I dislike Superman
POSTED BY: AnthonyT
UPDATED: Monday, March 9, 2026 17:54
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JS, I think your right on this. My older sister by 10 years loved it. Big Howdy Dudy fan that was her nick name Dude. It is more generational. I am a Batman fan. But when your little you have to have Spidey jammies. The story of Superman is a Moses or JC bible story. I can watch the movies but the tv versions are Superman. The times of the 50s. True Americana.
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remake was a terrible movie, but loved the 2nd one where he faces off with the krypton dictators/criminals directed by directed by Donner? and iconic Reeve
The comic book today is not very good...been a long time since I picked up a Superman comicbook
Walking Dead, Preacher, 2000AD hardback, Killing Joke, Civil War and some other comics are very good reads though
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Huh.... the first and last a are terrible.... but 3&4 get a pass.....?
Just re-reading the initial post and all.... Can't even wrap my head around the thesis.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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I've noticed over the years that Marvel has done several takes on the 'Super-Powerhouse character'.There is:
The Blue Marvel(Adam Brashear)- A Black Superman
The Sentry(Bob Reynolds)- A Bi-Polar Superman
Hyperion- An Evil Superman
Photon/Pulsar(Monica Rambeau)- A Black Superwoman
Ms.Marvel(Carol Danvers)- A Superwoma
And the list just goes on and on from there.
(((tO sPARK tHE mOVEMENT)))
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I'm frequently surprised at how easy it is to read Marvel comics as a distantly-removed (set of) alternate universe(s) from the DCU.
I don't even mean the deliberate homage characters (DC's Guardian = Marvel's Captain America, DC's Steel = Marvel's Iron Man), but even many of the originals have alternate archetypes (Marvel's Thor = DC's Wonder Woman, Marvel's Hulk = DC's Solomon Grundy, Marvel's Thanos = DC's Darkseid, Marvel's Vision = DC's Red Tornado, etc).
Clearly different universal streams, but easily part of the same multiverse. I wonder if one can reach Asgard from New Genesis/Apokolips. . .
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see this?
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
see this?
Years after this tread started, Superman begins showing different sides of himself. He becomes an absolute dictator in Injustice: Gods Among Us. Only Batman stands between Superman and World Domination!
http://injusticegodsamongus.wikia.com/wiki/Injustice:_Gods_Among_Us_Co
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In another series, Superman has lost his super power. He can bleed. He can't fly, not without an airplane. Here are 4 panels from Superman #46 January 2016
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Lex was originally a good guy defeating the Uber man, a Man of Brzone but not from Mars, also other story Moses, the Hebrew baby, was saved from Egypt and Pharaoh's madness and chaos by being placed in a basket in the Nile River
Looks like WB is rushing to have its 'Avengers' moment
Quote:
Maxim:A while back, you were attached to a Wonder Woman movie with Eliza(Dushku) as the rumored star. Is that project dead ? Or is it just dead so far as your involvement ?
Whedon:I have no idea the status of the movie and, honestly, I never did. I was told they were very anxious to make it. I wrote a script. I rewrote the story. And by the time I’d written the second script, they asked me…not to. [Laughs] They didn’t tell me to leave, but they showed me the door and how pretty it was. Would I like to touch the knob and maybe make it swing ? I was dealing with them through [producer] Joel Silver who couldn’t tell me what they wanted or anything else. I was completely in the dark. So I didn’t know what it was that I wasn’t giving them. I’ve moved on.
Maxim:As a comic book writer and fan, why do you think—with one very big exception—DC Comics is having such a hard time getting its characters on the screen while Marvel is churning them out ?
Whedon:Because, with that one big exception, DC’s heroes are from a different era. They’re from the era when they were creating gods. And the thing that made Marvel extraordinary was that they created people. Their characters didn’t living in mythical cities, they lived in New York. They absolutely were a part of the world. Peter Parker’s character was a tortured adolescent. DC’s characters, like Wonder Woman and Superman and Green Lantern, were all very much removed from humanity. Batman was the only character they had who was so rooted in pain, that had that same gift that the Marvel characters had, which was that gift of humanity that we can relate to.
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I always had a serious problem with Superman, and it was the topic of my senior paper for honors in history, which may sound odd, but it for WWI, and the idea was a prevalent one.
My basic beef was not any objection to Nietzche, or Shaw, or Siegel and Shuster, but that the fact that Superman's values coincided with our own was just sheer random chance, and he might have just as easily landed in the neighbor's yard, instead of Ma and Pa Kent, and could have ended up a total psychopath instead. Superman on the warpath.
Or just been a racist. It's somewhat humorous to think of Superman dotting about the global and segregating restaurants. Or Superman with OCD, assuring that everyone is matching the dress code.
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Originally posted by DREAMTROVE:
I always had a serious problem with Superman, and it was the topic of my senior paper for honors in history, which may sound odd, but it for WWI, and the idea was a prevalent one.
My basic beef was not any objection to Nietzche, or Shaw, or Siegel and Shuster, but that the fact that Superman's values coincided with our own was just sheer random chance, and he might have just as easily landed in the neighbor's yard, instead of Ma and Pa Kent, and could have ended up a total psychopath instead. Superman on the warpath.
Or just been a racist. It's somewhat humorous to think of Superman dotting about the global and segregating restaurants. Or Superman with OCD, assuring that everyone is matching the dress code.
You necroposting? :poke:
Perhaps the template was, as is many libtard backstories, that Krypton civilization was far more advanced than ours (evidenced by the successful space travel of Superman to Earth), so they were beyond all that drivel.
The vast majority of America, and many countries outside China, is rural (look at the map of election-by-county), and even if he landed in another place, the denizens are still from much the same cloth. It's not like the big cities, where the neighbor is evil.
The more troubling concept could be a different time, landing in Yurp in the Medieval Times, or Dark Ages. The nicest, smartest of humans were beheaded at the insistence of the Church.
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