6/10
Really Pretty Silly Superman
14 June 2012
Warning: Spoilers
For reasons unknown, Clark Kent and Lois Lane are prisoners in Yokohama, Japan. Their jail cells are more like hotel rooms with metal grating over the windows than anything the Japanese actually interred prisoners. Clark Kent, at 11:00 PM each night, changes to Superman, commits an act of sabotage against the Japanese - usually against a naval vessel, but also destroys a bridge while a train is on it, blows up some tank-like vehicles, etc. Then Superman returns to his cell, replaces the grating, and changes back to Clark Kent.

A Japanese soldier sneaks into Lois' room and forcibly takes her to be executed. Why there weren't several soldiers taking her from her room at gun point, which is more likely to have happened isn't explained - perhaps an animation short cut.

Superman destroys another Japanese ship but many of the steel girders fall on him and he then sees the notice that if Superman commits one more act of sabotage, they will execute Lois. He manages to get there in time to block the bullets from harming Miss Lane, who, by the way, walked to her execution with dignity - like a good American supposedly should.

Clark stays behind to continue committing acts of sabotage after Lois returns to the US on a ship. Why is this pretty silly? Superman probably could have done more damage to the Japanese army and navy in fairly short order than the US was able to do in the first couple of years, but we can't have Superman winning the war single handedly, can we? Especially with 3 more bloody years to go, including the dropping of 2 bombs that did more destruction than Superman could have done.
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