The funny thing about the Superman time travel thing from the movies is that everyone interprets it as him changing the earth's rotation, when he's just himself travelling through time.
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yeah also he can't alter time because that's not how time works in the DCU, he can travel back in time but it operates off of Doctor Who logic where there are fixed points you can't avert
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @loudpenitent
Ok but I don't understand what kind of class-first brain twisting it becomes for it to be an unusual or hot take type opinion to say "it's obviously easier to imagine being rich and good at martial arts than being literally unable to be killed except, again, by a fake mineral"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @saintwalker98
It's about social perspective, Ellie. That's the argument, anyways. Clark's socially a fairly ordinary comfortable-working-class fellow, and that's shaped his perspective and how society treats him.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @saintwalker98
Yes but he still *knows that he cannot be killed*, *knows what everyone is doing at all times unless he shuts it out or they're using Kryptonite*, can *travel so fast that he can intervene anywhere he can hear which is everywhere which means anyone he doesn't save is on him* etc
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He's actually been killed, though. He explicitly knows the pain and fear of death.
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Ok, but he still is in no danger 99.99999% of the time. Bruce Wayne is less likely to be shot while walking as himself than his parents were and certainly less than most of us, but any person could kill him. Superman knows he only has to fear incredibly powerful aliens like him
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If you ever wrote a Superman story, would you make Luthor the hero, Ellie?
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I wouldn't write a Superman story. Superman makes every story less interesting to me because the only reason anything can ever not be solved in it is because someone has encased it in kryptonite. That's literally it
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @TellerGrim and
There's two different kinds of Superman stories: The classic Superman power fantasy where he's a god and criminals are just guys with guns, and the Jack Kirby subversion where he's the one god Earth has in a whole universe of warring gods bringing about the apocalypse
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The former is what most people think of but there's a lot of material to be gotten from the latter
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