The writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson noted that during his career in Action Comics An evil Superman will never appear, similar to the one in the Injustice franchise. The statements were provided during a panel at the New York Comic Con 2021.
“It’s an easy release for a studio,” Johnson said in answering a fan’s question about why evil depictions of Superman were so common in the media. “Superman is a model of virtue. Then, the idea of corrupting it is easy to be reused by the media ”.
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Johnson referenced the 2019 movie Brightburn, as an example of this kind of bad Superman, calling the title character a “irredeemable”. The film featured a Man of Steel-style boy, who used his powers to terrorize his family and hometown in a manner similar to a killer from horror movies.
Also, he quoted Yoda from The Empire Strikes Back and noted that it was “Faster, easier, more seductive” deconstructing Superman than presenting him as a genuinely good individual.
Along these lines, he warned about the games and comics of Injustice. In this production, it is observed that the Man of Steel becomes a dictator.
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“I want to tell you that you will never see the evil Superman in my career because even in Injustice, if what happened in that book happens, the real Superman would not do what he did in that comic book series, “insisted Johnson. “That is not the real Superman. It is important to me that we all have that person who shows us that it is possible to have the supreme power and not be a monster “, the Action Comics writer concluded.
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