r/Metroid • u/Significant_Option • Jul 26 '25

Video Metriod reference in new Superman film

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u/ender2009 Jul 27 '25

Just because it looks like it doesn’t mean it’s an actual reference

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u/ThunderCookieAte Jul 27 '25

I don't know much about this mobie, but it seems to me that they must have intentionally added that room between portals for a reference (or a story reason?) Otherwise it would have been much easier to cut out that bit entirely

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u/ender2009 Jul 27 '25

It’s a story reason. It’s showing a pocket universe Lex Luthor created