Near the end of Andy Muschietti's notorious 2023 flop "The Flash," the titular character (Ezra Miller) has run so fast that he's punctured time itself and emerged in a strange parallel universe. Inside this miniature pocket dimension, the Flash is able to look into the swirling, psychedelic sky above him, and see into multiple other parallel worlds. He spots alternate versions of both Batman and Superman, including the versions portrayed by Adam West and George Reeves, as well as Christopher Reeve and Helen Slater as they appear in 1978's "Superman: The Movie" and 1984's "Supergirl." Most bafflingly, he even glimpses a Superman that looks very much like Nicolas Cage fighting a giant spider.

The Cage iteration of Superman is, of course, a giant Hollywood in-joke. In the mid-1990s, Tim Burt

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