Still trying to figure out how they're going to explain Clark coming back when everyone in Smallville was at his funeral and saw the body in the casket.
I mean have you
read a comic book? Is there
anything comic fans moaned about as irreversible that wasn't or couldn't be undone?
In the span of three films:
- Jor-El's image exists after Krypton dies.
- Zod and his insurgents live after sent to their execution and Krypton dies.
- Zod dies and his corpse is revived.
- Time travel.
- Cosmic alien invasion with parademons.
- Immortal Amazonian warrior speaks of other worlds.
- Immortal goddess / witch speaks of other worlds.
- Witch promises to bring
.
-
apparent death.
-
is revealed to have a latent god within.
I'm sure I'm forgetting a few, not to mention everything on the table from
Wonder Woman. How
little imagination that to say Clark's return is impossible?
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An easy way to explain Clark's death is to say he faked it.
In the film, Clark is already missing
prior to Doomsday. Perry has the scene / line, "Still no Kent?"
Then the story is Clark was chasing an especially dangerous story where he had to fake his death and lay low in order to finish it. Doomsday provides the perfect cover, so he has a wake to seal the deal of his death. Depending on your level of suspension of belief, you let more or less people in on the plan (immediate family; or all Smallville attendees; or all attendees including Perry; etc). The open-casket body is not a deal-breaker. Remember that Zod's body
in reality (outside the film) was a prop and not the real Michael Shannon.
That allows Clark to come back at any time. He doesn't have to arrive simultaneously with Superman and trigger audiences unable to suspend their nitpicking. He comes back when his story suits him. Everyone will understand and accept Clark faking his death if the alternative is having organized crime kill your family, firebomb your office, and silence you.
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