Thursday, December 3, 2015

Batman v Superman...Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

Doomseid

Okay, I am now seriously excited for the new Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie to be released!  Check out the latest trailer that was given to us last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live.  I couldn't get the actual video to upload onto this page, so here's the link to the video on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fis-9Zqu2Ro

It looks like all of the guessing and speculation as to whether or not Doomsday is going to be in the movie has been answered in this one trailer...and he looks to be a total badass!  Oh, and anyone who thought that Gal Gadot was a bad choice for Wonder Woman might want to change their opinion after watching this trailer!  Sorry, I'm straying off the topic at hand...Doomsday.

Doomsday was first introduced to the world in Superman #75 back in 1992, and was created by Dan Jurgens.  He's probably best known for "killing" Superman.  We didn't know too much about the beast when we first saw him.  He was just a rampaging monster that came from the ground and wanted nothing more than to kill.  After leaving a wake of destruction across the Eastern United States and taking out the Justice League, Doomsday and Superman battle to the death, each one died at it's climax...or so we thought.  Superman was buried, and Doomsday was shot out into space.

Like all good comic book characters, neither of them stayed dead for long.  When Doomsday was reintroduced, we learned that he was created by a Kryptonian named Bertron.  He was a genetic experiment that was the result of cloning, torture, death, and re-cloning.  Every time that Doomsday died, he would get resurrected and evolve so that he couldn't be killed the same way twice.  After tearing havoc across the universe, he was captured, imprisoned in a capsule and blasted into space where he landed on prehistoric Earth and buried miles underground.  Because of the way he was created and treated, when he escaped from his prison, he had a hatred of anything and everything Kryptonian, which is why he tried so hard to destroy Superman.

That's the short version of who Doomsday is, but as we can see from the trailer, his origins look to have changed tremendously.  Everything that we think we know about Doomsday is thrown right out the window, and a new origin story for the creature will be given to us when Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hits theaters next year, March 25, 2016. 

1 comment:

  1. I'd be more stoked for it if Affleck wasn't Batman. How do these idiots keep interchanging heroes with the same friggin actor?

    Wonder Woman is bad though btw. Yowza

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