"No, I just shook my head. I didn’t feel that way because I was fired," said Gunn in response to whether he felt bad for jumping ship from Marvel to DC, on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepherd. "I didn’t feel guilt at all. I mean, I had to take a job! I took a job [with] people that I also really liked, and that was it."

Some fans have long thought of Superman as an immigrant character, as his displacement from his fictional home planet to the United States is a key part of his story.