Man Of Steel 2's Best Villain Would Fix 2 Huge Cavill Superman Criticisms
Manchester Black would be the best villain for Man of Steel 2, with his comic debut serving as the perfect story to fix two criticisms of Henry Cavill’s Superman. Cavill’s DCEU iteration of Kal-El divided audiences with 2013’s Man of Steel and 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, though both films ultimately depicted an authentic and faithful representation of Superman from the comics. Adapting Manchester Black’s 2001 Action Comics debut would mitigate the misconceptions about Cavill’s Superman while providing him with an exciting new adversary.
2013’s Man of Steel initiated the DCEU film franchise on a somewhat divisive note. Although Henry Cavill played a comic-accurate, uplifting, and likable new version of Superman, some viewers took issue with the film’s destructive third act battle and Superman killing General Zod at its conclusion. Man of Steel’s sequel, Dawn of Justice, had Superman clash with Batman, though both heroes were being manipulated by Lex Luthor. The film, which concluded with Superman’s death, did little to sway Man of Steel’s critics.
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Manchester Black, a Modern Age Superman comic villain, specifically challenged the Man of Steel’s old-fashioned style of heroism and belief in never killing his enemies in the 2001 story “What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?” The story concluded with Superman pretending to become a brutal antihero who killed his opponents in cold blood, using the ruse to prove the merits of his gentler methods of fighting crime and the error of Manchester Black’s cynical ways. The comic was adapted in the animated film Superman vs. The Elite and would be the perfect basis for Man of Steel 2 to
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