Last Night’s Superman & Lois Had a Very Weird Twist

Since the second season of Superman & Lois premiered two weeks in the past, poor Clark (Tyler Hoechlin) has been coping with painful visions of some creature locked within the close by Shuster mines. In final evening’s episode, aptly titled “The Thing in the Mines,” the titular factor burst free and beat the crap out of Superman and Steel (Wolé Parks) earlier than revealing its face—and it’s not the villain everybody was anticipating.

If you aren’t up on the present S&L, the creature within the mines was assumed to be Doomsday for quite a lot of causes, the primary being that it was dressed within the full bodysuit worn by the supervillain within the comics earlier than the better-known, spiky gray model emerged. The second is that season one closely handled John Henry Irons/Steel, and the Eradicator (albeit very completely different incarnations), two of the 4 “replacement” Supermen who emerged within the comics after Doomsday famously killed the Man of Steel in 1993.

It was the plain reply, nevertheless it seems it was additionally fallacious. Because when Steel manages to blow off a part of the factor’s helmet, Superman is extraordinarily stunned to see his personal face—pale, scarred, however positively nonetheless portrayed by Tyler Hoechlin—staring again at him earlier than it speaks in some alien language and flies away.

It’s Bizarro! Well, a Bizarro. There’s completely no indication why Bizarro could be hanging out/imprisoned in a mine, not to mention the place he comes from. In his many, many incarnations within the comics, Bizarro was most frequently portrayed as a failed clone of Superman created by Lex Luthor, however since Lex—splendidly portrayed by Jon Cryer in Supergirl—hasn’t appeared in Superman & Lois but, that could be off the desk. Or it might presage Lex making his option to the present! Who is aware of!

What I do know is that I really like how Superman & Lois retains throwing these curveballs to maintain followers on their toes. When Steel first arrived, he was known as Captain Luthor, implying he was a Lex Luthor from one other universe. Morgan Edge (Adam Rayner) appeared like a fairly easy interpretation of the evil media mogul earlier than the character revealed he was additionally Superman’s half-brother Tal-Rho, who later merges with the Eradicator. It appears extremely unlikely that Bizarro’s secrets and techniques have all been revealed but—as an illustration, why was he talking in an alien language? Feel free to supply your theories within the feedback.

Superman & Lois airs Tuesday evenings on the CW.

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