Superman & Lois' Oldboy Fight Scene Is Even Better Than You Realize
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Superman & Lois
Superman & Lois delivers two Oldboy-inspired fight scenes in season 2, episode 6, and some ancillary factors make it an even more effective action scene. As a major Doomsday misdirection, Superman & Lois revealed that its teased underground presence was actually Bizarro. Tyler Hoechlin portrays both roles, and while Bizarro initially seemed like season 2's main villain, his role is looking quite different.
After Superman stops Bizarro from killing cult leader Ally Alston (Rya Kihlstedt), he finally manages to translate Bizarro's speech to English. Bizarro warns that Ally getting her hands on both of the mysterious pendants seen in season will make her an unstoppably powerful opponent merged with her Bizarro self. Superman & Lois pits the Man of Steel and Bizarro against other enemies in episode 6, while battling Ally as the super-powered antagonist Parasite is seemingly being saved for later in season 2.
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Titled «Tried and True», the episode opens with Bizarro fighting a group of soldiers in a hallway in a one-shot fight, with Ween's «Tried and True» on the soundtrack. Later in the episode, Superman himself, weakened by red ultraviolet light, goes through his one-shot hallway fight, with the fight choreography directly flipped from Bizarro's fight. Both fights are clearly homages to the famous one-shot hallway fight in Park Chan-wook'sOldboy, but one thing that makes it even better is its commonality with another superhero TV series – specifically, Marvel's Daredevil. This homage to both iconic big and small screen action hits ultimately make the Superman & Lois sequences even more impressive for
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