5 Warning Signs The CW Is Plotting To Kill Superman In Crisis On Infinite Earths
Is Clark Kent living on borrowed time?
"Character assassination" is going to take on new meaning when Crisis on Infinite Earths airs this December. Superman, the preeminent superhero of DC Comics and the genre as a whole, is in grave danger from a powerful foe: his network president.
New revelations and teases about CW's adaption of Crisis on Infinite Earths add more grave foreshadowing for the future of fan favorite Superman played by Tyler Hoechlin. He was already a character at odds with the agenda of his network & studio; a victim of his own popularity even.
The network doesn't want him to undermine their Supergirl TV series, even though the characters have thrived in mutual co-existence in the comic books. Yet they tried withholding him, embarrassing him, and even retiring him all to convince us we don't need him. However fan interest in his own series has remained strong, so now it's time to take him out for good.
From recent comments by CW network president Mark Pedowitz to uncovering ominous foreshadowing carefully placed with Elseworlds, we go inside the Arrowverse coup d'état to bury DC's king.
5. CW President's Crisis Death "Remix" Comment
CW President Mark Pedowitz recently talked about the state of DC Comics shows at this years Television Critics Association's winter press tour. He touched upon the subject of the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover airing at the end of the year. He mentioned that there would be a "remix" of a classic death from the comic book series.
In the comics The Flash & Supergirl died. The cover of Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 features Superman carrying the battered body of his cousin has become an iconic image in their mythology. Tears stream down the Man of Steel's face, so how else would they remix this?
The obvious answer is to reverse Superman and Supergirl's roles in the story into one that favors her story. In the comics the decision to kill Supergirl was made to favor Superman. DC Comics thinking at the time was that there was too many other Kryptonians around; Supergirl, Krypto, thousands in The Bottle City of Kandor, and many more in the Phantom Zone.
They wanted to make Superman the sole survivor of Krypton once again as he was originally conceived, as it made him more unique. In this case The CW wishes to put the focus on Supergirl, and so Superman has to go.