|
Even with Doomsday or Lex Luthor, Superman is incredibly boring.
Doomsday comes from no-where and kills Supes before anyone knows what's happening, they didn't even have a name for him until afterwords. Doomsday also dies, so it works out. Then we cloud the whole thing with retcons and continuity gaffs. It would take a man of equal power to be a metaphorical Doomsday to Cena, they might have been going for this sort of symbology when they fueded Lashley off to him. Though Lashley almost fits Darkseid, without the heelishness.
Lex Luthor, despite being the probably the smartest man on the planet, gets his metaphorical ass raped everytime he puts his plan into action. Very much Edge-ish. No matter what amount of planning and odds-making Edge went through Cena's raw power won the day.
Not that I'm advocating the thought that WWE is actually emulating Superman or DC writing specifically, but most of these metaphors are as old as Shelton Benjamin's mamma.
|