History WMG / ManOfSteel

* Lex Luthor is a LargeHam American businessman in public with a crowd, while in reality, he is an evil sociopath where people aren't seeing him like interacting with Superman. As shown in the third trailer, Lex Corp was featured with a [[{{Eagleland}} American flag]] front over it. This can lead to an idea that Luthor built his company using his American businessman gimmick. When Superman started to fly around [[MythologyGag the city that Luthor built]] and doing his hero stuff, Lex gets jealous and declares that [[RealitySubtext Superman is an illegal alien]] and leading to more RealityEnsues, but ending with [[HeartwarmingMoment everyone declaring Superman isn't an alien and is from Earth]].

Because it would be the perfect way to one-up audience expectations of a simple superhero brawl, and it would be a great way to follow up on ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' introducing TheJoker and Two-Face in the same movie. Spin the story any way you want: Maybe one of Luthor's experiments with contacting alien life will lead to Brainiac discovering Earth and invading from another dimension. Maybe Brainiac will covertly take over Luthor's mind and attempt to use him as a channel for conquering Earth, with Brainiac showing up in his true form in a TwistEnding. Maybe Luthor will turn humanity against Superman, leaving him to redeem his reputation by saving Metropolis from Brainiac's attack. Any way you slice it, you could have an awesome story.

** ...And once he's defeated, he goes into hiding. Seeing he's now a wanted fugitive, he gets out a laptop. He pulls up a report of [[ComicBook/BlackAdam an archaeological accident in Egypt]], scans of strange energy readings found in deep space, and a list of contacts (including [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker Jack Napier]], [[{{ComicBook/Deathstroke}} Slade Wilson]], Barbra Minerva (or maybe Pricilla Rich), Leonard Snart, a man known only as David, Dr. Doris Zeul, and others). He smiles and says to himself "Time for [[LegionOfDoom plan B]]".

** He seems to be about as powerful as in his ComicBook/PostCrisis incarnations. Which is to say a fraction of his [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] strength. It seems that, in this version, Superman is more powerful than {{Film/Thor}}, but much less powerful than the ChristopherReeves-era Superman.

'''Jor-El''' ([[GrandTheftMe possessing]] [[Creator/LaurenceFishburne Perry White]])[[note]]In Smallville Jor-El is known to partially or fully possess older male authority figures to intereact with Clark, including Lionel, Jonathan and ChristopherReeve- er, [[ActorAllusion Virgil Swann]].[[/note]] : [[ActorAllusion No, Kal-El. I'm trying to tell you]] that [[TookALevelInBadass when you're ready]], [[ImmuneToBullets you won't]] [[NighInvulnerable have to.]]

The passenger? A species on Krypton that closely (but not fully, so as it's more believable) resembles [[{{Main/KryptoTheSuperdog}} a common Earth dog]], but it's biology was very similar (to the point where being on Earth had the same effect) to Kryptonians. The rocket made it to Earth, but the rocket got stuck so it was held in suspended animation for a few years.

* [[{{Series/Smallville}} A hooded young man]] picks up a Daily Planet paper with the title "[[MythologyGag I spent the night with Superman]]" and reads aloud: "[[TheFlash Fastest man alive]], eh? We'll see about that."

* After the events of the movie, reports start coming in of heroes from all around the world including [[Franchise/{{Batman}} a masked man in Gotham]], [[TheFlash a man in red moving at incredible speeds]] and [[GreenLantern a flash of green light over Coast City]]. All of these are being watched by a shadowy figure who is looking through profiles on each of Them. He says "The time has come" and we see a man [[ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger dressed in a long cloak and a hat obscuring his face]]. There is a flash of light and he disappears.

* Kate Bosworth (23) was "too young" so they got the oldest Lois to date, AmyAdams (38). For reference, [[{{Film/Superman}} Margot Kidder]] was 30 and [[Series/LoisAndClark Teri Hatcher]] was 29. [[{{Series/Smallville}} Erica Durance]] was widely thought to look too old, but even she is only 32 by the end of the "prequel series". Unless you count [[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Dana Delany]], who would be 57 (!) in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', but she is only voice acting.

* Jossed: Superman is plenty powerful in this movie. The other Kryptonians are equally as powerful and capable of taking damage, but have the edge because of the armour they're wearing (the sun-blocking nature of which presumably ties into the idea that Krypton is increasingly isolationist even though a yellow sun would actually ''benefit'' them). Zod is pretty much on equal terms with Kal at the film's end, and they're both plenty powerful, if not ridiculously so; There's nothing like, say, the 'lifting an entire body of land laced with kryptonite a la SupermanReturns.

* Or they're wearing the same kind of armor that Superboy-Prime wore in ''InfiniteCrisis'': light-absorbing armor that enhances their powers by channeling extra solar energy into their cells.
* Funnily enough, General Zod has [[DCUniverseOnline done something like]] [[ThatOneBoss that before]].

* Brainiac is probably the [[SupermanBrainiacAttacks most]] [[Series/{{Smallville}} often]] [[Franchise/{{DCAU}} used]] [[WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes Superman]] [[WesternAnimation/SupermanUnbound foe]] in adaptations other than Lex Luthor, some of them are not on the big screen but still.

* Kate Bosworth (23) was "too young" so they got the oldest Lois to date, AmyAdams (38). For reference, [[{{Film/Superman}} Margot Kidder]] was 30 and [[Series/LoisAndClark Teri Hatcher]] was 29. [[{{Series/Smallville}} Erica Durance]] was widely thought to look too old, but even she is only 32 by the end of the "prequel series". Unless you count [[{{DCAU}} Dana Delany]], who would be 57 (!) in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', but she is only voice acting.

** Confirmed! (Well, except for Luthor wanting to restore his own health. And the "incidents" Luthor frames Superman for take place in [[Bulungi: Nairomi]] and Washington DC, not Gotham. And the DCEU's Batman is played like a fiddle by Luthor, genius or no genius.)

The angels were turned into mortals (Kryptonians, to be exact as humans did not exist yet). It would explain why the family name is "El".

Zod and his ''[[BadassArmy army]]'' of [[PhysicalGod kryptonians]] are far TooPowerfulToLive. They would be dealt with at the end of ''Man of Steel'', leaving Kal-El as the true [[TitleDrop last son of Krypton]]. [[ExactWords No one said anything]] about [[{{Supergirl}} daughters]], though.

* The U.S. Military is still wary of Superman but has formed an uneasy alliance with him. They also start tracking a signal being emitted in Canada where They dig up what looks like a spaceship which They bring back to a base. They start wondering if Superman was lying to Them and if this is the first part of an invasion. While the authorities are arguing, the ship opens up and we see [[{{Supergirl}} a young blonde girl dressed up with Superman's outfit inside]]. She asks "Where is Kal-El?" before the film ends.

[[WMG:If or when Luthor does appear...]]

** Gang wars are more of Batman's territory. They're kind of lame too.

* Jossed. There's no stinger, and Kryptonite is never even hinted at.

** [[spoiler: Didn't anyone else notice that one of the other pods was wide open? This trooper took that as a sign that Kara's out there somewhere.]]

[[WMG:Clark's job on a crab-fishing boat is what makes him stumble upon the Fortress...]]

* Lex Luthor in the first as Leader of the Legion of Doom, Darksied in the second, Anti-Monitor in the third.

[[WMG: [[spoiler:Zod wanted Clark to kill him at the end]]]]

* Jossed, as of BatmanVSuperman:DawnOfJustice.

[[WMG: If {{Wonder Woman}} gets films in this universe:]]
Diana in the comics has been depicted in the comics in at least three vastly different ways, and a possible movie trilogy could use each one in each episode. The first one could use the Odyssey/New 52 hardened warrior persona, and be more of a swords and sorcery movie than a superhero movie. (Maybe with Circe as the villain, and with Themyscira, the Underworld, and Circe's island as locations. Steve's plane might crash on Themyscira at the end of the film. The second film could take cues from Allan Heinberg's Who is Wonder Woman, reconstructing Diana's "traditional" characterization complete with secret identity, invisible plane, and a male sidekick.(Any villain could work here). The third film would use the George Perez/Greg Rucka persona with Diana as a respected UN diplomat, author, and women's rights activist. The villain would have to be Ares.

** Confirmed!

The angels were turned into mortals(kryptonians, to be exact as humans did not exist yet). It would explain why the family name is "El".

[[WMG: This film series will continue the FandomRivalry With the MarvelCinematicUniverse After Film/TheDarkKnightSaga]]

* Just because ClarkesThirdLaw worked for a MarvelCinematicUniverse does ''not'' mean it would work for a DC one.

Just getting that out of the way, considering that Nolan is involved with both franchises. It will pave the way for several other DC movies in the 'verse, and the inevitable [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]]. Not unlike what [[MarvelCinematicUniverse Marvel did]].

Having a superpowered alien who completely resembles a human may never seem realistic, but public reactions certainly can be.

** Adding NightmareFuel to a place called "the Phantom Zone"... so brilliantly obvious. Probably not as cool as it looked in InjusticeGodsAmongUs, but still...

*** [[Film/TheAvengers Well, maybe not THEM...]] (Although the argument could be made they they ripped off Zod first)

** This would make a lot of sense if he's learning what not to do from the collateral damage/destruction of the battle, and as sort of a RealityEnsues spin on the way smash-bang fight scenes in superhero movies (see: ''Film/TheAvengers'', for all they try to lampshade the consequences of that much destruction in a major city) would realistically be something to avoid as much as possible even for the less-experienced supers taking part in them.

* "Flight" - Are they going to make this a big deal? It'd be better to have a small but memorable and ''early'' moment of first flight like in ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' than [[Series/{{Smallville}} spending ten years not flying]].

*** Maybe because the phrase is more commonly associated with {{Sub-Mariner}}?

** His superspeed seems to be FAR below the level is was in the series ''{{Smallville}}''. In it, he once left the football field in the middle of a play, went inside the school building to smackdown a guy about to kill his friend, and went back on the field to finish the play, ''so fast that '''nobody realized anything had happened!''' '' His speed on Smallville was not only his main means of travel but also how he kept his powers secret for most of the show's run. But a real-life reason for this disparity could be the director's decision to not use any bullet-time effects in Man of Steel. Bullet-time was heavily used on Smallville - even when it wasn't ''needed'' - like when a de-powered Clark and Zod brawl in the Season 9 finale.

[[WMG: The film would be a partial ripoff of ''{{Smallville}}'' season nine]]

* "Flight" - Are they going to make this a big deal? It'd be better to have a small but memorable and ''early'' moment of first flight like in ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' than [[{{Smallville}} spending ten years not flying]].

* I've got one! The camera pans out from Earth deep into space. It keeps going further and further, finally focus on...a motorcycle. In space. We see a figure sitting on it, monitoring news reports about Superman before eventually proclaiming "Hope you're ready, boy scout, 'cuz [[{{SelfDemonstrating/Lobo}} the Main Man's]] comin' for you!"

** He seems to be about as powerful as in his ComicBook/PostCrisis incarnations. Which is to say a fraction of his SilverAge strength. It seems that, in this version, Superman is more powerful than {{Film/Thor}}, but much less powerful than the ChristopherReeves-era Superman.

[[WMG: The film will be full of SilverAge wackiness]]

* That's from the SilverAge that they are presumably trying to distance from. My guess is that their powers haven't fully developed as they have only just arrived, making the film a race against the clock as the kryptonians get more and more powerful.

** (original poster) Well, I didn't care for SupermanUnbound, but I never really liked the 'Kryptonean AI' concept.