1) I'm going to assume that Clark is some sort of robot double setup in case Superman ever died and it was made before his identity was outed.
2) Doomsday is some sort of test created by Oz.
The Gypsies had no home. The Doors had no bass.
Does our reality determine our fiction or does our fiction determine our reality?
Whenever the question comes up about who some mysterious person is or who is behind something the answer will always be Frank Stallone.
"This isn't a locking the barn doors after the horses ran way situation this is a burn the barn down after the horses ran away situation."
Where was this mentioned?
When he was close enough, the situation appeared hopeless. It looked so bad that he was microsecond away from stepping in, but Cyborg teleported Darkseid away just as Post-Crisis Superman was going to join the fight. There's a panel of him clenching his fist when he thinks he has to help the League fight Darkseid.
They were just too thoughtless to even a reason in the narrative that doesn't hurt characterization nor hurt the course of events said character is being retroactively put into. I'm sorry but "a second away from helping" is and always will be such a piss-poor explanation. Its not even hard to think of a legitimate handicap to keep him out of the action with good reason. You just say he didn't have his powers for that first year or something. A phenomenon not unheard of in Superman's career. No powers=can't help. Easy. They were just lazy.
Last edited by Sacred Knight; 06-28-2016 at 03:25 AM.
"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
Jon could be useful in this situation if he helped evacuate civvies, preferably while keeping hidden from Doomsday and concealed somehow.