BBally81 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 12:12 am
- While this iteration is more inspired by the Post Crisis Superman comics of the time that was setup by John Byrne especially Clark Kent being more assertive and less mild mannered, the Kents still being alive into Clark's adulthood and of course business tycoon Lex Luthor, the show would later show more Pre-Crisis elements than the comics were willing to allow SPOILER WARNING!!
Phantom Zone criminals from Krypton and later on Supergirl would be from Argo (though unlike the Pre-Crisis counterpart Argo wasn't a colony of other Kryptonians but separate sister planet to Krypton) and not a sentient gooey shapeshifter from an alternate universe.
They had to fight for a lot of that, as I recall. They wanted Kara as Kryptonian but DC refused, and eventually they got them to agree to the Argo background. Plus they initially demanded stuff like "she can't fly" IIRC, but it was quietly ignored.
IIRC in the 90s DC was still trying to hold to the "Superman is the only Kryptonian" rule and not having a Kryptonian Supergirl as in pre-Crisis. They only folded on that in the aughts due to Dan Didio's love of the older characters (hence the return of so many of them in that decade: Hal Jordan, Oliver Queen, Kara Zor-El, even Barry Allen eventually).
Same since some of them are as interesting as white bread.
