• MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca
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    I don’t think everyone has to have read the original source material to enjoy something made from that material.

    But if you’re going to complain about it being faithful to the source material? Naw, that’s in no way legit.

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    Dean Cain was absolute shit as 'Murica’s favorite mascot — regardless of the unavoidable fact that the character came from another world in every single iteration across all mediums …so far. 😶

    Fuck you and your fetid career, you dumbass, Dean. 🖕🏼🤣

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    Superman as an immigrant’s story is one of the oldest and most obvious analyses of the character. It’s barely even subtext; it’s just text. Imagine how he’ll react when he finds out Superman was originally a New Deal socialist who went around smashing up corrupt capitalists’ businesses for safety violations.

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      The quintessential symbol of heroism, of ‘The American Way’, Superman, was created during the rise of fascism and nazism by two Midwestern Jewish boys, one of whom had immigrated from Canada and whose parents were immigrants from Russia and The Netherlands. In the story introducing their character to the world, he saves a wrongly convicted woman from execution, stops a wife beater from killing his wife, and stops a slimy lobbyist and corrupt senator from roping the US into a war with Europe. i.e. it acknowledges that the justice system gets it wrong, that women can be abused and endangered by their husbands, and that congress has a huge corruption and bribery problem. Sounds pretty fucking woke to me. And a few years later had him literally punch Hitler. The idea that they didnt have anything to say with the character about prejudice, about immigrants adopting their new home and being adopted in turn, about politics, is fucking laughable… “too woke”. No, Dean, you’re too ignorant to think that he ever wasn’t “woke”.

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        Oh, that’s the tip if the iceberg. There’s one comic where he smashes up the city’s slums because he finds out the government will replace them with nicer, rent-subsidized apartments. There’s another where he traps a mine owner and all of his rich friends in a cave-in because of unsafe working conditions. Then there was the time he decided to take on traffic safety by smashing cars until the mayor promised to start enforcing traffic violations. Old-school Superman was one of those violent, radical-leftists the conservatives are so scared of.

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    Dean Cain can lick a sweaty nutsack. An embarrassment in the history of Superman casting.

    Him and Kevin Sorbo can lick boots together while they swap stories about how they used to play strong guys on TV but now spend their time being weak-willed sheep IRL.

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    Well, Superman wasn’t born in the U.S.A to parents in the U.S.A…

    He travelled as an unaccompanied minor to the USA. I hate to say it but it seems pretty obvious to me he’s not from 'round here with the whole flying and laser eyes thing too.

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      Superman wasn’t born in the U.S.A

      DC furiously sweeping the “birthing pod” thing under the rug

      (New 52 erased this I believe)

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    He’s litteraly immigrant. It’s objective fact. What he’s talking about? He think calling Wonder Woman a woman is “making her woke”?

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      Not just that. Pretty sure he fits the definition of “illegal immigrant” pretty well. Doubt that either the baby of the Kent family filled out any immigration or asylum forms

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      He think calling Wonder Woman a woman is “making her woke”?

      That sounds exactly like something this twerp would say

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      “Woke” literally means “anything the right doesn’t like”. It’s used in the same way the Nazis used Degenerate. Remember that.

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    Superman isn’t just an immigrant. He’s a refugee when his home was destroyed by civil war. He came to the USA and made it better because he’s an immigrant.

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    It’s almost like these people have no clue about the source material at all. Reminds me of religious folks 😂

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    Worst Superman has harsh words for creator of better Superman. After playing the part for a decade, Dean Cain still doesn’t understand the character.