Originally Posted by
DochaDocha
It's clear we don't agree what "bend but not break" means. To me, it means the hero can struggle, can come close to hitting rock bottom, but in the end he rebounds and overcomes his troubles. "Injustice," or at least the story I've been exposed to in reading some of the comics, playing the first game, and watching the sequel's story mode, is clearly a story about a Superman who breaks. He stops being a heroic guy. He is clearly the villain of the story. Perhaps the comics are better about this, but the games have almost no nuance to it. It is clearly Superman = bad. Sorry to invoke "not my Superman," but they make him such an irredeemable and emotionally fragile, the Joker-esque hero of the Justice League who's really one bad day away from becoming the villain. You ask me, it says Superman has just as much potential to be a bad person as he does to be good. There's a huge chasm of a difference separating Superman as a guy who can have a "mental breakdown," as you call it, and a guy who can completely lose his s**t. "Injustice" is not an exploration of the character, it's changing the character to suit a premise, and I reject it. To each his own.