@darkman61288:
If Maxima has to be redone for her to be in a romance with Clark then why cant Lois and Clark's romance be redone? Different jobs, different personalities, etc.
Well. Maxima would only need to look a little older, so not to look like Kal was dating someone his cousin age, and maybe they could elaborate on her sexuality and make her for example a bisexual.
Lois and Clark could work but it won't work. Here's why. For Clark and Lois to work again, they would need to be put in completely different roles.
Time and time again I've said I'd like to see Kal help/save the world as both Clark and Superman. Something that also never been done before. Recently I started reading Iron Man post Secret Wars, by advice from a friend. It hasn't really picked my interest has a comic but one thing I did liked. The interactions between Tony and this gorgeous brilliant woman that's also a scientist called Amara Perera. I looked at those and thought to myself "Well this could be something that could/should happen to Clark".
Just imagine things this way. Instead of placing Clark and Lois in the same role over and over again, why not change things!? Like Clark instead of being a reporter he would be the owner and founder of his own tech and bio R&D company. One of the best and biggest in the world. And Lois could be one the main owners of the Daily Planet. She'd still be a Pulitzer winning journalist but she'd also have other responsibilities, the same for Clark. And it would be her interest for Clark Kent, the mysterious genius philanthropist, that would spike her attention. Superman would be interesting for sure, but she'd never look at Superman in a romantic way. It would be Clark Kent that would not only challenge her intellectually but also in terms of personality.
They could start out as him being kind of her secret obsession, while she tried to discover if he truly was this good man or just another megalomaniac lile Lex, they'd butt heads from time to time, even argue, but from the interactions between the two a mutual respect would rise, from that respect friendship, and from the friendship love.
But again I can't stress enough how important it would be to put those two in completely different roles. After all if we want something new about those two, DC can't simply keep putting them in the same situations over and over again, make them fall in love just because, like if there was no other people in the world for either of them. This to me would be adamant if DC ever wishes to see me support Clark and Lois as a couple once again.
@suemorphplus209 said:
It would make some more sense to me if Old Clark met young Clark, offered him some advice, and did some torch passing. I mean, maybe he can teach him something, because it feels like that is a purpose for an alternate Superman who grew up with the Kents and some guidance from Jor-El, help a younger one with far less of the same in the DCYou. I hope this is what happens, but editorial is fickle. And if there is someone upstairs, that someone sure doesn't mess with our lives like comic editors do, but then again we might be living in an Elseworlds universe :)
Who knows, maybe old Superman might go to Earth 2 or something when his purpose is accomplished.
But comics are a mess, real life is better.
They could interact in that way. And it would be interesting to see how both versions would handle each other perspective on one another.
But besides from giving Earth-0 Kal a few lessons on how to use his powers in a more efficient way, and give him a rundown on what happened on pre-Flashpoint Kal life and the choices he made, there's not much there for those two.
It's like I said before. Earth-0 was a very poor choice and one that has I see it isn't bringing anything good or new to the table. Having them adapt to Earth-2 new status quo, would've been far more interesting to see.
That or Earth-10. Now that would've been awesome! The nazi Superman versus the American Superman.
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