Brandon Routh’sKingdom ComeT-Shirt StoleArrow‘s Final San Diego Comic-Con Panel

Thousands of fans poured into San Diego Comic - Con ’s Ballroom 20 yesterday expect to see the Arrow cast ’s emotional farewell during a control board for the show ’s net season . That ’s exactly what they get wind ( crying were caducous ) , but what no one expect to witness was a very excited Brandon Routh ( fable of Tomorrow ) with some major news program about the CW ’s upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths event .

After seven year , the serial that give birthing to the CW ’s Arrowverse isfinally coming to a close , and in the first trailer forArrow ’s final season , Oliver Queen ’s start out unfinished business to take guardianship of . But somehow not even the end of the show that pop out this whole thing off in the first place was actually the biggest newsworthiness out of Arrow ’s gore . Superman was ?

The last big Arrowverse event , Elseworlds , did n’t fundamentally change the multiverse of CW superhero show as we know it , but it closed with a teaser for the next heavy tentpole that almost certainly would . A edition of DC Comics’Crisis on Infinite Earths is come to the small screen , and while Arrow ’s core cast of characters was compressed - lipped about just what variety of crisis their characters are going to be treat with , caption of Tomorrow ’s Routh made a surprisal coming into court on stage romp a very impressive turnout .

A very particular Superman is making their way to TV.

A very particular Superman is making their way to TV.Image: Alex Ross (DC Comics)

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While talking about how the originative squad come around on the idea of Routh reprising his Superman part , executive manufacturer Marc Guggenheim jest that Routh ’s Superman Returns suit was n’t uncommitted to be repurposed for the CW :

Well , I verbalize to WB , we actually discovered this last yr on last year ’s crosswalk : Every clip they have a costume , they basically put it in their archive . And they do n’t wish to let it out .

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So we wo n’t be able to use your original costume . We ’re still figuring it out . We ’ll dress you in something , obviously . If you have any mind , we ’re all ears .

Routh , in on the joke , wasted no time and stood up to rive open up his clitoris - down to reveal a shirt emblazoned with the Kingdom Come Superman emblem , prompting gasps from the consultation for obvious reasons . In Mark Waid and Alex Ross ’ Kingdom Come , an Elseworlds story , Superman hails from a dystopian future where the superheroes of old have give agency to a younger generation of hyper - red vigilantes who have no return with killing their enemies on visual modality , moral philosophy and “ DoJ ” be damned .

Kingdom Come ’s Superman is notably older and world aweary than most of his mainstream counterparts , mean that when he makes his unrecorded - natural process first appearance this during the Crisis Event , he ’ll almost certainly be wary , and perhaps even adversarial towards the Arrowverse ’s heroes .

William Duplessie