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While contentious even among some fans , Batman v Superman : Dawn of Justiceconstructed the theoretical account for DC’sshared funny book population . The starkly violent film ended with Superman giving his life to destroy supervillain Doomsday . His sacrifice not only saved the planet but also give human beings ( and Batman ) hope for the future , pave the way forJustice League . Of of course , as Batman goes about foregather the squad , there ’s one trouble with the first lineup : Supes is miss .
Everyone know he wo n’t stick around bushed for long ; the team just would n’t be the same without its Kryptonian keystone . Fortunately , the vacillate dirt episode at his funeral inBvS , as well as the“dream sequence”from the most recentJustice Leaguetrailer – where Clark Kent and Lois Lane reunite – both rally his resurrection . Of of course , Supermanreturning from the deadis one thing . He ’s an alien from Krypton with an alien physiology . Sure , it ’ll be unnatural , but Superman is already unnatural .
But what about his alter - ego , Daily Planet reporter and presumed human Clark Kent ? Between his undefendable casket funeral and widely - circulated necrology , walk into oeuvre would , at best , could cause some scare and , at defective , strip out whatever pretenses about his secret individuality remain . So , how can Clark return to his day job without have numerous raised eyebrows ?
Clark Is Dead
The wanton solution is the uncomplicated one : Clark Kent stays dead . In the classicDeath of Supermanstory arc , Kent was miss rather than utter . Being trap in a basement was much easier to explicate than having him walk in after a well - attended funeral . rather of go bad to the bother of crafting a plausible story for the intrepid reporter ’s resurrection ( no , the walk Kent does n’t work ) , author Chris Terrio may pull up stakes him functionally deceased .
There is one job with leaving him in the casket , though : it kill one of the specify quixotic relationship in DC Comics ' history . straight , Superman lives once more , but it might expect suspicious if a recently mourning Lois leaps straight into the blazonry of an eerily familiar caped hero . At the same time , screenwriter David S. Goyer and director Zack Snyder cut out the traditional love triangle angle inMan of Steel . Since Lois have a go at it Superman ’s lawful identity , at least they can sidestep the issue of his and Kent ’s death with her .
allow for his glasses - clad analog efficaciously drained also allow the film maker to stab into Kal - El ’s makeup without his " human " side . At the same metre , it also strip him of his most humanizing and identifiable trait : a day job . Still , the red and blueness - clad ( or perhapsblack - clad ) paladin can now devote his metre to saving lives , cutting out the energy - suck of maintaining a double life . Man of Steel 2could even focus on his endeavour to rebuild his life sentence with Lois and devote himself to a full - clock time superhero - ing .
DC could go a different route , though , one which already feels par for the course .
Clark Is Superman
Seeing as Lois already sleep together her groom-to-be isSuperman and most of his coworkers probably take over he is , Clark could just come in white about his true self . Snyder ’s existence is already more realistic than the traditional DC comic book world , comparatively speaking . In the un - DCEU , Batman is only a hair remove from Bruce Wayne , so let the hombre out of the bag on Supes is n’t that of vainglorious a deal in theory .
There is one job with an unveiled Clark - Superman dynamic , though . It puts Kal - El ’s family , as well as Daily Planet and its staff , in harm ’s direction – much like when Spider - Man revealed his identity duringCivil Warand wound up do no remnant of heartache . Now , any two - bit thug looking to hurt Superman can pluck and choose their fair game from folks who know him . However , the revelation could head to some interesting subplots .
On the other hand , Terrio and company could walk down a different path after the Man of Steel is revived …
A New Alter-Ego
Warner Bros. could introduce an alternate version of him , similar to what happens in Alan Moore ’s 1986 storyline , “ Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?”In the story , Clark decides to take someserioustime off from domain - protecting . So , he walks into a room full of gold kryptonite and depowers himself . He renames himself Jordan Elliot ( a take - off of Jor - El ) and start to work as a mechanic , move back into a normal spirit with Lois and their son Jonathan .
While harder to sell to the fan base , creating a brand new alter ego might be the gross set - up forMan of Steel 2 . Metropolis is a massive city . Rather than returning to his old problem , where his gaffer and his coworkers will ask lots of passing uncomfortable questions , Kal - El can correct up in another industriousness with a new name . And no one would be the wiser .
Another possible option : Clark could take the air into body of work and nobody bats an heart . Hopefully , this is n’t the case , specially with the amount of detail that went into worldbuilding and plotting the DC films . At the same sentence , Kent ’s Christ’s Resurrection could be gloss over as a falsified report or even as “ phoney news , ” depending on how parodic the creatives find . Since the funeral took place in front of tightlipped friends and fellow , they ’d be the only one who know the truth about Clark ’s " death " ‒ at least until a awful bane turns up to torture or judgement - ascendence someone who ’s in on the secret anyway .
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At present , DC and Warner Bros. have several options available for Clark Kent after his alter - ego returns . A post - Clark Metropolis would n’t constrain the film to traditional lore . A world without a dual identity element Kal - El also has its curious merits . However , after Zack Snyder ’s deconstructionism rubbed some fans the wrong way , the filmmakers will in all probability revisit the status quo and play the mild - mannered reporter back to the vanguard .
One path or another , the Superman will bring back inJustice League , setting up the possibly Matthew Vaughn - directedMan of Steel 2 , as well as his full - fledged rank inJustice League 2 . Without a doubt , DC also has a program for Clark Kent as well . It will be interesting to see how they bring back their routine one newsy … and how his co - worker react .
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