Man of Steel: Five Ways it’s Different From The Man of Steel

, we looked at a number of the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths ideas that had been carried over from the John Byrne’s Man of Steel-era Superman comics to the upcoming Zack Snyder film Man of Steel.And while there were a handful of those ideas that carried over from one to the other, there are almost as many things that we know about Man of Steel that don’t fit with the ’80s and ’90s take on the iconic superhero.What didn’t seem so familiar? Well, here’s a partial list…A Race of SupermenAlternately described as a race of supermen and a warrior race, the Kryptonians of Man of Steel seem to more accurately reflect some of the earliest interpretations of Superman’s home planet culture.As we’ve noted in the past, that actually calls back to the earliest descriptions of Krypton, a version of the world that hasn’t been canonical since at least the Silver Age.In Byrne’s story and after, Krypton has a clone war but were generally not “warriors.” Rather, the planet was essentially a cult of science. The cold, sterile, emotionless world hardly had the passion for things like war and certainly wasn’t the home of anyone particularly powerful.That said, it’s widely known throughout the universe even in post-Crisis comics that Kryptonians have the capacity for great power in the right circumstance.