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Superman Returns

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Superman Returns	comment	By 2006, DC Comics was in a period of success. Smallville was in its sixth season keeping the Superman franchise alive on TV, Justice League was keeping the DC Animated Universe alive, and Batman Begins from only a year before had reinvigorated the Batman film franchise. Taking advantage of this popularity, it was decided that after nineteen years in limbo, the Superman film franchise should be revived as well. Bryan Singer, who directed the first two of the X-Men Film Series, crafted Returns as both a sequel and an homage to Superman: The Movie and Superman II — while also ignoring Superman III, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, and (probably) Supergirl.Set five years after the events of Superman II, Superman (Brandon Routh) returns to Earth after leaving to search for remnants of Krypton in deep space; in the time between Superman's departure and return, Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) won a Pulitzer Prize for the article "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman" (ouch!), and the world has moved on in his absence. Superman has to deal with the ambivalent reaction toward his return, work on mending his relationship with Lois, and foil the latest deranged scheme by a resurfacing Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey).Unfortunately, the film failed to capture the same audience as Batman Begins, and bombed; it would be another seven years before Superman returned to the big screen with Man of Steel in 2013, introducing Henry Cavill in the role and starting the DC Extended Universe.Brandon Routh reprised the role of Superman in the Arrowverse's Crisis Crossover adaptation of Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), appearing alongside his regular role of Ray Palmer / The Atom from Legends of Tomorrow. This incarnation and suit◊ was based on Kingdom Come, but at the same time remained the same character in the film, meaning the same one that was played by Christopher Reeve.
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Superman Returns / int_109bc3e	type	Eat the Dog
Superman Returns / int_109bc3e	comment	Eat the Dog: Twice: one of the Pomeranians left in the old widow's mansion ate the other one after Lex left them unattended for an extended period of time, and Lex starts looking at the dog hungrily after he, Kitty, and the dog get trapped on a tiny island.
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Superman Returns / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
Superman Returns / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: The exhausted Supes falling to Earth after hurling an entire island made of Kryptonite out of the atmosphere. Just in case you hadn't realized yet that he's Jesus.
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Superman Returns / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Superman Returns / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Or perhaps "postmodern?" Even though the movie is a deliberate homage to the Reeve movies, it also brings up the question of his 21st century relevance, makes him a parent out of wedlock and brutally sends him to death's door. Also the colors on his suit are literally darker than in the previous movies.
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Superman Returns / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
Superman Returns / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: Lex Luthor of all people gets this treatment by stabbing Superman In the Back with a shiv made out of Kryptonite.
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Superman Returns / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Superman Returns / int_1777836c	comment	True Love's Kiss: At the end, it's two kisses that awake a comatose Superman. A romantic one from Lois and a filial one from Jason, who just turned out to be their son.
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Superman Returns / int_17fc8b9c	type	Storyboarding the Apocalypse
Superman Returns / int_17fc8b9c	comment	Storyboarding the Apocalypse: Lex Luthor shows Lois Lane a series of maps detailing exactly how his plan will destroy the Western Hemisphere.
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Superman Returns / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Superman Returns / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop:
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Superman Returns / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
Superman Returns / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: The film is placed in the same continuity as the first two Christopher Reeve Superman films, yet it is clearly set in the mid-2000s with a 20-something Lois Lane, a still-alive adopted mother, and a still-wet-behind-the-ears Jimmy Olsen. The earlier films established that Superman came to earth in 1948 and were clearly set in the late 1970s. This discrepancy is enough to raise doubt as to whether Superman Returns actually is part of the same continuity, but the presence of a photo of Glenn Ford as Pa Kent from the first film serves to establish the link.
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Superman Returns / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Superman Returns / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The first trailer consists entirely of footage of a teenage Clark experimenting with his powers, Martha Kent checking out a mysterious meteor in her back yard, and Lois Lane meeting Superman on a rooftop and looking shocked—all set to Jor-El's narration about why he's sending Kal-El to Earth. This gave a lot of people the impression that the movie was a remake of Superman: The Movie instead of its latest sequel. The fact that the title hadn't yet been revealed (the posters and trailer just showed the Superman logo on a blue background) didn't help. Another trailer made the movie seem like a basic Superman vs. Luthor adventure with no existential subplot.
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Superman Returns / int_1b7d59b6	type	Death by Materialism
Superman Returns / int_1b7d59b6	comment	Death by Materialism: Riley, Grant and Stanford would've made it to the helicopter if they hadn't stopped to grab all their stuff, especially all the poker money.
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Superman Returns / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Superman Returns / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Luthor constantly has classical music playing in the background aboard his yacht.
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Superman Returns / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Superman Returns / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: A crew of bank robbers is about to make a helicopter escape, and at first their rooftop-mounted minigun is doing a fine job of keeping the cops on the street pinned down. Two security guards bust onto the roof (from a stairwell) but his vest stops all of their panicked shots. Once he trains his weapon onto them, they know they are obviously screwed... until we see Superman zoom in from behind the gunman into the line of fire. "Faster than a speeding bullet", indeed.
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Superman Returns / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Superman Returns / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Due to the effects of the Kryptonite island, Superman is weakened to the point where he gets a truly vicious one from Luthor and his thugs, before being stabbed with a shard of it.
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Superman Returns / int_26a1af2f	type	Chance Meeting Between Antagonists
Superman Returns / int_26a1af2f	comment	Chance Meeting Between Antagonists: Lois sneaks onto Lex's yacht (not knowing it's his) and runs into the man himself, while he is brushing his teeth and utterly surprised to see her there.
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Superman Returns / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Superman Returns / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: When Jimmy Olsen showed Lois and Perry a photograph of Superman, he was so far in the Picture one of them asked if it was a Bird and the other asked if it was a plane. The saving of the plane is a direct reference shot by shot of Supes saving the space plane in The Man of Steel #1. The plane was attached to a space shuttle. The original idea for The Man of Steel #1 was for Superman to save a space shuttle, but was changed to an "experimental space-plane" following the 1986 Challenger disaster. Superman lowering Kitty's car to the ground looks like the cover to Action Comics #1. In the Novelization, during the plane rescue scene, Superman thinks about how easy it would be if he could move planets like how they said in the comic books they used to make about him. In the scene where Lex and his gang break into the museum, Lex wears a wig that resembles Lionel Luthor's long hair.
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Superman Returns / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Superman Returns / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Luthor's obsession with wigs is a carryover from Superman although this time it is more about disguises (he doesn't wear any when being himself).
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Superman Returns / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Superman Returns / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Superman himself is one to his son, though he didn't even know about him before returning to Earth. However, he then knowingly leaves at the end of the film. Cracked speculated his son became a supervillain enemy of his in the future due to this (the boy is shown to have his powers).
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Superman Returns / int_28d73447	type	Regional Redecoration
Superman Returns / int_28d73447	comment	Regional Redecoration: Lex Luthor's plan in Superman Returns involves creating an entirely new continent in the Atlantic utilizing Kryptonian technology. This will destroy most of North America and cause cataclysmic damage to the rest of the world. He intends to force them to turn to him as a savior.
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Superman Returns / int_2bdfcf74	type	OffscreenVillainDarkMatter
Superman Returns / int_2bdfcf74	comment	Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: The bank robbers Superman foils are ludicrously well-equipped, including an honest-to-God Vulcan cannon, mounted on a helicopter's crane rig. If these guys are able to get ahold of such powerful and expensive hardware, you'd think they could make a killing by skipping the bank heists and simply fencing the stuff off.
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Superman Returns / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Superman Returns / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Lex's Mook Brutus, whose appearance is really appropriate to his name, turns out to be a talented pianist.
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Superman Returns / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Superman Returns / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: Superman is defamed by Lois herself out of spite for deserting her for half a decade, and this movie is about Superman winning back both the trust and reverence of the public and then Lois, starting by averting a plane collision.
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Superman Returns / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Superman Returns / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: Lex Luthor gets off when the appellate court calls Superman as a witness and he doesn't show. First, appellate courts don't call witnesses or take witness testimony, they only review prior court cases to make sure they followed proper legal procedure. Second, if the appellate court did find a defect in the original conviction, it would result in a new trial. Third, even if the appeals court granted a new trial and Superman was unavailable to testify, that would be grounds for his testimony from the original trial to be entered into evidence.
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Superman Returns / int_339f6950	type	Paid Harem
Superman Returns / int_339f6950	comment	Paid Harem: Luthor's moll Kitty Kowalski.
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Superman Returns / int_33e48eb9	type	Hysterical Woman
Superman Returns / int_33e48eb9	comment	Hysterical Woman: Bobbie-Faye, the bespectacled PR woman for the 777 shuttle flight, completely loses her rehearsed coolheadedness when the plane fails to disengage and violently takes off into the upper atmosphere, and is repeatedly shown sobbing in terror and frantically praying for her life. Hard to hold it against her, though, given how terrifying and stressful such a situation would have to be.
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Superman Returns / int_34f590c9	type	Off on a Technicality
Superman Returns / int_34f590c9	comment	Off on a Technicality: Lex Luthor's conviction for his crimes at the first Superman movie was overturned because Superman didn't show up to testify against him during the appeal.
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Superman Returns / int_35f57671	type	Minion with an F in Evil
Superman Returns / int_35f57671	comment	Minion with an F in Evil: Kitty.
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Superman Returns / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Superman Returns / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Supes tries to halt the airplane's flat spin by grabbing the wing and pulling back on it. Airplane wings aren't built to handle that amount of torque. SNAP!! A mountain spire grows through the middle of a glass-bottom boat? SNAP, too!
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Superman Returns / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
Superman Returns / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: Kitty says she finds Clark to be cute.
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Superman Returns / int_43964f3	type	Worst News Judgment Ever
Superman Returns / int_43964f3	comment	Worst News Judgment Ever: Perry White is so wrapped up in Superman's return he doesn't seem to regard the EMP wave Luthor triggered, which crippled the entire Eastern Seaboard newsworthy. Lois frequently butts heads with him over this, as he wants her to go back to reporting on Superman. Possibly justified by Lois actually knowing Superman as a personal friend, and he's definitely not the easiest guy to pin down. Not to mention that she has a personal reason not wanting to meet with Superman. Also, Perry doesn't think Lex will be much of a threat since Superman will stop him anyway.
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Superman Returns / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Superman Returns / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Kitty wears some. It's not Fur and Loathing, since it's established she is not actually evil.
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Superman Returns / int_48f977b0	type	Magic Brakes
Superman Returns / int_48f977b0	comment	Magic Brakes: With Kitty behind the wheel, it's used as a distraction while Luthor steals some Kyptonite for his plan.
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Superman Returns / int_4b17763f	type	Technology Marches On
Superman Returns / int_4b17763f	comment	Technology Marches On: In-universe; thanks to most cellphones incorporating decent cameras even in 2006, passers-by are able to get extremely impressive shots of Superman in action, whereas all the luckless Jimmy can manage is a blurry, indistinct photo of something that may be Superman flying through the skies. Another in-universe example: Since there are very few phone booths in the 21st century, Clark instead uses an empty elevator to change into his Superman suit.
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Superman Returns / int_4b8932a4	type	Stalking Is Love
Superman Returns / int_4b8932a4	comment	Stalking Is Love: Superman overhears Lois's address and flies to her house, watching her and her family while hidden outside, using his X-ray vision. He later X-ray-stares at her as she walks out of the office.
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Superman Returns / int_4d070ee3	type	Power Perversion Potential
Superman Returns / int_4d070ee3	comment	Power Perversion Potential: Superman uses his X-Ray vision to spy on Lois at one point. Richard himself talks about if he had X-ray vision, he'd take it... a few steps further.
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Superman Returns / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Superman Returns / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The Daily Planet has prepared headlines for Superman's death or his recovery.
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Superman Returns / int_547196be	type	Broad Strokes
Superman Returns / int_547196be	comment	Broad Strokes: The relationship of this film to Richard Donner's Superman films.
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Superman Returns / int_54f731b9	type	Only a Model
Superman Returns / int_54f731b9	comment	Only a Model: Luthor's model train set and city.
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Superman Returns / int_55501673	type	Crooks Are Better Armed
Superman Returns / int_55501673	comment	Crooks Are Better Armed: One crook surprises the police with a mounted 20mm Gatling gun. Very good that ol' Supes was there to rescue them.
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Superman Returns / int_5a0e88d8	type	Bring It
Superman Returns / int_5a0e88d8	comment	Bring It: Verbalized by Luthor when Lois Lane tells him other countries won't stand for him sinking the US for his own man-made country.
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Superman Returns / int_5d245a4b	type	Dark Mistress
Superman Returns / int_5d245a4b	comment	Dark Mistress: Kitty.
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Superman Returns / int_6259dfa3	type	Grey Goo
Superman Returns / int_6259dfa3	comment	Grey Goo: The kryptonite island was intended to grow over America and the Novelization said it ended up growing into a planet after it was thrown into space.
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Superman Returns / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Superman Returns / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: The large crystal meteorite that accompanies Supes' return to Earth. It's never brought up in the movie why he would make the effort of bringing such a huge part of his planet with him, and apart from him saying that he hid it afterwards, it's never mentioned again. Only when you rifle through the deleted scenes do you find out that the thing is actually the crystalline spaceship he used to travel to Krypton and back, and that it was too critically damaged to perform a proper landing upon his return. Stealing a chunk of Kryptonite? Fine. Shaping it with Earth tools? I don't think so.
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Superman Returns / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Superman Returns / int_6439de78	comment	When asking Clark about why Superman left without even saying goodbye, he reasons that it was too difficult for him to do so, to which Lois responds in her sarcastic manner; "What's so difficult about saying goodbye?!" At the end of the film, before Superman lifts the Kryptonite continent into space, an act that all involved were almost certain would kill him, he says goodbye to Lois, and it seems she finally realizes what Clark meant earlier.
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Superman Returns / int_6cf80934	type	Big Word Shout
Superman Returns / int_6cf80934	comment	Big Word Shout and You're Insane!: Said in a particularly memetic scene with Lex Luthor talking to Lois.
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Superman Returns / int_6e5da6fe	type	UngratefulBitch
Superman Returns / int_6e5da6fe	comment	Ungrateful Bitch: Lois after Superman saves her from a plane crash. She claims she's still mad about Superman leaving her without so much as a goodbye or an explanation and still has no qualms writing that paper about how the world needs to forget about Superman.
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Superman Returns / int_6fe06cc5	type	FootFocus
Superman Returns / int_6fe06cc5	comment	Foot Focus: Lois makes sure to take off her high-heeled shoes and places her bare feet on top of Superman's boots as she's getting ready to fly with him, complete with a close-up. Later, we get a close up of Lois putting shoes on her bare feet as she's preparing to head out to an investigation.
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Superman Returns / int_7175cb16	type	Clark Kenting
Superman Returns / int_7175cb16	comment	Clark Kenting: Given a nod when Lois lists off Superman's measurements and Richard notices that Clark fits the bill, though they quickly brush it off. Jason White however notices the resemblance but doesn't brush it off as quickly.
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Superman Returns / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Superman Returns / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: The only reason for Superman to go off on his own to find out the fate of Krypton. He apparently forgot what he said in Superman II by promising that he'd never leave the people of Earth again, because just one week without him had a trio of supervillains running amuck. So, he leaves Earth for five years. To confirm something his father already told him. Face Palm.
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Superman Returns / int_781f2467	type	Shooting Superman
Superman Returns / int_781f2467	comment	Shooting Superman: To the offending crook's credit, after the minigun rounds failed to do anything, he got the idea that maybe it was the suit that was deflecting the bullets, pulled his pistol out, and then shot Supes in the eye... not only does this fail, but Supes doesn't even blink.
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Superman Returns / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Superman Returns / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Done with a cop exclaiming "Holy sh-" when he sees a crook's Gatling gun about to be fired at him.
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Superman Returns / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Superman Returns / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: The situation is already looking extremely dire when the 777 fails to disengage from the space shuttle and is rapidly ascending with it into the upper atmosphere, and then while Lois is still struggling to make it into a seat, the shuttle's main booster kicks on, hurling her against the back wall of the cabin and taking the plane's passengers up into space.
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Superman Returns / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
Superman Returns / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: As well as an adaptation, it got a four-issue prequel focusing on Jor-El, Martha Kent, Lois Lane and Lex Luthor.
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Superman Returns / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
Superman Returns / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: In a deleted scene, Kal finds Jor-El's lab relatively intact, however, he flies further and all that remains of the rest of the planet is some debris.
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Superman Returns / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Superman Returns / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Lex Luthor.
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Superman Returns / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Superman Returns / int_83442cc3	comment	EMP: The first side-effect of Lex's shard of crystals dropping the water causes a mass blackout EMP in Metropolis. Fortunately it's only temporary but after that the crystals can vibrate strong enough to tear down cities and even continents.
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Superman Returns / int_8e5c6752	type	Contractual Genre Blindness
Superman Returns / int_8e5c6752	comment	Contractual Genre Blindness: Evil genius he may be, but Lex Luthor never seems to suspect anything from Kitty's finding Superman attractive or her moral qualms with his nefarious plan, despite already being screwed over under the exact same circumstances in the original Superman.
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Superman Returns / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Superman Returns / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Lots of Christ symbolism.
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Superman Returns / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Superman Returns / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Class X-2 in the prologue. Krypton is spectacularly destroyed by a supernova (as established by Superman: The Movie). Luthor's plan would have resulted in a Class 2, with much of the Earth flooded by his new continent.
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Superman Returns / int_94b78deb	type	Every Helicopter Is a Huey
Superman Returns / int_94b78deb	comment	Every Helicopter Is a Huey: Superman foils a bank robber attempting to make a rooftop getaway in a Huey, who used the door-mounted minigun to hold off the cops. This doesn't work quite so well on Superman. Averted with Lex Luthor's AW109.
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Superman Returns / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Superman Returns / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When asking Clark about why Superman left without even saying goodbye, he reasons that it was too difficult for him to do so, to which Lois responds in her sarcastic manner; "What's so difficult about saying goodbye?!" At the end of the film, before Superman lifts the Kryptonite continent into space, an act that all involved were almost certain would kill him, he says goodbye to Lois, and it seems she finally realizes what Clark meant earlier. Jason claims that although he has asthma now, his mother (Lois) say's he'll grow up big and strong like his father. Of course, at the time, she thought Richard was his father, but it still applies. Lex Luthor notices Jason breathing heavily and reacting somewhat fearfully, when he reveals his Kryptonite.
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Superman Returns / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Superman Returns / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Lois. During the plane scene she gets tossed around the crashing plane more than a rag-doll in a tumble dryer, I mean really knocked around the plane's cabin yet walks away from it with nary a bruise or concussion. Sure she passes out but gets up the next day without a scratch.
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Superman Returns / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Superman Returns / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: Superman's inner monologue while struggling to save the plane in the novelization.
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Superman Returns / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Superman Returns / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Many to the Donner Superman movies, which are meant to take place before it. For instance, the airplane rescue scenario is similar to Superman's rescue of Air Force One in the first movie, albeit more spectacular in execution.
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Superman Returns / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Superman Returns / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Defied in the film's trailer money shot. A goon shoots Superman in the eye with a pistol, and the bullet flattens and bounces off. Superman doesn't even flinch.
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Superman Returns / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Superman Returns / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: Returns clearly ignores Superman III, IV and Supergirl.
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Superman Returns / int_abdc0b3f	type	Held Gaze
Superman Returns / int_abdc0b3f	comment	Held Gaze: Superman and Lois Lane, often. Most conspicuously when he flies her above the city after he returns from Krypton and she's still a bit upset with him for leaving without saying goodbye to her.
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Superman Returns / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Superman Returns / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The bank robber, after unsuccessfully emptying a minigun into Supes' chest, figures maybe it's just the suit that's bulletproof, pulls out a semi-auto, and shoots him point-blank right in the eye. He doesn't even blink. Said robber's expression makes it clear that he fully realizes just how utterly screwed he is. Luthor gets a brief one when he hears that Brutus was just killed by a flying piano. It takes him all of a second to figure out how it happened and decide to get the hell out of Dodge. This is Lois Lane's reaction when she figures out who owns the ship she's snooping around in (with her kid in tow!).
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Superman Returns / int_adab0a2b	type	Took a Shortcut
Superman Returns / int_adab0a2b	comment	Took a Shortcut: It is made clear by Jor-El's narration in the first movie that Superman's journey to Earth took thousands of years, but he only aged a few years due to the effects of relativity. Jor-El's comment shows up in this movie when Lex and his goons are in the Fortress of Solitude. Somehow, though, Superman has traveled all the way to the ruined Krypton and back, and only five years have passed by on Earth.
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Superman Returns / int_ae8f59a6	type	Hammy Villain, Serious Hero
Superman Returns / int_ae8f59a6	comment	Hammy Villain, Serious Hero: Superman is quiet and introverted to contrast the loud and bombastic Lex Luthor.
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Superman Returns / int_aeb9527	type	Data Crystal
Superman Returns / int_aeb9527	comment	Data Crystal: The computer in Superman's Fortress. Luthor had some ideas for them.
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Superman Returns / int_b63019a5	type	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn
Superman Returns / int_b63019a5	comment	High-Heel–Face Turn: Kitty Kowalski.
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Superman Returns / int_b800a2e0	type	Failing a Taxi
Superman Returns / int_b800a2e0	comment	Failing a Taxi: Lois falls into this, prompting Clark to make a loud whistle so that a taxi does finally notice.
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Superman Returns / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Superman Returns / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Rising star Kal Penn plays Stanford, one of Luthor's Mooks, and among them gets the lion's share of close-ups, but almost none of his lines whatsoever made it to final cut.
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Superman Returns / int_b9619eff	type	Phlebotinum Battery
Superman Returns / int_b9619eff	comment	Phlebotinum Battery: Superman is weakened with a Kryptonite shard in his side, so he Fights Off The Kryptonite by rising into the sunlight.
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Superman Returns / int_bbc17998	type	Enforced Method Acting
Superman Returns / int_bbc17998	comment	Enforced Method Acting: In-universe example — Kitty's out-of-control car catches Superman's attention for a damn good reason:
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Superman Returns / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Superman Returns / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: In an homage to the original faint scene from the 1978 film, an aircraft malfunction almost kills all of the passengers, including Lois. Superman makes his first public reappearance by saving the aircraft and landing it safely in a packed sports arena. He then personally speaks to Lois, echoing their conversation on the helipad in the original film. Completely overwhelmed, Lois follows him out of the aircraft's exit and once again watches speechlessly as he flies off into the sky before she drops and slides limply down the plane's inflated evacuation slide, unconscious.note The Novelization cuts the part where Lois faints, but adds an original part where a nurse faints when discovering that Superman has fully healed and left the hospital on his own.
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Superman Returns / int_bf95550c	type	Tie-In Novel
Superman Returns / int_bf95550c	comment	Tie-In Novel: As well as her novelization, Louise Simonson wrote a prequel novel called Superman Returns: Strange Visitor.
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Superman Returns / int_c1967d3e	type	Retro Universe
Superman Returns / int_c1967d3e	comment	Retro Universe: Word of God says that he added old fashioned cars and machine guns in alongside modern camera phones so it wouldn't be obvious to future viewers that this movie was made decades after the early Superman movies.
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Superman Returns / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Superman Returns / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Kate Bosworth was accused of this. Jason can be pretty emotionless at times too. Riley and Grant's reaction to Brutus's death. Especially Grant. This one, at least, is at least justifiable due to shock.
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Superman Returns / int_c22e0b2	type	Revenge of the Sequel
Superman Returns / int_c22e0b2	comment	Revenge of the Sequel: The title of the movie is Superman Returns. Supes returns after going into space for several years to search for the remnants of Krypton.
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Superman Returns / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Superman Returns / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: Superman in Superman II promises that he'd never abandon the world after vanishing for at most two weeks. Then goes off for five years to search for a planet his own father swore up and down was destroyed in the first film. Oh, and he does this before showing up in court, allowing Lex to be acquitted because Supes was a no show.
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Superman Returns / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Superman Returns / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: It got three of them. An adult one by Marv Wolfman, a junior novel by Louise Simonson and another childrens' book by Brandon T. Snider called The Last Son Of Krypton note Tells the first half of the movie with several villains from the comics added in, a bit like in the video game . Interestingly all three leave out any reference to Jason being Superman's son.
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Superman Returns / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Superman Returns / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The scene of Superman investigating the ruins of Krypton in his Kryptonian spacecraft became this when it was left on the cutting room floor. And yes, it is awesome.
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Superman Returns / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
Superman Returns / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Superman. The film greatly expands upon the allusion in this speech from Superman: The Movie. Besides reusing the God-like floating head version of Jor-El, Superman's return is a "Second Coming", he suffers a "Passion" when Lex and his men beat him up and Lex stabs him in the side, after saving the day he falls to Earth near death in a cruciform position, and he unexpectedly recovers from supposedly fatal injuries, with his empty hospital bed evoking the empty tomb. And as at least one critic (of Time magazine) pointed out, Superman secretly having a child with Lois is sort of like Jesus secretly having a child with Mary Magdalene.
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Superman Returns / int_d0bc6ed3	type	Fantastically Challenging Patient
Superman Returns / int_d0bc6ed3	comment	Fantastically Challenging Patient: After Superman comes crashing down on Metropolis following him lifting Luthor's island into space, the doctors try their best to help him. They are able to remove the remaining slivers of the Kryptonite shard Luthor shivved Supes with from the still-open wound and apply a defibrillator shock (which browns out the whole building for a second) when his heart enters V-fib, but they are not able to do anything further because of his invulnerable skin. Fortunately, that was all that was needed.
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Superman Returns / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
Superman Returns / int_d139ffaf	comment	Genre Throwback: Rather a Homage to the Richard Donner Superman films of the 70/80's.
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Superman Returns / int_d2aa7d09	type	Littlest Cancer Patient
Superman Returns / int_d2aa7d09	comment	Littlest Cancer Patient / Innocent Prodigy: Jason, Lois's son.
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Superman Returns / int_d51263b9	type	Fake Shemp
Superman Returns / int_d51263b9	comment	Fake Shemp: Unused/recycled footage plus CGI by Rhythm & Hues keeps Marlon Brando in the Jor-El role despite his death in 2004.
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Superman Returns / int_d5b6ff94	type	Genesis Effect
Superman Returns / int_d5b6ff94	comment	Genesis Effect: The Novelization says that Luthor's kryptonite island grew into a planet and settled into permanent orbit between Mars and Jupiter.
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Superman Returns / int_d7ecbd57	type	You're Insane!
Superman Returns / int_d7ecbd57	comment	You're Insane!: The memetic WRRROOONNNGGG exchange.
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Superman Returns / int_daa33a93	type	Wealthy Yacht Owner
Superman Returns / int_daa33a93	comment	Wealthy Yacht Owner: First scene in the movie is Lex Luthor swindling an old woman out of her fortune, and among the many things he obtained with it there is a huge yacht-complete with helipad, piano, top-of-the-line electronics, enough room to work on a plan that could destroy the American continent without feeling constricted...
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Superman Returns / int_dbe4847b	type	Conveniently Cellmates
Superman Returns / int_dbe4847b	comment	Conveniently Cellmates: A sequel comic has Lex Luthor pull strings to get a less-than-bright cellmate, specifically so he can have an audience for his genius plans.
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Superman Returns / int_de70f5a4	type	Continuity Cameo
Superman Returns / int_de70f5a4	comment	Continuity Cameo: The actress playing Lex's elderly wife, Gertrude Vanderworth, played Lois Lane in the The Adventures of Superman in the 1950s, for 78 episodes.
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Superman Returns / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Superman Returns / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Played straight when Lois begs Luthor to at least allow Jason to leave the yacht. Just after that, an inversion: when Brutus notices her transmission of an SOS fax (with the yacht's location) to the Daily Planet office, he predictably gets rough with her. That's when Jason (scared and shocked by such abuse) reflexively shoves the piano he'd been playing onto the unsuspecting Brutus.
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Superman Returns / int_e1636077	type	SchrÃ¶dinger's Canon
Superman Returns / int_e1636077	comment	Schrödinger's Canon: Superman Returns ignores the events of Superman III and IV, considering itself a direct sequel to Superman II. So, one can choose to believe that, after Superman II, the films got Denser and Wackier and ended up with Superman fighting Nuclear Man on the moon, or that Clark Kent left Earth for a decade or so and had a son with Lois Lane.
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Superman Returns / int_e4ad6a07	type	ThemeSongPowerUp
Superman Returns / int_e4ad6a07	comment	Theme Song Power Up: When Lois's family in trapped in the sinking ship, facing apparent doom with a mournful dirge on the soundtrack. Suddenly, their despair is lifted as Superman arrives to rescue them by lifting the ship to the Superman March.
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Superman Returns / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Superman Returns / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Kitty is basically one to Eve Teschmacher from the 1978 film.
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Superman Returns / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Superman Returns / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: When Clark hails a taxi for Lois, it has a Mountain Dew banner. There's also a very sneaky one early on, when Clark is having a bowl of cereal while recovering at the Kent's farmhouse; looking closely, you can see he's eating Cheerios, which got a Product Placement in the original film so obvious that General Mills was listed in the credits.
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Superman Returns / int_f7628678	type	Character Outlives Actor
Superman Returns / int_f7628678	comment	Character Outlives Actor: Although the character was already deceased in-universe, Marlon Brando's image and old footage was used to portray a dialogue between recordings of Jor-El and Lex Luthor.
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