Superman comes from a position of absurd privilege wherein he can do whatever he wants without risk to himself, and can put on a pair of glasses to become anonymous afterwards.
Everyone else has occasionally consider a compromise between what they think is right and what is pragmatic or necessary.
Superman taught us to use the privilege we have to help those that don't.
My personal compromise is that I wear my underwear on the outside, but I don't do any of the other stuff Superman does.
Your underwear's not on the outside if you aren't wearing anything else at all
Technically if it’s on the outside it’s overwear!
This doesn't invalidate the idea of doing the right thing just because it's right when you can.
Superman is an ideal to strive for, not a model to emulate. Ideals are goals and guides. But pragmatism and necessity still factors into decision making
I wouldn't call 'being the only one who can take the call when Darkseid rolls up' privilege.
My favorite scene in the MCU comes in Captain America - The Winter Soldier.
Hydra's toughest badass is holding a gun on an unarmed technician, telling him to set off a weapon.
The pencil necked nerd boy stands up to the killer.
"Sorry, Captain's orders."
That's the point of having heroes. They show us how we're supposed to behave.
It doesn't matter if you're doing it because you were inspired by Superman, Harriet Tubman, or Toto the dog.
Here here.
He also taught us you should drop netanyahu from the sky to make him crap his pants
that was hawk girl
You're right thank you for correcting me
They both dropped him. Hawk Girl did not catch him.
Superman taught me that you have to be born powerful to change the world.
Superman is not superman because he's a Kryptonian with super powers. Superman is superman because he's an idealist and selflessly works his ass off every day to uphold those ideals in any way that he can. It just so happens that what he can do is superhuman. But we can all still contribute to an ideal like him. We can refuse to accept the world we have, the would we think we deserve, the world we think is realistic, but instead work toward an ideal world that we push for every day.
If a Zionist kills a child in front of me while laughing, being good would be smashing their skull in with a brick.
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But who defines good?
Superman, now stop making questions.
Not Israel, republicans, Putin, or North Korea
Also Hawk Girl is a based mother fucker who what she did to Nenjamin Betanyahu
Superman taught me to not nut in my coffee
I'll teach you to say fuck you to all the people that tell you to be mean
Woke!!!
Superman taught me that green rock scary
I'm sure the vast majority of humans are good. just the definition of what is good differs quiet much
I don't get it, where is the depressing punchline?
fuck hollywood IP though
Superman is not Hollywood IP. Superman is the creative product of two Jewish-American boys born to immigrant families who created an icon of human potential, of righteousness and justice and service to others, at a time when such Ubermensch ideas were being twisted and used by the Nazis in Germany to dehumanize people like Joe Shuster and Jerry Seigel. They made one of the most recognizable and beloved figures in the last century who remains relevant even now, more than 88 years after his first publication in Actions Comics #1. Hollywood has tried to co-op the character, sure, but it's hardly ever done right by him. But the character has never just been limited to a silver screen.
they sold it to dc a long time ago.
And?
I mean yeah, but even if people boast about it, they did something good. I don't think you absolutely have to idealise it.
Oh but you do have to with Superman. That's the entire point of his character and when stories about him shine; when they're about pressing morals and not so much a big baddy to fight. He can do about anything he wants, so it kinda' requires him to be pressed in other ways. Stories that only put him in cliche fights or just have him morally grandstanding are the worst. He is idealized, and that needs to be reconciled with a world that has a lot of grey in it.
The recent superman movie did a decent job of it, the one with Krypto.
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