Japoteurs (1942) is the tenth of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character of Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Later, the Japanese man and some acquaintances hit a guard as the plane is being loaded for a test run.

The cartoon, and the stereotypical Japanese characters in particular, are done in a style typical of American propaganda during World War II.

Such films typically show Japanese and German characters in a negative light as the American hero makes short work of them.

The plane catching scene at the end is strikingly similar to a scene in Superman Returns (2006), in which Superman (Brandon Routh) stops an airplane from crashing into a baseball stadium (that resembles former Yankee Stadium) by pressing his weight into the nose and carefully lowering it onto the field.

The Arrowverse version of Supergirl's pilot also brings homage to this scene when Kara lands the plane containing her sister on the river, after one of its engines catches fire.