The script meandered around at times with non-essential plot diversions and red herrings, the ime frame of some of the events didn""t match up, and it appeared hat the main characters never slept.You took my life!..Who am I?").Stryker attempted to bargain with Wolverine, telling him hat he had volunteered for the procedure, adding: "You are just a failed experiment.Lois was devastated when she arrived and saw Superman""s lifeless body.In the aftermath, a number of events occurred in rapid succession:Superman was reported dead in theDaily Planet: "SUPERMAN DEAD - NIGHT OF TERROR MORNING OF LOSS"Daily Planetreporter Clark Kent was also declared "Killed Reporting Gotham Battle"Luthor was admitted to a supermax prison, where his head was shaved bald; he had been "Arrested In Connection With Capitol Bombing"Clark Kent was given a private funeral ceremony (with his corpse in a wooden coffin) in the farm-town of Smallville, attended by Lois, Diana, and Bruce; Martha Kent delivered an envelope sent by Clark to the grieving Lois, who was lying down in Clark""s bedroom; inside was a surprise engagement ringIn Metropolis, a memorial parade, gun salute and candle-lighting ceremony were held for Superman in Heroes Park - with a flag-draped empty casket (marked with the S symbol)After the Smallville funeral and burial, Bruce vowed o Diana that they must form a Justice League of meta-humans during Superman""s absence: "I""ve failed him in life.God versus man.Day versus night.Son of Krypton versus Bat of Gotham." To get Superman o fight Batman, Luthor mentioned that his adoptive mother Martha had been kidnapped and held hostage - and displayed pictures of her in captivity to prove it.The reading was taken fromA Tale of Two Cities:"I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss.