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Warning ! plunderer ahead for Superman ' 78 : The Metal Curtain # 1!A scoundrel never fancy inSuperman’s1978 film canyon has finally made his prescribed first appearance . Superman ' 78 : The Metal Curtaintakes readers back to the day of the Cold War . And an underrated member of the Man of Steel ’s varlet ' drift is about to put the beloved take on Superman through the ringer .
InSuperman ' 78 : The Metal Curtain # 1by Robert Venditti and Gavin Guidry , a firearm of kryptonite is seen lunge in space after the end of Krypton . The radiate unripe ball of rock lands on a lowly farm in the USSR as a sodbuster stumbles upon the gift from the heavens .
Decades later , the Russian government has just procure a brawny new weapon . A human being name Captain Nikolaev is bring in and severalize that the clock time has occur for the Soviet Union to have a hero that match Superman ’s power . Nikolaev is picture the kryptonite as well as a young warsuit and informed he is to becomethe USSR ’s adept , Metallo .
Metallo is Now Part of Christopher Reeves' Superman Canon
The 1978Supermanserieswas one of the first cinematic adventure for the character and a dear take on the Man of Tomorrow ’s mythos . The serial publication was originally composed of four movies , later five with the addition ofSuperman proceeds . While the first two film did have several well - be intimate Superman antagonist such as Lex Luthor and General Zod , the latter half opted for original villain like Ross Webster and Nuclear Man . However , in 2021 , DC Comics releasedSuperman ' 78 , a prolongation of the original Superman film and acquaint Brainiac to the film series ' lore .
Superman has an expansive rogues ' art gallery , but woefully , only a few of them have ever made it to the bounteous screen . WhileSuperman ' 78 : The Metal Curtainisn’t a pic , it ’s plant in the same canon as the movies from the late ' LXX to former ' 80s , and it does make an era - appropriate Metallo . Rather than Metallo being John Corben , a disillusioned extremity of the United States Army , he ’s a Russian soldier and a crucial part of the USSR ’s planto vie with the United State ’s zep . While fans are never break to see this translation of Metallo on screen , The Metal Curtaingives readers an thought of how the charactercouldhave been done .
The New Metallo is a Fascinating Hypothetical Concept
TheSuperman ' 78canon is over as far as motion-picture show go , but the cartoon strip give readers a chance to see villain that were never realized . Turning Metallo into the Russian equivalent of Superman asan allegory for the atomic tensionsduring the Cold War is an inspired move . It fits the era and it was a smart way to avoid treading the accurate same flat coat as Metallo ’s Prime universe similitude . While it ’s a shame such an idea never get to be featured in a film , Superman ' 78 : The Metal Curtainis giving fans an iconicSupermanvillain his due by placing him in the traditional knowledge of the definitive moving picture series .
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