Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?/Tear Jerker
- The death of Krypto.
- The death of Bizarro.
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Hm, everything, him go dark...Hello, Superman. Hello. |
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- This has got to be one of the saddest character deaths ever. Compounded by the fact that Bizarro clearly has no idea what is happening.
- Supergirl came from the future with the Legion of Super-Heroes, before her eventual death.
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Superman: You... you grew up beautiful, Kara!... Right now, Supergirl... Supergirl is in the past. |
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- Lois: "He never told me exactly what happened that night before the siege began, but as soon as I saw him the next morning, I knew something had upset him. He looked funny. He looked as if he'd been crying."
- The cover of Action #583, which had the added layer of three DC Comics personalities waving bye to him as well.
- Lana Lang, after hearing from Superman's own lips (thanks to newly-gained super hearing) that he loves Lois and not her, flies off with Jimmy Olsen to their deaths in an attempt to end the villains' attack on his fortress.
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Lana: We're only second-stringers, Jimmy, but we'll show 'em. Nobody loved him better than us. Nobody! |
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- Vartox, who was, in pre-Crisis chronology, engaged in a romantic relationship with Lana Lang, cradling her lifeless body in his arms, bawling like a baby. The man who is too powerful for Superman to contend with. This is a character whose earliest two appearances involved the loss of first his wife, and then his homeworld. When the first Crisis wiped out his existence, this poor bastard was probably grateful. . .
- For what little it's worth, he's alive in the post-Crisis DC 'verse, and much, much happier on the whole.