Man of Steel May Have the Strangest, Meta "Cameo"

Cameos of past Superman actors in the latest film incarnation isn't new. In fact, it's an unofficial tradition. Kirk Alyn and Noel Neill played Lois Lane's parents in Superman the Movie and Jack Larson tagged along with Neill for Superman Returns as Jimmy Olsen's bar-tender buddy and the old woman Lex Luthor swindled outta her fortune.

Spanish fansite Superman Javi Olivares has covered this "cameo." It comes from video taken a year back during the Chicago leg of the Man of Steel shoot. Henry Cavill's Clark Kent, sans glasses, is riding a bike in downtown Metropolis.

Take a look at the mild-mannered, fedora and possibly glasses wearing extra in the background. The theory is this is "Christopher Reeve" – a symbolic way of passing the torch to Cavill and saying "Out with the old, in the new?"

Not something to brush off as fanboy bullshit; this is so out there, I buy it.

For the record, this wouldn't be the first time "Christopher Reeve" appeared via cameo in another guy's Superman movie. That Superman Returns Noel Neill cameo I mentioned earlier? After she croaks and gives Luthor everything, he walks out of her bedroom and is faced down by her family... with a paraplegic center frame. Reeve was originally set to cameo before his passing prior to the start of filming.