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Curiously in the trailer for My Adventures With Superman season three, Hank Hanshaw’s Cyborg Superman has a slightly different facial design there than to the season’s promo art.
Whether this is just simplifying the design for animation (and allowing him to emote due to having more fleshy face bits) or if Hank starts with a human face but the face gets progressively more and more battle damaged as he becomes more and more villainous.
Y'know, a metaphor for how he was introduced at the beginning of season two as a handsome, helpful, an old friend of Lois’ and apparently married…
…Only for his to seemingly break up with his wife after buying into Lex Luthor’s anti-alien bigotry later in the season…
With the synopsis for the new season saying that he bought fully into anti-Kryptonian xenophobia after getting exploded by Brainiac at the end of season two (thus leading to his getting reconstructed as Cyborg Superman by Lex presumably).
It’s kind of interesting, as Cyborg Superman was always kind of upfront in more of his appearances with his being, well, a cyborg, while MAWS’ version of Hank could seemingly be based on Metallo, who always seems to get back his human appearance only to get progressively more and more robotic after each fight with Superman.
Cyborg Superman’s design is a none too subtle homage to Terminator and the Terminator acquiring battle damage and looking more and more inhuman over the course of the story is sort of a tradition for the franchise.
That’s true, but Cyborg Superman in the comics just starts looking frightening so his villain turn isn’t too surprising.
MAWS!Hank taking the Terminator route by actually showing the progression of battle damage (thus showing his shift from his original friendly persona to murderous robotic racist) as a symbol of his drift towards villainy is kind of more subtle in contrast?