The Man of Steel (comics) him. Byrne accepted and presented DC with his proposal. With DC agreeing with 99% of the revision, Byrne was given the go-ahead for what became "The Man of Steel". The mini-series was designed to reboot the Superman mythos using the history-altering effects of "Crisis on Infinite Earths" as an explanation. Thus, for modern comics, "The Man of Steel" is the dividing point between the previous canon of the Silver Age, and the Modern Age. The two different versions are referred to in stories soon after and by fans as "pre-Crisis" and "post-Crisis," per "Crisis on Infinite Earths" being the major
Superhero film "" (2009). Non-Hollywood superhero films were also released, including the American/Spanish production "" (2001), Japan's tokusatsu films "Ultraman" (2004), "Casshern" (2004) and "Gatchaman" (2013), Malaysia's "Cicak Man" (2006), India's "Krrish" (2006), "Drona" (2008), "Ra.One" (2011), "Krrish 3" (2013), Thailand's "Mercury Man" (2006). Several non-action film oriented superhero films were released in the 2000s with varying ranges of success. Brad Bird's "The Incredibles" (2004) for Pixar was a critically acclaimed digitally-animated family oriented superhero film. Other hybrids include "Sky High" (2005) and "Zoom" (2006) which were fusions of the superhero and family film genres, "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" (2006) a combination of