My Review of My Adventures With Superman 2x08: "The Death Of Clark Kent"

 

Written by Angela Entzminger 

Directed by Kiki Manrique 

Brainiac (to Lois/Jimmy): "There is no more Kal-El. There is only the machine who is Empire."

After having the title character sit out the previous episode, this one brought Superman back into the mix, but alas, for him, a common Superman trope happened here. No, not that one. The other one. Yeah, Superman just cannot catch a break from bring taken over.

With the use of a device called Black Mercy, Brainiac spent a good portion of this episode invading Superman's mind and corrupting his memories before eventually succeeding in taking him over. At least Superman tried to put up a fight though it was one that he ended up losing.

In the battle of wits, we got to see Superman's past battles with Luvewire and Parasite somewhat distorted before Brainiac realised that Lois and Jimmy were his biggest strengths. Yes, we got to watch Superman being isolated by Lois during Brainiac's hostile takeover of him. 

With Brainiac fully in control of Superman, this episode saw him lose control of Kara. Well, to be fair, Brainiac practically traded her in for Kal-El and Kaea got a very harsh wake up about her father's true motives. On the plus side, at least she managed to team up with Lois, Jimmy, Monsieur Mallah and the Brain.

I really loved this team up throughout the episode and I thought the mutual attraction between Kara and Jimmy was handled well here. Lois also got past her own issues with Kara, guilt for rejecting Clark and even came up with a plan to rescue Superman. Yeah, she's used the Black Mercy.

- We got a lot of different memories being corrupted by Brainiac, including a destroyed Smallville at one point.

- While Lous was right to initially mistrust Kara, the latter was also right to mistrust Lois.

- Jimmy is definitely going to have to explain to Kara that he's not the leader of Earth.

- Chronology: From where the last episode left off.

I really liked The Death Of Clark Kent. Brainiac's manipulations of Superman were done nicely throughout the episode and Kara's team up with the gang was fun to watch. This Brainiac story has been great.

Rating: 7 out of 10