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Super Friends! “The Giants of Doom” (part 4 of 5)
Bizarro puts the aspirin into a ray gun and fires it in the general vicinity of where the villains are standing. They’re enveloped by a yellow field and begin to grow larger.
Just as an aside: if this is what the writers intended by the phrase “ray device” at the beginning, I applaud them… for writing in a manner more confusing than advanced particle physics.
Outside, Superman is trying to stop the gravity ray, which he does in a rather unique way. He flies right up to the ship and twists the beam guns, distracting both Luthor and Brainiac. You know, as opposed to punching through the windshield and knocking them out, which he could have just as easily done.
Oh right, little kids watching. Probably bouncing off the goddamn walls due to the major sugar rush from the cereal they’re eating, but still!
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Ed Harris
A fan of less than great cinema since childhood, Ed divides his time between writing scripts, working an actual paying job and subjecting himself willingly to some of the worst films society has produced.
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