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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I mean, that's not correct at all? For one, Superman stories are not primarily about danger to HIM, they're about danger to the squishy humans whom he's trying to save. For another, when they DO just want a classic punch-up, they throw Darkseid at him.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @loudpenitent and
A lot of people complain about how "modern Superman is a dumbass", especially when they own him by putting him next to World's Greatest Detective Batman But, well, that's because Silver Age Superman also being a superscientist does kind of break the setting
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It really does make it impossible to answer why there's even still crime or poverty or oppression at all if you have Superman regularly inventing Kryptonian super-tech at the Fortress of Solitude and so forth
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Personally I like the argument that he's not *stupid* so much as he just doesn't think because he's never had a reason to In fact, he has a *reason not to think* -- asking Big Questions about what he should be using his powers for is profoundly scary
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Or the Adell-style "I'm fairly clever, but I'm also a flying brick, so usually the unsubtle solution is also the best one."
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