The Ten Worst Moments in Superman History

Long time readers have been weirded out, appalled and bored by this series for a while now. Well, here it is in all its glory.

Why did the last two parts take so long? Well, they were things I've already covered here at SIB when this site first started up and I wasn't sure how to handle their inclusion in this series. Should I retread that ground? Repost the earlier entries? In the end, I decided to just update the old entries a bit and add the 10 worst header.

Finally in its entirety, what I feel to be the ten worst ideas in Superman history (in no particular order):

You can see them all on the same page here, or you can see them individually by following the links below:

"You know what Superman's rogues gallery is missing? Child-murdering pedophiles."

"Give him a very large gun. Oh, and put some Nazis in it. It'll be awesome."

"Grant Morrison? Pssh, that guy's got nothin' for us."

"He's an icon that's lasted decades the world over as is, but! What if we made him blue? I just blew your mind, didn't I?"

The musical. That's right. And there's video.

"I heard a rumor once that women are people, just like men! That's just silly."

"Code against killing? Can't just be because it's wrong! That needs some splainin'."

"Hey, let's put him in porn with another super-hero's wife!"

"You know what'd be hilarious? If we got him drunk!" "You're drunk right now, aren't you?"

"GORE! VISCERA! GUTS!"

So why didn't I include Superman IV? Honestly, horrible as it is (and it is god-freaking-awful) it always just kind of struck me as harmlessly stupid. It didn't kill the franchise, there were sequels in the works and eventually we got one, and it lived on in several tv series and such. There's nothing that's just flat out offensive about it, I don't think. Just bad. Very, very bad.

And please keep in mind, this list by no means makes claims to being definitive and absolute. If you loved anything herein, I'm glad there's something in the Superman mythos that's brought you joy. This is just my personal opinion based on the Superman lore I've been exposed to over the years.