The Daily Planet - Superman News and Speculation Thread (🚨TAG SPOILERS🚨)

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He doesn't offset the natural balance because he exists in a world with supervillains and killers who operate on the same scale he does. There IS a story where he tries to solve world hunger and it kinda blows up in his face, though. It's called Superman: Peace on Earth by Paul Dini and Alex Ross. I don't love the resolution, but I do appreciate the exploration in terms of character.

As for your first question, Superman is a large scale fireman. Do you expect firemen to take on the sins of everyone they save? Supes will never regret saving anyone because saving a life is always the right thing to do in the moment. No one has the right to single-handedly decide who "deserves" saving. What that person chooses to then do with their 2nd chance at life is entirely on them. That's free will, warts and all.

What I like about Peace on Earth is, it does something I wish more stories did: it makes Superman step out of the fireman role and into the activist role. He realizes the former is simply not enough, that there's too much suffering he couldn't stay indifferent to, and there's much more he can do than just be a first responder. I love how controversial it would be irl to see Superman take up an active cause, take sides in an issue. Gives him a chance to show moral courage and make enemies that aren't supervillains. Great material for stories, so I hope a movie goes there some again.

Nemeres said it better here for me. That firemen example is a cop out for me, but we both know where I stand on this. Perhaps I’m more cynical pov in my real world view in a sense. A real life Supes would be a dictator/Homelander type imo. Frank Miller was right.

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I honestly expect Gunn’s Superman to be something like this. I have absolutely no idea why Snyder not only threw this away but also doubled down on the moping and brooding.
 
Nemeres said it better here for me. That firemen example is a cop out for me, but we both know where I stand on this. Perhaps I’m more cynical pov in my real world view in a sense. A real life Supes would be a dictator/Homelander type imo. Frank Miller was right.

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So a real life Superman would have to either be an authoritarian fascist or a completely arrogant d/;;((?
There’s not a third option where he’s, you know, Superman?
 
The only thing I’m skeptical about if we apply a real world view is whether or not Ma and Pa Kent are republicans.

Kansas is a red state, but I digress. :o
 
The only thing I’m skeptical about if we apply a real world view is whether or not Ma and Pa Kent are republicans.

Kansas is a red state, but I digress. :o
The fact that they took a homeless illegal alien into their home, and fed him, and clothed him, and gave him love....tells me all about their political stand.
 
So a real life Superman would have to either be an authoritarian fascist or a completely arrogant d/;;((?
There’s not a third option where he’s, you know, Superman?

Yeah. We’d get Super Zod. Especially if that baby ship landed in a hostile territory., Eh.

Insert that Stephen Hawking alien quote type thing. Injustice League Superman or one like TDKReturns. At the heart of The Boys is a very real cynical view of our world, which is real. Unless we all in our pods discussing this? If so….Joe Pantoliano was right!
 
The fact that they took a homeless illegal alien into their home, and fed him, and clothed him, and gave him love....tells me all about their political stand.

But this is how we unfortunately know it wouldn’t work in real life, unless you got a real Kansas City folk example of this in our current political times? Let me keep it a buck with you, man, I visited my cousins last year in Texas, they made me aware we couldn’t drive through certain towns after dark in 2023, still. My anger was brief, but this is what it is, it has always been, no real life Superman would change that. This is America!
 
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I live in the RED state of Kentucky. I do not live a red state of mind.

Salute to you sir!

Even with lovin parents…We can get ‘Brightburn’ type supes. But I understand I’m the minority on this. I would be weary of a real life Superman, but its in my nature.
 
Salute to you sir!

Even with lovin parents…We can get ‘Brightburn’ type supes. But I understand I’m the minority on this. I would be weary of a real life Superman, but its in my nature.
It's fantasy. Myths and fables on what we can and should strive towards.
 
It's fantasy. Myths and fables on what we can and should strive towards.
It's only the entire point of his creation. The world was at one of its darkest points in history, his creators' people being the ones most-targeted by this specific darkness, so they created a FANTASY about someone who had power and didn't abuse it to contrast that bleak reality they were faced with. He's a "power fantasy," but not in the sense of "how good it would be to have power" but in the sense of "what if someone with power were truly good." The whole damned point of the character's existence. :funny: "What would Superman be like in our world" is an irrelevant question. The point of fantasy is, what could we be in his world? We all know our world ain't like that. That's obvious. The idea is if enough people imagine what the world could be, they could change it for the better. It's called "aspirational."

Telling a story about someone who abuses power is easy. It's lazy. We can just look out the window for that. Telling a story about someone with great power who stays good and remains an aspirational figure? That takes talent, skill, a certain amount of optimism and imagination. No easy feat today.
 
It's only the entire point of his creation. The world was at one of its darkest points in history, his creators' people being the ones most-targeted by this specific darkness, so they created a FANTASY about someone who had power and didn't abuse it to contrast that bleak reality they were faced with. He's a "power fantasy," but not in the sense of "how good it would be to have power" but in the sense of "what if someone with power were truly good." The whole damned point of the character's existence. :funny: "What would Superman be like in our world" is an irrelevant question. The point of fantasy is, what could we be in his world? We all know our world ain't like that. That's obvious. The idea is if enough people imagine what the world could be, they could change it for the better. It's called "aspirational."

Telling a story about someone who abuses power is easy. It's lazy. We can just look out the window for that. Telling a story about someone with great power who stays good and remains an aspirational figure? That takes talent, skill, a certain amount of optimism and imagination. No easy feat today.
We have so many stories about the other type of folk. Which is why Superman can and should standout.
 

Looks like an action scene stunt :hmm:

Or maybe they're practicing how to have a baseball player fly to the home base as opposed to just running there.

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It's only the entire point of his creation. The world was at one of its darkest points in history, his creators' people being the ones most-targeted by this specific darkness, so they created a FANTASY about someone who had power and didn't abuse it to contrast that bleak reality they were faced with. He's a "power fantasy," but not in the sense of "how good it would be to have power" but in the sense of "what if someone with power were truly good." The whole damned point of the character's existence. :funny: "What would Superman be like in our world" is an irrelevant question. The point of fantasy is, what could we be in his world? We all know our world ain't like that. That's obvious. The idea is if enough people imagine what the world could be, they could change it for the better. It's called "aspirational."

Telling a story about someone who abuses power is easy. It's lazy. We can just look out the window for that. Telling a story about someone with great power who stays good and remains an aspirational figure? That takes talent, skill, a certain amount of optimism and imagination. No easy feat today.
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It's because he has nothing interesting to say. Which isn't a crime. But boy did it make for some lousy DC movies. :weeping:
I think the fight in SV should have been the only/final fight. By the time of the metropolis fight, it had the "been there, done that" feel to it, or at least it did for me.
And it dragged on and on and...........
 
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