Injustice Superman. 

Injustice is a Neo-Greek Tragedy of two men with uncompromising positions who escalate an all out war all over the world in the vain attempt of proving one's own morality over the other. Batman and Superman are both villains of this universe in a way. They both plunge the world into chaos and it is only the annihilation of everyone that can convince both men to lay down their grudges and save their universe. Only for both of them to turn on each other as soon as Brainiac is gone. Injustice is a dire warning of how being uncompromising isn't a virtue in and of itself.

I think the worst part to Batman in the back of his mind was Superman proving Joker's One Bad Day theory right. Which should be impossible.

It feels like you say every episode was such a pain to make, but then they're made with such love and understanding for the material it's just fun to see.

Bruce's side is also interesting. We see how much he wants to kill Joker, he day dreams about doing it, but can't. And then Clark, probably the only person in the world that he truly trusts outside of Dick, does it. Right in front of him. And Bruce brakes. Again. For all that Clark needs Bruce to reach out, he doesn't understand just what his actions did to Bruce. We've seen it before, in the Justice Lords. The difference was Bruce only saw the aftermath. This allowed him to detach it, put it aside and become what we saw there. The man willing to crush a world's soul to save it. Here? Here he saw his best friend become the monster Bruce is terrified he could become. Thus Bruce, being shit at being human, reacts the only way he knows how and it goes poorly. Diana being a bitch doesn't help either.

I don't know if this would be a hot take or not. The Justice Lords in the DCAU was far more fascinating than the Injustice regime. I don't know if it was the Luther killing flash as president angle or maybe that Injustice Superman is just completely unhinged....but Justice Lord Superman seemed to me a real test of Clark's ideals in where the lines are and whether he should cross them. It wasn't spurred on by losing Lois but by losing Flash to his greatest enemy. More nuance I feel. I would have loved to see a media that tackled the full timeline of the Justice Lords and any resistance that failed against them.

An aspect I love about this comic is that Clark isn't stopped by a Naruto Talk no jutsu where after one stern talking to Superman just does a complete 180. The seeds of Superman's undoing were planted the instant he looked at his son's face and then comes a string of small realizations that are pushed down by denial until they just blow up. 'Jon wants to explore this world on his own against Superman's insistence that he should go with him to explain some things - but wait, why would he have to do that? He's proud of the world he's made, right?' 'Jon talks to someone he was close to in his own world. Someone who experiences life in this world on a regular basis who can tell Jon what it's like and that makes Superman extremely paranoid. What would this person tell him?' All the while Superman tells himself that it'll be okay. Jon will understand, but he says it in a way that's clearly trying to convince himself more than anything because he is desperate for his son's vindication. He never had to truly consider what his wife and kid would think of his world before. Now he does, and it creeps up on him little by little just how ashamed he actually is.

I'd absolutely love a breakdown/behind the scenes video of how you go about making the scripts for this video. I know that would be a lot of extra work but if that's possible that would be amazing.

i really hate the fact that your videos keep making me tear up. If you keep this up, i might just cry my eyes out

Long time watcher, first time commenter. I just want to say, your thorough, complete analysis of these characters, from DC to Marvel, resonate with me and fully realize the truth of why these characters mean so much to so many people. You get to the root, the human side of them, and illuminate why they're so important, across their myriad incarnations. Keep doing what you do my man.

Jon meeting Injustice Supes sounded like a cheap cash-in crossover (and that may very well have been the reason) but Tom Taylor certainly made the best out of it.

Dude you’re Chanel restores my faith in the superhero genre

Ultimately, the success of Injustice Superman is that he is very human for better and for worse. Part of what makes Superman difficult to resonate with most is that he doesn't falter nor waiver because, as a symbol of hope, he cannot. This prevents him from being able to fall down and get back up which is probably a more powerful display of hope than never falling down to begin with. Of course, that isn't to say that Injustice Superman is a better Superman because he is a dictator at the end of the day.

Have you ever considered doing Star Wars content? I feel like your thoughtful approach to character analysis could really beautifully illustrate Anakin’s growing instability & Obi Wan’s love blinding him to what was really going on with Anakin when he needed guidance the most. Especially with the reunion they had in Kenobi.

Lately every time I see a scene with billionaire Bruce Wayne sitting at the same table as Daily Planet freelance contributor Clark Kent I imagine seeing a picture of Jeff Bezos sitting with Macolm Gladwell or Howard Hughes sitting with Bob Woodward. That's got to tread awfully close to being just as conspicuous as the two of them standing around wearing full costume.

Very well done and oddly timely as usual.

Please never quit. Great work. Keep it up.

Another absolute crushing entry in your analysis portfolio, loved parts of the jon Kent injustice arc

Great video, I love how you use your words to tell us the story

I always maintained that Adventures of superman jon kent series has so much potential to go far with that injustice crossover but instead of doing any of that we got 6 issues of nothing but pointless filler that went nowhere, and proves my point more and more that aging up Jonathan Samuel Kent superboy was a bad idea from the very beginning at least in my opinion.

Gods, I wish I could subscribe twice. Look forward to these like new episodes of any of my favorite shows.

Great vid as always

Another fantastic video

I love this channel so much.

Oh well. I’m sure that the lad’s “Found Family” will make all his daddy issues disappear.😂

I'm loving all this Superman content!

Hello leo, I hope you read this comment,your video essays have inspired me to write my own superhero stories and I enjoy every one of your videos.

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God blessings! amazing video! it's so funny how I start tearing up and crying over a superhero video essay. 😆❤

I'm sorry that thumbnail and title are so funny I've been just staring it and lmao

You should at point do a couple of videos on Batman the Brave and the Bold, especially its best episode Chill of the Night.

Love the videos

OOH a teaser for injustice Hale jordan. Im looking foward to this one because iv always had a hard time placing this portrayal. His motivations were a total blur to me.

All it takes is one bad day.

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Kingdom Come did it better, Superman is an inversion himself

Excellent :)

I'm honestly kind of glad that you point out batman is as equally flawed in what happens in injustice. injustice 1 and 2 are probably batman at his worst, especially in 2 when he develops brother eye.

He is not his son. I know he is a version of Superman but hear me out. This Superman is physically different than the main one They all are in Injustice If they looked the same then it would have been a merely split timeline,the fact that they look different proves it doesnt have a similar origin. This Superman has a different face, different structure overall,his hair looks brown in the games,and he isnt nearly as muscular as Jons real dad. His powers are also nowhere near on the same level as the main Superman If they took a DNA test it would likely come out negative,he is just too different physically. They would probably appear as just relatives in a test at best If anything the Injustice universe is CLOSER(but still seperate) to the New 52 universe. However Jon is the son of POST CRISIS Superman Jon is absolutely correct that he cant be his father,but for the wrong reasons. Another example that these characters are different biologically is Damian. Injustice Damian doesnt look like his future iterations from the comics at all. Lets look at Futures End Damian for example. His physical appearance over the years doesnt match his mainline counterpart. Particularly he is has different hair,eyes and is shorter and much less muscular Saying Injustice Superman is Jons dad is saying that Tobey Maguires Spiderman and Tom Hollands Spiderman are the exact same person Injustice Superman became a villian because he is a different person,genetics also affect the brain/personality etc. Kingdom Come Superman is more similar to Post Crisis Superman and he faced a very similar thing as Injustice Superman,he didnt kill the Joker and he didnt become a tyrant.

It's funny that you say superman idolized batman. Because what batman reaction shows is that he feels the same about superman. Superman has to stop what he's doing because he's better than that. He's more than human. Capable of simply withstanding that grief.

What Gandalf the Grey had to say to us all about not being so quick to meet our death and punishment is good advice. But more than this, where Injustice Superman lost his way is not primarily in using lethal force. It was in his desire to control what will happen and what won’t happen. Which made him not all that different from Darkseid himself who sought the Anti-Life Equation for an untold length of time. In order to control all sentient life. And another thing that Injustice Superman hated about what happened to him. Is not that he loss his beloved wife. Unborn child and the city that he loved. The real truth is that his self-image cannot accept that he was made to suffer just like any of those lowly little humans that he looks down upon while he’s flying high in the sky. Because let’s be real here. In a cop procedural drama or medical drama show like Grey’s Anatomy. The majority of bad things happen to the patients and their families. Not the doctors and nurses operating on them. What happened to Kal-El’s loved ones was definitely more theatrical than how it goes down with most people. But let’s look at Hercules here for an example of a better man than Superman. Literally what they did with Superman was ripped off from Hercules being manipulated into deleting his own beloved wife and children. But how did Hercules react afterwards and how did Superman react afterwards. Hercules lamented the demise of his family to the point of almost deleting himself but instead he chose to make amends and seek redemption for a crime he wasn’t truly responsible for. Superman on the other hand just decided to start murdering more people! As the old saying goes, “Circumstances don’t create character. They reveal character.” Superman has an absurd and extreme reaction to the loss of loved ones as Achilles had to the loss of his precious Patroclus during The Trojan War. We can all understand that Achilles had love for his brother in arms but to be so godsmacked that he loss his life in a brutal and often times chaotic 10 year war, is kind of delusional and ridiculous. It just shows how much of an entitled little spoiled half-god brat that he was. That he thought himself separate and free from the joys and pains of our shared human condition. One of the things that many of us love about Thor Odinson from the MCU is how he has suffered how we all have suffered or will suffer but chooses to still be a blessing and hero to those that he can be. But what Injustice Superman did is use his tragedy like a wicked politician to justify becoming mean, merciless, violent, domineering and cruel. And he deserves no sympathy from us!

Grief made Superman a monster

I think that this video is great. I like Jon interacting with Clark also i like that Jon didn't forgive Harley like everyone else like they forgot she was as responsible for Metropolis destruction as Joker.

can someone refresh my memory why they don't use the Lasarus pit to revive her ?

Need to catch up on Injustice

I always like the dynamic of Superman and Batman when they are best friends. Both of them look up to each other, and have a lot of respect for one another. For Superman, Bruce is the ultimate proof of what a human can be capable of if one puts their everything into it. Take away Bruce's money, gadgets, tech, and whatnot and you're sure as hell that he'll somehow find a way to still dispense justice in the dark streets of Gotham as the Batman. He's also the grounding force to Clark's much more lofty outlook on life, helping him see what's it like at the ground level when he's too busy flying above everyone else. He's the pinacle of humanity that the alien Kal-El wants oh so badly to be part of. For Batman, Clark gives him hope. Hope to maybe get away from the past where he is forever stuck at, as the kid in an alleyway unable to do anything as his parents were gunned down, and maybe start looking into the future to see how bright it can be. That he can achieve more as the Batman rather than just punching bad guys and put them back into the same revolving door prison/asylum. To him, Clark spits in the face of the saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupt absolutely and that if he could put his faith into one thing, then it's that Superman will always choose to do the right thing.

I like Batman, he is a great character, but at the same time I dislike him because he is arrogant and hypocrite. Arrogant because in a lot of times he thinks he is the only with reason, and a hypocrite because he can leave a criminal at the face of death because of hard he punched him, but he won't ever kill even if it's necessary. And no one proves this. hypocrisy than Joker. He is the worst thing around in Gotham... but rather than finish his reign of terror once and for all, he indirectly let him escape to do all over again.

5:24 I love this panel. Superman is concerned Bruce injured his hand punching him lol. That's gotta be imasculating ngl.

Who was doing the voice of Superman? He sounds familiar...🤔

Oh god. This. Oof. Please tell us your thoughts on dad breaking Jon's boy toy arm! It was so strange that they just left it alone...

Where is Smallville season 10 video man. Been waiting for weeks

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hey, how come you dont do a ep on krypton(the show)

Please add a bite sound to the intro 😂

My headcanon, is that this is an alternate version of injustice Superman and when his son left he became a good guy again

_"It's also more important to see him as a human..."_ .......but... he isn't though?

None of this changing my mind this book is hot dookie

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Ok so(man i wish we could do a collab but i dont even have a youtube channel just thoughts) i thought i might be cool to do a video comparing the themes of the episode "Frozen Out" to the classic Christmas story "the little match girl" as permafrost is a similar character but modern...also its interesting to note in static shock the girl only gets help because of the pressence of a super hero character...like TLMG. No civilians really step in to asist. It kinda encompasses that idea of dc heroes are something to aspire to, as perhaps since we know static is a civilian kid it encourages us to be the super hero...the match girl has two interpretations of a girl seeing visions cuz of extreme cold. Or her grandmother coming to get her, as she dies...also it may also be allegorical of how tales like the little match girl, and even static 20 years later lol are in deed still relavent to not take for granted what we have and help those we see in need despite them being a loved one or not...which is one of the points if superheros in general (Sorry for a wall of text, love your videos, and happy holidays if not merry christmas Mr. I.P.)

Best first 90 seconds

2:39 Wait, this brings up a good question. We already know if Superman breaths hard enough it creates strong winds or ice. If he pushes too hard, can his poop blow a hole in the ground? Is there a diaper strong enough for the man of steel?

5:58 The difference between Batman being feared by the masses and Superman being feared by the masses is, as hard at Batman may try, he isn't an alien from another world. He couldn't kill with a thought, on a whim. People know that. Batman doesn't kill, he avoids it. Superman could -- and did -- take over the earth and rule with an iron fist because he's superman. Nobody can stop him when he thinks what he's doing is right.

Fathers reading the title: 😢

6:11 sure but i think it more of a failure of the character experiencing how they feel.. Clark admires bruce but bruce admire Clark... he need Clark to be better than him ( unless is frank miller writting the story ..in that case bruce is too dumb to realize he actually admires superman XD )

Justice lord superman still feels far better than injustice superman.

I disagree about Injustice Superman fall to the dark side being Batman's fault. Sure, Bruce was bit harsh on Clark but that doesn't execuse Clark refusal to listen to Bruce warnings. He wasn't looking for a friend to give him good advices in that moment of need, he was after people to feed on his ego. He wants people to just approve his methods, tell him that he's right and go along with his actions with no question. If somebody points out his flaw, Injustice Superman just kills, choosing to live in his delusion rather than facing reality: That he still just flawed person and not the "perfect protector" he sees himself as.

I do not think Jon hates this version but rather lost all respect for him.

superman: *kills joker* batsy: *surprised pikachu face*

Injustice Superman vs Omni man; who would win ?

Howdy

Take a drink every time an Implicitly Pretentious video says the word “trauma”

I'm gonna hard disagree on the point that batman is a hypocrite besides the family stuff, Batman wasn't scaring the populace, superman was, imagine your perfect demigod savior who never killed before stuck his hand in another man. Batman has never killed anyone and thats his weakness in its own way but to call it hypocritical is ignoring all the details of how where and when the fear is used. Love the video just thought I'd share my two cents

The John Kent part was unnecessary

Homlander is what he is but actual Klark Kent being evil is so much better. You can't blame detective comics for being unrealistic now. There are reasons.. tangible reasons not to be evil and they can be taken away and put back again and again and again. The ideals don't work for every situation but not everyone will be in every situation and some version they are aware of the situations and they try super hard not be in those situations. That or they are as crazy as bat man wich...no ...no one is going to work out side the law and fully trust the law even when someone calls out the fact that the law failing is the reason they exist in the first place. No reasonable person with powers would even count their exploits as something that candy handled. It's special. Super man, the flash and othe super powered people give themselves this excuse. They deal with things the law can't handle and maybe sometimes help out with low level stuff to. But Batman and anyone else without powers doesn't have the power equalizer excuse. Bat man kid is killed. Does nothing. Superman kid is killed..and yeah id say he had a pretty reasonable reaction. Broken and lost a good reson to not kill everyone. The whole "we all got dead people." Line easy to say when you not just living for them. You actually enjoy life. Some people just mean it when they tell their family they mean the world to them.

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I'm not gonna argue Batman should of done something. "Batman scares people" yeah he does but why would Superman decide that scaring people(Note Batman scares criminals, bad people not your everyday human). Besides why would Superman just suddenly decide "You taught me to scare people" Like who says that. He was deflecting from his recent actions to do a world wide ceasefire (On superman's authority). And to even Batman's credit he did go to the President of the US to basically berate him for going after Clark's parents in this worst moment of Superman's life. Clark needed time to heal and mourn not go out on his own making decisions for the world while he's still feeling like his world ended(Which it didn't). At least I think so, being in pain tends to skew your judgement. Superman's kid(Err alternate universe version of him) to me just shows how far gone he is.

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Injustice Superman shouldn't be too upset about his other universe son hating him, everyone hates Jonathan Kent more. Comic book sales don't lie.

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whats the intro song cause everytime i boot up oke of your videos that tone just plays for the rest of the week

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