The 2025 Superman reboot is, by all accounts, a resounding success. Critics like it a lot, moviegoers are loving it, and it made bank during its opening weekend. It also scared the shit outta me during a couple action sequences.

I can handle a lot of violence in films. I wouldn’t have seen four John Wick films and the Ballerina spin-off if death-by-library-book bothered me — instead, it makes me a bit giddy. Chop some limbs up, blow some brains out, dip Jack Quaid’s hand in boiling oil, I’m good with all that. What I’m not good with is violence unto eyes, something I wasn’t expecting to encounter in Superman. Though given that this is a James Gunn movie, maybe I should have seen it coming. (Pun intended.)

[Ed. note: Spoilers for two of Superman’s action sequences follow, as well as spoilers for the ending of The Suicide Squad.]

Early in the new Superman film, starring David Corenswet as the Big Blue Boy Scout, Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) sics a kaiju on Metropolis. It doesn’t show particular intelligence or intention, behaving more like a natural disaster in kaiju form. The giant dude stumbles about, rapidly growing from........

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