The Supercomputer scared the hell out of me as a kid...

I greatly enjoyed Man of Steel and decided to go back and watch the remaining Superman films that I hadn't seen. As a kid, I watched this up until the point at which the main villain's sister was sucked into the super computer and had circuitry grafted onto her. At that point, I turned the TV off.

Watching it as an adult, I really feel like I was justified as a kid. The final result of her mechanized form looked ridiculous, but the way that she had the circuitry suddenly grafted onto her face and the back of her hands still looked creepy as hell. I think it was more the concept than anything else though. This machine pulled her in as she frightfully screamed no repeatedly and began making alterations to her body. I didn't know what was going to happen to her and, as a small child, I chickened out before I could see the end result.

What followed was a bit of a letdown though. I thought she would become the physical embodiment of the computer and challenge Superman. Instead, she was easily dealt with and seemed to serve no purpose other than to highlight what would have happened to Superman if he had gotten pulled into the Supercomputer.

Also, I seemed to misremember the airheaded girlfriend being the one pulled into the machine. That made it more frightening as a kid because I felt more sympathetic toward her. Speaking of the girlfriend, I have a vague recollection of her holding a toy robotic penguin, like the one in the intro, and remarking about how cute it was. It doesn't appear to be among the deleted scenes on the DVD though. Was this one of the scenes on television exclusive broadcast or did I just simply misremember it altogether?

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