Brandon's Routh Kingdom Come Superman on CW's Crisis on Infinite Earths is canonically the same Superman from the Christopher Reeve films

Superman Returns (2006) was a sequel to Superman II, effectively erasing Superman III and IV out of continuity. When it was initially announced that Routh was portraying the 'Kingdom Come' Superman, there was confusion as to whether he was the actual Kingdom Come Superman from the original comic (the Earth 22 Superman) or the Superman from Superman Returns.

Marc Guggenheim, the showrunner later said that his KC Superman was a 'coda' to Superman Returns, meaning conclusion - basically confirming its the same continuity:

https://www.thegeekbuzz.com/news/confirmed-rouths-crisis-superman-is-a-coda-to-the-christopher-reeve-era/

However there was still confusion, because some people seemed to believe that Routh's Superman isn't actually the same Superman from the first two Chris Reeve films, but merely an aesthetically similar one (which didn't make sense considering SR outright references events from the first two films)...

Well the showrunner confirmed on Twitter, that Routh's Superman is indeed the Christopher Reeve Superman from the first two movies:

https://i.imgur.com/Ioxldqf.jpg

Interestingly, the new set pictures for Routh's Superman on the CW Crisis has a newspaper article in the background which is straight from the original Kingdom Come comic, which depicts The Joker's gas bombing of The Daily Planet killing 48 people. You can see in the background of the pic if you zoom in on the news article: the article is titled Numerous fatalities in news office gas attack.

https://i.imgur.com/7wXtVJb.jpg

If you zoom in even further, you can even make out the words 'The Joker'. But what does this mean for the Donnervere??

It's 99% likely that the Margot Kidder/Kate Bosworth version of Lois Lane in the Donnerverse continuity was killed in this attack, and possibly Superman's young son from SR too. Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, etc were all most likely killed too.

I find that quite tragic, the original version of Superman, the one who could reverse time to save his love, couldn't this time...its weird to think that the original movie version of Lois is dead, but its also awesome that the original movie Superman is returning.

Thoughts?

Submitted November 21, 2019 at 05:20PM by throwawaysgkwm https://ift.tt/2Obdn0s