[5.6/10] This was kind of a snooze. There’s juice to the idea of a local law enforcement officer getting an Iron Man suit and then getting way too into it. Hell, that’s basically the premise of Lock-Up from *B:TAS*. But there’s zero transition and next to no character development here, which makes Sgt. Mills a really boring villain for Supes. In Act 1, he’s a total good guy. Sure, he shows off Lextech in front of reporters, which is always a bad sign. But then when there’s trouble, he works well with Superman to save a bunch of people on a crumbling building with not even a hint of evil to it. Then, just because he shakes Superman’s hand with a particularly firm grip, Supes turns it into a whole “better hope he doesn't turn that hand into a fist” routine. The whole “be careful about giving policeman hardcore tech like this” warning might land with more force if the argument didn’t apply just as well to Superman! Maybe you could be charitable and take the episode as pointing out this hypocrisy, but it doesn't read that way. Instead, the idea that hey, maybe it’s not great to have someone with super strength flying around and deciding which criminals to take on and how, feels like a self-own from Supes and the show that goes more or less unaddressed. But that’s really just a conceptual point. The bigger problem is that Mills goes from zero to crazy in about two minutes. The show vaguely seeds the idea that the suit connects to his nervous system and could have weird effects. Still, one minute Mills is fine and saving the day, and the next he’s brutalizing criminals, shaving his head to better attune to the suit, and wanting to be attached to it like it’s a symbiote from *Spider-Man*. It comes out of nowhere, and villains whose only real motivation is “I’m a madman and I’m just generally angry” are boring as hell. The fight that follows between him and Superman is the standard punch and kick-fest that I’ve grown a little tired of from *S:TAS*. There’s not much new or different about it, save for Mills temporarily blinding Superman, which the episode overplays, and the silly image of Superman tossing a shark back into Luthor’s tank. Superman grabbing a high voltage conduit to stun his foe is a decent enough resolution, but for the most part, this is just the usual slam-fest between two high-powered brutes. The episode’s also really heavy-handed about making this an origin story episode for John Henry Irons. Between him quitting, trying to help Superman disable Mills’s suit (why does Supes know who Irons is?), and practically telling him to make a suit of his own, the setup is pretty obvious. Though again, it raises the question why Irons would respond any better to that kind of power than Mills, but whatever. Overall, this is a bit of a dud, conceptually, storywise, and action wise, but it’s inoffensive and watchable enough.