Tuesday, February 1, 2022

The Vision Vs. Cyborg Superman

 

So far on Superman and Lois, we have seen the introductions of John Henry Irons and The Eradicator.  Jordan is quickly gaining powers to become somewhat of a Superboy as well.  Can it be long before we see some version of a Cyborg Superman on the show?  They do seem to be embracing the Death and Return of Superman era of the comics.  It even looked like we were going to get Doomsday, before they pulled a switch and revealed it was Bizarro inside the suit.

5 comments:

det_Tobor said...

great summation. Since C-Superman has a human at the helm, would he care about any damage he does?
Vision hasn't interacted with many female androids. How about him and Platinum meeting and realizing that each is not a conventional android? New friendship?

Carycomic said...

Personally, I find NAOMI more interesting.

P.S. @ D.T.---I recently learned that the robotically correct term is "gynoid." Can I get an "Amen" and a "Lol"?

Bob Greenwade said...

Cyborg Superman actually appeared on Supergirl, as one of the Girl of Steel's first foes, and played by David Harewood (the same actor as J'Onn J'Onzz, being the thought-dead human whose life J'Onn had decided to take over).

The bait-and-switch into Bizarro on S&L was a brilliant tactic, even though Kara also already fought an all-but-comic-accurate version. It was also brilliantly played out, even dropping the word "doomsday" in dialogue just to get us excited.

Ideally, the writers would go on to recall Kara's adventure in giving this new threat his "Bizarro" name, leave Superman no choice but to destroy him. Then Henshaw will show up, and wind up escaping but so badly damaged as to be in danger of death, only to somehow merge with this Bizarro. Of course, I'm predicting that nothing like that will happen, since the writers seem to be determined to ignore the whole rest of the Arrowverse outside Smallville and Metropolis.

@Cary: I'm finding Naomi interesting as well, though I'm still trying to decide whether it happens in the same universe as Stargirl or in its own universe. (I'm leaning toward the latter until further notice.) My only issue with it is that it seems to be leaning toward the many of same issues of xenophobia as were addressed on the first three seasons of Supergirl, but in a high-paranoia manner usually seen in X-Men franchise programming such as The Gifted.

Oh, and "Amen" for "gynoid." I once wrote a play about one, called Androids Don't Cry. (I need to run through it for a rewrite one of these days).

Anonymous said...

Man, I have the Superman and Fantastic Four crossover with Cyborg Superman being a secondary villain. Good read.

Carycomic said...

As the Vision said to STF's Chief of Security:

"I shouldn't have to be tested! Technically, I'm not a robot. I'm a synthezoid."

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