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The return, too, was unambitious and a complete divergence from the comics.

Instead, they got Doomsday into Metropolis as quickly as possible and put the pair into a fight that was brutal but hardly unparalleled before Superman fell. While fans at the time were largely forgiving of its flaws because they were so excited to see one of their all-time favorite comic book stories brought to life as an animated feature film, there was simply not enough time to satisfactorily do everything they had to do in the time they had, and it ends up feeling like a piece of junk food: stuffed to bursting with something that isn't any good for you.Ī big thing: while the comics relied on a ratcheting up of the tensions throughout the storyline to keep the "one big fight scene" of the Superman/Doomsday throwdown from getting monotonous, Superman: Doomsday did not have time for that. In the course of about 70 minutes, they had to introduce Doomsday, kill Superman, and bring him back in a narratively satisfying way. In Superman: Doomsday, the story had to do a lot of heavy lifting.