It’s similar to how The Empire Strikes Back has a different tone. For that people always go “oooh, it’s dark” but I don’t know that it necessarily is. It’s just different in tone in a way that I think is great and necessary but also very clear.
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Counterpoint:
#notalltitans
Well, he has his ways...
I really REALLY wish they’d change the Flash Crotch. I can’t look at that picture without my eyes automatically going to it...
Nah, I think this is the best way.
It’s so fucking weird to me. In the mid-90s, they fucked Batman up by turning the franchise into a glorified toy commercial. In the aughts, they fucked their mega-franchise up by turning it into something you can’t take the kids to.
My body is ready:
Unless your name is Uncle Ben.
The only jungle we have in Canada is the traffic in Quebec.
The afterlife in the comic book-’verse must be full of such interesting conversations. “How’d they get you, man?” “Hypersonic pistachio.” “Damn, I got a 100-foot long cyborg worm dragon faceplanting into my corner office and I was feeling pretty unique...”
heh I enjoyed Mac & Me when I was a kid. Yeah, we can have pretty bad taste when we’re young.
I really do hate the easy jokes on the disguise. Christopher Reeve and Brandon Routh show it can work. Even further, comics have pointed out that Superman, to the public, doesn’t have a secret identity. He’s fairly open about being Kal-El of Krypton, living in the Fortress of Solitude, and is always popping up…
I always figured that people are constantly coming up to Clark and saying, “Hey, did anyone ever tell you that you look like Superman?” and he goes, “Yeah, I get that a lot.” In John Byrne’s ‘80s reboot, he went with the idea that most people don’t consider the possibility that Superman even has a secret identity; he…
Alternative explanation: It’s a comic about a space alien that looks just like humans who can fly and fire lasers out of his eyeballs, his ability to somehow not be recognized is way down the list of implausible things.
The other thing that’s commonly brought up is that most people in the DC universe assume that because he is one of the few superheros to not wear a mask at all, Superman is just Superman. That he doesn’t HAVE an alter-ego.