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** Darkseid knows where everyone lives
*** [[Paranoia Fuel|EVEN YOU]]!!!
* The [[Adaptation Decay]] in this film bugged me to no end. [[Your Mileage May Vary]], as always. Some of the changes, mostly though that seemed small but actually did have relevance, were strangely unnecessary and nonsensical. For instance, why was the beginning dialogue between Batman and Superman ''completely'' removed? In the comic, the two of them were bickering about Superman being cooped up on monitor duty for 14 days since his fight with Lex Luthor in ''Public Enemies''. The conversation was not only hilarious and a perfect way to introduce the relationship between Bruce and Clark, but it also explained why Superman showed up to catch the exploded blimp since Bruce asked him to intervene. In the film, the ''same'' sequence transpires except with no dialogue and thus does not explain why Superman randomly shows up in Gotham City without Batman asking him to. People who didn't read the comic are left to just assume he showed up because...he's Superman.
** He's SUPERMAN. He has Super-Falling-Objects-Sense. Whenever a massive object is hurtling towards the ground, he teleports to its location so that he can fly down and catch it. Also works for anyone whose name he knows. He worked very hard at the Daily Planet to hone this particular superpower, as photos of it in action always make for an excellent front page.
* IJBM that I seem to be the only one who didn't like Summer Glau as Supergirl. She's a lovely girl and a talented one at that, but she really didn't fill the part as well as Nicholle Tom. Her voice just fell flat in so many scenes and I never felt invested in her for a moment during the film.
** As its been a few years since I've seen a JLU episode with Supergirl in it, Glau didn't bother me. But what does bother me is the lack of Michael Ironside as Darkseid. Much more threatening.
** Summer Glau didn't bother me either, while I loved the voice actress of [[Supergirl]] for the DCAU...Summer Glau did a pretty good job. Heck at some points, the way she said a few of her lines, did remind me of Nicholle Tom. Besides, this version of Supergirl is [[Captain Obvious|a little bit different]] from her DCAU counterpart....
*** As we saw in [[Superman: The Animated Series]], Kara LOVED having Super powers, she JUMPED at the chance to be a Super hero, she found life on the farm boring, and was someone who rather go live in the City to fight crime, see new sights, and have adventures. (See the episodes "Little Lost Girl" (2 parter), "Unity", and the [[Girls' Night Out|Batman/Superman episode crossover "Girls Night Out"]].)
*** But, in this movie, Kara is afraid of her powers, Kara doesn't want to fight, she didn't want to be a super hero, she just wanted to have a normal ordinary life as a girl (something DCAU Kara always hated, that [[Superman|Clark]] told her she should be), and further more-in the movie Kara expressed that she'd probably love staying on the farm (again, DCAU Kara-as much as she loved Ma and Pa Kent, and she did feel Smallville was home...she found it suffocating and boring-she wanted adventure, and she felt she wasn't gonna get that ever living on the farm as an "ordinary girl").
** So to further conclude to my point, I think Nicholle Tom and Summer Glau are great Supergirls! They each did their animated version-interpretation, of Kara ''very'' well. Summer Glau fit that [[I Just Want to Be Normal]] kind of girl we see in the movie, where as Nichole Tom fits the whole adventure-seeking girl who [[Jumped At the Call]]. And both still keep that fun, loveable, "just want to have fun" kinda girl that Supergirl has been seen as. And when the chips are down, both have displayed the true [[Determinator]] that Supergirl is. Though I do have to agree that lack of Michael Ironside was a bit upsetting. I mean after hearing Clancy Brown reprise his role in the first movie, and other previous DCAU characters (as well as [[Nightmare Fuel|freaking Ed Asner as Granny Goodness]]!) No Michael Ironside as Darkseid WAS a let down, that one bugged me more. I mean the guy who did Darkseid in this movie was good, but nowhere NEAR as intimidating, commanding, scary, threatening, or voice filled with such compelling display of RAW POWER as Michael Ironside's Darkseid. That kinda bugged me...a lot.
* Krypto. Just Krypto I know that like Batmite he's part of the legacy and there's no changing it but Superman seriously has a dog wearing a cape? For reals?
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* In the fight against the Furies, why was it okay for Barda to kill Stompa, but not Granny Goodness? Goodness deserves it far more than she does.
** She killed Stompa when she was seconds away from killing Wonder Woman, but Granny was effectively neutralized when Barda was about to kill her. For a lot of superheroes willing to kill there's still a huge gap between killing in battle and execution.
** Indeed. Killing Stompa was a necessary action to save Wonder Woman. Granny, however, was trussed up. And, in fact, licking her lips and grinning ear to ear at the though to Barda killing her. It was a [[Xanatos Gambit]] / [[Thanatos Gambit]] for Granny. If Barda kills her, Granny's [[Strike Me Down]] speech ensures that Barda will now live with the unsettling notion that she's still Granny's trained puppet. If she refuses to kill her, then Granny gets to live to see another day, and another opportunity to torment her former student. Of course, [[Cruel Mercy|mercy is a subjective concept]]. Leaving one of Darkseid's minions at his feet alive and well after they just failed him carries with it its own implications.
* Superman punching fire from the tanks. He punches the fire, and it drives it back, making a sound like physical impact. HOW DOES THAT WORK?
* During the battle with the Doomsday clones Superman sees several Amazons getting killed in slow motion and this inspires him to use his laser powers to fry all the clones. He then seems to feel guilty over this. This brings up two problems. The first is that it raises the question of why he didn't do that at the beginning of the fight when he could have saved some lives<ref> and not accidentally killed any Amazons that might have been unconscious and in the line of fire</ref>. The second is that previously we clearly saw him ''freeze and smash'' at least two of the clones without hesitation while the Amazons were doing their best to stab the clones. Not only was Superman obviously willing to kill earlier, the best outcome of the battle would have been the deaths of all of the clones.
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