Line #31 ShoutOut/Superman


1	!!''Franchise/{{Superman}}''
2	!!!The following have their own pages:
3	[[index]]
4	* ''ShoutOut/SupermanBrainiac''
5	* ''ShoutOut/TheDeathOfSuperman''
6	* ''ShoutOut/KryptoniteNevermore''
7	* ''ShoutOut/SupermanFamilyAdventures''
8	[[/index]]
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10	* Many many times throughout the years in the various media he's been depicted in, Superman or, sometimes, an {{Expy}} has been shown holding a car above his head pointed slightly downward in reference to the image on the cover of Action Comics #1, his first appearance.
11	* ''ComicBook/Superman1939'':
12	** Issue #324 has a Titano story called "[[Film/ChildrenOfTheDamned1964 Beware the Eyes That Paralyze]]".
13	** Issue #416 has a story called "[[Literature/AChristmasCarol The Ghost of Superman Future]]".
14	** The ''Adventures of Superman'' Annual #1 (1987) features a gestalt being of hundreds of alien [[BrainInAJar brains in jars]]. The leader of the gestalt is named Hfuhruhurr, the same as Steve Martin's character in ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains''.
15	** ''Adventures of Superman'' #634, by Creator/DanAbnett and Creator/AndyLanning, had the Eradicator and [[ComicBook/{{Steel}} John Henry Irons]] create a "charged vacuum emboitment" out of "block transfer computations" to prevent the timestorms ravaging Metropolis. And if that sounds familiar to viewers of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''Logopolis'', well, Abnett wrote the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip for a while, and has also done ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio dramas and New Series novels.
16	* An episode where Superman finds himself in the middle of a battle between a titanic Metallo and a {{Super Robot\|Genre}}. With all the myriad shout outs from other giant monsters that show up to complicate matters (including a rather literal [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Gorilla-Whale]]), you'd think the Robot would be based on Anime/MazingerZ, and it is... due to the fact that it bears an even stronger resemblance to [[VideoGame/TechRomancer G. Kaiser]].
17	* ''ComicBook/TheBlackRing Black'' gives Lex Luthor a sidekick who bears a striking resemblance to Creator/DavidTennant. Lampshaded when ComicBook/TheJoker claims (falsely) to have killed him: "He reminded me so much of that actor, I wanted to see if he'd turn into someone else!"
18	* ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' #75 pays homage to ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' with [[http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/4jgxS.jpg their own version]], "Comicbook/TheJoker and ComicBook/LexLuthor."
19	* A ''Superman'' story showing "WhatIf... Lois and Clark had a kid?" had six-year-old Lara as Calvin and Mr Mxyzptlk as Hobbes.
20	* In a comic book story titled "Business as Usual", it's still 9:03 am when ComicBook/LexLuthor comes up with solutions for all executive troubles Lexcorp was facing that day and Mercy asks what they'll do then. Lex says they'll do the same thing they do every day. This answer is similar to what The Brain usually tells Pinky at the end of every ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode. In Lex's case, that "same thing" is "figure out a way to destroy Superman".
21	* Superman's famed ability to "change the course of mighty rivers" is an implicit reference to [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyMortalsAndDemigods Hercules]] performance of that same feat (when he cleansed the Augean Stables).
22	* The villain Riot's real name is eventually revealed to be Frederick Frankenstein, a reference to ''Film/YoungFrankenstein.''
23	* In ''ComicBook/TheDayTheCheeringStopped'', Superman reads a book on Myth/ArthurianLegend.
24	* ''ComicBook/LetMyPeopleGrow'':
25	** The title reminds readers that Superman was created by [[Creator/JerrySiegelAndJoeShuster two Jewish men]] and inspired by several biblical figures by paraphrasing ''Literature/BookOfExodus'' 5:1: "And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, '''Let my people go''', that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness."
26	** The third segment is named after Creator/TheBBC series ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall1978''.
27	* ''ComicBook/TheSuperRevengeOfLexLuthor'': As trashing a Luthor's robot, Superman quotes a variation of UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar's famous "Veni, vidi, vici (I came; I saw; I conquered)" phrase.
28	-->'''Superman:''' ''"He came... He saw... I conquered!"''
29	* ''ComicBook/ThePlanetEaterTrilogy'': As telling Superman about the Planet-Eater, Brainiac quotes ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'':
30	-->'''Brainiac:''' ''"One of your Earthmen once said— "The evil that men do lives after them.""''
31	* ''ComicBook/TheLivingLegendsOfSuperman''
32	** A copy of ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'' is seen in the year 2,491 sequence.
33	** A little kid in the year 5,902 sequence is disguised as ComicBook/TheMightyThor.
34	* "ComicBook/BrainiacRebirth":
35	** When Kid Flash asks Superman if he could use the Teen Titans to stop Brainiac, Superman replies he would use Bozo the Clown if he'd help.
36	** Morgan Edge complains about Clark disappearing and "pulling a Cheshire Cat on him", in referent to the ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'''s character.
37	* A 1987 comic references ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'' with its "go to jail" card message, but reversed so the {{Anaphora}} goes before the {{Symploce}}, since going to jail is the important part, so it goes last: An officer tells Brainiac "Do not pass go... do not collect two hundred dollars... go to jail. Go directly to Jail!".

Context ShoutOut / Superman