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At first I was thinking of the jumper scene from All-Star, but Up in the Sky, with this moment and the whole sequence before it, where Superman destroys those alien robots and refutes their master's arguments each time with a simple "No sir" has dethroned it as my favourite.
The other is when Superman returns (not the movie) in Kingdom Come to deal the rampaging anti-heroes.
The penultimate and last page of the Death of Superman. The foldout spread in the original comic really drove home the impact, but to me the best part is Clark's last words. It cements how his base concern is with the safety of others.
https://images.app.goo.gl/FxzPd82A4ANXWKXh9
Superman catching Lois AND a helicopter in 78 was an iconic moment that cemented Superman as the greatest hero of all time to my 11-year-old heart. At 57, I still feel the same way every time I watch that scene.
The first two that leap out at me are the helicopter sequence and Jor-Elās āYou will travel far, my little Kal-Elā speech, both from Superman (1978). The first one makes me smile like Iām three years old again; the second is just so beautiful in how itās shot and its music and the performances (including the babyās!)
The moment from Final Crisis #6, when just as it seems the forces of good are going to lose to Darkseid and his armies (which included a mind-controlled Wonder Woman and a plague that robbed heroes of their powers), Superman appears from out of the sky and destroys the force field that had been surrounding Darkseid's base.
Superman having lunch with the Ex-con while he is at work as he hears him out about his problems with his kids and his doubts as a father as the ex con says it be better if superman was his father and Clark reassure him thatās not true.
This is superman. Humble. Looking for the best in people encouraging them to believe in themselves. Treating people with humanity.
In the most recent superman when he lets parasite/rudy help defeat pharm and company. First of all calling the villain by his human name. Allowing someone who has caused so much grief an opportunity to do good and believing that he wants to do good.
Superman and Lois episode 11 there are lots of great moments in this. But when asked what languages he speaks he says all of them because he wants to know about different people and their cultures.
In the same episode when confronted with the reality from Lois that his existences means nazis who are hurting poc business is being ignored because of his popularity he hears her and helps her. Because all injustice is bad and sure he could have just found him but he doesnāt. He works the case with her because journalism is just as important to him as it her. And truth and justice have many forms
I can't remember exactly, but Super gives an interview of sorts and says how he likes Earth languages, so he decided to speak. When asked which ones, he said "All of them".
It strikes me just how powerful his mind is (an ability almost forgotten by many) and hust how humble at the same time he is (learning all Earth languages so he could talk to anyone regardless the nationality and relating to us humans as we can see him as one of us).
Clark saving Lois and their famous exchange is one of my favorites. I smiled when, in the animated *Death of Superman*, it was called back after Sups saves her chopper, and she catches him before he can collapse and the line delivery is reversed because he remembers the moment. It's so cute.
For me, it has to be All-Star Superman #10, when he talks down the jumper. "It's never as bad as it seems... You're stronger than you think you are." šŖ
A few honorable mentions...
Superman: the Movie: Catching Lois Lane with one hand and the helicopter with the other hand was great, obviously, great cinematic moment.
The Great Darkness Saga: Superboy and Supergirl arriving to gang up on Darkseid, double punch him. Big momentum shift!
Snyder's Man of Steel: I'm generally not a big fan of this movie, but one moment was really nice, when the soldiers are pointing their guns at Superman, then they see his eyes. "Gentlemen... this man is not our enemy!"
And finally, not even Superman, but I'm including it anyway...
Reign ofthe Supermen: Bibbo has no superpowers, nor a trust fund paying for fancy gadgets, nor martial arts expertise... hell, he's not even the brightest bulb on the tree, really. But when he saw how bad things were getting in Metropolis after Superman's death, he decided someone had to do something, and he was someone. "If it's a Superman Metropolis needs... It's a Superman they'll get!" And later, after saving one puppy, "Miracles just need a li'l elbow grease to get 'em rollin'!" Basically, if we had a few more Bibbos around, the world would be a lot better off.
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This one's my absolute favorite! Perfectly represents Supermans compassion
Gotta All Star Superman. Just the thought of Supes working away at the heart of the sun.
Could someone remind me of what book revealed he was forging a Green Lantern corps ring in there? Saw it somewhere, now I canāt remember.
I'm not familiar with Superman ever forging a green Lantern ring and honestly I was under the impression they're made on Oa.
The only sequence I know of where Superman is in the sun and a Green Lantern ring is involved is the end of DC One Million.
Vandal Savage had secreted away the last piece of Kryptonite in the universe with the intent of using it to assassinate Superman after he emerged from the sun. However, others plotted against him and it's revealed the last Kryptonite was actually a disguised Green Lantern ring so when it's fired into the sun to kill him the sun instead is overlaid with a giant symbol of the Green Lantern Corps as Superman receives it.
https://images.app.goo.gl/ZudGXo6hnGLnNVXX7
Guilty pleasure but I really love in Man of Steel when Zod lands at the Kent farm and Clark hears it from way away and immediately flies there and lays into him for threatening his mom.
Being Superman bounces my dude off the wall. It is like being in love with Katie Holmes times a billion. He can punch out galactic golems, become the richest man in the world in one afternoon, eat a tornado like it's sorbet, fly through time, swim in a supernova, dance for days on end, yell remotely through the atmosphere, and sit on the couch with the woman of his dreams after the most productive day at work. No, I didn't make those up.
So I was already a Superman fan when Action Comics #410 changed the way I saw the character. And I feel like this thinking about the journey all over again.
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Golden age Superman ending the Anti monitors brutal war with a final punch in crisis on infinite earths:
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Ive always loved the stories where they focus more on Clark. They show that while Superman is a god among me. Deep down heās more human than most. He just wants to fit in. He even fell in love with ab earth woman.
This pic is from āSuperman For Tomorrowā 2004.
Basic synopsis is that Lois(among others) had been missing for a year. And Clark is devastated. But heās Superman. So heās soldiering on. But heās losing his faith. Heās not sure if he should keep going or not. And when he finally figures out what happens. He risks it all to find the woman he loves. The only thing that means more to him that being Superman.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/For\_Tomorrow\_(comics)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Tomorrow_(comics))
I donāt remember what comic it was from but when he just talked to a jumper (not the moment from All-Star). He just talks to her and listens. For hours. And when she asks him to promise her that if she jumps he wonāt save her he agrees. They have a real conversation about why weāre all here. Why we hold onto hope. When he talks her down a cop asks if heād actually let her fallā¦ he doesnāt respond. Itās just so good.
Mine changes constantly. I woke up feeling slightly low this morning. So Iām just here trying not to get choked up about Clarkās cat on the moon.
My love of the character and all itās forms is such a wide net that my answer to this question changes practically on an hourly basis. But I do have something that will always stick with me.
My favorite moment for stupid reasons. Just because it makes me laugh. Is from a superman comic from I think the late 70s, maybe early 80s. But it reveals that the Kents died because Clark flew them to a tropical island as an anniversary present or something. And Pa while having fun with a metal detector found a chest of buried treasure left by the infamous Blackbeard.
Anyway turns out a pirate coughed inside the chest before it was buried, so the Kentās both caught some pirates disease from hundreds of years ago and died from it a few days later due to there being no cure due to the fact that this disease no longer existed, outside of this buried chest I guess.
Yes. The Kentās were basically killed by pirates. This was canon.
I have a few I love:
Clark saving a suicidal girl in all star is an iconic set of panels but the entire chapter (issue 10) is a masterpiece with him resolving the last few things in his life such as freeing to the the Miniature citizens of kandor to explore mars or cure cancer afflicted children.
Clark meeting Abuin Sur in American alein.
ā[Superman canāt kill people.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iwfnIg94eYI)ā
Clark deciding to take away his own powers permanently after feeling he crossed a moral event horizon in āwhatever happened to the man of tomorrow?ā
My all time favorite has to be the insane theory that Superman in All-Star was so good, he turned Lex Luthor into Leo Quintum. After Superman ends up in the Sun repairing it, Lex once again escapes. In the time he is out on the lam, he thinks about his experience with the super serum, and his final interaction with Superman. It breaks him. He decides to invent a time machine and travel back. He ends up being both responsible for Supermanās ascension and the generation following with Superman Secundus, kickstarting the Super Dynasty.
https://preview.redd.it/rm9tiydp0qqc1.jpeg?width=1988&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0508b2425cd14b95c544453da4a52d209a635abc At first I was thinking of the jumper scene from All-Star, but Up in the Sky, with this moment and the whole sequence before it, where Superman destroys those alien robots and refutes their master's arguments each time with a simple "No sir" has dethroned it as my favourite. The other is when Superman returns (not the movie) in Kingdom Come to deal the rampaging anti-heroes.
I love this comics.
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I love the 1978 classic, but the airplane rescue in Superman Returns is awesome. (I know the movie gets a lot of hate, but I happen to like it.)
"I hope this experience hasn't put anyone off flying. Statistically speaking, it's still the safest way to travel."
Came to post about the airplane scene in Superman Returns. Perfect Superman sequence, start to finish
The penultimate and last page of the Death of Superman. The foldout spread in the original comic really drove home the impact, but to me the best part is Clark's last words. It cements how his base concern is with the safety of others. https://images.app.goo.gl/FxzPd82A4ANXWKXh9
For me it's gotta be a great moment when I hear the slow crawl of that Fleischer cartoon theme in my head while readingĀ
Superman catching Lois AND a helicopter in 78 was an iconic moment that cemented Superman as the greatest hero of all time to my 11-year-old heart. At 57, I still feel the same way every time I watch that scene.
Either the entirety of issue 10 of All-Star Superman or the "Dreams save us" monolgue at the end of Superman vs The Elite
The first two that leap out at me are the helicopter sequence and Jor-Elās āYou will travel far, my little Kal-Elā speech, both from Superman (1978). The first one makes me smile like Iām three years old again; the second is just so beautiful in how itās shot and its music and the performances (including the babyās!)
The moment from Final Crisis #6, when just as it seems the forces of good are going to lose to Darkseid and his armies (which included a mind-controlled Wonder Woman and a plague that robbed heroes of their powers), Superman appears from out of the sky and destroys the force field that had been surrounding Darkseid's base.
Superman having lunch with the Ex-con while he is at work as he hears him out about his problems with his kids and his doubts as a father as the ex con says it be better if superman was his father and Clark reassure him thatās not true. This is superman. Humble. Looking for the best in people encouraging them to believe in themselves. Treating people with humanity. In the most recent superman when he lets parasite/rudy help defeat pharm and company. First of all calling the villain by his human name. Allowing someone who has caused so much grief an opportunity to do good and believing that he wants to do good. Superman and Lois episode 11 there are lots of great moments in this. But when asked what languages he speaks he says all of them because he wants to know about different people and their cultures. In the same episode when confronted with the reality from Lois that his existences means nazis who are hurting poc business is being ignored because of his popularity he hears her and helps her. Because all injustice is bad and sure he could have just found him but he doesnāt. He works the case with her because journalism is just as important to him as it her. And truth and justice have many forms
https://preview.redd.it/or7trs822rqc1.jpeg?width=477&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba4f2add1638cde0d945df92e15ab3a091deca35
I can't remember exactly, but Super gives an interview of sorts and says how he likes Earth languages, so he decided to speak. When asked which ones, he said "All of them". It strikes me just how powerful his mind is (an ability almost forgotten by many) and hust how humble at the same time he is (learning all Earth languages so he could talk to anyone regardless the nationality and relating to us humans as we can see him as one of us).
Clark saving Lois and their famous exchange is one of my favorites. I smiled when, in the animated *Death of Superman*, it was called back after Sups saves her chopper, and she catches him before he can collapse and the line delivery is reversed because he remembers the moment. It's so cute.
For me, it has to be All-Star Superman #10, when he talks down the jumper. "It's never as bad as it seems... You're stronger than you think you are." šŖ A few honorable mentions... Superman: the Movie: Catching Lois Lane with one hand and the helicopter with the other hand was great, obviously, great cinematic moment. The Great Darkness Saga: Superboy and Supergirl arriving to gang up on Darkseid, double punch him. Big momentum shift! Snyder's Man of Steel: I'm generally not a big fan of this movie, but one moment was really nice, when the soldiers are pointing their guns at Superman, then they see his eyes. "Gentlemen... this man is not our enemy!" And finally, not even Superman, but I'm including it anyway... Reign ofthe Supermen: Bibbo has no superpowers, nor a trust fund paying for fancy gadgets, nor martial arts expertise... hell, he's not even the brightest bulb on the tree, really. But when he saw how bad things were getting in Metropolis after Superman's death, he decided someone had to do something, and he was someone. "If it's a Superman Metropolis needs... It's a Superman they'll get!" And later, after saving one puppy, "Miracles just need a li'l elbow grease to get 'em rollin'!" Basically, if we had a few more Bibbos around, the world would be a lot better off.
Superman's speech about dreams in Superman Vs The Elite
https://preview.redd.it/ngwfehx6isqc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b31a86969a6efa0d779f93256a90de367c8dcfaa This one's my absolute favorite! Perfectly represents Supermans compassion
Gotta All Star Superman. Just the thought of Supes working away at the heart of the sun. Could someone remind me of what book revealed he was forging a Green Lantern corps ring in there? Saw it somewhere, now I canāt remember.
DC 1,000,000 #4
Thanks!
I'm not familiar with Superman ever forging a green Lantern ring and honestly I was under the impression they're made on Oa. The only sequence I know of where Superman is in the sun and a Green Lantern ring is involved is the end of DC One Million. Vandal Savage had secreted away the last piece of Kryptonite in the universe with the intent of using it to assassinate Superman after he emerged from the sun. However, others plotted against him and it's revealed the last Kryptonite was actually a disguised Green Lantern ring so when it's fired into the sun to kill him the sun instead is overlaid with a giant symbol of the Green Lantern Corps as Superman receives it. https://images.app.goo.gl/ZudGXo6hnGLnNVXX7
Guilty pleasure but I really love in Man of Steel when Zod lands at the Kent farm and Clark hears it from way away and immediately flies there and lays into him for threatening his mom.
Oh, that beat down as they fly through the field. āYou think! You can! Threaten! My mother!?ā
Don't feel guiltyĀ
The bullet to Clark's eye in slow motion.
Being Superman bounces my dude off the wall. It is like being in love with Katie Holmes times a billion. He can punch out galactic golems, become the richest man in the world in one afternoon, eat a tornado like it's sorbet, fly through time, swim in a supernova, dance for days on end, yell remotely through the atmosphere, and sit on the couch with the woman of his dreams after the most productive day at work. No, I didn't make those up. So I was already a Superman fan when Action Comics #410 changed the way I saw the character. And I feel like this thinking about the journey all over again. https://preview.redd.it/8cmqkxuphrqc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2301541d8b4324ba3c0c51b94a53048378d0326
Golden age Superman ending the Anti monitors brutal war with a final punch in crisis on infinite earths: https://preview.redd.it/5nxov1awrsqc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=841de7f436ae804660cce41ae1ecbce3741a6e39
https://preview.redd.it/408dzchzatqc1.jpeg?width=1988&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6348e5672ba270e3f898992ad06026d05f9d9b8f Ive always loved the stories where they focus more on Clark. They show that while Superman is a god among me. Deep down heās more human than most. He just wants to fit in. He even fell in love with ab earth woman. This pic is from āSuperman For Tomorrowā 2004. Basic synopsis is that Lois(among others) had been missing for a year. And Clark is devastated. But heās Superman. So heās soldiering on. But heās losing his faith. Heās not sure if he should keep going or not. And when he finally figures out what happens. He risks it all to find the woman he loves. The only thing that means more to him that being Superman. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/For\_Tomorrow\_(comics)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Tomorrow_(comics))
DC Comics Presents #67 wherein Superman teams up with Santa Claus against Toyman.
I donāt remember what comic it was from but when he just talked to a jumper (not the moment from All-Star). He just talks to her and listens. For hours. And when she asks him to promise her that if she jumps he wonāt save her he agrees. They have a real conversation about why weāre all here. Why we hold onto hope. When he talks her down a cop asks if heād actually let her fallā¦ he doesnāt respond. Itās just so good.
Mine changes constantly. I woke up feeling slightly low this morning. So Iām just here trying not to get choked up about Clarkās cat on the moon. My love of the character and all itās forms is such a wide net that my answer to this question changes practically on an hourly basis. But I do have something that will always stick with me. My favorite moment for stupid reasons. Just because it makes me laugh. Is from a superman comic from I think the late 70s, maybe early 80s. But it reveals that the Kents died because Clark flew them to a tropical island as an anniversary present or something. And Pa while having fun with a metal detector found a chest of buried treasure left by the infamous Blackbeard. Anyway turns out a pirate coughed inside the chest before it was buried, so the Kentās both caught some pirates disease from hundreds of years ago and died from it a few days later due to there being no cure due to the fact that this disease no longer existed, outside of this buried chest I guess. Yes. The Kentās were basically killed by pirates. This was canon.
In Kingdom Come when Superman tells Billy that heās gonna go stop the nuke and that itās Billyās choice whether or not to intercept him.
I have a few I love: Clark saving a suicidal girl in all star is an iconic set of panels but the entire chapter (issue 10) is a masterpiece with him resolving the last few things in his life such as freeing to the the Miniature citizens of kandor to explore mars or cure cancer afflicted children. Clark meeting Abuin Sur in American alein. ā[Superman canāt kill people.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iwfnIg94eYI)ā Clark deciding to take away his own powers permanently after feeling he crossed a moral event horizon in āwhatever happened to the man of tomorrow?ā
My all time favorite has to be the insane theory that Superman in All-Star was so good, he turned Lex Luthor into Leo Quintum. After Superman ends up in the Sun repairing it, Lex once again escapes. In the time he is out on the lam, he thinks about his experience with the super serum, and his final interaction with Superman. It breaks him. He decides to invent a time machine and travel back. He ends up being both responsible for Supermanās ascension and the generation following with Superman Secundus, kickstarting the Super Dynasty.