Once again, Justice League: Gods and Monsters is taking it to the next level. It's the re-imagined Superman's turn to crank up the controversy, and what follows is somehow more alarming than the Son of Zod's newly cultivated goatee beard...
* Spoilers *
Amanda Waller is President of the United States (not the most pleasant proposition to begin with), and thanks to Brainiac's potentially planet-toppling shenanigans, has ordered a nuclear strike on American soil to prevent further catastrophe. Yep, it's that bad.
Suffice it to say, the day needs saving and Superman is all set to deliver. But not in the way you'd expect...oh no. Not in this universe.
Justice League: Gods and Monsters' incarnation of the Man of Steel swoops down into the soon-to-be-nuked city, strides through gusts of radiation-rinsed wind and locates the chaos' epicenter: Brainiac. Surrounded by a force field, the genetically engineered rabble-rouser appears as a sobbing, utterly terrified kid. (Seriously, he doesn't look any older than six or seven.) Superman pierces his protective barrier, demanding that the destruction cease immediately.
Alas, it's not quite that straightforward.
Brainiac doesn't know how to switch off the untold vigor coursing through his veins...power threatening to blow a big hole in the planet's face. He's lost control and has no clue what to do. But Superman does -- it involves immediate termination of the weeping, panic-stricken young lad. Our "hero's" eyes start to gleam, a fiendish burst of Brainiac-obliterating power brewing behind them...and that's pretty much the end of that.
It's all rather startling. Has Justice League: Gods and Monsters gone too far in depicting the death of (what is presented as) a hapless, petrified child? Or can Superman's brutal actions be justified by the civilization-toppling alternative of doing nothing?
Your call, folks. Video clip below.
via Kotaku
