>Superman comics are stupid! How can no one tell Clark Kent is Superman? Just because he wears glasses?
People can't tell Clark Kent is Superman because all white people look the same.
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>Superman comics are stupid!
Bait used to be believable.
It might just be the generation I grew up in, but I'll always think Superman's DCAU costume is the best. It's the platonic ideal of Superman to me.
I always think of Lego Superman
For me, it's Fleischer.
Injustice imo.
I always thought this design was shit, the one in the OP's image is the best design.
So true oomfie!
This is not oomfie behavior.
This is my oomfie behavior!
Shut up worstie!
we've seen celebrities going about doing banal things or just change their look slightly and people not recognizing them. at most questioning it
nobody thinks Clark is Superman, because why would Alien Jesus work a desk job and pretend to be a country bumpkin?
>nobody thinks Clark is Superman, because why would Alien Jesus work a desk job and pretend to be a country bumpkin?
why no?
because the notion is ridiculous; it works in tandem with human insecurities and narcissism. its one of the reasons why Lex Luthor cant see Clark being Superman either; he cant fathom the logic behind it due to his own mindset
this doesn't work when Superman starts doing hero stuff as a newbie - it's one thing when he's the greatest superhero on Earth and another when he's a literally who slash your coworker without glasses in a speedo.
>nobody thinks Clark is Superman, because why would Alien Jesus work a desk job and pretend to be a country bumpkin?
This is my favorite thing about Superman. His enemies legitimately do not get him. Not just Luthor but Brainiac and Darkseid as well, and I suppose Mongul too.
People who don't understand that he thinks of himself first and foremost as just a big farm boy from Kansas, and all that awesome power came on later and he views it not as his identity but a tool that he puts to use, to the service of the American Dream his parents believed in.
Superman thinks of himself as a uniquely blessed human from the Midwest, not as an alien sent to this world to be its god.
It sucks how many people don't grasp this. He's Clark wearing a Superman mask, not the other way around.
Henry fricking Cavil stood outside of times square wearing a superman tshirt and glasses underneath a poster for a superman movie. Nobody recognized him for at least an hour.
This argument is and has always been moronic.
>for at least an hour.
Anon, he works every day at a newspaper. You can argue that ordinary people don't realize that a person standing next to a poster is someone famous, but some journalists who work for several hours with him won't realize it?
Anon have you seen how moronic journo's are?
I don't know how to tell you this but 95% of people don't know who Cavil is and they don't really care if an actor is in New York.
>Posts two clearly different separate people
>Claims they are the same person
>all white people look the same.
Not just white people actually, there's only so many facial features out there, a lot of people are just bound to look similar, it's normal.
People joke about the glasses, but they're enough to make most people think twice, and that's not even all Clark does.
Because his disguise is more than just the glasses, it's the whole Clark Kent schtik, assisted by his superspeed and surreptitious use of other powers to help maintain the illusion, (occasionally with a little help from his shapeshifting, hologram-projecting, psychic mind-controlling superfriends).
>After the Death of Superman where Superman is killed by Doomsday, then gets better, Superman himself very publicly saves Clark Kent who had be trapped under the rubble of Metropolis that resulted from their fight, (picrel), but is actually the shapeshifting Matrix-Supergirl doing him a favour.
So even if you suspected Clark Kent might be Superman, you're going to have trouble making shit like that work logically. Superspeed is the same kind of thing where you're just going to assume they are different people if Superman just flew out the window two seconds before Clark Kent walked in. Even knowing he has superspeed, you're probably only thinking it terms of him flying fast, not changing his clothes in a phone booth. Not as unrealistic as you might think.
Also plenty of actors can trick plenty of people IRL with shit like this:
Still, at the end of the day it's an extension of stageplay shit where the evil twin brother has a crappy eyepatch or something. That kind of thing has long been more symbolic in fiction than it's supposed to be actually convincing.
I always thought Clark Kent's disguise was somewhere in-between the two though. More symbolic in the comics, but had to be performed better in live action, and Reeve does a good job as a bumbling 'weak' nerdy Kent you wouldn't tend to associate with Superman.
Why boner
If Superman has long hair, Clark should have a man bun.
Supermullet was a thing
you trying to tell us Superman could be Steve Buscemi or Danny DeVito?
Could have worked. I didn't even notice they weren't actually twins until halfway through the film.
that sounds like a skill issue
no, it's because Superman has hypnotic powers
>well I guess we can blame that panel for this:
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To be fair Superman has pretty much infinite silly powers at one time or another in the comics, but you definitely need to limit them in live action and not lean on something like this just because it showed up in the source material at some point.
someone just link that YouTube clip from the early superman movies. that should be the only reply to this every time it pops up
If an actor can't pull this off, he shouldn't be playing Superman.
Whenever I see these threads my mind always goes back to that old cartoon Captain Star, and the episode where criminals kidnap Captain Star in order to force him to compete in a Captain Star lookalike contest, which he loses.
I always assumed his disguise worked because metropolis is a massive city and most people wouldn’t assume that some random dopey journalist is actually one of the most powerful people in the world just because he kinda looks like him
these are two different people anon