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It’s more about tone than story. The visuals of metropolis and its denizens evoke the images of Frank Quietly’s illustrations, and the conflict centres on what is most important in modern heroic myth; saving lives as opposed to killing something. In All-Star Superman, those issues don’t focus on a dark, bitter superman attempting to kill an evil foe, but save those around him in Golden Age type stories.

That is what I mean. The film, and by extension James Gunn, are reverential of the source material, unlike Kevin Fiege’s MCU and Zack Snyder’s DCEU, which seem embarked by the source. For the former, it’s as minimal as the lack of embrace of superhero costume’s for darkened military-esc garb, and the latter, it’s a lack of understanding of the existence of Batman’s no kill rule and a rejection of it as “le juvenile and le realistic” as if a caped crusader is not.