Artwork by Sylvain Despretz for Tim Burton’s ‘Superman Lives” (2017) references action figure display on the back of the Aliens: Hive Wars action figure packet (1993)?

Leading from

Action figure display On the back of the Aliens:Hive Wars packet (1993)

and

Concept art for Tim Burton’s Superman Lives (2017) by Sylvain Despretz

(I don’t wish to push the idea that Sylvan Despretz would necessarily have been conscious of doing this when he was focusing getting the illustration done.)

a) Action figure display on the back of the Aliens: Hive Wars action figure packet (1993)

b) Concept art for Tim Burton’s Superman Lives (2017) by Sylvain Despretz

c) main comparable area of the Alien Hive figure display next to the Superman Lives artwork

d) same as above but with the Superman Lives artwork tilted to the left. 

 

 e) As if the action figure display becomes squashed horizontally and so the helmet and arm of the Predator become a pair of mandibles and the lower leg of the alien beast becomes a light beam

f) the gun amd the blade become these entwined wing and torso part.

g) The helmet becomes these entwined torsos 

h) The alien beast’s head becomes the wing like structure

i) The leg becomes Superman