I dislike Superman
POSTED BY: AnthonyT
UPDATED: Monday, March 9, 2026 17:54
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As I understyand the original concept of Superman he was supposed to be this super magic Moses in a basket story, the whole mystery Jew/Christain baby that drifted down the river of space and was found and adopted by the family of Kents...but even in his early days the writers were still trying to find who he was...one time he was even pitched to publishers as a villain story, an evil Superman from space?
He was found by the family the Kents, adopted and then gained powers but he was say 'gounded' more like I dunno say Buffy or Spiderman or that John Carter guy of Mars...he also retained their mid West Christian family values upbringing? The John Carter thing that's way back in the early days of pulp scifi, that's long ago and there was a silly Disney movie on the John Carter guy... the origianl Superman he would run fast as a bullet, more powerful than a locomotive. could leap large buildings...and that was Superman, that was his limit..his powers were almost a reversal of the John Carter story a human who becomes super powered by landing on a planet of lower gravity
and if I'm right on my pop culture history I think Joe Shuster a Canadian Jew and Jerry Siegel from a recent family of Jewish immigrants from Euope, orginally wanted to write a pulp scifi story with the 'Uber-Man' as the bad guy and a Lex Luthor guy was the good guy trying to out smart the super muscle powered al;ien invader, he had also wrote the Supermen as a story where some hobo bum gains vast psychic powers from an experimental drug and becomes a superman villain...they keep re-writing and re pitching the sory, a weird circus alamgamation of Douglas Fairbanks Robin Hood and Zoro and other comicbook pulp magazine heroes and Harold Lloyd, influeced the whole Superman and Clark Kent design.
An iconic Superman character was finally born
In later years comic book then got into something of a cricus pissing contest with another character 'Captain MMarvel' and the two characters would try to outdo each other with ridiculous feats of powers, they both started to do more ridiculous 'Godly' things proving one to be the more powerful than the other guy. They even had real life legal battles Detective Comics and DC Comics going to sue and getting lawyers to court, and the Fawcett Comics division of Fawcett Publications, concerning Fawcett's Captain Marvel character being an infringement on the copyright. A copyright infringement lawsuit from DC Comics stated that Captain Marvel was an illegal infringement of Superman. This caused Fawcett to cease publishing Captain Marvel-comics, but DC Comics gained ownership of the Marvel Family characters and returned them to publication.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NewPowersAsThePlotDemands
New Powers as the Plot Demands
Superman started out faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and invulnerable to anything less than a bomb. Since then he's learned to fly, to blow like a hurricane, to survive nuclear explosions (though just barely), chill things with a puff of breath, shoot lasers from his eyes, and use X-Ray Vision. And that's just the powers that have lasted.
You can still catch some of those old Shazam, Capatin Marvel tv shorts on youtube, I think they are open source and the legal copyright of 70 yrs copy right has expired.... its this kid who would say some magic word 'Shazam' and trasnforms into a giant superhero and runs off or flies away to fight mafia or whatever bad guys needed to be defeated that day. It's strange how some copyrights expire like say Sherlock holmes or Robin Hood and others are renewed well past the seventhy year lifetime of the artist or original writer.
In recent times they at DC and Warner Bros have renamed 'Captain Marvel' superhero the name 'Shazam' perhaps trying not to confuse with their oth
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I like how a lot of people are just calling Zach Snyder's version of Superman "Space Jesus".
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Stop trying to make Superman a thing.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Stop trying to make Superman a thing.
Superman and Lex Luthor appear together for the first time in new behind-the-scenes look at James Gunn's DC movie
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Stop trying to make James child-rapist Gunn a thing too.
Why is this pedophile still employed and not in prison again?
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Zack Snyder Shares His Reaction To James Gunn's Superman Movie
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