Justice League Henry Cavill IS Clark Kent/Superman - - - - - Part 14

[misslane38]

It's not, but there's a theme of trauma and aimlessness in Clark's drifter years that can reasonably be traced to Jonathan. Jonathan's words and Jonathan's death, which the film wants to prove was justifiable. Clark acquires from Jor-El purpose and direction that Pa Kent's upbringing, we're explicitly shown, just hadn't created. Jor-El gives him backstory and a suit, but there's nothing there that needed to be depicted as alien-exclusive wisdom, or that couldn't have stemmed from Earthling ideals. Basically just "do good with your powers". Did he need 10-plus years and to be told that in so many words to snap out of his funk? If he did, it's because Pa's version of it wasn't enough.

It was Jonathan who encouraged Clark to seek out the answers to his questions, to find out the reason why he was sent to Earth by his other father who called him by another name. Jonathan was the one who told Clark, who wanted to find something useful to do with his life, that maybe he didn't have the answers Clark needed anymore. Clark's drifter years are linked to Jonathan and Jor-El. Jonathan wanted Clark to stand proud in front of the human race when his son and the world were ready for that paradigm shift. Clark's period of being a guardian angel is his way of testing himself and testing humanity. He's figuring out when the time is right. Saving Lois is a big step for Clark, and it happens before Zod's ultimatum. Lois Lane announces herself in Clark's (Joe's) presence as a famous and nosy reporter. She's injured because she's willing to take extraordinary risks for big stories. By saving her life in such an open way, Clark is going far beyond the closeted life of his youth.

That he was ready to be Superman before Zod came is also made questionable, because even then he still needs extra nudging from a priest and Lois. "Zod can't be trusted. But maybe people shouldn't be either." If those words are anybody's, they're Pa's. He requires nudging and direction from every available source, made necessary by a vacuum of confidence and an acquired instinct towards inaction. Left, or at the very least not foreseen nor counteracted, by Pa.

Clark's conversation with Father Leone is about to whom Clark should surrender himself. It's not about nudging and direction. That's an oversimplification. It's about Clark taking his cues from the people he seeks to serve. It is not an instinct toward inaction. What Jonathan teaches Clark is to be instinctively careful about the consequences of his choices. As Clark will later discover, he instinctively acted in Nairomi, but that instinctive act blew up in his face because he didn't consider all of the consequences the same way Jonathan didn't think about the consequences of damming up his farm while the Lang farm flooded. Jonathan says "Maybe, there's more at stake here..." and never says "No."

Clark speaking to a man of god in Smallville to wrestle with uncertainties is hardly anathema to the character either:

 

[FunkMiller]

It means you like the movie. It doesn't necessarily mean he's your favorite director/movie guy. The guy in my av ain't the Patchwork Man.

Ah, so anyone who criticises an aspect of the glorious DCEU is a Marvelite then?

No room in your head for any nuance or grey areas in that equation?

Yeah, I think we might be done talking, Captain...

 

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