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4 | * Jor-El's most important message to his son is taken from Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'' (picture). |
5 | * As Superman is flying to escape the Phantom Zone bubble, lines of light appear across his face, also from ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman''. |
6 | * In [[RuleOfThree yet another]] reference to ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', Zod's "could have built a new Krypton in this squalor" is taken word-for-word from what Lilo (another conquering Kryptonian) said. |
7 | * One superbeing hurls another all the way up into space and straight into an orbiting satellite, which also happens in ''All-Star Superman''. Both satellites are even of similar design. |
8 | * The genetic code of a billion Kryptonians being kept in Superman's cells may be a reference to the miniaturized Kryptonians in the Bottle City of Kandor. |
9 | * Jonathan Kent telling Clark the boy is his son is taken from ''ComicBook/SupermanSecretOrigin''. |
10 | --->'''Clark:''' Can't I just keep pretending I'm your son?\ |
11 | '''Jonathan:''' You ''are'' my son. |
12 | * Jonathan's line "You're the answer son, you're the answer to 'Are we alone in the universe?'" is paraphrased from ''ComicBook/SupermanBirthright''. |
13 | * Jonathan advising Clark to lay low and keep his powers secret out of concern for him is also from ''Birthright''. |
14 | * Clark's pet dog Shelby nods to Superman's Silver Age animal sidekick, ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperDog, as well as Shelby from ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' and ''Film/SupermanReturns''. |
15 | * Zod wears PoweredArmor, similar to two different versions of Zod in the comics. It also bears a resemblance to Superman/Superboy-Prime's Anti-Monitor-based powered armor from ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis on forward |
16 | * Zod and crew have all-black outfits akin to their counterparts from ''Superman II'' instead of their comics versions. Faora looks more like her counterpart Ursa ([[AdaptationNameChange who was based on Faora]]). |
17 | * Zod's form-fitting bodysuit under the armor is almost identical to Superman's grey "space suit" in the beginning of ''Film/SupermanReturns'', although in that case it is only clearly shown in a DeletedScene. |
18 | * Superman's first fight with the other Kryptonians in Smallville echoes a lot of ''Superman II''. It takes place in a small town, (like the one the Kryptonian criminals land in) and is against Zod, his female dragon with short dark hair, and a hulking mute brute. |
19 | * Superman crashing into a bank against its vault's door is taken right out of the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E7Clash "Clash"]], where he fights [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]. |
20 | ** For that matter, the final battle between Superman and Zod seems to echo the battle in "Clash", with similar levels of destruction and trades of heavy superpowered punches. |
21 | * The bearded version of Jor-El comes from ''ComicBook/SupermanSecretOrigin'' and ''ComicBook/SupermanEarthOne''. |
22 | * Kryptonians being [[spoiler:genetically engineered]] is a variation of a concept introduced in ''ComicBook/TheManOfSteel'' by Creator/JohnByrne. |
23 | * The Superman crest meaning "hope" is from Creator/MarkWaid's ''Superman: Birthright''. Which is itself derived from an idea Creator/MarlonBrando came up with while playing the previous Jor-El, that the emblem is ths family crest of the House of El. |
24 | * Clark performing [[HeroicBystander heroic acts as a mere civilian]] outside of Smallville is similar to ''The Man of Steel'' and ''Birthright''. |
25 | * Zod's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbD88cG5DS8 video broadcast]] takes from Tyrell's threat-laden message in ''ComicBook/SupermanEarthOne''. |
26 | * One of Clark's friends as a teenager is named [[Series/{{Smallville}} Whitney Fordman]]. |
27 | * There is a "[[Series/{{Smallville}} Sullivan's]] truck and tractor repair" in Smallville. |
28 | * The shots of Superman flying over Earth and later falling into the atmosphere borrow from scenes in ''Film/SupermanReturns''. |
29 | * The official motto of the city of Metropolis is ''Veritas et Justitia'', "[[CatchPhrase Truth and Justice]]". |
30 | * A fuel truck labeled [[ComicBook/LexLuthor LexCorp]] is destroyed during the battle. |
31 | * In one scene, Zod destroys a [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Wayne Enterprises]] satellite... bearing the logo from ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy''. |
32 | * [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/man_of_steel_8611.png This early poster]] recreates [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/07/14/swipe-file-man-of-steel-and-alex-ross/ a cover]] for ''ComicBook/KingdomCome''. |
33 | * [[spoiler:[[TheseHandsHaveKilled Zod's ultimate fate]]]] is thematically similar to a storyline from John Byrne's run on ''Superman'' comics. |
34 | * The World Engine that Zod was using is a similar concept used by Starro, a literal StarfishAlien who has conquered several galaxies and planets in the DC universe. |
35 | * A half-destroyed moon can be seen in Krypton’s sky, a possible nod to the fact that in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} comics one of Krypton’s moons was indeed blown up. |
36 | * Clark's initial attempts at flying hearkens back to the original concept of Superman ("... able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!"). Flying wasn't a power until the animators from the 1940s cartoon insisted on flying for easier animation. His unsuccessful attempts are also reminiscent of Clark's failed flight in ''Smallville'' season ten episode "Supergirl". |
37 | * [[ComicBook/BoosterGold Blaze Comics]] appears in Metropolis between the fight of Clark and Zod. |
38 | * Clark seeks advice from a pastor similar to ''ComicBook/SupermanForAllSeasons''. |
39 | * The priest's name is Father Leone, who appears as a confidant of Superman's in ''Superman: For Tomorrow''. |
40 | * The holographic Jor-El explaining the significance of the House of El crest involves him pulling back an outer garment to reveal the crest on a suit beneath in a fashion very reminiscent of the common image of Clark Kent opening his shirt to reveal his Superman crest on his suit beneath. |
41 | * A billboard for the "Utopia Casino" is seen at one point, which was a key location in the ''Superman Confidential'' arc, "Kryptonite". |
42 | * The bully who beats up Clark in a flashback is revealed in the credits to be named Ken Braverman, who would later grow up to be the minor Superman villain known as Conduit. |
43 | * The female Air Force Captain who bluntly says that Superman is "kinda hot" is named "Carrie Farris", making it likely that she's a slightly renamed version of Carol Ferris from the ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' comics -- an experienced pilot and aviation company CEO who was known to have a thing for superheroes. |
44 | * A random trucker assaulting Clark reminds a similar scene from ''Superman II''. Clark [[spoiler:destroying his truck in retaliation]] resembles the end of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'''s first episode. |
45 | * Lana Lang and Pete Ross (most likely) having figured out Superman's secret identity. |
46 | * The moving sculpture that holographic Jor-El shows Clark, showing where he really comes from and how he got to Earth, shows Clark being sent from Krypton in a snowflake-shaped spacecraft (a sphere with star-like points sticking out), a reference to how said spacecraft looked in the 1978 film. |
47 | * The way Krypton's past is shown in the moving sculpture resembles the Golden and Silver Age Krypton in the comics. The male and female Kryptonians resemble Jor-El and Lara from the original comics; though they could even be [[AdamAndEvePlot Kryp and Tonn]]. |
48 | * The big, mute Kryptonian alongside Faora ([[AllThereInTheManual Nam-Ek]]) is close to Non from ''Superman II''. |
49 | * Kelex and Kelor are taken from ''The Man of Steel'' #1. |
50 | * The metallic rod with the "S" logo is this movie's counterpart to the green crystal rod in the '78-'80 ''Superman'' movies, or the transparent "father crystal" from ''Film/SupermanReturns''. Both serve as access keys to the Kryptonian technology. In this version, Zod has his own as well. |
51 | * One of Clark's aliases is "Joe", calling out to Superman's co-creator, Joe Shuster. "Joe" was also Jor-El's alias when he once visited Earth in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Relic". |
52 | * [[Series/{{Smallville}} Clark's first saves involves a vehicle falling off a bridge into the river. The school bus also happens to pass a silver automobile.]] |
53 | * [[Film/SupermanReturns The villain makes his first move when Clark is watching a football game, and causes a temporary blackout.]] |
54 | * The scene in which Superman does an aerial rescue of Lois in the damaged escape pod is very reminiscent of him saving the plane in ''Film/SupermanReturns'', especially the shot in which the pod shot past the camera and Superman tore after it a moment later next to its smoke trail. |
55 | * Zod and Jor-El's conversation on Krypton at the beginning seems to imply they were once friends, similar to ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. |
56 | * The "S" symbol/logo/emblem is much more similar to the one worn by pre-ComicBook/{{Crisis|onInfiniteEarths}} Earth-Two Superman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal-L Kal-L]] , with the upper right serif of the S extended to connect with the lower diagonal of the pentagonal border. Or UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|of comic books}}. [[http://www.metropolisplus.com/superman/ version of the emblem, between late 1940 and 1944]], on which Earth-2 Superman was based. |
57 | * During the Smallville battle, the bit about Superman being "more powerful than a locomotive" is put to the test when a locomotive is thrown at him. |
58 | * This isn't the first time [[spoiler:Zod is killed by a hesitant Superman. In Post-Crisis, Superman is forced to execute Zod and his two cohorts from another universe for decimating an alternate Earth and fear that they might find a way into his Earth.]] |
59 | * The spaceship that brought Superman to Earth looks like the one in ''ComicBook/SupermanBirthright'', rather than the traditional RetroRocket. |
60 | * This isn't the first time Jor-El has coded information into Superman's DNA. In ''Superman: The Dark Side'', he codes the Anti-Life Equation intending Superman to [[AdaptationalVillainy conquer the universe in Krypton's name]]. |
61 | * Zod's family crest mirrors the El family crest that Superman wears, but the design evokes the one seen in ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' (which is a hammer and sickle based on the Russian setting, but with the hammer removed and the sickle repositioned). |
62 | * Lois figures out Clark's identity before he even becomes Superman. Jerry Siegel originally planned for Lois to figure out Superman's SecretIdentity early on, only for ExecutiveMeddling to put a kibosh on the idea. |
63 | * Maybe it's coincidence or obscure comics canon, but there's a Daily Planet reporter named Weaver. In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries,'' episode "Feeding Time," which introduces Parasite, the name Weaver comes up when Perry is yelling at offscreen employees. |
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