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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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Yeah, like, this is the ultimate irritating aspect of people conflating "superpowers" with "privilege" - superheroes are so often explicitly those who believe themselves powerless dreaming of the might to punch back.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
I can relate to Batman because he was traumatized and scared and spent years training to become a ninja so he could be hypercompetent but can still get his ass stomped if he screws up Superman was just born lucky. The opposite of me
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I can easily turn that around though, and point out that Bruce Wayne is incredibly privileged compared to Clark Kent.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
He’s wealthier but Clark Kent is still an elite high society journalist with something damn close to a penthouse in most of his most iconic depictions
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Well yeah that's because the whole Superman franchise has trended more and more toward wish fulfillment, like Clark Kent has gotten more and more attractive and desirable over time too Even though the whole original point was Clark being a total loser
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
It reached its ultimate level of ridiculousness when they had a thing in the comics where a magazine named Superman and Clark Kent as the #1 and #3 most eligible bachelors in Metropolis, with a photo spread (Lex Luthor Jr was #2, and unhappy about it)
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