@saint_wildcard: What was wrong with that scene? Superman can be thrown like any other human. He doesn't weigh more than any average man. And Superman responded in kind.
3 Major reasons.
1-Depowering- Of course Superman would have to be depowered for for the series to work (Grant Morrison would say other wise but whatever) but this had to have been the weakest showing of the character ever. Even by TAS standards
- Strength- If Superman doesn't want to be moved he won't be moved easily, especially not with a judo flip. Also let's not apply real world logic to comics, there are times that Superman is pulling on stuff that is to heavy to be moved and since he is normal weight he should not be able to move them but instead end up pulling himself towards them.
- Speed- Even if we brought down Superman's reaction time to a little under bullet catching he would have stopped from being flipped.
- Flying- He can fly and yet he fell on that table. Dafuq?
Now you might say Superman can be caught of guard, which is true but Batman had his full attention and he was looking right at him. It's not like Batman snuck up on him.
2- Superman's character was way too aggressive but he seems to laugh off bank robbers attempts at shooting him. He picks up Bank Robbers like a bunch of children but he get's pissed off when a Batman is doing vigilante stuff. "I won't have vigilantes in my town"..... YOU'RE A F**KING VIGILANTE DUDE!!! Also doesn't Superman tackling Batman seem like overkill? But of course if Superman were to just flick his pinky and hit him that wouldn't make Batman seem as cool as taking a tackle from the Man of Steel. Again, he get's shot by robbers=not taken seriously and picked up. Judo Flipped by a vigilante-Tackled into a wall. But the main reason why Superman was written so hot headed here was because...
3-Batman needed a reason to whip out the Kryptonite. The very reason why Batman was in town was to stop Joker from presumably killing Superman with the large Kryptonite dragon he stole. Now of course Batman tells Superman right away why he's in town right?.... nope. He withholds the information while acting as cold as possible and tells him after the "fight". One might claim he doesn't know what Kryptonite is but he always had a hunch that it was and instead of going straight to Superman getting clarification first he decides to be a bunch of punk first instead of warning the man he wants to help. Because info from Punks>>>>>> Getting help from a god and warning him his life is in danger.
Links? Because I'm pretty sure it was DC's idea. Snyder just teamed up with Timm.
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How did this all come about?
“It was Zack Snyder’s idea,” says Timm, the designer, animator, writer, and producer whose credits include Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited. “We had approached him about maybe doing a short for the DC Nation program on Cartoon Network. He said, ‘I’ll think about it,’ and then he had this idea to do basically the entire history of Superman in, like, a minute. We said, ‘Okay … whoooo.’ We started working and quickly realized there was no way to do it, even in a minute.”
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/10/14/superman-75-years-of-heroic-history-in-a-2-minute-animated-short-exclusive/
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