Man of Steel Trailer

We’ve lived with the Dark Knight series so long, we frankly couldn’t imagine a superhero who wasn’t a little emo. Even The Avengers featured Mark Ruffalo‘s moody, broody Hulk. Luckily, as director Zack Snyder’s Tree of Life-looking teaser trailer suggested and the film’s new trailer confirms, Man of Steel‘s Superman is all about the feels. Even the film’s IMDB description seems intent on resetting our expectations of Superman: “An alien infant is raised on Earth, and grows up with superhuman abilities. He sets out to use these abilities to guard his adopted world.” Uh, you mean the story of Superman? Which everyone in the world knows by heart? Fair enough. While most superheroes tend to be somewhat emotional (does everyone’s parents have to be dead?), Man of Steel seems to score highest on the Brooding Superhero Trope scorecard:

1. A scraggly, waggly beard. The fact Clark Kent, the most clean-cut of all superhero alter egos, now has a luxurious face pelt suggests some moderate-to-heavy brooding. It’s all very Bruce Wayne at the beginning of The Dark Knight Rises.
2. Paralyzing self-doubt. “The world is too big, Mom,” Clark frets. Guess that explains the need for a Fortress of Solitude. Also, the trailer opens with baby Superman asking his mom for help. Can it get more emo than that? Somehow, yes!
3. Powerless father figure. Did Kevin Costner just tell little Clark that he should have let a bus full of school children drown? What kind of bunkum is this? No wonder that poor alien is so mopey.
4. It’s an origin story. Gotta have an origin story, baby! There hasn’t been a brooding superhero yet that didn’t get a film dedicated to his origin story.
5. Ruminations on the meaning of a man’s life. “You just have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be, Clark. Whoever that man is, he’s going to change the world.” Oh sorry, are we not supposed tear up over a Man of Steel trailer? They wouldn’t have made it so poignant if they didn’t want us to cry! See you at the theaters on June 14!

The "Man Of Steel" Teaser Trailer Is With Us

And that there is pretty much all the Superman you're getting in this sh!t. The clean laundry blowing in the wind, Americana doggies and the adorable Henry Cavill playing Superman working undercover on Wicked Tuna. As a friend said - "nothing happens, and then he flies."
Er, here they are. Kevin Costner does the voice-over for the first one. There's an alternate version with Russell Crowe under it. I guess it depends on which voice you want to fap (pardon the lingo hehe) to? They're both pretty boring..

The Only Henry Cavill GIF You’ll Ever Need

Meet your new Superman, Henry Cavill, formerly of Tudors fame, who has spent the last year or so eating old timey dumbells in an effort to buff up for the role as the Man of Steel himself. Judging by the above photo, Cavill put on about a pec-tacular amount of muscle and is taking a cue from the Jon Hamm School of Body Hair, not a joke but an actual school where men walk around shirtless and talk about cheating on their wives. 

While we don’t know much about the upcoming superhero flick Superman: Man of Steel, there is one thing we do know: Henry Cavill has a woman assigned to him to assure that he will be appropriately grimy and covered in grease. And for that alone, I will see it.