This is Julio's Corner, my corner of the internet, where I talk about whatever is on my mind.

I'll mostly talk about stuff I've watched, read or listened to.

But sometimes I may ramble on about the news, politics or society at large.

This episode is being recorded on Sunday, September 7, 2025.

Welcome back to the show.

Once again, I'm your host, Julio from New York.

I didn't record last week for those who are aware.

And reason being, real life situations happen.

And I had to pick up an extra shift last weekend.

So that was one less day off.

So one less day possible to do a recording.

So it wasn't possible.

And with rising costs in this stagflation economy that we're currently living in, and my salary not going up any higher than it is, which is just a little bit above minimum wage, I need to pick up hours wherever I can to make ends meet.

So anyways, we're just gonna get right into it.

There's two things I've watched in my absence of the show.

And one of them is the docu-series on Netflix called America's Team, The Gambler and His Cowboys.

Now the synopsis on IMDb reads, Team owner Jerry Jones' journey transformed the Cowboys, leading players, coaches to three NFL titles in the 90s, becoming innovative sports leaders with world's most valuable franchise.

So this is very much in the vein of The Last Dance, which was a documentary of the Chicago Bulls' last run for their sixth championship title.

And like that docu-series, Jerry Jones had creative control of this docu-series.

Last Dance was Michael Jordan.

So given that it was Jerry Jones in charge of the editing and the producing of that eight episode series, obviously it was slightly biased in his favor.

He didn't look perfect by any means.

He still showed some of his flaws, but some narratives were slanted more in his favor.

For instance, the dispute he had with Jimmy Johnson.

Now, I was a relatively young person when that came out in the 90s.

So I was like 18 and younger.

I was in my teens when this happened.

So I didn't grasp it well then, because I wasn't really big to NFL at that time either.

I was more into the Bulls.

I was into basketball in the 90s.

So, after their second championship, their second Super Bowl win, there was a lot of contention about who deserved the most credit.

And so it was a battle of egos between the owner Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson.

And that narrative, the way the docu-series painted it, they were trying to make it more Jimmy Johnson's fault, because he was steadfast in taking credit for their successes, especially the Herschel Walker trade.

That was one big point of contention.

The Herschel Walker in the one...

So Jerry Jones bought the franchise with like a hundred something million dollars that he got from his oil finding, which was his previous venture until he got to be the owner of the Cowboys.

That was his ultimate dream and he got to accomplish it.

So when he bought them, the Cowboys were losing franchise.

Tom Landry was the head coach.

He was there for 20 something years.

So they won a lot in the 70s, but they have been since a failing franchise in the 80s to the point that the original owner was willing to sell because he was a bank owner and his bank went out of business.

So he had no, you know, he was becoming broke essentially with this losing franchise and he was willing to sell it.

And Jerry Jones was there to pick up the tab.

So in owning the team, I think they had a 115, you know, one win, 15 loss season.

That was Michael Irving's rookie year.

And because, you know, they were such a bad team, they were able to get him in the, in the draft that year, first year of Jerry Jones being the owner.

They sucked.

So Jerry Jones decided to fire him because it was like, yeah, I mean, your good years are behind you.

And it's time for me to, as the owner and the GM, cause I want to do both, I want to run this team.

And I feel it's, I'm ready to pick another coach.

And the coach he picked was Jimmy Johnson, who I did not know was a college roommate of his.

They were together in the University of Arkansas, or Arkansas, I don't know the name of the college.

It was the state of Arkansas, they went to the college there, and they played in the football team there.

And they were roommates.

And so that's where their friendship started.

And they won, they were a great winning team, that senior, I guess it was a senior year, and they won the NCAA Championship.

And that was such an amazing memory of Jerry Jones that he wanted to recapture that moment, which is why his ultimate dream was to own a football franchise.

So he can always be able to have the opportunity for that again.

So here he is, owner of the Cowboys, and he wanted to make Jimmy Johnson his coach.

So he fired Tom Landry in a, I guess, unceremonious fashion because everyone in Dallas hated that idea.

Tom Landry was a beloved figure in Dallas, Texas.

They loved him.

He had this great story.

He was like an army veteran, salt of the earth type of figure, humble, respectful.

He had all the personality traits that people idolized in that time period.

So just, and also he's a Texan.

So naturally, Texans have this, well, especially in this time period, according to the docu-series, they have this entrenched identity that, you know, no foreigners or no outsiders should meddle in Texas business.

But here's this guy from Arkansas buying their beloved Dallas Cowboys and then firing their beloved coach Tom Landry.

And then on top of that, now he's getting this, this college coach, Jimmy Johnson, from the, the, I think he played for, he coached the Miami team.

No, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He coached the Miami Hurricanes.

That was the team that he coached, which was Michael Irving's team.

So Michael Irving was excited that Jimmy, that Jimmy Johnson was going to be his, his new head coach because, I mean, that was the system that he, he prospered in college with.

So he was looking forward to him taking over because he didn't like the situation in, in the Cowboys franchise at the moment, because, you know, Tom Landry, older man, he sort of was more lax at this point, I guess.

And so the players just didn't really have a winning mentality.

And Michael Irving came from a championship program, that was done by Jimmy John, Johnson.

And he, so he was ready, he was like telling him, all right, get, like, let go of these guys, let's get these guys and so on.

So they were, they were entrenched, they were a unit and they were happy about it.

But that first year with Jimmy Johnson as the coach, didn't fare no better than the season before, because again, their team is lacking a lot of talent.

So there comes the Herschel Walker trade.

Herschel Walker was this great running back.

He was the best player on the team.

And Jerry Jones decides to trade him for like these five players that are nobodies.

And everyone was thinking like, what the hell are you doing?

There are no match for Herschel Walker.

But the reason why Jerry Jones, the general manager, made the deal was because there was a clause in the contracts of those players that if you wave them at the end of the season, you get five draft picks.

So he essentially did the deal for the draft picks.

He didn't care about those players.

He just wanted them because they were going to lose anyway.

They were going to have another losing record, losing season anyway.

So might as well use this time to build from the ground up.

Because Hershel Walker was expensive and they needed to rebuild in a lot of positions.

So the first year they got Michael Irving.

Second year they get, what's his name?

Troy Aikman, the quarterback.

And he, you know, another losing season.

But then the third season, now with these draft picks, they get a lot of players, key players.

And of course, they then also get Emmett Smith, the legendary Hall of Fame running back.

So now you have the unit.

You have Troy Aikman, your quarterback.

You have Michael Irving, the playmaker, wide receiver.

And you have Emmett Smith who ends up being the, running back with the most running yards in the history of the NFL.

You know, to be in the future.

So now you have this team.

You have the team you want.

You build up the offensive line, and the defensive line, and so on.

And Jimmy Johnson, I believe that's his name.

I keep Jerry Jones and the two JJs.

So Jimmy Johnson, you know, he's a very tough disciplinarian coach.

Michael Irving grew up in that system, so he didn't care.

He loved it.

He thrived in it.

Emmett Smith was amenable to it.

Troy Aikman and Jimmy Johnson didn't get along well in the beginning.

And part of it is because of their personality.

And they go into a little bit of, what's his name?

Troy Aikman, how he was brought up.

So Troy Aikman is very, he's a very stoic person.

He doesn't let his emotions show.

And Jimmy Johnson is all hollering and screaming and very emoting, very emotional.

So he's all, and of course, so is Michael Irving.

Emmett Smith, probably also a much quieter person, but you know, you see the expressions on his face.

Like if he's happy, he's smiling.

If he's angry, he's glaring.

Troy Aikman pretty much has a poker face.

He's very stone face, stoic.

And so Jimmy Johnson misinterpreted that as someone who didn't really care, when in fact, he, Troy Aikman is also ultra competitive and he wants to win championships.

And so in the beginning of their relationship, it wasn't, his first year didn't go well because he also got injured.

And then there was this other, the backup quarterback who's very emotional, is sort of the player that Jimmy Johnson leans into and he started doing well.

So while Troy Aikman was healing, I figured what the injury was, but it sidelined him for a number of weeks.

So while he was recovering, the backup was on a tear.

He was on a hot streak and a winning streak.

And so they got into the playoffs.

And came the playoffs, Troy Aikman was ready to play.

And Jimmy Johnson was like, nope, you're not going to play.

We're going to stick with this guy because he's brought us here.

And so we're going to stick with him.

And so that didn't sit well with Troy Aikman because he's the starting quarterback.

He's the number one.

I'm not sure if he was number one, but he was the first round draft pick.

So this guy is a backup.

I'm the star quarterback.

I should be the one leading the charge.

And here you are undermining my status.

It doesn't sit well with me, obviously.

So, and Jerry Jones wasn't happy with that.

So anyways, they go into the playoffs.

I think they win the first round.

So, so far, Jim Johnson looks good.

They go to the next round.

They get eliminated.

That's it.

That's the end of the season.

But, you know, much better than the previous two losing seasons.

I think one was 1-15.

The first one was 1-15.

The second one was 3-12.

So, or 3-16.

I forget the numbers.

So anyways, Jerry Jones has a talk with Jim Johnson saying, hey, we drafted Troy Aikman.

He's our guy.

He should be the one starting.

So, Jim Johnson gives in.

Wow, I realized I went down a rabbit hole.

My point is, so that Herschel Walker trade that helped build that team, the team of the three units, you're Troy Aikman, you're Emmett Smith, and you're Michael Irving.

With those three, they win two championships back to back.

They beat the Buffalo Bills twice.

Buffalo Bills lost their third Super Bowl and fourth Super Bowl against the Cowboys.

So now, you know, everything's going great there.

Now everyone's happy.

They went through those horrible three losing seasons.

Everyone was, you know, mocking this upstart Arkansasian oil baron who bought this team without any real expertise, got this coach from college.

Who the hell is he?

What the hell are they thinking?

But hey, you gotta give them their respect now.

They're Super Bowl champions.

So now that they're winning, the egos are clashing.

Who gets the credit?

The Herschel Walker trade.

Jimmy John says, like, it was my idea, of course, because, I mean, Jerry Jones doesn't know anything about football.

I've been coaching college.

I've been, I played in college.

I coach college.

I have, I'm the one with the football knowledge.

He's the guy with the money.

I'm the guy with the brains.

Obviously, it was my idea.

I'm the one who did this.

And Jerry Jones was like, no, no, no.

When I was buying the team, the previous GM had told me that, that was, that might be a good idea to, if you really, if you want to rebuild from scratch, Herschel Walker is our best asset.

You might want to consider that option.

And it just didn't fare well.

There was talks of Jimmy Johnson in the off season, talking to the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars about coaching their team while he was selling the contract with the Cowboys, which left another bad taste in Jerry Jones' mouth, because he felt like, you know, what happened to loyalty?

Like, you know, we were supposed to be best friends.

We were the ones supposed to be, you know, back to, you know, have each other's back.

And here you are talking to people outside of, you know, behind my back and try to take credit and all this stuff.

So things go sour.

Jimmy Johnson is essentially forced to resign.

And so he takes some years off and he becomes a sports pundit on Fox NFL Sunday.

So which reminds me, I should set up that recording for that show.

I want to see it.

I think this is last year if he didn't retire already.

But anyways, moving on.

The point is, so you get to see that story.

So that whole thing that happened there in the docu-series, they make it seem more like it's Jimmy Johnson's fault.

Obviously, don't you see?

Like he keeps calling me an idiot and this and that.

And really, I mean, the fact of the matter is, come on, he is the football coach.

He's the one with the expertise.

I think he probably did have more say in how they got where they are.

Obviously, you were the GM and you're the one who makes the final decisions and all, but at the same time, you were relying on Jimmy Johnson to help you build a winning franchise because that's why you got him here.

So anyways, he fires him.

He hires another guy who was also in the same school, Barry Switzer, because there was a thing that he said, Jerry Jones, which Jimmy Johnson was offended by.

He said that this team, you know, Jimmy Johnson didn't just win our championships.

Like, look at the team we have.

Like, any, I could pick one out of any, like 500 coaches to, and it would have been the same results, basically, is what he said.

So here he is trying to prove it by getting this guy, Barry Switzer, who also went to the same school with them and was part of that winning program.

He was retired.

He had already been retired for five years from coaching because he was coaching a college team prior to this new hire.

But there was a scandal that happened in that school.

And he took the fall, so he resigned, and he hadn't been coaching for five years.

And so now he or Barry Switzer is out of retirement as a slap to Jimmy Johnston's face to prove his point.

Like, hey, see, look, I'm going to prove my point by getting this guy who hasn't even coached for five years and also has no NFL experience, just like you didn't have NFL experience in the beginning.

And he's going to bring us to a winning.

He's going to win with us.

So that first year, I think doesn't go well under Barry Switzer, but they do win championship number three, the second year, because so what happened was they lost in the NFC championship to the 49ers.

The previous two times when they won those championships, they beat the 49ers in the NFC championship to get to the Super Bowl to beat the Bills.

So now, this third year, which they could have done a three-peat, but now we have a new coach, new system.

He does things a little loose.

He's not a strict or disciplinary in the way Jimmy Johnson was.

So there was a lot of negligence and bad practices and what have you.

The players weren't as prepared as they were the previous two seasons.

They didn't have the same motivations, I guess.

So they lose to the 49ers, finally beat them.

And then they go and win the Super Bowl against, I forget who it was.

But they felt Jerry Jones, I should say.

There was this one cornerback in that 49ers team that really was messing up Troy Aikman's passes.

This guy's name is Deion Sanders.

Primetime.

So you have the playmaker, you have a Hall of Fame running back, you have Troy Aikman, your quarterback.

And now Jerry Jones is like, you know what?

We need Primetime.

And the Dallas Cowboys is America's team.

So why not, why not set this up?

Because obviously, where else should Primetime be than in America's team?

And Deion Sanders agrees.

He's actually a free agent after that Super Bowl win from the 49ers.

And then he jumps ship and he signs up with the Dallas Cowboys.

And that's how they get their third championship.

Now you have, you have, you know, Sanders in, in, in defense.

And you have the, the three guys in offense, Irving Smith, and Emmett Smith and Troy Aikman.

So they, so Barry Switzer gets his championship.

But that's pretty much the end of their winning ways.

They haven't won since, since that last, that third one.

So that's, that's the, the documentary in a nutshell.

Michael Irving gets a neck injury.

Before that, though, he had this criminal case going on that I was unaware of, because he got caught at a hotel room with cocaine, and the DA was trying to get him under, I forget what the exact crime, charge, the charge was, but I think it was on, because he was trying to say that he is not the one who brought the cocaine into the room.

Someone brought it in, you know, brought it into the apartment, but they're trying to say that it was his possession, I guess is what they were going to charge him, which, which that and some other felony charges that would have given him 20 years in prison, which, you know, that being the end of his life.

And then during that trial, apparently, there was this cop, this Texas cop, Dallas, Dallas police officer, who tried to hire a hit on, on Michael Irving because his girlfriend was one of the women who would party with Michael Irving.

This woman was also part of the DA's witness.

She was one of the witnesses that was doing a testimony for, she was getting immunity from any criminal allegations to testify against Michael Irving.

And Michael Irving and her had a spat because he found out that she was gonna testify against him.

So he had her come in, which is, I mean, that's kind of, I think that, I believe that's illegal.

I'm not an expert.

But they also painted it as something that would like tarnish the case or something.

It like, it wasn't, it wasn't legally right what he was doing.

He couldn't be speak, he can't be speaking to the, the prosecutor's witness outside of the trial, you know.

But whatever, that happened.

And I guess she told her boyfriend that he threatened her.

So he then hires a hitman who the FBI caught, and that kind of put a stop to the case for that, that day of, that first day of trial or whatever.

And that cop ends up going to jail for life or whatever, because, you know, he was attempted murder via assassin.

And they don't explain why the head of the prosecution decided to give a lesser, because originally they wanted to like throw the book at him and make him get the maximum sentence.

And the assistant DA was all in on it, because he was like, yeah, man, this case is going to make my career and whatnot.

And then the head prosecution decided, we're just going to give you, like, it was more, I forget what it was.

He didn't go to jail, obviously.

He got to do like, what is it, probation hours or whatever.

He had to, he had a probation officer, and he had to do community service.

That's what it is.

He had like a lot of hours of community service that he had to do if he copped a plea or whatever.

So anyways, then the next year, he has a serious neck injury against the Eagles in the Eagle Stadium of that time, because they worked, they played on basically concrete, and he landed in such a way, and then he got tackled while he was landing, you know, his head first, that affected his neck.

That affected his spine that made it to the point where like, yeah, you can't play anymore.

So he had to retire for that.

Troy Ickman, I think, lasted two more years or so after that.

And then he retired because he just had too many concussions, and they just, the team wasn't getting any better.

They've been losing and maybe making the playoffs, or not even making the playoffs, and definitely not Super Bowl contention.

So he goes, so the last man, Stan, oh, Deion Sanders goes to the Redskins.

At the time, they were called the Redskins, the Washington Redskins, now they're the commanders.

Emmett Smith is the last of the Mohicans, as he calls himself.

But he still has one thing left to prove.

He has to break the rushing record, and so he does.

And then the Cowboys were like, after that, after he breaks the record that season, they let him go.

He felt like he could still play, but the Cowboys weren't willing to pay him.

So he joins the Arizona Cardinals at the time, which I didn't know, I didn't know he played for the Cardinals.

I thought he was always a Cowboy.

And the reason being, you'll find out, after those two, last two seasons, that he played for the Cardinals, he came back to the Cowboys, because he can't see himself as anything but a Cowboy.

So he goes back after he runs his contract, his two-year contract with the Cardinals to sign a one-day, essentially a one-day contract with the Cowboys, so he can retire as a Dallas Cowboy.

And then they fast forward to now, where things have still haven't gotten better.

And then they show what happened last season.

Was it last season?

No, no, no, two seasons ago.

Two seasons ago, it looked like, oh wow, we're making the playoffs, things are looking good.

And then they get embarrassed by the Green Bay Packers, which is ironic because of what's happening this season.

Oh yeah, football season is back.

So I finished the Stocco Series at the right time.

Recently, for those who are into the NFL, the Cowboys traded Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers, the team that gave him the embarrassing loss in playoffs two seasons ago.

So it's a bit of a head scratcher still.

Some people are saying, I mean, they played their first game against the Eagles this past Thursday, and it went a lot better than expected.

It was a close game.

I think the final score was, I believe it was 27-24.

Though they did have to get Jalen Carter kicked out of the game to make it close, because Jalen Carter is the premier defensive lineman for the Eagles that breaks up the offensive line, and he would have been able to attack Dak Prescott a lot more to make it harder for them to score.

But he was kicked out of the game before it even began essentially.

So that helped their offense.

And yeah, the game was close, 24 to 27.

So anyways, back to the Ducky Series.

So that's the last thing they show.

Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson finally settled their differences, and they let him, they retire Jimmy Johnson to the Ring of Honor in the new stadium that they have now.

So yeah, all in all, it went longer than I expected.

All in all, it's a good series.

I recommend it if you're a football fan and you're curious and you're interested in finding out the history of the Dallas Cowboys, why do they still call them America's team?

Why is it still the most profitable, the most valuable franchise in the NFL?

Why do the sports pundits always talk about the Cowboys, even when they're not doing well?

This docu-series sort of gives you a bit of a look into that reason.

So anyways, other than the docu-series, I also saw the movie Superman, the new one, Superman 2025.

Now, what do I want to say about this movie?

After all this talk I just gave about the Cowboys, I'm definitely going to talk less about the plot of Superman.

What I'll say about Superman 2025, what I like about Superman 2025 is that it's not a typical reboot.

So most reboots, they do the origin story.

And here, in this new Superman movie, they don't do that.

They do give you a blurb in the opening minutes of the movie, like, you know, 300 years ago, the first metahumans came, blah, blah, blah, and so on.

30 years ago, an alien came from the planet Krypton.

You know, it's just a quick one-liner to the present.

And then we go to the sort of movie, after that little blurb, it starts with his first defeat as Superman by the hammer of Beravia, I think is the name of the country.

I should have written the names of the countries in the movie, but I forgot.

So there's this country named Beravia, and they're trying to invade this neighboring country whose name escapes me.

I think it's like Gundalpur or something like that.

I don't remember, so whatever.

The point is, if a lot of people are saying that this movie, that Beravia is essentially Israel and the other country is Palestine, which is reflective of what's happening right now in the real world, where Israel is committing genocide of the Palestinians because they're trying to take over that land, kill off the Palestinians, and make that part of greater Israel.

But anyway, we're not going to go into that political issue that's happening in real life because we're talking about the movie Superman.

But that is the basic plot.

This country is being attacked by Beravia.

Superman stops it.

So now the hammer of Beravia beats crap out of Superman and says, you know, get out of, stay out of our business.

This is none of your affairs, you know.

This is between Beravia and that other country.

We're trying to liberate it from its evil rulers.

So anyways, so yeah.

So the movie basically unlike a typical reboot where you start at the beginning, we're starting in a week of a life, in the life of Superman.

And in this week in the life of Superman, he stops Beravia from invading, but then he gets beat up by their superhero, who they take no credit for.

They're like, hammer Beravia.

We don't know no hammer of Beravia.

Do you see him here?

He's not here.

So that's cool.

The other thing I like about it is that, so yeah, the world, so basically the movie is like, you know all these things, so let's just get right into it.

I love the side characters that they introduce to the Superman, the world of Superman.

You have Guy Gardner, played by Nathan Fillion of Castle and Firefly fame.

Firefly fame, I should say.

Mr.

Terrific, played by, I hope I say his name right, Eddie Gadeghi.

Hawkgirl, played by Isabella Merced.

And Metamorpho, played by Anthony Carrigan.

And then the bad guys, you have Nicholas Holt, playing Lex Luthor.

He plays a really, I think this is one of my favorite Lex Luthor's of the movies.

Like the one, Gene Hackman was good, but those movies were very, you know, they were campy.

They were from that time piece.

But for the modern versions of Superman that have come, I believe this is the best movie Lex Luthor so far, Nicholas Holt.

He also plays him as a genius.

Like that's the one thing they don't ever really delve into.

They just play him as like this evil mastermind, but they don't really go into the like science, the genius science aspect of Lex Luthor, which they do in this movie.

And then he has a partner, they call her the engineer.

Apparently she's a character from The Authority, which I believe was a comic book by this guy, I think his name is Mark Miller.

So I don't think the engineer was an original DC character, but The Authority, like Wildcat, like some characters from, you know, Jim Lee, he was part of Image Comics and he created Wildcats, but then he decided to work for DC.

So he brought his characters from Image over.

So Wildcat is now part of the DC world.

So in that, also in that vein, The Authority, which I think was originally from an indie comic book company, they got absorbed into the DC world.

So she isn't originally a DC character, but she is now.

At least that's what I believe.

Don't quote me on this.

I'm unfamiliar with the engineer, but she's played by Maria Gabriela de Faria.

I think that's how you say her name.

And it's an interesting character.

She has all these nanites that she can throw at you or use or change her body in certain ways to fight with these nanobots.

That basically is most of her body at this point.

So yeah, Nathan Fillion played a very funny jerk Guy Gardner, which is perfect representation of the Guy Gardner character, who is a green lantern.

He's a hothead green lantern.

He's not the typical Hal Jordan or Kyle Renner green lantern that most people are familiar with.

Mr.

Terrific is a character I was unfamiliar with.

I think I might have seen him in a few comic books that I read from called the Justice Society, JSA.

So I didn't know much about him, but the few scene moments that Mr.

Terrific was on the screen, he stole the show.

So he's my new favorite character.

Had I known of him before, like when I was reading DC Comics, I probably, he probably would have been my favorite character just because he's the way he was portrayed in the movie.

Like he's perfect.

He's like a, he's a combination of Batman and Iron Man without the alcoholism or the deep childhood trauma.

Like he's just, he's those things, but like he has those, the aspects of each of those two characters, but without the trauma, he's definitely more grounded and he's very logical, which I love.

I'm myself, I'm a logical person for the most part.

So, so he, his character appealed to me in so many ways and yeah, so they call themselves the Justice Gang instead of the Justice League.

So that's funny.

And every time Guy Gardner proudly says we are the Justice Gang, either Mr.

Terrific or Hawker or like, no, we're not.

So it's a working title.

So yeah, the one thing I'll say about this Superman, I might, as I've already said, I was a fan of Batman growing up.

He was my superhero.

So I hated Superman.

Superman, the Boy Scout just didn't appeal to me.

He didn't really, he just seemed so, like he was just cheesy, perfect and unrealistic.

But the way this movie portrays him, he's very, he's very human.

Like yeah, he has all these amazing superpowers that he gets because he's powered by the sun.

So his, what you call it?

The way his body is affected by the Earth gravity and the sun makes him what he is.

He makes him Superman.

So but despite that, he's still outside of what the yellow sun does to his body to make him Superman.

And the fact that he's not from the planet Earth, he's very much human.

And even though he's Superman, he has a lot of heart, and he's always trying to do the right thing.

And because he's so all-powerful, he doesn't let it get to his head.

He tries to do the right thing, and regardless if it's the popular thing, he doesn't try to play politics about it.

Good is good, and bad is bad, and he always leans to the side of good.

For instance, like that whole thing of stopping that war.

Baravia happens to be an ally of the United States in this movie.

So what he did was akin to an act of treason or an act of...

You know, it was a political...

I don't know the technical term, but it puts the, quote unquote, it could put the US in a bad situation because you just attacked your own ally.

But Superman's like, I did not do it as a representative of the US.

I did it as myself.

And I did it because I didn't want people to die.

So he doesn't care about the politics of it or the metrics or how it looks.

If it's right, I'm gonna do it.

And they also kind of further emphasize his innate need to do good in this huge fight scene where he's fighting this alien that Lex's team, you know, just dumps into Metropolis to cause the distraction.

As much as this alien is causing havoc, he knows his alien didn't just land here on his own to try to conquer Metropolis or whatever.

He's just there being big and just a stranger in a strange land.

So regardless of being a danger to the people of Metropolis, he doesn't have necessarily evil intention.

He's just this alien monster.

So Superman is trying to find a way to defeat it without killing it.

Like bringing it to an interplanetary zoo or something, or a sanctuary place, so he can be free and among his kind or whatever, and then studied to figure out where he came from and whatnot.

And the Justice Gang is like, aim for his eyes, just, you know, we got to kill him.

So like the contrast between his idea of what a good guy does and the Justice Gang's idea of what a good guy does is well played in this movie.

Also, as I mentioned, during that fight scene, he saves a dog from getting squashed by that monster, and even saves a squirrel and a girl, because one of the Justice Gang hits him or whatever, which causes, you know, cause and effect.

And so there's something like, there's like debris flying everywhere and a girl's about to be hit with like these yellow metal things.

So Superman goes there immediately and uses his body to protect her from getting crushed and then moves her to safety and then even saves like, like I said, it saves a little squirrel from, from demise and brings him across the street or whatever.

So, so they just show all these examples of how like, yeah, he's, he's Superman, but he's the example of ultimate power that's not, but not letting it corrupt him.

And that's probably, and that's partly the reason why Mr.

Terrific of the three, at the time, three members of the Justice Gang is able to associate with Superman in a more, in a less hostile way.

Hawkgirl is suspicious because, you know, she's just a warrior woman who, you know, attacks first, asks questions later, essentially is her, is sort of her mantra.

She's a little, but she's not hot headed.

It's just, that's just like, you know, attack first and, you know, very militaristic acting.

Guy Garner's a hot head.

So, even though, you know, he has these oats that he took from the Green Lantern core, he still has like a chip on his shoulder and has to be the big man in the room.

And so anyone that may seem bigger than him, he has to immediately like confront and, you know, try to out stage that person.

So Superman is a threat in that sense.

But also, politically speaking, he's very, like, you know, we can't be attacking Arabia.

Like, what the hell?

Like, that goes against, you know, I don't I don't meddle in politics.

And we know that that's their allies with the US and we're US citizens.

So we can't, you know, deal with that.

Like that's, you know, we don't deal with politics.

We just deal with this situation where, you know, monsters attacking the city and Superman's like, but no, people are dying.

Like, I got to I got to go there.

I had, you know, it's in my if I can stop it, I'm going to stop it kind of thing.

So, yeah, so this movie made me with all that said and done.

This movie made me actually like Superman for the first time in ever.

I never really like I thought I acknowledged that he was Superman.

And so, you know, almost invincible.

But Batman was my guy.

And if there was a fight between Batman and Superman, I always knew.

Well, I always rooted for Batman, like Batman, because he's human and he knows you're Superman.

He's going to plan ahead and use kryptonite or whatever to knock you down a peg to defeat you, because that's how Batman rolls.

But now, man, if I hadn't known about Mr.

Terrific, that would have been my guy all this time.

But anyways, and that explains why no one really knows of him, because this is his first time on the screen.

But I wish big things for this Mr.

Terrific character.

I'm not the only person who said he was a scene stealer.

I believe James Gunn, the director and writer of this movie, I believe he has a series in the works for Mr.

Terrific or probably a solo movie for him.

It's either a movie or a series in the works for Mr.

Terrific.

Maybe one for Guy Garner too.

I think there might be something with Guy Garner and the other Green Lanterns.

So am I missing anything else?

No, I think that's everything.

So yeah, I recommend Superman 2025.

I mean, it's called Superman.

The year is 2025.

The movie, the title is just Superman.

Anyways, that's all I have.

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