With every new movie starring Superman, fans look back at the ones that came before. Comics fans love to pit their heroes against each other, even variants of the same ones in film and television.

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Saturday morning cartoons were all the rage in the ’70s and ’80s, and Super Friends was the cream of the crop. A bunch of DC heroes come together to tackle a threat to the world. However, the show ...

In the opening sequence of “Superman” we see the titular hero struggling to breathe as several of his internal organs have been ruptured. Throughout the movie he is ostracized, suffocated and tortured ...