Spider-Man is a person you can tell a story that makes sense about. Superman is God, an interventionist God, and the only stories that can be told about such a being are ones with Him as the antagonist
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I don’t think this is true
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Replying to @Cybren @BootlegGirl and
The fantasy of Superman is specifically “someone who has no reason to be a good person is”, that might not be resonant for you in particular but it is for plenty of people
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I mean, does anyone have a "reason" to be a "good person"? What even is a good person? The fact that we can answer that easily for Superman is the only reason that's even a coherent thing. Most of us have massive tradeoffs
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Cybren and
If I invest emotional energy to help one stranger, I may or may not benefit them, and there's another stranger I won't be helping in that time, and I will be drained and unable to help other people later Superman, quite simply, can help all of them and be fine
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Cybren and
This really is the biggest problem with the guy. How does he have time to be Clark? I'm sure he could come to terms with not being everywhere at once and you shouldn't criticize him for it. But you can for him taking a break.
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Replying to @Tuplet @BootlegGirl and
Astro City took this concept really far, their Superman expy (the Samaritan) has Silver Age Superman's superintelligence and has calculated all the random bullshit is necessary for the long term greater good Like he does charity appearances so people won't be scared of him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tuplet and
And then so many people did the whole "what if he's secretly a dick but has a PR team". The Tick did it last year. Seriously, second hand takes on "what if Superman wasn't a great dude" are a dime a dozen and I'm so tired of them.
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The Tick, himself, is a character I've seen described as "the distilled essence of Golden Age Superman" and I think a reminder that a lot of this annoying stuff comes from Silver Age escalation until he was basically Jesus
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MudDude4 and
The original point of Superman was really simple, it was "What if a guy who was literally bulletproof went and punched all the fucks who think they can do whatever they want because they have guns"
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(Note that the Tick not being able to fly and just jumping really high IS Golden Age Superman Leaps tall buildings in a single bound, remember?)
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