Question BrightBurn coming movie-What if superman was born today and a picked on kid?

this one is good---What if superman was born today and a picked on kid 'before' he got powers??

best link I found with both trailers

www.geekalerts.com/brightburn-official-trailer-2/

What? He might become Lex Luthor?

good old lex did not fly and stop bullets at age 10....lol

this is far worse....Muhahahaha

I read about this from another source, they are calling it a horror movie for a reason I believe.

Dreamer wrote: I read about this from another source, they are calling it a horror movie for a reason I believe.

"Reason" got it....lol

Fell from space=check
Landed next to farm=check
found in red swaddling cloth=check
Found by childless parents=check
has superpowers

yep that is a first time on all of the above=Check...wink wink!

Is his name Kill-al????

Dreamer wrote: I read about this from another source, they are calling it a horror movie for a reason I believe.

What was their first hint - the lunch lady pulling a shard of glass out of her eye, or the kid telekinetically spinning up the lawn mower blades before sticking his hand in?

It is more likely in Whateley that supergirl being born and picked on a boy ( or a man).

Anne wrote: What? He might become Lex Luthor?

Have you read "How To Succeed In Evil" by Patrick McLean?

http://succeedinevil.com/books/

Chewy.

Well, here's the thing, Superman WAS picked on as a kid. What makes him Superman is the strength of character he has, both from his upbringing and his adoptive parents who gave him a magnificent moral compass. He's Superman because he rises above this kind of pettiness.

What I see here is not a 'brilliant deconstruction' or 'subverted expectations' but sad little hucksters without a drop of creativity between them trying to cash in while stroking each others egos about how brave and avant-garde they are. I'd rather clean out a horse stall, at least that crap is honest.

And if I recall the story correctly Lex Luthor is an enemy of Superman's birth parents, and transfers his pursuit of them to Clark. Generally agree with EE on this.

Anne wrote: And if I recall the story correctly Lex Luthor is an enemy of Superman's birth parents, and transfers his pursuit of them to Clark. Generally agree with EE on this.

No. Lex Luthor is the human bald guy.

Shesh! it's been too long since I read the origin story for Superman. I was sure that he had one nemisis from his parents' original planet?

Anne wrote: Shesh! it's been too long since I read the origin story for Superman. I was sure that he had one nemisis from his parents' original planet?

General Zod

He had a few nemeses from back there. General Zod for instance is the big name, and there are a few other Kryptonians who have shown up to cause problems (when you start adding them up, Superman's status as "last survivor of Krypton" is a bit of a misnomer nowadays. Especially after Kandor...)

More recent iterations from the Superman mythos have Brainiac playing a role -- by action or inaction -- in the demise of the planet.

I remember reading an old story, from back in the Sixties or thereabouts, where it was stated that Jor-El was actually wrong and the chain nuclear reaction in Krypton's core would self-moderate and die out on its own -- but an agent from a rival planet (or something) artificially accelerated the reaction to cause the explosion. Of course, the agent showed up decades later to cause trouble. Fortunately this retcon was eventually ignored.

OTOH, if you go by the TV series Smallville, Lex Luthor's father, Lionel, was somewhat of a nemesis to Clark's parents. Sometimes. Depending on the season.

Sir Lee wrote: He had a few nemeses from back there. General Zod for instance is the big name, and there are a few other Kryptonians who have shown up to cause problems (when you start adding them up, Superman's status as "last survivor of Krypton" is a bit of a misnomer nowadays. Especially after Kandor...)

More recent iterations from the Superman mythos have Brainiac playing a role -- by action or inaction -- in the demise of the planet.

The latest retcon has Krypton being destroyed, and the survivors being hunted down, by Rogol Zaar.
With Kandor being destroyed, it's down to Zod's wife and son, Kara, and Clark and Jon Kent.