So I’ve been in the middle of my next blog for the site, as well as laying down the groundwork for a special Superman III 40th anniversary blog coming soon, and earlier today at work this thought crossed my mind…

There was one more cameo from within the Superman films that I completely forgot about! So allow me to correct that oversight right now, and this one’s a cameo that we are quite familiar with…

Aaron Smolinksi

This young man first arrived on the scene—in his case, literally—in the first Superman film as the three-year-old toddler Kal-El with quite the memorable entrance, followed by one of the most iconic scenes in the film as he rescues Jonathan Kent from injury and almost certain death by lifting the truck over his head and standing on his tippy toes.

Aaron would return four and a half years later (along with his parents) in a quick moment during the opening scenes of Superman III, as young Aaron asks his mom for some money to use a local photo booth to take a picture, when out pops the Man of Steel himself. Little Aaron is awestruck, while Superman realizes that his double identity is in jeopardy when the photo strip shows him changing from Clark Kent into Superman. He tears off the bottom photo and gives it to Aaron before taking off and saving a man from drowning in his own car. Aaron and his mom watch from the photo booth, while Aaron’s dad is one of the people who unsuccessfully attempt to save the man from drowning.

Thirty years later, Aaron would make yet another brief appearance in a Superman movie, this time as a military officer in the 2013 film Man of Steel during the sequence when the lead character confronts General Zod and his troops in the desert.

So I couldn’t go any further without mentioning Aaron’s Superman III cameo. Aaron, my friend, if you’re reading this, forgive me for my brain deficit in leaving you out! It was not intentional. Many apologies!

(Some of the screenshots in this blog are used courtesy of CapedWonder.com.)