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Warning ! spoiler ahead forBatman / Superman : World ’s Finest # 22!The ‘S ' onSuperman’schest gains a dark unexampled meaning thanks to an unexpected twin . Batman and Superman traveled to Earth-22 , the setting ofKingdom Come , to rescue one of Clark ’s allies . But a fight with the honest-to-god , more wearied Man of Steel redefines Superman ’s family crown for the bad .
InBatman / Superman : World ’s Finest # 22by Mark Waid and Dan Mora , Batman and Superman are under approach by the Justice League of Earth-22 . Unfortunately , the combine might of familiar and unfamiliar foes is too much and Clark and Bruce are film surety . Superman ’s former sidekick Boy Thunder , now Thunderman , comes and takes the duo to face the judgment of Gog .
Thunderman lie to Gog and accuses his former friends of being Phantom Zone escapee or a trick by Joker and Lex Luthor . Gog sentences the sub to imprisonment and as Earth-22 ’s Superman comes to take his variant off , the Prime Superman defies his counterpart , saying that here , the ‘S ' stands for ' failure ' .
Superman’s ‘S’ Changes From a Symbol of Hope to Failure
Superman ’s life change when a young man named David Sikela came into his life from another universe . Clark take on the potent fellow as his sidekick , Boy Thunder . Unfortunately , David had a Brobdingnagian ire streak and show no qualms about grievously harming felon . Things got sorry when an encounter with Joker and Key ended with Boy Thunder being post to Earth-22 , where he grow up to become the violent anti - hero Thunderman . Superman and Batman come to Earth-22 to deliver David but race afoul of theirKingdom Comecounterparts . Superman , in finical , wasdisgusted with his variant ’s regardless actions .
Superman has made it quite exculpated that he does not wish Earth-22 . Rather than diffusing the state of affairs , theKingdom ComeSuperman has escalate every clash based on Thunderman ’s lies about the Prime Superman and Batman . Superman has seen XII of multiversal stochastic variable of himself , but rarely has he verbalize such disappointment in one . It ’s no marvel Clark say that his symbolization has a different meaning on Earth-22 . On the Prime Superman ’s human beings , he work inexhaustibly to ensure everyone look him as a symbol of hope . But inKingdom Come’smad humanity , its Superman hasfailed to subsist up to the standardof what the Man of Steel should be .
Kingdom Come’sSuperman is Clark’s Least Favorite Variant
Ideally , Superman ’s symbolic representation should be a universal , if not a multiversal constant , with everyone await to the iconic ‘S ' and seeing hope . But as Superman discover , not all Men of Steel are precisely like the Prime Clark and others do n’t share his values . While the symbol would stand for Leslie Townes Hope all across the DC Omniverse , the truth is the action of other Supermen twist and strain what Clark signify his sigil to stand for . It ’s inauspicious , but on some globe , Superman’ssymbol has a much more twisted signification than hope .
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