Characterization Marches On/Comic Books: Difference between revisions

** DC later retconned these early out-of-character moments as being the Superman and Batman from Earth-2, so they're technically separate characters from the "main" Superman and Batman. Shows that they were aware just how much characterization had marched on in all those years.

** [[John Byrne]] acknowledged this in ''[[Superman and Batman Generations]]'' as part of the characters' evolution over time. In 1939, Bat-Man takes one of the Ultra-Humanite's goons on top of a giant planet model to interrogate him and lets him fall when the mook doesn't give any useful information. When he's caught by Superman, Bat-Man remarks "If I'd known you were there to catch him, I wouldn't have let him fall", and Superman response "If I'd known you'd let him fall, I wouldn't have caught him." They resume the interrogation and, when the mook still refuses to talk, Superman makes as if to throw him off the sphere once more, at which point he finally sings.

** The [[New 52]] has also characterized young Superman similarly as his early incarnation.