Superman/Doomsday

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I own this movie on DVD.

It's been so many years now, it's hard for me to remember for sure... but I think this is where it all started for me wanting to start collecting the DC animated movies on DVD. I still have a very good collection of these. I originally borrowed this one from a friend's brother, but now own it myself.
It was either this one or Batman under the Red Hood that got me started collecting them.
Either way, this is a really good animated Superman movie.

So yeah, since then I've been trying to get every animated super hero movie on DVD I can, and they are fun to go through for mistakes.

Superman/Doomsday is the story about... well the death of Superman to put it lightly. (this has since been remade again under that title I believe but I think this first version is better). Where the mysterious super powerful creature, known as Doomsday, emerges and has only one goal. One purpose... to destroy every living thing it sees. And only one man can stop him... a Super man. But even Superman struggles against this beast. It's not really a spoiler to say that they defeat each other in mutual combat and Superman 'dies', with a lot of this movie then picking up in the after math with what does the world, what does Metropolis do... without Superman?

It's a very good movie and I'd rate it a 4.5 star out of 5 if I could on this site.
and this was also one of the first movies I really took a deep dive into for mistakes.

Mistake Status: I've combed through this movie several times, and I may have found all I can. It's been years now since I last did that as I took a long hiatus from this site. But I may go through it once more just to see if I pick up anything else. And I gotta put more quotes and stuff on it anyways.

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Superman/Doomsday mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Doomsday slams Superman down into the subway, the hole they make in the street is right in the middle of a crossing. But a minute later in the film as civilians are walking up to the hole, there are no lines anywhere around it. Moments later after Jimmy takes a picture of the hole, the shot cuts to a far angle and now the hole is next to the crosswalk lines, and in that shot the stairway entrance to the subway station also vanishes. The road also becomes much wider with more lanes, and the red truck turns around. (00:22:40 - 00:23:25)

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More mistakes in Superman/Doomsday

Superman: The Antarctic camouflages Kryptonian crystal tech far better than cacti, but next time you catch a chill, give me a holler. I'll warm you.
Lois Lane: You wouldn't use your heat vision on me, would you, Superman?
Superman: No, just the x-ray.
Lois Lane: You're bad.

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Trivia: After Doomsday breaks out, he jumps at the laser drill rig and punches through the driver compartment and rips out the guy inside. When he throws him, this guy cries out in the iconic Wilhelm scream. (00:10:20)

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Question: So how exactly did Doomsday's ship get buried so deep? On the movie the Project Apple Core workers say they discover it's "before Christ deep", but don't specify exactly how old. And they are 2 miles down at the time. Lex Luthor interprets the alien hologram as a warning and says that an alien race must have trapped Doomsday here because they could not kill it. And later the robot at the Fortress of Solitude identifies Doomsday and tells Superman what it is. I know there are several differences between the film and the comics it's based on. Are there differences in how Doomsday got there and how is it so deep?

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Answer: In the comic book, Doomsday was put in a strait-jacket, strapped in metal bondage and placed in a cube like metal prison buried deep in the earth. It took him centuries just to break the bonds, then spent more centuries just punching his way out. With earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disasters those events could shift Doomsday's prison to the surface.

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