman’s corpse got grave robbed

[syppys-den]

some concept art for the Superman logo for Superman Lives (or so I'm told)

if that's not what these are, I sincerely apologize, but I wanted to share them because I thought they were neat ^^

[nitewrighter]

Me: Man, Clark should have had a beard during the Death/Return of Superman arc. It would have made sense for the grown-out hair, too. Clawing his way back to Metropolis in a falling-apart robot... tumbling out, powerless. God, mullet and beard combo is so hot.

My Brain: Jesus of Nazareth.

Me: SHUT UP.

[momachan]

"Jonathan-- look! I think it is him! Excuse me, but aren't you that Superboy? -The Superboy, ma'am. The one and only. --Nice folks, said I could come back any time. Reminded them of their son."

Superman: Zero Hour (Superman (1987-2006). Superboy #8 (1994). "Big Trouble In Smallville!"

[evilhorse]

World Without a Superman house ad (circa February 1993)

[romancemedia]

Not Even Death Could Keep Them Apart

[longwuzhere]

Some cool Easter eggs I caught watching My Adventures with Superman that I want to show to people so they can be in on it with comic book readers

My episode 1 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 2 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 3 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 4 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 5 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 6 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 7 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here and here

My episode 8 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 10 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

(SPOILERS if you haven't seen the show yet):

After what happened to Clark in the last episode we see that Lois, Jimmy, and the Newskid Legion are searching all over Metropolis for him and they name drop some location found in Metropolis.

As you can see from the map of Metropolis in the DC Heroes role playing manual, Park Ridge and Bakerline are one of the six boroughs of Metropolis. Park Ridge makes its first appearance in the Adventures of Superman #447 (1988) while Bakerline first appeared in Action Comics #599 (1988)

As the General is interrogating Clark we see a hologram flashback to his time with Waller in the army and Waller name drops the General's first name Sam. So we can conclude that the General is General Sam Lane (this is double confirmed in the next episode).

Sam Lane makes his first appearance in the silver age in Superman Girl Friend, Lois Lane #13 (1959). He's the typical farmer dad that Superman saves and meets. Nothing too special about it.

Now, GENERAL Sam Lane makes his first appearance in the Adventures of Superman #424 (1986)

Like her MAwS counterpart, Lois' relationship with her dad is VERY strained as you can tell by the panels here from the comic (W: Marv Wolfman, P: Jerry Ordway, I: Mike Machlan, C: Tony Ziuko, L: John Costanza). In the comics he wanted a son and Lois became that stand-in whenever he was around and that ruined their familial relationship. And much like his MAwS counterpart he deeply cares about his wife who we can assume he lost some time ago in the past. Also will we see a Lucy Lane in MAwS? Who knows.

Man of Steel, typical moniker for Superman, you're guaranteed to have that in any Superman media.

Slade actually loses his eye to match his comic book counterpart.

Later in the ep we see him with the eyepatch. Matches with his comic book counterpart as seen in this fantastic piece by Deathstroke co-creator, George Perez.

After the Superman Revenge Squad Task Force X escape thanks to Ivo absorbing more and more electrical energy he comes this giant kaiju sized monster rampaging across Metropolis with an axe to grind at Superman. The glowy bits on him remind me so much of Shin Godzilla. Oh and btw if you want to see the Justice League fight 2 very well known kaiju, preorder Justice League vs Godzilla vs Kong. Heres the trailer for it:

The first issue goes on sale in October 17th.

With the way Lois is worried about Clark here it gives off very Death of Superman vibes kinda like this page from Superman #75 (1992) by Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding, Glenn Whitmore, and John Costanza.

Jimmy is usually labeled as Superman's best friend/pal so that's a given when a reference like that shows up

As the names scrolled up on Jimmy's IG-esque live stream we see some familiar names. The first is a reference Josie Campbell, the producer for the cartoon and the latter two are references to Superman support characters.

Pete Ross is Clark's childhood friend who first appeared in Superboy #86 (1960) by Robert Bernstein and George Papp.

In the comic Pete keeps scrutinizing Clark and he suspect that Pete might be on to his Superboy identity, but it turns out he just wanted Clark to play Superboy in the high school play. In like most Superman origins and media, Pete Ross is always Clark's best friend, but here in MAwS Jimmy takes up that role as friend of Clark but in this case its since they were in freshmen year of college.

Like Pete Ross, Lana Lang was also a childhood friend of Clark's ad also his love interest when they were teenagers.

Lana makes her first appearance in Superboy #10 (1950) by Bill Finger, John Sikela, and Ed Debrotka. In the comic Lana becomes a house guest for the Kents while her parents are away and she begins to suspect Clark and Superboy are the same person. Most Superman origins and other media usually have Lana and Clark be childhood sweethearts back in Kansas and she will occasionally show up in Clark's life again when they are adults.

After Clark punches through the Parasite body to get to Ivo we see the body just freeze there kinda like Shin Godzilla at the end of the movie. Btw go watch Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman, Shin Kamen Rider, fantastic trio of movies! Shin Ultraman is a better Superman movie than Man of Steel.

At the end of the ep Amanda Waller takes over Task Force X and name drops Checkmate. The organization first appeared in Action Comics #598 (1988) (cover by John Byrne) where Checkmate is a branch of Task Force X that was founded by Amanda Waller as a government intelligence agency. Like with most spy organization in the DC universe, they are shady AF. In their debut they legit kill a high ranking official from a different country in the name of "American safety".

Thank you for getting this far down in the post. Be sure to check out the other posts to see what other easter eggs and references were in the previous episodes:

My episode 1 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 2 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 3 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 4 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 5 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 6 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 7 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here and here

My episode 8 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 10 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

[superman-the-secret-third-thing]

First "Death of Superman" Comic!

Superman #134 "The Death of Superman!" (1961)

A popular story nowadays, I'm told, but the first variation of the "What-If" scenario was all the way back here. I will note that this was suggested by a fan in the Metropolis Mailbox and is not wholly originally thought of by the writers or the editors. I can't find said suggestion right now though.

Oh, and the way it's resolved so abruptly is funny- Luthor being a smarmy dick, trying to manipulate the Kryptonians only to get promptly banished to the Shadow Realm is a Good Ending.

[kal8elle]

[vertigoartgore]

Superman: Doomsday and Beyond novel cover by Alex Ross (1993).