not seeing Superman

[calimac]

B. wants to see the new Superman movie, enough to have ventured out to see it, but the theater she went to did not have a functioning restroom, so she gave up and left. One more strike against our city's downtown, which we rarely go to anyway.

I am not interested. The last Superman movie I saw was in 1978 with Christopher Reeve. This one has been acclaimed the best one since then, but the last time I saw a superhero movie because it was supposed to be really good was Iron Man in 2008 with Robert Downey Jr, and while he was good, the movie was the usual superhero crap. I saw the trailer for the new Superman which consists mostly of Superman trying to argue that he's not the bad guy. That he's not the bad guy? I don't need this.

I read a review of the movie which listed some other superhero characters who appear in it. Green Lantern I knew about, but to me Mister Terrific is the name of a short-lived 1960s tv comedy show about a gas station attendant who takes a pill that gave him short-lived superpowers. (I remember liking it a lot at the time, but I sought out an episode some years later and found that, like most of the other comedies I liked as a child, it was really bad.)

B., who knows a lot more about superhero comics than I do, tells me that no, there was a Superman-universe superhero called Mister Terrific, and that the tv show was probably named after it.

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[wild_patience]

I should also tell you that this Green Lantern is not the same one you knew. The one of our childhood was Hal Jordan, test pilot. He was the silver age Green Lantern. (The older, golden age Green Lantern was Alan Scott. I think his ring's weakness was wood rather than the color yellow.) The one in the movie is Hal Jordan's replacement, Guy Gardner, who was introduced in the 1980s. He's brash and obnoxious - very much like Filion's Captain Hammer in the Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along show. There was also a Black guy as one of Earth's Green Lanterns. (There is an entire Green Lantern corps with all sorts of aliens as the Green Lantern rep for their area of apace.) The only requirement to be Green Lantern is to be without fear, so you can be an utter jerk and be a Green Lantern.