In 1978 Richard Donner brought to the cinemas a film that marked a turning point for the history of DC Comics as Superman, the first Hollywood production focused on the Man of Steel that to date is acclaimed, although there is a scene that several do not convinced.
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Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman and Marc Maclure led the cast of the film whose plot was written by Mario Puzo himself, the writer of The Goodfather. The plot referenced stories from the golden and silver ages of comics.
In the climactic part of the film, Lex Luthor uses two missiles to destroy the West Coast, in order to market new land. Superman manages to stop a missile from destroying Hackensack, but the second missile hits the San Andreas Fault, affecting multiple locations in California.
After saving thousands of people in San Francisco and the Hoover Dam, Superman arrives at the buried car of Lois Lane, who died of suffocation. An obviously upset Superman defies the orders of Jor-El and the elders of Krypton and turns back time to save Lois.
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This scene is inspired by one of the powers that various authors gave Superman in the silver and bronze ages within Action Comics, where the Man of Steel had abilities such as telepathy, and even shape-shifting.
The story in question was published in Superman #141 (November 1960), where Kal-El manages to go back in time to reach Krypton before the planet exploded, even interacting with Jor-El and Lara, his parents, even though they don’t know him.
One of the characteristics of this stage was the disbelief of these stories, which were not part of the canon of Superman, who after Crisis on infinite Earths and his “reboot” with John Byrne’s Man of Steel, was given definite powers and they even limited their room for manoeuvre.
Also, Clark had seen Jonathan Kent die, and questioned the point of having his great powers if he couldn’t prevent the people he loved from dying, something that he promised himself would never happen again.
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Sources: ScreenRant / DC Comics
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