which is another way of saying that clarke is slumming it as an ordinary working class fellow that the material realities that supposedly constitute being working class mostly don't actually apply to him just the aesthetics, which he likes or so one might argue
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So are you arguing that any minority person who gets superpowers is suddenly no longer a minority? :P Because marginalized superheroes are suuuuuper common, and frequently represent the dream of being able to hold privilege to account?
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i mean, if i wanted to press the point, i would want to remind everyone that what constitutes being Black is not analogous to what constitutes being gay is not analogous to what constitutes being working class superpowers do not stop you being Black
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Correct! I'm just observing the distinction between privilege and power, and how many non-privileged people fundamentally dream of power. In terms of "ability to change the world and society" Clark is less powerful than Bruce.
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I strongly disagree. If h abandoned his no kill rule he could kill every dictator in ten minutes. I mean... He's Doctor Manhatten, essentially that's the point of Doctor Manhatten
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...No, not really. Superman is Very Strong, and Very Fast, and has heat ray vision. He's not Manhattan's level of reality-warper. If Manhattan thinks you shouldn't exist, you don't exist.
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*he can hear the entire planet*. And he can reach anywhere on the planet effectively instantly. The existence of *problems* not on the scale of planet destroying superweapons is inconsistent with Superman existing
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He can be only one place at a time, and no, he is not THAT fast. He really isn't. Clark is like, plane-speed, not Flash-speed.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
It's a little ambiguous. I always ballparks it at maybe a couple times the speed of sound. He's definitely capable of circumnavigating the Earth in a couple of minutes.
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Replying to @jamari_oneal @BootlegGirl and
Superspeed is a headache whenever it comes up because it blatantly follows plot logic and not real physics logic Clark just leaves the room, flies to China to get something, then comes back a few seconds later because it's funny
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But the logical implications of this are that any distance we can actually see must not be a factor for him at all - he's not just "faster than a speeding bullet", he could run over to disarm you before the bullet has even left the barrel of the gun
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
But dealing with the logical implications of that is too hard so we just let it slide most of the time He could instantly end any kind of crisis in a literal blink of an eye if he wanted to but he's too absent minded
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