Superman Hadouken

In the Movie Superman 2, I remember a scene where Superman was confronted by his 3 enemies in his base.

One of them flies towards him, then Superman throws his logo and it turns into a sheet of polyurethane and wraps around the villain and throws him to the ground and then disappears. I got the impression Superman is into Spiderman movies :-p. I always wondered what Superman's weapon was.

Later in life I got an answer, not sure if it is the correct one though. In the computer game street fighter, some of the fighters announce they are going to make a Hadouken and move their hands so fast that the air around their hands turns to a ball of plasma and shoots out at their rival. I'm sure that every guy that was a kid in the nineties tried to make their own Hadouken with their hands, it never ends well especially if your parents have a lot of fragile things sitting around.  Anyway, a Hadouken is a wave of energy given off by mythical fighter's fast moving hands. I wondered if Superman's polyurethane logo thing was a Hadouken.

My point is wouldn't it be nice if a media creation was accompanied by an explanation by the creator, like a back story. Every movie should back story to explain the story in more depth.

The mystery of life, the unsolved, the never ending quest.

General Zod

When I was young, I watched a movie called Superman. I think there was 3 or 4 sequals to the movie.

Superman 2 stuck in my mind more than any other because Lex Luther, the villain exposed a big flaw in his character. His greed was so big that it blinded him from seeing the dishonorable nature of General Zod and his crew. He wanted to cut a deal with the intergalactic villains, so he would tell them important information about Superman in exchange for control of Australia.

The story goes like this...
Jarel the king of the planet Crypton had a son that was sent to Earth and he was called Superman. But general Zod rebelled against Jarel and they were imprisoned. General Zod had two partners that helped him and they were all jailed. Everyone from the planet Crypton has super powers on Earth. Crypton was destroyed by its star and General Zod was released from his prison.

Anyway, Zod had no intention of honouring the deal. Once he found Superman, he would kill Lex Luther and by the end of the movie, it was obvious that Lex Luther would never become ruler of Australia. I feel like greed in this world can cause blindness to people and cause them to make deals with unworthy partners.