All Kinds of Nonsense (Superman)

Christopher Reeve’s Superman is generally thought of as great, but there was actually a hell of a lot of nonsense surrounding the character – namely, that he could seemingly pull powers out of his ass on a whim. Everyone knows Superman’s usual powers – super-strength, super-speed, super-durability, flight, heat vision, X-ray vision and so forth, so what the hell was going on in Superman and Superman II?!

In 1978’s Superman, the hero was not only able to reverse time to bring Lois Lane back to life by circling the Earth really quickly, he was also able to erase her memories of who he really was by kissing her! Then, in 1980’s Superman II, he pulled a shield-shaped layer of film off his chest and threw it at the villainous Non, which disabled him by wrapping him up!

For such a well-respected adaptation of the character, he really did pull off some utter nonsense in terms of the powers he displayed!

And now…the most ridiculous comic book movie character of all time.