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"Superman & Lois" Teases Arrival of Doomsday
Season 2 of "Superman & Lois" officially debuted on the CW last night with a very surprising reveal in the final shot of the episode, the arrival of the iconic villain Doomsday in the form of a gloved fist punching through the ground of the Smallville mines.
"That is our homage to a classic Doomsday cover," said showrunner Todd Helbing while confirming the creature's arrival in an interview with EW. "Then in episode 2, you're going to see him a little bit more. In episode 3, you'll get the full reveal."
Helbing went on to discuss how the series will approach the nearly indestructible Kryptonian monster who famously killed Superman in the 1992 "Death of Superman" comic book storyline arc.
"I think one of the things that we all really dig about the comic book world, but particularly with the villains, is finding ways to use assumptions about a character, and then flipping that, and finding ways to explain things that haven't been explained in the comics, like the use of something, or why a character does a certain thing," stated Helbing. "It'll all be revealed in episode 3, but there are a couple little things that we're doing that I can't explain too much, because I'll give it away, but you'll see how we're influenced by certain pieces and why we used it to create work that is hopefully a cool reveal."
The character has previously been portrayed on the tv series "Smallville" and "Krypton" as well as the 2016 film "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" in the form of "Kryptonian Deformity" created by Lex Luthor using General Zod's corpse from "Man of Steel".
Source: EW
