Although the film project was initiated in 1937 and was planned to be the studio's 2nd feature-length animated film followingSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), other films took precedence, includingPinocchio (1940),Fantasia (1940), andDumbo (1941).They were both dismayed and curious that Superman had no immediate reaction to the meteorite, and Webster was livid with the news ("I ask you to kill Superman and you're telling me you couldn't even do that one simple thing!")...It would be madness to reject it." The proposal was soundly rejected, however (as the Praetor announced that Shinzon and his followers would be "sent back to that black rock they came from!")...Just what kind of a joint are you running?...There's a certain key floating around the office - from Kirkeby to Vanderhof o Eichelberger to Dobisch - it's the key to a certain apartment - and you know who that apartment belongs to?.As Taylor attended to Brent's wounds, he was told about the operational atomic bomb that the mutants revered and intended to trigger - he recognized it from the "ΑΩ" (Alpha and Omega) markings as "the doomsday bomb.