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[โ€“] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 0 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

you destroy earth.. spend the next 47 hours desperately trying to figure out how to actually time travel with your powers

[โ€“] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I know the reference, but ever since they movie came out, we were all wondering how nonsensical it is

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

That's just something he can do. Earth's yellow sun gives him super powers, one of which is the ability to turn time backwards by reversing the spin of the Earth's rotation!

[โ€“] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

lets face it, turning back time makes all of his other powers unnecessary.

zod attacks? hi back to yesterday and tell louis to put some kryptonite in their exact landing site and let the local law police take care of them.

A volcano blows up a city, go a week in the past and tell them to evacuate...

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not a superman expert, but my understanding is that he only did that in one movie. If so, it is correct to say that it is canonically one of his powers, but that doesn't mean all versions of him have that power. If people talk about time traveling Superman they're talking about the one that can do that.

[โ€“] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

those movies had strange superpowers.

memory erasing kisses.

Expanding superman cellophane sign.

...

[โ€“] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I thought that the earth rotated in reverse because from his perspective that is what time did, run in reverse?

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

My puny human mind cannot comprehend what happened because I'm not from Krypton.

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

No no, that is actually canonically one of Superman's powers.

[โ€“] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

yhea, that movie ending was strange