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Message: [QUOTE="miguk, post: 71610, member: 1510"] There is an explanation, just not in-film. The Reeves movies were made before DC published [I]Crisis on Infinite Earths,[/I] the crossover series that rebooted the entire DC timeline for the first time. After that series, Superman had a fixed set of defined powers. But before CoIE, he simply didn't have a fixed set. Instead, he had whatever powers the writer wanted him to have at that moment. By the time they were getting ready to reboot, Superman had numerous powers that were never seen again, some of which existed for a single issue. So Reeves' Superman can turn back time because he is a (surprisingly accurate) adaptation of a specific Superman that was published at that time, which is out of date enough that it doesn't make sense to modern Superman fans. It's part of the reason I'm sick of DC constantly playing with the idea of bringing that version into film continuity again (other than, you know, the guy being dead). We haven't once got an accurate adaptation of modern Superman in live action, and they keep on toying with the dead one. If they have to use any pre-Crisis Superman, I'd rather it be the early version who beat up crooked businessmen and the KKK, but we all know WB won't allow that. [/QUOTE]

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