I think Smallville is the only Superman canon to give Doomsday a human identity and for good reason. Doomsday is basically an unstoppable killing machine. That's its only motivation and purpose. It has no free will or thought process. It was built to just kill whatever it sees and yes, it comes back whenever it dies and its immune to the last thing that killed it. Ascribing that to a human character is a lot. Davis Bloome should have been a complete psycho and not a sweet paramedic who falls in love with Chloe. Him being a paramedic didn't make sense either now I think about it... I feel like Smallville lost sight of what a villain is and wanted to be all shades of grey about it, at least until season 9 with Zod.
The Smallville writers were trying to cash in on a classic Superman story, but their Doomsday is basically Elseworlds at this point. Having Clark bury him under the Earth didn't make much sense either. I guess the idea was that Doomsday could potentially break free and they'd battle again? It doesn't really make sense. They could have called him something else and less people would have been disappointed.
In BvS, Doomsday is basically an afterthought and cheap (well, expensive in this case lol) way to kill Superman. Lex frees Doomsday to kill Superman (for reasons that are never really explained). Lex also manipulates Batman into trying to kill Superman, so maybe it was a backup plan? It was just plonked on at the end of the movie, though.
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Date: 2021-06-24 02:39 am (UTC)The Smallville writers were trying to cash in on a classic Superman story, but their Doomsday is basically Elseworlds at this point. Having Clark bury him under the Earth didn't make much sense either. I guess the idea was that Doomsday could potentially break free and they'd battle again? It doesn't really make sense. They could have called him something else and less people would have been disappointed.
In BvS, Doomsday is basically an afterthought and cheap (well, expensive in this case lol) way to kill Superman. Lex frees Doomsday to kill Superman (for reasons that are never really explained). Lex also manipulates Batman into trying to kill Superman, so maybe it was a backup plan? It was just plonked on at the end of the movie, though.