Jor-El: If you will not be Kal-El… if you will live as one of them… love their kind as one of them… then it follows… that you must become one of them… [Jor-El disappears and a crystal chamber emerges, he reappears closer to Kal-El] This crystal chamber has in it the harnessed rays of the red sun of Krypton… once exposed to them all your great powers on Earth will disappear… forever… once this is done there is no going back… you will feel like an ordinary man… and you can be harmed like an ordinary man… Think Kal-El… I beg you…
As far as I’m concerned, this film replaces Richard Lester’s Superman II as canon. I am so happy a cut of Donner’s vision for the film exists, but it just makes me upset that he was fired before he could finish it properly. It is, without question, the superior version of the film.
Kal-El: Father… I love her…
— Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

