Note: This article may contain spoilers for 2016's “Batman VS. Superman”. Proceed with caution.

I kind of assumed early on that I'd never get to see my favorite DC hero in a movie. Let's be honest; back in high school, when I was really getting into comics in a meaningful way, I was praying that one day I'd get a movie with a hairy Superman—so much so that I even wrote a poem about how much I wanted my hairy super-dude.

Eventually, I did get that, but "Man Of Steel" was a bad movie and to be honest, "Batman V Superman" was even worse. So I got my hairy Superman in Henry Cavill, but at what cost?

"We could have had it all." - Adele, "Rolling in the Deep

That said, "Superman" is not my favorite DC super-person. I'm more of a "Superboy" kind of gal. I mean Kon-El, not like a young Clark Kent or anything, because listen: As much as I love Supes, he's not really my type. Conner Kent on the other hand? Well.

Okay okay okay. This is during Convergence, which is not technically "90's Superboy," but same difference.

I never really figured I'd get to see "Superboy" on the big screen when I realized I'd probably never see Tim Drake (Robin number three) up there, either. He made an appearance on "Smallville" being played by Lucas Grabeel, which still makes me cringe to think about (no offense to Grabeel, of course; it's just that Kon's supposed to be like the cool guy in school you think about in terms of dreaminess and “Does he really work out that much?” which isn't really what I associate with the "High School Musical" actor). By that point though, there wasn't a whole lot of hope.

This makes me want to die every single time I see it, even if his costume really did become a t-shirt and jeans.

Then the DC Reboot came around and the entire character was kind of annihilated by the writers, and "Superboy" was no longer “The Metropolis Kid” but like this weird maybe-monster who really didn't have much of a personality—which is why I liked Kon to begin with. I had hopes for the "Young Justice" cartoon, even after it was announced that it would be a lot more like the original "Teen Titans" (comics, not Cartoon Network) lineup, but that didn't pan-out to much, either.

Anyway, "Batman V Superman" just came out, and it ends in "The Death Of Superman." For one thing, DC: Why? Why are you trying to cram so much into one movie when you could drag it over five and make more money? Why are you trying to make me think Bruce Wayne cares that much about Clark Kent when five minutes ago they were beating the shit out of each other? Zack Snyder's directing is bad, the script was bad, and the actors did what they could to salvage it, but Jesus Christ (or should I say, “Superman” when the entire movie reeked of White-Saviorism?). It tried to do too much in too little time, which is ironic given how lengthy the movie actually is. Also, if you had no idea who Cyborg is, would you have even been able to make a guess about what was going on with Vic Stone? Probably not.

We're given, at the end, "The Death of Superman" which was a really huge and important story-arc and resulted in the creation of Superboy. Alright? Like, this arc is responsible for me getting my favorite character. Superboy is about a year older than I am now. He's not “Older-than-Dirt” like a lot of the superheroes (we had to wait until 2016 to see Wonder Woman on the big screen, alright, like, I get it), but the way the movie ends should be a direct set-up for the "Reign of Superman"arc. It should be.

How can you say "no" to more Supermen?

But then, we should have had a Justice League before Superman died, since he's a founding member. We should have had more time to actually believe Diana and Bruce both have a reason to be profoundly upset about Clark's death beyond the one battle they fought with him—but that's their relationship in Snyder and Nolan's DCMU. They saw that Captain America is almost certainly getting killed at the end of "Civil War" (let's be real, it's coming, and it's going to hurt), but rather than taking years to set it up like Marvel did with their movie universe, it came all at once, so it didn't really matter at all. I should have been crying when Superman died, not left feeling, “So what?”

So I already know DC and Warner Brothers dropped the ball—and this is with “The Big Three.”

What hope do I have of getting to see Superboy on screen? He's the clone/test-tube baby of Superman and Lex Luthor. Conner Kent doesn't mean much in the new DC Comics, but the movies are pulling from old 80's stuff like "The Dark Knight Returns" and 90's stuff like "The Death of Superman." They put all the pieces into place—and I know that they're still not going to do it. God, DC, just throw me a bone for once.