From the moment he punched through Joker's chest and killed her, Injustice Superman's descent into darkness should have been complete.
To understand that, one had to examine the ideology of the Superman Regime.
After all, its direction had been crystal clear in its very first year.
With an uncompromising policy of using force against anyone who refused to cooperate, it sought to abolish every war, conflict, and dispute in the world, using tyranny and violence to wrench society into a utopia, however hard it had to twist.
Yet in that first year, Injustice Superman's mindset and methods had still been firmly tethered to the kindhearted man he used to be.
He lacked the resolve and determination to follow through.
Aside from his innate power, which had placed him above the entire planet from the outset, he had nothing else going for him.
Like a child playing house, he awkwardly led the Justice League, minus Batman, in its transformation into the Superman Regime.
The others were willing to play along, too.
Then all manner of bizarre people and events pushed Superman's mindset and methods, step by step, toward a state in which he could actually enforce the Regime's rule.
Shane had no interest in debating whether the Superman Regime's ideology was viable.
He simply found it strange. If Injustice Superman had still been unable to shake off his past in that first year, how had someone who had once been good to his very core come up with a political regime built around such an end goal and results-driven reasoning in one fell swoop? It was like an ill-fitting mission had been foisted upon him, using Joker's orchestration of Lois's death to bind it to a Superman who did not yet have the resolve to carry it out.
Of course, anyone