Warning: This article contains spoilers for Superman & Lois Season 4, Episode 5.
Superman and Lois Season 4’s newest villain story development justifies why major changes were made to a DC character and his origins. Superman and Lois has consistently played fast and loose with its adaptations of DC villains. For example, Parasite was made into a cult leader who intended to forcibly unite two universes, and Superman’s half-brother Tal-Rho was made into the show instead of using names like General Zod or another Kryptonian character.
However, a different figure might be the most unusual on this list of villains. While the live-action Superman show has diverged from traditional comic tradition many times throughout its history, one antagonist’s path has been especially unusual, and especially noteworthy for the unexpected turns it took. This was cemented with the Superman and Lois third season finale – but better justified some considerable time later Superman and Lois season 4.
Superman & Lois Season 4 Episode 5 Perfectly Explains Why the Show Made Bizarro Doomsday
Doomsday’s Bizarro Past Is Key in Superman & Lois Season 4
While the decision to turn Bizarro into Doomsday may have raised eyebrows from those familiar with the character’s conventional comic origin story, Superman and Lois Season 4, Episode 5 adds a key note of plot significance to this choice. After finding the tool that Lex Luthor has been using to summon Doomsday, Lois brings the character to her to try to reach the part of Bizarro that still remains inside him.
Lois discusses Bizarro’s relationship with her Lois and her children in her own home universe, comparing the loss of her own family to her fears that Doomsday will destroy her family. As Lois alludes, while she and Clark spent most of the episode trying to appeal to Lex’s sense of humanity by bringing his daughter back into his life, Luthor’s refusal to let go of his grudge to rebuild his relationship with Elizabeth proves that the duo of heroes was “trying to get to the wrong heart“, while Bizarro’s story mirroring his own provides them with a closer connection.
As Doomsday disappears after this conversation – and doesn’t appear to return to Luthor – it appears this conversation has reached the aspects of Bizarro that remain in Doomsday. As such, this development justifies why the series combined the two figures, as this storyline would not work in the same way without these adjustments.
Superman and Lois’ bizarre changes make more sense for the show than the Doomsday comic book story
Changes to the series help make Judgment Day fit into the overarching story
I had Superman and Lois decided to adapt a version of Doomsday’s origin story that was closer to the comics, the villain would not be linked to previous seasonsmaking it less integrated into the show’s overarching story. Likewise, this Doomsday would need more time to be fully set up in many ways without any existing origin story elements having been established for it.
Given all this effort apparently would have gone to a less satisfying or interesting figure – as the scenes of Bizarro being repeatedly killed and immediately coming back set up this aspect of the story as one of the most interesting in the series – the changes made here are worth it. out twice. This is especially true because Superman and Lois Season 4 needed to flesh out Lex’s story and history with Superman, which would have been more complicated to do if Doomsday also needed more details as a result of not already having an extensive show history.
Superman and Lois’ bizarre story is the series’ most important villain arc
Bizarro’s story was expanded throughout a large portion of the DC show
Bizarro is introduced in Superman and Lois in the first episode of season 2, and remains a central figure in the story until his death in episode 7. As is clear from the Judgment Day place in season 4, this was not the end of the character’s overall arc, with his body being stolen by Bruno Manheim in season 3, who hopes to use the Kryptonian alternate universe to find a way to cure his wife’s cancer.
Instead, Bizarro is revived in Season 3 Episode 8 – just in time to be discovered by Lex Luthor, who kills him repeatedly until he takes on Doomsday form. With Doomsday now a key villain in Superman and Lois season 4, the character’s overarching story took place for half of the entire showmaking it arguably the most significant narrative in the series outside of the Kent family. As such, I hope Superman and Lois will provide a fitting send-off for this version of Doomsday, which further highlights why the changes made were for the better.
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