Post by judgejosephdredd on Jul 6, 2019 21:24:21 GMT
-Krypton does not explode, the reasoning to send Kal-El to Earth is based purely on politics as you see Jor-El is, or was, king of the entire planet.
-Jor is overthrown by his backstabbing little brother and is held in a prison, he is able to communicate with Kal-El telepathically.
-Lara managed to escape her brother-in-law's take over and her bodyguard is an anthropomorphic turtle.
-The main villain is Superman's evil cousin Ty-Zor, they often engage in Matrix style hand-to-hand combat.
-Lex Luthor is actually a Kryptonian sleeper agent whose mission was to watch over Kal-El and keep tabs on Earth's defenses, he goes at it with Clark at the end and loses quickly.
-Superman leaves Earth in the ship that brought him there and sets off to Krypton to reclaim the throne from his uncle, that would've been the end of what was conceived of as the first part in a trilogy.
To be fair, Abrams was not as big a player in the industry then as he is today and he was going under what producer Jon Peters wanted, and he was also writing for McG and Brett Ratner who were both in contention to direct.
-Somehow Jor-El can predict the future and sent himself to Earth to find the right people to raise his son, so Kal-El's travels ending at around the Kent farm were not a coincidence.
-Ma and Pa Kent begin to snuggle and because of his super hearing lil' Clark overhears and asks what's going on.
-Ma Kent is almost sexually assaulted by a snidely whiplash type of tax collector who lil' Clark beats the crap out of him and scares off running for the hills calling the boy a 'devil'.
-First time Clark and Lois meet its at a frat party and Clark has his barn door open.
-Pa Kent dies of a heart attack not long after Superman is revealed to the world.
-Jor-El actually kills himself while in prison, his spirit lives on to communicate with Kal in, get this, Kryptonian heaven(I was not aware Heaven was different for every planet in the cosmos!) after exposing himself to radiation to save Lois.
-Superman fights a giant robot or two, all operated by Kryptonians even though on Earth they are able to become as strong as Kal and thus stronger than said robots(Nice logic!)
-Jimmy Olsen is written as a very stereotypical New York City punk, this is actually a image he creates to hide that he is a homosexual.