# Has Bizarro Superman ever turned up in a movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616 "2018-01-27T23:45:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616/21 "2018-01-29T16:46:48Z")
> [@bmoak](#): > > If you count the various animated TV DC Universe shows, Bizarro and Mr. Mxyzptlk have been all over them. They’ve both appeared in the currently-airing Justice League Action on Cartoon Network. Not only that but the current comics continuity has revealed that all of the Mr. M’s are the same entity. He exists across all the different universes (including ours presumably OoooooWeeeeOooooo!) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616/22 "2018-02-01T19:40:22Z")
Mxy was on an early Smallville in an especially lame form, back when they were just trying to make things “different”, he wasn’t from the 5th dimension, but some obscure eastern european country. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616/23 "2018-02-01T20:10:45Z")
I’ve noticed that live-action Mxy is never played by a balding, middle-aged little person. It’s always an actor of average height and average looks like Howie Mandel. Although I suppose Mxy can appear as anything he likes. This would be a perfect role for someone like Verne Troyer, who is 2’8". ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616/24 "2018-02-01T21:53:01Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > Dresses like Bizarro Elvis. i.e. exactly like Captain Marvel, junior. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616/25 "2018-02-02T04:51:21Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I’ve noticed that live-action Mxy is never played by a balding, middle-aged little person. It’s always an actor of average height and average looks like Howie Mandel. Although I suppose Mxy can appear as anything he likes. This would be a perfect role for someone like Verne Troyer, who is 2’8". Obviously, the animated versions get around this. (He’s voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616/26 "2018-02-02T05:00:07Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ysPO7cWRng](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ysPO7cWRng) I love the paint job on the Burger King. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616/27 "2018-02-03T17:19:51Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Yeah, that movie killed the franchise until the recentish reboot. I saw it, but have managed to mostly build a protective wall around the memories. (I remember Lex Luthor stealing the hair from a museum, cutting it with bolt cutters.) No, Superman 3 killed it. 4 just danced on its grave. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616/28 "2018-02-03T20:09:42Z")
> [@bmoak](#): > > Obviously, the animated versions get around this. (He’s voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.) I will never get “MCGURK! Hey, McGurk! Where are you?” out of my head. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616/29 "2018-02-03T20:21:17Z")
I’ve long had a theory that every movie franchise dies when it has two bad movies in a row. As long as the movies are good, they do well at the box office, and so moviemakers want to make more. Eventually you get the first bad one, but the audience doesn’t know that at first, and still comes for opening weekend, and so the first bad one still does well at the box office, and so the moviemakers still want to make another one. But then, audiences will be wary of the next one, and will wait for reviews and such: If it’s another good one, word will eventually get out, and you’re back to having a successful franchise, but if it’s a second bad one, that won’t happen, and so the movie won’t make much, and so the moviemakers will lose interest. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616/30 "2018-02-03T20:30:05Z")
> [@bmoak](#): > > If you count the various animated TV DC Universe shows, Bizarro and Mr. Mxyzptlk have been all over them. They’ve both appeared in the currently-airing Justice League Action on Cartoon Network. I don’t remember Mxyzptlk being in the animated _Justice League_. (Bizarro made quite a few appearances, including being in whatever they called the “Legion of Doom” in the final season.) He did appear at least three times in _Super Friends_ (in one, he thought he had made a formula that would keep him in this universe, so he said his name backwards to prove it worked, only for it to have been the wrong formula; in another, a typewriter he was using to write movie scripts that became true kept typing his name backward over and over again; in a third, they recorded him saying his name forward, played the tape backward, and somehow that worked). ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616/31 "2018-02-06T13:10:44Z")
Does anyone here remember the _original_ Bizarro story, which was in a Superboy comic way back when? In this episode, Bizarro was created _de novo_ (that is, with nothing depending on any earlier story), and was destroyed at the end (dying as a self-sacrificial hero, saving a little girl’s life), with all remaining questions and loose ends resolved, so there was no possibility of any sequel. The entire action takes place over just two days and one night. Any later Bizarro stories were all re-boots of the character, and none of them really were the same character. If the origin story you remember involves Luthor, or Lois Lane, or any characters on the planet Htrae, or any blind person regaining their sight, that wasn’t the original story. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616/32 "2018-02-06T13:54:05Z")
> [@bmoak](#): > > If you count the various animated TV DC Universe shows, Bizarro and Mr. Mxyzptlk have been all over them. They’ve both appeared in the currently-airing Justice League Action on Cartoon Network. > [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > I don’t remember Mxyzptlk being in the animated _Justice League_. Not the same show. _Justice League_ was a half-hour animated series that ran in the early 2000s; _Justice League Action_ is a recent 15-minute animated series. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bizarro-superman-ever-turned-up-in-a-movie/807616.md?page=1)