Continuity mistake: Doomsday picks Superman up by the head and is about to start pounding him in the gut when Lois and Jimmy run up to some rubble behind the creature and duck down. Jimmy then raises up his camera to his face to snap a picture, but when it changes to a shot from behind Jimmy and Lois, suddenly his camera is back down. (00:24:40)
Continuity mistake: After Lois and Jimmy settle down by some rubble to watch the fight more, Doomsday is shown picking Superman up by his head before he begins punching his gut. In that shot, Doomsday's right arm is straight down by his side, and also the bone spikes have vanished off his knuckles. It then cuts to a close up and suddenly Doomsday's arm is drawn back some behind his back, and his knuckle spikes reappear. (00:24:45)
Continuity mistake: Doomsday grabs Superman and pounds his gut hard enough to splatter blood on Lois' face. In a side shot of her and Jimmy, the blood streak on her face has two drips on it, and is curving up. It cuts to a close up of her, and suddenly there is just one drip, and it is curved down. Her mouth is also suddenly closed. (00:25:05)
Continuity mistake: Superman grabs Doomsday and rockets upwards with him to save a little girl and to take the creature into space. When he first starts going up, Doomsday's arms are forced down at his sides, but slightly in front of him from the force. But when the shot cuts to a distance shot, suddenly Doomsday's arms are stretched up in the air like how Superman normal flies. (00:25:25)
Continuity mistake: After the big impact of Superman and Doomsday, Lois and Jimmy run up to the crater and see Superman's cape torn and tattered, hanging on a pole. As they run up, Jimmy is on her right, and she is has her body turned to the right when they stop. The camera cuts to show Superman's cape and suddenly she has her body turned to the left. (00:26:35)
Continuity mistake: When Superman emerges from the smoke and rubble after smashing Doomsday down with reentry, he is mortally injured and his suit is tatted, torn, and burnt. The shoulders are notably torn and his left shoulder looks burnt. Then after Superman dies in Lois' arms, the camera pulls back and suddenly his suit is in perfect condition, aside from the missing cape. (00:26:45)
Continuity mistake: As Superman is emerging from the smoke after the impact, the amount of damage to his suit on his right shoulder changes between shots of him, the close up of Lois and the back to him. The damage on the chest area also changes from appearing near perfect to very jagged. And the blood dripping down from his mouth also becomes thinner. (00:26:50)
Continuity mistake: At the start of the scene showing Superman's funeral, there is a yellow guard rail around the memorial stand with his coffin in front of the podium. Standing in front of the yellow rail are 13 police officers in full uniform, 7 on one side and 6 on the other. The shot cuts to the audience for a moment, and then shows the podium and memorial again from a distance shot, and suddenly all the police standing by the coffin have vanished. (00:28:10)
Continuity mistake: After Superman's funeral, Lois is sitting in her cubicle at the Daily Planet reading a newspaper. When Perry White walks up and talks about there not being word from Clark Kent, it cuts to a shot from further back. Some of the papers on the wall behind her vanish, the pencil on her desk vanishes, the papers pinned to her bulletin board to her right change shape slightly, especially the one towards the center bottom becomes straighter instead of crooked and longer, also displaying different text. And the distance between the edge of her bulletin board and the other cubicle wall increases. (00:30:15)
Continuity mistake: When Perry White is talking to Lois about Clark not calling or emailing, Lois is reading the newspaper about Superman's death. She has it opened up fully. But after the camera shows Clark's computer, Lois still in the shot with the newspaper open, it cuts back to Lois and suddenly she has it folded over. (00:30:25)
Continuity mistake: Lois is reading a newspaper in her cubicle about the death of Superman, and there is a pencil on her desk on top of some papers. A few shots later when Perry White gets closer to her to tell her that Kent is probably fine, the pencil turns around facing a different direction, and the papers it is on move also. A stapler also suddenly appears next to her computer, and the brown book on the far end of her desk moves closer to her and turns around so the spine is facing the wall to Lois right and the pages facing her computer when it was the spine facing her computer first. (00:30:35)
Continuity mistake: As Perry White is telling Lois to go visit with friends or family to ease the passing of Superman, there is paperwork pinned to the wall of her cubicle behind her. It cuts to a close up of her face, and suddenly the paperwork at least doubles. (00:30:45)
Continuity mistake: After the scene in the Daily Planet where Lois and Perry are talking about Clark missing and that Lois should go see friends or family, it cuts to her driving down a road by large corn fields going to Martha Kent's house. She is driving with her right hand on the top of the steering wheel and her left arm hanging out the window, but with her hand and wrist propped up on the seal. It then cuts to a different angle as the car is driving by and suddenly her left arm looks extremely weird in some animation error. It appears it is just the elbow of her arm out the window, but that it has somehow merged with the door and she has become part of the car. Also her right hand is no longer at the top of her steering wheel and her head rest on her seat is suddenly not extended up as much. (00:30:55)
Continuity mistake: The curtains on the door of the Kent farm keep changing colors in the scene where Lois talks to Martha Kent at the door. Shots from behind Lois show the curtains a pale white color, but the close ups of Martha show them as red. And in the reverse angles from behind Martha, they appear a pale pinkish orange. (00:31:00 - 00:32:30)
Continuity mistake: Just before we see the TV broadcast of crime levels going up in Metropolis, we see a traffic light next to the electronics shop window. On it are Don't Walk signs, a One Way sign, and the street sign. Then as the camera pulls back when the thugs start stealing the TVs, the signs have vanished. (00:32:40)
Continuity mistake: As the camera is zooming in on the electronics shop, you can see the doorway and a welcome mat out front of it. But when the thugs break the window and start stealing TVs out of it, the doorway is barely visible, but the bottom half of it is now wall that connects the other sides, and the welcome mat has been cut down to a small little thing barely what it was. It then goes back to normal in the overhead shot. Also the building to the right of the electronics shop changes up in the overhead shot. (00:32:45)
Continuity mistake: When the thugs steal the TV's from the electronic store, the above shot shows where the TV's were but spots open on the self now do not match up with the TV's they took. They would not fit there as shown in the second shot. (00:33:10)
Continuity mistake: After Jimmy quits the Daily Planet, Lois barges into Perry's office demanding to know why and discovers that he is drinking. One shot shows him tip up his glass and drink most of the contents, leaving only a small amount with the four ice cubes. It cuts to Lois for a moment then back to Perry as he says to not sugar coat it, and now his glass is half full, when he nearly emptied it moments before. (00:33:50)
Continuity mistake: After Perry White says that Jimmy is weak and is not strong enough to hold onto his ideals, he turns around his chair and holds up his glass. It then cuts to a close up of his face just before he takes a drink and suddenly his fingers are holding the glass much higher up. (00:34:00)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Lex kills Tess, several shots of his desk, most prominently the silhouette of him shooting Tess through the window, show that he does not have any computer towers under the desk. Yet later when Dark Superman is walking into Lex's office and he confronts him about being out of character, there are now towers under the desk. (00:34:35 - 00:51:45)
Answer: It was his way of coping with grief after Superman dies. Jimmy felt he needed to be in a new environment, away from painful memories. Similarly, Perry White turned to alcohol for solace, while Lois Lane sought out Clark's mother, Martha Kent for help.
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