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Superman

My guess is that since those actors would be interacting with the adult actor playing Clark (holograms, ghosts, anything really) as well, they chose older actors so that they'd still look believable as his parents compared to Adult Clark.

It's the same reasoning used in Harry Potter. His parents were only barely adults when they died (around 20) but when Harry sees them as ghosts or as magical images they look in their late 30s or so because they wanted them to look believable as the parents to a 12 year old and later teenager.
Zor-El had a teen age daughter while his brother had bupkis.

Was Zor-El younger or older than Jor-El...

Do I recall a plot line from Smallville where Zor-El wanted to marry his sister in law Lara?
 
Wow does that suit look bad. I mean badly fan made Comic Con bad.

I don't need a Cavill or Reeve style built body/physique but the suit shouldn't look like you bought it from a biker store next door and spraypainted it blue.

And this really looks like he pulled on red underwear over the suit.

Jesus Christ.

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Wow does that suit look bad. I mean badly fan made Comic Con bad.

I don't need a Cavill or Reeve style built body/physique but the suit shouldn't look like you bought it from a biker store next door and spraypainted it blue.

And this really looks like he pulled on red underwear over the suit.

Jesus Christ.

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Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong.

The suit is aces. The trunks are aces. It's easily the best live-action Supersuit so far this century.

(And BTW, that particular image is 'shopped. In the real photo, Lois and Superman are much farther apart and not holding hands. It's why he appears to be looking past her with a thousand-yard stare in this picture. I don't think they altered his suit, though, so if you hate it, you hate it. But you're still wrong. ;) )
 
It is a space suit?

Superman can fly in space, even at FTL speeds so there's that.

Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong.

The suit is aces. The trunks are aces. It's easily the best live-action Supersuit so far this century.

(And BTW, that particular image is 'shopped. In the real photo, Lois and Superman are much farther apart and not holding hands. It's why he appears to be looking past her with a thousand-yard stare in this picture. I don't think they altered his suit, though, so if you hate it, you hate it. But you're still wrong. ;) )

We'll see when the trailers hit and the movie itself, i might change my opinion but in that picture it just looks like all kinds of crap.
 
Wow does that suit look bad. I mean badly fan made Comic Con bad.

I don't need a Cavill or Reeve style built body/physique but the suit shouldn't look like you bought it from a biker store next door and spraypainted it blue.

And this really looks like he pulled on red underwear over the suit.

Jesus Christ.

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Quite correct. As i've said before, the suit looks like pseudo-militaristic of police body armor padding, and does not do what the best Superman live action costumes all achieved: act as visual accentuation of the inherent power and heroic look of the man.

Perhaps in-universe, the character will have a need to change the costume somewhere along the line if its not serving him, which would be a bit of misdirection on the producers' part with the original photo release, but if this suit the final item, its not at all impressive. Aside from the padding/texture trends of recent film history, the Gunn suit is as loose and goofy as one of the Superman costumes from the infamous musical, It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman:

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Superman can fly in space, even at FTL speeds so there's that.



We'll see when the trailers hit and the movie itself, i might change my opinion but in that picture it just looks like all kinds of crap.

There's two legends about his suit I can dredge up, but there's probably more.

1. His mother made it.
2. It's an alien space suit, for non powered Kryptonians, who need to wear a space suit in space, to say alive.
 
I don't hate the new suit, and very probably it will look better after post-production. Also, I lean toward the opinion that Gunn brought back the trunks in order to have the other characters in the movie make fun of them. It'll likely be a running joke throughout the picture.
 
I don't hate the new suit, and very probably it will look better after post-production. Also, I lean toward the opinion that Gunn brought back the trunks in order to have the other characters in the movie make fun of them. It'll likely be a running joke throughout the picture.
A running joke would be overkill, and would play into a non-issue that is already long past its sell-by date. But I wouldn't mind an affectionate one-off wink-and-nod. I always enjoyed this bit:

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The trunks mean hope. :lol:
 
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