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The thing that I love about Superman is,
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no matter how dark or cynical
the world gets,
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he always is hopeful
and heroic and optimistic.
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He's a blue sky superhero.
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He's a man who could do anything,
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and he's choosing to fight for us.
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When Superman wins the day,
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you feel like you won the day.
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I think every major creator
at some point
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wants to tell a Superman story.
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"Krypton" to me is such a vibrant idea
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because there's so little
that's been explored.
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To be a part of something
that's just got
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such a massive legacy to it,
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it's very surreal.
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Synced & corrected by kinglouisxx
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Hi, I'm Cameron Cuffe
from the new show "Krypton,"
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and right now, I'm in Belfast,
standing on our version
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of the Fortress of Solitude.
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It's the 80th anniversary of Superman
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and the origin of Krypton,
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and as an actor and fan,
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I couldn't be more excited to
be part of this next chapter.
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One of the things that I wanted to do
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with "Man of Steel" was to emphasize
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the fact that Superman was an alien,
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and so I fought very hard
to have an opening segment
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take place on Krypton
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and to depict it as a truly alien world.
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So while I was working on that film,
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I thought a lot about
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how we could take things further,
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and I approached Geoff Johns.
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It really started with a conversation
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when David came to me and said,
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"Hey, I think I have an idea
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about a story on Krypton,"
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how the House of El became this symbol
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of hope and optimism.
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It's about this character, Seg,
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who's the grandfather of Superman,
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and it would take place
about 200 years before
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Superman comes to Earth.
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Superman came from
a very sophisticated world.
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They were very advanced,
but at the same time,
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beyond this sort of veneer of harmony,
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there was corruption.
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There was Machiavellian
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politics going on.
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I think it's something that speaks to us
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in our world today.
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I think that's the big draw
to "Krypton,"
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to dive deeply into what Krypton is.
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What was it like
before Superman, as a baby,
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left that world
and the world was destroyed?
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The Krypton of our show
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is a planet that is late
in its life cycle,
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and resources are so limited
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that there are only
a certain amount of people
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that the government seems to care about.
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The society's divided by class.
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It's a theocracy.
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There's an authoritarian,
religious ruler.
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Rao's blessings are bountiful
but not unlimited.
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Only his wrath is.
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Seg is a son of the House of El,
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which has had its once proud legacy
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ripped from them
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when Seg's grandfather, Val-El,
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commits heresy by saying
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that there is something out there
other than Kryptonians.
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For rebelling against
the lawful authority
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of the Holy Sovereignty of His Eminence,
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you are hereby sentenced to death!
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When we pick up our story,
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the House of El has been maligned.
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The Superman symbol is a mark of shame.
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Your family will be stripped
of all rights and privileges!
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You are now to be considered rankless!
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He grows up rankless
in the rankless district,
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which is this crevasse
at the bottom of the city
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where people are just sort of piled in
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on top of each other.
It's a dog-eat-dog world.
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- Move along.
- Hey!
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His mind's not right anymore.
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Seg's a good kid,
who's very angry at the world.
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We didn't want to start Seg
as the finished package.
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You know, we didn't want him
to be Superman.
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We didn't want him to have all of those
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core values in place
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We wanted that to be the journey,
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and we wanted that to be a progression.
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What the hell were you thinking, Seg?
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Are you gonna uncuff me or what?
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I like you this way.
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Even though
"Krypton's" very much a story
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about the House of El
and the El lineage,
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it's also a story about the House of Zod
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and the Zod lineage.
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Lyta, you are my daughter,
and you are a Zod,
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and Zods are not traitors.
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Lyta Zod, she's part
of the Military guild.
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She has this relationship with Seg,
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which is not allowed.
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She shouldn't be going near a rankless.
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So much in our lives we can't control.
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But we still get to define ourselves.
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Seg is someone that she can speak to.
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They're really in love, and they have
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this really passionate relationship,
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but they know that it's never gonna last
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because they're both bound
to different people.
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He's bound to Nyssa.
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Nyssa here is yet to
be paired with someone.
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As my youngest daughter,
you'll be binding with her.
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She's the woman that Seg is bound to.
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They don't call it marriage,
they call it a binding.
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He takes an immediate disliking
to Nyssa, and she to him.
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If my father binds you to us,
he is taming you.
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Proving that even a dreaded El
can be co-opted
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and brought into the fold.
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Nyssa-Vex is a junior magistrate
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of the Lawmaker's guild.
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I think a lot of Nyssa's relationships
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are built on an agenda,
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and Nyssa sees Seg as a commodity.
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Have your secrets, Seg.
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I most certainly have mine.
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Seg early on in the story
receives a call to action,
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and this call reminds him
of the great legacy
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of his house, of the acts of courage
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and selflessness that are so incredible
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that they resound through history,
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but here's the kicker:
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they also resound in the future.
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Don't even think about it.
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This stranger shows up,
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says, "I'm from the future.
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"I'm from a planet called Earth.
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"My name is Adam Strange,
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and I need your help to save Krypton."
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Someone from the future
has come to destroy Krypton.
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Why would they do that?
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Because where I'm from,
your grandson becomes
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the greatest hero in the universe.
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No one on Krypton, including Seg,
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has any awareness of Superman
or even Earth at this point,
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so Adam is the audience's proxy.
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Once this cape is gone, our time's up.
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Superman will have been wiped
from existence.
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Because he is a time traveler,
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he shows that the show
is not just a prequel.
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It's a story that is indelibly
linked to the present,
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so the events that happen in our show
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could change Krypton's ultimate fate.
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This thing that's coming,
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it moves... from planet to planet,
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conquering civilizations.
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Its true name is Brainiac.
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Superman was created out of nothing.
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There were no superheroes.
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Superman has been through
everything you can think of.
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There's a reason why
Superman still persists.
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So, here we are in the Genesis Chamber,
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and the cool thing
about the Genesis Chamber
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is that it's actually
a relatively new part
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of the lore introduced in 2014's
"Man of Steel."
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And the amazing thing to me as a fan
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is that even though this franchise
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has been going on for 80 years,
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the world of Krypton is so rich
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that there's really no end
to the creative
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and storytelling possibilities.
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There's a lot of characters
that have been introduced
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from 1938 to now,
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and a lot of them have been forgotten,
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but there's a reason why
Superman still persists.
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Superman was created out of nothing.
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There were no superheroes.
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There was just Jerry Siegel
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in Cleveland, Ohio,
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creating an alien character
called Superman.
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In 1938, in short,
the world had never been
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a scarier or more unjust place.
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And at that time,
the world's first superhero
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appeared on bookshelves.
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I don't think it's a coincidence
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that this guy became popular.
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He's always that shining
beacon of goodness and courage.
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Truth, justice, and the American way...
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I mean, these are,
like, spiritual ideas.
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These are ideas you can build
a religion around.
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Here we have an alien
among us in Superman
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who represents the highest
and best qualities
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of what we like to think of as humanity.
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Why has Superman endured for so long?
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It's because those themes are undying,
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and so is he.
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Superman has been through
just about everything
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you can think of... 52 universes,
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evil versions of himself,
bizarro versions of himself.
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He died, very famously.
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Superman kind of is so well known
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and so well documented... in animation,
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in film, in television,
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in comics.
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First connection I had
to Superman growing up
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was the day I read
my first "Superman" comic.
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It kind of taught you
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you could do almost anything you wanted.
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If he could, why couldn't I?
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My very first connection
was the Max and Dave Fleischer
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"Superman" cartoons
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that I saw when I was very, very young.
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They were done on a really
elaborate scale for cartoons.
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They were very realistic
and very cinematic.
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I am and always will be a fan
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of the original TV series,
"Adventures of Superman,"
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with George Reeves, 'cause that's what
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I grew up with as a kid.
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Your aim is bad, Luigi.
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The first Superman movie
with Christopher Reeve
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really embraced
the Superman I grew up with.
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I read the script, and quite honestly,
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it was missing the humanity,
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its sense of reality.
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I decided to do it
if they'd let me do a rewrite,
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and the reason I would do it
was to protect Superman.
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It played a huge part
in my imaginative life.
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I actually have a scar
on my chin right here.
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I jumped off the couch with a cape
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that said "Superkid" on it,
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and I fell on my face.
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For me, I grew up in the time
of the great "Animated Series."
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I'm a huge "Animated Series" fan.
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I really like the Bruce Timm
designs of Superman.
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Those angular characters
are, I think, very unique.
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One of the things
that we decided to do early on
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both to humanize Superman and also
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to kind of make the stories
a little bit more interesting
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is we did make him
a little bit more vulnerable.
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I love the "Smallville"
version of Superman.
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I think Tom Welling
did a really good job
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portraying Superman's innocence
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and the tension in him.
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I think every major creator
at some point
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wants to tackle
and tell a Superman story.
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It's an American fable.
It's American history.
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Everybody wants to take a crack at it.
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As a Superman fan,
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there's no greater feeling
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than getting the chance to contribute
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something, anything, to the legacy
of the character.
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You know you're standing
on the shoulders of giants
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that preceded you, so there is
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pressure to get it right
and to tell a great story.
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Once you open the comics,
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you realize how deep
the storytelling is,
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how much of it is based on
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the connections between people.
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I think the greatest
Superman moment of all time
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is five panels in Grant Morrison's
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"All-Star Superman."
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There is a woman on a ledge
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who's about to step off,
and a strong voice
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behind her says,
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"You are so much stronger
than you think you are."
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At heart, they are
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really sort of simple stories.
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You know, Superman is
the immigrant that comes here
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and sees the best in us.
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Different writers bring their passions,
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and, as you go through the decades,
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you see different social
justice issues being raised.
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A good writer is looking
at everything around him
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and looks at society and sees,
"What can you address?"
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We live in a society now where truth,
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justice, and the American way,
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these ideas are actually under siege.
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Looking at the world we live in
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and Superman's place in it,
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you realize that he's exactly
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the hero we need right now.
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Boy, do we need Superman.
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The great thing about
the Superman universe
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is the breadth of it.
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Because Superman is
a science fiction character,
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ultimately, the whole universe is open,
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so he's connected to things
across time travel,
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the future, the past,
through space travel,
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as well as to Earth and Krypton.
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Well, I think it's gonna be
really interesting to see
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the backstory of Superman's family.
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I mean, we basically know the story
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of Superman's parents fairly well,
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but the idea that there
are family histories
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that extend beyond that I think is one
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that's rich for development.
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Where we're standing right now
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is the DC Comics archive.
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Pretty much every single issue
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DC Comics published,
it's here in this room.
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Hey, guys, I got the incredible
opportunity to come visit DC Comics,
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check out their archive, and learn more
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about the incredible history
of DC Comics, Superman,
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and the world of Krypton.
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Let's go check it out.
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Where we're standing right now
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is the doorway to the DC Comics archive.
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It's one of the most special places
in all of comic history.
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Pretty much every single issue
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that DC Comics has published from 1938
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to whatever came out last week,
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it's here in this room.
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We have the most important
comic book ever made.
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It's this one right here.
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It's "Action Comics" #1.
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It's the landmark issue
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which creates the genre of superheroes
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by having Superman in it.
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It is the birth
of the golden age of comics,
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and that's where Krypton starts,
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when the rocket ship takes off.
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Everyone that's kind of
touched Superman,
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from the radio play to the movies
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to the comic books,
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has added to his mythology
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and expanded what he can do.
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All of superheroes come from this comic.
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So this is the first panel ever.
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So as a lifelong fan,
holding onto this comic book
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means everything to me.
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He's the kind of character
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that, the more you dig into him,
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the more you're impressed
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that he's doing what he does
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and the way he does what he does.
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Some of my favorite versions
of Krypton really imagine it
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as a place that I think
that was like us.
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No matter how kind of wondrous
civilization gets,
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you realize that they still have
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some of the same
kind of deep-rooted conflicts
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that we have now.
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It seems to me like they had, you know,
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the idea of Krypton,
and Superman comes from him,
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but it wasn't until a little bit later,
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they actually came back to it.
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I mean, it's such a fertile ground
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for really rich stories,
and you can't start the story
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without all of this.
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And actually, I believe
I have a map of Krypton
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in case you get lost.
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I don't know what it looks like
on the show,
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but the Rainbow Cavern should be here.
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The Volcano of Gold.
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And I could tell you right now,
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some of these places
feature in the show.
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I'm not gonna tell you which ones.
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- That's fantastic.
- You have to watch.
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The great thing about Superman
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is that it's got a mythological basis
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that everybody knows, and, from that,
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you can tell a variety of stories.
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It's fascinating how
the first interpretations
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of Superman were a much more
rough-and-tumble hero.
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- Yeah.
- And he wasn't necessarily
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going after mad scientists.
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He was much more street justice.
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- Right.
- Which is something
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we've brought to our show.
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The mythology has expanded so much,
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and for us, as well,
it's a science fiction show,
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so it all has to make sense.
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This is "Action Comics" 236 to 247,
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and it's here
for a very important reason.
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- Brainiac.
- Brainiac.
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Brainiac is this thing that comes here
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and then captures us and says,
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"You're just this tiny, small thing,
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"and you're never going to be important,
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"you're never going to be big,
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and so let me bottle you up
and take you away."
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Brainiac's history
was already tied to Krypton
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even before Superman came to Earth.
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Famously, Brainiac came
to Krypton in the past
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and devastated Kandor.
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He stole the entire city
and shrunk it down
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into this globe on his ship,
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and so it made absolute sense
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that he would be our big bad.
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One of my favorite
interpretations of Brainiac
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throughout the years is the run
that Geoff and Gary Frank did
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with incredible art
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and really, in a way, brought Brainiac
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back into Superman continuity
and made him who he is,
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this incredible green being.
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And it's interesting to me as well,
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the way Brainiac has always
been used as well
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is for a way for Superman to reexamine
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what it means to be human.
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Gary Frank, the artist, and I
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really decided to take a run
at making him threatening
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in a, I guess, more horrific way
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and would go around to these places
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and digitize cultures and destroy it
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and just collect it,
and that version of Brainiac
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did heavily influence
what we're doing in the show.
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It's not just gonna stop at Krypton.
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It is coming for everything.
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It's known as the collector of worlds.
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Here we are in one of
our oldest bound issues.
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There's "Showcase" #17. Adam Strange.
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Adam Strange was really
the closest thing we had
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to a straight science fiction
comic book,
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and he transported from here
to his home planet
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and had various adventures.
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I come from a planet called Earth,
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a time centuries from now,
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and I've come here to warn you.
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The origin of Adam Strange
is almost like
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a reversal of the Superman origin.
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Strange came from Earth and ended up
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on a strange planet
that he became the hero of.
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Adam Strange should be
our cue to the audience
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that this is more than just
about the Superman mythology.
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If you know comic books,
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Doomsday's origins happen on Krypton,
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and we'll be wrapping Doomsday
into the story.
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There's a item called the Black Mercy
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that shows up in the pilot,
and that's related
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to a character named Mongul
that we hope to bring in.
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There's a world in the comics
called Thanagar
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where Hawkman and Hawkwoman are from,
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and they're going to be wrapped up
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in the story as well.
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So Adam Strange is sort of
the gateway to all
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the space-related characters
in the DC universe.
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# #
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When you step on set,
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you just feel immersed
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in this world of mythology.
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The Fortress set has been the one
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that we have agonized over the most.
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So, here we are in the tribunal chamber,
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and as you can see,
the legacy of Krypton
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and Superman,
it's literally all around us.
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The production has gone to great lengths
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to mine even the most minute details
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from the franchise's deep history,
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and this is to ensure
that the world we create
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is not only paying tribute
to what's come before
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but is also completely,
uniquely our own.
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This show is just, like,
a really pure form of escapism.
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You get to see these really
creative, exciting worlds
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that are different than your own.
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DC have done a fantastic job
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of allowing creators and artists
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to go their own direction.
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And David Goyer, using the framework
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of the DC universe, has crafted
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this beautifully deep society for us.
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Strange to think our ancestors
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used to carry children in their wombs.
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Because it's a truly alien world
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and an alien culture,
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the design time was almost double
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that you would normally have for a show.
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The amazing thing
about all of these sets
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is they are epic in scale
but down to the fine detail,
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and that was by design
because we are telling
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an immersive cinematic story.
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If you're so clever,
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how come you're on
the stupid end of this blaster?
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Being on these sets,
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you don't even need to try
and get into character.
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You just feel immersed
in this world of mythology.
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This fortress, it's why they killed
Grandfather, isn't it?
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The Fortress set has been the one
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that we have agonized over the most.
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Does this really belong to my grandson?
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Yeah.
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We learn in the course of the show
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that the Fortress of Solitude
actually had its origins
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on Krypton and it was Val-El's
secret scientific base.
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Tell me about Brainiac.
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Help me find a way to stop him.
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I think Superman fans
have been dying to see
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Brainiac done justice on screen
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the way he deserves.
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And we're doing our utmost
to deliver that.
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Your world is at an end.
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There's a lot of expectations.
There's lots of fans.
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There's lots of people that are
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very passionate about Superman,
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and it does feel like
it's a big responsibility.
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Val-El was right!
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Enough!
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We've never actually seen
what the El family
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stands for in their own society
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in the context of their world.
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It's time you learn the truth.
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And you had to steal a skimmer for that?
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# #
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To have the freedom
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to make an entire TV series
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about Krypton is just really exciting.
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You're walking on untouched soil.
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# #
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I think what people
are interested in knowing
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is the background of Superman's family
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and what's in his DNA that led him
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to become the person that he is.
518
00:19:31,883 --> 00:19:33,215
The amazing thing about our show
519
00:19:33,217 --> 00:19:35,251
is that we get to take bits that we like
520
00:19:35,253 --> 00:19:37,052
from the comics, from the TV shows,
521
00:19:37,054 --> 00:19:38,354
from the movies,
and smash them all together,
522
00:19:38,356 --> 00:19:40,256
as well as adding our own stuff
523
00:19:40,258 --> 00:19:42,124
and moving forward with a new story.
524
00:19:42,126 --> 00:19:44,760
People genuinely have no idea
525
00:19:44,762 --> 00:19:46,729
what is about to come their way.
526
00:19:46,731 --> 00:19:51,167
# #
527
00:20:04,548 --> 00:20:07,983
Welcome to your grandfather's
Fortress of Solitude.
528
00:20:10,988 --> 00:20:18,027
# #
529
00:20:28,023 --> 00:20:29,093
Go on.
530
00:20:29,095 --> 00:20:30,428
Try it.
531
00:20:58,622 --> 00:21:00,188
As a lifelong fan of this world,
532
00:21:00,229 --> 00:21:02,429
I feel so lucky to be
a part of "Krypton."
533
00:21:02,471 --> 00:21:04,137
To contribute to the legend of Superman,
534
00:21:04,139 --> 00:21:06,240
it's a humbling and awesome experience,
535
00:21:06,242 --> 00:21:09,125
and I can't wait to share
what we've come up with.
536
00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,180
My own personal Kryptonite? Oh, my God.
537
00:21:12,243 --> 00:21:13,776
I would say my Kryptonite is heights.
538
00:21:13,833 --> 00:21:15,664
- Red onion.
- Time.
539
00:21:15,727 --> 00:21:17,127
- Deadlines.
- LEGOs.
540
00:21:17,129 --> 00:21:18,885
I have stepped on so many LEGOs.
541
00:21:18,910 --> 00:21:20,196
I don't have a good answer.
542
00:21:20,198 --> 00:21:22,783
Haircuts? I don't know
if that makes any sense.
543
00:21:22,808 --> 00:21:24,635
My Kryptonite is carbs.
544
00:21:24,660 --> 00:21:27,021
- Probably Hostess, I think.
- Injustice.
545
00:21:27,046 --> 00:21:29,579
I'm probably my own personal Kryptonite.
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