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Raddest_Chad posted...

Yeah. I thought Superman was lame for so long because he just constantly kept making up new powers, it felt like. But then I saw that two-parter on the Justice League cartoon where he got sent into the future and lost his abilities because the sun was red and had to struggle to survive.

So only the time Superman shines as a character is when he doesn't have his powers than. And he didn't even really struggle. There wasn't a period where he was really shocked because of his previous reliance on of his powers, and struggled cope in a strange, dangerous, world without them. After understanding his situation, he quickly went literal boy scout, and put together survival equipment. Nor was he ever panicked at the idea of having to face dangers as a mere mortal. He handled every situation calm and collected. The one time he lost his cool was when Savage was casually recalling how he murdered the Justice League.

Also, the thing that made that story interesting wasn't really Superman, it was the mystery of where he was, Savage, and his transformation as a person as a result of the guilt of his actions.

There is actually a fairly big flaw in the story, although I forgive it since the overall story was so good. Savage says the reason he didn't use his time machine to correct the future was because he can't send things into the past that already exist there, but in previous episodes he got around this limitation by sending back in time a laptop with information of the future, rather than going back in person. He could have done the same thing again, but instead Superman is the only thing he can send back because he was sent forward in time.
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