Superman

[USS Firefly]

Anson Mount is named after his father. His older brother, Anson Mount, is also named after their father. Their father, Anson Mount, is named after his father. So, there's that.

My father is also named after hist father, Adolf, and I would be the fifth Adolf, but don't know why but my father stopped with that tradition.

 

[Tosk]

Some Zods.


I'm also starting to have second thoughts about excluding Lazenby. Like Gibbon here (who is actually just playing a hallucination), he didn't play the "real" character, but he does appear on screen and is verified to look like the real person. After all, this isn't some legal document of fact. Just supposed to be an easy way to compare and contrast the different visual approaches and casting.

Also, another character apparently confirmed to appear in the new Gunn movie...

(I gots no interest in researching the actual dog actor names just for a silly joke. Especially as they're played by multiple pooches.)

 

[Nerys Myk]

Some Zods.


I'm also starting to have second thoughts about excluding Lazenby. Like Gibbon here (who is actually just playing a hallucination), he didn't play the "real" character, but he does appear on screen and is verified to look like the real person. After all, this isn't some legal document of fact. Just supposed to be an easy way to compare and contrast the different visual approaches and casting.

Also, another character apparently confirmed to appear in the new Gunn movie...

(I gots no interest in researching the actual dog actor names just for a silly joke. Especially as they're played by multiple pooches.)

Now do Lara.

 

[Anwar]

It must have been amusing that Ra's Al Ghul was also Jor-El.

 

[UssGlenn]

Some Zods.

I was wondering about Krypton, but I thought it took place too early for any known characters to appear.

but he does appear on screen and is verified to look like the real person

It counts if the appearance is the same as the real person.

 

[The Realist]

I was wondering about Krypton, but I thought it took place too early for any known characters to appear.

Dru-Zod (whom we know as General Zod) appeared courtesy of time travel, as did Adam Strange. Also Brainiac, courtesy of being very long-lived, as well as Lobo, courtesy of ... I guess the same?

It's actually a surprisingly great series, albeit sadly and frustratingly canceled with many plot threads left unresolved. I'd recommend checking it out.

 

[Tosk]

Now do Lara.

Okay, but only because you asked so nicely.

 

[theenglish]

Others have said it better, but I feel I do need to compliment you and say that I am really enjoying all these casting images.

 

[USS Firefly]

Okay, but only because you asked so nicely.

Helen slater aged like good wine.

 

[JD]

It is interesting to see the way the types of actors they cast as the characters evolved over time.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

What I always find odd is the age the casting appears to be going for for Jor-El and Lara. The actors playing Jor-El ever since Brando had been in their 40s or 50s when they appeared in that role, and while the actresses playing Lara have usually been younger (because Hollywood), the youngest I could find data on was Susannah York who was in her late 30s during filming of Superman: The Movie. The actresses following her in the role have usually been in their 40s.

Considering Jor-El and Lara died when their first and only child was still an infant, it gives the appearance that they were really late starting a family.
But when looking at the comics and animated versions, they have appeared quite a lot younger, about the age of the adult Superman (who obviously doesn't age further than mid-30s, it's comics after all).
There might be an excuse with Lazenby and Eckland on Superboy, as they didn't appear in flashbacks or hologram form, but were pretending to be Kal-El's actual parents who somehow survived the destruction of Krypton, and would have thusly aged since then.

 

[Guy Gardener]

What I always find odd is the age the casting appears to be going for for Jor-El and Lara. The actors playing Jor-El ever since Brando had been in their 40s or 50s when they appeared in that role, and while the actresses playing Lara have usually been younger (because Hollywood), the youngest I could find data on was Susannah York who was in her late 30s during filming of Superman: The Movie. The actresses following her in the role have usually been in their 40s.

Considering Jor-El and Lara died when their first and only child was still an infant, it gives the appearance that they were really late starting a family.
But when looking at the comics and animated versions, they have appeared quite a lot younger, about the age of the adult Superman (who obviously doesn't age further than mid-30s, it's comics after all).
There might be an excuse with Lazenby and Eckland on Superboy, as they didn't appear in flashbacks or hologram form, but were pretending to be Kal-El's actual parents who somehow survived the destruction of Krypton, and would have thusly aged since then.

1. Kyptonian + Yellow Sunlight = 4000 birthdays. (Sometimes.)

2. Clone race = Predicated birthdays and death day, keeping pace with resources.

We don't know how old Jor-El and Lara are, but thier youth and health, or lack there of, has nothing to do with with the literal baby factory machining their offspring.

More so if Jor-El is 3000 years old, because he takes one pill a day that simulates some of the effects of a yellow sun on his constitution, little baby Kal-El may be his 10th child.

So many conflicting inconsistent continuities, sorry.

 

[Anwar]

What I always find odd is the age the casting appears to be going for for Jor-El and Lara. The actors playing Jor-El ever since Brando had been in their 40s or 50s when they appeared in that role, and while the actresses playing Lara have usually been younger (because Hollywood), the youngest I could find data on was Susannah York who was in her late 30s during filming of Superman: The Movie. The actresses following her in the role have usually been in their 40s.

Considering Jor-El and Lara died when their first and only child was still an infant, it gives the appearance that they were really late starting a family.
But when looking at the comics and animated versions, they have appeared quite a lot younger, about the age of the adult Superman (who obviously doesn't age further than mid-30s, it's comics after all).
There might be an excuse with Lazenby and Eckland on Superboy, as they didn't appear in flashbacks or hologram form, but were pretending to be Kal-El's actual parents who somehow survived the destruction of Krypton, and would have thusly aged since then.

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.

 

[The Realist]

In the spirit of Tosk's character collages, here is a collection of Lois Lane in purple (not mine, appropriated from elsewhere):

 

[Nerys Myk]

In the spirit of Tosk's character collages, here is a collection of Lois Lane in purple (not mine, appropriated from elsewhere):

In the DCUs Prince is From Metropolis not Minneapolis. Lois a big fan.

 

[Tosk]

In the spirit of Tosk's character collages, here is a collection of Lois Lane in purple (not mine, appropriated from elsewhere):

Here's a couple more, why not?

While Googling, I also found an English singer in the '70s going by the name Lois Lane wearing purple.

 

[The Realist]

You gotta love comics Lois in '70s fashions. Or at least, I gotta.

 

[Nerys Myk]

You gotta love comics Lois in '70s fashions. Or at least, I gotta.

Hot Pants

 

[The Realist]

Hot Pants

Also '70s Supergirl:

This was, in fact, "my" Supergirl growing up. Didn't suck.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Also Supergirl in the '70s:

This was, in fact, "my" Supergirl growing up. Didn't suck.

I do have a fondness for that costume.