So, Batman v. Superman’s
latest trailer has revealed the major plot point that Doomsday, the monster who
killed Superman, will be the film’s ultimate boss. For my part this isn’t that surprising a reveal, I’ve been
hearing rumors Doomsday would pop up in the film for awhile now. At the same time, it’s pretty clear the
execs running the DC/WB branch are the same ones who helmed things back in the
‘90s when The Death of Superman was
the biggest moneymaker in the world for them so it fits they’d try and fit their
new Superman movie to that template somehow, they did the same thing with
Batman in Dark Knight Rises.
What is surprising a lot of fans is the major shift to
Doomsday’s origin in the film, now seemingly a mutation or GMO created out of
the corpse of General Zod. That’s
a nifty idea and an easy solution to how incredibly convoluted and byzantine
Doomsday’s comic book origin is, which is why this isn’t a look at the
character’s history or even his biggest storylines. I’ll probably talk about comic book Doomsday somewhere down
the line but for right now I’m zeroing in on the first time Doomsday’s origin
was altered to be the genetically modified superior Kryptonian: in Justice League Unlimited.
